chashama Curriculum Vitae 2008

CURRICULUM VITAE 2008

Ha-Ha-Hannukah (December 23, 2008)
The Tank at chashama 217 East 42nd Street
Final show programmed by The Tank at chashama.
www.thetanknyc.org

1 1/2 blocks east of Grand Central, btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves; 4,5,6,7 and shuttle train from Times Square

Tuesday December 23, 2008, 7:00p | $10

The comedians of Laughing Liberally deliver an irreverent night of religious comedy. details

Insist Instance Instant Mondays: 3rd Monday (December 22, 2008)
The Tank at chashama 217 East 42nd Street
featuring: Christmas Decorations
Stephe Cooper Ensemble
Sergei Tcherepnin / Drowned in Drones
www.thetanknyc.org
myspace.com/christmasdecorations
myspace.com/stephencoopermusic

1 1/2 blocks east of Grand Central, btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves; 4,5,6,7 and shuttle train from Times Square

Monday, December 22nd, 2008, 7:30p | $5

Following acclaimed releases on such labels as Kranky, 12K and Community Library, "Far Flung Hum", the third album from New York based Christmas Decorations, finds the group again broadening the palette used in their unique take on modern experimental electronic music.

Conjured in the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York over four days in summer 2007, the album is their boldest work to date. Including founding members Steve Silverstein and Nick Forte' (formerly of Beautiful Skin, Rorschach, and solo work on Schematic records), the band has expanded to a quartet allowing for more interactive live playing then on past efforts. With scant preconception, the band used this session to explore group improvisational configurations and unconventional voicings, yielding a richness that at times even surprised themselves.

Recorded both indoors and out, the sound of "Far Flung Hum" is both warmly present and otherworldly, think early Zoviet France or maybe Asmus Teichens remixing a Finnish folk collective. Acoustic banjo and pump organ drones meld with pedal-processed ethnic percussion, subtly treated guitar washes, and pointillistic analog synthesis, to create deep compositions that chart unexpected terrain and reveal new layers upon each listen.
http://www.myspace.com/christmasdecorations Christmas Decorations

Stephe is a musician that can be often found with the likes of art team Eagle Ager, choreographers Josh Bisset and Charlotte Gibbons, alien theorist Ray Roy III, and percussionist Sam Sowyrda. He also plays chess.
myspace.com/stephencoopermusic Stephe Cooper Ensemble

Keren Ganin-Pinto: Joined In Progress (December 21, 2008)
The Tank at chashama 217 East 42nd Street
www.thetanknyc.org

1 1/2 blocks east of Grand Central, btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves; 4,5,6,7 and shuttle train from Times Square

Sunday, December 21st, 2008, 7:30p | $5-$10 sliding scale

Joined In Progress features collaborative work by Keren Ganin-Pinto with dancers Yari Alcaraz, Kyle Shephard, Ava Heller, Bradley Ellis, and musician Westbrook Johnson utilizing live sound, installation, and contact improvisation. Additional solo work by Jenn Kelly.

Keren Ganin-Pinto is a Brooklyn-based dancer, choreographer, and active member the contact improvisation community. She received her B.F.A. from Ohio State University and spent the following year in Israel making solo work. details

Matt Endahl | Nate Wooley | Christopher Riggs (December 20, 2008)
The Tank at chashama 217 East 42nd Street
www.thetanknyc.org

1 1/2 blocks east of Grand Central, btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves; 4,5,6,7 and shuttle train from Times Square

Saturday December 20, 2008, 9:30p | $5

Detroit-based guitarist Christopher Riggs studied composition and performance at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Oberlin, OH. His music is primarily interested in the vast wasteland between "free improvisation" and academic composition. While exploring this territory, Christopher sticks objects between the strings, bows springs placed on the neck, and drags magnets across the pickups of his instrument. Since relocating to Detroit, he runs his own Holy Cheever Church Records mail order label and performs with the improvising ensembles Traum and Trauma around southeastern Michigan.

Pianist Matt Endahl was born in Iron Mountain, MI in 1985. He studied jazz with Ellen Rowe, Steve Rush and Geri Allen at the University of Michigan. While at the University, he became increasingly interested in free improvisation, primarily through his participation in the Creative Arts Orchestra, led by Ed Sarath and Mark Kirschenmann. More recently, an interest in noise and minimalism has led to further explorations of the piano's sonic palette. He currently performs in various configurations and teaches jazz piano at Hillsdale College.

Nate Wooley (b. 1974) was born in Clatskanie, Oregon. He began his professional career on trumpet with his father at the age of 13. After a brief stay in Denver, Nate moved to Jersey City in 2001. He has developed a highly personal style, mixing his knowledge of jazz and classical trumpet tradition and context with a very healthy bit of experimentation. His solo album, "Wrong Shape to be a Storyteller" on Creative Sources Recordings from last year was a culmination of this kind of thinking and was critically acclaimed as a benchmark for solo documents in the lowercase/reductionist tradition. His main thrust is still the trio, Blue Collar, whose sophomore cd "Lovely Hazel" on Public Eyesore was voted one of the top 10 jazz and improv cds by the Philadelphia City Paper in 2005. Besides these projects, Nate does a great deal of work as a sideman with figures as diverse as John Butcher, Anthony Braxton, Paul Lytton, John Olsen of Wolf Eyes, David Grubbs, Daniel Levin, Stephen Gauci, and the Sound/Vision Orchestra. details

ai ensemble | big fat thing (December 19, 2008)
The Tank at chashama 217 East 42nd Street
www.thetanknyc.org

1 1/2 blocks east of Grand Central, btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves; 4,5,6,7 and shuttle train from Times Square

ai ensemble, Friday December 19, 2008 7:30p
$10 / $5 at the door for students

The ai ensemble opens their second season with an exciting collaborative program of chamber and solo works including three world premieres by Nick DeMaison, Paul Pinto and Conrad Windslow. For this concert, the ai ensemble will perform chamber works with soprano and long time collaborator Amanda DeBoer on works that include Jonathon Harvey's Chu for soprano, contrabass clarinet and cello and featuring solo works by Georges Aperghis, Keeril Makan, and Giacinto Scelsi.

The program includes:

* Four premieres of new works written for ai ensemble by Conrad Winslow (NY) Two Threads, Nick DeMaison (NY) Black Wheels, Paul Pinto (NY) mini_004

* Chu by Jonathon Harvey for Soprano, Contrabass Clarinet & Cello with guest artist Amanda DeBoer

* Solo works by Keril Makan Zones d'accord (cello), Georges Aperghis Recitation No. 12 (for solo voice), Giacinto Scelsi Ixor (for clarinet) ai ensemble

ai ensemble Bio:

Based in New York, the ai ensemble is a duo founded by clarinetist Alejandro Acierto and cellist Isabel Castellvi in Chicago 2007 to promote contemporary works for clarinet and cello. Alejandro and Isabel met while pursuing performance degrees at DePaul University and have worked together on several projects including performances with ensemble dal niente, TACTUS, Millennium Chamber Players, and Chicago Composers Forum. Since their conception, they have already had over a dozen works written for them by emerging young composers featured on programs that also included works by established composers such as Xenakis, Lim, Saariaho, and Ran. The 2007-2008 debut season featured 9 concerts in New York and Chicago in various venues, drawing a diverse crowds. This season will feature several premieres, collaborations, and touring. Currently Alejandro and Isabel are pursuing a Master's Degree at Manhattan School of Music for Contemporary Music Performance. ai bio

1 1/2 blocks east of Grand Central, btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves; 4,5,6,7 and shuttle train from Times Square

big fat thing at 9:30p | $10

a big fat concert with singers, dancers, painters and loads of big fat music by paul pinto, joseph hallman and jonah bloch-johnson. and of course, gloriously chubby improv of the non-pop persuasion. big fat thing

Separation Anxiety (December 18, 2008)
Created and performed by fivefour
The Tank at chashama 217 East 42nd Street
www.thetanknyc.org

1 1/2 blocks east of Grand Central, btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves; 4,5,6,7 and shuttle train from Times Square

Created and performed by: fivefour/Cortney McGuire & Leah Nelson
Original, live music: Marques Toliver, violin
Thu, 12/18/2008 - 8:00pm | $10

"Separation Anxiety": The wrestling of two partners forced into a distant relationship, seizing upon any stability and connectedness within their unpredictable, diverging momentums.

"Our work communicates the awkwardness of individuals and their interactions. Human insecurities simply exist; we display these vulnerabilities blatantly, unapologetically, and with a lightheartedness that allows the audience to be comfortable in their discomfort. Unconventional, rhythmic, dynamic and liberating, our movement is a play between improvisation and choreography. We provide space for the audience to laugh at our candid presentation, recognizing the everpresent humor in life."

fivefour is the choreographic collaboration and movement research of Cortney McGuire & Leah Nelson. Over the past four years, they've presented in Colorado, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and New York City venues including Joyce SoHo, Dance New Amsterdam, Dixon Place, Triskelion Arts, and White Wave. details

Laughing Liberally (December 16, 2008)
The Tank at chashama 217 East 42nd Street
www.thetanknyc.org

1 1/2 blocks east of Grand Central, btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves; 4,5,6,7 and shuttle train from Times Square

Tuesday December 16, 2008, 7:30p | $10

Another evening of Laughter from the Left. Featuring comedians from HBO, Comedy Central and the Laughing Liberally National Tour, see the show that made Howard Dean laugh, right-wing media fume and entertained Americans from sea to shining sea. With new performers and materials each week. details

Insist Instance Instant Mondays: 2nd Monday (December 15, 2008)
The Tank at chashama 217 East 42nd Street
www.thetanknyc.org
www.whiteoutinc.com

1 1/2 blocks east of Grand Central, btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves; 4,5,6,7 and shuttle train from Times Square

New York's pioneer experimental project White Out combusted onto the scene in the fall of 1995. The highly charged freakout style of White Out's early live shows quickly established the band's reputation. The band's open-ended invitation to other like-minded innovators to join them in their sonic conspiracy has sired an eclectic mix of collaborators. In recent years they have enjoyed playing regularly with maestro renaissance man Jim O'Rourke, with whom they have recorded two albums to date. Other comrades in instrumental arms have included Thurston Moore, Mike Watt, Nels Cline, MV CARBON and Okkyung Lee. White Out has put out two critically acclaimed recordings on Moore's Ecstatic Peace label. White Out remains steadfast in its efforts to achieve an incendiary new music, whose time has come. Don't try this at home. http://www.whiteoutinc.com/ White Out

1 1/2 blocks east of Grand Central, btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves; 4,5,6,7 and shuttle train from Times Square

In The Ozone (Tom Bruno/Anders Nilson/Matthew Heyner): the band that is deep in osmosis, in a turbo land that always can permutate and change. Tom Bruno is my favorite drummer, a mentor and friend. here he plays with his most recent collaborators Anders Nilson on guitar, and Matthew Heyner on electric bass. A power trio supreme. A rare glimpse, don't miss it. In The Ozone

1 1/2 blocks east of Grand Central, btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves; 4,5,6,7 and shuttle train from Times Square

A quartet of independent minded improvisers who have style and cache to raise the stakes. This band manages to sweep hard with synthesizer resonance, buzzing guitar and distorted clarinet, sonic plucking of tiny instruments, and spot on percussion chatter. Members of Hat City Intuitive/Heaven People/Blastocyst/Talibam! Fred Moore / Matt Mottel / Danny Moore / Brian Osborne Quartet

1 1/2 blocks east of Grand Central, btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves; 4,5,6,7 and shuttle train from Times Square

Steve Dalachinsky was born after the last Big War & has managed tosurvive lots of little wars. His poems have appeared extensively in journals on & off line including, Big Bridge, Milk, Unlikely Stories, Xpressed, Evergreen Review, Long Shot, Alpha Beat Soup, Xtant, Blue Beat Jacket, Unbearable Assemblage Magazines, NY Arts Magazine, 88, Lost and Found Times, plus such anthologies as Beat Indeed, The Haiku Moment and the esteemed Outlaw Bible of American Poetry.He has written liner notes for the CDs of many artists including Anthony Braxton, James "Blood" Ulmer, Rashied Ali, Roy Campbell, Matthew Shipp, Roscoe Mitchell & many others. His 1999 CD, Incomplete Direction (Knitting Factory Records), a collection of his poetry read in collaboration with various musicians, such as William Parker, Matthew Shipp, Daniel Carter, Sabir Mateen, Susie Ibarra, Thurston Moore (SonicYouth), Vernon Reid (Living Colour) has garnered much praise. His most recent chapbooks include Trial and Error in Paris (LoudmouthCollective - 2003), Lautreamont's Laments (Furniture Press - 2005), In Glorious Black and White (Ugly Duckling Presse - 2005), St. Lucie ( King of Mice Press - 2005 ) Are We Not MEN & Fake Book (2 books ofcollage - 8 Page Press - 2005). Dream Book (Avantcular Press - 2005). His books include A Superintendent's Eyes (Hozomeen Press, 2000) and The Final Nite (complete notes from a Charles GayleNotebook - Ugly Duckling Presse - 2005). His latest cd is Phenomena of Interference, a collaboration with pianist Matthew Shipp (Hopscotch Records, 2005.) He has read his work extensively in the N.Y. area and throughout the U.S. and Europe particularly in Germany and France. Steve Dalachinsky

SLAM (December 14, 2008)
The Tank at chashama 217 East 42nd Street
www.thetanknyc.org

1 1/2 blocks east of Grand Central, btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves; 4,5,6,7 and shuttle train from Times Square

SLAM Theater invites artists and audiences to get involved in the process of making theater. Playwrights bring fresh scripts, and actors are called out of a hat to perform timed segments, completely unrehearsed. After each round, the judges score the plays, moving the top-scoring plays to the next round. Winning writers get to unveil more of their work, acting as director or bringing one in to give timed notes. SLAM is an evening of theater with impromptu performance, spontaneous collaboration, and friendly competition.

Now in it's third year, SLAM Theater continues to encourage new voices, opening up a stage for diverse writers to develop work. SLAM is open to everyone. Anyone can come in, throw down a script, put their name in the actor pool, and get involved. A community has grown around SLAM -- a group of artists who come regularly to support each other, and give each other honest feedback in a raw, immediate setting. Each month, our SLAM Champion is given The Tank's space to put on a staged reading of their work. Many artists come and end up making strong connections and creative relationships that continue to develop outside of SLAM. SLAM is always growing and expanding. Actors, bring your talent. Playwrights, bring your scripts. Audience, bring your voice. Come SLAM! details

the better ME!…? (December 12 & 13, 2008)
The Tank at chashama 217 East 42nd Street
www.thetanknyc.org

1 1/2 blocks east of Grand Central, btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves; 4,5,6,7 and shuttle train from Times Square

Fri Dec.12 | Sat Dec.13 7:30p
$10

the better ME!…? observes concepts of self-determination, ambition, body looks, and self-love / self-hate as they relate to "physical fitness". To put it short, the better ME!…? is a birds-eye view of the world from the perspective of an American Gymrat. details

Start Trekkin' (December 11 & 12, 2008)
The Tank at chashama 217 East 42nd Street
www.thetanknyc.org

1 1/2 blocks east of Grand Central, btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves; 4,5,6,7 and shuttle train from Times Square

Thu 12/11, 7:30p | Fri 12/12 9:30p
$10

Start Trekkin' is the premier long-form improv comedy troupe in New York City, performing improvised shows based on the original Series of Star Trek. Many say what they do is magic...some call it science. But be you primitive minded subspecies, or super-intelligent beings with no moral fibre and an Oedipus complex, they'll still warp your mind to the far reaches of funny. details

The Raw and the Cooked (December 11, 2008)
The Tank at chashama 217 East 42nd Street
www.thetanknyc.org
therawandthecooked blog

1 1/2 blocks east of Grand Central, btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves; 4,5,6,7 and shuttle train from Times Square

Thu Dec.11, 9:30p, 2008 | $10

The Raw and the Cooked is The Tank's monthly forum for interdisciplinary improvisation including music, dance and mixed-media; Live, spontaneous performance, and fun for all!

This month's show will feature COOKED work by: Natacha Diels, Jessie Marino, Lucinda Segar & Tatyana Tenenbaum; Mark Messer & Nicola Eddington; Saeed Siamak; and Meredith Nadler & Jean Van den Doorn

...and RAW work by: Celine Coles, Jeff Young, and Laurel Snyder

Visit http://therawandthecookedshow.blogspot.com for archives of previous shows. details

Screening Liberally (December 9, 2008)
featuring the documentary film FREEHELD
The Tank at chashama 217 East 42nd Street
www.thetanknyc.org

1 1/2 blocks east of Grand Central, btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves; 4,5,6,7 and shuttle train from Times Square

Following the California referendum, Living Liberally hosts a night about marriage equality, and the struggle to bring it to New York. Screening Liberally presents FREEHELD the academy-award winning documentary about a police officer's partner denied benefits because they are the same sex.

With guest speakers from the No on Prop 8 campaign, and advocates pursuing marriage equality here in NY. details

Insist Instance Instant Mondays: 1st Monday (December 8, 2008)
The Tank at chashama 217 East 42nd Street
www.thetanknyc.org
pilatenavigatoreternal.blogspot.com
www.volcanictongue.com
www.shinkoyo.com
myspace.com/luloffmusic

1 1/2 blocks east of Grand Central, btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves; 4,5,6,7 and shuttle train from Times Square

"Bed of Rocks" is songs uncovered under the blankets of cold city mornings and the peeled back sweat of too many summers, emerging from the haze of time in recent months spent split between a coffeehouse and a local dope bar, dodging debt collection and suffering head injuries. It is the most recent work of writer and performer Evan Louison, whose work includes the group Extremis with Jeremy Nissan of Halflings, Ryan Naideau of Dustheads, and Daniel Carter of TEST, and the long since extinguished flames of Mendicant Friends. His collaborations with composer Stephen Cooper and the performance art collective Eagle Ager are ongoing. His CDR imprint Pilate Navigator is distributed by Volcanic Tongue in the UK. New Recordings will be available 12/8/8 at this performance, which is the first in over a year.
www.pilatenavigatoreternal.blogspot.com
www.volcanictongue.com Rubiyats of the Cicadas

1 1/2 blocks east of Grand Central, btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves; 4,5,6,7 and shuttle train from Times Square

Symbol is a virtual menagerie of SHINKOYO; the ectoplasm connecting a diverse group of composers, visual artists, improvisers, instrument builders, thinkers, scholars and healers exploring new syntheses of sound and art. We operate on terms of collectivity and collaboration, while supporting the individual voices of all Shinkoyos. Shinkoyo submits to no genres, but Ancient Futurism, Noise Age, and True Age are terms to be discovered. Born in 2000 at the Oberlin Conservatory, we began releasing music in Fall of 2002. Shinkoyo has spread its wings from California to New York, with its headquarters at the Paris London West Nile Performance/Gallery Space - Brooklyn's donation-based center for experimental performance and art.
www.shinkoyo.com Symbol/SHINKOYO

1 1/2 blocks east of Grand Central, btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves; 4,5,6,7 and shuttle train from Times Square

Lauren Luloff is an artist living and working in Brooklyn New York. Her work ranges from large paintings on bed sheets, to sculptural forms and installations, and also spins in the direction of music and performance. Lauren has exhibited her work throughout New York, Pennsylvania and Connecticut. Her music projects include collaborations with Kaneng Lolang, Zeljko McMullen, Zak Vreeland and Julianne Carney. She has performed at Roulette, Bard College, Secret Project Robot and Paris London West Nile. Lauren is currently an MFA candidate at Bard College and teaches art to children in Brooklyn and Queens.
http://www.myspace.com/luloffmusic Lauren Luloff

SLAM (December 7, 2008)
The Tank at chashama 217 East 42nd Street
www.thetanknyc.org

works on paper (December 5 - 28, 2008)
by chashama artist-in-residence Marina Tsesarskaya
chashama 461 Gallery, 461 West 126th Street in Harlem
marinotchka@yahoo.com

(between Amsterdam & Morningside Aves; 1/A/C/B/D to 125th Street station)

OPENING RECEPTION Friday December 5, 6-9pm
Saturday-Sunday, Dec.6-7 & Dec.13-14, 1pm - 6pm
or by appointment: marinotchka@yahoo.com

FREE and open to the public.

Marina Tsesarskaya lives and works in New York, completed a BFA at the College of Fine Arts and Industrial Design, Kiev, Ukraine and her MFA from the Kiev Academy of Fine Arts. Her work, which has been exhibited internationally in the United States, Canada, Russia, and her native Ukraine, has been in exhibitions at Art@Large, NYC; Moscow Contemporary Art Museum, Moscow, Russia; Manhattan Graphic Center, NY; and The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA. and included in collections of the Tate Museum, The New York Public Library, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, and The Walker Art Center. Tsesarskaya received a commission from the MTA Arts for Transit program. Her stained glass project is installed at the Prospect Avenue train station in the Bronx. details

"Most of my work consists of visual references on my personal experiences. The images in my work will present places without names, experiences which bypass the senses and proceed directly to the psyche, in which viewers may locate themselves with the use of a shifting taxonomy of emotional resonance. Any signs indicating real space are only points of departure revealing where one is not…trace the relationship between human destiny and destination and finds the state of longing (to belong) a singular place to be at the moment." Artist statement

Forward (December 4-5, 2008)
presented by Ana Keilson and Collaborators
The Tank at chashama 217 East 42nd Street
www.thetanknyc.org

1 1/2 blocks east of Grand Central, btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves; 4,5,6,7 and shuttle train from Times Square

**SPECIAL PRE-SHOW SOUND INSTALLATION BY COMPOSER JOSHUA HUDELSON STARTING AT 6:30pm ON THURSDAY, DEC 4th**

Choreography by Ana Isabel Keilson (in collaboration with the performers)
Featuring performances by Ana Isabel Keilson, Rebecca Lubart and Devika Wickremesinghe
Original Compositions by Johsua Hudelson
Costumes by Naomi Luppescu

NYC-based Ana Isabel Keilson brings her new work, Forward, to the Tank. Exploring the process of evolution in both the human world and the animal kingdom, Forward features an unconventional and highly detailed movement vocabulary. The dance is charged with a physical and emotional energy that examines our origins from microscopic life forms to erect bipeds; Forward draws inspiration from the biodiversity from which we, as homo sapiens sapiens, have evolved and sheds new light on the complexity of our physical beginnings. An original score by composer Joshua Hudelson manipulates sounds from the natural world and provides an acoustic environment that, like the dance, transports the audience, transforms the stage, and pulses with the sublime force of life.

Torchbearers of the new tide of Do-It-Yourself dance and performance in New York City, Ana Isabel Keilson and Collaborators create work with integrity. Through their burgeoning and evolving working process, they seek to invigorate audiences everywhere with a performance experience that is stimulating, forceful and inspiring. Committed to community activism as well as performance, their work brings a much-needed dialogue back into the dance world today. details

Ana Isabel Keilson was born in Portland, ME. She has performed with companies including the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Co., Nugent + Matteson Dance, PEARSONWIDRIG DANCETHEATER, and Daniel McCusker Dance Projects. Her own work, in dance and video, has been shown at the Judson Church, Populous by AUNTS, Live Sh-- at the Chocolate Factory, 'Underexposed' and 'Body Blend' at Dixon Place, the Progressive Arts Network, the 2007 and 2008 Movement Research Festivals, the Perishable Theater (Providence, RI) and The Tank NYC (December, 2008). As a guest artist, she has taught at various locations including Bowdoin College, Skidmore College, Barnard College/ Columbia University and Green Street Studios (Cambridge, MA). In addition to her work as a choreographer and performer, she is the founder/organizer of 'the zine,' a free, Do-it-Yourself publication promoting the art and ideas of the NYC-based dance community. The zine currently has several issues, a contributor-base of over 50 artists; beginning in November, 2008, the zine will be featured on a monthly show on Washington Heights Free Radio. about Ana Isabel Keilson

NYE (December 3, 2008)
The Tank at chashama 217 East 42nd Street
www.thetanknyc.org

1 1/2 blocks east of Grand Central, btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves; 4,5,6,7 and shuttle train from Times Square

Wed Dec.3, 2008, 7:30p | $7

New York Experimental is The Tank's monthly experimental film/video/live media performance series, focusing on unique moving picture works from emerging and established artists. details

Laughs Last, Laughs Loudest (December 2, 2008)
The Tank at chashama 217 East 42nd Street
www.thetanknyc.org

1 1/2 blocks east of Grand Central, btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves; 4,5,6,7 and shuttle train from Times Square

Tuesday December 2, 2008, 7:30p | $10

Another evening of Laughter from the Left. Featuring comedians from HBO, Comedy Central and the Laughing Liberally National Tour, see the show that made Howard Dean laugh, right-wing media fume and entertained Americans from sea to shining sea. With new performers and materials each week. details

The Swiss Family Robinson & Other Stories (December 1 - 3, 2008)
a work-in-progress by Tatyana Tenenbaum
chashama 266 performance window, 266 West 37th Street

Between 7th and 8th Avenues, A/C/E/1/2/3 to 34th Street, N/R/Q/W/7 to Times Square; M16, M34 buses to 8th Ave, M10, M20 to 36th St.

Installation/Performance: December 3rd 7-10pm (the performance will be on a continuous loop during this time)

The installation (without the body) will also be viewable Monday, December 1st through Wednesday, December 3rd from 1-6pm.

"The Swiss Family Robinson & Other Stories" is a montage of live episodes and projected, hand-drawn animations inspired by the popular family movie. Exploring themes of isolation and grief, the piece continually recontextualizes the body through animated layers to simulate a state of detachment from emotion and memory.

"The Swiss Family Robinson & Other Stories" is a work-in-progress that combines two shorter works. "The Swiss Family Robinson" was first shown at AUNTS in Bed-Stuy, and later presented by Movement Research @ Judson Church. "Subplot 1" was workshoped at Dance Conversations @ The Flea in October 2008.

Tatyana Tenenbaum is a choreographer, composer and multimedia artist from Amherst, MA. She is a graduate of Oberlin College and Conservatory of Music, where she majored in Dance and Interdisciplinary Composition. details

SLAM (November 30, 2008)
The Tank at chashama 217 East 42nd Street
www.thetanknyc.org

1 1/2 blocks east of Grand Central, btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves; 4,5,6,7 and shuttle train from Times Square

Sunday November 30, 2008, 7p $10 suggested donation

SLAM Theater invites artists and audiences to get involved in the process of making theater. Playwrights bring fresh scripts, and actors are called out of a hat to perform timed segments, completely unrehearsed. After each round, the judges score the plays, moving the top-scoring plays to the next round. Winning writers get to unveil more of their work, acting as director or bringing one in to give timed notes. SLAM is an evening of theater with impromptu performance, spontaneous collaboration, and friendly competition.

Now in it's third year, SLAM Theater continues to encourage new voices, opening up a stage for diverse writers to develop work. SLAM is open to everyone. Anyone can come in, throw down a script, put their name in the actor pool, and get involved. A community has grown around SLAM -- a group of artists who come regularly to support each other, and give each other honest feedback in a raw, immediate setting. Each month, our SLAM Champion is given The Tank's space to put on a staged reading of their work. Many artists come and end up making strong connections and creative relationships that continue to develop outside of SLAM. SLAM is always growing and expanding. Actors, bring your talent. Playwrights, bring your scripts. Audience, bring your voice. Come SLAM! details

Sister Helen | Shapes | The Corrao Q (November 28, 2008)
The Tank at chashama 217 East 42nd Street
www.thetanknyc.org
myspace.com/neces
myspace.com/shapesband
myspace.com/thecorraoq

1 1/2 blocks east of Grand Central, btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves; 4,5,6,7 and shuttle train from Times Square

Fri Nov.28, 2008, 9:30p | $10

SISTER HELEN are a young rock band seeking to conquer the world through sheer power, applied in sophisticated proportion. A guitar, a bass, and a drumset fuse into a sound like the judgment of God, while at the same time keeping their distinctness and shading in the subtleties of the sound, deep as a valley in the goatherding Alps. Over it all a singer makes his immutable proclamations in the style of the ancient prophets of the Mediterranean world. Those who attend Sister Helen's Mass do not hold back. They hold on. http://myspace.com/neces

SHAPES is taking steps to make it safe to dance to punk like never before! Armed with a wall of guitar, a barrage of new songs, and a group chemistry unparalleled in this band's history, SHAPES is a band that will make you smile, dance, sweat, sing, cum, shout, and love....at least you can watch us do all of those things on stage. Tell your family, tell your friends, tell anyone who's booking a show (please!), SHAPES ARE HERE! Come and get some. http://myspace.com/shapesband

THE CORRAO Q have won renown across Staten Island and frequently been featured in AWE Magazine. Stripping down to rediscover the roots in order to understand the present, the band has revamped, reformatted, and has been re-inspired. Its a new energy and experience that we're looking foward to share with people for one more year. One thing to expect of the rock-driven, funk-spirited, and blues-hearted quartet is that it's all about the moment...and we hope it'll be a good one. http://myspace.com/thecorraoq about the bands

Herstory/Mystory (November 25 - 29, 2008)
a group show curated by Elvira Clayton
chashama 461 Gallery, 461 West 126th Street in Harlem
http://herstorymystory1.blogspot.com/
www.hcz.org

(between Amsterdam & Morningside Aves; 1/A/C/B/D to 125th Street station)

Opening Reception Tuesday, November 25, 2008, 5-8pm
Exhibit hours:
Friday, November 28, 12-5pm
Saturday, November 29, 12-5pm
FREE and open to the public.

Harlem-based artist, Elvira Clayton, is pleased to present "Herstory/Mystory", an art exhibit that is the culmination of a collaborative art project between the artist and a group of young girls from The Harlem Children's Zone, A Cut Above Program.

This mixed-media art installation pays homage to female matriarchs from our families and our cultural history.

This project is made possible in part with public funds from the Manhattan Community Arts Fund, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and administered by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

Also made possible in part by chashama

and

The Harlem Children's Zone, A Cut Above Program details

Screening Liberally (November 25, 2008)
featuring the film "Hope Deferred"
The Tank at chashama 217 East 42nd Street
www.thetanknyc.org

1 1/2 blocks east of Grand Central, btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves; 4,5,6,7 and shuttle train from Times Square

Tuesday, November 25 2008
6:30p doors, 7:30p film
Free - suggested donation $10 to cover costs of the venue

Screening Liberally presents "Hope Deferred" -- a film produced by the Brooke Ellison Project on the challenges and opportunities of stem cell research. Brooke Ellison will be present for the film. details

Crafting Liberally & SLAM (November 23, 2008)
The Tank at chashama 217 East 42nd Street
www.thetanknyc.org

1 1/2 blocks east of Grand Central, btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves; 4,5,6,7 and shuttle train from Times Square

Crafting Liberally 4p FREE
SLAM at 7p $10 suggested donation

At "Crafting Liberally", Join other progressive knitters, quilters, scrapbookers, needleworkers, and others for an afternoon of tip-trading, show-and-telling, crafting amp; conversation.

SLAM Theater invites artists and audiences to get involved in the process of making theater. Playwrights bring fresh scripts, and actors are called out of a hat to perform timed segments, completely unrehearsed. After each round, the judges score the plays, moving the top-scoring plays to the next round. Winning writers get to unveil more of their work, acting as director or bringing one in to give timed notes. SLAM is an evening of theater with impromptu performance, spontaneous collaboration, and friendly competition.

Now in it's third year, SLAM Theater continues to encourage new voices, opening up a stage for diverse writers to develop work. SLAM is open to everyone. Anyone can come in, throw down a script, put their name in the actor pool, and get involved. A community has grown around SLAM -- a group of artists who come regularly to support each other, and give each other honest feedback in a raw, immediate setting. Each month, our SLAM Champion is given The Tank's space to put on a staged reading of their work. Many artists come and end up making strong connections and creative relationships that continue to develop outside of SLAM. SLAM is always growing and expanding. Actors, bring your talent. Playwrights, bring your scripts. Audience, bring your voice. Come SLAM! details

wet (November 19 - December 13, 2008)
a group show curated by Suko Presseau
chashama Times Square Gallery, 112 West 44th Street

(between Broadway & Sixth Ave. / Subway: 1,2,3,B,D,F,N,Q,R,V,W to 42nd St., 7 & shuttle to Times Square. Bus: M104, M42 to Sixth Ave., M5, M6, M7 to 43rd St.)

Opening Reception: Wednesday November 19th, 6-8pm
featuring performance: 'All That Is Solid Melts Into Air'
by Liz Magic Laser at 7p

Hours: Wednesday - Saturday 11am - 6pm
FREE and open to the public.

Works by:
Orin Ben-Shitrit
Liz Magic Laser
Martin Murphy
Suko Presseau
Jeremy Willis details

AWAY WITH HER (November 14 - 22, 2008)
by Quality Meats
chashama, 217 East 42nd Street
www.qualitymeats.org
This production was made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Arts

(1 1/2 blocks east of Grand Central, btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves; 4,5,6,7 and shuttle train from Times Square)

Quality Meats presents a workshop of
AWAY WITH HER
A crush of Shakespeare's Cymbeline and Measure for Measure

November 14, 15, 16 Fri-Sun at 7:30pm
November 19, 20, 21, 22 Wed-Sat at 7:30pm
$10 suggested donation
For reservations email: info@qualitymeats.org
www.qualitymeats.org

Quality Meats brings you "Cymbeline" and "Measure for Measure", yes both of them, in two hours.

Cymbeline: This distilled one-hour version focuses entirely on Imogen's passage through a secret marriage, a false identity and a fake death. A nightmare of a fairy tale, it asks, is it possible to erase one's mistakes like waking up from a bad dream?

Measure for Measure: Strangers in a room act out a fantasy of power and desire. In this 45 minute interpretation, we are witness to extremely private acts of domination and submission.

This production was made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Arts details

Direction: Javierantonio Gonzalez and Meiyin Wang

set design by Jian Jung
costumes: Migdalia Luz Barens Vera
sound: Mark Valadez

With Courtney King, Tania Molina, David Skeist, Jorge Luna, Luis Alberto González, Mikey Barringer, Frank de Julio, Kila Packett; Jon Froelich, Mary Jane Gibson and Ben Vershbow. cast and crew

Quality Meats is a production company founded by two directors who create their work in radical response to each other. Rooted in international collaboration, our repertory of work ranges from re-imagined classics to devised new pieces with an emphasis on ensemble creation and physical imagination. It celebrates the forceful collision of the stories and theatrical cultures of their diverse artists. Founded in 2005 by two graduates of the MFA Directing program of Columbia University, Javier Gonzalez and Meiyin Wang, the company is made up of a porous collective of theatre artists, cooks, wanderers, circus folk and flamenco dancers who have thus far come from Australia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Puerto Rico, Canada, Singapore and the U.S. about Quality Meats

TRESpass (November 10 - 13, 2008)
a project by Modern Dance Awareness Society
chashama performance window, 266 West 37th Street
despinasophia@hotmail.com
http://tmdas.j-3.org

(Between 7th and 8th Avenues, A/C/E/1/2/3 to 34th Street, N/R/Q/W/7 to Times Square; M16, M34 buses to 8th Ave, M10, M20 to 36th St.)

November 10 - 13, 2008
7:30p Monday eve.
11am and 1:30pm Tuesday
11am and 1:30pm Wednesday
7:30p Thursday eve.

Curiousity is an investment that drives us beyond the familiar: familiar ideas, familiar relationships, familiar bodies and a familiar world. But as we all increasingly know, more of the same will not work, we need change.

Inviting Trespass is an offering to invest in change in ourselves in the way we perceive, participate and ask questions. Audience members, passerbyers and dancers will engage in a new kind of dialogue integrating language, movement and genuine intention.

MDAS is: Despina Stamos, Storme Sundberg, Andrew Suseno and Scott Lyons about the project

HEAR NOR STARE (November 8 - December 7, 2008)
works of sight and sound by Sayaka Nagata and David Herman
Curated by Ad Nauseum Lyceum
chashama U W S Gallery 950 Columbus Avenue
adnauseamlyceum@gmail.com | www.adnaus.org

betwixt West 106th & 107th Streets; B/C to 103rd or 110th Street stations

an installation by Sayaka Nagata and David Herman

October 9 - November 2, 2008
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 8, 5-7p

Gallery Hours:
Thursdays 1-5pm
Fridays 3-7pm
Saturdays and Sundays 1-5pm
and by appointment details

Hear Nor Stare brings together two works that guide visitors toward an alternate perception of sight and sound.

Look is an investigation of the process of seeing. The piece consists of a model landscape viewed through tiny pinholes, allowing viewers to shrink their field of focus to an incredibly small scale, to see details, and to experience depth, perspective, and motion.

Listen is a guided soundwalk through the neighborhood surrounding the gallery. However, instead of structuring what to listen to, the piece presents a composed map of how/where/when to listen, allowing each listener to sculpt a unique, spontaneous auditory experience. about the show

Sayaka Nagata was born and raised in Hyogo, Japan. She now lives and works in New York. She paints and designs theater sometimes. This is her first collaborative piece with David.

David Herman is a sound artist, designer, engineer and producer in Brooklyn, NY. His interests lie in all things to do with sound, especially sound as a physical, tactile phenomenon. David is a founder of Lau derette Recordings, producing the work of artists, non-artists, accidental artists and anti-artists who otherwise might slip through the cracks of public awareness and be lost forever. about the artists

Ad Nauseam Lyceum is an artist run organization committed to showcasing multi-disciplinary work by emerging artists in New York . The group aims to give young artists an opportunity to collaborate, present work, and have a creative dialogue outside the traditional art market. Founded in 2006 by Ryan Frank, Deena Selenow, and Rory Sheridan, the group has hosted previous events at Emphemeroptera Art Space, chashama, EXPLOSIVO! and Studio 717, and has collectively shown the work of over 50 visual and performing artists. Dedicated to blurring the lines between various artistic genres, Ad Nauseam Lyceum is a platform for a new generation of artists working in performance, visual art, and new media. about Ad Nauseam Lyceum

Nocturnal Playthings (November 7 - 21, 2008)
a premiere solo exhibition of works created by Shawn Pannell as Artist-in-Residence at chashama Harlem Studios
chashama Harlem Studios Gallery, 461 West 126th Street
tumosp@yahoo.com

(between Amsterdam & Morningside Aves; 1/A/C/B/D to 125th Street station)

OPENING RECEPTION Friday November 7, 6 - 9pm
EXHIBIT HOURS:
Tuesdays, 1 - 7pm
Sundays, 12 - 6pm
FREE and open to the public. details

Skin Trade (October 30 - November 22, 2008)
curated by artist, curator and writer Dan Halm
chashama ABC Gallery, 169 Avenue C
www.danhalm.com

(at 11th Street, M14C, M14D buses, F to 2nd Ave., L to 1st Ave.)

OPENING RECEPTION Thursday, October 30, 6-9pm
Wednesday-Saturday 12 - 6pm
FREE and open to the public.

is pleased to present Skin Trade, an exhibition of work based on man's relationship to animals as decorative trophies; the beauty of the natural world in an artificial setting; and our own arrogance in pertaining to the animal kingdom curated by artist, curator and writer Dan Halm.

Why are we compelled to capture and preserve our killings? Is this man's need to feel superior over the animal kingdom? Or is it a way to capture a moment in time, between hunter and prey? A way to celebrate one’s hunting accomplishments or simply a way to preserve what once roamed the Earth?

Featured artists: Elaine Bradford, Simen Johan, Eric Lendl, Christian Siekmeier, Amy Stein & Kimberly Witham. details

Employing techniques of handicraft, specifically crochet; artist Elaine Bradford creates a world where each taxidermied animal straddles the odd, sad and familiar. Spending hours creating custom sweaters for these animals she cannot help but project onto them a life of their own. The soft, touchable stripes of color accentuate contours and bring a formalist beauty to these figures.

Using sculpturally enhanced taxidermy, Simen Johan explores our predilection towards imagination and emotion, rather than reason. These absurd evolutions of the animal kingdom serve as symbols of those objects we manipulate to make our own reality desirable.

With his found object sculptures, Eric Lendl tackles man's fixation with defeating an/or overpowering nature in order to achieve a sense of strength. Using objects that are associated with masculinity, his aim is to produce an alternative to a common and naturally destructive form of trophy, the taxidermy head. Bradford, Johan, & Lendl

Christian Siekmeier uses his experience of growing up in a hunting family and creates a series of photographs that address the hunt for the perfect specimen. In his series Venison, Siekmeier addresses what lies beneath the skin and how we relate to the animal, once muscle and sinew are replaced by polystyrene.

With the photographs of Amy Stein, man's evolving relationship with the "wild" is placed in the foreground. Through staged human interactions with live and taxidermied animals, her imagery considers man’s fascination with, and fear of, the natural world. The series challenges the viewer to consider the human desire to more directly experience and to ultimately tame the wild.

In Deertown, Kimberly Witham combines appropriated images from deer hunters and taxidermists into luxury home magazines. "As the woodlands become suburbs, animal habitats dwindle. Perhaps they can move in with us.” " states Witham. "These magazines offer a promise of wealth, relaxation and fulfillment. Through digital collage I have transformed the original images into a grotesque parody of their own sanitized perfection." Siekmeier, Stein, & Witham

chashama Masquerade Party (October 28, 2008)
Un Deux Trois cafe-restaurant, 123 West 44th Street
a gala fundraiser-as-masquerade ball for chashama and honoring Nancy Packes, President of Brown Harris Stevens Project Marketing, featuring chashama artists and artists-in-residence Scotty the Blue Bunny, Sandra Spannan, Yehuda Duenyas, Despina Stamos, Scott Lyons, Celso, Royce Bannon, Ian Farrell, Edisa Weeks, Maine, Sincere Aikens, Suko Presseau, Zhenesse and many others.
photos by Louis Caldarola
photos on chashama's Flickr site

Visual Conversations (October 24 - November 2, 2008)
a solo exhibition of works created by Lisa Ingram as Artist-in-Residence at chashama Harlem Studios
chashama Harlem Studios Gallery, 461 West 126th Street
www.lisaingram.com

October 24-26 & October 31-November 2, 2008
Friday-Sunday 2pm - 6pm
Gala Opening: Friday October 24, 6 - 9pm with art performance by Jay Alan Zimmerman
Children's program Sunday October 26, 2p
FREE and open to the public.

CHASHAMA 461 GALLERY is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new paintings by resident artist, Lisa Ingram. "Visual Conversations" explores the patterns, rhythms, and dynamics of speech, music, and daily activities. Ingram's interest in these elements of sound heightened when her longtime collaborator and husband, the composer Jay Alan Zimmerman, became deaf.

The exhibition features a 20 foot installation of watercolors—covering the east wall of the gallery—as well as several oil paintings. Each work explores sound through various nuances of color, pattern. and shape, and shows a playful exuberance through bright pigments and textural layering.

The opening reception will embrace this playful perspective with a party atmosphere of drinks, food, and music. At 8pm, Mr. Zimmerman will premiere his new 20-minute musical film, EVIL EYE — a vibrant adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe's "The Tell Tale Heart" with integrated captions for the deaf and hard-of-hearing. details

Lisa Ingram studied painting with art-world legends Ross Bleckner and Sean Scully, and has since exhibited her work in numerous museums and galleries throughout the United States and Europe.

This includes solo exhibitions at Soho Myriad Galleries, Atlanta, GA; 55 Mercer Gallery, New York, NY; The Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA; and many others, as well as group shows and collaborative projects at Fusion Arts Museum, New York, NY; The Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY; and Suyama Art SPace, Seattle, WA.

Her oils, watercolors and limited edition prints are owned by countless private collectors and corporations around the world including Disney, Guggenheim Productions, Mandarin NYC, and Marriott Resorts. about Lisa

Dance Jamaica! (October 18, 2008)
a chashama presentation made in association with the Greater Jamaica Development Corp
featuring Ballet International Africans & Queenz Finest
Jamaica Performing Arts Center (JPAC), 153-10 Jamaica Avenue, Jamaica, NY
www.gjdc.org

on 153rd Street and Jamaica Avenue [E or J train to Jamaica Center (last stop)]

chashama, in association with Greater Jamaica Development Corp (GJDC), is proud to present Dance Jamaica!, unexpected dance performances outside the Jamaica Performing Arts Center (JPAC).

Four dance companies that operate in the Queens area have been selected to create outdoor performances for the lawn in front of the Jamaica Performing Arts Center in its inaugural season. JPAC is located on one of Jamaica’s busiest thoroughfares, and these public performances will delight the public as they go about their Saturday activities.

On October 18th, dance company Ballet International Africans will present "Africa Meets African America". This production is a reflection of the African American dream to one day, be able to return to Africa and feel a sense of belonging, while also accepting their history here in the U.S. The piece incorporates spoken word and contemporary dance with Traditional West African dance, drum, song, and folklore.

Queenz Finest is a hip-hop dance company founded by David "Sincere Aiken" while attending Benjamin N. Cardozo high school. The purpose of the company is to give young aspiring dancers a forum in which they can explore and develop their skills and prepare for a professional career in the video and dance industry. David's repertoire is created with the intent to bridge the gap between the youth and their elders as well as various cultures. He believes that although music is intended to be a universal language, a great barrier was created with the inception of hip-hop music. He strongly believes that hip-hop music is attracting a multi-cultural audience and that dance can not only help the elders understand the music of the hip-hop generation, but build a more mature understanding on hip-hop music in the youth. details

Richard Wager (October 16 - 19, 2008)
a solo exhibition of works created by Richard Wager as Artist-in-Residence at chashama Harlem Studios
chashama Harlem Studios Gallery, 461 West 126th Street

(between Amsterdam & Morningside Aves; 1/A/C/B/D to 125th Street station)

OPENING RECEPTION Friday October 17, 6-9pm
Gallery Hours: October 16 - 19
Thursday-Sunday 2pm - 6pm
FREE and open to the public. details

Urban Composition (October 15 - 19, 2008)
artwork by chashama's Artist-in-Residence in Harlem Diane Davis
chashama Gallery, 112 West 44th Street

(between Broadway & Sixth Ave. / Subway: 1,2,3,B,D,F,N,Q,R,V,W to 42nd St., 7 & shuttle to Times Square. Bus: M104, M42 to Sixth Ave., M5, M6, M7 to 43rd St.)

2ND OPENING RECEPTION Friday October 17, 6-9pm
EXHIBIT TIMES: Friday-Sunday
Friday from 4-9p
Saturday 2-8p
Sunday 3-6p

FREE and open to the public. details

The Silviculture Museum (October 13 - 25, 2008)
a project by Panoply Performance Laboratory
chashama Window Space, 266 West 37th Street
www.panoplylab.org
www.theinternationalists.org

Weekdays: 6-9pm with free live performances at 7pm
Weekends: 12pm-9pm with free live performances at 7pm
Visible and Audible from the street at all times.
RSVP: Free, but seating is limited at performances to 10 people per night.
To reserve a seat, email panoplylab@gmail.com details

Taiwanese, Filipino, and American Artists Build a Miniature Museum.

A miniature museum about tree farming, colonialization, immigration, and cultural identity is opening October 13th in midtown Manhattan. Featuring rows of miniature pine trees, video in Mandarin and English, and a conceptual, interactive sound installation, the Silviculture Museum is the result of a collaborative, transnational effort. Renowned Filipino director and performer Herbie Go, Taiwanese film and stage actor, pianist, and translator, director and visual artist Esther Neff, composer and sound artist Brian McCorkle, visual artist Shawna Ferrato, and Chiasui Chen of the Panoply Performance Laboratory (PPL) have come together during the 100th Anniversary of the Taiwan. The Silviculture Museum is supported through chashama's hallmark Windows Program, and the Internationalists Directors Collective. about the project

The Panoply Performance Laboratory is an open co-operative for artists working transnationally and across disciplines. We are dedicated to non-hierarchical dialectical and aesthetic exchange, collaborative creation of projects, and co-apprenticeships (mutual exchange of discipline and craft skills) in performance and Performative art. Our collaborative works are multi-lingual, pedagogical, scientific, epistemological, mathematical, environmental, public, and free when possible. Visit us at www.panoplylab.org. about Panoply Performance Laboratory

NPX NEW YORK (October 11, 2008)
presented by Northeast Power Exchange
The Tank at chashama 217 East 42nd Street
www.thetanknyc.org

1 1/2 blocks east of Grand Central, btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves; 4,5,6,7 and shuttle train from Times Square

Sat, 10/11/2008 - 9:00pm $10

6 block-rocking hours of the Northeast's best underground electronics!

The Northeast Power Exchange collective -- a joint venture of Splice (NYC), Broketronica (Philadelphia), and other crews from around the region -- has already touched down in Philly, Baltimore, and Wilmington. On Saturday, October 11, 9 NPX acts will bring the noise to New York!

The action unfolds at chashama, the art and performance space at 217 East 42nd Street. There, in the shadow of the Chrysler Building, the digital tribes will gather for a night of high-powered, all-ages audiovisual action.

featured bands: Panzer Division (Philadelphia, PA), Maxx Klaxon (Brooklyn, NY), Glomag (Brooklyn, NY), _vectorzero (Brooklyn, NY), MAD (Philadelphia, PA), I Synthesist (NYC), Megadrives (Baltimore, MD), Blipvert (NYC), Yohei Nishiyama (NYC). details

Dance Jamaica! (October 11, 2008)
a chashama presentation made in association with the Greater Jamaica Development Corp
featuring Duhon Dance
Jamaica Performing Arts Center (JPAC), 153-10 Jamaica Avenue, Jamaica, NY
www.gjdc.org

1st Annual Pajama Party (October 10, 2008)
The Tank at chashama 217 East 42nd Street
www.thetanknyc.org

(1 1/2 blocks east of Grand Central, btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves; 4,5,6,7 and shuttle train from Times Square)

Remember the good old days when art parties would rage until 4am?

FRIDAY SPECIAL: RAW DELIVERY + PAJAMA JAM = 1 TICKET!

9-11pm: Dance on Film
"No Se" Dion Mucciacito
"Looking for Tonto" Brian Buck
"War" Jennifer Lott
"Happens" Megan Harrold
"Four Mists" Dir. Peter Butaine, Chor. Tze Chun
"To Each Her Own" Noe March

with performances by AUNTS curated by Jeso O'Neill, featuring:

robot hands
Ryan Ross
Jesse Wintermute
Devika Wickremesinghe

11-Midnight: Screening of 2007 Blip Festival DVDs

Midnight-2am: Shades of Black Comedy curated by Elon James White (The Black Comedy Experiment)

2am-4am: Noise group Loud Objects performs live sound-track to Mission Impossible 2! Schedule of Events

Make Raw Not War (October 10 - 11, 2008)
The Tank at chashama 217 East 42nd Street
www.thetanknyc.org
www.rawdelivery.org

1 1/2 blocks east of Grand Central, btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves; 4,5,6,7 and shuttle train from Times Square

Raw Delivery is a company on a journey to nurture kernels of original thought. Striving to create witty, relevant dance that provokes passionate reactions, Raw Delivery uses humor as a means to digest social commentary, breaking down stereotypes that surround the nature of dance.

Make Raw Not War features choreography by Carrie J. Brown and Matthew Oaks. Dancers are: Zoe Blake, Carrie J. Brown, Clare Cook, Carlos A. Cruz-Velazquez, Jennifer Jones & Matthew Oaks. details

The show features the premiere of "Baby, Baby, Baby" a trio exploring the culture of Brown's native Southern Louisiana and the impact of hurricane devastation on that state's community. The piece is set to music by artists of the area including Maria Ball and Lucinda Williams. This is followed by Brown's video autobiography "restless life disorder".

The evening also includes solo excerpts from Brown's work-in-eternal-progress "Love Life" with music from Patsy Cline and Leann Rimes; and "HomeSpace" (set to music performed by Wynton Marsailes), a duet about how couples deal with space, both literally and figuratively.

Closing the show is a new duet for Brown and Oaks entitled "Raw Debate" interpreting our esteemed political candidates as they debate their way into November's election. This timely piece uses gesture and sound bytes to portray our nation's would be leaders. choreography

Worms in Dirt (October 9, 2008)
The Tank at chashama 217 East 42nd Street
www.thetanknyc.org

1 1/2 blocks east of Grand Central, btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves; 4,5,6,7 and shuttle train from Times Square

Thu, 10/09/2008 - 9:30pm $7

Brooklyn-based duo Worms in Dirt (Sarah Welker, v; Jon Garcia, g) performs non-idiomatic, semi-improvised music for guitar and amplified violin. details

Domestic Skin (October 9 - November 2, 2008)
photography exhibit by Morgan Levy and Anna Ogier-Bloomer
Curated by Ad Nauseum Lyceum
chashama uws Gallery 950 Columbus Avenue
adnauseamlyceum@gmail.com | www.adnaus.org
www.morganrlevy.com | www.annaob.com

Ad Nauseam Lyceum is pleased to present Domestic Skin, an exhibition of photographs by Morgan Levy and Anna Ogier-Bloomer, two New York based artists whose portrayal of family is central to their work. Ad Nauseam Lyceum's first exhibition devoted solely to photography, Domestic Skin addresses the tension between destiny and social personas, presented through the lens of two distinct female photographers. Morgan Levy's portrayal of her pre-adolescent sisters in paper costumes placed against a backdrop of her landscape photographs serve as a metaphor for the psychological complexities her subjects face. Anna Ogier-Bloomer's documentation of her middle class family in Ohio captured over a five year period illustrates the stark reality and familiarity of loved ones in transition.

Together these artists present a story of growing up female, stepping out of what's comfortable, and whether by idealistic choice or bare necessity, putting on a new skin. about the exhibit

Anna Ogier-Bloomer grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and has been working on a long-term photo documentary of her family since 2001. She studied art at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, earning a B.F.A. in 2005 with her thesis work about her family members.

Anna first exhibited in 2004 at The Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati and The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Her first work was shown in New York City in 2007 and early 2008, and was featured in Art Basel Miami at the 2007 Bridge Art Fair. She is the recipient of the Copley Society of Art Stephen D. Paine Scholarship, the SMFA Yousuf Karsh Prize in Photography, and the SMFA Travel Grant.

Curating roles include exhibitions at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and The New School in New York. Anna currently lives in Brooklyn and works as Assistant Studio Manager for artist Chris Verene. More at www.annaob.com. about Anna Ogier-Bloomer

A native of Philadelphia, at five Morgan received a camera with disposable flashbulbs and has photographed ever since. In recent years she obtained some newer cameras and a BFA in photography from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Presently, she is working on a fellowship, awarded for her proposal to continue photographing in Iceland. She is otherwise working as an assistant in NYC. Her photographs have been featured in several exhibitions including shows at the Lower East Side Girls Gallery, Galleria Illy, and Texas Woman's University. Her work has also been published in Vice Magazine and Wondertime Magazine. about Morgan Levy

Malperduys (October 8, 2008)
The Tank at chashama 217 East 42nd Street
www.thetanknyc.org
myspace.com/malperduys

1 1/2 blocks east of Grand Central, btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves; 4,5,6,7 and shuttle train from Times Square

Wed, 10/08/2008 - 7:30pm $5

Malperduys creates music in the moment. Veering between explorations of pure sound and more traditional use of chords and melody, their music conjures up lush landscapes, hostile environments, peace, pain, nervous tension, melancholy, anger, agony, fear, longing, dysphoria, the blues, joy with slight disquiet, alexithymia, bliss and nothingness. Keith Rudolph elicits cherubic singing, raw groans and banshee cries from tortured pieces of scrap metal as well as comfortable fizzes and jarring shrieks from a variety of electronic sound manipulation devices. Derek Martin forges the base textures with guitar, bass or keyboards, sometimes complementing with inflamed, guttural screams, impassioned wailing or gentle harmonica. Their improvised music is rich with images, much like those apparitions and soothing visions that might pop out at a wayfarer meandering in the dark, feeling his or her way through the castle of holes and secret passageways, where one could wander eternally lost, that is their namesake.

http://myspace.com/malperduys details

ELNYA Creative Conversation "Hybrid Business Models for Cultural Institutions" (October 7, 2008)
chashama 217 East 42nd Street

1 1/2 blocks east of Grand Central, btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves; 4,5,6,7 and shuttle train from Times Square

A panel discussion titled, Hybrid Business Models for the Arts, will look at the continuous struggle for funding and fundraising for arts organizations, and what can be done in a new and innovative way to succeed beyond the current realm. Especially at a time when market failure is even more evident, now is the time for artists and arts organizations to consider methods and strategies that will push them towards a hybrid business model and loosen the grip of the status quo. Speakers on the panel include Elena Paul, Executive Director, Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts; Rob Kalin, Founder, Etsy.com; and Virginia (Ginny) Louloudes, Executive Director, Alliance of Resident Theaters – New York. The panel will engage in a conversation about different business models and then open it up to the audience for a full interactive discussion about where the arts fit into this innovative path. Emerging fields and concepts to be presented include Social Entrepreneurship and the Low-Profit Limited Liability Corporation (L3C). details

Creative Conversations, started by Americans for the Arts, are local gatherings of emerging leaders in communities across the country and are part of a grassroots movement to elevate the profile of arts in America during Arts & Humanities Month every October. Emerging Leaders of New York Arts (ELNYA) is the newest link in the Arts & Business Council of New York's continuum of leadership development. The group aims to bring together local, young arts administrators to discuss challenges specific to their field and generation. Events are designed to help build the contacts, skills, and knowledge of arts professional under the age of 35 or with less than five years experience in the field. about Creative Conversations

A Piece of Work (October 6, 2008)
The Tank at chashama 217 East 42nd Street
www.thetanknyc.org

1 1/2 blocks east of Grand Central, btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves; 4,5,6,7 and shuttle train from Times Square

A staged reading of a new play
Written & directed by Torrey Townsend

A divorced Manhattan couple struggles to come to terms with the loss of their son in Iraq.

Featuring Danton Stone, Laura Hughes, Ereni Sevasti, Angelo Rosso, Ramsey Faragallah, Olivia Mandell, and Sean O'Connor details

chashama North Open Studios (October 4, 2008)
chashama North, 2600 Route 199, Pine Plains, NY
chashama North page

chashama North
2600 Route 199, Pine Plains, NY
Saturday October 4, 2008 2pm - 7pm

Directions:
Taconic Parkway to Route 199 (Pine Plains/Red Hook)
Head East towards Pine Plains
chashama North is 5.3 Miles down on the right.

Featuring work by: Bami Adedoyin, Carissa Carman, Simone Frazier, Charlotte Glynn, Jon Meyer, Yuka Otani, Devlin Shea.

FREE and open to the public. details

Dance Jamaica! (October 4, 2008)
a chashama presentation made in association with the Greater Jamaica Development Corp
featuring ESOTA/KECDE!
Jamaica Performing Arts Center (JPAC), 153-10 Jamaica Avenue, Jamaica, NY
www.gjdc.org

HOAST & chashama Open Studios (October 4 & 5, 2008)
featuring works by 'chashama 461' artists-in-residence
chashama Harlem Studios Gallery, 461 West 126th Street

(between Amsterdam & Morningside Aves; 1/A/C/B/D to 125th Street station)
Saturday-Sunday 12pm - 6pm
FREE and open to the public.
featuring: Pat Arnao, Aleathia Brown, Katherine Daniels, Diane Davis, Elaine Defibaugh, Cheryl Gaye Flanagan, Vickie Fremont, Florencio Gelabert, Leslie Frank Hampton, Al Johnson, Lisa Ingram, Erik Suter Lindman, Dominic Mangila, Summer McClinton, Caleb Nussear, Ademola Olugebefola, Dionis Francisco Ortiz, Shawn Pannell, Tara Parsons, Christopher "Flambeaux" Reilly, Sandra Spannan, Christopher Trujillo, Marina Tsesarskaya, Richard Wager and Gina Fuentes Walker details

Maple Tones (October 3, 2008)
The Tank at chashama 217 East 42nd Street
www.thetanknyc.org

Matthew and the Judes, Arturo en el Barco, Slow Wonder, Starscream, Animal Style, & Spatula Factory

When the trees turn from green to shades of crimson, garnet and marigold and a crisp breeze scented like poppies and maple syrup flows through the Eastern Seaboard, it means only one thing. Fall is here. This October 3rd, you are cordially invited to celebrate Autumn's solstice at MAPLE TONES, The Tank's first ever night of fall festivities. All five of your sense will be tingled. We promise. Matthew and the Judes' eloquent and sweet acoustic sound, the lo-fi ambient stylings of Arturo en el Barco, Slow Wonder's indie-pop, boisterous chiptune duo Starscream, and Animal Style's irreverent combination of guitar and Game Boy melt together to create a gradience of music that begins sweet like apple pie and finishes tangy like pumpkin spice. To compliment this arresting audio mélange is Spatula Factory with tantalizing seasonal snacks. Join us at the intimate theatre space chashama 217 for a night as diverse and colourful as the maple leaves on the sidewalks of New York in October. about Maple Tones

Laughing Liberally (October 1, 2008)
The Tank at chashama 217 East 42nd Street
www.thetanknyc.org

Laughing Liberally returns with a line-up of fan favorites from Comedy Central, the Onion, 236.com and more. This week features special guest IRIS BURNETT author of "So, You Think You Can Be President." about Laughing Liberally

Kinko for President (September 29 - October 7, 2008)
featuring Kinko the Clown
chashama Window Space, 266 West 37th Street
1-877-BINDLES | HTTP://WWW.BINDLESTIFF.ORG

As the 2008 presidential election draws near, the American people demand a new kind of leader. With "Kinko for President," the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus offers the big-top solution! Kinko the Clown stands for change...spare change. He's willing to do whatever it takes to bamboozle the public. And when it comes to throwing his hat in the ring, Kinko can't be beat--from hat tricks to juggling hats, this clown is your candidate! Like all political campaigns, Kinko's campaign will include sleight of hand, tightrope acts, death-defying feats, slapstick comedy, and more. It's time to put a real clown in the White House--Kinko for President!

The chashama window performance project allows Kinko to reach out to his majesty, the People. For two weeks, the space will become Kinko's Presidential Campaign Office. Kinko and his campaign volunteers will be working the street and the window, spreading Kinko's message of hope, humor, and flexibility. Through petitions, videos, and live appearances, we will be celebrating the spectacle of the American electoral process. The public will be given the opportunity to get to know the dark horse presidential candidate. Vote Kinko 2008!

Volunteers will be petitioning and helping spread the good word of Kinko on many occasions throughout the project.

Also: Guest Performers will be making appearances throughout the project.

Meet the candidate sessions are currently scheduled for
Sept 29 (early evening)
October 1 (afternoon)
October 6 (early evening)
October 7 (afternoon) about the project

Kinko the Clown: was born in the rural South. He has picked tobacco, operated a back-hoe, ridden the rails, walked the U.S., and was wanted in numerous states for mostly misdemeanors. The latter has been resolved prior to Kinko throwing his hat in the ring. He now hides his past behind a silent frown. He used to reside in a lovely park in NYC, but was brutally removed from his home only a few years ago. He has never held a job for more than a week. He juggles. And he looks forward to being your cammander and chief. about Kinko

Keith Nelson (aka Kinko the Clown): Born in Massachussetts and raised in North Carolina, he played Tuba in marching band, achieved Eagle in Boy Scouts, taught archery, and toured with the Grateful Dead. In 1988 Nelson enrolled at Hampshire College, Amherst, MA, where he studied social undecurrents, alternative politics, and the relationship between art and politics, and luckily learned to eat fire and juggle. In 1992 he graduated and moved to New York City to work with Autonomedia, a Brooklyn-based small press. In 1994 he became the in-house fire eater at the Blue Angeel Cabaret, and so began a career as a performer. That year he met Stephanie Monseu, taught her to eat fire and juggle, and thus began the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus, a national touring non-profit variety arts troupe. Since then, Nelson and Monseu have devoted their lives to the growth of Bindlestiff and keeping live variety entertainment on the American stage. Nelson has swallowed swords at Avery Fischer Hall, spun guns at the Walter Reade, made balloon sculptures at the Apollo, and toured with the World of Wonders, one of the last sideshows on the carnival circuit. Kinko is one of the earliest characters that Nelson started performing with. His fascination with the tramp clown goes back to a Emmett Kelly ventriloquist doll his parents gave him in his youth. about Keith Nelson (aka Kinko the Clown)

SLAM (September 28, 2008)
The Tank at chashama 217 East 42nd Street
www.thetanknyc.org

SLAM Theater invites artists and audiences to get involved in the process of making theater. Playwrights bring fresh scripts, and actors are called out of a hat to perform timed segments, completely unrehearsed. After each round, the judges score the plays, moving the top-scoring plays to the next round. Winning writers get to unveil more of their work, acting as director or bringing one in to give timed notes. SLAM is an evening of theater with impromptu performance, spontaneous collaboration, and friendly competition.

Now in it's third year, SLAM Theater continues to encourage new voices, opening up a stage for diverse writers to develop work. SLAM is open to everyone. Anyone can come in, throw down a script, put their name in the actor pool, and get involved. A community has grown around SLAM -- a group of artists who come regularly to support each other, and give each other honest feedback in a raw, immediate setting. Each month, our SLAM Champion is given The Tank's space to put on a staged reading of their work. Many artists come and end up making strong connections and creative relationships that continue to develop outside of SLAM. SLAM is always growing and expanding. Actors, bring your talent. Playwrights, bring your scripts. Audience, bring your voice. Come SLAM! about SLAM

Pulsewave (September 27, 2008)
The Tank at chashama 217 East 42nd Street
www.thetanknyc.org

Back to New School!!!

Nonstop action/adventure ensues at September's Pulsewave, as songs from Cheap Dinosaurs, Graffiti Monsters, Candie Hank, and Disasterpeace play in your head like a 50 car pileup. This month, we zipline down from our imaginary helicopters to the Tank's awesome auxiliary space: chashama 217 on East 42nd.

What? Did you say Karaoke after party? YES!!! about Pulsewave

"Slacker Uprising" (September 27, 2008)
The Tank at chashama 217 East 42nd Street
Moore's latest film documents his 2004 roadtrip to 62 cities in 42 days leading up to the election as the youth movement poured into politics.
www.thetanknyc.org

Starscream's 1st Birthday Party (September 26, 2008)
Special Guests: Radiates, Banzai, and Anamanaguchi
The Tank at chashama 217 East 42nd Street
www.thetanknyc.org

With September finally arriving, two bands local to the New York City music scene celebrate their first birthdays as bands. Come join Starscream and Radiates to celebrate this momentous event in local music history as they all unveil new material, cut cake, and blow out the candle with the crowd. Providing mission support will be Brooklyn locals Banzai and chiprock rebels Anamanaguchi. about Starscream's 1st Birthday Party

Noah, An Ark (September 25, 2008)
by Samuel Perry
The Tank at chashama 217 East 42nd Street
www.thetanknyc.org

NOAH, AN ARK is a series of 40 poems using the biblical tale of Noah's Flood as a jumping off point to discuss colonization, monoculture, the gnarled family relationships found in genesis, and the dangerous pursuit of ideal. The Author, local poet and mountebank Samuel Perry presents a theatrical reading of his first book. about NOAH, AN ARK

NY Experimental (September 23, 2008)
The Tank at chashama 217 East 42nd Street
www.thetanknyc.org

Laughing Liberally (September 22, 2008)
with Congressional Candidate Dennis Shulman
The Tank at chashama 217 East 42nd Street
www.thetanknyc.org

SLAM (September 21, 2008)
The Tank at chashama 217 East 42nd Street
www.thetanknyc.org

"The Snow White Project" (September 20 - 28, 2008)
Curated by Ad Nauseum Lyceum
chashama UWS Gallery, 950 Columbus Avenue
adnauseamlyceum@gmail.com | www.adnaus.org

betwixt West 106th & 107th Streets; B/C to 103rd or 110th Street stations

Blanche-Neige, Episode#1, 2005, 14’
Conceived and produced by Catherine Baÿ.
Performers: Maïa Jancovici, Laurence Haziza, Marilyne Grimmer, Samantha Barroero
Director of Photography: Catherine Merdy
Editing: Thomas Courcelle, ISOTOM details

Since 2002, the Snow White Project has been evolving through several actions – performances, conferences, shows, and happenings. Here, Snow White is taking over the cinematic space. Wearing a costume and a wig made of latex, designed by Roël Stassart, the performers form a squadron and go through the countryside. The mise en scène follows the western and war films codes.

The use of the Cinemascope format and of the wide angle shot allows to approach the place of the body dominated by big spaces, where the open landscape establishes a tied communion between Man and Nature.

Because the character of Snow White is found multiplied and out of its context, the feelings linked to the childish fairy tale and the nightmare of advertising collide. "This work", Catherine Baÿ explains, "is about reactivating an imaginary possible around a figure, who is hyper-present in the medias, becoming a product of consumerism, and from this, to propose a popular show."

This work on the distortion of the myth enables an hybrid film, questioning the link between the image industrialization and collective imagination. ABOUT THE PROJECT

Catherine Baÿ lives and works in Paris.

After studying theater (École Jacques Lecoq, Philippe Gaulier, Antoine Vitez), ethnology (Jean Rouch) and dance (Marcia Barcello, Philippe Decouflé, Milly Nichols), Catherine Baÿ spent about 10 years developing her work as a choreographer and director. Her work has led her to experiment in different forms (choreography, performing, directing, video, cabaret), and to collaborate with artists from various disciplines. From 1987 to 1994, Ms Baÿ orchestrated performances and events in different types of spaces, such as swimming pools, nightclubs, vacant lots, and in the galleries of Yvon Lambert and Anne de Villepoix. ARTIST BIO

Boy Called Noise (September 19 - 21, 2008)
The Tank at chashama 217 East 42nd Street
www.thetanknyc.org

R.A.D. Collective (September 19 - 20, 2008)
The Tank at chashama 217 East 42nd Street
www.thetanknyc.org

Urban Mantra The Art of the Streets (September 18 - October 2, 2008)
group show curated by the Mighty Tanaka
chashama Gallery, 112 West 44th Street
www.MightyTanaka.com

(between Broadway & Sixth Ave. / Subway: 1,2,3,B,D,F,N,Q,R,V,W to 42nd St., 7 & shuttle to Times Square. Bus: M104, M42 to Sixth Ave., M5, M6, M7 to 43rd St.)
Wednesday through Sunday 2pm - 8pm
Opening Reception: Friday September 19th, 7-9pm
FREE and open to the public. details

The city streets are alive with imagery that enhances the landscape and fills our daily lives. Urban Mantra strives to demonstrate the artistic abilities of individuals otherwise known as graffiti or street artists. Combining the efforts of 17 skilled individuals, they each represent a unique interpretation of the urban environment. Utilizing an arsenal of styles and techniques, each artist brings a vision all their own to the walls of chashama.

featuring new works by: Anera, Avoid Pi, Bloke, Celso, Dark Cloud, Deeker, Duan Lukus, Ellis Gallagher aka © Ellis G, Faro, Haculla, infinity, JMR, John Breiner, Overkill Studios, Pagen, PMP, Robots Will Kill, Royce B., Skewville and more... about the exhibit

All Is Always Now (September 17, 2008)
by Robert Wray
The Tank at chashama 217 East 42nd Street
www.thetanknyc.org

HapLapNapTap* (September 16 - 23, 2008)
curated by Anna Ogier-Bloomer and Erik Sanner
chashama Window Space, 266 West 37th Street
www.annaob.com | www.eriksanner.com

(Between 7th and 8th Avenues, A/C/E/1/2/3 to 34th Street, N/R/Q/W/7 to Times Square; M16, M34 buses to 8th Ave, M10, M20 to 36th St.)

*Have a painting? Leave a painting. Need a painting? Take a painting.

The exhibition will run from Wednesday, September 17, until Tuesday, September 23, with daily gallery hours from 12pm-6pm.

The chashama Windows Program presents a unique week long art experiment. This show seeks to foster relationships between artists and collectors while encouraging them to take on each others' roles. Inspired by the penny tray, which invites people to leave or take pennies depending on their need, HapLapNapTap invites art makers and non-art makers alike to donate or take art depending on their desire. If selected, their work will be part of the initial hanging and featured in an opening reception on Tuesday, September 16th, 2008. No artists will be compensated for their work, but, like the general public, they will be welcome to come and take a piece of their choice. In order to facilitate conversation, leavers and takers will be required to share their contact information with one another. *about the project

Erik Sanner uses new media to create "moving paintings" - installations in which dynamic video is projected onto prepared surfaces such as oil paintings. He has been exhibiting visual art for over a decade in New York and Tokyo.

Prior to Have a painting? Leave a painting..., Erik has occasionally taken on a curatorial role. In 1999, the 24-hour outdoor painting marathon Club Ikebukuro was followed by a group exhibition he arranged in Tokyo. For his public new media installation Chess, over 70 people created paintings in pairs for a video projection in Hell's Kitchen in 2007. Chess received a grant from the Manhattan Community Arts Fund.

Erik attempts to expand the definition of painting through collaboration and by utilizing technology in his practice. You can learn more at his website, www.eriksanner.com. about Erik Sanner

"LETTING GO" (September 15, 2008)
by Marylee Martin
Directed by Barbara Krajkowski
chashama 217 East 42nd Street

1 1/2 blocks east of Grand Central, btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves; 4,5,6,7 and shuttle train from Times Square

by Marylee Martin
Directed by Barbara Krajkowski

This poignant and funny play crosses the line between life and death as a young mother struggles from beyond to help her husband and young struggling on earth. Filled with laughter, love and tears, "Letting Go" offers a glimpse of life after death, how to move on and the promise of freedom in "letting go."

*Some actors appearing courtesy of Actors' Equity Association artist statement

Katherine Daniels (September 5-7 & 12-14, 2008)
artworks by a chashama Artist-in-Residence
chashama Harlem Studios Gallery, 461 West 126th Street
www.katherinedaniels.com

"'Outrageous elegance', a Buddhist concept, describes a manner that is approachable by being neither too cold (elegance alone) nor too wild (outrageousness alone). This term is an apt description of the beauty, joy, humor and absurdity I strive for in my art. I am interested in grand visual and physical forms that introduce and induce awe and wonder. I make opulent abstract gardens that invoke spirit and paradise. I have been beading organic abstractions that descend from ceilings or ascend walls. They reference a mix of ornamental styles such as quilts from my Appalachian roots, the art of interior surfaces like rugs, Islamic and Asian textiles and screens, as well as environments that inspire awe such as the Sistine Chapel and the gardens at Versailles. My work induces pleasure by unabashedly embracing abstract ornament." - Katherine Daniels artist statement

CONTRANYM (September 4 - 28, 2008)
curated by Kelly Kivland, Alisoun Meehan, and Christopher Stackhouse
chashama ABC Gallery, 169 Avenue C
www.panmodern.com/fiftyseven.html

(at 11th Street, M14C, M14D buses, F to 2nd Ave., L to 1st Ave.)

OPENING RECEPTION Thursday, September 4, 6-8pm
Wednesday to Sunday, 11am - 7pm
FREE and open to the public.

The curatorial team of Kelly Kivland, Alisoun Meehan, and Christopher Stackhouse are pleased to present the exhibition, CONTRANYM, in conjunction with the New Voices, New York series at chashama ABC Gallery. Exploring the complexities and dubious nature of visual expression and vocal utterance, CONTRANYM will present how language is dependent on the dualities of silence and absence, presence and matter. The exhibition will include the following works by Robert Delford Brown (performance), John Cage (painting), Victoria Fu (video), Stephanie Loveless (sound/performance), and Brian Kim Stefans (digital poetics):

Robert Delford Brown, "Explosion of a Tile Factory"
John Cage, "10 Stones"
Victoria Fu, "The Lake House"
Stephanie Loveless, "(nothing of nothing)"
Brian Kim Stefans, "Scriptors" details

We will receive our guests during the opening reception with a Robert Delford Brown interaction. A Fluxus artist who began his artistic life in 1950s NYC, Brown will transform the gallery front into a vibrant explosion of recycled materials, as part of a collaborative installation. Armed with the duct tape, string, scissors, spray paint, and newspaper, Brown and our viewers will collectively create a swirling temporary sculpture splayed out from floor to ceiling.

"The ecstatic power that has marked Brown's art since the 1960s threw a monkey wrench into the avant garde in those days. He touches a nerve at the core of the social codes that organize not only our behavior but also the limits of our art…Robert Delford Brown's transcendent vision takes on a great significance." – Allen Kaprow opening reception

In John Cage's "10 Stones," painting functions as spiritual notation creating a lexicon beyond letters. The chance stone tracing is based on his ‘Where R = Ryoanji' drawings inspired by the Ryoanji rock garden in Kyoto, Japan, a meditation on material and transformation.

The premiere of Stephanie Loveless' sound installation in continuum "(nothing of nothing)," performed several times each week, weaves and re-envisions the voices of iconic divas, splitting the ghostly from the presently living, the preternatural from the basic material.

Brian Kim Stefans new digital poetry work "Scriptors," features dynamically generated, largely scriptural typeface that anthropomorphizes words, text using Flash animation, while Victoria Fu's short psychological video, "The Lake House," uses palindromic riddle and temporal opposition to illustrate the convergence of affection and challenges in human ‘doubled' interaction. the exhibit

AN EXPLOSION IN THE INFORMATION FACTORY
EVERY MONTH OUR BODY OF KNOWLEDGE IS DOUBLED

We must regenerate ourselves.

We must create new rituals and new mythologies to accommodate new found capabilities.

Our launching into outer space, which was considered impossibility a mere 50 years ago, has already been accomplished. We must now have the courage to continue this exhilarating and frightening adventure without procrastination.

It will be necessary for us to throw overboard outmoded, wasteful ways of living. Humanity has to achieve coherence.

We must have absolute equality across the board in order for everyone to be able to contribute to this enterprise.

We will need all of the intelligence and energy we can muster.

LIST OF PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:
ROBERT DELFORD BROWN, ALISOUN MEEHAN, CHRISTOPHER STACKHOUSE, KELLY KIVLAND, STEPHANIE LOVELESS, VICTORIA FU, JOHN CAGE, XENA PARSONS GALLIETI, MARY KOSUT, HONG SEON JANG

and with MARK BLOCH in a 2 part performance: (1) "REMARKS ON ROBERT DELFORD BROWN, JOHN CAGE AND 30 SECONDS OF RAY JOHNSON" and (2) "THE LECTURE ON MSIAISM" AN EXPLOSION IN THE INFORMATION FACTORY
OPENING: SATURDAY, SEPT 20TH 2 – 4 pm

GOING (with Coming) (September 2 - 13, 2008)
A work by The Theatre of Mistakes
recreated (and updated) by The Relationship
Directed by Fiona Templeton
chashama 217 East 42nd Street
www.therelationship.org

"A tiny narrative of leaving, played as a fugue. 5 performers. Audience on 4 sides. A cult work from the 70s."

GOING was highly formalized, game-structured, and tongue-in-cheek serious, as can be gathered from the script sample, with rehearsed mistakes and swoons, and other sabotages. For these performances, 2 of the 5 acts will be replaced by COMING.

The combination of GOING and COMING will contrast the exactness of the original (and its exact recreation) with its opposite. In COMING, each performer gets a shot at reinventing the piece within the same structure. In some ways the performance challenge will be to alter things completely, astonish and challenge the others, and then return to the stark original, like switching back and forth between color and black & white.

This project created in residency at chashama Theatre, and supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Fiona Templeton's time supported by Brunel University. more about GOING (with Coming)

The Theatre of Mistakes was a performance art group in London 1974-80. Its larger manifestation, The Ting, included artists from all disciplines such as Michael Nyman, Amikam Toren, Susan Hiller, etc. The core group was Anthony Howell, Fiona Templeton, Michael Greenall, Peter Stickland, Miranda Payne and Glenys Johnson. Influential on groups as diverse as Forced Entertainment, Blast Theory, The Raincoats, and Station House Opera. Venues included The Hayward Annual, Paris Biennial, Vienna Biennial, Paula Cooper Gallery, the Western Pennsylvania State Penitentiary and Hartley Wintney cricket green. The group's writings include The Manifesto of Mutual Art and Elements of Performance Art., which is being republished next year to coincide with a major retrospective in England of the group in the 70's and early 80s.

(As described in Roselee Goldberg's Performance, Gregory Battcock's Performance Art, Nick Kaye's Art into Theatre.) about The Theatre of Mistakes

The Relationship is an international performance and art group directed by Fiona Templeton. The performers in Going (with Coming) are Katie Brown, Javier Cardona, Adam Collignon, Stephanie Silver*, Julie Troost, and Chris Wendelken, supported by Scott Troost.
*courtesy Actors Equity The Relationship cast and crew

chashama North Open Studios (August 30, 2008)
chashama North, 2600 Route 199, Pine Plains, NY
chashama North page

chashama North
2600 Route 199, Pine Plains, NY
Saturday August 30, 2008 2pm - 7pm

Directions:
Taconic Parkway to Route 199 (Pine Plains/Red Hook)
Head East towards Pine Plains
chashama North is 5.3 Miles down on the right.

featuring new works by: Julie Carino, Carissa Carman, Maya Erdelyi, Darren Floyd, Jaime Lee, Sung Yun Lee, Carolyn Salas about the event

Turftechnics (August 29th - September 5th, 2008)
chashama performance window, 266 West 37th Street
by Kevin Flanagan, Cian McConn and Eve Vaughan
This project made possible in part with the support of The Arts Council Ireland
http://turftechnics.tumblr.com
www.youtube.com/kaymerryweather
www.myspace.com/wrecklesswreck
turftechnics@gmail.com

Turftechnics, Four Irish and a Londoner will use the window space on 37th St. in a variety of ways over their two- week residency period. Responding to notions of identity, language and how your environment effects the way you work - The island of Manhattan NYC will act as a studio, backdrop, stimuli and collaborator. These works could be described as public interventions for which the chashama window space will provide a work studio / process room and exhibition / performance space. Through producing a series of site-sympathetic work, the artists will ask a series of questions including:

-Can there be a prevailing form of communication in a place where so many cultures and attitudes are found?
-What can be defined as 'normal' in such a place?
-Does logic and rational belong in a place so full of diversity?
-How will an environment like Manhattan change / effect the work the artists make during this period?

An integral part of this work will involve surrendering 'ownership' of our ideas or artwork being made and complete openness to the public's participation or interaction. about the project

He received a BA in Fine Art in 2004 from Cluain Mhuire College of Art in Galway, is founding member of Enso from '04 - '07 a Galway based artist led initiative who organized live art events, exhibitions and artistic collaborations in non gallery spaces, he is currently completing his 1st year of the Master in Fine Art at the University of Ulster Belfast.

Kevin has exhibited in group shows throughout Ireland, he recently took part in a 2 week residency program with SKART and the Yellow Box Arts Centre on the Island of Oland in Sweden and is working towards a solo show launching at the Galway Arts Center which will tour both nationally and internationally from 2009.

He works in combined media, video, drawing and performance. Though different strategies of production are employed with different media there is a common goal. He is most interested in a creative engagement between artwork and audience, preferring to engage people in conversation with his work rather than making statements with it, placing emphasis on participation and inviting audiences to experience and reflect on their own creative agency. about Kevin Flanagan

A visual artist working within live art and socially engaged site specific work incorporating media such as video, photography and performance. Completed BA in fine art at the Crawford College, Cork in June 2005. Worked as production coordinator for Performa 07 the second biennial of new visual art performance. He has completed residencies and courses in Ireland (National Sculpture Factory 2006) and Scotland (National Review of Live Art 2006), is involved with non-profit art organizations both in Europe and U.S.A. His work is featured in the permanent collection of the Crawford Gallery. He currently lives and works in New York. about Cian McConn

A performance based artist motivated to work outside of the theatre and art gallery. She places her work generally in the context of responding to a site that is publicly accessible. Her arts practice includes dance and movement based work and has specialized previously in instant, improvised composition, which enabled her to be invited in the summer of 2006, to perform with "Unfinished Company" at the Bimhouse, Amsterdam. She has close ties to the community arts sector in Glasgow through working as a drama and movement teacher. Eve is currently near the completion of a degree in Contemporary Theatre Practice at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Glasgow, Scotland. about Eve Vaughan

Stephanie is a collaborator with the project and will participate using the internet, having a virtual presence in the space. She graduated with a BFA from the Crawford College of Art & Design, Cork city, Ireland in 2005 and recently completed an MA titled 'Art in the Digital World' at the National College of Art & Design, Dublin, Ireland. Stephanie works with many media and thematics which cover a broad array of personal insights into popular culture. about Stephanie Hough

Kay Merryweather (aka the Wreckless Wreck) has been working as a musician / artist / composer and actor. She is interested in using comedy to explore the way the human psyche contends with conflict and tragedy and commonalities between cultures. Feature film projects include Bird in the Sky 2006 (Ajax Films.) Other video work including her collaboration with Cian McConn is viewable at www.youtube.com/kaymerryweather.

Her band The Rage is a music partnership with Berlin based DJ and producer Carl Fremen. To listen go to www.myspace.com/wrecklesswreck. Kay will work as a collaborator on the turftechnics project. about Kay Merryweather

Tax-Free Art (August 15 -27, 2008)
chashama 'ABC', 169 Avenue C
Teneleven, 171 Avenue C
An Art Celebration in Alphabet City

Pat Arnao | http://patarnao.com
Olive Ayhens | www.oliveayhens.com
John Chandler
Katherine Daniels | www.katherinedaniels.com
Diane Davis
Elaine Defibaugh | www.elainedefibaugh.com
El Celso | www.elcelso.com
Ian H. Farrell | www.infinityequations.com
Ryan Frank | http://ryanfrank.30art.com
Abby Goodman | www.realtoughgirl.com
Leslie Frank Hampton
Darryl Hell | www.s6k.com
Miranda Hellman | www.wooloo.org/MirandaHellman/
Katurah Hutcheson
Lisa Ingram | www.lisaingram.com
Jose Landoni | www.veronese.ch/landoni/index.html
Numyi Lee | www.numyiart.com
Adela Leibowitz | www.adelaleibowitz.com
Danny Licul | www.dannylicul.com
Jasmine Murrell | www.wooloo.org/jasminemurrell/
Caleb Nussear | www.mosslandia.com
Linda Lee Nicholas | www.lindaleeNYC.com
Kate O'Donovan-Cook | www.kateodc.com
Sang Bin Park
Tara Parsons | www.taraparsons.com
Dean Radinovsky | www.deanradinovsky.org
Tim Roda | www.gregkucera.com/roda.htm
SANDRA SPANNAN | www.sandraspannan.com
Kristin Taylor | www.comecloserandsee.blogspot.com
Inga Huld Tryggvadottir
Marina Tsesarskaya | www.flickr.com/photos/chashama/sets/72157604576924477/
James Willis | www.jamesawillis.com featuring these chashama artists-in-residence

Rebecca Agostine | www.myspace.com/lulubunnyheart
the human floor | www.myspace.com/thehumanfloor
Fred Hatt | www.fredhatt.com
KMBSM | www.myspace.com/katesmackles
snazz mammoth | www.myspace.com/snazzmammoth
Sarah Friends and Victoria Privates | www.myspace.com/victoriaprivates
Katy SanDominico | www.myspace.com/katysandomenico
Jennifer Steele | www.jennifersteele.com
Sarah Valeri | www.sarahvaleri.net and these non-chashama artists

Waterfalls Wept (August 13 - 27, 2008)
by Molly Gochman
chashama performance window, 266 West 37th Street
www.mollygochman.com
Performances: Wed 20th - Sat 24th, 1 - 5p

On August 13, 2008 in the chashama Windows Space at 266 West 37th Street, artist Molly Gochman will begin installing "Waterfalls Wept". One of the inspirations for this work was a translation of a Hindu epic, the Ramayana. When Sita, an avatara of Lakshmi, is kidnapped, the earth responds in a number of ways. The last four words in this description are, "and the waterfalls wept." The tale of the Ramayana, which can be traced back 880,000 years, makes the 2,500 year-old Tao Te Ching young in comparison. The Tao Te Ching states, "Nothing is more soft and yielding than water. Yet for attacking the solid and strong; it has no equal."

Fabric, Molly Gochman's primary medium, is used to transform surfaces into gurgling landscapes. Fabric is flexible and strong. Its strength relies mostly on a repetition of contrasts, warp and weft. Creating fabric is one of human's earliest technological achievements, and the use of this material continues today. Using fabric as a means of protecting and identifying ourselves provides us with a tactile connection with the past, present, and future.

chashama's space provides an opportunity to create an installation within a large vitrine that is viewable to people as they pass-by. One wall within the space curves in so that the space becomes increasingly narrower in the back. Inside this irregularly shaped vitrine, change will occur rapidly during the forming and dismantling of the installation. At other times, movements inside the space will occur much slower. Most of these changes will not be visible. The change is occurring due to how natural elements, such as the sun, are affecting the work during these few weeks. A body occasionally moves within the work, causing transition. Mentally visualizing patterns of movement within melting glaciers or tears that drip and fall induce these movements, which will mostly occur under fabric. about the project

My work returns what's missing from life - fragile moments within cycles of creation and destruction. Through performances and installations and the documents that record them, I communicate a delicate dance between presence and absence. Creating work helps me come to terms with extremely contradictory experiences. Within the work, rigid contrasts soften and boundaries become blurred. Fabric, my primary medium, is used to transform surfaces into gurgling landscapes. My usage of materials within space allows me to create intimate experiences. Supple, penetrable materials like fabric, allow my work to have a softening affect. The common thread is not always obvious; mystery and romance hover. Unfolding myself as I work allows me to build environments that blur the relationships between particulars. A clarification can occur as one releases oneself within the mistiness of the work.

"Perhaps reality can have 'a' structure only from the universalizing view of the dominant group. That is, only to the extent that one person or group can dominate the whole will reality appear to be governed by one set of rules or be constituted..." --Aihwa Ong, Michael G. Peletz

Molly Gochman is an experiential, inter-sensory artist working and residing in both Houston and New York. Her work provides evocative experiences through inter-disciplinary installations. Born in San Antonio, Gochman studied art in New York City and London, and received her BFA from Guilford College in 2001. In the last five years, Gochman's work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. about Molly

USED BOOKS! (August 8 - 30, 2008)
Curated by Ryan Frank, Deena Selenow, and Rory Sheridan
chashama uws Gallery 950 Columbus Avenue
adnauseamlyceum@gmail.com | www.adnaus.org

Thursdays and Fridays 3pm - 7pm
Saturdays and Sundays 1pm - 5pm
***Uber Hip Salons-- Fridays from 7pm - 10pm
Opening Reception: 7-10PM Friday, August 8
FREE and open to the public.

Ad Nauseam Lyceum is pleased to present USED BOOKS!, the inaugural show in their new project space on Manhattan's Upper West Side. The exhibition features a full room installation of painting, sculpture, sound and e-comics, all shown through the lens of a traditional neighborhood bookstore. Whimsical, visceral and full of chatzkies, USED BOOKS! is a response to the evolution of communication and examines how society has come to both share and subvert information.

Ad Nauseam Lyceum is an artist run organization committed to showcasing multi-disciplinary work by emerging artists in New York . The group aims to give young artists an opportunity to collaborate, present work, and have a creative dialogue outside the traditional art market. Founded in 2006 by Ryan Frank, Deena Selenow, and Rory Sheridan, the group has hosted previous events at Emphemeroptera Art Space, chashama, EXPLOSIVO! and Studio 717, and has collectively shown the work of over 50 visual and performing artists. Dedicated to blurring the lines between various artistic genres, Ad Nauseam Lyceum is a platform for a new generation of artists working in performance, visual art, and new media. about the project

Red–Checked Life (August 3 - 9, 2008)
by Penelope Cake
chashama Window Space, 266 West 37th Street

Opening reception and performance:
Sunday, August 3, 5:00 – 7:00 pm
Additional performances:
Tuesday, August 5th, 1:00pm
Thursday, August 7th, 5:00pm
Saturday, August 9th, 7:00pm
FREE and open to the public.

"Red–Checked Life will transform the window space into a "tableau vivant" of red and white checked objects from floor to ceiling. During designated performance times, costumed performers will dance and inhabit the space.

Penelope Cake, choreographer, dancer and visual artist, has been presenting her work in NYC theaters, parks and galleries since 1978. Known for her use of public outdoor spaces, Cake has presented in Riverside Park, Carl Schurz Park and Prospect Park. Her choreography has been presented at Dance Theater Workshop and other dance venues in NYC. A show of her visual art entitled "Making My Life", was presented at the Creative Center gallery in January, 2007." about the project

Bombs Over Bed-Stuy (August 1 - 28, 2008)
by chashama artist-in-residence Jasmine Murrell
chashama Harlem Studios Gallery, 461 West 126th Street

between Amsterdam & Morningside Aves; 1/A/C/B/D to 125th Street station

OPENING RECEPTION Friday August 1, 6-10pm
Thursday-Sunday 2pm - 6pm
FREE and open to the public.

dancing and movement are a recurring theme in several pieces of Jasmine Murrell, subjects caught in a trance-like state representing a hypnotic phase of transition, a pre-cursor to an exquisite social, cultural and spiritual metamorphosis.

brooklyn-based artist Jasmine Murrell pulls her inspiration from her neighborhood afro-beat dance scene. the show is at once colorful and comedic, vibrant and vital, dynamic and damning - an emotional rollercoaster ride worthy indeed of the watchful gaze of a certain Mr. Kuti. details

Jeopardized Life: An Interactive Game (July 28 - 30, 2008)
performance by Kendra Ware
chashama performance window, 266 West 37th Street
www.kendraware.com

Performances:
Monday, July 28th 12:30-2
Tuesday, July 29th 4:30-6pm
Wednesday, July 30th 4:30-6pm
FREE and open to the public.

Using the room as an institutionalized interrogational space, a woman sits in a chair attached to the space by strings and tape. Outside passersby are invited to pick a card from a basket. The card will give them something to say or do to the woman inside. They may also give her an action, which she will respond to with acknowledgement, ignorance, or surprise.

Kendra Ware is a writer, director, performance artist, and actress who has performed throughout NYC, gracing such venues as PS 122, LA Mama, Here, The Ohio Theater, and Pan Asian Rep. She has performed with the Classical Theater of Harlem and Target Margin Theater. A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, she is currently working on her MFA in performance at California Institute of the Arts. In LA, she has worked with the Long Beach Opera, Dan Hurlin & Dan Froot, Ken Roht, Travid Preston, and Carl Handcock Rux. As a writer, she just finished writing, directing and producing her play, The Menstrual Show and sci-fi butoh inspired piece, The Parousia. She is pleased to be returning to do a site- specific piece with chashama. more information

chashama North Open Studios (July 26, 2008)
chashama North, 2600 Route 199, Pine Plains, NY
chashama North page

chashama North
2600 Route 199, Pine Plains, NY
Saturday July 26, 2008 2pm - 6pm

Directions:
Taconic Parkway to Route 199 (Pine Plains/Red Hook)
Head East towards Pine Plains
chashama North is 5.3 Miles down on the right.

featuring new works by: Sung Yun Lee, Leonora Loeb, Allison Moore, Tara Parsons, Elizabeth Riley, Jeremy Willis about the event

Miranda Hellman (July 25 - August 16, 2008)
artwork by chashama's Artist-in-Residence in Brooklyn
chashama Gallery, 112 West 44th Street
www.WooLoo.org/MirandaHellman

chashama is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new paintings by Danish-American artist Miranda Hellman. The work is derived from fear and constructed imaginary conflicts between water and land. Hellman explores the power of water over land as natural catastrophes acting as a metaphor for the cycle of life, in the contrasts between the experience of living on land, which is divided, by grid systems and the expansion of the sea. Hellman has spent the last year working from a studio on Pier 4 in Brooklyn, NY where she has derived much of the inspiration. Also on view are several paintings from the series Destroy and Develop, a project that documents and investigates the demolitions of a residential section of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn NY. While buildings are being erected and demolished on a daily basis, the urban landscape undergoes dramatic transformations.

"My work is about concepts of time, memory and the relationships between past and present lives. I am interested in the marks that humans leave behind, be it old pieces of furniture trashed on the street, or a colossal building." about the exhibit

Born in Copenhagen, Denmark, and currently living and working in Brooklyn, Miranda Hellman received a BFA in painting from Pratt Institute where she also attended the Summer Italy program with a Teachers Assistance Scholarship. Her work has been shown in Stay Gold Gallery, Grace Exhibition Space, Aurora Gallery, Morton Memorial Library, Bama Gallery, among others. As an active member of the artist community, Miranda has been working collaboratively, with visual documentation at Dance New Amsterdam NY, Kom de Bagfra, Denmark, and recently as costume and mask designer for Pace University Theater NY and The Henry Street Settlement Abrons Arts Center. In 2007 she was awarded a Studio Space Award at the Brooklyn Army Terminal. This year her work was selected for both the National Juried Competition: Works of Art on Paper at Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts & Sciences curated by Charlotta Kotik and for Windows Brooklyn, a public site-specific installation: Mapped Out: Then and Now. about the artist

Pieces of the True T-Shirt (July 20 - 26, 2008)
by Kron Vollmer (Mykronesia)
chashama performance window, 266 West 37th Street
www.mykronesia.com

Pieces of the True T-Shirt is a short film and performance about letting go. Get comfortable with loss. Perform a ritual. Serenade the Boy From Ipanema with ukuleles. Chase after the white peacock. Destroy your ex-boyfriend's t-shirt. Say goodbye with a cheerful wave.

Featuring: Nell Mellon and Qxi O. Qxa. Music performed by Doug Skinner and Carmen Borgia. And the voice talents of Ricardo Alcaraz. about the show

Site-Specific Sundays (July 13, 20 & Aug.3, 2008)
presented by chashama in association with Waterside Plaza
25th Street & FDR Drive | 3p & 5p
www.watersideplaza.com

Scott Lyons & Despina Stamos formally invite you to the Wedding Dash- a site specific wedding show including: ferocious dancers, musicians, your mother’s wedding dress, 40 wholesale walking canes, the in-laws, and you.

Created and Directed by Scott Lyons
Stage Manager: Sas Stewart
Wedding Musicians: Irene Ruiz-Riveros (bass), Jennifer DeVane (violin)
Brides: Deb Silver, Ashley Browne, Michele Torino Hower, Roche Janken
Ring Bearers: Andrew D Suseno, Hallie Dalsimer, Carlos Armando Cruz Velázquez
Flower Girls: Leemore Malka, Nicola Bullock, Dasha Kittredge
Proud In-Laws: Scott Lyons, Nicole Asslin

Special Thanks:
To the dancers for their beautiful collaboration.
Also: Despina Stamos, Wendy Blum, Storme Sundberg, my friends and family, Waterside Plaza, chashama, and you. Scott Lyons & Despina Stamos (July 13)

Buildings Are For Eating is inspired by the architectural interventions of artist Gordon Matta-Clark, the cutting-edge jazz of the East West Quintet, and the urban sports of Free Running and Parkour.

Buildings Are For Eating
an original movement-theater work
Conceived and Directed by Judith M. Smith

Created in collaboration with and performed by:
Nikki Calonge
Corinne Donly
Mieke Duffly
Diana Konopka
Mike Mikos
Autumn Widdoes

Thank you: Risa, Nadia, David and chashama; Yenneca, Richie and Waterside Plaza; Nikki, Corinne, Mieke, Diana, Mike, and Autumn for their hard work and immense talent; Keith Larson; and Michael Cassedy. Judith M. Smith (July 20)

Unraveling To Gain Peace

Choreographed and performed by Olivia Wingerath

Created in collaboration with and performed by:

Sara Clasp
Allegra Panetto
Janel Sipala

Four dancers use the magnetic pull of the water and wind to create dynamic movement. With hands, paint, and white fabric, the dancers stretch and unravel to bring the cement of The Waterside Plaza to life.

Thank you:
Risa, Nadia, David and chashama; Yenneca, Richie and Waterside Plaza; my family; and Sara, Allegra, and Janel for all their time and effort. Olivia Wingerath (August 3)

Waterside Plaza is an urban experience that transcends typical residential settings. Located in Manhattan overlooking the East River, the complex offers 1500 residential units, a large beautiful plaza, unparalleled waterfront views, shopping, dining and parking. A network of riverside pedestrian walks and plaza reinforces the drama of location and provides ample opportunity for community life. Waterside proudly claims to be one of the most cosmopolitan communities in the city, attracting residents from all over the country and the world. about Waterside Plaza

Urban Composition (July 10-13 & 17-20, 2008)
a solo exhibition of works created by Diane Davis as Artist-in-Residence at chashama Harlem Studios
chashama Harlem Studios Gallery, 461 West 126th Street
FREE and open to the public.

The Ladies Aide Society... (July 8 - 12, 2008)
...Invites You To Poverty Party To Benefit The Foundation For Ethical Art and Culture
by the Wreckio Ensemble
chashama, 217 East 42nd Street
www.wreckio.com

chashama is proud to announce it's first Performing Arts Resident company, Wreckio Ensemble (www.wreckio.com). Wreckio Ensemble has been granted a 6 week residency at 217 East 42nd Street to develop their site-specific play, "The Ladies Aide Society Invites You To Poverty Party To Benefit The Foundation For Ethical Art and Culture", the social event of the century, where high society meets higher art and everything and everyone has a price.

As part of the residency, Wreckio Ensemble also hosted an art opening on June 19th from 6:30-8:30 for LABOR, a visual art piece created by Ivan Martinez and Elizabeth White for "The Ladies Aide Society..."

WRITTEN BY The Ensemble
DIRECTED BY Kimberlea Kressal
CAST: Randi Berry, Dechelle Damien, Karly Maurer & Benjamin Spradley

This production was created in residence at chashama as part of The Performing Arts Residency @ chashama. This production was also made possible with generous support from Thisisnotashop and The Morris and Alma Schapiro Fund. details

Wreckio Ensemble's new original work, The Ladies Aide Society Invites You To A Poverty Party To Benefit The Foundation For Ethical Art And Culture, has no set ticket price. The company asks audience members to value their experience after watching the show. Premiering July 8, 2008 at chashama, 217 East 42nd Street, the show explores the intersection of power and art in America. Through a series of vignettes, experiences and narrative, Wreckio Ensemble questions the cost at which art exists.

Set in a gallery with an exposed shop window facing 42nd Street, the show blurs the lines between artist and spectator; creating a world where power shifts constantly. "There are moments in this piece where we give the audience total agency in dictating the action," says co-writer and performer Karly Maurer "that's exciting, but also very scary." Another of the show's writer/performers, Dechelle Damien, echoes Maurer's thoughts about the risks and fears of the piece, "Whether or not they pay for their ticket is only one of many variables we can't predict; we are figuratively, and at times literally, at the mercy of our audience." The show's director Kimberlea Kressal explains that examining the show's central question requires a certain amount of peril and discomfort, "We're exploring both the economic and very human costs of making and selling art in America, we can't do that if we keep the audience at arms length, this is a dialogue we must have together and that is inherently unpredictable." about the show

The show is being created in residence as part of the Performing Arts Residency @ chashama. Wreckio was chosen as one of only four performing arts groups to receive a residence. For six weeks the company will inhabit the 42nd street space. Pedestrians are welcome to watch the five weeks of rehearsal starting June 2nd until the show opens July 8th. Also on display in the space is an installation created in collaboration with Wreckio by visual artists Ivan Martinez and Elizabeth White titled LABOR. Following the performances in New York; Wreckio will take the show to Dublin, Ireland to be presented at Thisisnotashop gallery. more

ABOUT WRECKIO ENSEMBLE
Wreckio Ensemble is a not-for-profit movement-rooted theatre collective incorporated in November 2000. Wreckio produces original, character rich, and socially relevant work in an ensemble setting. Wreckio has four foundational beliefs: 1) ample time must be allotted to artistic development and rehearsals; 2) administrative and creative decisions are made by consensus, 3) core members are encouraged to take on various roles in the production company: as director, designer, actor, writer, etc.; 4) having fun is mandatory! about WRECKIO ENSEMBLE

Group Show (July 7 – August 7, 2008)
chashama 'ABC', 169 Avenue C
Featured artists: Dana Crossan, Adam Dougherty, Cosme Herrera, Frank Lentini, Robert Sciasci.
Thursday-Sunday 11a-5pm
OPENING RECEPTION Thursday July 24, 6-8pm

Curiosities of the Floating World (July 1 - 21, 2008)
by Angela Piehl
chashama, 112 West 44th Street

Curiosities of the Floating World exhibits Piehl's paintings and drawings, and represents an installation of new works produced this year. Piehl's recent research and creative work has been an investigation of the construction of identity as it relates to gender and sexuality and the organic body. In particular, Piehl examines notions of luxury and lifestyle, and critiques the constructs of those notions from a gendered (gender-queer) perspective.

Piehl's work in Curiosities of the Floating World stemmed from an initial conceptual interest in "ukiyo" (Japanese "floating world" prints, particularly Hokusai's Dream of the Fisherman's Wife) depicting "worlds" filled with pleasure and trivia—frivolity, novelty, superficiality, and artificiality. Piehl applies this concept of creating an alternate, "floating" world and creates her own fleeting space, populated by the strange. Her inhabitants are simultaneously beautiful and seductive, while repellent and abject. They act as mutants or hybrid creatures that are both luxuriously decorative and organically corporeal, and the combination suggests a decadent femininity and an absurd opulence. about the exhibit

Piehl's inhabitants/objects become highly fetishistic, and Piehl delights in accessing the range of visual meaning of "fetish". There are obvious suggestions of fetish as luxury/commodity, fetish as primitive personification, fetish as erotic fixation, fetish as artifact, and even paint and painting as fetish within the work.

Formally, Piehl's work engages in painterly tradition, and in some moments, loosely emulates scientific illustration. There is a quality of pseudo-science to the work, and Piehl acts as artist, voyeur, and pseudo-scientist. Piehl consciously creates compositions that confound and titillate. The scale of her subjects in relationship to the viewer's size is unclear, and engaging in that respect-- the viewer cannot be sure if he or she is looking at a close-up view, or a quick snapshot of something fleeing in the distance. There is a quality to the compositions that implies flirtation, and potentially, danger. Piehl chooses color palettes that evoke luxury and fantasy, and in Curiosities of the Floating World, two distinct bodies of work emerge, connected by color, yet ultimately divergent and unique. more

chashama Pirate Party Pig Roast (June 23, 2008)
an outdoor party fundraiser benefitting chashama at Water Taxi Beach, Long Island City
Honored were visual artist Dean Radinovsky and the National Theater of the United States of America (NTUSA).
photos by Louis Caldarola

POST NO BILLS (June 20 - August 31, 2008)
an outdoor group show at Gallerie Pulaski
11th Street & Jackson Avenue, Long Island City
Gallerie Pulaski is part of "Off the Wall by the People," a public art series sponsored by chashama. The space for this project has been generously provided by the Simone Development Company.

CHASHAMA artist-in-residence, Celso is pleased to announce the opening of POST NO BILLS, an outdoor group art show at Gallerie Pulaski, located at 11th Street & Jackson Avenue, next to the Pulaski Bridge in Long Island City. The Galerie Pulaski is New York's first plein air street gallery and is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The gallery and art can be seen 24 hours a day and will officially open on Friday, June 27 with a reception to be held on the street from 7PM-9PM. The exhibit will continue through August 31, 2008. The event is free and open to the public.

POST NO BILLS is a site-specific installation by New York's most dynamic street and contemporary artists, many of whom are local to the area. Co-curated by Celso & Ian Farrell, it features original artwork that has been permanently installed onto an 80-foot long construction wall that has been painted gallery white. Pedestrians and motorists traveling along the intersection can expect to see colorful portraits, landscapes, abstract paintings, works on Plexiglas, street art and more at the site. details

The artists featured in this show include Abe Lincoln Jr., Celso, Ceito, Creeper, Darkcloud, DAVe, Elbow-Toe, Endless Love Crew, F.Trainer, Gaia, Gore-B, infinity, Danny Licul, Evelyn Metzger, Milquetoast, Momo, Dean Radinovsky, Abigail Rothberg, Royce Bannon, Tefsukaz, Inga Huld Tryggvadottir, James Willis and several special guests. featured artists

Adventures in Color (June 19-22 & 26-29, 2008)
by Ademola Olugebefola
A solo exhibition of work created as Artist-in-Residence at chashama Harlem Studios 2006 - 2008
chashama Harlem Studios Gallery, 461 West 126th Street
www.art-alive.com
Invitational Preview: Thursday June 19, 2008 6-9pm
Sponsored and hosted by the HARLEM ARTS ALLIANCE
Gala Opening: Friday June 20, 4-7:30 pm
FREE and open to the public.

Claims of the Negro: (June 19 - 28, 2008)
400 Years of Chains and 143 Years of Gains
by Darryl Hell
chashama, 112 West 44th Street
www.s6k.com/juneteenth

chashama is pleased to present, Claims of the Negro: 400 Years of Chains and 143 Years of Gains, an InfoArt exhibition created by Darryl Hell, curator Real University/sektor 6 kommunikations.

History begs us to learn its lessons and demands that we be the products of it. Juneteenth, June 19, 1865, is an annual commemoration/celebration of the last day of legalized slavery in the United States. This exhibition informs viewers about what this historic day might mean to us in the present, as a nation, and the opportunities it provides for positive societal and cultural growth. It also exposes the emotional, cultural and structural connective tissue of the past 143 years, which supplies a more broad comprehension of our current cultural condition. Juneteenth, primarily seen as a Black-American holiday, is a day of celebration for all Americans.

The installation will feature video, audio and text works from a number of artists/researchers, exclusive video/audio interviews with human rights leaders, live performances and a special project from high school students who attend the Urban Assembly School of Music and Art, Brooklyn. about the exhibit

Darryl Hell, veteran mixed media artist, has consistently pushed the boundaries to explore the educative power of art and information as a combined force for social change. Since the mid 1970's, Hell has developed a broad range of skills, which led to the creation of what he calls "InfoArt."

Contributors include; Adelaide Sanford, A. Peter Bailey, Cynthia McKinney, Reconstruct Art, Jared Ball Ph.d, Dr. Ron Daniels, Jonn Nubian/Brown Eyed Intelligence and WBAI 99.5 fm, Pacifica Radio [legendary artist/journalist driven, noncommercial radio network]. about Darryl & company

"post industrial folk wear project #2" (June 18 - 20, 2008)
by mau schoettle
chashama performance window, 266 West 37th Street
www.conceptualclothing.com

2:00 – 7:00, Wednesday June 18
(Reception 5:00 – 7:00)
12:00 – 6:00, Thursday June 19
12:00 – 4:00, Friday June 20
FREE and open to the public.

A series of interactions and installations will take place over the course of three days in and around the 266 West 37th CHASHAMA storefront in the NYC GARMENT DISTRICT. This psycho-geography project will investigate, alter, and embrace the threat of direct design to everyday city life. The project will include the solicitation of the general public to borrow, wear and get others to write on paper-like jackets as well as an invitation to design and annotate wallpaper and yard goods that will later be made into garments. There will also be a show of 8 post industrial folk wear jackets from Conflux Festival 2007, and a small presentation of clothing pieces by mau schoettle.

Marian Schoettle is a 2007 Artist Fellowship recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA). This presentation is co-sponsored by Artists and Audiences Exchange, A NYFA public program.

For more information contact mau: mau@conceptualclothing.com show details

Urban Groups (June 6 – June 28, 2008)
by Hanae Sasaoka
chashama 'ABC', 169 Avenue C
www.hanaesasaoka.com

The Urban Groups artwork includes many small things living in the world's biggest city, New York, in obscurity. These innumerable small things are gathering in cluster to survive the urban area.

The imaginary world Hanae creates on canvas is inspired by and a reflection of her time in NY. She has come to be influenced by its diversity and mixture of people. She strives to capture and express this in her work at both a macro and micro level. Metaphorically relating the individuality of small and unnoticed elements such as people, animals, bugs, living cells, bacteria, etc. into something larger and more powerful as when things are grouped together. Through the formal composition of her work, she explores such the nameless but energetic "chemical reactions of lives in NY". about Urban Groups

Sasaoka was born and grew up in Japan. Before pursuing a career in art she earned her BA of International Business in Tokyo Japan. She worked for eight years in the business field. Since changing her career path she has exhibited her work nationally and internationally throughout Tokyo, the UK and New York. Her work is included in many private collections.

Sasaoka was recently chosen as an artist for New York Foundation for the Arts, Immigrant Artists Outreach Initiative Program. about Hanae

bright young things (June 5-8 & 12-15, 2008)
a dual exhibit by SANDRA SPANNAN | GINA FUENTES WALKER
chashama Harlem Studios Gallery, 461 West 126th Street
sandraspannan.com | ginafuenteswalker.com

The new work of Sandra Spannan is a series of gilded walnut panels showing images of tree branches and other elements in nature. Chaos in these forms of nature are attractive and beautiful, still when we encounter manmade chaos, we tend to find it disturbing or distractive. All pieces reflect on the constant longing for that natural and endless chaos, especially living and working in New York City. The natural and old materials like precious metals and solid wood enhance the exploration of nature. Spannan's work includes performance art such as participation of Vanessa Beecroft's NYC debut at Deitch Projects; New York Time's celebrated INSIDE/OUT, a window performance installation with artist Laura Barnett which debuted in 2006 at chashama@West 44th Street and traveled to Berlin's Galerie Tristesse. Some of Spannan's solo exhibitions include 20th Century Modern - Brooklyn, NY; Outdoor mural for German House - opposite the United Nations, NYC; Gallery Raum und Form - Nuernberg, Germany. 'Searching for Sense,' is a documentary film about her live paint performance directed by Oscar Nominee Katja Esson which screened in major US film festivals, NYC's Kitchen Gallery and broadcast on Metro Channel & European TV channels. Her work has been featured in The New York Times; The New Yorker; Esquire; Vogue; Architectural Digest; Interior Design; Design Times; Paper; Time Out; Berliner Morgenpost; Die Welt; ALEGRA; Italian Gulliver; Japanese Hanatsubaki. about Sandra

Gina Fuentes Walker combines translucent materials with small and multiple photographic images to create installations that respond to ambient light and reflect familiar details of her urban and architectural surroundings. This new series of botanical abstractions explores the psychology of space by challenging our perception of what we see and experience. Printed on acetate and mounted on panes of glass, silhouettes of trees and branches create delicate patterns suggesting tributaries or blood vessels just beneath the skin. Informed by an academic background in anthropology and documentary media, her work has been awarded fellowships and residencies from the Smithsonian Institution, Chashama and The Bronx Museum of the Arts. She has had solo exhibitions in Massachusetts, Virginia, and North Carolina. Her site-specific installations include, Map: Spot on, an illustrated walking tour of commonplace objects and architectural details for the Dumbo Arts Center festival under the bridge 2007. Upcoming projects include a site-specific installation for the Kunst Tage Rhein-Erft in Cologne, Germany and a solo exhibition at The Lost Horse Gallery in Reykjavik, Iceland. Fuentes Walker is also an independent curator and a Co-Founder/Director of artHARLEM. about Gina

"Death of a Minstrel" (June 4 - 14th, 2008)
the store front play
Created, Produced and Costumed by Valentine Amartey
chashama performance window, 266 West 37th Street
myspace.com/deathofaminstrel

starring Valentine Amartey, Kayla Sarian, Paul Alves, and Tabetha Lorina-Baker.
Soundscapes by Eve Cuyen
Set Design by John Duran, Jr.
Graphics/Projection by Jeremy Wolfe-Kivett
Choreography by Christina Rose, Michael Rice and Pamela Herron
Flamenco Instruction by Andrea Del Conte
Photography by Ellen Stagg and Film Maker Roddy von Seldeneck
Created, Produced and Costumed by Valentine Amartey cast and crew

TRUCE Recycling Arts Exhibition (May 30 - June 1, 2008)
an exhibit by Face to Face TRUCE and Vickie Fremont
chashama Harlem Studios Gallery, 461 West 126th Street
www.hcz.org

chashama is pleased to present TRUCE Recycling Arts Exhibition, an exhibition that celebrates this world, our hope to create a better and safe environment and to pay a tribute to the ones from every where who are suffering because of AIDS.

TRUCE (The Renaissance University for Community Education) is an award-winning after-school arts and media literacy program of the Harlem Children's Zone (www.hcz.org). The Harlem Children's Zone is a community-based organization dedicated to reducing the problems of truancy, violence, foster care, pregnancy, poor school performance, and lack of self-esteem among high-risk New York City youth. TRUCE's mission is to educate and empower youth to become agents of positive personal and social change through the arts, academics and activism. TRUCE, a comprehensive youth development program for 150 adolescents between the ages of 13-19, uses the integration of arts, literacy, community building and youth development in curriculum design.

Through a variety of hands-on, youth directed projects, young people participate in creating a cable TV program (The Real Deal) that features poetry, music videos video dramas, PSA's and documentaries. Harlem Overheard is a youth-produced newspaper that reaches more than 75,000 readers. Students are involved in every facet of newspaper production and gain writing, computer and leadership skills. In the visual arts, a program called A Different Lens allows students to design mural and community garden projects that beautify spaces throughout Harlem. The students study photography, painting and collage. HOTWorks showcases students' writing, acting and directing talents. The Insight Center provides academic support with an intensive college preparatory approach, one-on-one tutoring, counseling, SAT Prep, Regents and 8th grade test Prep. chashama is pleased to present TRUCE Recycling Arts Exhibition

Artist and teacher, Vickie Fremont has created a program based on recycled materials. The Recycled Art Program is, very simply put, a workshop-type activity in which recycled materials become educational tools and art. In a general way, the Recycled Art Program contributes to a positive attitude towards and concern for the world we live in. She is working on a major exhibition, RE… Exhibition: (Revival Reclamation Regeneration Reflection Renewal Renovation Reconstruction Revivification Re…cycling Re…naissance. Any and all of these terms are descriptive of our world today and also descriptive of our urban settings, much like the Big Apple where she lives. It is that living City and globe that Vickie intends to illustrate through installation/pictures). about Vickie

The Center of Something (May 30 - June 15, 2008)
by Chris Rubino
chashama, 112 West 44th Street
www.chrisrubino.com

The Center of Something exhibits Rubino's take on New York as a destination for both visiting and living. Taking advantage of the Times Square location Rubino has created what he is referring to as a "limited tourist attraction". The Exhibit is modeled after the dozens of stores in the neighborhood selling the same inane souvenirs playing off tourist's pre-conceived image(s) of New York. In an attempt to create new "icons" for the city Rubino's installation will consist of his "souvenirs" as well as hand drawn screenprints that recreate pieces of the New York daily visual language, i.e. maps, advertisements, signage, etc. Tourists will be encouraged to visit, interact and possibly question what they exactly are experiencing. about the exhibit

Rubino's work plays with the commonly unnoticed daily language that we as viewers can relate to but often do not question, he twists our words and clichés for us in a way that may cause us to reconsider these undeniable elements in our lives. His work is colorful, clean and bold causing it to stand out in the littered visual landscape we walk in today, which is quite relevant to this exhibit both in concept and setting.

Chris Rubino is an artist/designer whose work has been exhibited in Europe, Japan, Hong Kong and around the U.S. He has created commercial artwork for such clients as The New York Times, Banana Republic & The NY Public Theater. He also runs a Brooklyn-based silk-screen studio named Studio18Hundred that makes limited edition posters for rock bands including The Rapture, The Brian Jonestown Massacre and Vetiver.

Recent Exhibitions have taken place at The Academy of Visual Arts (Hong Kong), Varsko (Norway), The Majestic (New York), The Aram Gallery (London) & Journal Standard Homestead (Tokyo). A series of his prints has been added to the permanent collection at the Museum of Design in Zurich. about Chris Rubino

chashama Film Festival 2008 (May 29 - June 1, 2008)
chashama, 217 East 42nd Street
www.chafilmfest.com

The chashama Film Festival is not your normal film festival. We're diverse, daring and definitely not pandering to the mainstream. We're not bucking convention or breaking any rules because we didn't think there were any to begin with. There is no red carpet or air kissing...just fresh, new and original work.

The First Annual chashama Film Festival opens the weekend of May 30-June 1, 2008. cFF '08 follows in the vein of its parent organization by continuing to give audience to bold, original and provocative work. There's a little of something for everyone. It's a mashup of shorts,features, documentaries and experimental films that embody the spirit of the underground film scene. 3 DAYS, 54 FILMS ON 42nd STREET

Expect the unexpected...

A night of film, fun and food catered by Brazil Brazil with art installation by local artist Celso of Endless Love Crew, video installations, filmmaker presentations, raffle, and an appearance by Derek 'Jinx' Carter... 5.29.08 OPENING NIGHT RECEPTION

Color Coordinated (May 25 - 30, 2008)
a Smartspaces production
chashama performance window, 266 West 37th Street
http://tamaragayer.com
www.smartspaces.org

Guest curators Kimberly Marrero & Louky Keijsers have selected New York artist, Tamara Gayer to create a site-specific installation, Color Coordinated. For this debut project, the curators were invited to select artwork for a vacant storefront located in the heart of Manhattan's Garment District. The location evokes traces of New York's manufacturing past; using this space as an impromptu gallery highlights the juxtapositions of old and new which infuse the contemporary thrust of the city. Color Coordinated provides a breathing space and a conversation piece for the continuous stream of passersby; a rare opportunity to enjoy contemporary art in an everyday setting.

Color Coordinated serves as platform for Ms. Gayer's personal, visual dialogue with the space, the street, its history and its energetic and colorful surroundings. She has shown extensively in New York and abroad including at Priska Juschka Fine Art, Kunst Buero, ExitArt and Foxy Production, and her work is represented in many prominent collections including that of the Museum of Modern Art.

7am - 9pm Daily
7am - midnight Thursday
CELEBRATE Wednesday May 28 6-9pm across the street at Stitch Bar & Lounge 247 W. 37th Street about the exhibit

Tamara Gayer was a natural choice for this particular project that speaks pointedly to the city's perpetual evolution. Her multimedia installations engage the current changes in the city resulting from this unprecedented construction boom. Ms. Gayer is fixated on how this seemingly never-ending reconfiguration is changing the physical shape of our city while mutating our character. The artist works in the vein of a romantic ecologist. She is interested in the ebb and flow of the urban landscape, which etches its form on our behavior, wearing into our comprehension. Ms. Gayer's images, suspended between two and three dimensions, are created from adaptations of large-scale drawings of the city morphed into appliqués of self-adhesive vinyl, wall paintings and other advertising "mediums." about Tamara

Smartspaces weaves art into the fabric of daily life by placing it in the windows of temporarily vacant property - spaces between tenants or in late-stage construction. Part of a growing movement bringing art to the public in unexpected ways, Smartspaces has a unique focus on windows, spaces between tenants, and connecting real-world experience with digital media and dialogue. In the blink of an eye, empty space becomes the next public gallery – and a place tenants want to be. Art grabs the attention of passersby, sparks conversation, and advertises a landlord with integrity and vision. Smartspaces is thankful to chashama for their generous support! about Smartspaces

CURIOUS FISH (May 24 - 25, 2008)
Katsura Kan and dancers
pre show window installation by Vangeline Theater
chashama, 217 East 42nd Street
www.vangeline.com

"Unspoken" by Vangeline, performed and choreographed by Vangeline (15 min);
"Curious Fish" by Katsura Kan and dancers
Directed and choreographed by Katsura Kan (45 minutes) Program

This dance piece was inspired by MINAMATA disease/mercury poisoning. At that period in Japan faced to many kind of serious environmental crisis by the much too high economic growth. We were in the heavy tragedy, especially we saw lots, lots of strange fish in the rivers and sea. So cats, dogs, chicken danced DEATH DANCE because they ate the fish and human, also. My fragmental dance pieces/ "Curious Fish" were the requiem for the spirits who couldn't become human and the life that have been erased before come to this world. However I don't want to lose the HOPE.

"Curious Fish" was a premiere showing at San Francisco Butoh festival in 2001 and got 5 star rating at Edinburgh fringe festival in the summer. about "Curious Fish"

Katsura Kan is a native of Kyoto and a Master Butoh artist among the ranks of Japan’s first generation of Butoh. He performed with the seminal Butoh troupe "Byakkosha" (1979-1981) known for its austerity and integrity, rather than theatrical glamour. He is a celebrated solo artist, collaborative performer and choreographer. Kan has worked with what he calls "minority dancers" all over the world, in remote locations throughout Africa, Europe, South East Asia for the past 28 years, in addition to performing his creative works in cosmopolitan culture.

Kan's approach is inspired by classical Akoku Butoh otherwise known as the "dance of utter darkness." He reverses roles where men are women and visa versa, who then transform into chickens to flowers to frogs that frighten a ballerina. In the midst of all is Kan, a ghost-like figure, marking time and burning himself into your retina. He projects the sensation that he is something before human--a kind of fish or mineral. He awaits "the tears then climbs the rainbow." Kan's work exudes a dark humor that combines whirling images, handled delicately then powerfully. The result is an electrifying event that is both funny and terrifying. As Diane Dubois from the Scotsman wrote: "I laughed, got scared, and laughed some more." about Katsura Kan

Vangeline is The Artistic Director of The Vangeline Theater. She was born in France and moved to New York in June 1993. She founded The Vangeline Theater in December 2002 and has been training extensively with Master teachers Diego Pinon of the Butoh ritual Mexicano Center and Tetsuro Fukuhara from Japan. She has been teaching Butoh classes to dancers and non dancers in the New York Area since 2002. The Vangeline Theater organises intensive Butoh workshops in New York with Master Teachers Diego Pinon, Daisuke Yoshimoto, Tetsuro Fukuhara. More recently we have been teaching members of the incarcerated population (the Dream a dream project). Vangeline is also assistant Director for TOKYO SPACE Dance 2006/2007, an international Project co-founded by Butoh Artist Tetsuro Fukuhara, and a participant to the Monarch project, founded by Butoh artist Diego Pinon from the Butoh Ritual Mexicano.

The Vangeline Theater performs Butoh offerings in public places in New York to offer our energy to the city. We support other New York performers and curate mixed performances of danse, music, mixed media. We invite other artists and dancers/choreographers/composers to perform with us. We try to offer a platform for artists of all backgrounds. about Vangeline

ALEGRIAS ON 42ND STREET (May 16 - 17, 2008)
"Por El Rocio"
chashama, 217 East 42nd Street
Flamenco from Almeria
www.alegrias.com

Beneath The Skin (May 12 - June 2, 2008)
a PERFECT8 Exhibit
chashama 'ABC', 169 Avenue C
www.PerfectEight.com

featuring artists: Andrea Aragón, Jill Marleah Bell, Anki King, Jessica Lagunas, Laura Meyers, Alice Mizrachi, Chloe Paganini, Diana Schmertz, Alison Ward and Cindy Workman. featured artists

Beneath the Skin is an exhibition based on PERFECT 8, a publication and project dedicated to de-objectification. As opposed to the idealized "perfect 10", PERFECT 8 forms a new expression conveying a sentiment and recognition of the beauty found within the imperfections of people. Perfect also being defined as "complete of its nature or kind", lends itself to the view that the individual can only be construed as perfect when all attributes of the whole person are acknowledged. Works on view at Beneath the Skin range from painting to video to the installation of "The Revised Men's and Women's Interests Sections". By provoking a curiosity, and ultimately a questioning of what it would be like to experience the feelings of another, this exhibit works to deconstruct the myth that people are objects and obtainable products. about Beneath the Skin

PERFECT 8 was created by Diana Schmertz in 2006. After completing her BFA from Purchase College at age 19, Schmertz was accepted into De Ateliers 63 residency program and awarded a two-year grant to live and paint in Amsterdam, Holland. Since, she has traveled extensively, completed two Masters in Science, and exhibited professionally throughout America. Most recently she has received a Manhattan Community Arts Fund grant from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and a grant from the Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance. about Diana

Bracha-Blessing (May 10 - 17, 2008)
by Jill Ariela & the EyesInfinite Family
chashama performance window, 266 West 37th Street

"Inspired by EyesInfinite's The Last Artist, from the Art and Apathy Film Project; A lyrical and visual reflection on the Jewish tradition of speaking out against injustice. We will be having open hours throughout the week of May 11-17th for individuals and groups to explore the space.

"This piece comments on the word Bracha, Hebrew for blessing, reservoir of water as well as tree layering (to take the branch of a tree, bend it to the ground, make a wound, plant it under the ground to grow roots and create a new tree). My hope is to plant this wounded branch and pray it takes root, pray it grows honestly, justly and righteously enabling a future where my children may be proud of their history.

"May we plant this wounded branch to create a new layer for righteous growth… We hope you can join us for this special event!" "You are invited to an interactive visual installation entitled Bracha-Blessing"

Laugh Lines (May 10, 2008)
a BENEFIT PLAY READING
chashama 217 East 42nd Street
www.gildasclubnyc.com

Written by Penny Bergman
Directed by Casey Childs
Music by Andy "A.J." Gundell
Lyrics by Penny Bergman/Andy "A.J." Gundel; "I'm a Middle-Aged Woman" by Lisa Koch
Musical Direction by Michael Larsen

The cast: Kim Zimmer (4 EMMIES Guiding Light), Ilene Kristen (EMMY nominee - One Life To Live, Ryan's Hope), Bobbie Eakes (Bold and the Beautiful, EMMY nominee - All My Children) Marj Dusay (EMMY nominee- Guiding Light, All My Children), Joel Rooks (Jewtopia), Jason Ostrowski (Broadway revival "Company"), Mel Gionson (King and I), Melissa Claire Egan and Amanda Baker (All My Children).

All Proceeds Benefit Gilda's ClubNYC. (www.gildasclubnyc.com)

General Admission $75
General Admission with Post-Show Meet and Greet Reception with the Stars $95 details

Laugh Lines is a musical comedy for anyone who's ever had a junior senior moment. For anyone who has uttered the words, "I'm too young to be this old!" This full-length, one act play follows three lifelong "New Yawkers" smack in the middle of midlife crisis -- and the men and families that love and support them.

The fast-paced ensemble show speaks directly to the huge generation of Baby Boomers: obsessing over losing their looks, their sexuality, their children, their jobs, their memory and their minds! Laugh Lines is not all about the young and skinny, rather we also celebrate the older and pear-shaped – former activists, groovy grandmas, and fabulous fashionistas. It's an intergenerational experience, a girl's night out and a middle-age date play.

Who deserves a laugh more than you? A little about Laugh Lines…

Advertising for the Consumption of Our Selves (May 8-11 & 15-18, 2008)
an exhibit by Summer McClinton
chashama Harlem Studios Gallery, 461 West 126th Street

Advertising for the Consumption of Our Selves exhibits a new direction in McClinton's paintings, which represent her production of the last year. Her current work is an exploration of the relationship of personality to society: specifically the resulting conflict between the spiritual self and the physical organism. The works function as a conceptual manifestation connecting found imagery, realism, and cartoon surrealism. about the exhibit

McClinton's works are powerfully executed with sensitivity to form, color vibration and texture. Formally the works have two aspects; one linear-graphic and one natural-organic.

McClinton's work examines the nature of dualistic reality, which considers the individual in two parts: the physical self and the inner being/consciousness/or soul. The inner being is considered to be a larger, continuous presence that exists before and after the physical self. If this perpetual aspect is truly innate, it helps to explain the relief experienced vicariously through entities that deny the primacy of the physical vehicle: for example, the undeniable magnetism of the self-destructive persona, and the marketing appeal of food mascots ingesting themselves. more

Summer McClinton, born in Boulder, Colorado, is currently living in New York City. McClinton was educated in Massachusetts, Wisconsin, and New York where she studied Graffiti, Oil Painting, Printmaking and Comic Book Arts. She is the recipient of many awards and has had her work published in numerous forms. McClinton has exhibited her works in solo exhibitions and many group exhibitions around the United States. Works by Summer McClinton are in numerous private collections. Random House is currently publishing 150 pages of McClinton's drawings as the latest American Splendor (H. Pekar) novel. about Summer

Preservation (May 2 - 23, 2008)
an exhibit featuring artists Michele Brody and Rachel Miller
chashama Gallery, 112 West 44th Street
www.michelebrody.com
www.rachel-miller.com

Preservation will combine the work of these two mixed-media artists into a visceral experience of light, sound, space and time that focuses on their distinct methods of preserving the environment and memory. Michele Brody will encompass the main gallery of chashama's 112 West 44th Street with an installation of Garden Sentinels composed of aluminum hardware that will parade charges of floating plants suspended in tubes of nutrient enriched water, her piece is made possible through a grant from the Manhattan Community Arts Fund. The installation will focus on the piecemeal efforts by humanity to preserve Nature within our industrial society. Rachel Miller will fill the floor of the window platform and back gallery space with evolving, historical fabric patterns, which will be comprised of organic and industrial materials. Through this work, she explores how the patterns of our past are both historically and metaphorically connected to personal patterns of ritual, development, and transience. about the exhibit

The essence of Michele Brody's work is to understand how we live with change and the constant flux of our environment. By incorporating the growth of plants within a range of materials she wishes to express the meaning of change and transformation as witnessed in the actual life cycle of flora. She wishes to plant within the viewer a desire to be more aware of the tenuous relationship between ourselves, nature, and the urban environment and how we as individuals can make a difference.

Michele Brody is a native New Yorker who received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1994. She has exhibited widely over the past 14 years in France, Germany, Costa Rica, California, Chicago and in New York City. She has been the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship and a Pollock-Krasner Grant, and has created permanent public works for the MTA and on Wall Street. Her work can be seen at www.michelebrody.com. about Michele

Rachel Miller's work explores environmental and ecological patterns, and how they interconnect with our own patterns of growth, departure, and rejuvenation. Using both the body and landscape as cynosure and subject, she explores the landscape's role as an active residence for both the living and the deceased. Her works, which include sculpture, installation, performance and costume, examine the constant resurfacing of the past, and its integration with the present. She coalesces topics from ritual, archeology, architecture, travel, textiles, and nature.

Also a native New Yorker, Rachel Miller received her MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2004. Her work has been exhibited in California, Italy, Michigan, Kansas City, Philadelphia, and New York City. Her sculptural work was recently featured as part of the collection of Tsao-McKown Architects in Interior Design Magazine, as well as the Tribunale di Firenze for her costume designs in the world premiere Italian opera, El Sogno di Una Note Mezza Estate. Rachel currently resides and maintains a studio practice in Brooklyn, NY. Her work can be seen at www.rachel-miller.com. about Rachel

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING E[A]RNEST HEMINGWAY (May 1-3, 2008)
by Oscar Wilde, adapted and directed by James Rutherford
Presented by M-34
chashama, 217 E. 42nd Street

"The Importance of Being Ernest Hemingway" is, of course, a truly dreadful pun. But, like so many of its kind, its idiocy belies its true merit. The premise: what would happen to Oscar Wilde's beloved comedy of manners if all of his dandies (mere shadows of the elaborate character Wilde constructed for his personal use) were replaced by archetypal Hemingway-males (again: imperfect recreations of a perfect mask)? The surprising result is a treatise on sexual repression and self-deception. Behind all of Wilde's wry jokes lie anguished screams just waiting to be released. It's been over a century: let's let them out. about the play

Access Excess (April 30 - May 7, 2008)
an installation by Yekaterina Mezhibovskaya
chashama 'ABC', 169 Avenue C

Access Excess took the form of an exhibition, including the appropriation and re-interpretation of common food product packaging as a means of utilizing the familiar form, while substituting the original contents with more intellectually-nutritious content, thereby providing access to ideas and histories usually deemed inaccessible.

"We go to the supermarket in order to acquire materials necessary for our physical survival. My goal is to remind people of the necessity of their intellectual survival as well. In essence, Access Excess is an attempt to re-brand knowledge in an effort to welcome back, unearth, or spark the curiousity and thirst for meaningful information." about the exhibit

8PM (April 24 - May 6, 2008)
a performance and visual art installation by Kate Fauvell and Leanne Schmidt
chashama performance window, 266 West 37th Street
www.leanneschmidt.com

Visual artist Kate Fauvell and choreographer Leanne Schmidt will present 8PM, a visual performance installation that does not currently exist. The artists, who share a desire to bring immediacy to their work, will transform chashama's 266 W. 37th St. window, an empty and otherwise still space, into a place where motion and art coexist. They will draw inspiration and life to their work from each other and their surroundings as they make new pieces on the spot. As they create, the audience, time, space and sound will affect their process, and as those variables alter, so will their work. At the end of the opening of this installation, the new work will remain behind in the form of Ms. Fauvell's paintings and Ms. Schmidt's dances caught on video -tape and displayed throughout the space. To experience the creation of the work, please join the artists on April 24th and May 1st at 8PM. about 8PM

Leanne Schmidt, a native of Buffalo N.Y., has presented work throughout New York City at venues including Triskelion Arts, Dance New Amsterdam, chashama, Dixon Place, and WAX. In addition to New York City, her choreography has also been seen in Phoenix, Buffalo, Washington, D.C. and at Built on Stilts in Martha's Vineyard. Leanne has received commissions from Kent State University in Ohio and Happendance in Michigan. Leanne holds a BFA in Dance from SUNY College at Brockport and a MFA in Dance from Arizona State University. Leanne is the artistic director of Leanne Schmidt and Company whose mission is to present dance that is human, vulnerable and accessible. about the choreographer

Kate Fauvell is originally from New York City where she was born and raised in Queens. She is a visual artist known for her expressive manner of creation, using drips to paint humanity's insides. In 2002 she received a BFA in Drawing and Printmaking from Binghamton University and in 2004 a MFA in Painting from The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Kate has been involved in shows at PS 122, Artists Space, A.I.R. Gallery, and Galeria Galou to name a few. Most recently she has exhibited her light boxes in a two-person show at Teneleven in the East Village. In addition to her exhibiting, Kate has taught Fine Arts for The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Mural Arts in Philadelphia, and for the New York City Department of Education. Currently, she works for the New Museum and is working on the Visual Performance Installation 8PM with dancer/choreographer Leanne Schmidt. about the visual artist

ALEGRIAS ON 42ND STREET (April 25 - 26, 2008)
"A Night of Song and Dance"
chashama, 217 East 42nd Street
Featuring Carmen Salao and her Flamenco show, with special appareances by Jorge Navarro and guitarist Pedro Cortes.
www.alegrias.com

24-Hour Conversation (April 19 - 20, 2008)
Performance by Ted Efremoff and Rebecca Parker
chashama performance window, 266 West 37th Street
Broadcast via streaming video on www.24hourconversation.com from 6:00 am on Saturday, April 19 to 6:00 am on Sunday, April 20.

The artists aim to directly communicate with the audience in an open forum of creative discourse. In a time when the nation's conversations are politically motivated we invite you to join a conversation with aught ulterior motive.

This event is intended to construct a social network between the artists and participants, many of whom would likely not meet otherwise. There are no predetermined ideas for conversation. It is conceived as an open forum in which all participants come together to create an experience that is larger than any singular interpretation. We hope to engage in conversations that are personal, abstract, ongoing, political, controversial, spiritual, therapeutic, and even about the weather. The event is designed to build community by inviting all who are willing, to sit down, drink tea, and engage in conversation with others.

The duration of the live performance is intended to give the participants an opportunity to engage in a conversation that goes beyond the bounds of normal discourse. This event is the first of a series of 10 annual performances, which will be streamed live on the web as well as transcribed into book form to create 10 volumes of communal authorship. Invitation to take part in a conversation.

Born in Moscow, Russia, Ted Efremoff's work concerns itself with time, place and testimony in the exploration of public and private stories. He explores these themes through the creation or modification of real and virtual events and spaces. Efremoff creates performances, books, maps, drawings, boats, theaters, villages and apartments to allow these stories to be heard or seen. The public interaction with these modalities and spaces is important to his work. The ideals of positive social change and collaborative effort are the driving force behind his art.

Efremoff has performed and exhibited at The National Palace of Culture in Sofia, Bulgaria, The Gongju National Museum in South Korea, The National Center of Contemporary Art in Moscow, Russia, and The Museum of American Art in Philadelphia. His work is in the collections of The Sound Museum in Rome, the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art in Los Angeles, and The Synagogue of Bad Sobernheim, Germany. about Ted Efremoff

Rebecca Parker's work is an exploration of identity as informed by gender, culture, and regional influence, particularly her southern heritage. Her work also explores the nature of relationships and how they're formed. Her performances are collaborations with individuals and audiences to create spaces and situations that entice the exchange of personal information.

Parker received her bachelor of fine arts in ceramics from Middle Tennessee State University and her masters of fine arts from University of Connecticut. She has performed and shown work in various galleries in the area such as the Nexus Foundation for the Arts in Philadelphia, PA; ArtSpace in New Haven, CTand Sideshow Gallery in Williamsburg, NY. about Rebecca Parker

ALEGRIAS ON 42ND STREET (April 18 - 19, 2008)
"A Night of Song and Dance"
chashama, 217 East 42nd Street
Direct from Spain: Raul Ortega, joined by Sara Salado al cantante and guest guitarist Pedro Cortes.
www.alegrias.com

Frank Leslie Hampton (April 17 - 27, 2008)
featured artworks
chashama Harlem Studios Gallery, 461 West 126th Street

Frank Leslie Hampton is a painter/photographer working mostly in large formats. His work can be seen by Googling "Frank Leslie Hampton" for hits of his public artwork. Leslie is happy to exhibit his new artwork at the chashama Harlem Gallery space this month. Many viewers may have seen his "Riding the Redbird" in the subway stations as part of the MTA UNDERGROUND series. His mosaic work can be seen at the Tremont Station in the Bronx (D line). Hampton acknowledges that "there are social and economic problems in many of our urban areas. However, negative and sensationalist images of New York often seem to be the only ones that many people are people exposed to." His artwork is a colorful celebration of apartment life in New York. Frank's retrospective works span over the past 40 years of creative insight, here and abroad. about Frank

ROOTLESS: La No-Nostalgia (April 11 - 13, 2008)
A theatrical concert about immigration by Karina Casiano
chashama, 217 East 42nd Street
Piano by Harry Miller
www.karinacasiano.com

Super Combo (April 4 - 25, 2008)
organized by Celso
chashama ABC Gallery, 169 Avenue C
celso@elcelso.com
www.elcelso.com

featuring the artistic collaborations of: Abe Lincoln, Jr., Celso, Darkcloud, Dave, Brad Downey, Elbowtoe, Endless Love Crew, Ryan Frank, Gaia, Anthony Goicolea, Gore-B, Haculla, infinity, Mark Jenkins, Klepto, Evelyn Metzger, Skewville, Stickman and special guests. more

I AM KAREN FINLEY (April 4 - 6, 2008)
Written and performed by Paula Hunter
chashama Performance Window at 217 E.42nd Street

In this one-woman tour de force, Hunter, in a pristine white wedding dress, dances in a mid-town Manhattan store front window as she transforms herself into a landscape of junk food.

Inspired by the great performance artist, Karen Finley, and by the junk food of her youth, Hunter subverts the now unappealing salt, sugar, and fat-laden foods that fill grocery store shelves, and give them new life as a medium for body sculpting. A twisted mix of satire, tragedy, loss and comedy, I AM KAREN FINLEY always entertains. Hunter revels in and dances through a child-like fantasy world where food is liberated beyond one's wildest imagination. Only Hunter can effectively use ketchup and cheese spread as fabulous body moisturizers and shampoos. "...Inspired by the great performance artist, Karen Finley..."

Since she began showing her work in the early 1980's, Hunter has consistently developed as a choreographer and performer. She has performed at such venerable venues as what is known now as The Construction Company, DTW, The Kitchen, PS 122, Movement Research, Dixon Place, and beyond, as well as several sites in Providence, RI, where she now resides. Providence, home to Brown University and Rhode Island School of Design, is overflowing with creative and innovative visual and performing artists, yet Hunter is well-known there as an independent and fearless performer who defies simple categorization. Her first serious review in DANCE MAGAZINE in September, 1983, defined the rest of her career well: "Her choreography is full of quirky gestures repeated again and again with different timing, in different directions, and in different order. The movements are culled from sports, street dancing, numerous other styles of dance, and the deepest recesses of Hunter's imagination. …all make you feel as if you've crossed into a time zone where motion follows laws you've never learned and may never understand." "...Hunter has consistently developed as a choreographer and performer..."

Her performance schedule comes at some cost to her, as she is a severe agoraphobic who finds traveling beyond her home area code nearly impossible. In fact, after first developing the disability as a teenager, she found leaving her home state of Michigan the greatest challenge she had ever faced. She was successful only with the 20th effort to do so. As a form of self-therapy and in a desire to share her story with others, she began to talk and dance, telling the tales of her eccentric Midwestern family and revealing to audiences the bizarre workings of her own mind. "I was teaching dance at Hamilton College when I booked Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane for our annual Guest Artist series," Hunter said. "When Bill began to talk while he and Arnie hurled each other around the stage, a light went off! Until then, I never knew that talking was permissible while dancing."

In Providence, Hunter founded JUMP! - a young people's dance company that mentors and produces the work of its young choreographers/dancers. In April, 2007, DANCE MAGAZINE cited Hunter as one of a handful of dance educators around the country dedicated to teaching the choreographic arts. "I love creating my solo works and then heading off in the late afternoon to then teach and guide young people," said Hunter. "My life offers a wonderful duality—being completely attuned to my own thoughts and desires and then being responsible for the artistic life of my young dancers." "...Her performance schedule comes at some cost to her..."

District Nest Street (March 26 - 28, 2008)
A Performance Installation by Anya Liftig
chashama performance window, 266 West 37th Street

Anya Liftig lived in an empty storefront in the garment district for three days and nights. She used found and recovered yarn to slowly weave herself into the environment using her body as a physical loom and her hands as needles. Her previous performance work has been shown in a variety of venues including, HERE Arts Center, DUMBO Under the Bridge Festival, Galapagos, Movement Research, The Tank, Art Basel Miami, Eyedrum Atlanta, The University of Wisconsin, The University of Chicago, Mess Hall, Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center and many other locations. more

Bike Porn Eastern Swing (March 22, 2008)
curated and introduced by Reverend Phil
chashama, 217 East 42nd Street
www.BikeSmut.com

por·no·gra·phy of the bi·cy·cle:

1. short films depicting things both erotic and ridiculous, intended to make you laugh uncomfortably, squirm in your seat, and adjust your pants;
2. the depiction of acts with and on bicycles, intended to provoke, titillate and arouse;
3. a one-of-a-kind film event coming to your city.

On Saturday, March 22nd 2008, The Pornography of the Bicycle will be playing a midnight screening for one night only at chashama in New York City. The 90-minute showing will consist of 28 short films from a variety of artists across the west coast on the theme of "bike porn." The movies range from the contemplative to the inventive, to the [ahem] fully demonstrative.

"Pornography is difficult thing to define," says bicycle pornographer, Reverend Phil. "Often we use a community standard to decide what is obscene as opposed to just erotic. People often say, 'I know pornography when I see it.' I feel pornography is the visceral reaction we get from something that is so graphic that we must turn away, or is so graphic that we cannot turn away."

The various artists, some operating under pseudonyms, take us though a range of videos -- most of which are not available anywhere else. No DVDs of the work are available for sale; barely any works are on the Internet. This is your only chance to see The Pornography of the Bicycle in New York City.

Times: 7:00, 9:00, 11:00 pm
Admission: $6. about the screening

Learn How To Swim (March 20 - 30, 2008)
an exhibition of installation work by Inga Huld Tryggvadottir
chashama Harlem Studio Gallery, 461 West 126th Street
www.ingahuld.net

Learning How To Swim was inspired by Tryggvadottir's exploration on the theme of superstition. "The theme of superstition is very exciting because it goes to the core of a lot of issues we deal with today-especially when it comes to the nature of power. As much as we can control certain things in our lives there is an overwhelming randomness to our daily existence. Most people feel powerless to some extent and sometimes it is easier to hand off power, which we don't have anyway, to someone or something else. For some people that means religion, for others a pair of lucky socks."

Inga Huld Tryggvadottir is an Icelandic artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. She is currently a chashama visual art studio residency recipient and this is her first solo show in New York City. more

Prepare for Impact (March 10 - 22, 2008)
A fashion installation by Dinna Soliman
chashama performance window, 266 West 37th Street
www.dinnasoliman.com

"Prepare for Impact" celebrates the launch of Dinna Soliman's namesake women's Fall 2008 clothing line. The avant-garde take on camouflage and nylon, typically utilitarian fabrications, juxtaposed with lace exemplifies the designer's fashion philosophy of utilizing high-tech fabrics in and unconventional and ultimately feminine way. This piece, the first of many fashion installations by Dinna Soliman, lets the audience know that she has landed and is ready to make her mark in the world of fashion and art. about the show

Dinna Soliman, born in New York of Filipino and Egyptian parents, works and resides in New York City. She studied Fashion Design at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in the evenings as she solidified her career during the day as a designer and consultant for several brands. After taking advantage of industry experience and with much anticipation, she is launching her first collection. Her last few years working extensively with outerwear has influenced her greatly, which is evident in all her work. about Dinna

Accumulation Project: Selections (March 7 - 27, 2008)
chashama ABC, 169 Avenue C Exhibit Space
OPENING RECEPTION Friday March 14, 6-9pm
www.accumulationproject.org

This exhibition of selected works features the six projects by local artists: Paul Baumann, Yellow Things; Irene Chan, Barcodes; Lisa Dahl, Discarded Dreams; Tamara Gubernat, Accumulated Objects; Songyi Kim, Post-It Notes; Sam Imperatrice, Plastic Bags from the Street. artists

From September 1, 2005 to September 1, 2006, 18 selected artists from around the country committed to the challenge of acquiring or producing "accumulates" for the purpose of creating work for exhibition. The accumulation period lasted from September 1, 2005 to September 1, 2006. Chosen accumulates ranged from tangible objects such as unwanted plastic bags and discarded chewing gum to ephemera such as opinions and wishes. Documentation of each contributor's process and progress was updated monthly on the Accumulation Project website, www.accumulationproject.org.

The project was originally conceived of by members of Other Leading Brand collective as an exploration of the roles that time and quantity play in creative practice and as an experiment in approaching art production as problem solving. "We were curious about how people would transform their attraction to something into an ordered system or practice, and how their connection or understanding of their subject might change as a result", says show co-organizer Sam Imperatrice. Co-organizer Eric Brown adds, "We were also curious about who would be interested in participating in and sticking with a project like this. What sort of personalities would be attracted to this?" While many contributors entered the project with clear ideas as to how to organize and ultimately exhibit their final collection of accumulates, several participants figured things out along the way--their questioning, inspiration and often their frustrations made public on the project's website.

In addition to the monthly web documentation, the project's structure called for two gallery exhibitions. The first after 3 months of accumulation, which was held in December 2005 at Lunarbase Gallery in Williamsburg, and a final exhibition displaying a full year's worth of accumulation held at Art House Productions in Jersey City, October 2007. more about the exhibit

I In The Sky (March 6 - April 26, 2008)
an interactive public art project by Raul Vincent Enriquez
chashama, 112 West 44th Street
The Michael Caselli-designed photo booth is free and open to the public Thursdays through Saturdays, 12-8PM.
From March 6-April 26, 2008, New York City residents and visitors will have the chance to see themselves larger and brighter than life – 48 stories above Times Square.
To learn more about "I In The Sky" and for b-roll and images, please visit www.durst.org/iinthesky.

Internationally-acclaimed artist Raul Vincent Enriquez has joined forces with The Durst Organization and chashama to present "I In The Sky," an exciting and interactive public art project.

"I In The Sky" comprises a street-level photo-booth at the chashama gallery paired with the Lumacom electronic display sign atop the 4 Times Square building. The Lumacom will broadcast digital portraits taken by photo-booth visitors that have been animated by Enriquez to resemble flipbook images. The process will take about 20 minutes and is free of charge.

"I In The Sky" and the Lumacom are best seen in Manhattan on 42nd Street between 7th and 8th Avenues, and 9th Avenue at 44th Street. The portraits are also viewable from the New Jersey side of the Hudson and online at www.durst.org/iinthesky. I In The Sky continued

Raul Vincent Enriquez works in various media, including photography, animation, live performance, moving image, and sound. He has a history of hosting events, such as the Bean and Cheese Burrito Party and the ongoing Salon Desayano Robusto, which foster mastication among audience members.

Enriquez's work is geared toward revitalizing social relations and interactions in many different contexts. His animated "wiggly" portraits create unnervingly candid moments of extreme eye contact between subject and viewer; his live food performances re-energize the flaccid mass-market food service dynamic by shaking up visitors' expectations of "service." As a performer, Enriquez displays a kind of radical hospitality, which invites enthusiastic and frank participation by the audience.

In recent years, he has showed work at New Museum (NYC), Queens Museum (NYC), Scope (NYC/London/Miami), EFA Galleries (NYC), Conduit Gallery (Dallas), Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Performance Studies International (NYC), New York Theatre Workshop, NYU Performance Studies Program, and Cal Arts (LA), among others. In 2002, Enriquez was an Electronic Media Artist grant recipient from the Experimental Television Center, NY. In 2008/09, he will create a traveling Media & Burrito Truck, a mobile live food-performance radical hospitality unit.

from the artist: "I find portraits to be a timeless and accessible art form. In each portrait, several photos are sequenced and animated, framed to create the impression of extreme eye contact. My goal is to make provocative art that captures viewers." About Raul Vincent Enriquez

The Durst Organization is one of New York's oldest and most respected privately held owner/builder/managers of commercial and residential real estate. Started in 1915 by Joseph Durst, the company owns and manages more than 8.5 million square feet of Class A midtown office space as well as over 1 million square feet of residential rental building. The Durst Organization is recognized as a world leader in the development of technologically advanced and environmentally sophisticated commercial and residential property. The Durst Organization built the nations first Green Office Building, 4 Times Square, in the 1990s and today is building the World's First LEED Platinum Skyscraper - The Bank of America Tower at One Bryant Park. about The Durst Organization

A BLESSED DAY! (February 29, 2008)
Short Films and Live Performance
Original music by Jeff Layton
Friday, February 29, 2008, 8PM

A Moment To Breathe, 13 min.
A young pig slaughterer dreams of escaping from his suffocating life in the Italian countryside. In a moment of panic, he makes break for the big city – bringing along his girlfriend's teenage sister for the ride.

SARA COLANGELO is a Student Academy Award nominated director and Masters candidate in New York University's Graduate Film Program. A native of New England, Sara graduated from Brown University with a degree in History. After graduating, she was awarded Fulbright Fellowship and lived in Bologna where she studied 1930s and 40s Italian cinema and began to have a more pointed interest in filmmaking. Sara has worked in the music video and commercial industry in New York and is currently in development in a number of projects, including her first feature film. "Un Attimo di Respiro" is Sara's first narrative film. It has screened at film festivals across the United States--- including the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival--- and recently won the 2007 Wasserman Prize or Best Direction at New York University.

"A Moment To Breathe" Sara Colangelo

Lawrence, 12 min.
Filmed on location in Chinatown, NYC, a noodle factory worker struggles through a romantic relationship with a girl he has never met. Is unrequited love enough to satisfy this shy young man?

GREGORY MITNICK is currently pursuing an MFA at NYU's Graduate Film Program where he is focused on cinematography and directing. With a background in anthropology, Gregory is constantly inspired to make films that explore the frontiers at which cultures collide. It's in this volatile area that new ways of living and understanding are produced. With basic spoken language skills in Japanese, French and Mandarin Chinese, he enjoys still photography and has worked as an ssistant to several well-known fashion photographers. Gregory has also worked as short-order cook, lawnmower salesman, shrimp-peeler, and Chinese food deliveryman. As director of photography, Gregory has photographed over 25 films.

"Lawrence" Gregory Mitnick

Sin Salida, 12 min.
Estelle lives a never-ending cycle of regret, constantly confronted with the choices that she made in her past by her younger self.

A. SAYEEDA CLARKE is a Dean's fellow and MFA candidate in film at New York University. Her award-winning short "Sin Salida" is now premiering on HBO. Sayeeda's short, "The Grey Woman" had its world premiere at Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater. Her photography and self-portraits from Italy and Cuba have received honors and were chosen for exhibition. At NYU Sayeeda was Spike Lee's assistant and worked on the Emmy Award-winning documentary, "When The Levees Broke". She has studied with Shelia Nevins, Spike Lee, Sandy Sissel, Lee Grant, Milcho Manchevski and Mary Ellen Mark. Sayeeda is passionate and dedicated to the art of directing, alternating between film and theater to inspire and enlighten her craft.

"Sin Salida" A. Sayeeda Clarke

4960, 14 min.
Aida and Josef try to communicate past the distance from point A to point B. An exposed space, clearly visible to snipers, prevents them from doing so.

WING-YEE WU as born and raised in Stockholm by Chinese parents. She received her BA Fine Arts from Central Saint Martins College in London after which she worked in the British and Swedish film industries. Wing-Yee now finds herself at the NYU Graduate Film Department developing her thesis project, her short films have screened worldwide and "4960" was recently awarded the 2008 Slamdance Special Jury Honorable Mention for Narrative Short. Wing-Yee is currently also developing a feature length screenplay and plans to have her cake and eat it.

"4960" Wing Yee Wu

LIVE PERFORMANCE OF "4960" SOUNDTRACK LED BY

VINNY IANNELLI is a graduate of NYU's Gallatin Program where he majored in Music Composition, Theory, and Education. He is happy to be working with Wing-Yee on a second project after completing the movie "For Memories" last Spring. The score to "4960" will be performed live by Vincent Iannelli (conductor/piano), Kevin Cox (Guitars/Laptop/Pedals), Toby Arturi III (Percussion/Vibraphone), Thom Lynaugh (Trombone), and Richard Casparie (Trumpet/Percussion). He would like to thank Wing-Yee for this great opportunity and his performers for their donation of talent. Vincent Iannelli

Terrible Things (February 25, 2008)
A Work-in-Progress by: Katie Pearl and Lisa D'Amour
chashama, 217 E. 42nd Street, New York, NY
Text by Lisa and Katie
Directed by Lisa and Performed by Katie with:
Laryssa Husiak, Paige Collette, Olga Sasplugas, Kat Ross and Allison DeFrees
Choreography by Emily Johnson

It's called TERRIBLE THINGS, and it will turn an empty theater into a low-tech IMAX movie that takes audiences on a trip into the molecules and memories of Katie Pearl so we can figure out why she is so terrible. In the process, we will create a new universe where the line between wonderful and terrible doesn't exist. Or where the line between you and the person sitting next to you doesn't exist. Expect an in-your-body out-of-body experience, shaped by Katie Pearl, 5 other performers, and 600 marshmallows. about TERRIBLE THINGS

BIG WHITE INSTITUTIONALIZED BOX! (February 16, 23 & 24, 2008)
a collaborative installation project
by Ad Nauseam Lyceum
chashama at 159 W.119th St. @ Adam Clayton Powell Blvd.
Reception, Saturday Feb.23 from 5 - 8 PM
Informal Preview of Work-In-Progress: Playreading of "Sex, Lies and February... a pageant?" by David McGee, Saturday, February 16 @ 7PM
All events FREE and open to the public.
www.adnaus.com

Ad Nauseam Lyceum has been granted a chashama residency for the month of February at a defunct storefront on 119th Street and Adam Clayton Powell Blvd. Instead of curating a traditional group show as we have done in the past, Ad Nauseam Lyceum will use this unique opportunity to explore new territory as an organization and to utilize the distinct talents and interests of our community of artists. BIG WHITE INSTITUTIONALIZED BOX! is a collaborative art installation created by Brent Birnbaum, Matthew Broach, Celso and the Endless Love Crew, Ryan Frank, Scott Goodman, David Herman, Peter Lester, David Ort, Joan Pamboukes, Tara Parsons, Jake Scharbach, and Deena Selenow, Rory Sheridan, Adam Parker Smith, Christy Speakman, and Kyle Walters.

Ad Nauseam Lyceum will present a large scale collaborative installation that reflects the distinct connections and conflicts between various artistic mediums, styles, and processes in which artists are working today. By engaging with the space in alternative and experimental ways, Ad Nauseam Lyceum and its collaborators aim to explore and expose how different types of work can relate to each other through the context of the exhibition display. With some artists working independently and others in collaboration, this ambitious project will present work in a setting that resembles the sanctuary of the artist's studio and outside the confines of a commercial gallery. Created through the communal efforts of over fifteen artists, BIG WHITE INSTITUTIONALIZED BOX! will be an alternative to the traditional group exhibition and exist as an experimentation in curatorial practice. more about BIG WHITE INSTITUTIONALIZED BOX!

Ad Nauseam Lyceum is an artist run organization committed to showcasing multi-disciplinary work by emerging artists in New York. The group aims to give young artists an opportunity to collaborate, present work, and have a creative dialogue outside the traditional art market. Founded in 2006 by Ryan Frank, Deena Selenow, and Rory Sheridan , the group has hosted previous events at Ephemeroptera Art Space, chashama and 717 Studio, and has collectively shown the work of over 50 visual and performing artists. Dedicated to blurring the lines between various artistic genres, Ad Nauseam Lyceum is a platform for a new generation of artists working in performance, visual art, and new media. about Ad Nauseam Lyceum

Love, Lollipops & the Exquisite Corpse (14 February - 1 March 2008)
an exhibition of collaborative art by more than 50 couples, opening on Valentine's Day.
Curated by Suckers & Biters
'chashama ABC' Exhibit Space, 169 Avenue C
Exhibition and all events FREE and open to the public.
www.suckersandbiters.com

As Krista Madsen and Jeff White say on their website, www.suckersandbiters.com, "We're all familiar with the terms "love is for suckers" and "love bites" but thankfully, we wholeheartedly play on."

Since the summer of 2006, show organizers Krista Madsen and Jeff White have been creating their own twists on the "exquisite corpse"; a collaborative drawing game popular with Surrealist artists of the 20s. Consistent with the original, one player conceals all but the last bit of body rendered before passing it to the other, who connects to where the former left off. In the end, the unveiling is as fun as the results are absurd. Madsen and White do a male/female couple, switching who starts with what gender each time, combining text and image to depict something relevant to their most recent experiences together. Using two pieces of paper divided into three sections, they pass back and forth, so that whoever did the "head" and "feet" on one will have done the middle on the other.

After exhibiting their first creations at Williamsburg's Stain Bar in Fall 2006 and then hosting a group show of such pairs by 50 creative couples at Ad Hoc Gallery the following Valentine's Day, it's become an annual V-Day tradition. The title, Suckers and Biters, was born out of a discussion on lollipop psychology and reflects the sweetly monstrous results of the game and the messy, painful, sensual drama that love can be. Madsen and White ultimately envision a book showcasing selected works arising from this project. about the exhibit

Recorded Berlin, November, 1937 (February 1 - 29, 2008)
by William Corwin
chashama Exhibit Window, 266 West 37th Street
FREE and open to the public.

"Recorded Berlin, November, 1937" is an archeological rendering of a monument to grandiose and easily forgotten human ambitions, and tragically, the frequent failure of art to redeem those who create it. The title refers to a recording of the Magic Flute, made in Germany in 1937 at the height of Nazi power and the seeming contradictions of a production of Mozart's great ode to freedom and brotherhood by a regime based on conformity and persecution of difference. In the rubble and decay of great monuments we often see the missed chances to save Humanity. Corwin uses molded plaster panels to create surrogate surfaces and pseudo-architectural structures by piling, leaning and hanging the panels on available walls and floors. He then paints and draws on these surfaces, and incises, scrapes and smashes them as well. about the show

Will Corwin grew up in New York City. In 2000 he moved to London and apprenticed for a year with the noted Saatchi painter Richard Patterson. His studio is currently located in Long Island City and he has had installations at chashama Queens and Aferro Gallery in Newark in 2006, and the Flushing Town Hall, Queens, the Theater for the New City, Manhattan, and the Taipei Artists Village, Taiwan, in 2007. He also teaches with the "Meet the Met" program at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. about William Corwin

MANCHILD (January 25, 2008)
chashama 217, 217 East 42nd Street
a Hip-Hop Musical by James Richards performed with an accompanying soundtrack.
Produced by Monica P. Hall and Gilbert Glenn Brown
Starring Gilbert Glenn Brown
Manchild.Project@gmail.com
www.myspace.com/i_kid

Cycle (January 16 - 30, 2008)
RASA DANCE
Concept and costumes: Sabine Heubusch
Photography by Richard Greene
Dance and choreography: Rachel Tinguely and Sabine Heubusch
chashama performance window, 266 West 37th Street
FREE and open to the public.
www.spinelight.com/rasa/home.htm

"Cycle" is a rumination on the twin influences of fashion and advertisement. This piece centers around a woman’s life, depicted through the “dress codes” she adopts during each stage of her life – from a childish, playful, exited, youthful, emancipated, cool, sexy, and driven to a mature, overextended and aged mindset.

Individual pieces are bridged by slide projections illustrating the power of advertisement to further manipulate the expression of the self through the creation of needs and illusions, addiction and detachment. The 21st century female self is presented as an abstract concept heavily dictated by external influences. about the show

Sabine Heubusch, originally from Austria, received her BA in Dalcroze Eurhythmics (Music and Movement) from the University for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna/ Austria in 1992. She moved to New York in 1993, when she was awarded a dance scholarship from the Ministry of Arts and Education/Austria. She studied Contemporary Dance and Contact Improvisation, her dancing is also influenced by Tango, Salsa, and Punta, which she pursued on her extensive traveling throughout South and Central America. Sabine has been creating her own work since 1997 and founded RASA Dance in 2005. She has been certified as a teacher of the Alexander Technique, Yoga, and Pilates Mat. She teaches adults, children of all ages and children with special needs in public schools, music and art schools, universities, and fitness studios in New York and throughout Europe. about Sabine Heubusch

Rachel Tinguely was born in Brazil, grew up in Switzerland. Her background is gymnastics, ballet, tap, theater dance and acting. In 1999 she received her M.A. in physical education from the University of Berne/Switzerland and continued her studies in contemporary dance at the Colombo Dance School in Zurich. In October 2002 she moved to New York. Her credits include dancing with Nina Buisson, Sebastien Sabatier-Curial and David Kieffer. In 2005 Rachel joined RASA Dance Company. She has been certified as a teacher in Gyrotonic and Gyrokinesis. Rachel teaches at studios throughout New York and holds workshops in Switzerland and Germany. Rachel Tinguely

ANOTHER LAST YEAR! (January 11 - February 2, 2008)
group art on time
Curated by Ryan Frank, Deena Selenow, and Rory Sheridan
chashama Exhibit Space, 169 Avenue C
Exhibition and all events FREE and open to the public.
www.adnaus.com

ANOTHER LAST YEAR! is a unique look at how artists working in various disciplines address the cyclical nature of cultural progression, as well as the inseparability of anxiety and the passage of time. Offering a glimpse into the minds of 12 artists, Ad Nauseam Lyceum presents a group exhibition investigating the relationship between time, progress, and process. The exhibition will include painting, photography, media and sculpture by Amy Beecher, Brent Birnbaum, Matt Broach, Janna Coker, Cathleen Cueto, Danielle Durchslag, Scott Goodman, Sayaka Nagata, Anna Ogier-Bloomer, Carolyn Salas, Jake Scharbach, and Eli Stertz. Capturing the nostalgia of both the distant and recent past, each piece offers a glimpse into how these individual artists experience the passing of time with the coming of each new year. ANOTHER LAST YEAR! is both an examination and literal manifestation of an artistic process. about the exhibit

Ad Nauseam Lyceum is an artist run organization committed to showcasing multi-disciplinary work by emerging artists in New York. The group aims to give young artists an opportunity to collaborate, present work, and have a creative dialogue outside the traditional art market. Founded in 2006 by Ryan Frank, Deena Selenow, and Rory Sheridan , the group has hosted previous events at Ephemeroptera Art Space, chashama and 717 Studio, and has collectively shown the work of over 50 visual and performing artists. Dedicated to blurring the lines between various artistic genres, Ad Nauseam Lyceum is a platform for a new generation of artists working in performance, visual art, and new media. about Ad Nauseam Lyceum

MOTHERLESS CHILDREN (January 5 - 13, 2008)
chashama performance window, 266 West 37th Street
Created by Stephen Cedars & Christina Latimer
Photography by Christina Latimer
Set Design and Sculptural Figures by Bridget Mullen
Performed by Lydia Brawner and Gillian Hurst
Music by Jeff Davis
Digital Choreography/ Video Editor: Chris Giarmo
FREE and open to the public.
www.bridgetmullen.com

Display open January 05 through 13, 11a - 7p
Performances on Saturday January 05, 2p
Sunday January 06, 2p and 4p
Tuesday January 08, 2p
Thursday January 10, 12p
Saturday January 12, 11:30a and 2:30p
Sunday January 13, 2p and 4p schedule & hours

Motherless Children is a surreal portrait of a dried up, empty landscape featuring photography, visual art, original music and live theatre. A desperate, lonely woman and her young helpless sister move amongst two sculptural figures frozen in a moment, framed by impressions of ravaged terrain - all somber counterpoints to the relentless rhythms of a crowded Manhattan sidestreet. Over a week and a half, the installation offers changing auditory, visual and theatrical experiences. Created for the storefront window of chashama's 37th street art space, these various perspectives of a desolate imaginary world offer moments for meditation, temporary release for otherwise busy and distracted passerbys. about the show

Stephen Cedars and Christina Latimer have together created a full-length play that was shown through the Ontological-Hysteric Theatre's Incubator and produced the Southside Summer Fiesta, an afternoon-long music and performance festival that took place in south Williamsburg last August. Stephen is a writer, director and teacher who has directed and created theatre in New York for three years. Christina is a photographer, editor and teacher who loves to travel and lives in Brooklyn. Stephen & Christina

Bridget Mullen creates installations and paintings about light, sources of power, and the displacement of their opposites as they exist in dream culture. See her work at www.bridgetmullen.com. Bridget Mullen

Makeshop: Music (January 4, 7, 8 and 10, 2008)
Facilitated by Leanne Schmidt
chashama performance window, 217 East 42nd Street
All performances FREE and open to the public.

Facilitated by Leanne Schmidt, "Makeshop: Music" was designed as an experiment which looks at music's ability to influence the creation of new work, improvisational impulses, moods, intentions and perceptions as creators, performers and spectators of art. Performers and creators include visual artist Kate Fauvell, musician Malina Rauschenfels, and dance/choreography experiments by Josselyn Levinson, Sarah Holcman, Kim Goss, Beth Maderal and Leanne Schmidt among others. Passersby may visit the window and come in to give us your thoughts and request a piece of music with our DJ.

Friday Jan.04, 12-2p
Monday Jan.07, 5-7p
Tuesday Jan.08, 5-7p
Thursday Jan.10, 12-2p and 5-7p show & schedule

LATIMES in NYC (December 28, 2007 - January 4, 2008)
by Ben Greeley
with: LABTEST, TANK, SKILO, LOKUS, PUNCH, SINER, DUBR
chashama, 112 West 44th Street
LATIMES is an exhibition of new california landscapes by Peter Bill, graffiti art by well known Los Angeles writers such as TANK and LOKUS, and looping HDR video collaborations by LABTEST (www.thelab.us).
www.peterbill.us
www.thelab.us
www.vimeo.com/420750
lanternproductions.com/pbill/paintweb/pnt2.html
www.lanternproductions.com/latimes

peterbill's paint and video landscapes have shown in such diverse venues as The Kitchen (NYC), the Henry Art Gallery (Seattle), FILE Festival (São Paulo, Brazil), and other international venues. He continues in his Oil paintings and video work to weave the painterly with the digital, pixels and paint, indigo and 191970 blue.

Los Angeles graffiti writers have come under unprecedented pressure under police chief bratten, former police chief of NYC under giuliani. These artists have been equated with terrorists and treated as such. They continue to express themselves as american artists, unbowed and unrepentant in creative expression.

LABTEST is an international collaboration of artists currently based on three continents. This group has exhibited around the world and continues its subversive recombining of culture. more

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