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ATTENTION: Starting Monday, June 2, chashama's OFFICES will switch to SUMMER HOURS:
Monday-Thursday, 10am-4pm; Friday, 10am-2pm
Regular hours will resume on Tuesday, September 2.

SAVE THE DATE: October 28, 2008
chashama Masquerade Party
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR DANCE JAMAICA: OCTOBER!
APPLICATION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 2, 2008, 5PM.
Click here for more information and application link.

chashama is renting its theater at 217 East 42nd.

  The theater is available for small, contained filmshoots or film screenings and performing arts events.
  For film-related rentals, please contact Associate Artistic Director Marc Dale at dale@chashama.org
  For performing arts events, please contact Performing Arts Program Director Risa Shoup at risa@chashama.org
  Please include your contact information, a brief description of proposed usage, and the dates you would like to rent the theater.

  Conveniently located near Grand Central: 4,5,6,7 and shuttle trains from Times Square; M104 & M42 buses
  Capacity: 74
  Stage Dimensions:
  16' 6" deep, x 15' 6" wide (including a 2' 6" wing);
  30" height (raised platforms on 2'x 4's);
  22' ceiling;
  additional 1400 square feet with 8' ceilings
  Window Dimensions:
  13' 1" x 7' 9.5"

  ****Bathroom, Dressing Room, Air-Conditioning, Theatrical Lighting and Sound Available
  NOTE: this venue is not staffed by chashama; clients must acquire a key to use the space.   217 theater specs

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CONTRANYM

curated by Kelly Kivland, Alisoun Meehan, and Christopher Stackhouse
chashama ABC Gallery
169 Avenue C
September 4 - 28, 2008

(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

Katherine Daniels

"Full Blossom", detail
chashama Harlem Studios Gallery
461 West 126th Street
September 5-7 & 12-14, 2008

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

OPENING RECEPTION Friday September 5, 6 - 9pm
CLOSING PARTY: Sunday, September 14, 2 - 5pm
Friday 2p - 9p; Saturday-Sunday 2p - 6p
FREE and open to the public.

"'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 details

USED BOOKS!

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

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

also / upcoming

POST NO BILLS

an outdoor group show at
Gallerie Pulaski
48-15 11th Street @ Jackson Ave,
Long Island City

Subway: 7 to Vernon Blvd/ Jackson Ave. directions

June 20 - August 31, 2008
Opening reception: June 27, 7 - 9p
celso@elcelso.com
This exhibit is part of the public art series, "Off the Wall by the People"

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. The space for this project has been generously provided by the Simone Development Companies. 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

Continuing its support for Long Island City's arts community, Simone Development Companies is the first developer to participate in the construction site beautification program, "Off the Wall by the People", sponsored by chashama. The project will be announced at chashama's summer fundraiser, the chashama Pirate Party Pig Roast on Monday June 23, 2008.

Headquartered in New Rochelle, NY, Simone Development Companies is a full service real estate investment company specializing in the acquisition and development of office, retail, industrial and residential properties in the tri-state area. The privately held company owns and manages an extensive range of commercial projects from multi-building office parks to retail and industrial space in Westchester County, Queens, the Bronx, Long Island and Connecticut. The company's portfolio of more than 90 real estate properties totals approximately 4 million square feet of development space. Simone Development has also developed a number of significant residential projects ranging from luxury homes to rental residences. About Simone Development Companies

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postcard image for TURFTECHNICS at chashama 266

TURFTECHNICS
by Kevin Flanagan, Cian McConn and Eve Vaughan
chashama 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. directions

August 29th - September 5th:
window space as a studio / process room
September 6th - 14th, 4-7pm: exhibition / performance space
or by appointment ph: 917 952 7603
Closing Event: Friday 12th from 6-9pm
FREE and open to the public.
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

HapLapNapTap*
curated by Anna Ogier-Bloomer and Erik Sanner
chashama 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. directions

September 16 - 23, 2008
FREE and open to the public.
www.annaob.com
www.eriksanner.com

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

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

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

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

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GOING (with Coming)
A work by The Theatre of Mistakes
recreated (and updated) by The Relationship
Directed by Fiona Templeton
chashama, 217 East 42nd Street

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

Preview September 2nd at 8:00pm $12
Opening Night September 3rd $35 with reception to follow
September 4th - 13th $15
Buy tickets for event 39845 at 1-800-838-3006 or online at Brown Paper Tickets.
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

"LETTING GO"
by Marylee Martin
Directed by Barbara Krajkowski
chashama, 217 E. 42nd Street, New York, NY

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

September 15, 2008 at 7p
ADMISSION FREE
CALL: 848-250-3881 FOR RESERVATIONS
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

Since 1995, chashama, a non-profit arts organization has provided opportunities for performing and visual artists by awarding grants, producing shows and providing subsidized studio, rehearsal and performance space.

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