Roxana Pérez-Méndez Performance and Conversation
6:30- 8:30 pm
Organized in conjunction with Word-Less, Roxana Pérez-Méndez will perform a new piece using projection and real time video. Pérez-Méndez is a video, performance and installation artist who creates work about the arbitrary nature of contemporary identity through the lens of her own experience as a Puerto Rican woman.
Following the performance there will be a discussion with the curator Felicity Hogan, "what is dialog?" about how narrative exists within the work of participating artists Brendan Fernandes, Fabienne Lasserre and Roxana Perez-Mendez. Questions from the audience will be encouraged!
ArcheTime + Art by Chance Film Fest Screening
Wednesday, June 9, 6:30 pm
EFA Project Space
323 W 39 St., 2nd Floor
Join us for an evening of short films and experimental videos focused on the subject of time, followed by an open discussion. The screening will feature creative works by artists and filmmakers from across the world
ArcheTime is an ongoing cross-disciplinary project dedicated to exploring artistic, academic and scientific concepts of Time (www.archetime.net)
ART BY CHANCE 2010 is an International Ultra Short Film Festival explores how the perception of time is unique to every individual and how time can influence the narrative of city life, one of modern man’s greatest challenges (www.artbychance.org)
ArcheTime 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
Constellations, Toilet Paper, and 16th Century High Society: Workshop with Karen Azoulay
Wednesday, May 12. 6:30 pm
EFA Project Space
323 West 39 Street, 2nd Floor
Organized in conjunction with the exhibition Common Jive
Join Common Jive artist Karen Azoulay in a collaborative workshop and toilet paper party! Azoulay will instruct participants in the craft of transforming the most disposable of all household products into a unique, everlasting work of art.
Toilet paper will be hand-stitched into wrist cuffs reminiscent of the elaborate neck ruffs seen in 16th-century Dutch portrait paintings. Once each design is complete, the newly decorated hands of each participant will then be photographed wearing their creations. These hand portraits will later be compiled by Azoulay and used to create a new artwork in her ethereal series Constellation Leo.
I WANT TO SHARE PIZZA WITH YOU!! (Workshop with CYA)
Tuesday, April 27, 6:30 pm
EFA Project Space
323 West 39 Street, 2nd Floor
Organized in conjunction with the exhibition Common Jive:
When you throw a party or movie night, what can't you miss?? Yes, Pizza!!!!
Pizza is the best food to share with family and friends. When you invite many people over, you often don’t have enough chairs. For this, we will create pizza cushions: four pizza slices that can be separate or combined into a whole pizza rug.
You can create your own topping and share with others to make a mixed pizza cushion. Let's make yummy and comfy pizza cushions together!
JuJu for the Blood: A Mix Your Own Power Workshop with Heather Hart
Tuesday, April 13, 6:30 pm
EFA Project Space, 323 West 39 Street, 2nd Floor
Organized in conjunction with the exhibition Common Jive:
Create your very own juju bag!
You can choose a bag, and follow the recipe for your own desires!
As a participant in JuJu for the Blood, you get to choose how far, if at all, you would like to engage with the activity. Empty bags will be provided for you, hanging in a cluster, and you will be select yours as directed. Each of you will fill your bag with the rootwork from recipes that you choose, in accordance to what is displayed before you. You can then take your juju bag home and let its hoodoo do its thing!