Past Events

A Reading Party!

Project Space Admins — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 21:47:39 +0000

Tuesday, February 12, 6:30-9pm

At EFA Project Space, 323 West 39 St, 2nd Floor

Books are nice to look at, but they are meant to be read! Please join us in uncovering some of the treasures in The Book Lovers artist novel collection from M HKA (Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp, Belgium) at EFA Project Space. Michelle Levy hosts an evening of reading, spontaneous interpretation, and plain old fun. Guests will get a quick tour of the show, then will have the opportunity to select a novel to read from the library on view. In addition to the novel you choose, you will have access to the database to gain more background on the artist/author and discover how the novel relates to his/her larger body of work.

After an hour of reading silently... together, we will regroup (with some snacks and drinks) and collectively share and discuss what we have discovered, each reader playing emissary for the book you have read. The goal is to leave with a deeper understanding of the artist novel library, the many ways the fiction novel format may be co-opted by artists, and perhaps a few new books to add to your reading list.

Please RSVP for this event by Monday, February 11 to projectspace@efanyc.org.

Tour of the Complete Works of Henry Darger

Project Space Admins — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 19:12:10 +0000

Thursday, February 7, 2013, 4:00pm

Location TBA

This tour highlights the complete works of the Henry Darger collection at the American Folk Art Museum in New York. Space for this event is limited. Please email projectspace@efanyc.org for information.

Live Reading Performance of "Lincoln Ocean Victor Eddy" with Jill Magid

Project Space Admins — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 17:36:39 +0000

Image courtesy of www.jillmagid.net

Thursday, February 28, 6:30pm

At EFA Project Space, 323 West 39 St, 2nd Floor

The Book Lovers's artist Jill Magid and actor Ed Vassallo will do a live reading performance of Lincoln Ocean Victor Eddy. "Magid's impressive New York debut includes Lincoln Ocean Victor Eddy, a video and series of photographs accompanied by a haunting novella. All record her five-month friendship with a New York City police officer. She initiated it by asking him to search her (he didn't) and then shadowing him during his night shift, usually on subway platforms in Manhattan and Brooklyn. The best part of the work is the quietly heart-rending novella, a kind of tunnel vision of two people moving along parallel tracks while the city hums around them. The relationship is never consummated, but Lincoln Ocean Victor Eddy spells love." (The New York Times)

Jill Magid seeks intimate relationships with impersonal structures. The systems she chooses to work with—such as police, secret services, CCTV, and forensic identification--function at a distance, with a wide-angle perspective, equalizing everyone and erasing the individual. Magid seeks the potential softness and intimacy of their technologies, the fallacy of their omniscient point of view, the ways in which they hold memory (yet often cease to remember), their engrained position in society (the cause of their invisibility), their authority, their apparent intangibility— and, with all of this, their potential reversibility.

Public Reading Performance with Keren Cytter

Project Space Admins — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 17:35:20 +0000

Friday, March 8, 3:00pm to 10:00pm

At EFA Project Space, 323 West 39 Street, 2nd Floor

This public reading performance is based on Keren Cytter's novel White Diaries, which is a collection of Cytter's journal entries from the winter of 2009. The foreword reads: "This diary is half baked. It's made up of fifty percent sincerity and fifty percent secrets, which were deleted during editing. This diary is half real, nothing here is fictitious, but not everything is told.".

This is a durational performance; the chapters of the novel will be read aloud by actor Nick Chase and actress Candace Thompson. This is a public event and guests may come and go as they wish between the hours of 3pm and 10pm.

Keren Cytter, born in Israel, lives and works in Amsterdam (Netherlands) and Berlin (Germany). She is a recipient of The Baloise Art Prize 2006 and has held solo exhibitions at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (2004), the Kunsthalle Zürich and Frankfurter Kunstverein (2005), and most recently at the Kunst-Werke in Berlin.

This event is organized in conjunction with The Book Lovers exhibition and made possible by the generous support of Israel's Office of Cultural Affairs in New York.

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

Project Space Admins — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 17:34:16 +0000

A Public Talk with Woo Jung Cho

Thursday, February 21, 6:30pm

At EFA Project Space, 323 West 39 Street, 2nd Floor

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. Born in South Korea in 1951, Cha was a San Francisco- based artist and writer who made an outstanding contribution of multidisciplinary work before her tragic death at the age of 31. Cha resourcefully worked with a bold variety of media from ceramics to performance, to concrete poetry, to video, to mail art, and more. Her best-known work, (and an essential contribution to The Book Lovers' artist novel collection) Dictée, is a novel of unorthodox structure that investigates the role of history, gender, and ethnicity in the construction of the identity. One week after Dictée was published, Cha was was brutally murdered by a security guard in New York City.

The Dream of the Audience is an upcoming film (yet to be released) about the life and work of this influential artist. Director Woo Jung Cho will discuss the film, and will share some advance clips with the audience. This event is organized in conjunction with The Book Lovers exhibition.

For more information about Theresa Hak Kyung Cha and The Dream of the Audience, please visit http://theresahakkyungcha.com/

Photo credit: Trip Callaghan

Goldin + Senneby Documentary Screening

Project Space Admins — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 17:33:50 +0000

Friday, February 15, 3:30pm

At Regus Meeting Room, 112 West 34 St, 17th Floor

This performance video screening is in connection with Goldin + Senneby's Headless. Space for the event is limited. Please email projectspace@efanyc.org for information.

This event is fully booked.

Goldin + Senneby Documentary Screening

Project Space Admins — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 17:32:24 +0000

Friday, February 1, 3:30pm

At Regus Meeting Room, 112 West 34 St, 17th Floor

This performance video screening is in connection with Goldin + Senneby's Headless. Space for the event is limited. Reservations will be required. Please email projectspace@efanyc.org for information.

About Goldin+Senneby

G+S (since 2004) is a framework for collaboration set up by artists Simon Goldin and Jakob Senneby; exploring juridical, financial and spatial constructs through notions of the performative and the virtual.

Presentation by artist Roee Rosen

Project Space Admins — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 17:29:43 +0000

Friday, January 25, 6:00 - 7:00pm

At EFA Project Space, 323 West 39 Street, 2nd Floor

A presentation by Roee Rosen on the Jewish Belgian Surrealist artists and pornographer Justine Frank. This is a private event, please RSVP to lauren@efanyc.org. This event has been organized in conjunction with The Book Lovers.

Roee Rosen is an Israeli-American artist, filmmaker and writer. He heads the advanced visual arts program at Ha'Midrasha Art College, in Israel. Rosen’s installation, Live and Die as Eva Braun (1995-1997), stirred a political scandal when first exhibited at the Israel Museum, His book, Justine Frank, Sweet Sweat was listed as one of the best books of 2009 by Artforum. In 2010 Rosen created two films. Hilarious, and Out, which won the Orizzonti award for best medium-length film at the Venice Film Festival. In 2012, A Major solo Exhibition, Roee Rosen, Vile, Evil Veil was held at INIVA art center in London, and his cinematic work was profiled at the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival.

Resonance and Repetition walk-through with the curators and guest artist

Project Space Admins — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 21:57:55 +0000

Wednesday, December 12, 6:30pm

At EFA Project Space, 323 West 39th St, 2nd Floor

A repetition-inspired gallery walk-through with the curators and the exhibition's NYC-based artists Hector Arce-Espasas and Pedro Neves Marques.

Resonance and Repetition is a group exhibition featuring work by 10 artists organized by curatorial office Rivet. Resonance and Repetition carries forward the office's ongoing research into object-oriented philosophy and its potential connections with contemporary art practice. This is the second iteration of a research and exhibition project related to the notion of resonance.

About Rivet:

Rivet was founded in 2010 by Sarah Demeuse and Manuela Moscoso. The office focuses on long-term collaborations with artists and research that takes shape in different formats, from conversations, small circle reading groups, writing and workshops, to exhibitions. Sarah also translates and edits and is currently part of the 9th Mercosur Biennial Porto Alegre curatorial team. Manuela is co-director of Capacete, an international residency and research program located in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil.

"The Anonymous Life of Patek Philippe": A Reading with Pedro Neves Marques

Project Space Admins — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 21:56:04 +0000

Tuesday, November 20, 2012, 6:30pm

At EFA Project Space, 323 West 39th St, 2nd Floor

What happens when a Patek Philippe watch lingers between owners? Entering into these moments of suspension prompting questions about time, duration, and the life of objects, Pedro Neves Marques's text "The Anonymous Life of Patek Philippe," published earlier this year, tries out different scenarios. For this reading at EFA Project Space, the artist has invited three readers, Gautam Borooah, Media Farzin and Mariana Silva, to each embody the story of a Patek Philippe wristwatch. This text has been developed in discussion with Joshua Simon in parallel to The Economist/A Decade, a work also featured in Resonance and Repetition.