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Live from New York this Saturday: The Great Avatar Challenge. This mixed-realities performance is a collaboration with Stephanie Rothenberg for Eyebeam’s Mixer: Olympiad in New York. Get your tickets now, as it will be certain to sell out.

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My good friend and colleague, Wafaa Bilal, will be speaking this Wednesday at the San Francisco Art Institute. I’d highly recommend the talk.

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You might remember him from the “Shoot an Iraqi” project where he lived in a gallery for a month and had a paint ball gun setup to point at him. You could shoot him with the gun for $1 (I couldn’t resist spending a couple bucks).

 

If you’re in San Francisco this Saturday night (March 6), you’re in for a performance-art treat: 100 Performances for the Hole (Take 2) at Somarts. 100 artists each do 2-minute performances inside a mechanics pit. I’m on at 8:54pm and will create a Cagean surprise. The first performance is at 5:58pm and the evening ends at 1am.

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New documentation! During my 6-month residency at Eyebeam, I worked on about 6 different projects. Two of them: Hatch and After Thought are now documented on my site.

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Hatch is the first of a series of acrylic plexiglass installations. This one depicts a mass of sperm (up to 200!) which swarm around a doorway. This was cut with the Eyebeam’s lasercutter, can be site-specific in its installation, and is cheap to ship.

 
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CHERYL is a four-person video and performance collective based in Brooklyn that explores the themes of mortality, mania, the feline-human connection, the limits of shoulders, the flammability of dollar-store hair extensions, and the staining power of fake blood. Through themes ranging from topical to bizarre, the CHERYLs revel in the joyous power of dance-induced psychosis/euphoria. CHERYL has been bringing its particular brand of FRESHMAGICK™ to New York City since colonial times, and has since acquired a dedicated cult following and media attention for over-the-top happenings involving outrageous costumes, exuberant dance moves, and participatory dance floor suicide.

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People: Stina Puotinen, Sarah Van Buren, Nick Schiarizzi, Destiny Pierce
Tags: video, performance, MIXER: OLYMPIAD, mixer, CHERYL
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Hardcover
Publication Date: 
Summer 2007
Category: 
Artist Produced
Category: 
History
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The Society for a Subliminal State has published The Subliminal History of New York State: Route of Progress, a hardbound tunebook telling the subliminal history of the Erie Canal and beyond through shape note songs, stories, and written directions. The book contains 53 songs, all written by Carrie Dashow (text), and Jesse Pearlman Karlsberg (music) during the summer 2007 subliminal history tour of upstate New York.

 
Projects: The Subliminal History of New York State: Route of Progress
People: Carrie Dashow
Research: Education Lab
Tags: new york, history, performance, songs
Book Details
Format: 
Paperback
Publication Date: 
November 2006
ISBN: 
978-0262524643
Category: 
History
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yes
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bookstore@eyebeam.org

The desire to move viewers out of the role of passive observers and into the role of producers is one of the hallmarks of twentieth-century art. This tendency can be found in practices and projects ranging from El Lissitzky's exhibition designs to Allan Kaprow's happenings, from minimalist objects to installation art. More recently, this kind of participatory art has gone so far as to encourage and produce new social relationships. Guy Debord's celebrated argument that capitalism fragments the social bond has become the premise for much relational art seeking to challenge and provide alternatives to the discontents of contemporary life. This publication collects texts that place this artistic development in historical and theoretical context.

 

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Yael Raviv
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March 5, 2010, 6:30PM
Anarchy in the Kitchen
Umami Food & Art Festival
February 24 – March 14, 2010
umamifestival2010.com

Tickets: $15
Available through: umamifestival2010.com or smarttix.com. Tel: 212-868-4444
Eyebeam Art + Technology Center
540 W. 21st St. NY, NY 10011
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Last Tuesday, Second Front was invited by Joe DeLappe to enact a performance in Second Life around the Gandhi Release Party and subsequent hootenanny.

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Gandhi has been imprisoned for a year, mirroring his historical imprisonment.

 

I am flying to Bangalore (Bengaluru) tonight. Here, I will be presenting an academic paper at WikiWars Conference with my colleague and close friend, Nathaniel Stern.

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