GRACE EXHIBITION SPACE and THE GRAY ZONE, KINGSTON at GRACE FARM, ROSENDALE, NY
"Searching for the Magic Lantern 2" Featuring:
ANNA COSTA E SILVA Performance Art [BRAZIL], ALEX CHELLET Performance Art [MEXICO CITY], IF BW
Sat, August 16, 2014
6:00 - 10:00 pm
GRACE EXHIBITION SPACE and THE GRAY ZONE, KINGSTON at TARG KILL FARM, ROSENDALE, NY
"Searching for the Magic Lantern 2" Featuring:
ANNA COSTA E SILVA Performance Art [BRAZIL]
ALEX CHELLET Performance Art [MEXICO CITY]
CLARIBEL JOLIE PICHARDO Performance Art [BROOKLYN]
IF BWANA - AL MARGOLIS & FRIENDS Experimental Sound + Art [CHESTER, NY]
hARBOUR - improvisational drone duo [ROSENDALE, NY]
ERIC LETOURNEAU - Conceptual Sound Art [MONTREAL]
SEARCHING FOR THE MAGIC LANTERN 2
- Searching for the Magic Lantern 1 was July 17, 2014
SATURDAY AUGUST 16 6:00 - 10:00 pm Free!
PERFORMANCE ART + SOUND ART + VIDEO ART + bonfire +beverages and food
A feast of multi-media and sounds surrounds us as we eat and drink, warm by the bonfire, possibly swim in the lake and camp-out, the performance live performances of local and international artists will entice, enthrall and surprise us as we are all together under the stars, one of these last nights of delicious sumer.
Featuring:
ANNA COSTA E SILVA Performance Art [BRAZIL]
ALEX CHELLET Performance Art [MEXICO CITY]
CLARIBEL JOLIE PICHARDO Performance Art [BROOKLYN]
IF BWANA - AL MARGOLIS & FRIENDS Experimental Sound + Art [CHESTER, NY]
hARBOURimprovisational drone duo [ROSENDALE, NY]
ERIC LETOURNEAUConceptual Sound Art [MONTREAL]
PLEASE JOIN US AT THE BARNS!
And please come prepared for FARM conditions - boots, a blanket or sweater, you might get your hands dirty while eating, you might get your pants dirty putting logs on the fire . . .
Also, the night may go longer than 10:00 depending on artist set-up time and actual performance times
PLUS - remember this AUGUST 21 - 31 the KINGSTON FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS, KINGSTON!
FB: GRAY ZONE KINGSTON, NYABOUT THE GRAY ZONE, KINGSTON
located at 85 Broadway, Kingston NY and at Targ Kill Farm, Rosendale, NY
GRAY ZONE for Performance Art in KINGSTON, NY - opened Saturday, November 9, 2013 by the Directors of the GRACE EXHIBITION SPACE in Brooklyn
Description
GRAY ZONE
1. An area intermediate between two mutually exclusive states or categories, where the border between the two is fuzzy.
2. It exists in a grey area between legal and illegal.
3. topic that is not clearly one thing or the other, that is open to interpretation.
4. Synonyms[ (an area intermediate between two mutually exclusive states or categories): penumbra
-wiktionary
The Gray Zone, Kingston and The Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn are run the by husband and wife team of Jill McDermid and Erik Hokanson
Presenting a Performance Art Gallery:
PERFORMANCE ART is not theater, dance, spoken-word, painting, poetry or sculpture yet it is all of these.
GRAY ZONE, KINGSTON continues the founding mission of the Grace Exhibition Space in Brooklyn: the Glorification of Performance Art, yet in a location more loudly resonant in Nature. Gray Zone on the Rondout is only yards away from the Hudson River estuary that provides life-sustaining water for agriculture and wildlife. Gray Zone is on Broadway, a life-sustaining thoroughfare through all of the variances of the City of Kingston, itself in a gray area surrounded by river, mountains, farms and towns.
GRAY ZONE celebrates the diversity of our world by centering itself in this city and in this valley that are abundant with all kinds of diversity - providing a conduit of experience for the peoples of Kingston, the Hudson Valley and beyond.
McDermid was first based in Marbletown, NY then Brooklyn where in 2006, with Melissa Lockwood, they opened the Grace Exhibition Space in Brooklyn, offering live works by the current generation of performance artists from around New York, the USA and the world. These live performances have always been presented on the floor, not on a stage, dissolving the boundary between artist and viewer.
Grace Exhibition Space has had the opportunity to present local artists Thomas Albrecht [Kingston], Meghan Van Alstyne [Albany/Kinderhook]area artists Peter Dobill, Marni Kotak, Rob Andrews [NYC] Nyugen Smith, Rafael Sanchez [New Jersey] Marilyn Arsem , Mari Novotny-Jones, Jeff Huckleberry, Sandy Huckleberry, Alice Vogler, Vela Phelan, Sandrine Scheaffer, [Boston] and internationally renowned artists Roi Vaara, Essi Kasalinnen [Finland] Gim Gwang Cheol [South Korea] Boris Nieslony [Germany] W. Christiawan [Indonesia] Chen Jin [China] Fernando Ribiero [Brazil], Martin Renteria and Pancho Lopez [Mexico], Non Grata [Estonia + Beyond]
We plan to continue our focus on diverse community-building through our unique programming which will continue in Kingston, throughout the Hudson Valley and beyond.
Jill McDermid earned an MFA in Intermedia: Video + Performance after three intense years of study and creating at the University of Iowa, 2000. Since then, she has presented hundreds of performance art fdisolyas through the Grace Exhibition Space for Performance Art since 2006, the Fountain Art Fair, the Egeszegedre series and 21st Suffragettes: Art + Performance by Women.
Erik Hokanson studied at the Swain School of Design in New Bedford, MA. He worked as a painter, sculptor, jeweler and object-maker until 2007 when he began making conceptual performance art. Since then, he has been performing in NYC and international performance art festivals. He currently runs the Grace Exhibition Space in Brooklyn with Jill McDermid. Erik Hokanson is also a highly skilled luthier, making guitars from idea to design through building and playing.
GRAY ZONE, KINGSTON FACEBOOK:ABOUT GRACE EXHIBITION SPACE
182 AVENUE C NEW YORK, NY 10009
Facebook Instagram Twitter
GRACE:
Grace, n. - simple elegance or refinement of movement
Grace Period - an extended period granted as a special favor
The Three Graces (Greek Mythology) - charm, grace, and beauty
Opened in 2006, Grace Exhibition Space is devoted exclusively to Performance Art. We offer an opportunity to experience visceral and challenging works by the current generation of international performance artists whether emerging, mid-career or established. Our events are presented on the floor, not on a stage, dissolving the boundary between artist and viewer. This is how performance art is meant to be experienced and our mission is the glorification of performance art.
Grace Exhibition Space presents over 30 curated live performance art exhibitions each year, showcasing new work by more than 400 performance artists from across the United States and the world since 2006.
Grace Exhibition Space for International Performance Art Space IRS tax-exempt 501(c)3 status in 2015.
Grace Exhibition Space follows the We Have a Voice Collectives Code of Conduct to Promote Safe(r) Workplaces in the Performing Arts For more information and resources, visit: www.wehavevoice.org