November Events
Performance on Demand, and Brian Dewan and Natalie Weiss
EFA Studio Center
323 West 39th Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10018
between 8th and 9th AvenuesGallery Hours: Wed through
Sat, 12-6 PM
EAI Viewing Room at EFA Gallery
Organized by Josh Kline for Electronic Arts Intermix
November 2-17, 2007
Opening reception Friday, November 2, 6-8 PM
Vito Acconci, Eleanor Antin, John Baldessari, Phyllis Baldino,
Lynda Benglis, Ante Bozanich, Chris Burden, Cheryl Donegan,
VALIE EXPORT, Dan Graham, Ursula Hodel, Joan Jonas,
Mike Kelley, Kristin Lucas, Gordon Matta-Clark, Paul McCarthy,
Ana Mendieta, Charlotte Moorman, Shana Moulton, Bruce Nauman,
Dennis Oppenheim, Tony Oursler, Nam June Paik,
Charlemagne Palestine, Alix Pearlstein, Martha Rosler,
Carolee Schneemann, Stuart Sherman, Michael Smith,
Hannah Wilke, William Wegman, Lawrence Weiner, and others
November 2-17, 2007
Opening reception Friday, November 2, 6-8 PM
Brian Dewan and Natalie Weiss
an evening of words, music and pictures
November 14 and 15 at 7pm
Tickets available through Smarttix: smarttix.com or 212-868-4444
Performance on Demand
EAI Viewing Room at EFA Gallery
EFA Gallery is pleased to offer, during the Performa07 performance biennial, Performance on Demand: EAI Viewing Room at EFA Gallery. EFA Gallery will be transformed into a video lounge to host Electronic Arts Intermix’s Viewing Room, a program that provides free public access to one of the foremost collections of video art in the world. Visitors to EFA Gallery will be able to choose from a curated selection of major performance-based video works by over 30 artists from the EAI Collection. Viewers may watch these seminal performances and contemporary classics at their own pace in a comfortable viewing environment. During the opening reception on Friday, November 2nd, programs featuring selected works will be installed throughout the gallery.
Since the advent of affordable and portable video cameras, video has been a vital tool for artists working in performance. The history of performance art and the history of video have become inseparable. Through video, artists can capture the fleeting and ephemeral, preserving unrepeatable actions as electronic moving images, and audiences that could not be present in the flesh are able to access the rich and dynamic history of performance.
The works available for viewing at EFA Gallery will include rarely-seen video documentation of ground-breaking performances by artists including Chris Burden, Dan Graham, and Carolee Schneemann; extraordinary videos in which performance was carefully crafted for the camera by artists such as Vito Acconci, Eleanor Antin, Joan Jonas, Martha Rosler and William Wegman; conceptual masterpieces by John Baldessari, Bruce Nauman, and Lawrence Weiner; as well as important works by many other key artists who have explored the profound consequences of combining performance and video.
EFA Live presents
Brian Dewan and Natalie Weiss
an evening of words, music and pictures
EFA Live: music and performances
November 14 and 15 at 7pmTickets available smarttix.com or 212-868-4444
EFA Live, in association with PERFORMA07 performance biennial, is delighted to present Brian Dewan and Natalie Weiss. Both artist/musicians will offer musically based performances with visual art elements at 7pm on Wednesday, November 14 and Thursday, November 15, at EFA Gallery. There will be an intermission between performers.
Artist, musician, poet and instrument designer, Brian Dewan, offers a solo performance featuring song, spoken word, autoharp, zither and instruments of his own invention. Dewan’s music references folk music, hymns, century-old popular music and rock music to weave eccentric and anachronistic tales. As an added treat, Dewan will present selections from his series of “I Can See” filmstrips which use the technology of the educational filmstrips from the mid-twentieth century as a point of departure for satirical and surreal narratives.
myspace.com/briandewan
Natalie Weiss wields an accordion, keyboards, circuit-bent children’s toys, traditional African instruments and armfuls of samplers, electronics, and props in her eclectic performances. Self-described as a musician/DJ/puppeteer/playwright/performance artist, the energetic Ms. Weiss’ indescribable performances reference the noise scene, contemporary visual art, musical theater and, most recently, the Christian church, with refreshing wit and complexity.
myspace.com/unicornicopia
These events are presented by EFA Gallery, a program of The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts. EFA Gallery is supported in part by public funds from the New York Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts. Private funding for the Gallery has been received from The Carnegie Corporation Inc., The Foundation for Contemporary Art, The Helen Keeler Burke Charitable Foundation, Peter C. Gould, Materials for the Arts, and many other generous individuals.
ABOUT EAI
Founded in 1971, Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) is one of the world’s leading nonprofit resources for video art and interactive media. EAI’s core program is the international distribution of a major collection of new and historical media works by artists. EAI’s activities include a preservation program, viewing access, educational services, online resources, and public programs such as exhibitions and lectures. The Online Catalogue provides a comprehensive resource on the 175 artists and 3,000 works in the EAI collection, including extensive research materials.
ABOUT EFA GALLERY
EFA Gallery is a multi-arts curatorial project space. Through the gallery, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts supports the creative work of independent curators. Curators build the framework in which we understand artists and the art they make. At their best, they redefine how we look at culture. The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts believes in the essential importance of art in a civil society, and that the value of the artist’s creative spirit is not limited by age, race, nationality or acceptance by others.
ABOUT PERFORMA07
PERFORMA07 (October 27-November 20, 2007) is the second biennial of new visual art performance presented by PERFORMA, a non-profit multidisciplinary arts organization dedicated to exploring the critical role of live performance in the history of twentieth century art and to encouraging new directions in performance for the twenty-first century.
ABOUT PERFORMA
PERFORMA is a non-profit multidisciplinary arts organization dedicated to exploring the critical role of live performance in the history of twentieth century art and to encouraging new directions in performance for the twenty-first century. Part of PERFORMA mission is to present a biennial of visual art performance in New York City that illuminates the critical role of performance in the history of art as well as its enormous significance in the international world of contemporary art.
The PERFORMA05 biennial offered an exciting program of performances, exhibitions, symposia, and film screenings organized in collaboration with a consortium of leading museums, galleries, alternative spaces, and independent curators in New York. The first of its kind, PERFORMA05 was an enormous critical and popular success and set a new standard for the positioning of live performance in the international contemporary art world. Over 25,000 people attended sold-out and filled-to-capacity events at more than 20 venues across the city, activating and animating all of New York, from Harlem to Wall Street. PERFORMA was founded in 2004 by art historian and curator RoseLee Goldberg. PERFORMA07, the second biennial of new visual art performance, will take place in New York City from October 27- November 20, 2007.
For further information:
Elaine Tin Nyo, Director
T. 212-563-5855 x203, F. 212-563-1875
elaine@efa1.org
