INTENTIONAL ART

For more about the Intentional Art panel go HERE

For more about the the SA_EVA launch go HERE

Go to the Facebook invitation HERE

"Intentional Art has been formulated as a manifesto highlighting a number of characteristic features: primarily the artworks are to be communicative and have a clear message, the artworks are anti-establishment, political, revolutionary, collective and democratic, process oriented and based on non-violent expressions."

INTENTIONAL ART LAUNCH AND PANEL AT GERSHWIN HOTEL PRESENTED BY NEKE CARSON

Nicollette Ramirez (above) will be in the panel following the launch of Intentional Art and is a curator, art dealer, writer, performer, producer and events organizer with over ten years of experience being an arts advocate, promoting artists and their work in various media, including visual arts, performance, music, film and literature. Ms. Ramirez’s projects have often combined artists from diverse backgrounds working in several different media in new and unfamiliar locations. She has also written creatively and journalistically for print and online publications as well as for gallery and museum catalogs.

Daniel Pinchbeck (born 15 June 1966) is an American author living in New York's East Village. He is the author of Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism and 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl. 

He is a co-founder of Evolver, a lifestyle community platform that publishes Reality Sandwich, an online magazine centered around spirituality, philosophy and activism.  

He has written for many publications, including Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, The Village Voice, and Rolling Stone. In 1994 he was chosen by The New York Times Magazine as one of "Thirty Under Thirty" destined to change our culture through his work with Open City. He has been a regular columnist for a number of magazines, including Dazed & Confused. (Wikipedia)

The text presenting the first draft of Intentional Art is written by Ann-Sofie Nielsen Gremaud (b. 1981).

She is a Danish/Swiss researcher of cultural history, currently based in Reykjavík and have studied Art History and Scandinavian Literature at the University of Aarhus, Denmark.

Her PhD thesis is about crypto-colonial elements in Icelandic nation building and the importance of landscape imagery. She is affiliated with the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen as a postdoctoral fellow with the research project Geographies of Crisis: Post-Industrial Landscapes in the North Atlantic as a part of a larger joint research project. Currently she is a visiting scholar at the Edda Center of Excellence at Háskóli Íslands (Reykjavík, Iceland).

The Moderator of the panel debate will be Katherine Jánszky Michaelsen,  a professor in the History of Art Department, and chair of the Master of Arts program in Art Market: Principles and Practices at the Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY. Before FIT she taught at Columbia University, Brooklyn College, Marymount Manhattan College, and Stern College, Yeshiva University. In 2006 she co-taught a seminar on Biblical Jurisprudence at Columbia Law School, and in 2007 and 2008 she was guest lecturer at Istanbul Technical University in Turkey. 

Michaelsen earned her PhD from the Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University, specializing in modern art. Her dissertation, Archipenko, The Early Work, 1908-1920, was published by Garland Publishing, New York, in the Outstanding Dissertations in the Fine Arts series. She is author of many articles and catalogue essays, and was guest curator at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC of Archipenko, A Centennial Tribute; and of Andor Weininger, From Bauhaus to Conceptual Art at the Kunsteverein, Düsseldorf, an exhibition that traveled to various venues in Europe, and the Neuberger Museum in Purchase, New York.

At Columbia University she was awarded a four-year Graduate Faculties Fellowship, and she has been the recipient of research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Michaelsen conducted radio interviews in French with New York art world personalities for L’Art Aujourd’hui, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation/Radio Canada; worked as art gallery administrator, represented artists, and served as art consultant for private and corporate clients. She is a member of the National Advisory Council, Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York; the Board of Directors of (contemporary music) Ensemble Sospeso, New York; and ArtTable, the national organization for professional women in the arts.

Noah Fischer is an artist and activist based in New York. His sculptures and performances are activated by the rhetoric, symbols, and currencies that condition one’s public identity as participant in a culture or economy. After attending Columbia University, Fischer (MFA 2004) moved to the Netherlands on a Fulbright, initiating a collaboration with the Berlin-based theatre group andcompany&Co and touring with performances which playfully explore economic ideology. His sculptural exhibitions such as Rhetoric Machine (2006, Oliver Kamm Gallery NYC) and Electrical Forest (2009) and Pop Ark (2008, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels) explore the official rhetoric of 20th Century technological and political progress. 

Following the crash of 2008, Fischer exited from the private art market.  In 2011, he collaborated with the Aaron Burr Society on a performance series called Summer of Change speaking out about economic injustice in public performances on Wall Street months before the Occupy Movement was initiated in New York.  Since September 2011, Fischer merged his practice with the Occupy Movement, initiating action groups Occupy Subways and Occupy Museums. Fischer participated in the 7th Berlin Biennial as a member of Occupy Museums and in “Truth is Concrete” at the Steirischer Herbst,  Graz 2012.  Currently Fischer is developing a “market action” called Debtfair (debtfair.org) and engages in a new series of videos. He is also involved in a new international stage of Occupy Museums called Winter Holiday Camp.  

More about Noah's work HERE

Sisters Hope operate in the intersection of performance art, research, activism and pedagogy. They are working proactively toward manifesting a more sensuous and poetic educational system.

A storm rages outside, but behind sturdy walls, the sisters are doing important experiments: while the old world is falling apart, they investigate what values to base the new world on. A long time ago, the sisters became aware that something would happen to the world they knew, and so they formed a school – Sisters Hope. Since then, they have inspired youths from the entire nation, nourished the ground and planted special seeds. The time has ripened. It is ripe. It is time for the birth of Sisters Academy, the unity of inspirations, the reaping of visions – A place open to fresh and fleshy ideas. A place where the dream you just dreamed is as important as the breath you take. A place where the ambience touches your soul as the light fades. A place where memories of the past is turned into hope for the future…

Sisters Hope was founded in 2007 by Anna Lawaetz and Gry Worre Hallberg. In the fictitious universe they personify Coco and Coca Pebber – the twin sisters and the headmistresses of the school Sisters Hope.

More about Sisters Hope HERE

Gabriel Don is a multidisciplinary artist or Renaissance woman who works in a variety of mediums.
She received her MFA in creative writing at The New School, where she worked as the chapbook and reading series coordinator. Her work has appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Great Weather for Media's anthology The Understanding Between Foxes and Light, A Minor, Westerly and is forthcoming in Mascara Literary Review and The Legendary. She has appeared in visual poems such as Woman Without Umbrella and Unbound. She started several reading-soiree series, is editorial staff at LIT and participates in live art events around New York. Gabriel Don is also available on Amazon as a Bookdress who has performed in various literary, art and public spaces including the MET.

The Danish artist Jacob Fuglsang Mikkelsen who is the facilitator of The Triangle Project and Founder of CO2 Green Drive, will join the panel and talk about how the above mentioned projects fits in under the framework of Intentional Art. More about Jacob's work HERE

The evening will be hosted by Neke Carson

Gershwin Hotel
7 East 27th Street
Friday April 18th 2014

More about the event HERE

THE TRIANGLE PROJECT PART 11 AT GERSHWIN HOTEL ON APRIL 18TH PRESENTED BY NEKE CARSON

The Triangle Project will be hosted by Neke Carson at the Gershwin Hotel on Thursday April 17th 2014.

The above and below images are by Yrs Truly taken outside and inside the Gershwin Hotel.

In the above image you can see the German Pop artist Heinz Burghard with a NY baseball cap and New York Fashion Moda artist Stefan Eins in the hat looking at the back of the Black Woman looking into the camera. It is during one of the many events held in the Lobby in the mid 90's.

A flyer for the Gershwin Hotel.

Another scene from the lobby including Baird Jones, Leee Black Childers, Allem Midgette and Jayne County

From the Red Bar of Quentin Crisp

And in the Mezzanine of Cyrinda Foxe Tyler, Lou Reed, Billy Name, Colette and Ronnie Cutrone.

The above image is of Neke Carson in one of the rooms of Gershwin Hotel. Neke Carson has been running the performance space at the Gershwin Hotel for over a decade now and has recently re-released his classic book "Art Theraphy for Conceptual Artists" Red more about it in THIS Huffington Post article by Bruce Helander.

More about the Gershwin Hotel HERE!

NEKE CARSON, COLETTE AND ANTON PERICH - WHAT ELSE CAN YOU ASK FOR?

FRESH FACES FROM THE 1970s

An evening of art, film, and conversation

Marc H. Miller of online Gallery 98 in conversation with

three boundary-pushing artists from the 1970s

NEKE CARSON.  As a performance artist and maker of objects, Carson’s

transgressive humor made him a media favorite in the 1970s.  His

provocative oeuvre includes: “guerilla performances” in Soho galleries

 without permission; his notorious paintings; and

audience-participation pieces that redefined the relationship between

viewers and art. Neke will explain all and show the short video “I Love You.”

Above: Colette: House of Olympia - Exhibition invitation card 

Exhibition curated by Leeza Ahmady and Jacob Fuglsang Mikkelsen at LL Gallery 1998

Paintings, music video, projections, installations

COLETTE.  Famous in the 1970s for her sleeping performances in store

windows and art spaces, her live-in environments, her “fine art”

street graffiti for which she was once arrested, and her forays into

fashion and music, Colette was a familiar presence in both nightclubs

and museums.  She will share her art philosophy and introduce “Pirate

in Venice,” a short film about her recent participation in the Venice Biennale.

Above in Istanbul with Ataturk painting in connection to Skanbul Connection at the Istanbul Biennial 2005

ANTON PERICH.  Always with his camera at hand, Perich was both a

documenter and provocateur in the 1970s.  He contributed to Interview

Magazine, and created new venues like his pioneering cable television

show and Night Magazine.  He also made paintings with “electronic

brushstrokes” created by a painting machine that he first invented in

the 1970s. Anton will talk about his paintings and screen excerpts

from his controversial cable show.

Marc H. Miller, co-curator of the infamous Punk Art Show with Bettie Ringma. Aove is the catalogue from the show.

MARC H. MILLER.  Miller, whose website 98 Bowery, a chronicle of his

journey as an artist, curator and journalist in the 1970s inspired the

 recent New Museum exhibition “Come Closer: Art Around the Bowery,

1969-89,” is the host of the evening. Gallery 98 specializes in art

and ephemera from that period.

Tuesday May 7th 2013 at 8pm

Gershwin Hotel (above)

7 East 27th st.

NYC 10016