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New York Photo Festival submission

May 1, 2010

well today, at midnight, is the deadline for submission to New York Photo Festival and i’ve been racking my brain, what little i have left, for images to submit as a series.

i am not crazy enough putting together a catalog & price list for my Burlington Vt show next week so late least night i said oh well just pick one strong image. who cares i never win these things anyways, just like the lottery which i’ve never won either. just the other day i asked a photographer if he’d look at my portfolio and make suggestions. short answer was he didn’t know me well enough to give me an honest answer. that was an honest answer, not the one i was looking for but honest, that’s why i approached him.

but none of this is either here or there and i am just as confused now as to how and where i might try and market my wares. but our conversation did lead me to saying that i didn’t need to sell my work but i would like to, send my children, as i think of them to good homes. making money to  pay for expenses isn’t  a bad idea either.

so i sent my little image somewhere in the world to have someone glance at it for maybe two seconds before they move on. i do make these things because i love to be creative and it keeps me from wondering what the soap characters are doing now.i get such a kick out of discovering, comes from my darkroom days, images as they develop or even appear on the screen.

tada

female dancer

woman in white

jene

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Call for Participation for C A M P F I R E, Saturday, June 19th, 2010

April 26, 2010

Winkel & Balktick Present…
C A M P F I R E
Saturday, June 19th, 2010

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

This should provide you more information than you need about hot to participate in Campfire. If you have questions, contact creative director Eva at evalansberry@gmail.com. Executive management can be reached at info@wandbnyc.com.

The submission process is detailed below, after the answers to all of the questions you have. Please understand that we may not be able to accommodate all submissions.

Quick submission form: http://bit.ly/campfireart

OPEN MEETINGS & VENUE WALKTHROUGHS

Thursday, April 29, 7:30pm – 10:00pm
Thursday, May 13, 7:30pm – 10:00pm
Located in the far west 50s in Manhattan
RSVP to info@wandbnyc.com to attend!

GATHER ROUND

Campfire is a one-night excursion to the frontiers of creative revelry.

As the name suggests, the theme will be a journey out of the city and into the natural world. Together, we willl create an immersive environment where guests can escape the mundane world and enjoy a camping trip… in a warehouse.

Campfire’s art will explore the theme of nature, and how urban society interacts with it.  Ideas to consider include the plant and animal kingdoms, the woods, the Girl and Boy Scouts, ghost stories, pollution, skinny dipping, smores, foraging and of course, campfires. Political, personal, historical and emotional statements are encouraged.

Installation, performance and activities are all welcome. Actual fire is not welcome. Sorry.

ITINERARY

If you’re interesting in participating, please let us know right away. Even if it’s just to say, “I’ll have a proposal soon” or “I don’t have time for this, but someone else should do XYZ”.

We will be accepting submissions through Friday, May 28. However, if you require a stipend (more on that below), we need to know before May 14.

Setup begins on Monday, June 15th. Your project should be completely set up before noon on Saturday, June 19th. Breakdown must be completely by midnight on Monday, June 21st.

WHERE ARE THE CAMPGROUNDS?

In Manhattan facing the West Side Highway. It’s the top floor of a two story warehouse. Dimensions are 175’x100′, or 17,000 square feet. There are no interior divisions. It’s all one big room. There will probably not be any truly quiet areas.

The cieling height is 14′, but there are beams and fixtures hanging below that. There are many stable rigging points on the ceiling. Everything is concrete. The floors are not level.

There are windows with very nice views of the Hudson River.

FIREBUILDING

The event will feature many large campfire installations. They will be set up throughout the venue and act as social hubs. You are welcome to interpret “campfire” however you’d like.

Ideal dimensions are 10′ – 20′ radius on the floor and 12′ tall. Larger or smaller projects are certainly welcome. Make them glow, flicker, move, crackle, what have you. Use of interactivity, light, shadow, video and audio is strongly encouraged. If working with sound of video, consider juxtaposing natural images/sounds with urban ones.

Considering a matching site-specific performance to go along with your sculpture.

PITCHING A TENT

Think of your favorite outdoor, camping or summer camp activity. Come set it up at Badmitton? Birdwatching? Gardening? Ghost stories? Come do it at Campfire! Activities and games help strangers meet each other at parties.

THE NATURE CHANNEL

Have you ever been watching the Nature Channel and thought, “I wish I could do that!” Now you can! Dress up as monkeys, lumberjacks & trees, hunters & prey, deep sea fish, picnic baskets & food or other outdoor creatures. Get a group, props, costumes and a schtick together and perform.

MOONLIGHT SERENADES

Artistic audio installations are welcome, but Campfire is not seeking solicitations for bands, musical performers or those DJ people we keep hearing about. But if you do any of those things, we’d still love to listen to it.

There will be a dancefloor. The soundsystem will be a unique multi-channel surround sound experience the likes of which the city has not seen in quite some time. All musicians will be playing original electronic music sets in multiple dimensions, allowing you to travel back through time and revisit idealized childhood camping and outdoor experiences.

IS THERE ANY MONEY ON THE TRAIL?

We can pay for the cost of approved projects. These are guaranteed to be reimbursed, even if the event is not profitable. If the event is profitable, we tip out on top of this. Consider $0 – $500 the effective range for requests. We can also provide transportation assistance.

Each project is a unique little snowflake, and we evaluate stipends on a case-by-case basis. Small budgets are easier to accomodate than large ones. On the other hand, if you have the greatest idea we’ve ever seen and a solid track record, we may be OK with splurging.

Our budget is finite, so please understand that we will not be able to accept all submission.

Note that in order to qualify for reimbursements for materials, you must keep your receipts and submit them to us in a timely manner.

ENOUGH TEASING! HOW DO I JOIN YOU?

If you have questions, contact the W&B creative director Eva at evalansberry@gmail.com.

Please fill out this form:
http://bit.ly/campfireart

To make a submission, you will need to know the following information:

* Your name, and the names of other artists involved
* Your phone number
* A description of your project
* A detailed, itemized budget for materials and costs
* Setup duration
* Breakdown duration
* Will it require rigging from the ceiling or a wall?
* Will it make a mess?
* Might it accidentally injure, maim, or kill anyone?
* Floorspace requirements
* Electrical requirements
* Lighting requirements
* Any special placement requests

You will hear from us within three business days with questions, suggestions, etc. Sometimes we need to know more, have suggestions, or just need time to decide among many worthy proposals.

It may take up to ten business days to approve or decline your submission. If this wait is a problem, please let us know up front.

WHO ARE THE SCOUTMASTERS ON THIS TRIP?

Mark Winkel & Kevin Balktick are a pair of Brooklyn-based event producers. They met in 2005 when they became neighbors in a block-sized live/work warehouse in Dumbo. Over the course of five years, they have produced 12 feature events. In that time, their vision and following has grown from a single loft to cavernous warehouses.

Along with a dedicated community of artists, crew and volunteers, they transform mundane urban spaces into immersive fantasy environments. Their tools are larger-than-life installation art, extravagant costumes, decadent themes, surreal performances and action-packed dancefloors.

Their 2010 New Year’s Eve production, Transmutation , was held in a 30,000 square foot warehouse and was attended by 2,500 people. In February 2010, they were featured in a New York Times article about creative Brooklyn nightlife.

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new york is a crazy town, MOMA nude show & others

April 19, 2010

well seems the moma nude show is going well according to expectations but some of the guest are getting a bit frisky. see an article in the new york times about some of the repercussions of inappropriate actions or touches.

now one of my zen teaches explained why we have skin and didn’t  ooze out all over the place as we moved. our skin is there so we can touch the world. i understand personal privacy and don’t like the thought of just anyone touching me. but people get so upset when they bump into me or brush by them uttering an ‘excuse me’. to me it’s just one of these things. we touch the earth or people.

i also don’t like the idea of being touched or groped on the subway bus or what ever by any dirty old woman or more likely man so i wonder how these people are raised. there are times people and places i do like to be touched as i guess we all do.

on another story seems people are responding to another public art event

A sculpture of a human figure by artist Antony Gromley, is seen on display on a rooftop over looking the streets near madison park in New York. the realistic looking sculptures, which are part of the installation Event Horizons which will be on view through Aug 15, 2010, prompted the New York City police department to issue an advisory to mitigate worries that real people were on the edges of buildings.-EPA/Justin Lane

NEW YORK, NY (AP).- New York City police have responded to 10 calls in the past few weeks from residents concerned that life-size body casts gazing down from buildings are real people preparing to jump. The work by Antony Gormley consists of 31 life-size figures of the artist cast in iron and glass fiber. The sculptures were installed on pathways, sidewalks and rooftops of buildings surrounding Madison Square Park for an exhibit called Event Horizon that began March 26. The NYPD had alerted the public to the exhibit so they would know the figures were not residents in distress and ready to jump.

Police received a 911 call Wednesday at the Empire State Building, where one of the figures is located. A Yale University student had really jumped to his death from the building March 30.

Mayor Bloomberg was asked at a midtown press conference about the lifelike statues on building ledges – part of a public art exhibit called Event Horizon – that have triggered a rash of 911 calls from people reporting possible suicide jumpers.

The mayor denied the frequent 911 calls, saying there were only a “handful,” and said the solution wasn’t taking down the exhibit but, rather, publicizing it so people know what’s going on.

“If you give enough press, if your Arts section really writes a story about this, then people will know that it’s great art — including our Police Department,” Bloomberg said.

Then, pausing awkwardly, he recalled that he’d already done his part for the event’s publicity by attending the opening and gazing — just so — at one of Antony Gormley’s anatomically correct statues.

“My recollection is you did write — was it your newspaper or another one that had a picture of Madison Square Park when I was walking by one of the statues?”

The mayor then turned beet red and, as a room full of reporters and city officials burst out laughing, added: “I mean, I don’t know what we can do to get publicity. You can’t have it both ways.”

His press secretary, Stu Loeser, also a sporting a fine shade of crimson, then intervened.

“Last question,” he said.

http://www.artknowledgenews.com/

Who said New Yorkers don’t respond to art?

Jene

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Search for the Empress sunday mar 28,2010

March 27, 2010

i am lighting a bellydance show tomorrow march 28,2010 at the kraine theater, 85 E 4th street, 7p show time ‘Called Search for the Empress’

this is for the bellyqueen what a lovely group of people. not much in the way of production since i’ve only seem one rehearsal but the dancing is soooo good, i am excited. did i mention the costumes wow……..so if you’ve nothing to do drop by and say hello.

oh i am a photographer, well i am also pretty good at lighting but this is so off the cuff i just hope to get something i can use out of this.

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Call For Artists and Photographers (Center City Philadelphia)

March 25, 2010

Artists and Photographers are invited to submit work(s) to the “Black and White” open juried exhibition to be held April 4th to April 23rd, 2010 at the Plastic Club, 247 South Camac Street ( Between 12th and 13th, Locust and Spruce Sts.). You may submit one to two works that must not have any other color in them other than Black and White and shades of grey. Work will be taken in on Friday and Saturday, March 26th and 27th from 10 AM to 3 PM. Go to our web site plasticclub.org for the full prospectus. Click on “Exhibitions”.

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Want to be part of the modern WPA ?

March 25, 2010
The Work Office (TWO) is now hiring!

Visit www.theworkoffice.com to apply. We are accepting applications on a rolling basis through April 30th.
The Work Office (TWO) is a multidisciplinary art project disguised as an employment agency. Informed by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) of the Great Depression in the 1930s,
TWO is a gesture to “make work” for visual and performing artists, writers, and others by giving them simple, idea-based assignments that explore, document, and improve daily life in New York City. From a temporary, publicly accessible storefront office, TWO’s administrators will hire employees, exhibit work, and distribute Depression-era wages during weekly Payday Parties. You are invited to submit an application online, choosing from one of the following assignments:
Build a bridge
Document a need for repairs
Make a regional travel guide for your block or neighborhood
Record an oral history
Reinterpret a newspaper photograph
Design a poster to promote something
Catalog existing WPA structures in New York
Make a mixed CD related to…
Give a concert for your houseplant
Start an American tradition that you’d like to be preserved
Assign yourself
A TWO administrator will contact and interview applications of interest.
Once hired, you will have a week to complete your assignment, for which you will be paid $23.50, the weekly wage for an artist in the Federal One Project (the arts division of the WPA).
TWO will hold a Payday Party at the office at the end of each work week: April 23, May 7, and May 21. Employees will collect their wages and the public will be invited to view the week’s works and learn about the project.
We are accepting applications on a rolling basis through April 30, 2010. Please visit our website
www.theworkoffice.com for details and an application. Questions? Write us at: apply@theworkoffice.com
The Work Office (TWO) is made possible by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Swing Space
program; project space at 156 William Street is donated by Capstone Equities. Additional funds are provided by a grant from the Black Rock Arts Foundation and donations from generous individuals.

Katarina Jerinic
The Work Office (TWO) 
www.theworkoffice.com
917 751 5589

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Another Wendy Paton exhibit opened

March 25, 2010

at Joyce Towbin Chasan Art Source International Gallery at 333 Park Ave. So., NYC, NY 10010, 212 228 5908. This one is so different from the Visaes De Nuit exhibit at the Sous Les Etoiles Gallery of B&W almost abstract soft focus portraits.

in this exhibit Wendy concentrates on the city Paris, France where she has spend a lot of her time, showing us its wonderful Carousel from many different angles which brings back memories of anyone who’s visited Paris. Least we forget the prints of I.M.Pei’s the Louve Pyramid which brought memories of mary’s and my stay just three blocks away on our visit.

Included some of my favorites of those fascinating French hallways. I had only a passing remembrances of them from the french movies of the sixties but here Wendy has captured them in beautiful B&W prints . Anyone who has had an apartment in paris will remember what i am talking about. alas there are no pictures to show you because wendy never sent any over to me.

Joyce Towbin Chasan always has such a warm welcome feeling in her gallery. We first met her during Aneta Barto’s exhibit for  Emmanuel Fremin’s gallery who was showing at Joyce’s space. i feel comfortable as if i am in my own living room at her space. mary and i both love talking with her.  she seems to be one of those few people who have an open heart and generous nature at least easy to talk to.

also talked with Tracey Henry of  Type A Media who had some great suggestions for mary’s and mine Labor of love pic wedding and maternity business. so who knew or knows whom or what they will find once they venture out of their confines? one of the topics of conversations  Tracey and i had were about there being no difference between giving and receiving, they both are the same thing.

not a bad evening at all, i’d say a pretty good one.

jene

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writing LMCC proposal or wasting time looking for something found

March 23, 2010

today i am trying to finish up a Lower Manhattan Culture Council application for a workspace. this is my first time application for anything of this kind. seems collage people take classes in this or are born with these qualities. for me it’s a big push, not in doing my artistic work,  just writing about it. glad i took those creative writing courses at the new school. i am sort of stymied at doing a resume, i don’t want a job, i’ve had too many of those. all i want out of this is a clean space to work.

so i needed to put together a cd of images and all the ones i selected are a few years old, lets dig through a HD and see what i can find, it’s always interesting.

indian female dancer

Parul Shah Dancer

these images are part of a commission work for the Parul Shah Dance company advertisement but are my outtakes. originally they had me shooting in a dance rehearsal studio way too small and ugly background, but ‘all we need are the images and we’ll photoshop the background out.’  OK

Parul Shah Dancers

but i think listening to me and doing these images in a more controled enviroment is better for the images, but hey what do i know

Parul Shah Dancers

these images are from  reshoot in my studio because my camera canon 20d at the time stopped working. it does that every once in a while oh well. so we did these the next day. but i can’t remember if they were happy with the other images or what but i got a couple for me.

female indian dancer

Parul Shah Dancer

odd that some people come through my life briefly and i never hear from them again while others keep in touch, life is that way.

jene

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New York City’s Newest Art Space Opens With Rauzier ‘Hyperphotos’ Exhibition

March 23, 2010

Jean-Francois-Rauzier-Evolution

NEW YORK, NY.- A unique exhibition of Hyperphotos by the leading French artist Jean-Francois Rauzier is to open the Goldman Projects Space, New York City’s newest dedicated art space. Mounted by Goldman Projects in partnership with the London based art dealer Waterhouse & Dodd, the show will run from 7th to 29th May at the new Goldman Projects Space in Manhattan’s The Soho Building at 104, Greene Street. The Goldman Projects Space, in Soho, is the brainchild of community preservation developer Tony Goldman. It will offer New Yorkers a major new space to see contemporary art in a setting designed to be imaginative and accessible, including the opportunity to sit down in adjoining space and enjoy some refreshment.

originally posted in Art Knowledge News

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Live Nudity at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC

March 19, 2010

NEW YORK, NY.- The human form, disrobed and displayed in all its glory, is arguably the most enduring motif in the history of Western art. Museums dedicated to art both ancient and modern are filled with nudes rendered every which way: painted, chiseled, molded, sketched and photographed.

They’re just usually not living and breathing. But New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) will host daily performances of five seminal works by Marina Abramović, three of which feature performers in the altogether. In Imponderabilia (1977), two players stand opposite each other, au naturel, in a narrow doorway. Visitors must brush past them to enter the exhibition—an early, if awkward, example of interactive art. On exhibition 14 March through 31 May, 2010.

and if you time your visit right you can also see a rareity from Germany in “World on a Wire”, 1973. Germany. Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Pictured: Barbara Valentin. Courtesy: Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation.

NEW YORK, NY.- ‘World on a Wire’ (1973), written and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder (German, 1945–1982) and based on the novel Simulacron-3 by American author Daniel F. Galouve, will have a weeklong run at MoMA, from April 14 through April 19, 2010. Originally made for German television in 1973, Fassbinder’s revolutionary adaptation has only been shown in America once before, in 1997, as part of a comprehensive Fassbinder retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art.

while i’ve never understood all of his films i’ve always found him interesting and knowing that Michael Ballhaus did some of the cinematography is an education in it’s self.

I first fell in love with Fassbinder for his “Berlin Alexanderplatz” done in 14 episodes, 1980 and shown on PBS when PBS filled it’s mandate of bringing quality television to the airways. now PBS is just a shadow of it’s former self especially the new york stations. i think the nyc stations should be taken off the air.

jene

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