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Mar 14

aCCeSsions Journal Launch

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To celebrate the launch of aCCeSsions issue three, the journal’s editorial team will host an event featuring DJ sets from artists Juliana Huxtable, James Hoff and HD at the Knockdown Center. aCCeSsions is the online journal edited by the graduate students at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard) in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY.

Issue 3: “Transmissions”

Digital Launch: Thursday, March 16, 2017
https://accessions.org/

Launch Party: Saturday March 18, 7pm
Featuring DJ sets by James Hoff, Juliana Huxtable, and HD
Event is free and open to the public

Issue 3 contributors: Armen Avanessian, Dora Budor, Lauren Duca, Miriam Felton-Dansky, Anna Friz, Chrissie Iles, Daniel Llano Parra, Christopher Roth, and Shuddhabrata Sengupta.

The latest issue of aCCeSsions features nine new commissions from artists, curators, critics, journalists, and scholars. Articles, artworks, and interviews address the ways ideas are packaged and the politics latent in their dissemination. “Transmissions” considers what happens when information is intercepted, mediated, or fragmented. The high stakes of curating discourse and technological secrecy are discussed in an interview with Armen Avanessian and expanded upon in his film with Christopher Roth, Discreet, which will stream exclusively on aCCeSsions. Chrissie Iles’ interview discusses the construction of community in cinema and her curatorial approach to crafting of a total viewing experience, while Lauren Duca’s essay raises questions about the circulation of the Pepe the Frog meme and the ways the cartoon character has been co-opted as a malicious mascot. This third issue of aCCeSsions assembles interdisciplinary perspectives that reassess the concept of transmission.

This issue also marks the redesign of the aCCeSsions website by Other Means, a graphic design studio in New York City. The revamped format features animated content and visual interventions that seek to redefine the experience of this online publication. The journal’s redesign also marks the introduction of BackTalk, a bi-monthly selection of personal trains of thought and ruminations shared by our student editors and found in aCCeSsions.

About aCCeSsions
aCCeSsions is the graduate student-led online journal of the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College.

The second year graduate students comprise the editorial board of aCCeSsions. Together, they employ a collaborative approach to commissioning, editing, and curating new transdisciplinary writing and artworks for online space. These new visual, text-based, and aural contributions revolve around a new theme each issue. The journal also includes a new section called BackTalk. Here, each individual editor will publish a compilation of links related to their trains of thought, on a bi-monthly basis.    

aCCeSsions represents a culmination of each graduating class’ collaborative interests and concerns. The platform is a space in which graduate students may test the limits of curatorial practice over the course of an annual publication cycle.

Past issues of aCCeSsions are available in the “Archive” section of the website. The website and each issue of the journal has been designed by Other Means in close collaboration with each graduating class at CCS Bard.

 

Mar 13

Sunday Service: Buzz Slutzky presents…

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We are pleased to announce Sunday Service: Buzz Slutzky presents… Jes Fan, Trace Peterson, and Catalina Schliebener.

For the 3rd iteration of our new performance series Sunday Service, Buzz Slutzky invites artists to present experimental or in-progress works around the theme of the “Slumber Party,” relating to trans aesthetics and childhood.

You can watch footage from the evening on our MEDIA page here.

Jes Fan
Jes Fan is a Brooklyn based artist from Hong Kong, China. Fan’s practice is based on a material inquiry into otherness as it relates to identity politics. They received a BFA in Glass from Rhode Island School of Design. Fan is the recipient of various fellowships and residencies, such as Pioneer Works Artist Residency, Edward and Sally Van Lier Fellowship at Museum of Arts and Design, CCGA Fellowship at Wheaton Arts, and John A. Chironna Memorial Award at RISD. Fan has exhibited in the United States and internationally. Selected exhibitions include No Clearance in Niche at Museum of Arts and Design (New York), Whereabouts at Glazenhuis Museum (Belgium), Material Location at Agnes Varis Gallery (New York), Ot(her) at Brown University (Providence), and Remembering Something without a Name, Chrysler Museum of Art (Virginia).

Trace Peterson
Trace Peterson is a poet, publisher, and critic. She is the author of Since I Moved In (Chax Press), Editor of EOAGH books which won the first Lammy Award in Transgender Poetry, Co-editor of the anthology Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (Nightboat Books), and Co-editor of Arrive on Wave: Collected Poems of Gil Ott. Her writing has recently appeared in TSQ, Pen America, Posit, The Brooklyn Rail, and is forthcoming in Boston Review.

Catalina Schliebener
Catalina Schliebener (born in Santiago, Chile, in 1980) received her bachelor of philosophy from Universidad de Arte y Ciencias Sociales ARCIS, in Santiago. Afterwards, she studied visual arts at the same university. From 2002-2008, she worked as an assistant professor within the areas of philosophy and art theory at several universities in Chile. Schliebener’s work has been exhibited individually and collectively in galleries, museums and art fairs in Santiago de Chile, Buenos Aires, São Paulo, Lima, Belfast, Londres, Miami, Ontario and New York. She has also received scholarships granted by the Development of Culture and the Arts Fund of the Government of Chile (Fondart), the Board of Cultural Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Relations of Chile (Dirac) as well as the Henry Moore Foundation of the United Kingdom. Recent exhibitions include the solo show, Pin the Tail at Point of Contact Gallery at Syracuse University, and the group exhibition, Queering the BibliObect at the Center for Book Arts in Manhattan. She lives and works in New York.

About the Curator
Buzz Slutzky is an artist, writer, and curator whose practice incorporates drawing, sculpture, performance, video, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Buzz Slutzky’s work is primarily focused on humorously investigating the relationship between individual self-identity and social/historical context. 2010-2012, Slutzky was a Curator of the Pop-Up Museum of Queer History, and has continued to organize art exhibitions relating to queerness, humor, politics, and history. Slutzky has exhibited, performed, and screened at Los Ojos, Cooper Union, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Boston Center for the Arts, La Mama, MIX, Frameline, Columbia College Chicago, Mindscape Universe (Berlin), among others. Slutzky earned their BA from Sarah Lawrence College in 2010, and their MFA from Parsons the New School for Design in 2015, after which, they were a resident at the Vermont Studio Center. They currently teach a course in video post-production at the College of Staten Island, and later this year, will be a resident at the NARS Foundation in Brooklyn. www.buzzslutzky.com

About Sunday Service
Sunday Service is a curated series of short-form live performances across mediums. Taking place the first Sunday of each month in the Ready Room, a guest curator is invited to organize a salon style evening of in-progress works, performances, and presentations, anchored by a framing principle such as a question, proposition, theme, or formal structure. Sunday Service encourages works in progress and interdisciplinary endeavors showcased in a lo-fi environment to foster experimentation and critical discourse amongst peers.

Image: Annie (1982), Columbia Pictures

Mar 10

2nd Annual Maspeth Craft Beer Festival

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Come join us for the 2nd Annual Maspeth Craft Beer Festival presented by The Kiwanis Club of Maspeth.  This festival will feature some of the finest beers from some of the best breweries from NYC as well as several from across the US and abroad.  In addition to the great beers available, we will be featuring cider and wine tasting as well.  Live music will be performed by Hat Trick Acoustic Trio.  Several food vendors will be available offering tasty choices for an additional cost.  All of the proceeds will go towards charities supported by the Kiwanis Club of Maspeth.

Tickets:

$50.00 in advance will receive a tasting glass
$60.00 at the door will receive a tasting glass

$10.00 Designated Driver Ticket – A DD ticket holder will receive free water and soda. Designated drivers do NOT receive a tasting glass and are NOT permitted to sample any beer. Any designated driver seen drinking will be removed from the festival immediately. Designated drivers must be 21+ and present valid photo ID for entry.

21+ ONLY permitted inside event
Proper I.D. required (License or Passport)
** NO I.D. = NO ENTRY **

Mar 10

Rapoon:Pas Musique:House of Blondes:On A Clear Day:Luciernaga:Jim Tuite-Live Visuals

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Founder member of zoviet france 1980-1992. Worked as rapoon since 1992.
Numerous solo works and collaborations with other artists. Projects include music for film
and modern dance productions. Also a visual artist exhibiting widely and internationally.
Works with Mark Spybey DVOA (also ex-soviet france) as Reformed Faction.

Pas Musique
http://www.pasmusique.net/

Pas Musique started in 1995 out of Brooklyn, NY, USA, driven by the creative talents of Robert L. Pepper working in the mediums of sound and video. Since then Pas Musique has evolved into a collective with many different instrumentations and lineups. Permanent members include Jon “Vomit” Worthley, Michael Durek, and Robert Pepper. An additional past member was Amber Brien until 2015. Guests and occasional collaborators include, Brett Zweiman, David Tamura, Cathy Heyden, Jim Tuite, Brandstifter, Robin Storey, Philippe Petit, ZEV!, HATI, Steve Beresford, Will Seesar, Matt Chilton, Anthony Donovan, Chester Hawkins, and many others.

House of Blondes
http://houseofblondes.com/

House of Blondes is an electronic quartet, whose debut album was recently acclaimed by The Quietus as “the most phenomenologically beautiful album heard in a long time. The synthesisers across the whole record sound like they’re floating in the room in front of you, as though the tendrils of their oscillations and reverberations are reaching out and stroking your face, your skin, your inner organs.” Best New Bands premiered their newest track “Are You Boys All Right?”, praising it as “a dark, ambient pulser that feels like it could be part of a soundtrack to a Wong Kar-Wai film, evoking images of a smokey night punctuated by neon lines”.

On a Clear Day
https://onacleardaynyc.bandcamp.com/

Musicians David Grant (DeTrop / Action Patrol) and Ryan Martin (York Factory Complaint / Copley Medal)

Luciernaga
https://luciernaga.bandcamp.com/

Luciernaga is the solo recording project of Joao M. Da Silva, owner of Fabrica Records. Luciernaga uses field recordings, guitar, shruti box, buddha machine, mbira, and cassettes to create textures.
Mar 08

Break the Dawn Release Party

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Join us for a Break the Dawn Release party, featuring Traxman, The Present, Bohan Phoenix, and Acey  and Violet Systems. Come through!

 

Mar 07

Pysanka Egg Dyeing Workshop

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Join us as we welcome spring at our annual Pysanka egg dyeing workshop. 

Ukrainian Pysanka involves drawing on an egg with a special tool, using fire and wax, and dipping the egg in multiple dyes, building up patterns and layers.
The word pysanka is derived from the Ukrainian verb pysaty ‘to write’; we ‘write’ designs on the eggs. Nearly all Slavic peoples and those in the eastern Mediterranean area practiced this art in ancient times using beeswax and dyes to create tiny masterpieces of art but Ukrainian Easter Eggs from the more modern Christian era seem to be the ones best known. The symbols used in pysanka design are a blend of ancient pagan motifs with Christian elements.

A special tool called a kistka is used to melt the beeswax and write on the eggs. The kistka is the pen and the beeswax is the ink. Each successive color is waxed and dyed until the entire design is created on the surface of the egg. The wax is then removed, and your masterpiece is revealed!
 
Participates will receive a dozen eggs to work with, and their own Kitska and beezewax to take home for continued practice.
Kids 10yrs+ are welcome with a non-participating adult.
Mar 07

Pysanka Egg Dyeing Workshop

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Join us as we welcome spring at our annual Pysanka egg dyeing workshop. 

Ukrainian Pysanka involves drawing on an egg with a special tool, using fire and wax, and dipping the egg in multiple dyes, building up patterns and layers.
The word pysanka is derived from the Ukrainian verb pysaty ‘to write’; we ‘write’ designs on the eggs. Nearly all Slavic peoples and those in the eastern Mediterranean area practiced this art in ancient times using beeswax and dyes to create tiny masterpieces of art but Ukrainian Easter Eggs from the more modern Christian era seem to be the ones best known. The symbols used in pysanka design are a blend of ancient pagan motifs with Christian elements.

A special tool called a kistka is used to melt the beeswax and write on the eggs. The kistka is the pen and the beeswax is the ink. Each successive color is waxed and dyed until the entire design is created on the surface of the egg. The wax is then removed, and your masterpiece is revealed!
 
Participates will receive a dozen eggs to work with, and their own Kitska and beezewax to take home for continued practice.
Kids 10yrs+ are welcome with a non-participating adult.
*An additional workshop will take place Sunday, April 9th at 2:00pm.
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