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Neighborhood Mural
Elena Chestnykh is a visual artist from Russia living in New York City. Chestnykh graduated from Novosibirsk State Academy of Architecture and Fine Arts, Novosibirsk, Bachelor of Architecture and exhibited her solo show at Erarta Gallery, New York in 2013.
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Paper Collage
"When I first came to the Sumner Community Center, I thought that children will never understand my heavy Russian accent. It was frightening and I hardly pushed myself to try. It ended up easy and fun. Every time I re-open that communication is not just a language and words. Understanding and interest in each other occur gradually through trust, jokes and co-creation." [Elena]
Elena Chestnykh is a visual artist from Russia living in New York City. Chestnykh graduated from Novosibirsk State Academy of Architecture and Fine Arts, Novosibirsk, Bachelor of Architecture and exhibited her solo show at Erarta Gallery, New York in 2013.
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Let's be a Martian!
We are going to think about space, speed and movement.You are venturing into the space landed in Mars. Your body is already adopted to the Universe's zero gravitational force and zero oxygen. How would you move? What will be your own suit that protects you from this detrimental living condition?
Vonteering Teaching Artist #1:Jung Hee Mun Vonteering Teaching Artist #2: KC Tudemand
Trance/Formations
Curated by Panayiotis Terzis
Featuring: Kaja CXZY Andersen Brubaker Giancarlo Corbacho Florencia Escudero Alex Norelli Sophie Parker Randi Shandroski
Join us on Friday, May 20th for TRANCE/FORMATIONS, Art Theory Project's latest pop up show curated by Panayiotis Terzis. Seven artists with seven distinct perspectives have been invited to respond to the theme of Transformation and Metamorphosis as it relates to human identity. As our personas become increasingly disembodied, splitting into bits and traveling through fiber optic cables around the planet, infinite possibilities arise in discovering new kinds of consciousness.
The collapse of stable cultural norms and recent advances in technology and communication have armed individuals in the west with the freedom and power to shape their cultural and biological identities like never before. From this fermenting swamp of decay and rebirth, new ways of being will emerge.
Yet at the same time while the communications technologies that are instigating and accelerating this process may be liberating to many, their hypnotic nature and surveillance capabilities make them just as powerful as tools of mass stupification and control. Assaulted by barrages of images on a daily basis, the individual is increasingly vulnerable to manipulation and control.
The rise of robotics, advanced body modification and gene manipulation will lift the cap on our physical potential on the one hand, but put into sharp contrast the definition of what makes up a human being on the other. Does the operator, or sentient being, control and mold the vessel/body, or vice versa? How is consciousness shaped and changed by the body or vessel it inhabits, whether it is made of flesh and bone or plastic, glass and metal? Is culture a kind of technology, and how can it shape and guide consciousness?
What does the future hold for the human race as we begin to take the reigns of our species' evolution and what role do artists and creative people play?
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The Sound of the Stars/ Languages of the Universe
Jung Hee Mun had a wonderful time with children from Sumner Community Center. The children taught her star swags. The Sound of the Stars workshop was composed of three sections. The children listen the sound of the stars recorded by NASA, performed the sound and made costume inspired by the sound. Many of them wanted to be superheroes.
The Sound of the Stars/ Languages of the Universe
The human desires to explore the unknown has been our own imagination for a long time. In year of 2035, human spaceflight to Mars is anticipated and this workshop is designed to feel the universe close to our skin. The class will learn about different sounds exist in the outer space retrieved as waves by NASA. From radio waves on the Earth’s atmosphere, interstellar plasma sound to Star KIC12268220C Light Curve Waves, students will feel the universe through the sounds. They will express those sounds through paper cutout and will perform in front of projected images of the matching stars and skies.
TOOTHY ROOM
interviewed by Elena Chestnykh
How can the inner essence of a ballet room look like and what is our expectation about it? In Sumner Community Center on April, 28 with the use of reflection, projection and interruption collective Hugo Penje curated by EX-BOW studied the subject in detail. Elena Chestnykh talked with Paulette Penje and Anna Hugo about their exhibition “Ballet Room” for ATP.
Elena Chestnykh: Maybe because of the repeated image of the teeth throughout the show, I feel a certain ambiguity about it. It is smiling, but at the same time, it is also a presents aggression. Is there some ironical aspect in the show?
Anna Hugo: Of course, it is ironic. We were invited to make an exhibition in the ballet room of the community center, and we automatically anticipated a nice dance room. Instead, the space looked more like a training or boxing room. So, we decided to work with that our initial reaction. We found it interesting how we had expectations and how these expectations failed. My first idea was to highlight and film parts of the room and then to project it back to shift the space within space and create a feeling of disorientation. Paulette automatically thought of biting teeth. We decided to take both initial reactions and combine them.
Paulette Penje: The room looked like a cellar; there were tiny windows, through which you can see the feet of people walking on the street, and a mirror. However, it did not look like a dancing room. When we left, I told Anna: “I have an image in my head of screeching teeth.” Besides smile and aggression, it is just a wall with teeth. That gives a human dimension to the wall and which I find very interesting. The work is about space. It is quite a depressing basement in a community center, but there is the intention to turn it into a ballet room. The result is a fascinatingly awkward character to the exhibition space.
AH: We liked this strangeness and composition of this space and wanted to use it. Therefore, we didn’t change the room too much. We wanted to readjust it in a subtle way and frame it to reveal its beauty and with a very poetic feel to the space. It is sensitive and brutal at the same time.
EC: We live in the time when there are a lot of entertaining videos on the internet and TV. This inevitably makes audiences expect video art to be something similar, that something should happen. If nothing specific happens in a video that can cause frustration or boredom for a viewer. From this point: what is the difference and how a viewer should look on such work?
PP: Projection is always related to TV, but when you watch TV you do this for a specific reason: you want it to amuse you or inform. In our case projections is a part of the installation. We have all these chairs placed out and you can sit down and watch the videos, but it is not necessary. You have to move yourself within the space and perceive it.
EC: Could we talk about your collaboration? Did you know each other before?
AH: No, we met at the SVA MFA program. The way we collaborate it is a sort of mix between us two. For instance, how the idea of the project came: we went to the room and we both had individual experience of the room, and when we left, I told Paulette what I want to do and Paulette told me her ideas, and then we combined them and came up with the concept.
PP: Now you cannot separate which part came from whom.
AH: I think we got to the point where we are finishing each other sentences. Because we have spent a god amount of time together, we can understand how one or the other tends to view things. This is why we created the persona Hugo Penje (this is how we name our projects), because when we are working together, we try to combine our ideas together. We have the same aesthetic feeling about things, but also not. We found a sort of middle point. For instance, Paulette sees some things that I don’t at first and she teaches me, and vice versa.
Elena Chestnykh is a visual artist from Russia living in New York City. Chestnykh graduated from Novosibirsk State Academy of Architecture and Fine Arts, Novosibirsk, Bachelor of Architecture and exhibited her solo show at Erarta Gallery, New York in 2013. www.chestnykh.com
Katy Halfin along with K.C. Tidemand led ATP art workshop "On the borough you live in" at the Sumner Community Center in the month of March. Children in the community center created a collage out of printed photos of the borough and colored paper cuts.
[PostScript] We brought printed pictures of the streets and places of boroughs in the city children live in. We were curious to see how children perceive their borough and what they dream about.It was a huge flying eye, a money bird and beautiful pink theatrical sky amongst the others that were so beautiful and surprising. Collaging the photos of the borough allowed children to feel that the city is not the fixed idea, but the dynamic ever changing kaleidoscope, and they are a part of it.
ATP art exchange program offers free art classes for community centers in NYC. Artists who teach and provide creative outlets to the community are the essence of ATP program.
[PostScript] ATP class "on Communication" led by Michael Levin was about imagining a person your age stepping out of a time machine into your home. This person is from the far future, where everyone lives underwater, speaks fish language, and has never seen land. The students had to find a way to communicate with the time traveler using pictures instead of language. We focused on communicating three tasks: how to walk, how to find food, and how to get around the city. The kids really enjoyed the project. We spent about half an hour on it and then switched to free-drawing, which they seemed to enjoy even more.
Michael Levin, an artist lives and works in NY who loves to read.
ATP art exchange program offers free art classes for community centers in NYC. Artists who teach and provide creative outlets to the community are the essence of ATP program.
ATP is happy to be launching its next POP-UP show on Monday March 28th, from 7-9 pm. Anna Hugo and Paulette Penje are two artists in collaboration presenting their encounter with the Ballet Room at the Sumner community center, 862 Park Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11206.
The Ballet Room, Hugo Penje's site specific work poses instances of and reactionary to the ballet room located in Sumner Community Center. The room will be the object in this show. The surface and atmosphere provoked Hugo Penje to readjust the space. With the use of reflection, projection, and interruption, they requestion the purpose of the ballet room.
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Age of the Changeling: New tools of transformation at the dawn of the Post-Human Era
Art Theory Project invites Panayiotis Terzis for Reading#7 titled, Age of the Changeling: New tools of transformation at the dawn of the Post-Human Era. Terzis presents Donna Haraway's groundbreaking sci-fi post-feminist text, The Cyborg Manifesto, as well as an excerpt from Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men, a visionary sci-fi future history of the human race. The discussion focuses DNA Modification, post-humanity, gender fluidity, dystopian or utopian scenarios, and human essentialism will be discussed in a context of Trans-humanism.
The explosion of stable cultural norms and recent advances in technology and communication have armed individuals in the west with the freedom and power to shape their cultural and biological identities like never before. What does the future hold for the human race as we begin to take the reigns of our species' evolution, and what role can artists and creative people play?
February 14, 2 P.M. Sunday SVA MFA Fine Arts 133 West 21st Street 9th floor New York, NY 10011
The meeting is open to the public. RSVP is required to gain access to the building. Email: [email protected] FaceBook Invite.
Nadine Faraj leads ATP's artist workshop on January 7th, at Sumner Community Center from 4-5 pm. Nadine is a visual artist and an amazing watercolor painter based in NYC and Montréal, Canada.
Imagining Extraterrestrial Life
How do you draw something you have never seen before? How different do you think alien life forms really are when compared to those we already know on Earth? In this class we will draw and paint to bring to life new, amazing, extraterrestrial creatures. We will study the basic building blocks of bodies and see how they can be modified. For example, we can make legs longer than anyone has ever seen, or make so many eyes on a head that we’ll get dizzy. Who knows, we may borrow some body parts from animals and insects - like wings and antennae - and even invent some fantastic new ones. This is the perfect place to let your imagination run wild.
ONEIRIC APPARATUS
ONEIRIC APPARATUS is a one-night multi-media exhibition featuring works created of ritual-- from ecstatic visions and mythic re-imaginings, to devestating and absurd performative gestures. The night is an inauguration of ATP's collaboration with Williamsburg Community Center, and a celebration of the many voices that will be involved.
Thursday, Dec. 10th 6:30-8PM Williamsburg Community Center
195 Graham Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11206 *********7PM PUPPET SHOW by Ari Ferdman
Featuring works by: Ari Ferdman Conner Calhoun David Johnson Eli Barak Get Your Life! Productions Rachel Zaretsky TenTen Yan Yasaman Alipour Williamsburg Community Center after-school students
Presented by ATP & Williamsburg Community Center curated by Julia Santoli
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Cities: Public Art and "Consensus"
Michael Levin, an artist lives and works in NY, leads Art Theory Project reading discussion on December 6, 2 P.M. at SVA MFA Fine Art building.
Michel Levin will discuss what defines private and public and what it means to traverse these two spaces with two articles – Public Art/Public Space: The Spectacle of the Tilted Arc Controversy by Gregg M. Horowitz and Thomas Is a Trip by Glenn Ligon.
A person can think of a city in many ways. When I hear the word "city," I think first of a large cluster of buildings. My mind runs through the names of the famous metropolises of history, and I usually conjure up the image of an artists' rendering depicting that place in its heyday. My experience of living in a city, though, is quite different. Living in a city means living around people. I don't think of buildings when I think about being around people, but then again they are always there, silently structuring our exchange. Many artists have sought to foster a different kind of exchange within or around the architecture of the city. Often, these have been met with resistance from "the public," a nebulous term that we tend to use carelessly. What is the public? In terms of the architecture of the city, what is its space? What parts of a city belong to the public, and what rights can the public exercise over them? By contrast, what is private? Are public and private spaces mutually exclusive? Can their aims be compatible? Does art bring a special understanding to these questions?
Art Theory Project is on its mission to offer free art workshops to children of Williamsburg Community Center. The workshop is constructed to expand our understanding of art through learning activity. A theme of the month is “On Rituals.” Please visit ATP’s education page, InterMutual Art + Education Workshop to learn more about our objectives for each month and ATP artists.
A look at Foucault by P. Rabinow!
Is there such a thing a true human nature, is there a final truth which all other notions rest securely? Foucault does not so much dispute this notion, although he would most likely, but rather askes something different: what parameters need to be in place for one belief or another to be accepted as truth? By laying out an archeology of societal methods of control, Foucault shows us how knowledge and power go hand in hand in forming an invisible controls, in the form of external and internal triggers.
Come this Saturday at 5pm to SVA 133 West 21st Street 9th floor to talk about the introductionary chapter of “The reader” - a look into the bigger concept in Foucault’s life work and how he differed from the cartisian canon. We will open the discussion to broad conversations on the topic and encourage you to read the text.
Bio:
KC Tidemand is a recent masters graduate from SVA fine arts. She holds a bachelors degree in philosophy and arts from Skidmore College and is currently working in NYC as a visual artist.