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Thank you Susan Fishman and Art Spiel!
“Peerna attributes many of the choices she has made about the materials she uses as well as her working methods to her childhood in her native land of ice and greyscale colors along the Baltic Sea. It was there where her body learned to embrace the movements specific to gliding on ice, where she observed the varied lines that skates made on the surface of ice, and where she mastered the use of the limited art materials available in the local Soviet-style school system – especially drawing with pencils on paper.”
📣 Don't miss it! The "un/mute" is still on view at the Austrian Cultural Forum New York until January 7. Co-curated by Daina Mattis + Melinda Wang. Read the new great review in Art Spiel. 🔥
Polish artists participating are: Justyna Banaszczyk, Anna Bera (The Whole Elements) i Justyna Górowska.
"How can artists unmute 🗣 themselves and make work in creative dialogue with each other while they experience forced solitude at faraway places? How can collaborative practices be reinvented in social isolation? And how can virtual and chance encounters between strangers can lead to the making of jointly authored images and objects? 🎨 The un/mute project, initiated by EUNIC New York and Undercurrent, the independent exhibition space in DUMBO, was an attempt to probe these questions by inviting 32 artists to work across borders, languages, and media, while sharing the global experience of the Covid-19 pandemic at distant locations, under varied social circumstances, and in cultural contexts."
📌🌟An excellent Art Spiel review on the ongoing UN/MUTE exhibition at the Austrian Cultural Forum New York and gallery Undercurrent, and the story behind this international project.
The un/mute project, initiated by EUNIC New York and Undercurrent, the independent exhibition space in DUMBO, invited 32 artists to work across borders, languages, and media, while sharing the global experience of the Covid-19 pandemic at distant locations, under varied social circumstances, and in cultural contexts. Two Lithuanian artists Gabriele Gervickaite - Gabo and Ieva Mediodia took part in this unique virtual artist residency that finally became an actual exhibition.
Please read the article here:
https://artspiel.org/remote-work/
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One part of UN/MUTE on view at the Austrian Cultural Forum New York through January 7, 2022, “un/mute” is the culmination of two online residencies launched in 2020.
This project partly supported by Lietuvos kultūros institutas / Lithuanian Culture Institute
“Open-ended, performative and fluid, the un/mute experiment evokes the transatlantic mail art projects of the 1960s and 1970s neo-avant-gardes and reimagines practices of collaboration in the realm of the digital and in defiance of the limitations of the global pandemic. The residencies, the exhibition and the project’s labyrinth-like website defy borders and physical distances as well as institutionally sanctioned forms of artistic labor to present the audience with a document of work and life in-progress.”
Thanks Art Spiel and ÁgnesBerecz!
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👉🏻Article:
https://artspiel.org/remote-work/
👉🏻Project website:
https://unmute.nyc/
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“Open-ended, performative and fluid, the un/mute experiment evokes the transatlantic mail art projects of the 1960s and 1970s neo-avant-gardes and reimagines practices of collaboration in the realm of the digital and in defiance of the limitations of the global pandemic. The residencies, the exhibition and the project’s labyrinth-like website defy borders and physical distances as well as institutionally sanctioned forms of artistic labor to present the audience with a document of work and life in-progress.”
Thank you Art Spiel and !
Read more about "un/mute":
https://artspiel.org/remote-work/
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On view at the Austrian Cultural Forum New York and Undercurrent through January 7, 2022, “un/mute” is the culmination of two online residencies launched in 2020 to provide European and NYC-based artists an opportunity for critical exchange and collaboration during the COVID-19 global pandemic.
Co-curated by Daina Mattis and Melinda Wang, “un/mute” is the physical manifestation of online conversations among strangers who became collaborators. What began as abstract and digital are now 14 tactile, concrete artworks presented across two locations. The exhibition features sculptures, installations, films, drawings, photographs, and performances created by artists who confronted the parameters imposed by the lockdowns and found creative solutions that we might all learn from.
“un/mute” is a project by Undercurrent and the following members of EUNIC New York - European Union National Institutes for Culture: Austrian Cultural Forum New York, Czech Center New York, Consulate General of Estonia in New York, Delegation of Flanders in the USA, Goethe-Institut New York, Lietuvos kultūros institutas / Lithuanian Culture Institute, Arts Council Malta in New York, Polish Cultural Institute New York and Romanian Cultural Institute in New York / ICR New York. This project is also supported by EU National Institutes for Culture, the European Union Delegation to the United Nations, Hope Recycling Station Jindrich Chalupecky Society.
Open hours: ACFNY, 10am-6pm daily; free admission
Learn more ➡️
http://www.unmute.nyc
Visual Art teacher Todd Bartel reflects on his work and shares the first time he took on a collage assignment as a freshman at RISD! Read below on Art Spiel!
"The unique design and location of the Beatrice M. Haggerty Gallery at UD proved a most fitting space for the exuberant content of Sara Cardona and Elisa Lendvay’s exhibit, titled Meridian. Meridian expressed the artists’ shared interests in earth’s natural shapes and cycles, regeneration of discarded or out-of-fashion cultural designs and hardware, and celebration of movement, of dance." - Thomas Motley, MA '73 via Art Spiel in a critique of the latest installation at the Haggerty Gallery
“I experimented with adhering silver or gold leaf to glass and scratching into it with a stylus.”
A huge congratulations to American artist Anne Peabody who has been selected as a recipient of the 2021 Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest Artist in Residence Program (a real achievement as she was selected from 260 applications from 34 countries). This morning started off misty here in Murano and the weather couldn’t help but remind us of the mystical clouded forms of Peabody’s multidisciplinary work which uses an intricate combination of effects to draw surreal images upon mirrored glass.
In a recent interview with Art Spiel she explained how many of her latest works used nature: “I began to use very old leaf in my glass drawings when I realized it would disintegrate as it reacted with the oils on my fingers, and break down further when exposed to air. This technique allows me to incorporate fate into my works: I roll a pair of dice and leave the glass plates exposed to air for the days allocated by the numbers rolled.”
Last year marked the 40th anniversary of the internationally renowned program, established in 1980, which annually awards artists the opportunity to live and create site-specific work inspired by their total immersion experience at the Bernheim Arboretum. Connecting people with nature is the mission that has been at the heart of this organisation throughout its history and we can’t wait to see what Peabody creates in response.