American Realness

6:00 PM . Exhibition Opening

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6:00 PM . Exhibition Opening

Sarah Maxfield
Nonlinear Lineage: Over/Heard

Over/Heard is a listening installation of stories and musings collected through the Nonlinear Lineage project. Nonlinear Lineage is an effort to share a criss-crossing artistic lineage of experimental dance and performance in New York City, through elements of oral history, an ephemera archive, live interviews and other events, which highlight historic performance in conversation with contemporary practice. Nonlinear Lineage is an auto-ethnographic project organized by Sarah Maxfield, in collaboration with Elliott Jenetopulos.

ABRONS ARTS CENTER CULPEPPER GALLERY

 

Ian Douglas
Instant Realness

Performance photographer Ian Douglas has been documenting American Realness since its inception in 2010. Through his iconic images, Ian strives to preserve and even intensify what is an essentially dynamic and ephemeral experience through the isolated instant. Taken as a whole, his work provides us with a comprehensive visual record of the energy, eclecticism and creative chaos that is American Realness. Now in the festival’s fifth year – having showcased the work of fifty-two world-class artists including Miguel Gutierrez, Ann Liv Young, Trajal Harrell, luciana achugar, and Ishmael Houston-Jones – it is the perfect time to revisit some of these historic performances through Ian’s images.

ABRONS ARTS CENTER UPPER GALLERY/ @R CAFE

 

Neal Medlyn & Fawn Krieger
The Pop-Medlyn Hall of Fame

From 2006 – 2013 Neal Medlyn created a seven-show performance series in which each piece is built around a pop star or iconic group, including Lionel Richie, Phil Collins, Britney Spears, Prince, Miley Cyrus the Insane Clown Posse and Michael Jackson.

The POP-MEDLYN Hall of Fame presents set, costume pieces and props from the series (viewable onstage after performances of King (Jan 14 & 15) and a nine-foot statue of Medlyn as Michael Jackson created by Fawn Krieger that will be viewable in the Playhouse Lobby throughout the festival.

ABRONS ARTS CENTER MAIN GALLERY

 

Ann Liv Young
Sherry Art Fair

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ABRONS ARTS CENTER PLAYHOUSE & LOBBY

 

Opening Reception: Thursday, January 9, 6:00 PM