Artist Updates: Alison Wilder and Lydia Bell
March 2nd, 2010Recession Artists Upcoming Events:
“Spare the POD, spoil the child”: March 5th at 8pm
Featuring Spring 2010 Recession Artist Alison Wilder
Yes, it’s back, that world-renowned, multimedia, traveling happening all the kids just call POD. Carley and I have invited five artists whose work has blown us away of late, and they’ve agreed to present it in one fantastic exhibit/reading/screening/show.
So who’s on the bill?
Filmmaker JACK SCHURMAN will show a video that will make you smell the sawdust and droppings.
STEPHANIE HOPKINS will prose it up. Dr. Moore recently said of her work, “God, this is really fucking good.”
Poet SHAFER HALL will—well, who am I kidding, I have no idea what he’ll do.
ALISON WILDER’s sculpture connects people in ways they don’t expect, but often discover they want.
BRENT KATZ, formerly of the Harlem Shakes and now of Thunder and Lightning, will bring the noise.
It’s all happening in a bigger space than usual, and we’re charging 5 bucks (for the space, of course–we promise the artists won’t get a penny). Beer will be provided and plentiful; for finer things feel free to BYOB. And bring your own wigs.
It all happens on Friday, March 5th, at 8 pm. Performances begin at 8:30. The address is 32D S1st st. (btw Kent and Wythe).
HE WHO BLINKS FIRST (WITH BOYS): March 4th and 5th at 9:30pm
Featuring Fall 2009 Recession Artist Lydia Bell
Choreography: Lydia Bell & Lindsay Benedict
Performers: Jack Reilly & Ben Monnie
Thu, March 4th – 9:30pm
The Tank. 354 West 45th Street (between 8th and 9th Avenues), NYC.
Tickets $12: click here to purchase
A collaborative choreographic exploration of trying to be the same, and failing. Through simple gestures and interactions, HeWho Blinks First (with boys) expresses the limitations of knowing or understanding another person— can we ever be more than a witness to someone else’s experience? Dancers Reilly and Monnie re-perform the series of movements that Bell and Benedict created during the original investigation: the same piece on different bodies. The new duet plays with the notion of imitation and the perseverance of individuality.
