Bittertang
Posted by admin in Bittertang on April 6, 2012
Bittertang is a small design farm run by Antonio Torres and Michael Loverich who strive to bring happiness and pleasure into the built world by referencing the pleasurable world which surrounds us.
Our work explores multiple themes including pleasure, frothiness, biological matter, animal posturing, babies, sculpture, and coloration all unified through a revitalization of bel composto.
Our explorations are based in digital and visceral matter with output transitioning between scales and localities leaving our traces of frothy matter in various disciplines. Although trained as architects our prolific interests and methodology associates us closely to the organization of a farm. Bittertang material is bred, coaxed, and grown to yield tasty morsels, beautiful new exotic beasts, and fertilizer for future growth. Digging deep into the fertile detritus left by thousands of years of human history our goal is to add thick, rich fodder to contemporary material culture.
TJ Hospodar
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My primary passions are photography and performance, although initial studies of mathematics routed me through employment centering on data analysis. Now, I shift my focus away from revenues and headcounts and instead towards visual compositions and finally to cultural behavior, particularly the norms found within gift economies.
Hospitality and tourist-versus-neighbor relations are interests of mine that inform my research, while meal sharing and theatricality pervade my artwork. I am compelled by modes of participation and invest in work that is activated by the viewer, whether it incorporates correspondence, audience contribution, and/or community-based collaboration.
I enjoy collaborating with other artists and have developed a series of situations with the artist 0H10M1KE called “Dinner Theatre.” Episodes, of such, have explored the presentation of work in settings as varied as private residences, automobiles, corporate boardrooms, art galleries and public space.
Other recent collaborations include the founding of Boardroom Bed & Breakfast, with Chloë Bass, which offers a home away from office in tandem with the structure and rigor of the workplace. Born in Ohio, residing in New York, I can currently be found operating my car service, often free, here in the USA.
Tina Schott
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Tina Schott’s works show fragmentary archives of motley lost-and-founds and the invented. Seasoned with humorous undertones, they balance be- tween beautiful fiction and tragic atrocity. Effortlessly absurd constellations pop up and form their own narrative structures, through appropriation, reclassification and reinterpretation. Her works fascinate by reactivating passive histories, combining them lovingly or destroying them cheerfully, all the while answering situations with questions, humor and spielerei. Many of her works are based on collages and drawings and find their way into videos, flyers, performances and installations.
Between 2002 and 2007, Tina Schott ran “Roxi” in cooperation with Tina Kohlmann, a former public toilet in Offenbach that they transformed into a mix of club, concert venue, exhibition space and art school hangout. In 2006, the double LP Roxi Music was published as a catalog. Out of the collaboration and the experiences in the club grew a common interest in the ephemeral, and the many attempts to capture fleeting special moments like that. In flickering room collages and pleasurably enigmatic performances, Kohlmann and Schott remind us of brief moments of strange beauty, of drunken ecstasy, or just simply great rapture, that way creating small explosions of the special themselves.
Tina Schott is a jury member of the Szpilman Award, an internatonal art prize that annually rewards works, which exist only for a short time. Szpilman collects and promotes ephemeral works on the Potz!Blitz! blog and curated exhibitions from Tel Aviv to Amsterdam with the same goal.
As part of the artist group Bissy Bunder, together with Kati Heck, Julia Wlodkowski, Johanna Trudzinski, Michèle Matyn and Rani Bageria,
Tina Schott does spectacular and colorful performances all over Europe, in which a partly staged, partly improvised profound as well as absurd and bizarre world is presented. In 2009, the group traveled to the US where the landscape and conditions of the West Coast served as a backdrop for their collage-like, improvised-but-narrative film “Beyonda – A Journey Into The Darkness”. In 2010, the film premiered in the Film Museum in Antwerp. As it continues to be shown in different European cities, Bissy Bunder is currently finishing the follow-up, which was filmed in an abandoned fort on the outskirts of Antwerp.
Laura Arena
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Laura Arena is curator/artist/designer living and working in Brooklyn and occasionally in other parts of the world.
Arena is a multidisciplinary artist working with photography and video and just recently large installation and sculpture.
Arena has participated in exhibitions and events in the US, Europe and the Middle East. She was awarded artist residencies in Iceland and Palestine in 2010 and was a participant of Artist Summer Institute in 2011 on Governors Island in New York City. In 2012, she we will participate in an artist residency at The Shell in Hólmavík, Iceland.
Arena is an independent curator under the name of Lucky Gallery. Lucky Gallery works with emerging, contemporary artists curating exhibitions and events in both New York City and Berlin.
In winter 2012, Arena plans to launch The Hive, an artist-run nonprofit art organization that nurtures and promotes underrepresented and emerging artists. The Hive will provide facilities, support systems and programs to incubate contemporary new works “that must be seen” and promoted to international audiences and emerging collectors. In April 2012, The Hive will be presenting works from NYC artists in Istanbul, Turkey.
0H10M1ke
0H10M1ke wanders the streets of Brooklyn and NYC, passing out serially numbered matchbook portraits drawn on the spot in 1 minute. 10K Matchbooks is a series of 10,000 matchbook illustrations and portraits completed in New York City between 2007 and June 12, 2011. In 2007, 0H10M1ke completed The Year of 1000 Drawings. His 2008 work, 10K PPL, consists of 10,000 contour drawings of faces. In 2009, he focused on the development of 0H10M1ke LIVEDRAW, a collaboration between live bands, DJs, dancers and performers in which the artist projects his wacom tablet drawings created in realtime to the beat of the music as the visual backdrop of a live performance. 0H10M1ke performs live with his electro/funk band, Comandante Zero, in anticipation of their first album, Slouching Toward Babylon.
10K Matchbook Portraits is a mobile street art project in which strangers become subjects and turn into collectors within 1 minute of engagement. In its inception, 0H10M1ke convinced Brooklyn bodega owners to part with full boxes of blank matchbooks that he would then graffiti and return for them to be given out when customers purchased cigarettes. Portraiture naturally evolved as the focus of the project after matchbook number 5,000. Each portrait, penned on the inside of a matchbook, is serially numbered, signed and dated and given away to the subject upon completion. This project culminated with matchbook number 10,000 on June 12, 2011 on Governor’s Island in New York City at The FIGMENT Art Festival.
Stephanie Homa
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Stephanie Homa works within a multidisciplinary field of painting, object and drawing. Her work reflects a gloomy yet soft and fragile world where playful chaos rules over queer scenes of humans and animals surrounded by bright colored patterns, mountains, trees and party decoration.
The materials Homa uses for her works range from children’s craft kits and glitter over acrylic and spray paint to latex and crystal resin. She works on all kinds of papers as well as on canvas, board and found objects.
The playful spirit displayed in her work reflects the personal playground of a wild an sloppy mind where Homa sets the rules and generally rejects restrictions and conventions which makes her work drift between evolving and dissolving its own concept and philosophy – resulting in an ever-changing hologram of curiosity.
Homa was born in East Germany in 1981 after graduating from the khb school of art Berlin in 2008 she moved to London where she lives and works as an artist.
“Animamus Art Salon” at the Schoolhouse, April 1, 7-11
Posted by admin in 2012 Events, News on March 20, 2012
Lucky Gallery and Ventiko invite you to “Animamus Art Salon” at the Schoolhouse in Bushwick, at 330 Ellery Street in Brooklyn, on Sunday, April 1, 2012, 7 – 11pm. Animamus provides a safe, supportive environment for artists of all mediums to debut and discuss their current work while encouraging audience participation. These monthly traveling salons create temporary communities where artists can exchange ideas amongst the peers and the public in NYC.
Animamus Salon will feature the work of twelve artists, Karla Carballar, Andy Cavatorta, TJ Hospodar, Jason Martin, Tessa Mauclere, Mihaeko, Kathryn Moise, Mariette Papic, Max Piersol, and Justin Orvis Steimer including a performance by The Push Pops, a radical, queer feminist art collective, and an interactive performance by artist Laura Lee Gulledge.
Celebrate April Fools Day with Animamus, a night full of performance and presentations. Please visit https://www.facebook.com/AnimamusArtSalon for Animamus information. For more information regarding this event email laura@luckygallery.com.
Lucky Gallery and Ventiko Host “Animamus Art Salon”
Lucky Gallery is extremely excited to work with artist/curator Ventiko in hosting an Animamus Art Salon at the Schoolhouse artist collective at 330 Ellery Street in Brooklyn, on April Fools Day, 2012, 7 – 11pm.
Created by Ventiko in 2011, Animamus provides a safe, supportive environment for artists of all mediums to debut and discuss their current work while encouraging audience participation. These monthly traveling salons create temporary communities where artists can exchange ideas amongst the peers and the public in NYC.
“This is the first time Lucky Gallery is hosting an event outside of its home of Red Hook, Brooklyn,” says Laura Arena, Director of Lucky Gallery. “We are very excited to showcase gallery artists at Ventiko’s Animamus Art Salon with our friends the Schoolhouse in Bushwick because we all share similar passion to provide a supportive venue for artists to share creativity and ideas.”
Animamus Art Salon will feature the work of twelve artists, Karla Carballar, Andy Cavatorta & Mihaeko, TJ Hospodar, Jason Martin, Tessa Mauclere, Kathryn Moise, Mariette Papic, Max Piersol, and Justin Orvis Steimer including a performance by The Push Pops, a radical, queer feminist art collective, and an interactive performance by artist Laura Lee Gulledge.
Animamus Artist Salon this month takes place at the Schoolhouse, originally P.S. 52, a three-story live/work space in Bushwick. It is a venue for a wide variety of musical performances, art exhibitions, photo shoots and film projects and has been a home to artists since 1996.
Please join us on April Fools Day with performances and presentations from 7-11pm. Cost of admission is $10 and drinks will be available. We thank our sponsors Hi! Prosecco and Sixpoint Brewery.
Event Date and Time: Sunday, April 1, 2012, 7-11pm
Location: The Schoolhouse, 330 Ellery Street, Brooklyn, NY.
Event Cost: $10
Karla Carballar was born in Mexico City. Her work in video, photography and installation has been exhibited in the US, Mexico, Asia and Europe, including Today Art Museum, Beijing; Luigi Pecci Center for Contemporary Art, Bienal de Yucatán, Mexico; and the Encuentro Nacional de Arte Joven, a year traveling exhibition around Mexico.
Andy Cavatorta is a multidisciplinary artist who explores the dark territory of human potential that lies just beyond the reach of imagination. Andy has partnered with Ensemble Robot and produced dynamic experimental musical instruments that challenged concepts of musical invention. After studying at MIT’s Media Lab (2008-10) he spent eighteen months in collaboration with Björk and created pendulum-based Gravity Harps, which can be seen and heard in her current residency Biophilia.
TJ Hospodar was born in Ohio and currently resides in New York. His primary passions are photography and performance. He is interested in the norms found within gift economies and hospitality and tourist-versus-neighbor relations. He can be found operating his car service, often free, here in the USA, which he will present during the salon.
Jason Martin works in new media and will present a series under the general title POWER ANIMALS. This work engages species-queer, glamorous, and paganistic animism. With it, he explores power structures, species and gender hybridity, witchcraft, military conflict, rock music, pre-history, and analog electronics through rituals in bright spandex to open portals, utilizing a range of tools from electronics to wrestling holds.
Tessa Mauclere has lived and worked in New York City for the past three years and accumulates experience in various forms while finding her freedom of artistic expression to be muted by the challenge of survival. Late night collages, illustrations and secret archiving of documents meant to be thrown away become manifestations of what she calls this art of necessity where the lack of inspiration inspires.
Mihaeko is a versatile artist whose work combines the mundane with the poetic. Focusing on intimate aspects of silence and gesture, her work is often imbued with dreamy, lyrical overtones or comedic bits of absurdism that render her pieces at once surreal and profoundly personal.
Kathryn Moise is organized. She has developed a keen sense of evaluating what others need and carefully and efficiently executes solutions to make life easier and will be sharing her advice on how artists can simplify and organize their lives to get stuff done faster and more effectively.
Mariette Papic is a writer and photographer, the author of the chapbook, “Electric Bathtub Psalms” and essays on graffiti and culture, including “The Ache of The Real” (Pantheon Projects). She is a contributor to the Interview Blogazine, and 12Questions.us. She is an avid dreamer and traveler, exploring new forms of memoir and currency in a sphere inhabited by her alter ego, “Ruby Gold”.
Max Piersol is an artist from Red Hook, Brooklyn who has been working in visual art, film making and acting since 1997. He specializes in stencil work and painting, and is inspired by stoke, living in New York and avoiding schoolwork. Max was in “Anatomically Incorrect”, a street-art based collaborative show at Lucky Gallery, and has also written “A Hairy Situation”, which won several awards in 2009.
Justin Orvis Steimer continues to explore the process of scribbling on found objects, the tactile nature of which he embraces as a counter balance to the digital world.
Schoolhouse
The Schoolhouse has been a home to artists since 1996. the building, originally ps 52, was built in 1883 and the energy from over 100 years of existence resonates throughout. the three story live/ work space manages to balance a productive environment with a strong sense of family and community. it has served as a venue for a wide variety of musical performances, art exhibitions, photo shoots and film projects while during most nights of the week the residents gather in the kitchen and cook dinner together.
Lucky Gallery
Lucky Gallery works with underrepresented and emerging artists looking for a venue to share creativity and ideas in a supportive environment. The gallery focuses on the interaction and communication between the artist and community, through performance, workshops, education and opportunity. For more information visit www.luckygallery.com or email laura@luckygallery.com.
Animamus Art Salon
Drawing its inspiration from the salon format first popularized in 17th Century France, where aristocrats invited thinkers, artists, and writers to their homes to discuss ideas, Animamus Art Salon seeks, in this digital age, to create a physical meeting space that fosters exchange of ideas, facilitate discourse, and creates a sense of community. Salons are held monthly. Artists interested in participating in future salons can propose a presentation/performance by emailing animamusartsalon@gmail.com.
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