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Other Travel is a collaborative art project initiated by Hayden Dunham and Meriem Bennani.

Through a determined process a selection of artists and writers will be invited to participate in this unconventional publication. Each artist involved will receive an invitation to a specific place in New York City where the delivery of an installation or package will take place. The collaboration begins when the artist chooses to produce a piece in response to the installation received. This exchange will be documented and presented in the Other Travel book in conjunction with an exhibition.

The New Museum presents the world premiere of a new video work by Jibz Cameron, starring her alter ego Dynasty Handbag, followed by a very special postmodern, post-performance performance of a Q&A and Awards Ceremony.

This latest green screen adventure finds Dynasty Handbag on a dating game show where she must choose between 4 contestants vying for a spot in her vast cosmic emptiness. The bachelors are: an aggressively ambitious professional golfer, a hard-luck stray dog, a disembodied brain, and, of course, the grim reaper himself. All have attractive qualities and perhaps sustainable methodologies for dealing with life n death, but must she choose just one? And why are these her only choices?

Written, Directed, Performed by Jibz Cameron
Produced by Hanna Wilde

Camera by Hedia Maron
Editing and Animation by Andrea Merkx
Sound Recording by Gavin Hecker
Lighting and Set Design by Lauren Brown
Sound Design by Jibz Cameron
Costume Design and Props by Hayden Dunham
Production Assistance by Sophia Cleary

For more information and to RSVP head over to the event page. Get tickets here!!!

Randy contributor, Lee Maida, exhibits Profusive Technologies this month at Ed. Varie. The works on display are blooming personifications of the subjectively “everyday.”  Maida’s colors, lines and forms blur the inside of the body with the outside as reflected against otherness. Foliage and imagined landscapes clash with internal organs and urban architecture- producing an abstraction that gives in to the confusion of identification and selfhood but does not succumb to it.

Lee Maida was born in Bridgeport, CT and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She has had a solo show at Parker Jones, Los Angeles and participated in exhibitions at La Mama Galleria, New York; Taxter & Spengeman, New York; Silvershed, New York; Artist Curated Projects, Los Angeles; Commonwealth & Council, Los Angeles; SOMArts Gallery & Cultural Center, San Francisco. Maida is currently an MFA candidate at the Milton Avery Graduate School of Arts at Bard College.

PROFUSIVE TECHNOLOGIES will be on view at Ed. Varie through May 27.
Opening is this Thursday, don’t miss it! For more event info check out Ed.Varie.

Ulrike Müller’s Herstory Inventory is up now at Kunsthaus Bregenz in Bregenz, Austria!! This extensive show features 100 feminist drawing by vital contemporary artists, some of whom have contributed to RANDY.

Ulrike Müller works with a wide range of media in different contexts. On the basis of conceptual practices she engages with the sociopolitical potential of artistic activity through drawing, painting, video, sound works, and performance. A central interest is her exploration of the ambivalences of contemporary gender constructions beyond binary categorizations of identity such as man/woman, hetero/homo. Her project Herstory Inventory, being presented for the first time at the KUB Arena, dates back to when, conducting research at the Lesbian Herstory Archives (Brooklyn, New York), the artist found an inventory list of T-shirts present in the collection.

Müller subsequently invited 100 internationally known artists to translate into new pictures the lovingly detailed descriptions of the pictures and graphic elements on the T-shirts written by a volunteer at the archives. Against the backdrop of the history of the movement, drawing becomes an act of political engagement with the historical insignia, symbols, and positions of US lesbian feminist discourse. In a wide range of styles, formats, and problematizations, the pictorial translations of the texts enact personal attitudes toward historical feminist imagery, confronting them with their queer feminist rethinking. At the same time, the drawings by artists like Amy Sillman, Linda Bilda, Cristina Gómez Barrio, and R.H. Quaytman give insight into artistic strategies of representational politics and formal invention. Ulrike Müller’s invitation to rethink images from the history of lesbian feminism turns the inventory of the Lesbian Herstory Archives into a source and reference point for a wealth of artistic designs.

Herstory Inventory includes:

A. K. Burns, A. L. Steiner, Adriana Minoliti, Alhena Katsof, Allyson Mitchell, Amy Linton, Amy Sillman, Ann Cvetkovich, Anni Viinikainen, B. E. Wiest, Barbara Eichhorn, Carola Dertnig, Carrie Yamaoka, Cauleen Smith, Celeste Dupuy-Spencer, Chitra Ganesh, Chris Castillo, Cristina Gómez Barrio, Dawn Kasper, Dean Daderko, Edie Fake, Elke Krystufek, Emily Roysdon, Erika Vogt, Faith Wilding, Fiona Rukschcio, Fox Hysen, Gabriela Santiago, Georgia Sydney Lassner, Ginger Brooks Takahashi und Dana Bishop-Root, Gregg Bordowitz, Guadalupe Rosales, Hans Scheirl, Iris Andraschek, Jamie Chan, JD Samson, Jennifer Montgomery, Jibz Cameron, Jocelyn Davis, Johanna und Mona Gustavsson, Johanna Kirsch, Jonah Groeneboer, Joy Episalla, Julie Evanoff, K8 Hardy, Kate Huh, Katherine Hubbard, Kathleen Hanna, Keltie Ferris, Kim Kelly, Lee Maida, Lee Relvas, Leidy Churchman, Leigh Ruple, Lily Benson, Linda Bilda, Linda Stillman, Lisa Ulik, Litia Perta, Louise Fishman, Lovett & Codagnone, Lucy Dodd, Malin Arnell, Marget Long, Maria Gafarova, Mariah Garnett, Marie-Thérèse Escribano, Marlene McCarty, Math Bass, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Michaela Mélian, Michele Araujo, Michelle Dizon, Mitra Wakil, Monica Jane Peck, Moyra Davey, MPA, Myriam Lanau, Nancy Brooks Brody, Nicole Eisenman, Onya Hogan-Finlay, Pam Lins, Patricia Reschenbach, R. H. Quaytman, Ricarda Denzer, Robert Bordo, Robin Hustle, Sadie Benning, Sam Miller, Samara Davis, Shelly Silver, Simone Bader, Sowon Kwon, Suzanne Wright, Tara Mateik, Taylor Davis, Terrilynn Quick, Therese Roth, Travis Boyer, Ulrike Müller, Wolfgang Mayer, Wu Tsang, Wynne Greenwood, Xylor Jane, Zoe Leonard.

Pastor Pasture is a revolving expanse of glory and shame.  Through research into aural and visceral structures, this work harnesses the performers in all its queerness–as soft, ecstatic, plural, unknown and full of desire.  A nonsensical nature is established when sound occurs, when it registers as music and when the moving body chooses to relate or not.  Logic emerges from the inside, there are no external cues for understanding.

A classic duet between dancer and cellist gets modified, blended, disturbed and tormented as the composer and choreographer enter to complicate and mediate the preciousness they created. Within the intricacy of this duet lies the solo body, three and four all in and out of relation with one another.   Composition for solo cello is divested of its singularity through vocal interventions, sound spatialization, and the piercing calm of a resonating sound sculpture.  With lighting design by E Jenetopulos,  internal terrorisms reclaim power and images of blindfolded bodies charge the space with our knowledge of hostage situations.  We are full under an empty sky.

This special performance will be held at Issue Project Room, May 11th, as part of their Emerging Artists Commision. You can also keep tabs on their progress on their collaborative tumblr Pastor Pasture.

From April 29 – June 3, 2012 PARTICIPANT INC is proud to announce “Participant Inc presents Pepe & Puntar’s Lucid Dream Lounge with Special Guests…”. For their first collaborative installation, Sheila Pepe and Diana Puntar build a field of operation incorporating light, shadow, drawing, and multiple sculptural elements. They will launch their built environment into real time by inviting a select group of performers to activate, inhabit, and re-contextualize the space.

Opening reception, Sunday, April 29, 7-9pm

Special guest performances:

Sunday, May 6, 6-9pm
SKOTE
FRIEZE New York Downtown Night

Sunday, May 13, 7-10pm
Nathan Long (reading erotic haiku)
Kevin Sport and Mark Katsaounis (percussionists)

Saturday, May 19, 7-10pm
Sarah East Johnson & Nancy Brooks Brody (Merce Drawings 2)
Jessica Segall – Younger Sister (country music)

Friday, May 25, 7-10pm
Jennifer Minniti (fashion)
Scott Ewalt (dj)
Ryan Harman & Coco Johnson (gogo dancers)

Thursday, May 31
Walter Dundervill (dance)
Sister Anne (soul/punk band)

For more information please visit Particpant Inc, Shiela Pepe or the events page on facebook.

Art Practice, Activism, and Pedagogy: Some Feminist Views

In Art Practice, Activism, and Pedagogy, women artists who have embraced feminism in their art and social practice speak about its impact on their careers, the supportive communities it has created, and their current work. As artists engaged in individual and social practice and direct political activism, they discuss what it means to be a feminist artist today in the context of diverse forms of political engagement.

The conference is organized by Parsons Fine Arts faculty member Mira Schor, a painter and noted writer on feminist art and painting in a postmedium culture.

Speakers:

• Susan Bee, painter, co-editor of M/E/A/N/I/N/G: An Anthology of Artists’ Writings, Theory, and Criticism, instructor at the School of Visual Arts
• A.K. Burns, artist, collaborator in Working Artists and the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.)
• Audrey Chan, Los Angeles–based artist and writer, gallery teacher at the J. Paul Getty Museum
• Maureen Connor, artist, member of The Institute for Wishful Thinking, professor at Queens College
• Caitlin Rueter and Suzanne Stroebe, artists, founders of the Feminist Tea Party
• Ulrike Müller, artist, co-editor of the gender-queer feminist art journal LTTR, instructor at the Vermont College of Fine Arts

For more information, head to the New School!

Randy #2 contributor Geo Wyeth is releasing his first full-length album ALIEN TAPES!

“ALIEN TAPES is kind of a meditation on the relationship of proximity between the body, the room, and the sound.  Half of it was recorded on tape with a lot of live mixing and outboard effects.  Half of it was recorded by digital means and features heavy production.  Leading up to its release, I have been holding curated listening events in tandem as ways of bringing people together — the album functions as a drawing together of embodied experiences, and I hope it is approached in this way.”

Help him make it happen!!

Open House/Open Archive
March 17th, 2-6pm
With talks and conversation +refreshments after
Organized by WORKSHOP@138 Bowery

“DAM! began as a working group of Queer Nation and quickly evolved into a stand-alone agitprop unit whose exact membership remained anonymous for many years. Dyke Action Machine! campaigns presented a hybrid form of public address where civic issues such were packaged to fit seamlessly int the commercialized streetscape.

The campaigns dissected mainstream media by inserting lesbian images into recognizably commercial contexts, revealing how lesbians are and are not depicted in American popular culture. While questioning the basic assumption that one cannot be “present” in a capitalist society unless one exists as a consumer group, DAM! performed the role of the advertiser, promising the lesbian viewer all the things she’d been denied by the mainstream: power, inclusion, and the public recognition of identity.”

Check out DAM! on the net.