The New York Art Residency & Studios (NARS) Foundation
SATURDAY, MAY 4TH, 2013
11AM - 6PM
The NARS Foundation is delighted to announce its participation in the New Museum's Ideas City Festival on Saturday, May 4. Perambulant, a series of live performances and workshops, invites the public to engage in spontaneous and guided interactions throughout the day. Performances by artists Nancy Nowacek, Katya Grokhovsky, twin brothers Alan and Michael Fleming, and choreographer Corinna Brown and the Dean Street FOO Dance will be interspersed with cross-disciplinary movement workshops for children and adults.
The artists will lead workshops that encourage the audience to explore the functional capacity of the body as an untapped resource. The performance project “Insourcing” by Nowacek will tap into the unused muscle power of New Yorkers by engaging a chain of sidewalk-bound citizens in the relay of an object across the IDEAS CITY territory. Starting at the festival’s perimeter, the artist will begin transport of a large object too unwieldy for her to move alone by enlisting the aid of those around her. Hitchhiking rides with various New Yorkers as far as they can go, the object will become flotsam in the tide of pedestrians, making its way to the festival center over the course of the afternoon. Grokhovsky will investigate the often untapped and ignored potential of touch and connection with strangers in her live durational performance, “Slow Dance.”
Alan and Michael Fleming will present a series of architectural interventions using artists’ bodies. Incorporating different bodily forms into the architectural facades of the Lower East Side, the artist duo will act as living ornaments on the surface of the building’s exterior. Through these various interventionist actions they hope to re-examine the body as object, structure, or support. Brown’s work will explore a psychotherapeutic awareness of the body in urban spaces. Brown’s Dean Street FOO Dance will perform a Butoh-inspired version of the classic children’s book Madeline. Brown will then invite the public/audience to participate in “Sidewalk Butoh” where she will psychotherapeutically guide participants on a journey of transformation from human body to elements of nature to man-made materials, internally juxtaposing natural and artificial worlds in an internal dance.
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2013 Season I International Artist Residency Exhibition
The Garden
May 10 – June 14, 2013
Opening Reception & Performance:
Friday, May 10, 6 – 8pm
Artist Talk & Performance:
Friday, May 31, 7pm
The NARS Foundation is delighted to present The Garden, a reflection on life’s cycles and our perception of inevitable transformation. The exhibition features selections from the work of the 2013 Season I Residency Artists: Erica Bailey, David Birkin, Katya Grokhovsky, Takeshi Ikeda, Taiyo Kimura, Thessia Machado, and Yoko Shimizu. Their practices encourage possibilities for growth, re-birth and renewal, but this is not Shangri-La. The artists are keenly aware of decay, impermanence and isolation. While they reap a harvest which is abundant and vital, their work simultaneously brushes up against the edge of macabre.
The NARS Foundation is delighted to present The Garden, a reflection on life’s cycles and our perception of inevitable transformation. The exhibition features selections from the work of the 2013 Season I Residency Artists: Erica Bailey, David Birkin, Katya Grokhovsky, Takeshi Ikeda, Taiyo Kimura, Thessia Machado, and Yoko Shimizu. Their practices encourage possibilities for growth, re-birth and renewal, but this is not Shangri-La. The artists are keenly aware of decay, impermanence and isolation. While they reap a harvest which is abundant and vital, their work simultaneously brushes up against the edge of macabre.
Yoko Shimizu and Taiyo Kimura use materiality that evokes the organic process of growth and decomposition. At once fragile and robust, their work seemingly and literally self-replicates. Thessia Machado embraces objects which have been deemed defunct, giving them a second chance at a life with new purpose. Katya Grokhovsky’s voluptuous sculptures are seedlings of feminine corporeal performances; a relentless search for a sense of place as she plants her feet in two worlds. Erica Bailey’s architectural rendering sinks us even deeper in; conveying an ineffable consternation, she disorients our sense of perspective, asking us to engage with her environment from below the ground, looking up. David Birkin and Takeshi Ikeda play with the implications of light and color, seeking to illuminate sociopolitical moments which remained in shadow. From their pieces, brightness emanates with fury, necessitating ideological, as well as visual, reorientation and restructuring.
The Garden is immersive and non-conclusive, an exploration of permutations, revelation and surrender in relationship to our natural and self-perpetuating systems.
Gallery Hours:
Monday - Friday: 1:00pm - 5:00pm,
or by Appointment
The New York Art Residency and Studios (NARS) Foundation is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit arts organization committed to supporting artists and curators on an international level as well engaging the local community in Brooklyn and the Greater New York area. NARS provides an array of creative support services and professional development opportunities for emerging and mid-career artists through short-term integrated residency programs, affordable long-term studio spaces, progressive exhibition programs, international exchanges, and engaging public programs that foster global understanding and dynamic cross-cultural dialogues. These services operate in conjunction with our community outreach initiatives to promote greater accessibility to contemporary art for the underserved local community in south Brooklyn. Our mission is to present diverse platforms on which to nurture creative inspiration and innovative cross-pollination of ideas.
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