Not That Jennifer is Josh Pew. He is a designer, woodworker and party starter.Perhaps you've been lucky enough to attend one of his Yogish sessions.
Josh is creating some really interesting social magic with his new party in Boise called NANCY. Challenging gender, authority and norms this party is creating expansive space in the Mountain West.
This mix is a story of humor, groove, darkness and time.
ANY007: Not That Jennifer
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What is a question you have about the future?
What brand will my next pair of shoes be?
What is a prediction you have?
I predict that they'll be Adidas, but sources are uncertain.
How will you be different tomorrow?
Tomorrow I will narrow down my options for volunteering. Boise has the largest Syrian population in America, so I want to participate.
What does the future sounds like?
In the future, I’ll never have to…
Re-explain myself. They'll be a special device so no one will misunderstand each other anymore. Time saved!
In the future, I'll get to....
Have soft old man hands and people will be like "Whoa, that's a soft but firm handshake"
What do you want to be when you grow up?
A tennis player. Not professionally. Like, twice a month or something. You know, when I'm a little older.
How will your city change?
Boise is hungry for ideas and actions. As more people move here, if they have ambition, they'll be guiding culture.
What is the future of your field of work?
By this summer, I'll be back to object making. I've been taking a nice break and learning some other skills, but my hands are getting antsy to be making my own designs.
Any gigs coming up?
Yeah, I started this party in Boise called NANCY. The next one is on March 4th, and the following one will be April 1st. If anyone wants to come check it out, I have a very nice couch to sleep on.
Where can we find you on the internets?
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Alt Esc Platform
Alt Esc is a Brooklyn-based, artist-run curatorial team and publication started by Alison Sirico and Irina V Makarova in May 2016. Sparked by the realization that disparity exists between the institutionalized art world and the new wave of rising artists, Alt Esc was founded to vocalize the leading ideas and trends in young contemporary studio practice. We are interested in individuals and collectives who are players in the art world’s subcultural framework and those who are community oriented. Equal parts publication and event production team, we seek to communicate dialogues that manifest into praxis. Through publication and curating exhibitions, we strive to connect rising artists with new opportunities, while honoring and sharing their current achievements with a broader audience. Using the studio visit as a model for a narrative, we hope to communicate, foster and archive today’s young cultural landscape.
Website: http://www.altescplatform.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alt_esc_/
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Diamond Stingily
Diamond Stingily is an artist and writer based in New York. Her work has been presented in solo exhibitions at Egg, Chicago; A1, Chicago; and in a two-person exhibition (with Martine Syms) at Project Row Houses in Houston. Group exhibitions include Arcadia Missa, London; Queer Thoughts, New York and Nicaragua; Ramiken Crucible, Los Angeles, and a forthcoming project with Publishing House in Gstaad, Switzerland. Her writing has been performed and exhibited at Signal Gallery, Brooklyn and Chin’s Push, Los Angeles, among others, and a publication of her writing was released through Dominica, Los Angeles.
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JJ Brine
JJ Brine is a multimedia installation artist, gallerist, electronic musician, and theologian. He curates and operates Vector Gallery in the East Village. The work of JJ Brine has been compared to that of Duchamp and Andy Warhol. Brine is known as the “Father of the Posthuman Movement” and as “The Crown Prince of Hell.” Equal parts art installation and church, Vector is a beacon and a bank for lost souls. It is a breathing silver studio which stands as a reminder that there is salvation in the world’s eccentricities.
Website: http://jjbrine.tumblr.com
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Aliza Morell
Also check out these nail paintings by Aliza Morell!
Aliza Morell is a painter based in Brooklyn. A graduate from Rutgers, she has exhibited with Castor Gallery, Trestle Projects, Nancy Margolis Gallery, and more. Her work captures and translates artificial light to a flat surface through layering of gradients. We met her at her Bushwick studio to talk about light as a medium, color gradients, and nail salons. Her work will be shown in an upcoming group exhibition, "You Drain Me," at Tempus Projects in Tampa, FL. She is featured in the February issue of "New American Paintings, Northeast".
Website: http://www.alizamorell.com
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Black & White Studies (printed and published by Small Editions) is a collaborative zine combining the images of Sheryl Oppenheim with the poetry of Janelle Poe. The two came together to produce this powerful piece to benefit the Black Lives Matter movement to which 100% of the proceeds will be donated.
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Small Editions NYC
Exhibitions, Publications, + Production
Exhibitions: Small Editions presents 6 exhibitions a year through it’s Curatorial Residency Program. Each year an emerging curator is selected to organize thematic exhibitions to nurture a conversation between contemporary art and artists books and to influence the work within Small Editions’ studio.Small Editions’ current curator-in-residence is Alt Esc.
Publication: Working from a vibrant history of commissioned artists books, Small Editions collaborates through studio visits and conversations with artists to publish small edition bookworks and artists books. Seeking to support experimental artist publishing, we developed a business model that provides book production services to commercial clients as a means for funding our artist publishing projects.
Website: http://www.smalleditionsnyc.com
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Natalia Ibáñez Lario
Natalia Ibáñez Lario lives and works in between Mexico City, Berlin and New York. Lario´s work refers to the human body and the possibility of being modified through various technologies because of aesthetic as well as racial issues and how this generates a global wave towards westernization reflected in girls in their twenties who spread their surgeries and lifestyles via social networks, making their bodies and ways of living a consumable product and thus celebrating aggressive capitalism in times of economic recession in a cute way.
Website: http://www.nataliaibanezlario.org
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Theo Mercier
Theo Mercier is a french sculptor born in 1984 in Paris. He lives and works in Mexico City. Mercier has exhibited at institutions such Palais de Tokyo, Popidou, Musee d’Arte Moderne, and La Maison Rouge in Paris. Upcoming shows include: The great war wall, Museo El Eco, Mexico City, May 2017 - June 2017 and The Fall, Galeria Marso, Mexico City, September 2017 – November 2017.
Website: http://theomercier.com
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Casa Maauad
Casa Maauad, founded in 2010 by Mexican artist Anuar Maauad, is a non-profit, production-based, residency program in Mexico City. Their goal is to support the production of contemporary art and foster the creation of solid relationships between international artists and the local art scene. They support local artists by giving them an exhibition space and access to curators, directors and artists from the Mexican art world and abroad. Casa Maauad serves as a meeting point for artists, curators, institutions, museums and galleries. Casa Maauad is free and open to the public.
Website: https://www.casamaauad.com
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Salón Acme
The Salón Acme is a free space dedicated to showing artwork from emerging artists during the annual international Material Art Fair in Mexico City. The Salón Acme exhibition is juried by a council of artists and curators from MUAC, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, and Museo Jumex.
The exhibition is very democratic – it is free to apply and there are no age restrictions. The jury also gives each artists feedback when they apply.
Website: http://www.salonacme.org
Also check out their beautiful instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/salonacme
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ART: CYBER FEMINISM AND VIRTUAL SPACES
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CyberTwee
What if cyberpunk had a younger sister that was secretly better at coding?
Cybertwee is an arts collective founded in 2014 by Gabriella Hileman, Violet Forest and May Waver. Through browser based projects and performances, they explore the intersections of femininity, technology and community. Additionally, Cybertwee recently created a virtual headquarters and gallery. Cybertwee has invited artists from all over the world to answer one question with original digital artworks: what is cybertwee?
Artists exhibiting in the first show at the HQ:
Alexis Anais Avedisian, Becka Saville, Carolyn Tripp, Emily Mulenga, Ethan Tate, Gerard Olivier(HELLCOM), Hana Aoake + Mya Middleton, Ian Honare, Jaana-Kristiina Alakoski, Jasmine Nyende, Jessica Dolence, Lauren Helena May Pelc-McArthur, manuel arturoabreu, Maya Ben David, Miriam Poletti, Ragna Rök Jóns, Rebecca Richards, ReedHex, Sarah Rooney, & Tobias Williams.
Also included are historical works by legendary cyberfeminists VNS Matrix, who wrote the original cyberfeminist manifesto in 1991.
Website: http://cybertwee.net
The Cybertwee Headquarters app is free. Download it!
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The Rise of the L.A. Art Witch by Amanda Yates Garcia, Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles
“The etymology of the word magic comes from the Greek magoi, referring to people the Greeks saw as astrology-touting, talisman-bearing foreigners from the East. By its very definition, magic has always referred to outsiders, others, and those whose practices and beliefs run contrary to Western orthodoxy. It follows then that witchcraft, as a form of magic most commonly associated with medieval hags or sorcerers from “the dark continent,” also implies a practice that operates against the hegemonic authorities of the West. More and more frequently, we’re seeing contemporary artists utilize the methodologies of witchcraft in their practice, largely because, by its very nature, witchcraft is a political and creative act commanding power back into the hands of people who have historically been banished from the inner circles of cultural authority…”
Read more: http://contemporaryartreview.la/the-rise-of-the-l-a-art-witch/
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Linda Stupart, A Spell to Bind Male Artists from Murdering You, as part of their solo show, “a dead writer exists in words and language is a type of virus,” ARCADIA_MISSA, 2016. Photo by Joseph Noonan-Ganley, courtesy of the artist.
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Juliana Huxtable
The artist, poet, and DJ Huxtable describes herself as “cyborg, cunt, priestess, witch, Nuwaubian princess,” and draws on the imagery of the Nuwaubian Nation, a religious cult that fuses together ideas of black nationalism, UFO theories, and Egyptian iconography. In her self-portraits, Huxtable transforms her body with metallic paint, entering a posthuman world in which she is queen—an imaginary, futuristic empire where white supremacy is no longer the presiding force, and where normative attitudes towards gender and sexuality have finally been overturned. Huxtable is also a member of a queer coven in New York, called House of LaDosha, that looks back to the ’90s queer culture of Paris Is Burning (1990), organizing club nights, making t-shirts, and exhibiting work together.
https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/artist/juliana-huxtable
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Reading List: books on occult history from a gender studies/revisionist feminist perspective:
The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult by Clément Chéroux (Author), Pierre Apraxine (Author), Andreas Fischer (Author), Denis Canguilhem (Author), Sophie Schmit(Author), Crista Cloutier (Contributor), Stephen E. Braude (Contributor)
Empowering Passivity: Women Spiritualists, Houdini, and the 1926 Fortune Telling Hearing by Jeremy C. Young
The sympathetic medium: feminine channeling, the occult, and communication technologies, 1859-1919 by Jill Galvan
Divine feminine : theosophy and feminism in England by Joy Dixon
The trial of woman: feminism and the occult sciences in Victorian literature and society by Diana Barsham
Renaissance Feminism and Esoteric Theology: The Case of Cornelius Agrippa by Barbara Newman
Review: Ghosts Of Ghosts: The Trial Of Woman: Feminism And The Occult Sciences In Victorian Literature And Society By Diana Basham
The Darkened Room: Women, Power, and Spiritualism in Late Victorian England by Alex Owen
Talking to the Dead: Kate and Maggie Fox and the Rise of Spiritualism by Barbara Weisberg
Ghosts of Futures Past: Spiritualism and the Cultural Politics of Nineteenth-Century America by Molly McGarry
Tituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem: Devilish Indians and Puritan Fantasies (American Social Experience Series) by Elaine G. Breslaw
Radical Spirits: Spiritualism and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America, Second Edition by Ann Braude
The Female Thermometer: Eighteenth-Century Culture and the Invention of the Uncanny (Ideologies of Desire) by Terry Castle
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Highlights:
The ACRE Residency Program
Call for Applications: Due March 12, 2017
The ACRE Residency Program takes place every summer in rural Southwest Wisconsin. Developed as a means to support emerging artists and musicians, the program provides artists with the opportunity to expand upon their individual practices as well as take part in optional programming within a collaborative community. Shared communal studios and access to facilities including a wood shop, screen-print studio, sound studio, AV + Tech lab, Ceramics studio and Fibers studio are provided. Additionally, visiting artists are invited to conduct studio visits and present lectures, discussions, and workshops. Residents can apply for a 12 or 14-day residency. The residency supports 25-30 residents at a given time.
Over the subsequent year, ACRE endeavors to provide further opportunities and exposure to its alumni. Each resident is offered an exhibition at ACRE’s gallery or one of a number of alternative exhibition spaces ACRE has partnered with in Chicago and beyond. These efforts complement other activities and programming designed to create the conditions for a thriving and enduring arts network.
Website: www.acreresidency.org
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Caldera Residency
Applications for Caldera’s 2018 Artists in Residence program are open through June 16, 2017
Every winter from January through March, creative individuals, collaborations, and performing ensembles are awarded the gift of time and space at our beautiful Arts Center in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains near Sisters, Oregon, for monthlong residencies. Residencies are open to national and international artists in any discipline, as well as creative thinkers in culinary arts, design, engineering, and the sciences.
Website: http://calderaarts.org
Opportunity Listings (Call for exhibitions, grants, residencies, jobs, etc.):
https://www.nyfa.org
https://racc.org
http://lvartscommission.com/opportunities/
https://www.callforentry.org
Residency Listings:
http://residencyunlimited.org
https://racc.org/resources/listings/opportunity/residencies/?orderby=deadline
https://www.nyfa.org/Opportunities
http://www.resartis.org/en/
https://www.nps.gov/subjects/arts/air.htm
http://www.nationalparksartsfoundation.org
Residency Programs:
http://www.skowheganart.org
http://massmoca.org/event/studios/
http://www.bemiscenter.org/residency/
https://www.banffcentre.ca/programs/residencies
https://www.andersonranch.org/programs/artists-in-residence-program/
http://calderaarts.org/caldera/arts-in-residence/
http://www.ox-bow.org/
http://www.headlands.org/program/air/
http://vermontstudiocenter.org/
http://www.pssst.xyz/residencies-1/
http://smackmellon.org/
https://www.jmkac.org/explore-discover/arts-industry-program
http://www.signalfirearts.org
http://www.rainmakerartistresidency.org/
http://www.acreresidency.org
http://www.artfarmnebraska.org
http://www.goelsewhere.org/residencies/
http://wassaicartistresidency.org
https://www.casamaauad.com
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A fantastic free website – music from all over the world from 1900 – present day.
All tracks have been discovered by users from all over the world. You can create an account and submit music.
Website: http://radiooooo.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/radiooooo_com/
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HIGHLIGHTS:
Mammane Sani Abdullaye
Mammane Sani Abdullaye is a legendary name amongst Niger's avant garde. A pioneer of early West African electronic music, for over 30 years his instrumentals have filled the airwaves.
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Esmeray Diriker
Esmeray Diriker was a Turkish singer best known for her work in the 1970s. Although, many of her songs are pop songs her lyrics often deal with displacement, war and social equality.
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Emily says of her practice "My artwork explores the desire for alternate realities and liminal space. Through sculptural objects and installation I investigate the use of story and symbols to mythologize natural phenomena, referencing our collective desire for escapism and secret knowledge."
She'll be giving a lecture on her work at the American Craft Council in Minneapolis on May 10th
Visit emilynachison.com
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