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March 3 – 11
Martín Acosta
1999 Grantee, Theater/Performance Art
Timboctou
A play by a mexican young playwright, that deals in a hysterical way with the violent situation Mexico is going through. Directed by Martin Acosta.
REDCAT Theater, Los Angeles, CA
http://www.redcat.org/

 

 

January 5 – 7
Young Jean Lee
2006 Grantee, Theater/Performance
Untitled Feminist Show
In Young Jean Lee's latest experiment, UNTITLED FEMINIST SHOW, six charismatic stars of the downtown theater, dance, cabaret, and burlesque worlds come together to invite the audience on an exhilarating journey through expressions of a fluid and limitless sense of identity.
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
http://www.walkerart.org/calendar/2012/young-jean-lees-theater-company

January 10
Rosemarie Waldrop
2003 Grantee, Poetry
Joint reading with Keith Waldrop.
Sherry Memorial Reading, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
katesoto@uchicago.edu

January 12
Rosemarie Waldrop
2003 Grantee, Poetry
Dissonance (if you are interested)
Conversation on poetics by Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop.
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
katesoto@uchicago.edu

January 14
Jennifer Rosenblit
2012 Grantee, Dance
In Mouth (solo performance installation)
Rosenblit’s gallery-style event looks at the idea of isolating performance, rather than just performing.
Bodega, Philadelphia, PA
http://bodegaphiladelphia.org/

January 15 – April 15
Jack Collom
2012 Grantee, Poetry
The Poet Is In
As part of the Boulder Library Foundation’s “Poetry is for Everyone,” join Poet-in-Residence Jack Collom for events during the second part of his residency at the Main Library.
Boulder Public Library, Boulder, CO
http://bplnow.boulderlibrary.org/event/2012-01-15/poet-poet-residence-jack-collom

January 20
Jonah Bokaer
2006 Grantee, Dance
Trophy
Solo choreography by Jonah Bokaer and Daniel Arsham in conjunction with Daniel Arsham exhibition.
OWOW Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
http://oh-wow.com/

January 21
David Behrman
2004 John Cage Awardee
My Dear Sigfried
David Behrman presents a live version of “My Dear Siegfried,” a performance environment in which musicians interact with texts by Sam Behrman and Siegfried Sassoon and with music software designed to respond to the performers’ actions.
International House, Philadelphia, PA
http://ihousephilly.org/events/sonic-arts-union-david-behrman-ensemble/

January 22
Jennifer Rosenblit
2012 Grantee, Dance
When we eat and drink the way we do: a lunch n’ lecture (Lecture/Performance)
Bodega is building Rosenblit a last supper table including lunch curated by Bodega and a lecture on ideas of performance, the body, gender, politics, history, structure by Rosenblit and poet Stella Corso.
Bodega, Philadelphia, PA
http://bodegaphiladelphia.org/

January 27 – 29
Jonah Bokaer
2006 Grantee, Dance
Why Patterns and RECESS
Dance Concert.
Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, Miami, FL
http://arshtcenter.org/

January 28
Jennifer Rosenblit
2012 Grantee, Dance
When Them (Group installation)
A large curated event exploring the idea of performance.  Artists include Kyli Kleven, Mariana Valencia, Courtney Cooke, Addys Gonzalez, Jules Gimbrone, Geo Wythe, Effie Bowen, Lauren Grace-Bakst, Steve May, Kate Brandt and Stella Corso among others.  
Bodega, Philadelphia, PA
http://bodegaphiladelphia.org/

January 29
Jack Collom
2012 Grantee, Poetry
Poetry is for Everyone!
Once a month Jack Collom will organize and read in informal poetry readings.
Boulder Public Library, Boulder, CO
http://bplnow.boulderlibrary.org/event/2012-01-29/poetry-everyone-readings

January 29
Carl Stone
1999 Grantee, Music/Sound   
SUKOTHAI (1977)
Stone’s tape composition SUKOTHAI (1977) will be programmed as part of The Society for the Activation of Social Space Through Art and Sound (SASSAS) “Welcome Inn Time Machine” event, part of Pacific Standard Time, the region-wide celebration of post-war art in Southern California that is underway until March.
Mission Inn Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, CA
http://www.pacificstandardtime.org/events?id=sassas-welcome-inn-time-machine
http://www.sassas.org/

February 3 – 4
Jonah Bokaer
2006 Grantee, Dance
REPLICA
Dance Concert.
SUNY Brockport, NY

February 5
Michael Pisaro
2006 Grantee, Music/Sound
Pisaro/Sugimoto Performances
Two collaborative concerts with Taku Sugimoto and Michael Pisaro.
The Wulf, Los Angeles, CA
http://thewulf.org/events.html

February 10 – 12
Stephen Petronio
1999 Grantee, Dance
Underland
Underland is a sexy, enigmatic fusion of dance, music and visual imagery inspired by the tender, bittersweet songs of pop balladeer Nick Cave.
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
http://www.worldmusic.org/stephen-petronio-company-0-905

February 11
John Bischoff
1999 Grantee, Music/Sound
Composers from the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College
Electronic Music by John Bischoff, Chris Brown, James Fei, Maggi Payne, Les Stuck and guest composer Larry Polansky.
Littlefield Concert Hall, Mills College, Oakland, CA
http://musicnow.mills.edu/concerts.php

February 18
DD Dorvillier
2007 Grantee, Dance
RMW(a) (Performance)
Duet in collaboration with choreographer Jennifer Monson.
Meanings and Makings of Queer Dance, Congress on Research in Dance
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
http://irwg.research.umich.edu/events/calendar.php

February 20 – 23
Michael Pisaro
2006 Grantee, Music/Sound
A portrait concert of Michael Pisaro's music.
Oberlin Residency, Oberlin College, OH
http://web1.oberlin.dotcms.org/calendar/index.dot?id=3488947

February 21
Rosemarie Waldrop
2003 Grantee, Poetry
Poetry Reading
Emory University, Atlanta, GA
bcovey@emory.edu

February 22
Rosemarie Waldrop
2003 Grantee, Poetry
Poetry Reading
University of Georgia, Athens, GA
azawacki@aol.com

February 24 – 26
John Jasperse
2003 Grantee, Dance
Fort Blossom revisited (2000/2012)
In Fort Blossom, through a very personal look at the body, the audience is invited to examine contemporary notions of how we experience the body as both owners and spectators.
Bryn Mawr College Performing Arts Series, Bryn Mawr, PA
http://www.brynmawr.edu/arts/series.html

February 25 – 26
Yvonne Rainer
1970s FCA Grantee
For Dia, the Yvonne Rainer retrospective program represents the continuation of its institutional commitment to presenting innovative performance and dance events.  It will celebrate the depth of Rainer's contributions to dance, and provide a unique opportunity to consider her practice in the context of her peers whose visual art works are on view at Dia:Beacon.
Dia:Beacon, Beacon, NY
http://events.newstimes.com/beacon-ny/events/show/234417005-yvonne-rainer-performance-series-20112012

March 2
Annie Gosfield
2008 Grantee, Music/Sound
Ashley Bathgate and Ian Ding play Annie Gosfield
Cellist Ashley Bathgate and percussionist Ian Ding play music from Daughters of the Industrial Revolution by Annie Gosfield.
Friday Night Live! Detroit Institute of the Arts, Detroit, MI
http://www.dia.org/

March 2 – 3
Stephen Petronio
1999 Grantee, Dance
Underland and City of Twist
Underland is a sexy, enigmatic fusion of dance, music and visual imagery inspired by the tender, bittersweet songs of pop balladeer Nick Cave.  City of Twist is an homage to New York City with an enigmatic commissioned score by performance art legend Laurie Anderson.
Freda Lupin Memorial Hall, New Orleans Ballet Association, New Orleans, LA
http://www.nobadance.com/stephenpetronio.cfm

March 3
Karole Armitage
2004 Grantee, Dance
Armitage Gone! Dance
Performance of Three Theories
Byham Theater, Pittsburgh, PA
http://trustarts.org/events/series/dance_council/

March 3 – 11
Martín Acosta
1999 Grantee, Theater/Performance Art
Timboctou
A play by a mexican young playwright, that deals in a hysterical way with the violent situation Mexico is going through. Directed by Martin Acosta.
REDCAT Theater, Los Angeles, CA
http://www.redcat.org/

March 30 – 31
Jonah Bokaer
2006 Grantee, Dance
RECESS and Trophy
Dance Concert performed by Adam H. Weinert.
Proctors Theatre, Troy, NY
http://www.proctors.org/

April – September
Gedi Sibony
2009 Grantee, Visual Arts
In The Still Epiphany
Curated by Gedi Sibony.
Pulitzer Foundation, St. Louis, MO
http://pulitzerarts.org/exhibitions/

April 5
David Grubbs
2006 Grantee, Music/Sound
Frolic Architecture (Reading and musical performance with Susan Howe and David Grubbs).
Yale University, New Haven, CT
http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/bollingen

April 11 – April 12
Yvonne Rainer
1970s FCA Grantee
Rainer will discuss her illustrious career on April 11, and will screen Lives of Performers (1972), her first feature-length film, at the Gene Siskel on the following night.
April 11:  Fullerton Hall, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
http://www.scaaic.org/index.php?q=node/1372
April 12:  Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago, IL
http://www.siskelfilmcenter.org/

April 26 – 28
Karole Armitage
2004 Grantee, Dance
Armitage Gone! Dance
Performance of The Watteau Duets, Gaga-Gaku, and Drastic-Classicism and interview of David Salle and Armitage on April 28 by Helen Molesworth as part of the exhibit: This Will Have Been: Art, Love, & Politics in the 1980s.
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
http://mcachicago.org/ 

April 26 – 29
John Jasperse
2003 Grantee, Dance
Canyon
Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
http://www.wexarts.org 

April 2
Jonah Bokaer
2006 Grantee, Dance
FILTER and REPLICA
Choreographer and media artist Bokaer presents the culmination of a year-long dance residency program, ARTech, with the performance of two pieces: FILTER, a new work created during the residency, and REPLICA, a piece that examines memory loss, pattern recognition and perceptual faculties as they apply to the human body.
Ferst Center for the Arts, Atlanta, GA
http://www.ferstcenter.gatech.edu/plugins/shows/index.php?id=26

April 5 – May 21
Jin Hi Kim
2001 Grantee, Music/Sound
Pyongyang
Kim’s sound mix accompanies David Chung’s multimedia installation.  
Institute for the Humanities Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Link here

April 7
Rosmarie Waldrop
2003 Grantee, Poetry
Poetry Reading
Waldrop reads her poems as part of the New Writing Series’ Milton Ellis Memorial Event.
University of Maine, Orono, ME
http://english.umaine.edu/current-events/

April 8
Jonah Bokaer
2006 Grantee, Dance
STACKS
Bokaer presents STACKS, a multi-disciplinary collaboration with poet Anne Carson and sculptor Peter Cole, which explores the nature of collapse as manifested in human anatomy, written language and everyday objects. The project challenges traditional expectations of what a dance, poem or sculpture can be.
The Moore Building, Miami, FL
http://www.bridgehouseevents.com/venues_moore.php

April 10
Rosmarie Waldrop
2003 Grantee, Poetry
Rhode Island Voices
Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop open the 2011 Rhode Island Voices series by reading their work.
North Kingstown Free Library, North Kingstown, RI
http://www.eventkeeper.com/code/events.cfm?curOrg=NKFL

April 15 – 16
Elevator Repair Service
2009 Grantee, Performance Art/Theater
The Select (The Sun Also Rises)
ERS performs the company’s acclaimed staging of Ernest Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises.”
Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton, NJ
http://www.princeton.edu/arts/lewis_center/

April 16 – 29
Zoe Beloff
1997 Grantee, Visual Arts
Zoe Beloff: The Somnambulists
In The Somnambulists, Beloff focuses on the idea of "staging the unconscious,” presenting five different hysterical dramas.  These include “History of a Fixed Idea” and “A Modern Case of Possession” in which two patients of the famous French psycho-pathologist Pierre Janet, express their delusions in song. A talk with Beloff will open the exhibit on April 16.
Velaslavasay Panorama, Los Angeles, CA
http://www.panoramaonview.org/index.html

April 18
Rosmarie Waldrop
2003 Grantee, Poetry
Poetry Reading/Recording
As a part of Lamont Library’s 80th anniversary season, poet and award-winning translator Waldrop and her husband Keith participate in a WPR recording session duet.  A Q&A and book signing will follow.
Lamont Library, Cambridge, MA
http://www.hcl.harvard.edu/info/exhibitions/#poetry_room_events

April 20
Rosmarie Waldrop
2003 Grantee, Poetry
Poetry Reading
Poet and translator Waldrop will present a poetry reading alongside her husband Keith Waldrop.
Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI
http://prod.campuscruiser.com/q?pg=home_calendar&tg=Calendar-monthly&cmd=load&dt=20110425&cx=22.161&ts=1301067990850

Through April 24
Paul Sietsema
2002 Grantee, Visual Arts
All of this and nothing (group exhibition)
Sietsema’s work is included in the first major exhibition at the Hammer to be curated jointly by the museum’s chief curator, Douglas Fogle and senior curator Anne Ellegood. The exhibition explores fundamental questions about our experiences of existing in the world and in the potential for art to reveal the mysterious and the magical.
The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
http://hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/detail/exhibition_id/197

Through April 30
Kimsooja
2001 Grantee, Visual Arts
Where Do We Migrate To? (group exhibition)
Kimsooja is included in this exhibit that explores contemporary manifestations of required mobility as well as experiences of displacement and exile, and examines how intensified situations of transition undermine our cultural and personal notions of settlement and belonging.
The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, Baltimore, MD
http://www.umbc.edu/NewsEvents/Arts/Calendar/

May 19 – July 17
Ishmael Randall Weeks
Grantee 2006, Visual Arts
Contain, Maintain, Sustain (group exhibition)
Curated by Welmoed Laanstra, Sara Reisman and Ernesto Santalla, Contain features Weeks and other artists who work with time-based and static artworks that explore sustainability.
Artisphere, Arlington, VA
http://www.artisphere.com/calendar/event-details/Visual-Arts/Contain-Maintain-Sustain.aspx

May 20 – July 2
Allison Smith
2008 Grantee, Visual Arts
The Cries of San Francisco (solo exhibition)
Smith, along with 50 participants, creates a temporary public art project that takes as its inspiration the historic tradition of street peddling as an alternative economy and a form of sculptural drag. An accompanying exhibition also serves as a public house and market hall where participants gather to perform and record their cries and to trade and peddle their wares to the public.
Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
http://soex.org/criesofsf.html

Through May 29
Allison Smith
2008 Grantee, Visual Arts
Piece of Work (solo show)
In Piece of Work, Smith presents sculptures and works on paper that refer to different American decorative arts and craft traditions, creating a space for both contemplation and activity.  In addition to this installation, the exhibition features a suite of programs inviting local artists, craftsmen and visitors to create work in the museum.
Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Denver, CO
http://www.mcadenver.org/index.php/exhibitions/Allison_Smith:_Piece_Work



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