Dance it out!
Justin Timberlake x Daft Punk | ‘Lucky Suit & Tie’ (MASHUP)
JT + Daft Punk? Don’t mind if I do…
‘Girl Walk // All Day’
Temporary cinema experience on the banks of the River Clyde for the Glasgow Film Festival 2013
Thanks to friend and photographer Mary Freeman for taking these beautiful shots of our ‘Girl Walk // All Day’ event in February for the 2013 Glasgow Film Festival.
Brings back to so many happy memories! What a wonderful night, despite the horrid weather!
Spectacle: The Music Video, a traveling museum exhibition celebrating “the art and history of the music video” opens at the Museum of the Moving Image (in Queens, NY) this Wednesday, April 3rd. The show remains on view till June 16th. A clip from Girl Walk // All Day is included in the exhibition alongside music videos by David Bowie to Kanye West to OK Go. We’re psyched to be included in the exhibition!
From the press release:
From early examples of music in film to the work of music video masters such as David Bowie and Madonna and contemporary artists such as The White Stripes and Kanye West, the exhibition reveals the enormous influence music videos have had on contemporary culture over the past 35 years.
Through over 300 videos, artifacts, and interactive installations, the exhibition shows the changing landscape of the music video, highlighting its place at the forefront of creative technology, and its role in pushing the boundaries of creative production. Spectacle explores the trajectory of the music video from precursors through to the present day across a range of musical genres, and showcases the innovative work of contemporary directors such as Michel Gondry, Floria Sigismondi, and Chris Milk. Original props and artifacts from iconic music videos such as A-ha’s groundbreaking “Take On Me” and OK Go’s “This Too Shall Pass” are presented alongside interactive experiences featuring works by Radiohead and Björk.
Spectacle: The Music Video
Museum of the Moving Image
On view: April 3 - June 16
36-01 35 Avenue (at 37th Street)
Astoria, Queens, NY
Made within Jane LaFarge Hamill’s solo show, Emoticon, at J. Cacciola Gallery in New York
537 W. 23rd Street
On view: March 5 - 30, 2013
Performance + Costume: John Doyle
Painting: Jane LaFarge Hamill
Music: “Her Fantasy” by Matthew Dear
Cinematography: Jacob Krupnick
Production: Wild Combination
Catch Nick Cave, his heard of horses (and our own Daisuke Omiya) at Grand Central Station’s Vanderbilt Hall this week, for a weeklong installation.
For HEARD•NY, artist Nick Cave will transform Grand Central Terminal’s Vanderbilt Hall with a herd of thirty colorful life-size horses that will peacefully “graze” and periodically break into choreographed movement—or “crossings”— accompanied by live music. The project, which is open to the public free of charge, is presented by Creative Time and MTA Arts for Transit as part of a series of events celebrating the centennial of Grand Central.
March 25–31, 2013
Grand Central Terminal
Vanderbilt Hall
Daily Crossings / 11:00 AM and 2:00 PM
Daily Tours 3:00 PM
Free
Help Flex is Kings put the finishing touches on their film!
Flex is Kings, the long-awaited documentary about very under-recognizes Flex dancers (by our friends Deirdre and Mike), is headed to Tribeca Film Festival in April. Help the filmmakers defray the costs of the finishing touches for the film including color correction and sound mixing. They’ve got 10 more days to reach their goal of $20K!
Girl Walk // All Day played at the Glawgow Youth Film Festival in February, and despite the pouring rain, the crowd came out to dance (umbrellas and all).
To celebrate this extraordinary film, Glasgow Youth Film Festival took Girl Walk // All Day to the streets of Glasgow on Wednesday 13 February 2013. 150 people attended the screening, despite the pouring rain! This short documentary discusses the people behind the project and highlights from the night.
This project was developed in partnership with Pidgin Perfect, an award-winning creative studio based in Glasgow. Pidgin Perfect has wide ranging experience in developing and delivering large scale public creative engagements. Most recently they represented Scotland at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale where they designed a series of theatrical events to bring local communities together.
This event was made possible by the following organisations:
Glasgow Film Festival
Pidgin Perfect
Glasgow City Council’s Stalled Spaces Initiatives and Area Committee Grants
Young Scot’s Creative Enterprise Fund
o2’s Think Big fund
Dance HQ
Dance House
#1 Blud Crew
Thanks so much to our enthusiastic fans and the fantastic crew at GFF.
If you’re in NYC, come out to the opening of Jane LaFarge Hamill’s emoticon tonight at J. Cacciola Gallery.
emoticon
New Paintings by Jane LaFarge Hamill
March 5-30th
Opening reception: Thursday, March 7th
6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
537 West 23rd Street
Jane created John Doyle’s awesome skeleton costume in Girl Walk // All Day, and, her new show features many portraits of John.
Sharing the word on behalf of our friend Doug, exquisitely talented maker of baskets. Please help spread the word and protect his practice.
I began creating baskets, bags, and sculptural vessels from raw cotton rope and colored sewing thread in Early 2010 in my Brooklyn apartment. After over a year and a half of working with the technique I began selling them on my webshop in October 2011. The pieces became popular very quickly, receiving much online coverage in early 2012. The coverage continued with many features of my work in magazines and online. Over the course of 2012 I sold my works in over 30 stores in the US and several other countries around the world. All the pieces
are made by myself and a few skilled artists that I employ in my studio in Brooklyn. I use high-quality materials that are manufactured in the US, and my employees, all textile artists themselves, receive a living wage for their skills and time.
Today it has come to my attention that Target has introduced some baskets for their “Threshold” brand, which utilize seemingly identical materials, methods, look, and feel as my baskets - even some of the stitching details are the same. You can see the similarities in the
images below. Target will be selling these baskets for $6.99, a tiny fraction of the value of my own work.
Please, help me share this image. A company like Target knocking off small, design-focused brands for the sake of ‘staying current’ and making a quick buck goes against everything that I, and everyone in my studio, stands for. Help us get our message to them!Thanks!
Doug Johnston
www.dougjohnston.net
“Anna & her Body” performed at Brooklyn Museum prior to a screening of Girl Walk // All Day
2012 Creation by John Doyle
Painting by Jane LaFarge Hamill
John writes:
The initial concept for this piece was a vision of myself performing in a Jane LaFarge Hamill painting of a nude woman. Two very dissimilar women became my reference points for the piece. The first was Anna Nicole Smith. A woman so fascinating that she is difficult to look away from; she became removed from her body and ultimately it gave up on her. The second was Lara Logan. She shares a remarkable and tragic story in which she had to remove her self from her body in order to survive the ordeal.
