National Bitter Melon Council Participates in Tiravanija Project
The National Bitter Melon Council (members include Prospectus artists Hiroko Kikuchi and Jeremy Liu) is one of 12 participants in a special curatorial project with artist Rirkrit Tiravanija titled “The Way Things Go” which will be on view at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) in San Francisco from February 13 to May […]
Cathy McLaurin Performance Monologue in March
Cathy McLaurin (participant in Alfredo Jaar’s Public Interventions) will perform a monologue titled “Live and learn die and forget it all” on March 21, 2015 at Praxis, Philadelphia, PA.
Green Printmaking Certificate Program to Be Offered July 2015
Certificate in Green Printmaking: Intaglio After 15 years of research and practice in safer intaglio, Zea Mays Printmaking ([substratum])is offering an intensive summer Certificate Program to train printmakers in the latest, best practices in safer intaglio. The Green Printmaking Certificate: Intaglio consolidates our knowledge about etching and photopolymer intaglio into an intensive 3-week training program July […]
New Feature Film by Andrews Premiers in Rotterdam
“The Strange Eyes of Dr. Myes,” Nancy Andrews’ first feature-length film, received its world premier in January 2015 at the International Film Festival, Rotterdam. You can read Nancy’s account of the event here. Nancy’s Prospectus projects, Loupette and the Moon + Delirious, are profiled at http://www.artistsincontextprospectus.org/2015/01/02/nancy-andrews/
Jeremijenko Work with Mussels on View in NYC through Aug. 2, 2014
As part of the exhibition “This is what sculpture looks like” at Postmasters Gallery, 54 Franklin St., Tribeca, NYC, Natalie Jeremijenko (Environmental Health Clinic + Cross(X)Species Adventure Club) has contributed an aquarium featuring live mussels wired to small lights and a digital sound system that respond to the opening and closing of the mussels’ shells. […]
Collective Sets Up Pirate Radio Station to Address Housing Crisis
Prospectus artist John Hulsey (participant in Alfredo Jaar’s Public Interventions) is part of a collective of artists and activists who have set up a pirate radio station within a Fannie Mae-owned house at 193 Norwell St., Dorchester, where the community group City Life/Vida Urbana recently moved a homeless couple in protest of the large number […]
Campos-Pons Performance at 3rd Bahia Biennale
Prospectus artist Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons (FeFa) performed at the 3rd Bahia Biennale in 2014. The online journal e-flux describes this edition of the Biennale as follows: “Closing a gap of 46 years since the last edition was closed by the military regime, the state of Bahia has resumed its Biennale of visual arts as a continuity […]
Peltz Produces Chinese Opera about Australian Mining Town
TOM PRICE: The Opera, a 30-minute work by Prospectus artist Daniel Peltz (Unrealized Gain/Loss), performed and recorded on video in Taiwan, was shown in the Western Australian mining town of Tom Price in June 2014 and is scheduled to be part of an exhibition at the Western Australia Museum in Perth in February 2015. According to Peltz: […]
Borelli Project in Ashland Receives $75,000 ArtPlace Grant
We are pleased to announce that Prospectus artist Dan Borelli (The Cloud of Unknowing) has been awarded a $75,000 grant from ArtPlace to realize his related multiyear, cross-disciplinary, research-based, collaborative project Illuminating Futures: Ashland, Massachusetts. ArtPlace America is a collaboration among 14 foundations, 8 federal agencies, and 6 financial institutions dedicated to investing in creative placemaking projects […]
McLaurin Exhibition in North Carolina
The North Wind and the Sun, a project by artist Cathy McLaurin (participant in Alfredo Jaar’s Public Interventions), is on view through August 15, 2014 at Power Plant Gallery, a laboratory for the arts and a joint initiative of the Center for Documentary Studies and the MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts Program at Duke […]
