TS+ Presents an Evening of Performance at Benrimon Contemporary

We suffocate ourselves

We alienate each other fighting for cultural capital

Sometimes we try to work together but that can get messy too

But we should all learn to get along and give peace a chance

An evening of performance in that order by:

Unravel 

By Genevieve White

Genevieve White uses her body to test her limits and expose her vulnerability. She wraps and masks her head with yarn until she cannot see, hear, or breathe then eventually pulls apart the twine to free herself. She is interested in the coexisting states of repression and freedom, identity shifts and body language. The gesture of unraveling her head is symbolic of her mind as fully saturated and trapped and later unbound by the very force that constrained it. Navigating from the inside out, she tries to unravel truths and myths about others and herself. She is interested in using the body as a map, a vessel, a container, a follower, an interdependent and independent being that impacts its surroundings.

The Wikipedia Project 

By Scott Kildall, Nathaniel Scott, Sean Fletcher and Isabel Reichert

For Sean Fletcher and Isabel Reichert’s Wikipedia Art Remix, two actors perform a scene appropriated from Edward Albee’s play “Who’s Afraid of Virgina Woolf.” The dialogue between the iconic characters George and Martha incorporate highlights from the “Articles for Deletion” page of Wikipedia Art, an intervention by Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern on Wikipedia so the couple’s argument becomes one about whether or not art can exist on Wikipedia.

Scott Kildall is an independent artist, who intervenes with objects and actions into various concepts of space. More info: http://kildall.com/. Nathaniel Stern is an artist, teacher, writer and provocateur, who works with interactive, participatory, networked and traditional forms. More info: http://nathanielstern.com/

Sean Fletcher and Isabel Reichert have collaborated together on conceptually based performance works, interventions, writings, installations, videos, photography, and print since meeting each other in 1994. Their work is about power and vulnerability; how it relates to relationship dynamics, society, and politics. Fletcher and Reichert use collaboration as a tool to integrate the negotiation for power into works of art. More info can be found at www.life-art.org

 

Adam and Ron, The Movie 

Presented by East Pleasant Productions starring Adam Krueger & Ron Beach Jr.

A realty series filmed and produced by East Pleasant Productions documents Adam Krueger and Ron Beach Jr. as they prepared for their two-man show at The Canal Chapter in the winter of ’07. The press release for that show described it as:

Humor shedding light into darkness and the fragmented isolation within claustrophobic chaos to render us overwhelmed and incomplete are just some of the paradoxical themes Ron Beach Jr. and Adam Krueger set out to explore in their art. Beach and Krueger have shared a studio space in Tribeca for a year now. In the monomania for their work, the influence and energy of one artist on the other is proving contagious. In their exhibit titled, “Better Version of Me,” curated by Jenn Wirtz, Beach and Krueger take the dynamic collaborative spirit of their studio and fix it into their first physical collaboration, a two-man show held at The Canal Chapter, December 10,2007 through January 12, 2008. In a refreshing twist, these artists shift their focus of the exhibition from product to process. If the essence of art is in its making, this is the phenomenon Beach and Krueger bring to their viewer.

Ron Beach Jr. is a New York City based painter, curator, photographer and filmmaker. Born in Richmond, Virginia in 1982, Ron has studied at Rockport College, Savannah College of Art and Design, and The School of Visual Arts. Ron’s paintings have been featured in Architectural Digest Italian and his work has been exhibited throughout the United States. Ron is also well-versed in filmmaking and has worked as art director, cinematographer, and production designer for documentaries, music videos and television.

Adam Krueger was born in Illinois and currently resides in Manhattan. He received his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and his MFA from The School of Visual Arts.  He has shown in group exhibition at David Zwirner Gallery, Marlborough Chelsea, Phillips de Pury, and Deitch Studios, to name a few. This year, Adam erected his first two solo shows in NYC, at Coleman Bruke Gallery and Fuse Gallery. Press about Adam Krueger includes Whitehot Magazine, M Magazine, New York Times, and Huffington Post. Adam has also curated shows through his not-for-profit art group.

Xander Storm and Damien Drake have been collaborating since becoming producer provocateurs at MTV Networks. Eventually, their span of work separated each of them into very different parts of the film spectrum. In 2006, a chance project brought them back together and was the geneses for creating East Pleasant Pictures, a non-traditional production company focusing on the bleeding edge of digital filmmaking and storytelling. Today, East Pleasant Pictures is a bi-coastal industry leader, and ‘Adam and Ron’ continues to be a shining example of its attitude and approach to filmmaking.

 

Living Experiences

By Ryan V. Brennan

Screening of selected videos from Ryan Vincent Brennan’s Living Exercises, public performances pieces as performed in NYC in 2009 and 2010. The screening is in conjunction with the debut of the new 2nd edition of the book, Living Exercises—a book of activities to be done alone with friends, family, and strangers, created in hopes of facilitating perspective broadening experiences.

Ryan V. Brennan (b. Cincinnati, Ohio 1982) has exhibited internationally in France, and nationally (New York City, Brooklyn, San Francisco, Miami, Richmond). He has shown in Scope New York ’10, Scope Miami ’09 and Scope Hamptons ’07 as well as the LA Art Fair 08/09. He has a forthcoming solo museum show at Real Art Ways in Hartford, CT (Dec 2010 - Feb 2011). Ryan received the Jonathan Madrigano Fellowship for The Arts through the National Arts Club in 2010. He also was the recipient of a full fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center in 2006 and has been featured in a variety of publications including The New York Times, Beautiful Decay-LA, Daily Serving, The Sunday Paper-Atlanta, Biscayne Times-Miami, and Savannah Morning News.