MyNerva: Office Planters by Forrest Lewinger

Ongoing

At EFA Project Space, 323 West 39th St, 2nd Floor

This event is part of Empathy Corporation, a presentation of A Blade of Grass and EFA Project Space's project The Hive, a platform for socially engaged art practices, featuring projects that expand the boundaries of art by seeking new ways to integrate into real life experience. 

For his contribution to MyNerva, Forrest Lewinger has created a series of text pieces that take the form of hand thrown ceramic office planters. The planters pull text from Richard Florida’s “Rise of the Creative Class” to examine the way the artist and his process has been assimilated into corporate business culture. These planters were thrown while Forrest is at work at day job. The piece is meant not only as a sculptural intervention at MyNerva but as an intervention into his daily rituals as well. He will also contribute a sound piece where he will perform and augment field recordings he has collected at his own day job.

Comfort Potluck

Friday, May 10, 7:00pm

At EFA Project Space, 323 West 39 St, 2nd Floor

EFA Project Space invites you to dine with The Emo Show during this closing potluck event. Participating guests are asked to join us all in bringing a dish with which you have an emotional connection. Each dish will be displayed with a card describing its significance. While enjoying the food, guests will have the opportunity for intimate discussion with The Emo Show artists and curators about their artwork, the curatorial process, and concepts underlying the exhibition. 

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The Emo Show Curatorial Walk-Through

Installation view of The Emo Show

Friday, April 26, 6:30pm

At EFA Project Space, 323 West 39 St, 2nd Floor

Join us for a curatorial walk-through and conversation with artists participating in The Emo Show, including special guests Jaishri Abichandani, Annabel Daou, Julie Heffernan, Shane Aslan Selzer, William Villalongo, and Wojtek Ulrich who will be present to talk about their work.

For more information, please email projectspace@efanyc.org.

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Public Reading Performance with Keren Cytter

Friday, March 8, 3:00pm to 10:00pm

At EFA Project Space, 323 West 39 Street, 2nd Floor

This public reading performance is based on Keren Cytter's novel White Diaries, which is a collection of Cytter's journal entries from the winter of 2009. The foreword reads: "This diary is half baked. It's made up of fifty percent sincerity and fifty percent secrets, which were deleted during editing. This diary is half real, nothing here is fictitious, but not everything is told."

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Live Reading Performance of "Lincoln Ocean Victor Eddy" with Jill Magid

Image courtesy of www.jillmagid.net

Thursday, February 28, 6:30pm

At EFA Project Space, 323 West 39 St, 2nd Floor

The Book Lovers's artist Jill Magid and actor Ed Vassallo will do a live reading performance of Lincoln Ocean Victor Eddy. "Magid's impressive New York debut includes Lincoln Ocean Victor Eddy, a video and series of photographs accompanied by a haunting novella. All record her five-month friendship with a New York City police officer. She initiated it by asking him to search her (he didn't) and then shadowing him during his night shift, usually on subway platforms in Manhattan and Brooklyn. The best part of the work is the quietly heart-rending novella, a kind of tunnel vision of two people moving along parallel tracks while the city hums around them. The relationship is never consummated, but Lincoln Ocean Victor Eddy spells love." (The New York Times)

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