FOUNTAIN NY RETURNS TO 69th REGIMENT ARMORY TO MARK 100 YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF ORIGINAL ARMORY SHOW

Photo: Morgan Reed, 69th Regiment Armory entrance, Fountain Art Fair 2012 Fountain Partners with WAGMAG, Brooklyn Art Guide, to Make History in the Original House of DADA (New York)  Fountain Art Fair announces its return to the 69th Regiment Armory for its 8th annual New York exhibition March 8 — 10, 2013. The art fair celebrates the centennial anniversary at the 1913 Armory Show’s original location. From the initial Armory Show to Marcel Duchamp’s controversial readymade, "Fountain," exhibited under the same roof in 1917, this historic venue is perfectly suited to Fountain’s reputation for presenting delightfully scandalous and unexpected platform of alternative artists, galleries, street art and performance art. Please find application details online here.   “It’s an incredible honor for Fountain to be carrying the torch for the universally heralded 1913 Armory Show, the first exhibition of modern art in the United States. We strive to be harbingers of the revolutionary. Fountain will certainly honor the legend by continuing the tradition of our predecessors at the 69th Regiment Armory during this centennial celebration.” ~ Fountain Co-Founders David Kesting and Johnny Leo Hailed as the destination fair for savvy collectors of the up-and-coming, Fountain prides itself on presenting a diverse platform of progressive galleries, independent artists, unpredictable performances and internationally renowned street artists. A handful of booths remain: visit Fountain’s website at www.fountainartfair.com to access NY 2013 exhibitor applications for the chance to be part of this historic event. This exhibition is made possible with the cooperation of WAGMAG, the not-for-profit guide to Brooklyn galleries that has promoted independent curators’ visions from Kings County for the last 11 years. Fountain welcomes new and returning exhibitors for its New York 2013 exhibition, including: Amanda Hudson Photography; Asan Gallery; Correa, Hagberg, Jimenez, Menard and Stewart; Dacia Gallery; Davis Art Services; EMP Gallery; Front Room Gallery; Gallery 4; Gallery DEN; Grace Exhibition Space; Greyegg McKenna; iArt-4 Collective; Kaboose Gallery; Leo Kesting Gallery; Lindsay Carron; Martha Raoli Project; MCCAIG + WELLES; Mighty Tanaka; Murder Lounge; Pete’s Fingers; Republic Worldwide; Sarah Trouche; Solo(s) Project House; Station 16; The Marketplace Gallery; The Parlour Bushwick; Yes Gallery. Fountain remains the only exhibition that regularly features a curated selection of contemporary performance art, highlighting Brooklyn-based performance art gallery Grace Exhibition Space as curator. This past December at Fountain’s Art Basel Miami Beach 2012 exhibition, Grace Space featured radical Estonian collective NON GRATA, who thrilled late night crowds with live human branding and light displays. Grace Space also invited artists Caridad Sola, Igor Josifov, Sindy Butz and AnalogAnalogue to engage Fountain attendees with a variety of serene, spectacular, and confrontational works. Last year’s New York exhibition included a high-flying act by daring aerial artist Seanna Sharpe and her team, who suspended themselves from the ceiling of the 69th Regiment Armory in a breathtaking performance. Fountain is notorious for its Friday and Saturday night events. Past musical guests include Chairlift, G Love, Marky Ramone, ADULT, No Age, VHS or Beta, Ninjasonik, Fab 5 Freddy, Tecla, TIKI DISCO, JPatt of The Knocks, Ricky Powell, NSR, Luka Son of Wolf, Eden Grey, and Lucas Walters.   Fountain invited local Miami writer J.J. Colagrande to be the fair’s first visiting writer for Art Basel Miami Beach 2012.  Read J.J.’s take on Fountain Art Fair and the Art Basel weekend on Fountain’s website. “Tons of community-oriented art, at price points that were actually, actually thinkable for your average alternative culture journalist.” ~ The San Francisco Bay Guardian “It’s the best place to find young talent.” ~ Cartwheel “Fountain remains truly a haven for the selt-taught, self-represented, and DIY rogues of the art world — a sort of organized free for all, with one part street art and one part explorations in formalist craft.” ~ ARTINFO For more information about exhibitors, schedule, and partnerships, please visit www.fountainartfair.com. Follow us on Twitter: @FountainArtFair and Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/fountainartfair

Rare Performance of Theatrical Adaptation of John Cage's James Joyce, Marcel Duchamp, Erik Satie: An Alphabet

RARE PERFORMANCE OF THEATRICAL ADAPTATION OF JOHN CAGE’S JAMES JOYCE, MARCEL DUCHAMP, ERIK SATIE:
 AN ALPHABET

Performed in the Fisher Center’s Acoustically Superb Sosnoff Theater

Presented by the John Cage Trust and New Albion Records

 ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. – The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts presents John Cage’s James Joyce, Marcel Duchamp, Erik Satie: An Alphabet on Friday, November 11 and Saturday, November 12 at 8 p.m. The rarely performed theatrical piece stars John Kelly and is directed by Laura Kuhn, with music and sound design by Mikel Rouse and set design by Marco Steinberg. The program is produced by the John Cage Trust at Bard College andNew Albion Records. Tickets are $15, $25, $35, and $45. To purchase tickets call the Fisher Center box office at 845-758-900, or go to fishercenter.bard.edu.

Cage’s Alphabet began life as a highly imaginative radio play in 1982, a commission from Klaus Schöning and Cologne’s West German Radio (WDR). Working on the principles of collage, Cage created a cast of unlikely characters— the three title artists, Henry David Thoreau, Buckminster Fuller, Robert Rauschenberg, Brigham Young, and seven others. The result is a remarkably democratic intermingling of perspectives, suffused throughout with humor and irreverence for the particulars of history.

In 2001, nearly a decade after Cage’s death, director Laura Kuhn created a theatrical version of the radio play, directing its premiere in Edinburgh that same year. Sound and music designer Mikel Rouse collaborated with Kuhn and a team of composers, musicologists, and performers, collecting and cataloguing sounds for Cage’s score, which consists of almost 200 sounds “as varied and suggestive as the dialogue itself: a lawn mower, x-rays, an earthquake, a Xerox machine, a bullfight, and a marriage ceremony, to name just a few,” says Rouse.

Acclaimed actor John Kelly will perform the role of the Narrator, which he created for the theatrical version of the work. The cast also includes Mikel Rouse as James Joyce; Larry Larson as Jonathan Albert; Joan Retallack as Buckminster Fuller; Emma Reed as Mao Tse Tung; Victoria Miguel as Thorstein Veblen;Richard Teitelbaum as Robert Rauschenberg; John Seidman as Marcel Duchamp; Ferran Carvajal as Oppian; Trevor Carlson as Brigham Young; and Robin Preiss as the wife of Brigham Young. Erik Satie will be played by Merce Cunningham (on tape).  Ralph Benko, in the role of Henry David Thoreau, has dropped out and is replaced by Rebeccah Johnson. 

This production of James Joyce, Marcel Duchamp, Erik Satie: An Alphabet celebrates the onset of John Cage’s centennial year, the first of many events scheduled to take place around the world. It also celebrates the fourth year of the John Cage Trust’s residence at Bard College. 

For tickets and information call the Fisher Center Box Office at 845-758-7900, or go to fishercenter.bard.edu.

The John Cage Trust at Bard College was established in 1993 as a not-for-profit institution whose mission is to gather together, organize, preserve, disseminate, and generally further the work of the late American composer John Cage. Its founding trustees were Merce Cunningham, artistic director of the Cunningham Dance Company; Anne d’Harnoncourt, Director of the Philadelphia Museum; and David Vaughan, Archivist of the Cunningham Dance Foundation, all long-time Cage friends and associates. Laura Kuhn, who from 1986 to 1992 worked directly with John Cage, serves as both a founding trustee and ongoing executive director.

New Albion Records was founded in San Francisco in 1984, to explore the world of art music. Its current catalogue includes 138 releases. In recent years, with the onset of the Internet, its focus has moved from recording projects to concert events. New Albion has partnered with the John Cage Trust and Merce Cunningham Dance Company.