Geert Lovink on Thu, 14 Jan 1999 10:30:31 +0100 (MET) |
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>Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 12:13:38 -0800 >From: Harley Spiller <harley@franklinfurnace.org> >Organization: Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc. >MIME-Version: 1.0 >To: harley@franklinfurnace.org >Subject: MIR IS HERE an intergalactic and interpersonal netcast! >Status: > >FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 12, 1999 > >Contact: Martha Wilson > Founding Director > Franklin Furnace > 45 John Street, #611 > NY, NY 10038 > 212.766.2606 > info@franklinfurnace.org > >FRANKLIN FURNACE at PSEUDO PROGRAMS, INC. presents >Irina Danilova and Steven Ausbury's >MIR is HERE! >Friday, January 15th >5 PM at http://www.channelp.com > >To watch the netcast, make sure you have the RealPlayer Plug-in, >available at http://real.com. You may also join the artists and >worldwide audiences live in ChannelP's chat room via Pseudo's CHAT TV. > >IRINA DANILOVA and STEVEN AUSBURY present "MIR is Here!" a city-wide >performance/human installation project using Space Station MIR (and >"outer space") as a means of investigating the delineation and >containment of public and private space on Earth. > >"MIR is Here!" appropriates such paradigms as the "space walk," and >"astronaut training exercises" and re-deploys them in urban situations: >training to become the first artist astronauts to go to MIR, Danilova >and Ausbury supplant their hi-tech gear with everyday equipment such as >sidewalks (moving and stationary), revolving doors, escalators, and >elevators. The artists will give a "press conference" from their >"Space," and broadcast images of life in "MIR." > >The project also explores a cultural dialogue between Russian >artist/cosmonaut Danilova and American artist/astronaut Ausbury. "MIR is > >Here!" is their first collaboration. Ukraine-born Ms. Danilova lived for > >years in Moscow before settling in the United States in 1992, and >performed at the 1996 Cleveland International Performance Art Festival, >and Chile?s Performare 1997. Steven Ausbury studied at Hampshire College > >and was a Whitney Independent Study Fellow in 1988. In addition to his >theater and performance >work, he has extensive experience in film and video. He has received >multiple Art Matters Grants, and a Prix Canal Plus at the Cannes Film >Festival in 1993 for his screenplay for the short film "The Debt." > >Franklin Furnace's 1998-99 season entitled THE FUTURE OF THE PRESENT is >the only performance art series that links Aeschylus, the Mir space >station, celebrity fanatics, a runny nose, and a young woman who runs >her inked tongue along a white wall. To view these netcasts, you must >download the RealPlayer plug-in available at http://real.com. > >THE FUTURE OF THE PRESENT is the second season of Franklin Furnace's >collaboration with Pseudo Online Network; Pseudo Programs, Inc. is the >world's largest producer of Internet television, broadcasting over > thirty weekly shows featuring emerging artists, news and entertainment. > >Performances are netcast live from Pseudo's studios, and may also be >viewed archivally at any time from channelp.com or franklinfurnace.org. >For complete program schedule and updates, consult Franklin Furnace's >website http://www.franklinfurnace.org or email us at >info@franklinfurnace.org. > >Franklin Furnace wishes to thank the 1998 supporters of its programs for > >emerging artists for their faith and foresight: Jerome Foundation, The >Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., the New York State >Council on the Arts, the Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation, the Heathcote >Art Foundation, the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, Inc., >Philip Morris Companies Inc., Pseudo Programs, Inc., the New York City >Department of Cultural Affairs Cultural Challenge Program and the >friends and Members of Franklin Furnace. > > > > > > > >-- >--------------------- >Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc. >45 John Street, #611 >New York, NY 10038-3706 >T212.766.2606 >F212.766.2740 >http://www.franklinfurnace.org >mail@franklinfurnace.org > >Martha Wilson, Founding Director >Michael Katchen, Senior Archivist >Harley Spiller, Administrator >Alice Wu, Program Coordinator > Met vriendelijke groet, Bart Tunnissen -----------------------------------------------------/\ ^/\-------------------------------------------------------------------- De Maatschappij voor Oude en Nieuwe Media // The Society for Old and New Media De Waag // Nieuwmarkt 4 // 1012 CR Amsterdam // Nederland // The Netherlands Tel: ± 31 - 20 - 557 98 98 Fax: ± 557 98 80 email: tunnissen@waag.org URL: http://www.waag.org -----------------------------------------------------/\ ^/\-------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- End of forwarded message from Bart Tunnissen -----