May Day 2012 : Festival of Optimism
(AKA Anarchist Art Fair)
Curated by Anonymous
May 1 – 9, 2012
Peanut Underground: Studio + Project Space
215 East 5th Street (off Bowery)
New York, NY 10003 www.peanutunderground.com
Peanut Underground is proud and excited to present its inaugural show in our new lower level studio and project space. May Day is a day to celebrate fertility, fire, and abundance, heralding in the season in the hope of a good harvest.
The Festival of Optimism includes works by the artists: Andy Warhol, Clayton Patterson, [dNASAb], Dread Scott, Duke and Duchess, Gregory de la Haba, Gregory Greene, Katie Peyton, Keith Haring, LA2, Lee Wells, Michael Ricardo Andreev, Mickey Smith, Shiva Lynn Burgos, Nico Smith, Occuprint, Peter Fend, Ray Smith, Ronnie Cutrone, Saskia Hahn, Savannah Spirit, Shepard Fairey, Stewart Home, Spencer Tunnick, Wolf Geyr, and more.
Peanut is a freethinking art space inspired by the epic myth of the avant garde. We miss the Garden of Eden and walking around naked. We remember in our collective mind something different, before Amazon.com and working every day to pay taxes to Goldman Sachs to see Cindy Sherman at MoMA. Before everyone was looking up through the glass ceiling. That's why we went underground to create our shelter, where we are working to build the new.
Peanut serves as an incubator for artists, writers and curators to communicate ideas and create new artifacts for the 21st century. Stop by any evening from May 1 to 9. We just might be having a pop-up event. We have a few things planned but will let the spirit of the show and its participants determine our ship's course.
It is spring. The world corrects. See you underground.
Opening Receptions: Tonight, May 1, 6-9pm
Frieze Studio Visit Sunday, May 6th, Reception to follow 7-10pm
HOURS: 3 - 6ish; Happy Hour: 5 - 6ish; Late night: 6 - 8ish or by appt.
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A Small Modification and Dérive of the Pontus Hultén Collection in the Renzo Piano Grotto: Jacqueline de Jong has made a selection from the Pontus Hultén collection, adding some of her own paintings and sculptures. Works by, among others, Jasper Johns, Marcel Duchamp, Pontus Hultén, Niki de Saint Phalle. February 25–April 9, 2012.
All the King’s Horses is a series of exhibitions, seminars and events that investigate the legacies and the actuality of the Situationist movement and its network of associated groups and fractions.
Upcoming Events:
7: Announcing All the King’s Horses: a series of publications, Sternberg Press.
Titles by: Michèle Bernstein, Daniel Birnbaum, Jonas (J) Magnusson, Kim West and others. Forthcoming, 2012.
6: A Paradise of Letters (part 2), Corner College, Zürich.
An exhibition and screening program about the Letterist movement and its connections to the European post-war avant-garde, curated by Jonas (J) Magnusson and Kim West, June 4–11, 2012.
A Record of Events, February 2012 – October 2010:
5. A Paradise of Letters, Moderna Museet in collaboration with the Romanian Culture Institute, Stockholm.
An evening of performances, readings and film screenings featuring Frédéric Acquaviva, Beata Berggren, Karl Larsson and Tris Vonna-Michell, February 25, 2012.
4. “The SI and the Exhibition After Art”, Staedelschule, and “Situationist Postproduction”, Freitagskueche, Frankfurt.
Seminar on “Die Welt als Labyrinth” and “Destruction of the RSG-6″ with Daniel Birnbaum and Kim West, Staedelschule, January 20 and 21, 2012.
An evening of lectures and performances with Roberto Ohrt and Michael Riedel, Freitagskueche, January 20, 2012.
3. Letterism Today?, Moderna Museet, and Letterist Publications, SITE, Stockholm.
Seminar on the Letterist movement: experiments in cinema, poetry and art, featuring Frédéric Acquaviva, Nicole Brenez, Anne-Catherine Caron and Michel Giroud, May 24 and 25, 2011.
Exhibition with Letterist Publications, text works and films, 1950–2011, SITE, May 23–June 25, 2011.
2. Letterist Cinema, Swedish Institute, and “Histories of Letterism”, castillo/corrales, Paris.
Letterist Cinema: an evening of film screenings, curated by Frédérique Devaux with works by Michel Amarger and Maurice Lemaître, Swedish Institute, May 19, 2011.
“Histories of Letterism”, seminar with Bernard Girard and Michel Giroud, castillo/corrales, May 21, 2011.
1. All the King’s Horses: Histories of the Situationist Movement, Moderna Museet, and Riot Kitchen, SITE, Stockholm.
All the King’s Horses: seminar on the lives and afterlives of the Situationist International, featuring Mikkel Bolt, Claire Fontaine, Jacqueline de Jong and Roberto Ohrt, Moderna Museet, December 1 and 2, 2010.
Riot Kitchen: exhibition with films, works and publications by Michèle Bernstein, Guy Debord and Rirkrit Tiravanija, SITE, November 29–December 19, 2010.
0. Where there is communication, there is no state.
An anonymous feuilleton in three letters sent to 100 people, October–November, 2010.
All the King’s Horses is a series of exhibitions, seminars and events that investigate the legacies and the actuality of the Situationist movement. It poses two general questions: What are the histories of this movement, understood as an international network of associated groups and fractions? And in what ways do Letterist, Situationist and Post-Situationist concepts, theories and techniques continue to inform current cultural production? The project is organized by Moderna Museet, Stockholm in collaboration with Allianz Kulturstiftung.
William Kentridge: Five Themes celebrates the work of one of the world’s leading contemporary artists.
After premiering at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and travelling to the Museum of Modern Art, New York, then on to Paris, Vienna, Jerusalem and Moscow, the exhibition comes to the Australian Centre for the Moving Image for an exclusive Australian season.
Born in 1955 in South Africa, William Kentridge rose to prominence as an artist and animator, winning international acclaim for his stop motion films of layered charcoal drawings. Melancholic and magical, his work is strongly tied to the social and political environment of his home country in the pre- and post-Apartheid era. Tackling issues of colonial oppression, reconciliation, the transient nature of individual and shared memory, Kentridge deftly combines the political with the poetic in work that spans various artforms, from visual art to theatre to the world of the moving image. Inspired by European literature, classical music, opera, plays and early cinema, Kentridge uses archetypal characters to build whimsical, poignant and playful narratives in which good and evil are both complementary and inseparable forces.
William Kentridge: Five Themes features over 60 works ranging from animations, drawings and prints to theatre models, sculptures and books. An unmissable survey of a phenomenal artistic talent, the exhibition explores five key themes of Kentridge’s career, including his direction of The Magic Flute for the renowned Belgian opera house, La Monnaie, and the animated films he developed for a 2010 production of The Nose at the Metropolitan Opera in New York
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