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Fire in My Belly (1987): David Wojnarowicz
Music: Diamanda Galas
From the book: David Wojnarowicz: A Definitive History of Five or Six Years on the Lower East Side
On Dec 1, 2010, a short video excerpt of "A Fire In My Belly" by David
Wojnarowicz was pulled from the Hide/Seek exhibit at the Smithsonian
National Portrait Gallery due to pressure from Republican lawmakers
threatening the Smithsonian's funding.
Censorship in the 21st
century is a frightening reaction to an exhibit that was created to show
differences in sexual identity in modern America. Aren't we beyond this
by now? When will this stop?
In response to the Smithsonian's
decision to remove "A Fire In My Belly" from the Hide/Seek exhibit and
to protest against censorship in the arts, VandM.com is screening the
original 13-minute silent version of David Wojnarowicz's video online,
courtesy of the Estate of David Wojnarowicz and P.P.O.W Gallery, New
York.
We here at Perpetual Art Machine stand in solidarity with David and encourage all PAM members to write your federal representative and help spread the word. Lets bury these facsist right wing nut-jobs in our letters of outrage against the censorship of this important message from an amazing artist.
“A Turn of the Card, A Spin of the Wheel, A Roll of the Dice”
Presented by the Bureau of Curatorial Affairs - Booth G04
curated by Raul Zamudio
artists include: BTA, Gregory de La Haba, [dNASAb], Erik Pye, and Lee Wells
The Bureau of Curatorial Affairs presents “A Turn of the Card, A Spin of the Wheel, A Roll of the Dice” featuring a diverse collective of mixed-media art works by Gregory de la Haba, BTA, [dNASAb], Erik Pye, and Lee Wells for the Scope Miami 2010 annual exhibition, described as one of the most progressive forces of the 20+ contemporary art fairs surrounding Art Basel Miami Beach, and sited in the Miami Midtown Arts District from November 30 through December 5, 2010.
Unlike the conventional art fair booth mounted by commercial galleries, Bureau of Curatorial Affairs’ presentation, curated by Raul Zamudio, will be a visually poetic mash up of art exhibition and casino. The exhibition consists of an eclectic group of New York-based artists who work in diverse media including painting, sculpture, video, media art, and photography and will be set within a gambling environment with a craps table manned by professional dealers and set for play on opening night. All of the artists are featured in a new Michael Knowles documentary titled “Gambling in Art, A Story of Six New York Artists Who’ve Gone All In”, which follows the group of art colleagues as they pursue their art in today’s New York art scene.
A trailer for the upcoming film will be revealed to the public for the first time at Scope Miami 2010.
www.gamblinginart.com
“These artists are, in one sense, gamblers of sorts who wager, bluff and fold their way through the treacherous New York art world filled with dealer hucksters, curatorial con men, and art critic carpetbaggers of all stripes,” states Raul Zamudio, curator & founder of The Bureau of Curatorial Affairs. “Dedicated to their work to the very end, the stakes for these artists are very high as they ante up their all for nothing less than total success.” The exhibition also uses the trope of gambling as a point of thematic departure in addressing other types of high stakes living faced in daily life including geo-political wars where combatants often feel like cards shuffled by politicians for their own power games; and rampant global environmental calamity where we all end up as losers.
The Bureau of Curatorial Affairs is a global, nomadic curatorial project organized by Raul Zamudio with a rotating roster of operatives whom are diverse in their thinking and curatorial practice and work in all forms of media.
Zamudio is New York-based independent curator and writer. He has curated more than 70 exhibitions in the Americas, Europe, and Asia including co-curator, “City Without Walls”, 2010 Liverpool Biennial; co-curator, 2009 Beijing 798 Biennial; co-curator, 2008 Seoul International Media Art Biennial. He has authored, co-authored, or contributed to more than 40 books and catalogs.
The group exhibition will be open for viewing at Booth G03, at The Scope Miami Pavilion - The Miami Midtown Arts District located at Midtown Boulevard (NE 1st Avenue) between NE 30th & NE 31st Street beginning on Tuesday, November 30 - 3pm - 9pm.
For more information on artists, direct queries to Bureau of Curatorial Affairs Operative
Paola Omboni at
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Maya Hayuk We Junkanoo, 2010 15 X 80'
Latex and spray paint on wall Nassau,
The Bahamas
SCOPE Miami 2010 announces program highlights for the upcoming show:
A TURN OF THE CARD, A SPIN OF THE WHEEL, A ROLL OF THE DICE,
a project presented by the Bureau of Curitorial Affairs, curated by
Raul Zamudio, Booth G04, featuring a diverse collective of artworks by
Gregory de la Haba, BTA, Eric Pye, dnasab, and Lee Wells, all included
in the upcoming feature documentary directed by Michael Knowles,
Gambling in Art. www.gamblinginart.com UP WITH MURAL, a project of The SCOPE Foundation,
will step beyond aesthetic pleasure into a contemporary dialog of
social justice. Spanning a 250ft wall in the center of the fair, 6
artists will install 3 mural statements, each with its own directive.
UP WITH MURAL was conceived to bring politics and community involvement
back into the dialog of contemporary art. UP WITH MURAL features
Kayrock Screenprinting, Maya Hayuk and Eat Shit and Die. ARTISTS WANTED / 3rd Ward presents special projects:
Artists Wanted and 3rd Ward are sister organizations based in New York
City, dedicated to cultivating and illuminating artistic vision. For
more information visit www.artistswanted.org and www.3rdward.com
SOFTLab is a design studio based in New York City
created by Jose Gonzalez and Michael Szivos. The studio has since been
involved in the design and production of projects across mediums, from
digitally fabricated large-scale sculpture to interactive design and
large-scale digital video installations. Project website: www.softlabnyc.com
Taylor Kuffner (Zemi17) and Ryan O'connor have collaborated on numerous projects for a decade. Their latest effort The Viking Mountain Funeral
is an 8.3 surround sound installation embedded in a terrain sculptures
featured at the entrance to SCOPE Miami. Kuffner and O'Connor's works
are life sized monuments melting into their environment with a perverse
beauty backed by a visceral sound of polyrhythmic pulsations. Project
website: www.tumuli.org
Aaron "Taylor" Kuffner is a Brooklyn based composer, sound and
installation artist also known as the performing artist Zemi17. Ryan
O’Connor is a Brooklyn based sculptor and founder of the Madagascar
Institute.
As a culmination and celebration of SCOPE Miami’s events and programming, Artists Wanted is presenting the Official SCOPE Miami 2010 Party, to be hosted on Thursday, December 2nd from 7pm-4am. Please visit www.scope-art.com for more information. SCOPE VIP cardholders will enjoy priority access.
Subports Pop-Up Store: Subports is an open selling
platform that allows users to sell on closed networks and virtually
anywhere using text message. Coining the term "retail experiments",
Subports engages their customers in experiences that blur the lines
between conceptual art, retail and social scientific experimentation.
For SCOPE Miami, Subports will experiment with the boundaries of a
physical, rather than virtual, shop space. A 142 ft wall will be
transformed into a fully functional pop up store, stocked with curated
art, design and fashion objects by some of the most interesting and
esoteric talents in contemporary art and design.
Highlights of the pop-up store include NYC-based artist and designer
Christian Joy, Neivz,, Katie Deedy of Brooklyn’s Grow House Grow, Mother
Eleganza, Risto Bimbiloski, Helveta Vyotlag and Takeshi Miyakawa. For
more information, please visit: www.subports.com
Robert Boyd Video Screening and Lunch Reception
Presented by Artist Pension Trust and Icon Brickel
Friday, December 3rd, Noon-2pm Exclusive premier of The Man Who Fell To Earth: Tomorrow People Part II
(2009), a three-channel video installation that explores the downside
of being a world leader; to be followed by a reception in a private
residence at Icon Brickell. For more information about Artist Pension
Trust visit www.aptglobal.org, and for more information on Icon Brickell, visit www.iconbrickell.com. By Invitation Only.
Artists Pension Trust will also be bringing three large-scale
installations to SCOPE Miami from artists Karen Olivier, Alex Schweder
La and Monika Bravo.
SCOPE for Haiti
Saturday, December 4th, 5pm-7pm Hosted by Michael Capponi and Anna Mixon
SCOPE is pleased to announce a joint event with Haiti Art Expo. All
SCOPE VIP cardholders are invited to join us in the SCOPE Pavilion for a
special reception to celebrate Haiti Art Expo, which affords Haitian
artists a unique opportunity to present their works to an international
audience. All proceeds from Haiti Art Expo will be donated to
charitable causes through United Way, supporting reconstruction efforts
after the devastating Port-au-Prince earthquake in January—50% will go
to Haitian artists to help them rebuild their homes, and the other 50%
will go towards housing in Haiti for the Belvil community village in
Petion-Ville. Our joint event with Haiti Expo continues SCOPE’s own
tradition of advancing underrepresented contemporary art.
We are extremely honored to be co-hosting SCOPE for Haiti with Haiti Art Expo, where guests will be escorted after the reception. For more information please visit www.scope-art.com
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The Bureau of Curatorial Affairs presents “A Turn of the Card, A Spin of the Wheel, A Roll of the Dice” featuring a diverse collective of mixed-media art works by 
