Current Practice
MFA Art Practice at the School of Visual Arts is pleased to present “Current Practice,” an exhibition of work by members of the Art Practice Class of 2014.
The People to Come
A canary torsi’s new multimedia project, The People to Come, is a participatory performance installation that invites audience members to become part of the work unfolding before them.
Prune Nourry at The Venice Biennale
The Alliance Francaise and The Invisible Dog Art Center invite you to the historic Casino Venier in Venice, Italy to witness ID artist Prune Nourry’s Genesis for the first time.
Coming Together / Attica
Choreographer Rebecca Lazier and indie-classical ensemble Newspeak join forces to present Coming Together/Attica, an immersive, site-specific dance work to a pulsating score by minimalist icon Frederic Rzewski.
Tundra
Tundra is an evening-length performance piece with choreography by Christiana Axelsen, an original script by playwright Chana Porter, and an original composition by Tito Ramsey.
Facts and Fictions
Recession Art is pleased to present it's spring 2013 group show at The Invisible Dog Art Center.
Alternate / Shelter // Movement Research Festival
Performance and the performing body have a unique relationship to life in later capitalism.
Actua 1
ACTUA 1 constructs an event that both happened and did not. An exercise in futility and concentration, the piece is named after Actua One, a lost film from the May ’68 uprisings.
Twofivesix
Twofivesix is a one-day conference hosted by Kill Screen, devoted to the spaces between games, play, interaction, and creativity.
Last Days / First Field // jill sigman/thinkdance
A movement ritual for our time, last days/first field kinesthetically distills the feeling of now– what it is to live in the face of climate change, extreme weather, economic instability, and political polarization.
Bureau of Apology: An Interactive Art Project // Brent Birnbaum
The Bureau of Apology is, at first glance, simply an office. Looks are deceiving and patterns can be quickly deciphered as a murky kind of bureaucratic hell begins to emerge.
Duchesses
Between arid ecstasy, radiant meditation, and cruel hypnosis, Duchesses explores an unlikely dance, sovereign, and prisoner from the most ancient game of humanity.
2FIK'S MUSEUM
Performer and photographer, 2Fik, returns to The Invisible Dog to present a brand new body of work.
Shabbat Dinner
A multi-course meal plus special cocktail by The Gefilteria in celebration of R. Justin Stewart’s installation, Distorting (a messiah project, 13C).
Handmade Frames - Closing Party
These Specific Points is a site-specific movement that will be performed at the closing reception of Handmade Frames, a solo exhibition at the Invisible Dog Art Center by visual artist Ryan Frank.
Risa Shoup // Art & Lies
Art & Lies features a diverse collection of work focusing on issues that have figured prominently in her life: gender, environment, time, alienation and isolation.
MATE_Series 3
MATE is a series, curated and organized by Richard Garet, dedicated to sound and moving image presentations that are derived from ideas, processes, material, and media experimentation. This series attempts to present from within a large spectrum of today’s experimentalists, the work of artists that are vigorously contributing to our cultural landscape. These sound and moving image performances can be expected to range from algorithmic media and technology oriented gizmos to the wide range of analog media while engaging in approaches such as improvisation, composition, performance-installation, and interdisciplinary methods and techniques that expand on both artistic practice and audience reception. Each evening will be be orchestrated around a specific focus.
Bennington College MFA Program and Beyond
Writers from the Bennington College MFA Program and Beyond converge.
Mulholland Hwand // Aaron Ruff & Oliver Jeffers
Aaron Ruff and Oliver Jeffers come together again with this project that involves a fictitious boy and his fascination with battle, with nature’s quest for the domination of the biggest and the best, and show the sensitivities of a young mind exploring the world inside his own head.
Handmade Frames // Ryan Frank
LAST DAYS Featuring a new series of work that combines Frank’s signature combination of sculpture and photography, using unique and custom-made frames for displaying his images.
Workspace 2013 + Annual Artists' Open Studios
The third annual exhibition of all 35 Invisible Dog artists-in-residence and open studios. Once a year (and only once a year) do we open our artists’ studios to the public. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see what everyone has spent the year working on.
Aunts + Catch
Catch, “everyone’s favorite” multidisciplinary performance and video series.
The Record
The Record is a theatrical portrait of 35 people who come together for 57 minutes over four consecutive evenings to perform for an audience.
Veal
VEAL is the newest work from multidisciplinary design collective Harrison Atelier (HAt).
Inventgenuity Festival
Brooklyn’s fourth annual Inventgenuity Festival, presented by Beam Center, fills two large gallery spaces with fun and engaging hands-on activities. With public projects and workshops led by Beam Center’s faculty of artists, engineers and big thinkers, the Inventgenuity Festival has become a popular annual winter celebration of making things for kids and their parents.
At the Inventgenuity Festival, kids will playfully and productively investigate what digital technology and manual mechanisms have in common. In two days of hands-on workshops and on-going collective projects led by expert makers and manipulators of sound, image, electricity, and motion kids will explore this year’s theme, DIGITAL BY HAND.
Says Beam Center’s Co-Founder Danny Kahn: “We love watching kids jump behind and beyond the screen to discover how the magic is made and meeting the artists and engineers that make it through nothing less than hard work, persistence and imagination. We feel it’s our job, our mission really, to physicalize and make play out of concepts that are generally veiled in mystery and expertise.”
In the weekend’s big Project designed by Allen Riley, “Physical Video Processing Unit,” kids will become the bits and bytes of a room-sized video machine creating filters and video effects with bodies and a VHS tape. Participation in the project is free. Attendees may also sign-up for one of the rotating slate of 45-minute workshops. Scheduled workshops will explore DIGITAL BY HAND through animation (Brett Van Aalsburg), sound (Daniel Fishkin), convection (Reid Bingham), electronics (Susan Ngo), handmade motors (Eun Jung (EJ) Park), and painting (Jaclyn Brown).
On View
January 26–27
Location
51 st Bergen St
Gallery Hours
ThursdaySaturday, 1–7pm
Sunday, 1–5pm
The Daedalus Effect and Other Dilemmas
Vidich’s The Daedalus Effect and other dilemmas is a piece about work.
Ready to kiss
READY TO KISS is part of French Highlights, a platform featuring the choreographers and directors whose work is making headlines in France today.
Sacre // David Wampach
An extreme experience: a man and a woman nearly breathe the life out of each other. This is how French choreographer David Wampach opens up a new perspective on Vaslav Nijinsky’s The Rite of Spring in his latest piece SACRE.
Camden // Jean-Christian Bourcart
“Absurd, all I did was search the web for the most dangerous city in the USA.”