XtraCurricular

Columbia University School of the Arts, in partnership with The Marina Abramovic Studio at Location One in New York, presents XtraCurricular, a new series designed to provide safe spaces for artists to incubate and experiment with ideas. Five artists and thinkers are invited to curate five nights at Location One, using the space for an evening of play and extracurricular events.

The series is jointly curated by Jovanna Stokić and Daisy Nam with the guidance of Marina Abramovic and School of the Arts Dean Carol Becker.

Jenny Perlin
Thursday, January 27, 7 pm
Perlin and actors performed episodes from her eight-part film project made from The Perlin Papers, a collection of over 250,000 pages of declassified government documents from the Cold War. Segments of the films were also screened. The Perlin Papers are archived in the Columbia University Libraries. 

The event was a New York premiere, and the first time all the films were shown together in New York. 

Jenny Perlin’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. She holds a BA in Literature and Society from Brown University, an MFA in Filmmaking from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and completed postgraduate studies at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York. She is represented by Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, and Galerie M+R Fricke, Berlin.

Jenny and The Perlin Papers featured on WNYC

Jill Magid
Thursday, February 24, 7 pm
Magid and her actors will read scenes from a piece based on the arrest of Fausto Cardenas, who fired a pistol into the air on the capital building steps in Austin, Texas. Magid reflects on Cardenas’ tragic and futile gesture through the prism of Goethe’s tragic play Faust.

Jill Magid holds an MFA from Cornell University, and an MS in Visual Studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has shown nationally and internationally, with solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art; Tate Modern, London; Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam; and Gagosian Gallery, New York. Upcoming exhibitions include the Singapore Biennial, and the Matrix Program at Berkeley Art Museum, CA. Magid is represented by Yvon Lambert, New York and Paris. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Read Columbia Spectator article

Performance with Janine Antoni as part of Ernesto Pujol’s Inhabiting the Space
Thursday, April 14, 6-9 pm

About the artists
Janine Antoni was born in the Bahamas. She received her BA from Sarah Lawrence College and her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Antoni’s work has been included in numerous biennials in the following places: Venice, Johannesburg, Istanbul, Kwangju; and in United States at SITE Santa Fe, Prospect.1 New Orleans and the Whitney Museum of American Art. The recipient of several prestigious awards including a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship, Antoni currently resides in New York.

Ernesto Pujol & UteHaus: For his week-long residency at Location One, site-specific performance artist and social choreographer Ernesto Pujol responds to curator Jovana Stokic’s challenge to fully “inhabit the space” through an open daily program of new works in process, informal conversations, movement exercises, and embodied meditations, all supportive of individual and group practice.

Complete Schedule for Group Residency

Daily Program, Monday-Friday, April 11-15

Inhabiting the Spaceat Location One is a weeklong durational performance about performance art, constructed through daily practices, in the form of a flexible program of open rehearsals, movement exercises, and individual gestures. These may start and end earlier or later than planned, always overlapping, changing spontaneously in response to moments.

Monday, April 11, 12-6pm*
12-12:30pm, flexible – Ernesto Pujol: Circle, group walking practice
12:30-1:30pm, flexible – Elaine Angelopoulos: Experimenting with recorded and live texts over her silent performance in Affinitas (an upcoming UteHaus group piece)
1-3pm, flexible – Valarie Samulski: A cumulative choreography derived from daily physical practice
1-5pm, flexible – Matthew Rogers, with guestsMaggie Bennett andJaro Viňarský: Through group movement and discussion, exploring improvisation practice; illuminating hidden dance-processing
4-5:30pm, flexible – Joy Whalen: Exploring solitary movement against a video background

Tuesday, April 12, 12-6pm
12-12:30pm, flexible – Ernesto Pujol: Circle, group walking practice
12-3:30pm, flexible  – Matthew Rogers, with guestsMaggie Bennett andJaro Viňarský: Through group movement and discussion, exploring improvisation practice; illuminating hidden dance-processing
1-3pm, flexible – Valarie Samulski: A cumulative choreography derived from daily physical practice
3-4pm, flexible – Elaine Angelopoulos: Experimenting with recorded and live texts over her silent performance in Affinitas (an upcoming UteHaus group piece)
4-5:30pm, flexible – Joy Whalen: Exploring solitary movement against a video background

Wednesday, April 13, 12-6pm
12-12:30pm, flexible – Ernesto Pujol: Circle, group walking practice
12-2pm, flexible –Janine Antoni, Jill Sigman andColumbia MFA Students: Group rehearsal for their upcoming performance collaboration
1-3pm, flexible – Valarie Samulski: A cumulative choreography derived from daily physical practice
1-5pm, flexible – Matthew Rogers, with guestsMaggie Bennett andJaro Viňarský: Through group movement and discussion, exploring improvisation practice; illuminating hidden dance-processing
4-5:30pm, flexible – Joy Whalen: Exploring solitary movement against a video background
5-6pm, flexible – Tim Cusack: Developing a new solo performance experimenting with movement from stage directions from Glass Menagerie and texts by Tennessee Williams, in honor of his 100^th anniversary, through spoken commands from the audience

Thursday, April 14, 12-9pm*
12-12:30pm, flexible – Ernesto Pujol: Circle, group walking practice
12:30-5:00pm, flexible – Jayoung Yoon: Rehearsing Breathing, her upcoming solo performance on Friday
3-6:30pm, flexible – Matthew Rogers, with guestsMaggie Bennett andJaro Viňarský: Through group movement and discussion, exploring improvisation practice; illuminating hidden dance-processing
5-6pm, flexible – Elaine Angelopoulos: Experimenting with recorded and live texts over her silent performance in Affinitas (an upcoming UteHaus group piece)
6:30pm, flexible – Jovana Stokic, Daisy Nam, Ernesto Pujol: Welcome
6:30-7:30-pm, flexible – Valarie Samulski, Joy Whalen: 2 solo performances
7:30-8:30pm, flexible – Janine Antoni, Jill Sigman and Columbia MFA StudentsYve Laris Cohen, Matthew Fischer, Jesse Greenberg, Molly Lowe, Mira Hunter, Beatrice Parsons, Brie Ruais andJulia Sherman: Performance collaboration interacting with viewers

Friday, April 15, 12-6pm
12-12:30pm, flexible – Carlye Eckert: Solo performance reflecting on her relationship with time
12:30-1:30pm, flexible – Jayoung Yoon: Solo performance entitled Breathing, with small vessels forming a circle
1:30-2pm, flexible – Public de-installation of Breathing and public set-up of the next 2 works
2:00-2:30pm, flexible – Lainey Tant: Meditative movement exploration with sound, open to all
2:30-3pm, flexible – Rosemarie Padovano: Solo performance interacting on the public’s body through ritual and sensate experience
3-4pm, flexible – Embodying & Inhabiting: Open group conversation; publicly evaluating the week
3-5pm, flexible – Matthew Rogers, with guestsMaggie Bennett andJaro Viňarský: Through group movement and discussion, exploring improvisation practice; illuminating hidden dance-processing
5:00-5:30pm, flexible – Ernesto Pujol: Circle, closing group walking practice

Program Notes:
*Students from the BFA & MFA programs from Parsons The New School will participate for part of the day on Monday & Thursday.