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C O N T E M P O R A R Y A R T S C E N T E R M AG A Z I N E • W I N T E R / S P R I N G 2 0 1 9
THIS SPRING: THIS TIME TOMORROW MEET YOUR RESIDENT ARTISTS WARM UP WITH OUR WINTER EXHIBITIONS
POV by Drew Klein
Rashaad Newsome, Running. 2017. Photo by Da Ping Luo
This April, the CAC will enthusiastically introduce our first ever performance festival. This multi-day experience titled This Time Tomorrow aims to create a new platform in the region for interdisciplinary contemporary performance. On a scale like never before, the CAC will be working in collaboration with partners across the city on diverse performances at both distinct venues and site-specific public locations. Audiences will have open access to an assortment of creative offerings over the course of four days, including artist talks, workshops, public convenings and programs brimming with energy at our late-night hub Thursday through Saturday. For much of its history, the CAC has demonstrated a willingness and commitment to carefully reconsider our programming to adapt to the continual changes of the arts landscape with the explicit intention to better serve the community for and with whom we work. Before This Time Tomorrow, we searched for any opportunity to build stronger forums for critical exchange, more effectively introduce visitors to the region’s artists and artist-supporting entities and energize our audience here at home with performances that introduce new ideas that take us somewhere unexpected. This nascent festival is the natural extension, and in some ways — the full realization, of this work. The title is oriented as a proposal, of sorts. In the throes of the 24-hour news cycle that now dominates our lives, the answer to ‘what will the next day bring?’ often feels far more foreboding than encouraging. Rather than specifying the destination at which we will arrive, This Time Tomorrow focuses on the shared experiences that can collectively deliver us to what awaits.
Both in program and focus, This Time Tomorrow is a natural companion to the Black Box Performing Arts Series. Currently in its seventh year, the Black Box continues to be regarded within the region for dynamic international performances by visiting artists of all disciplines. An area of increasing importance within our programming is our role as a developer and presenter of original works by artists from Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky. With a view to better supporting these artists working in contemporary performance, This Time Tomorrow will significantly feature local performance commissions both within the festival’s main program and at our late-night hub. Open practice and open access are the guiding ethos of this festival, and the performances will feature artists working indiscriminately between disciplines. While This Time Tomorrow does not organize around a specific theme, a festival often tends to coherently address prominent issues of our times due to artists’ natural responsiveness to this contemporary moment. A resonant link running through several of the performances within the program is the acknowledgement of violence and trauma — both historical and current — inflicted upon bodies of color. Be it through soaring songs in great halls or small gestures in intimate spaces, these performances pulse with humanity and intention, and provide experiences to consider and carry with us long after we’ve left the venue. We are beyond excited to enter into this new chapter at the CAC; buzzing to bring to Cincinnati the sense of discovery that a performance festival brings with it. Be welcomed to join us over these days, opening our city up to new encounters and artistic experimentation. See you then, Drew Klein Performing Arts Director
APRIL 11-14, 2019
Introducing...
T S I TH
Running
Running
RASHAAD NEWSOME On Touching
INTERMEDIO All The Sex I’ve Ever Had
All The Sex I’ve Ever Had (Cincinnati Edition)
MAMMALIAN DIVING REFLEX Ropewalk
AMANDA CURRERI PERFORMANCE PERFORMANCE
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A brand new festival experience for the region bringing the art of the moment, in the moment—unlike anything you’ve seen before. Push It!
Pushit!
[Exercise 1 in Getting Well Soon]
NIC KAY Serpentine
(to be announced)
JOSEPH KECKLER Serpentine
DAINA ASHBEE As Far As My Fingertips Take Me
As Far As My Fingertips Take Me
TANIA EL KHOURY
IN THE MEANTIME... BERLIN–Zvizdal [Chernobyl - so far so close]
@ Lightborne 212 E 14th St, Cincinnati, OH 45202
The Antwerp-based art collective BERLIN, together with journalist Cathy Blisson, spent five years filming Nadia and Pétro Lubenoc, an elderly couple living deep within the irradiated Chernobyl exclusion zone in a place called Zvizdal. Alone, isolated and convinced that they have grown immune to the radiation, the couple refuses to leave, despite the entreaties of officials, friends and family. This deeply affecting hybrid of documentary film and theatrical installation inserts live shots of three miniature models of Nadia and Pétro’s homestead, while examining the couple’s lives in detail. Zvizdal offers an intimate portrait of loneliness, survival, poverty, hope and unconditional love between two people surrounded by invisible but omnipresent radiation. Presented in partnership with the University of Cincinnati Center for Film and Media Studies and FotoFocus
JAN 18 | 8PM • JAN 19 | 2PM & 8PM
With the Diorama performance series, Fiksdal stages particular views of natural and urban landscapes in different cities and contexts. The word “diorama” often refers to a three-dimensional model of a landscape, such as displayed in museums of natural history. Another use of the word is for the French “diorama theatre” invented by Louis Daguerre in 1822, where the audience sat watching large landscape paintings transform. Through skillfully manipulated light, sound effects and live performers. The Cincinnati version incorporates regional collaborators who perform alongside Fiksdal’s dancers.
FEB 21–22 | 8PM
INGRI FIKSDAL –Diorama PERFORMANCE
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INGRI FIKSDAL–STATE STATE is part dance performance and part live concert, and emerges from lengthy research into ritual dances from a range of places and times. The interest lies in what mental and bodily states dances can produce amongst performers and spectators. Working with renowned costume designer Henrik Vibskov and noise musician Lasse Marhaug, Fiksdal and partner Jonas Corell Petersen have created an immersive performance, where choreography, costume, sound, light and Norwegian spirits take the audience on a suggestive trip.
FEB 21–22 | 8PM
How many questions do you have about race? UK-based artist Selina Thompson has a thousand, and counting. When asked a question, sometimes it’s not about having the right answer, but about starting a difficult, necessary conversation, about asking ourselves and our communities to challenge our own assumptions and beliefs. Thompson’s installation, comprised of 1,000 questions about race painstakingly transcribed onto note cards, can be thought of as generous invitations to start a conversation and reflect critically on the complexities and intersections of identity. An evolving archive and research project, Race Cards provides an important opportunity to reflect, ask questions of ourselves and contribute to an archive of feelings, memories and ideas that too often go unspoken.
FEB 25–MAR 22 | CAC HOURS
SELINA THOMPSON–Race Cards
CALCAGNO CULLEN, AMANDA CURRERI & LINDSEY WHITTLE
Archive as Action
FEB 8-JUN 16, 2019 This exhibition convenes a trio of Cincinnati-based artists who continuously activate found and historical materials through a performative and participatory lens. In this evolving arena, stories that live within textiles, garments, recipes, documents and archives become the platform for gatherings of community and collaborators. Calcagno Cullen is an artist, curator and the executive director of an experimental arts space and socially-engaged residency program that turns the arts organization into an art practice. Amanda Curreri is an artist and professor whose interdisciplinary and interpersonal work mines the politics embedded in textiles to prompt discussions of labor, class and use-value. Likewise, fashion and garments are central to the vivid practice of Lindsey Whittle, a performance, fashion and visual artist whose work revels in color and amplifies the body into a collective being.
← Cal Cullen ← Lindsey Whittle EXHIBITIONS EXHIBITIONS
← Amanda Curreri
Calcagno “Cal” Cullen believes in the power of art to create empathy and positive social change. She made that belief a tangible reality by co-founding Wave Pool with her husband, Geoffrey “Skip” Cullen, where she serves as the socially-minded art center’s executive director. What started as a way to better support artists in Cincinnati has grown quickly to support an array of community groups by pairing them with local and world-renowned artists. The majority of Cal’s work involves “listening deeply” to the needs of neighborhoods and artists, then finding ways to creatively pair them in order to turn deficits into assets. You can see this method in action with The Welcome Project, a partnership between Wave Pool and refugee service organization Heartfelt Tidbits that trains, employs and builds bridges between Cincinnati’s newest neighbors and the broader community through art, crafts and food. Lindsey Whittle, along with Annie Brown, Clint Basinger and Noel Maghathe, formed PIQUE Gallery to create the art world they wanted to exist. The gallery strives to create an inclusive space that connects artists to each other and to the community, one that can adapt to a variety of art experiences, opportunities, workshops and performances. In her studies and career, Whittle has traveled and sought education in order to equip herself to make the artwork she dreamed of, returning to Cincinnati to teach and share her discoveries around fashion and performance art with young artists. Her goal is to help get the wisdom from artists to art students earlier in their studies and practices, in order to give them more informed perspectives from which to build. Whittle loves the Cincinnati art scene and is committed to its development in collaboration with other artists in the community.
Amanda Curreri Upon arrival in Cincinnati, Amanda Curreri co-started Special Collections Press, an independent art book press, housed in the School of Art at the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning (DAAP). Concerned with the immediate nature and agency of art-publishing, as well as the haptic and social nature of bookmaking, the press fosters meaningful dialogue with artists from outside the region. With each new publication, they host a local launch party as a way to create community and encourage relationships to form across new lines. The collaborative nature of the press has also created a student-based initiative, Hot Take Press, who will be producing the exhibition’s accompanying zine.
Julien Nguyen, Kye, Semper Solus. Domus Collection.
JULIEN NGUYEN Returns FEB 8-JUN 16, 2019
Much like an early Renaissance painter engaging the politics and popular culture of their day, Vietnam-born and Los Angeles-based artist Julien Nguyen employs a menagerie of subjects and compositions ranging from Florentine architecture to Japanese manga to science fiction to Hollywood cinema. In doing so, his work functions as a kind of archaeological graft that references art history while disrupting the narratives and hierarchies it canonizes. He applies practices such as one-point perspective and elongated figuration to deities, politicians and personal friends alike, collapsing past and present to conjure hallucinatory allegories that span multiple eras and mythologies.
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TAKE A MOMENT
HOME WITH YOU
Our former Artist-in-Residence, Take a Moment, have made some color-filled “Feel Something” posters to commemorate their time with us. ON SALE NOW AT THE CAC STORE.
MEET THE NEW ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE… Macartney Greer will be our Artist-in-Residence from December-February. Greer is a Cincinnati artist and self-proclaimed pity partier extraordinaire. She is currently pursuing her Bachelor’s of Fine Arts through DAAP at the University of Cincinnati. Greer’s practice is rooted in the idea of taking a negative and using art to dress it up as a positive. With printmaking, illustration, performance, installation and beyond, Greer attempts to use an array of mediums to best represent her ideas. Inspired by memories and current qualms, Greer’s work aspires to cope while caking itself in humor, confetti, and quite literally — cake. During the Artist-in-Residence program, Macartney Greer wishes to navigate open conversations of mental health and celebrate the mundane and negative. Visitors will be able to take part in the construction of random celebrations (like a FUNeral for 2018 or a Pity Party to commemorate the sad times too), making cathartic work while having fun.
by Elizabeth Hardin-Klink, Associate Educator of Family and School Programs
After introducing our Teen Membership program earlier in 2018, we’ve seen incredible numbers of young visitors enrolling. Over 1,200 teen visitors to the CAC have enrolled since June, and we’re so excited to be able to provide them with free access to exhibitions, teen-oriented workshops and studio art-making experiences led by local and international artists. This fall we were elated to learn about an incredible opportunity we have to expand these offerings even further. We’re honored to announce that the CAC is a recipient of a Museums for America award from the prestigious Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). We are one of 133 projects that were selected out of a pool of 472 applicants to receive this grant, and we couldn’t be more thrilled. With this grant, the CAC is able to provide numerous and substantial benefits for our teen visitors and members, as well as our Contemporary Young Adults (C-YA) program.
All artwork was created by C-YA teens, then made into animations that were shown on Metrobot PROGRAMS PROGRAMS
We hired a new, part-time Teen Educator, Brittany Vernon, to advocate and provide continuous support and resources for our young adult attendees. We can expand the C-YA teen council program, now entering its fifth year, by ten new members and provide extensive, arts-focused experiences to a select group of high school age students. The grant funds an annual trip for C-YA members, allowing them to tour colleges, visit artist studios and meet with other teen councils from contemporary museums in cities like Chicago, Philadelphia or Boston.
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Additionally, the grant allows us to have the material budget to fund art-making programs for teens during all of the museum’s evening hours, and helped transform Young Adult Lab from a pilot to a permanent program that provides free weekly drop-in events where participants can experiment with mixed media art-making and work alongside local artists. Because of the success of our teen programming, the CAC has laid the groundwork to build a network of young adult visitors who are ready to invest in and take ownership in a world of contemporary art for years to come. We are honored to receive this award, and to continue our work making the CAC a place where teens from every corner of our community can congregate, connect and create. Learn more about C-YA and Teen Programming at cincycac.org/teen
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UN UN MU MU SE SE UM UM Join us to celebrate these new UnMuseum additions at our Family Festival January 26, 2019
PROGRAMS UNMUSEUM
Virtual Windows
Such and Such: Alex Aeschbury and Zach Darmanian-Harris
The design firm Such and Such is best known for creative, and often playful, approaches to projects using innovative digital fabrication methods. In 2013 they created an adult-size treehouse within our second floor gallery space as part of the exhibition The Living Room. For their second CAC project they were inspired by the window-filled southeast corner of the UnMuseum, where visitors of all ages can enjoy expansive cityscape views. The team have created specialized TV screens that will be mounted over the window to create an augmented reality experience where illustrated figures and strange events will interact with our world. Our first augmented reality installation will use a set of sculptural interfaces that inspire play, curiosity and creativity to trigger the illustrative worlds within the screens.
Art Lab Mural: Building Empathy Ros Bush + Cincinnati area teens
Standing Sound Costume: Lion and Power Place Llewelynn Fletcher
The CAC’s A-Z Art Lab on the sixth floor has become one of our communal spaces — a place where our visitors gather to make art, take part in programming, reflect and hang out. Last year we invited a group of young adults and local artist Michelle d’Cruz to design and create a mural inspired by Swoon and her work with community. This year we continue that tradition with local Visionaries and Voices artist, Rosalind Bush. Ros’ art-making is inspired by classical art, the Old Masters and National Geographic portraits. Her distinctive style — bright color and dark outlining — is both energetic and comforting. She will be joined by approximately 15 students from six different local high schools. The mural speaks to the diversity, inclusivity and empathy found in our community.
At the pinnacle of the famed Zaha Hadid staircase, a monumental lion created from basswood stands surrounded by sky and cityscape views, with a vibrating cave hidden in its interior. Opposite the work is a print of a lone figure wearing a lion-eagle costume staring out at a dark, open sky. As a pair, the works create a space in our frenzied world for quiet introspection where we can consider our vulnerable bodies, inner selves and the possibility of their transformation. The artist Llewelynn Fletcher creates sculptural work and installations with an undeniable sense of play that explore themes of human-animal kinship, human exceptionalism, differently-bodied lives and transformative potential. Her works blend inspiration from prehistoric art, in which animals morph with humans in concepts of a post-human future.
CALENDA WINTER • SPRING 2019
FEBRUARY
WEEKLIES
THURSDAY ART PLAY $ THURS • 10:30–11:30AM
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE WED & FRI • 4:00–8:00PM
YOUNG ADULT LAB THURS • 4:00-8:00PM
CO-WORKING WITH CAL$ THURS, FEB 15- JUNE 6 • 12:00–5:00PM
JANUARY
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1:00PM TALK + SIGNING: PRO-TIPS FROM MUSEUM INSTALLERS 12:00–1:00PM HOMESCHOOL OUTREACH: CHEVIOT LIBRARY 6:45PM CINEMA AT THE CENTER: TO YOU, WHEREVER YOU ARE
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1:00–2:00PM CAC@21C
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11:00AM–12:30PM $ HOMESCHOOL WEDNESDAY
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8:00PM PERFORMANCE: ZVIZDAL: CHERNOBYL - SO FAR SO CLOSE
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2:00 & 8:00PM PERFORMANCE: ZVIZDAL: CHERNOBYL - SO FAR SO CLOSE
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5:00–6:00PM CAC@21C
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12:00–3:00PM FAMILY FESTIVAL OPENING: CELEBRATE CINCINNATI!
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7:30 CINEMA AT THE CENTER: OUROBOROS
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8:00PM OPENING CELEBRATION: ARCHIVE AS ACTION + JULIEN NGUYEN
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1:00–2:00PM CAC@21C
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3:30–4:30PM HOMESCHOOL OUTREACH: SYMMES LIBRARY
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6:00–9:00PM CAC REVELRY: LOVE HURTS
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8:00PM $ PERFORMANCE: INGRI FIKSDAL: DIORAMA
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8:00PM $ PERFORMANCE: INGRI FIKSDAL: DIORAMA
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11:00AM–12:30PM $ HOMESCHOOL WEDNESDAY: ARCHIVE AS ACTION TOUR
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8:00PM $ PERFORMANCE: INGRI FIKSDAL: STATE
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12:00–1:00PM GALLERY PERFORMANCE: AMANDA CURRERI: ROPE WALK 5:00–6:00PM CAC@21C 8:00PM $ PERFORMANCE: INGRI FIKSDAL: STATE
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KEY FAMILY PROGRAMS
EVERYONE IS WELCOME
STUFF FOR GROWN UPS
$ TICKETED
STUFF FOR TEENS
1:00–3:00PM MAKERSPACE: MAKING A DIFFERENCE
This event will take place at The Mini Microcinema
THE ART OF YOGA $ TUES • 12:00–1:00PM
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9:30AM–12:00PM OAEA NUTS & BOLTS TEACHER + ART SUPPLY SWAP 12:00–3:00PM FAMILY FESTIVAL: FROSTY FROZEN FUN
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12:00–1:00PM GALLERY PERFORMANCE AMANDA CURRERI: ROPE WALK
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10:00AM–12:00PM WELCOME CLASS: GALLERY ART MAKING
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6:00PM CINEMA AT THE CENTER: BARRY LYNDON
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10:00AM–1:00PM $ EDUCATOR WORKSHOP:
ARTISTS ARE ACTIVISTS/ ACTIVISTS ARE ARTISTS
1:00–2:00PM CAC@21C 2:00–4:00PM GALLERY PERFORMANCE: PLACE MAPPING
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7:00PM GALLERY PERFORMANCE: SKY CUBACUB, GRACE DUVAL, LINDSEY WHITTLE: SAME BEGINNING-DIFFERENT ENDING
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12:00–1:00PM GALLERY PERFORMANCE AMANDA CURRERI: ROPE WALK
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11:00AM–12:30PM $ HOMESCHOOL WEDNESDAY: UNMUSEUM TOUR
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7:00PM GALLERY PERFORMANCE LINDSEY WHITTLE, PONES INC, + BERT MARCKWARDT: LIGHT COLLAGE
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10:00AM–12:00PM WELCOME CLASS: GALLERY ART MAKING
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3:30–4:30PM HOMESCHOOL OUTREACH: SYMMES LIBRARY
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11:00AM–12:30PM $ HOMESCHOOL WEDNESDAY: JULIEN NGUYEN TOUR
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6:45PM CINEMA AT THE CENTER: DANGEROUS ACTS STARRING THE UNSTABLE ELEMENTS OF BELARUS
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12:00–1:00PM GALLERY PERFORMANCE AMANDA CURRERI: ROPE WALK
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5:00–6:00PM CAC@21C
7:00–9:00PM $ ONE NIGHT ONE CRAFT: MACRAMÉ
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12:00–3:00PM FAMILY FESTIVAL: THE ARTIST IS IN
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5:00–8:00PM CINCINNATI TABLE Ticketed event - limited seats
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1:00–2:00PM HOMESCHOOL OUTREACH: ERLANGER LIBRARY
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5:00–6:00PM CAC@21C
1:00–2:00PM CAC@21C
12:00–1:00PM GALLERY PERFORMANCE AMANDA CURRERI: ROPE WALK
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12:00–3:00PM FAMILY FESTIVAL 10:00–11:30AM EDUCATOR WORKSHOP: EXHIBITION EXCHANGE: JULIEN NGUYEN
w From all of us at the Contemporary Arts Center, THANK YOU! Your generous support enables us to continue connecting visitors with the art and artists of our time. We’d especially like to our Board of Trustees, exhibition and corporate sponsors, as well as members of The 50, the WOMXN, the Director’s Circle and each of our members and visitors.
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