Hector Canonge in collaboration with invited artists Lawrence Graham Brown (Jamaica/USA) and Antonio Ortuño (Spain) present the performance "NOWHEREISHERE" at FRAMING AIDS 2010 closing event reception on Sunday, December 19, 5 pm at the Queens Museum of Art: Partnership Gallery.
"NOWHEREISHERE” responds to this year's exhibition theme ABSENCE by challenging the public's general knowledge about the pandemic, and by proposing a better understanding of the conditions that afflict people living with HIV and AIDS. Positioning themselves as targets or predators, victims or heroes, the artists create a dynamic narrative that consists of dance, spoken-word, and repetitive movements. Inspired by their personal experiences, and drawing from a pull of texts written individually as they conceived the piece, they will leave their body imprints on a large canvas while combining their fragmented recitations as they spin in concentric motions during their presentation.
About the Artists:
Recently featured in Hispanic Magazine, Hector Canonge lives and works in New York City. His work incorporates the use of various media, commercial technologies, physical environments, cinematic, and performance narratives. He has been awarded scholarships by Harvestworks, fellowships by NJCU, and has participated in residencies at Atlantic Center for the Arts, AIM Program 27 at the Bronx Museum of Art, Newark New Media at City Without Walls, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences at Pace University, and The Wassaic Project. Canonge’s work has been featured at the Bronx Museum, Jersey City Museum, NY Studio Gallery, Exit Art, Gallery Aferro, Topaz Arts, Y Gallery, and other art spaces in the city and abroad. He’s been commissioned by the NYC Department of Transportation, The Queens Council on the Arts, Queens Museum of Art, Artists Unite, Association of Hispanic Arts (AHA), and has received funding awards from NYSCA, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council -MCAF Program, and NoMAA Regrant Program, made possible by the JPMorgan Chase Foundation and the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corporation. His work has been reviewed by the The New York Times, ART FORUM, New York Daily News, Manhattan Times, Queens Chronicle, and on online publications such as NYRemezcla, Turbulence, and ART CARDS Review among others. More information about the artist: www.hectorcanonge.net
Lawrence Graham Brown is a self educated multi media artist, wrestling within the constructs of race, class, religion, and identity. His work explores themes of Black-ness, African-ness, Jamaican-ness, Gay-ness while forging his life experience as a working class immigrant. He describes himself as a “Ras-Pan-Afro-Homo-Sapien” man in the new world, performing a self denying role. His work has been shown at the Museo del Barrio NY, National Gallery of Jamaica, Institute of Jamaica Museum of Ethnography, New York University international small works show -recipient of the jurors award, Shanghai Biennial, Beijing Biennial, China, and Real Artways, Connecticut. Solo shows: University of the West Indies, Jamaica WI and Lutz Rohs Gallery Duren, Germany. His work has been reviewed by the New York Times, Hartford Advocate, Jamaica Gleaner, The Hartford Guardian, Duren Im blick; Duren Germany.
The artistic journey of Antonio Ortuño began in Zaragoza in the Contemporary Art Festival "Conmutaciones-02", with the video installation "Por Amor/ Deshechos" ("For Love/ejection"). Later came Valencia, where he presented the video "Él, antoñito" ("He, little antonio") in the space "El almacén del adecuado comportamiento" ("The store of appropriate conduct"), part of the Second Valencia Biennial. Later works include "Despegar" ("Detach"), a video he screened at the "Nabi Center" in Seoul, South Korea; the video "¿Te parece que esto son sólo palabras?" ("Does this seem like just words to you?") in the International Festival of Video Art in Valencia in the Sala Parpalló; the video installation "Individualities" in Local Project gallery in New York; and his participation in "The Most Curatiorial Biennial of the Universe" at ApexArt gallery in New York and in Animal Gallery in Santiago de Chile with the video “Love=pleasure”. Recently he also participated at “Framing AIDS” in the Queens Museum of Art in New York, Pool Art Fair in New York City and the Spain Art Fest´10 in Times Square. He has lived in New York City for five years now. More information about the artist: www.antonioortuno.com
Directions:
- Via #7 Flushing IRT. Exit Willets Point/Shea Stadium and follow the signs on a ten-minute walk through the park to the museum, which is located next to the Unisphere.
- Free Trolley Service: 4 - 7 pm, street level on Roosevelt Avenue at the entrance of the Train Station.
nowhereishere
FRAMING AIDS 2010
Queens Museum of Art: Partnership Gallery
(Flushing Meadows Corona Park)
www.framingaids.us
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