Video shot by Mandela Gregoire, edited by Elizabeth Kreutz
A lost female astronaut has wandered the streets of New York for the past two weeks. The performance piece by artist Alicia Framis is part of the art biennial Performa 09, and ironically responds to the exclusion of women from the race to the moon 40 years ago. We caught up with Framis to chat about the project and grabbed footage from her videographer Mandela Gregoire.
The lost astronaut followed instructions written by authors and artists including New Yorker writer Michael Shulman, artist and Hercules and Love Affair alum Kim Ann Foxman, and performance artist Marina Abramovic.
Although the performances are over, the astronaut’s base camp—which displays logs and photos of her excursions and architectural models of moon homes—is on view at APF Lab (15 Wooster St between Broome and Canal Sts; 212-966-0193, artproductionfund.org; daily, noon–6pm) through November 22. See more photos from the project after the jump. Read more »
Art Shana Lutker
This live event, part of Performa 09, incorporates accordion and invites audience participation by soliciting script suggestions for the actors.
Dance Will Rawls
As part of a 100-hour creative residency at DTW, Will Rawls presents a work-in-progress showing of The Planet-Eaters.
Art Guy Ben-Ner’s Untitled
The Israeli artist’s Performa 09 film features him talking to himself on the phone as he travels between Berlin and Tel Aviv.
Books Bomb magazine launch party
Fiction writer Christopher Sorrentino reads his story “Ventriloquy,” which subtly enters the mind of a bitter novelist.
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