Category: 2019

Interdependency Now – One on One Instagram LIVE Interview with Jenny Marketou and Adele Eisenstein – Part 2

Radiator Gallery invites you to the eighth conversation of our LIVE series.                    

  
 Wednesday, June 30th from 4PM to 5PM EDT.

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 Dear Friends,

 Interdependency Now – One on One is an Instagram Live Series highlighting artists from our current show
 
 and generating ongoing meaningful and relevant dialogue with our guests. 
 
 This Tuesday, June 30th, we will be hosting the second part of the conversation between the artist and

 educator Jenny Marketou and independent curator Adele Eisenstein.

 
 After four months of lockdown, Jenny Marketou will be speaking from the gallery space, revisiting her work
 
 Ever Growing through my City, 
that takes on new meaning in this time of social and cultural unrest. 
 
 They will continue the conversation begun previously, focusing on protocols and infrastructures of interdependence, 
 
 care and knowledge production, and how the ideas and principles behind them extend beyond the physical to the
  
 virtual space in Marketou’s art practice. We hope you can join us to put your questions into action.

 
 This event occurs in anticipation of the reopening of Radiator Gallery on July 15, and the Interdependency
 
 Now
 exhibition. Starting that day, the gallery will work by appointment only, for a limited number of visitors.

 

About the exhibition  Interdependency now:

 Artists: Eirini Linardaki, Jenny Marketou,
 Vincent Parisot, Peter Soriano

 Fanzines and editions: Julien Gardair, Tattfoo Tan
 Interpretive participation by Maria Dimanshtein

 Curated by Eirini Linardaki and Jenny Marketou

Planning the exhibition Interdependency Now, the co-curators and participating artists Eirini Linardaki and Jenny Marketou examined ideas of interdependency, participation, and collaboration in relation to art and social practice. How could they create sustainable relations among the exhibition’s artists and curators, and, most importantly, with an audience drawn from the many diverse communities that co-exist in New York City’s five boroughs? 
 
Interdependency suggests learning from and taking care of one another and acknowledging the ways in which we need support. No one stands alone. In contrast to dependency, interdependency connects us to each other in powerful ways, helping us to overcome differences and embrace new perspectives. As the philosopher and gender theorist Judith Butler argues, social interdependency is a great leveler; it naturally leads to greater equality and emancipation.
 
Interdependency Now aims to use contemporary art to make evident the ways in which we are all interdependent. The exhibition, which runs from February 21 at Radiator Gallery in Long Island City, features the works of four artists working collaboratively: Eirini LinardakiVincent ParisotJenny Marketou, and Peter Soriano.

Interdependency Now – One on One Instagram LIVE Interview with Tamas Veszi and Rachel Eliza Griffiths

Radiator Gallery invites you to the seventh conversation of our LIVE series.           
           
 Wednesday, June 24th from 4PM to 5PM EDT.
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 Dear Friends,
Interdependency Now – One on One is an Instagram Live Series that started by highlighting artists from our current show talking about the notion of interdependency.  We are continuing to engage through these live conversations beyond the scope of the exhibition.  Wednesday, June 24th, we will be hosting an interview between RadiatorArts founder Tamas Veszi and Rachel Eliza Griffiths.

 Her new book of poetry and photographs titled “Seeing The Body” is an interdisciplinary meditation of text and imagery. Transformative moments that could define some of our creative decisions in specific works or for a whole series. 


 Rachel Eliza Griffiths is a poet and multi-media artist. Her most recent book, a collection of
  poetry and photography, is Seeing the Body (W.W. Norton 2020).
  She is the recipient of fellowships including Robert Rauschenberg Foundation,
Cave Canem 
  Foundation, Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, and Yaddo. 
  Her visual and literary work has appeared widely, including The New Yorker, the Paris Review,
  Tin House, The Progressive, The New York Times
, and many others.
  Griffiths lives in New York City.

More about Interdependency Now.

Interdependency Now – One on One Instagram LIVE Interview with Jenny Marketou and Adele Eisenstein

Radiator Gallery invites you to the sixth conversation of our LIVE series.                      
 Wednesday, June 17th from 4PM to 5PM EDT.
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 Dear Friends,
 Interdependency Now – One on One is an Instagram Live 

Series highlighting artists from our current show. This Wednesday, June 17th, we will be hosting a conversation between the artist and educator Jenny Marketou and independent curator Adele Eisenstein.
 
 In this conversation, we will look at Jenny Marketou’s artistic practice, which has employed principles of interdependency in many projects and frameworks. We will focus on some of the concepts behind Interdependency Now, its origins, and how the ideas and principles behind interdependency extend beyond to the wider world. We will also check in to see what has happened since this show was closed due to Covid-19, what happens now, and where we go from here.

 For more information on Marketou’s project here:  https://cargocollective.com/evergrowing
 
 About 
Jenny Marketou:
 Jenny Marketou is a Greek-born interdisciplinary artist, art educator, and cultural producer, based between NYC and Athens. She has taught at Cooper Union (NY), CalArts, and in 2020 at The New School (NY). Her work has been internationally published and shown at Documenta14,
 Sao Paulo Biennial, Manifesta, Reina Sofia Madrid, Athens Biennial, Museum Tinguely Basel,
 ZKM Karlsruhe, New Museum NY, among others.
 
 Adele Eisenstein is an independent curator, writer, editor, translator, in contemporary art, film, architecture, with a background in psychology and film studies, especially focused on social issues and human rights. Between New York-Budapest and other places on Earth. 

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Interdependency Now – One on One Instagram LIVE Interview with Eirini Linardaki and Tattfoo Tan.

Radiator Gallery invites you to the fourth conversation of our LIVE series.     
                 
 Wednesday, May 27th from 4PM to 5PM EDT.
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  Dear Friends,
Interdependency Now – One on One is an Instagram Live Series highlighting artists from our current show. 
This Wednesday, May 27, we will be hosting a conversation between the artist and curator Eirini Linardaki and artist Tattfoo Tan.
 
About Tattfoo Tan:
Throughout my art practice, I employed the process of Learn, Practice, Teach. The result of the process is a syllabus book. This is the fourth book that I wrote. This book should be used as an exercise book, write your name on the front page and keep answering the prompt in the book, they appear in rounded corner boxes. Keep researching words or topics that you are intrigued with. The book itself flows from duality to nonduality.

It was based on my own experiences learning this knowledge and practice. The book is best used during my New Earth Ceremony because I’ll be able to walk you over each page and you can go home and do the exercise. Since my art practice are socially based and the exhibition is static, this book becomes the bridge. The reader will be able to activate all the practices without the artist present. Hopefully, it will be a catalyst in further your exploration into the mystery of life. In short, it is a spiritual hero’s journey of self-realization, as the ancient sage would call it: enlightenment.

Eirini Linardaki was born in Athens and studied in Limerick L.I.T., Ireland, Berlin, and Marseille. She lived in France for more than twenty years. She is now developing projects within the city and questioning the relationship between public policy and art.

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Interdependency Now – One on One Instagram LIVE Interview with Julien Gardair and Eirini Linardaki

Radiator Gallery invites you to the fourth conversation of our LIVE series.    
                  
 Wednesday, May 2oth from 4PM to 5PM EDT.
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  Dear Friends,

  Interdependency Now – One on One is an Instagram Live Series highlighting artists from our current show. 
  This Wednesday, May 20, we will be hosting a conversation
 between the artist and curator Eirini Linardaki and artist
  Julien Gardair.
 
  Julien Gardair will talk about his ongoing series Surprise included in the Interdependency show and how the subscription model can empower artists and build lasting relationships. Born and raised in France, Julien Gardair is based in Brooklyn since 2007. He develops a proteiform practice varying from cut out, drawings, and paintings to public art and immersive site-specific video installations. He builds contradictory spaces where a diversity of cultures and histories meet to stimulate new interpretations. When our situation permits, next time you go down to the beach, stop by the 18th Avenue and Kings Highway stations on the F line, and enjoy a moment on one of the sculptural benches he recently finished for the MTA Arts & Design program.

Eirini Linardaki
was born in Athens and studied in Limerick L.I.T., Ireland, Berlin, and Marseille. She lived in France for more than twenty years. She is now developing projects within the city and questioning the relationship between public policy and art.

More about Interdependency Now.

Interdependency Now – One on One Instagram LIVE Interview with Vincent Parisot

Radiator Gallery invites you to the second conversation of our LIVE series.    
  
                
 Wednesday, May 13th from 4PM to 5PM EDT.
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  Dear Friends,

  Interdependency Now – One on One is an Instagram Live Series highlighting artists from our current show. 
  This Wednesday, May 13, we will be hosting a conversation
 between Radiator’s founder, Tamas Veszi
  and the artist Vincent Parisot.

  Vincent is a visual artist working between Greece and France, currently located in Heraklion on the island of Crete with his family. Vincent Parisot was born nearby Paris and studied in Quimper in Bretagne and Limerick L.I.T. Ireland. He lived in Crete since 2010. He is now developing projects in situ, in public space and at the same time develops a practice of drawing.

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Interdependency Now – One on One, Instagram LIVE Interview with Peter Soriano 

Radiator Gallery invites you to the first conversation of our LIVE series.    
                  
Wednesday, May 6th from 4PM EDT.
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Join us via  RariatorArts Instagramand PeterSorianoStuido Instagram

Dear Friends,

Interdependency Now – One on One is an Instagram Live Series highlighting artists from our current show. 
The second conversation will be an interview between Radiator’s founder Tamas Veszi and artist Peter Soriano.

Peter Soriano is an artist born in Manila, Philippines in 1959 and since 1981 has been living in New York. He is a sculptor who began in 2012 to work exclusively on large scaled wall drawings composed of acrylic and spray paint, as well as related drawings on paper. He has exhibited internationally, most recently at Galerie Bernhard Bishoff in Bern Switzerland and in France by Galerie Jean Fournier, who represents him. 

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Interdependency now – One on One, Live interview with Eirini Linardaki

Radiator Gallery invites you to the first conversation of our LIVE series.                      
 Wednesday, April 29th from 4PM EDT.
Join us via  RariatorArts Instagram

  Dear Friends,

  Interdependency Now – One on One is an Instagram Live Series highlighting artists 
  from our current show.  The first conversation will be an interview between
  Radiator’s founder Tamas Veszi and artist Eirini Linardaki. Eirini is an artist working between 
  Greece, France and New York, currently located in Crete with her family. 

  Joies insoupçonnables : Eirini Linardaki


  Eirini Linardaki was born in Athens and studied in Limerick L.I.T., Ireland, Berlin and 
  Marseille. She lived in France for more than twenty years before moving to the island of Crete,
  where she is based now, developing projects within the city and questioning the relation
  between public policy and art.

 More about Interdependency Now.

Interdependency now

February 21 through April 3 ,2020

Opening 6 to 9 pm Friday, February 21, 2020
 
Artists: Eirini Linardaki, Jenny Marketou,
Vincent Parisot, Peter Soriano

Fanzines and editions: Julien Gardair, Tattfoo Tan
Panel discussion: Juanli Carrion
Interpretive participation by Maria Dimanshtein

Curated by Eirini Linardaki and Jenny Marketou

During several discussions Eirini Linardaki and Jenny Marketou co-curators and participating artists discussed terms of interdependency, participation, performance, collaboration in relation to art and social practice. They began by asking how they could bring together sustainable relations among themselves, the artists/curators, and most important with their audiences from the diverse communities across the five boroughs of New York City. They reflected on artistic actions as political and social forms in the context of contemporary art discourse, as well as, within their work and the works of other artistsThey envisioned Interdependency Now being an exhibition based on the potential of participatory, performative and socially engaged practices. Interdependency means to learn from one another; to take care of one another; to cultivate human exchanges; to change perspectives; to overcome differences in experiences of everyday life. One of the things contemporary art can help make visible is how creativity resides within our society in multiple ways. Our connectivity with each other. Our environment is not a linear process of development, as it is a process in which we are all relational and interdependent beings. As Judith Butler, American philosopher mentions the idea of Interdependency establishes a principle of equality and connectedness. (1)
 
Interdependency Now brings together the works of artists who contribute to this participatory experience which takes place from February 21st through April 3rd, 2020 at Radiator Gallery in Long Island City.
 
 
Eirini Linardaki and Vincent Parisot are creating a common installation titled “Monkey meets war”. They are combining magnetic fragments of drawings and collages both from previous explosions and faux marble drawings of dismembered monkeys. The fragments can either be assembled into separate drawings or be messed up to create abstract collages. For a long time, the artists thought about the techniques each one is using in their installations. Vincent practices drawing and painting inspired by intriguing objects interrogating our perception of heritage and nature. Eirini works with patterns from countries in war and is using imagery from disasters and explosions to speak about our human condition, tragedy and our psyche in war. Under the auspices of interdependency, they have decided to join their works in one installation, intertwining their materials, techniques and practices. They are displaying them in a way that the visitors become the authors of the images that are created anew from their fragmented artworks. 
 
Jenny Marketou creates a new iteration of Evergrowing through my city originally realized for The Garden. It is her ongoing art & praxis initiative for youth in Athens which was presented during the School of Everything, Parliament of Bodies, Documenta 14, Athens/Kassel. Evergrowing through my city is an ephemeral sculptural intervention meant to be constructed over time with the participation of the audience which develops the artist’s interest in working with models and infrastructures for play and civic engagement. Jenny’s inspiration has been Karl Johansson’s (1890) self-stabilizing prototypes of the tensegrity construction systems in which each part is essential to the function of the larger structure. Evergrowing through my city is made out of tensegrity units of wooden sticks, knotted together with elastic threads, colorful yarns, found materials, and objects. Throughout the exhibit participants are offered the opportunity to build and add their own colorful wooden units, to attach found objects, textures and material. A digital data system compiles all of the objects along with the names of participants. By the end of the exhibition, the evergrowing construction becomes whimsical and joyful embodying the character of the participants by the construction of relationships with the elements that have been used.
 
Peter Soriano whose work is instructional based wall drawings contributes with a work titled ““Jungfrau- Aletsch””. It is a section of a larger wall drawing project that he will exhibit this summer in the Université de Bordeaux. The work is based on observations and the experience of being on a glacier last summer, and forms part of a larger project observing melting snow. More specifically he focuses on the large cracks that form on the ice surface. During the exhibition Peter intends to complete the wall drawing with the help and interpretation of other participants. These individuals will choose from a large selection of preselected marks, to complete the drawing as they see fit.
 
During the exhibition there will panel discussions, artists talks and readings.
 
Juanli Carrion’s participation takes the form of a panel discussion that he organizes titled OSS Project Inc: Community + Conflict + Art = Garden .The panel addresses public gardens as art, interventions, using urban farming, storytelling, educational programming and community building as means to address sustainable social or political structures and art practices.
 
Julien Gardair participates with a series of Fanzines and Tattfoo Tan is offering reading possibilities with his current editions.
 

Bios

Eirini Linardaki was born in Athens and studied in Limerick L.I.T., Ireland, Berlin and Marseille. She lived in France for more than twenty years before moving to the island of Crete, where she is based now, developing projects within the city and questioning the relation between public policy and art.
 
Vincent Parisot is a visual artist born in France, he lives in Heraklion, Crete. He realizes projects in situ, in the public space and at the same time develops a practice of drawing. He is inspired by the correlation of movement in urban areas, ready-made objects that help him produce minimal artistic interventions in the public space.
Their common public art projects are on view in Paris, New York, Nigeria, Liberia, Athens and on the island of Crete.
 
Jenny Marketou born in Athens, Greece based in New York is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher, author and activist. She understands her artistic practice as the practice of enabling, of making possible, unearthing, opening, performing, playing and channeling ideas and energies in developing  sustainable social, pedagogical  structures and art practices. Her art projects have been exhibited and her videos screened in International Art Biennials, museums and galleries worldwide. She is the co-editor of “Organizing from Below/How Assemblies Matter? (2017) Naked Punch (London) and contributor to “Performing Interdependency” (2017) with Zurich University of Arts, School of the Arts and Design,Kassel  and  ASFA in Greece.
 
Born in Manila, Philippines, Peter Soriano received his B.A. in Art History from Harvard College and studied at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture before moving to New York City in 1981. Represented in Paris by Galerie Jean Fournier and in New York by Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., his work has been widely exhibited with recent solo shows at CIRCUIT Centre d’art contemporain in Lausanne, Domaine de Kerguéhennec in Brittany, Busan Biennalle in South Korea, and, at the Colby College Museum of Art in Maine. Works by the artist are included in The Morgan Library and Museum, Harvard Art Museums, Colby Museum of Art, Fonds national d’art contemporain (FNAC) in Paris, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, and the Wanås Foundation in Sweden, among other institutions.

Juanli Carrión is an artist, researcher and activist whose work unfolds in the development, research and education of community engaged design and artistic practices. He is currently focusing on the research of practices that expand beyond the art/design realm to become policies, non-profit organizations, associations, groups, or other sustainable social or political structures and practices, with the aim of translating the results into pedagogical strategies.

 
Julien Gardair extends his studio practice into editions playing with the hand made and the mechanical, the unique and the multiple, digital and analog, abundance and scarcity.
 
Artist Tattfoo Tan’s practice focuses on issues relating to ecology, sustainability and healthy living. His work is project-based, ephemeral and educational in nature. Tan has been widely recognized for his artistic contributions and service to the community and is the proud recipient of a proclamation from the City of New York.
 
 
Notes
 
1 Judith Butller and Athena Athanasiou, Dispossession: The Performative of the Political, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2013

 

PRESS RELEASE

CHECKLIST

PRESS KIT

NEWSPRINT

Evergrowing through my city by Jenny Marketou, 2020   

ARTWORKS

OPENING

Instagram Live Series during Covid-19:

Watch One on One, Instagram LIVE Interview with Peter Soriano here.
Watch One on One, Instagram LIVE Interview with Vincent Parisot here.
Watch One on One, Instagram LIVE Interview with Julien Gardair here.
Watch One on One, Instagram LIVE Interview with Tattfo Tan by Erini Linardaki here.
Watch One on One, Instagram LIVE Interview with Tamas Veszi and Rachel Eliza Griffiths here.

Freaks, Geeks, and Strange Girls

Curated by Peter Gynd

November 15, 2019 – January 17, 2020

Opening Reception: Friday, November 15, 6–9pm

Freaks, Geeks, and Strange Girls is a solo exhibition of new works by Jody MacDonald. A merger of fact, fiction, and art history, MacDonald’s sculptural dioramas explore a set of characters on the fringe. The work takes its influence—along with the exhibition’s title—from a book of the same name published in 1996 showcasing an anthology of banners, backdrops and advertisements created for 19th and early 20th century American sideshows. These banners serve as a jumping off point for MacDonald to muse on her own imaginative absurdities and bring a set of fictional characters and circumstances into play.

MacDonald’s sculptures tell a story the viewer seemingly enters into halfway through. Each diorama is intensely crafted and layered with minutely detailed elements that—when read collectively—offer a deeper understanding of each character’s fundamental traits and desires. The works, with titles like Dogfaced Boy, The Clown, or The Hermaphroditic Goat, pull reference from actual advertised sideshow acts and expand upon each narrative, inserting situations of MacDonald’s creation.

Each piece is layered with details thoughtfully inserted by MacDonald to take the viewer down the rabbit hole with her. They demand attention—and reward it—with details such as the miniature magazines in Dogfaced Boy, complete with headlines and readable text, including a purpose-written article by the artist. Or the IKEA-like instructions for fictional products such as “SKÄRA” or “KAPA” (translating to “cut and “sever” in english) found in the piece Conjoined Twins.

The artworks meld sideshow influence with contemporary culture and art history; backdropped by scenes of recognizable artworks such as Édouard Manet’s Bar at the Folies-Bergère, David Hockney’s Portrait of Nick Wilder or, in the work Monkey Grrl—a half-monkey half-girl boxer staged for the prize fight—MacDonald’s own homage to the Guerilla Girls and the fight of women artists to gain their proper recognition in Art’s main ring; the title also a nod to the punk feminist movement Riot Grrrl of the 1990s.

MacDonald’s sculptures become a performative set of complex identities that can be read as a reflection of our own culture. They are mirrors—symbolic reflections to a claim of “realness”; a fun house distortion of reality, with each characters’ likeness a slightly distorted—but recognizable—photo-transfer image of the artists’ own face.

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Freaks, Geeks, and Strange Girls will be Jody MacDonald’s first solo exhibition in New York.

Bios:

Jody MacDonald is an artist whose art practice is an ongoing exploration of identity, hierarchies, and stereotypes characterized by dark humor and an obsessive attention to detail. Her fastidiously crafted work has been exhibited in galleries and artist-run centers across Canada and the US, with solo shows at Galerie Connexion, Fredericton, NB; Acadia University Gallery, Wolfville, NS; Latitute 53 Contemporary Visual Culture, Edmonton, AB; Campbell River Art Gallery, Campbell River, BC; and Fifth Parallel Gallery, Regina, SK. Her mixed media drawings, paintings and sculptures are held in numerous private collections throughout Ontario, British Columbia, and New York. MacDonald is a graduate of the Emily Carr University of Art + Design and is a recipient of a 2019 New Work Grant from the Queens Council on the Arts. She is currently based in LIC, Queens, NY.

Peter Gynd is a fifth generation artist, independent curator, and the director at Lesley Heller Gallery in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Notable exhibitions curated by Gynd include a permanent exhibition at the Foundation Center, NY; an acclaimed two-person presentation at SPRING/BREAK Art Show (2015); and group exhibitions at Present Company, NY; NARS Foundation, NY; the Northside Festival, NY; Lesley Heller Workspace, NY; and at the Dynamo Arts Association, Vancouver Canada. Gynd’s exhibitions have been featured in Hyperallergic, The Carnegie Reporter, Blouin Artinfo, and Gothamist. Peter Gynd has been a guest critic at Residencies Unlimited, Kunstraum, ChaNorth Artist Residency; a consultant at NYFA’s Doctors Hours; guest lecture at Pratt Institute; and guest juror at 440 Gallery, Equity Gallery, Sweet Lorraine Gallery, and the second edition of Art Fair 14C (2020).

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The works in this exhibit are made possible, in part, by the Queens Council on the Arts with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

CHECKLIST

PRESS RELEASE

ARTWORKS


OPENING RECEPTION
ARTIST TALK

On the Inside: Dogfaced Boy video here
On the Inside: The Hermaphroditic Goat video here
On the Inside: The Red Thread video here.

Opening night video here