http://alhenakatsof.com/new-gallery-1 daily 0.75 2016-08-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5799107ebe6594eb1966b62a/1469653127245-0ZXZTMTZHV7NERWXDACV/2014+Nancy+Brooks+Brody.jpg Nancy Brooks Brody: SUITES IN SPACE Merce Drawings and Color Forms - Nancy Brooks Brody Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5799107ebe6594eb1966b62a/1470349925764-TCDO9NLEE8HODNF3FJ7A/2014+Nancy+Brooks+Brody.jpg Nancy Brooks Brody: SUITES IN SPACE Merce Drawings and Color Forms April 5 - May 10, 2014 Alhena curated the solo exhibition SUITES IN SPACE: Merce Drawings and Color Forms featuring new artworks by Nancy Brooks Brody at Andrew Kreps Gallery. Image: Nancy Brooks Brody, Merce Drawing, 2013, Ink on newsprint, 12 x 9 inches. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5799107ebe6594eb1966b62a/1470332247525-QKUGXUPXWP2WC493BMWG/Nancy+Brooks+Brody+Website+02.jpg Nancy Brooks Brody: SUITES IN SPACE Merce Drawings and Color Forms Image: Nancy Brooks Brody, Installation View, SUITES IN SPACE: Merce Drawings and Color Forms, 2014. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5799107ebe6594eb1966b62a/1470332253245-TF5UIZ9I3NE3LRLI4PZJ/Nancy+Brooks+Brody+Website+03.jpg Nancy Brooks Brody: SUITES IN SPACE Merce Drawings and Color Forms Press Release Andrew Kreps Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition by New York artist, Nancy Brooks Brody in the 535 West 22nd Street gallery. The exhibition, SUITES IN SPACE: Merce Drawings and Color Forms, features two new series of works. Merce Drawings are linear compositions executed on top of still photographic images of Cunningham performances, which foreground shapes made by the body as it traveled through space and time. To create Merce Drawings, Brody prints low-res images culled from the Internet onto newsprint. These photographs of dancers’ bodies capture a tilted head or a shift in weight to create fixed points that guide the visual plane. While Brody makes several prints of the same image, each unique work underscores the live act of drawing - the unpredictability and the inscription of movement onto time. The painting-objects, Color Forms, are further meditations on the impression a body leaves behind. For these works, Brody embeds enamel-painted shapes made of lead into shallow clefts carved directly into the wall. An extension of her life drawing practice, they are characteristic of Brody’s investment in transmissions, transitions and form. Brody creates painting, drawing and sculptural works in which the tension between precision and chance give way to a sense wonder. In this exhibition, she continues her consideration of abstract forms inspired by traces of corporeality. Nancy Brooks Brody was born in New York, where she lives and works. She has exhibited two solo shows at Virgil de Voldere Gallery, New York. Selected groups exhibitions include Brooklyn Museum, New York; La Mama La Galleria, New York; FRAC Haute-Normandie, France; White Columns, New York; Slingshot Project, Brussels; Artists Space, New York; Vera List Center for Arts and Politics, New York and The Drawing Center, New York. Nancy Brooks Brody has been a member of the queer women’s collective, fierce pussy, since 1991. Alhena Katsof Image: Nancy Brooks Brody, Installation View, SUITES IN SPACE: Merce Drawings and Color Forms, 2014. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5799107ebe6594eb1966b62a/1470332291102-C3YBPMIHBURUD1027Y9A/BLANK+IMAGE.jpg Nancy Brooks Brody: SUITES IN SPACE Merce Drawings and Color Forms http://alhenakatsof.com/new-gallery daily 0.75 2024-09-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5799107ebe6594eb1966b62a/1472602723389-LPQIZPOIIDH74WZGMODS/Yusef+Lateef+Website+08.jpg Yusef Lateef: Towards the Unknown - Towards the Unknown November 8 – December 20, 2014; February 6 - February 26, 2015; March 20 – May 10, 2015 Alhena Katsof curated Towards the Unknown, the first traveling solo exhibition of drawings, scores and works on paper created by the master musician Yusef Lateef. The exhibition premiered at White Columns in New York (2014), and organized with White Columns, traveled to Hampshire College Gallery, Amherst (2015) and Trinosophes, Detroit (2015). Public programs, including live music and panel discussions, were organized to coincide with each installation of the exhibition. Towards the Unknown was presented with special thanks to Ayesha Lateef, and Daniel Arnow, Michael Didonna, Matthew Higgs, Norman Blain and Thérèse Légère, Kara Lynch, Alex Marcelo, Rebecca Mazzei, Benny Merris, J.D. Parren, Joel Peterson, Adam Rudolf, Erin Sommerville, Erika Smith, Batya Sobel, Kwasi Tre’ and Matt Waugh. Image: Yusef Lateef, Zikr Remembered, N.D. Watercolor, pen and ink on paper, 14 x 16 inches.     https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5799107ebe6594eb1966b62a/1472602723389-LPQIZPOIIDH74WZGMODS/Yusef+Lateef+Website+08.jpg Yusef Lateef: Towards the Unknown - Towards the Unknown November 8 – December 20, 2014; February 6 - February 26, 2015; March 20 – May 10, 2015 Alhena Katsof curated Towards the Unknown, the first traveling solo exhibition of drawings, scores and works on paper created by the master musician Yusef Lateef. The exhibition premiered at White Columns in New York (2014), and organized with White Columns, traveled to Hampshire College Gallery, Amherst (2015) and Trinosophes, Detroit (2015). Public programs, including live music and panel discussions, were organized to coincide with each installation of the exhibition. Towards the Unknown was presented with special thanks to Ayesha Lateef, and Daniel Arnow, Michael Didonna, Matthew Higgs, Norman Blain and Thérèse Légère, Kara Lynch, Alex Marcelo, Rebecca Mazzei, Benny Merris, J.D. Parren, Joel Peterson, Adam Rudolf, Erin Sommerville, Erika Smith, Batya Sobel, Kwasi Tre’ and Matt Waugh. Image: Yusef Lateef, Zikr Remembered, N.D. Watercolor, pen and ink on paper, 14 x 16 inches.     https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5799107ebe6594eb1966b62a/1470343645503-NQ3TAQVXTNF50DTQQM8F/Yusef+Lateef+Website+07.jpg Yusef Lateef: Towards the Unknown - White Columns November 8 – December 20, 2014 As part of the exhibition at White Columns a musical invocation, Autophysiopsychic, took place on Tuesday December 16, 2014:. Adam Rudolph performed Yusef Lateef’s drawings, graphic scores and poetry with Alex Marcelo, Batya Sobel, Matt Waugh and J.D. Parren. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5799107ebe6594eb1966b62a/1470340329896-ATNEHFZQLNR0SHIP6UV8/YL_Hampshire_Performance+BW.jpg Yusef Lateef: Towards the Unknown - Hampshire College February 6 - February 26, 2015 At Hampshire College, Towards the Unknown was organized in collaboration with Africana Studies in honor of Dr. Lateef and in recognition of Black History Month at Hampshire College. It is sponsored in part by Africana Studies, Office of the Dean of Multicultural Education, The Cultural Center, UMOJA, Office of Alumni and Family Relations,The Career Options Resource Center, The School of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies, The Music Program, Film, Photo and Video Program, Studio Arts, the Humanities Program, ICP, The School of Interdisciplinary Arts, The School of Critical Social Inquiry, Spiritual Life, CASA, the Center for Feminisms and the Harold Johnson Library all at Hampshire College; Mount Holyoke Studio Art Department; Amherst College Music Department. Working closely with Professor Kara Lynch, Alhena organized the following events to take place as a part of the exhibition: February 8, 2015: Musical invocation in resonance with Yusef Lateef's artworks, performed by Alex Marcelo, JD Parran, Jason Robinson, Batya Sobel and Matt Waugh February 9, 2015: Film screening, Brother Yusef, Jerome Liebling Center, Rm 120 February 26, 2015: FEELING TONE: Improvisation and Practice in Arts and Politics As part of the exhibition, Alhena organized a panel discussion with Professor John Bracey (University of Massachusetts at Amherst), Professor Constance Valis Hill (Hampshire College), Dr. Terry Jenoure (Director of Augusta Savage Gallery), Professor Kevin Quashie (Smith College) and our moderator, Professor Christopher Tinson (Hampshire College) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5799107ebe6594eb1966b62a/1470341159967-NFUQPEQ9L4KHMTCCJH6X/Yusef+Lateef+Website+06.jpg Yusef Lateef: Towards the Unknown - Trinosophes March 20 – May 10, 2015 A beloved figure, Yusef Lateef came of age amid the rich musical environment and historic modernist jazz scene of the 1930s in Detroit, Michigan. The exhibition in Detroit was organized by Trinosophes, which is located at the heart of the city in Eastern Market, a site that is featured in Dr. Lateef’s renowned album, Yusef Lateef's Detroit (Latitude 42° 30' Longitude 83°) (1969). As part of the exhibition, Trinosophes presented an evening of music inspired by Lateef, performed by long-time collaborators Adam Rudolph and Ralph “Buzzy” Jones with Alex Marcelo, as well as a panel discussion. Saturday March 21, 2015: YEYI A Wordless Psalm of Prototypical Vibrations Adam Rudolph: Membranophones and Idiophones: handrumset (congas, djembe, tarija), frame drum, thumb pianos, gongs, percussion and mulitphonic singing, sintir, piano Ralph Jones: Aerophones: alto & CO flutes, bass clarinet, tenor & soprano saxophone, ney, hichiriki, bagpipes, bamboo flutes and piano Alex Marcelo: Acoustic piano and Fender Rhodes Saturday March 21, 2015: A panel discussion on Dr. Lateef’s life and work, moderated by Katsof (curator) and including Bill Harris (poet and playwrite), andLars Bjorn and Jim Gallert (co-authors, Before Motown). This event was free and open to the public. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5799107ebe6594eb1966b62a/1470347382981-YQ7FHG8Q35K64KTPPAU7/YL+Press+Release+Page.jpg Yusef Lateef: Towards the Unknown - Press Release White Columns is proud to present the first New York exhibition of drawings by the master musician, composer and artist Dr. Yusef A. Lateef (1920 – 2013). The exhibition has been organized by curator Alhena Katsof. Throughout his lifetime, Dr. Lateef was immersed in his creation of ‘autophysiopsychic music.’ He described this as music that comes from one’s physical, mental and spiritual self or ‘from the heart’. As part of this creative continuum, Dr. Lateef made over 100 drawings, as well as innovative graphic notations and scores in which numbers and shapes organize complex interval-based music. This exhibition at White Columns includes examples of these notations alongside a selection of drawings created with watercolor, pen, ink, graphite and glitter. Working at home, Dr. Lateef drew in the same room where he composed at his piano for over forty years, surrounded by instruments he collected from across the globe. A virtuosic wind musician and vocalist, Dr. Lateef played the tenor saxophone, flute, oboe, shanai, shofar, argol, sarewa, and taiwan koto. He activated some of this technique in his works on paper by pouring small puddles of ink onto the page and then blowing through a straw to spread the liquid. These fanning pools are interwoven with various marks, lines, squiggles, scratches and concentric circles. At times, the shapes resemble emerging trees, candelabra, flowers and clouds. In other instances, ameba-like clusters boom like the cosmos across the page. Dr. Lateef’s drawing practice was informed by his lifelong immersion in methods of free playing wherein the ‘feeling tone’ of a singular gesture inspires the next. This call and response unfolds one mark at a time, from first to the last, in a process that could take one or many days before a drawing reached completion. As a devout Muslim, his drawings were frequently embedded with references to Allah - The One worthy of worship. This infused his work as an outspoken philosopher, dedicated educator, playwright and science fiction novelist, for whom creativity was a force that exists in myriad forms. The title of the exhibition is borrowed from an album, co-released with composer and percussionist Adam Rudolph, with new compositions and recordings by Dr. Lateef. The phrase invokes an essence of his seven-decades long meditation on sonic dimensions and their broader social significances, which he practiced across macro and micro planes, moving always and ever, Towards the Unknown. Alhena Katsof https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5799107ebe6594eb1966b62a/1470359263524-UBLSGB4G4DU3ZRQIAETB/YL_ART_SMALL_for+site+072.jpg Yusef Lateef: Towards the Unknown - Press The WIRE, Yusef Lateef: Towards The Unknown, Dave Mandl, February 2015 Frieze, Yusef Lateef, Joseph Akel, Issue 132, April 2015 The Recorder, Encores and Curtain Calls: Yusef Lateef, Joseph Marcello, 02/05/15 Detroit News, Exploring Yusef Lateef, the visual artist, Patrick Dunn, 03/19/15 Detroit Free Press, Yusef Lateef’s Genius, Mark Stryker, 03/18/15 CAMH Houston Blog, Best of Art in 2014, Dean Daderko, 01/05/15 doobeedoobeedoo.info, Music vs Visual Arts: "Towards the Unknown" - Yuself Lateef's Autophysiopsychic Art Work Visits New York, Dawoud Kringle, December 2014 Image: Yusef Lateef, Untitled, N.D., Watercolor, pen, ink, marker and pastel on paper, 22 x 30 inches. Courtesy Ayesha Lateef   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5799107ebe6594eb1966b62a/1469665654444-8E4YXZ545LW6A1UD3XUB/YL+WC+Install+01-size+sample.jpg Yusef Lateef: Towards the Unknown - Towards the Unknown text text text text https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5799107ebe6594eb1966b62a/1470344913928-H5M4HHNL1WE5H7OQ0AVL/Yusef+Record+Tiles.jpg Yusef Lateef: Towards the Unknown - Yusef Lateef Biography Yusef Lateef Yusef Lateef (1920 – 2013) was a master musician immersed in a deep exploration of autophysiopsychic music. A Grammy Award winning composer and virtuosic wind player, Dr. Lateef toured, performed and recorded worldwide, creating a prolific body of work. As a major force in the international music scene for more then seven decades he was among the first to incorporate Middle Eastern and Asian reed instruments into the African American music tradition. He recorded more than a hundred albums as a leader and his discography includes recordings for Savoy, Riverside, Prestige, Impulse, Atlantic, as well as an extensive catalogue on his own label, YAL Records. Dr. Lateef frequently invited colleagues and students throughout the Amherst area to record with him. Through his company, Fana Music, he published books about performance and improvisational methodology, numerous works for chamber ensembles, stage bands, duos and wind ensemble or symphony orchestra, as well as his own plays, science-fiction novels and poetry. The National Endowment named Yusef Lateef as an American Jazz Master for the Arts in 2010. Image: Yusef Lateef records installed at the MAHS Museum, 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5799107ebe6594eb1966b62a/1470350768479-G0M7EOO5YV4Q0Q9UBGJH/YL+website+music+good.jpg Yusef Lateef: Towards the Unknown - Autophysiopsychic Image: Adam Rudolph performing Yusef Lateef’s drawings, graphic scores and poetry with Alex Marcelo, Batya Sobel, Matt Waugh and J.D. Parren at White Columns, New York. Tuesday December 16, 2014 http://alhenakatsof.com/night-for-listening-estate-lucie-fontaine daily 0.75 2016-08-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5799107ebe6594eb1966b62a/1472179061305-99Z4VI2M3IC960TAK5F2/Night+for+Listening+Geo.jpg Lucie Fontaine: Night for Listening: Estate - Lucie Fontaine - Estate Sunday October 14, 2012. Alhena organized Night for Listening: Estate, which was an evening of music presented as the grand finale of Lucie Fontaine's project Estate at Marianne Boesky Gallery. Alhena invited musicians, poets and artists to prepare and perform, in succession, a version of Bruno Martino and Bruno Brighetti's song Estate, made famous by Joao Gilberto. The iterations were performed by Daniel Arnow & Batya Sobel, Frank Lyon, Michael O'Neill, Ellery Royston & Adam Bach and Geo Wyeth. Image: Performance documentation of Geo Wyeth with guest participant Benny Merris, 2012. http://alhenakatsof.com/the-garden-is-overgrown-at-the-center-for-experimental-lectures daily 0.75 2020-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5799107ebe6594eb1966b62a/1602519337536-0G9WR1B5VWWNE0WBYA7J/HH+Cover.jpg Hannah Höch Lectures - Hannah Höch Lectures This body of work stems from the artist Hannah Höch’s material output and her activities during the Third Reich, which include growing plants prohibited by Nazi horticulturalists while simultaneously burying in her garden Dada photomontages banned by the fascist regime. From there, the lectures explore seeds as archives, the violence inherent in the disciplinary space of the garden, the language of planting within colonial frameworks, Germany’s colonial project as it extends through the formulation of the nation-state, and the ideological distinction between “humans” and “nature”. Taking the form of lectures, the project began as artistic research when Alhena was a student at the Glasgow School of Art and expanded in scope when she received a Scottish Arts Council Development Bursary to visit Höch’s home, garden, and archives at Berlinische Galerie in 2009. Image: Alhena Katsof, Digging Hannah Höch, 2008 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5799107ebe6594eb1966b62a/1602519337536-0G9WR1B5VWWNE0WBYA7J/HH+Cover.jpg Hannah Höch Lectures - Hannah Höch Lectures This body of work stems from the artist Hannah Höch’s material output and her activities during the Third Reich, which include growing plants prohibited by Nazi horticulturalists while simultaneously burying in her garden Dada photomontages banned by the fascist regime. From there, the lectures explore seeds as archives, the violence inherent in the disciplinary space of the garden, the language of planting within colonial frameworks, Germany’s colonial project as it extends through the formulation of the nation-state, and the ideological distinction between “humans” and “nature”. Taking the form of lectures, the project began as artistic research when Alhena was a student at the Glasgow School of Art and expanded in scope when she received a Scottish Arts Council Development Bursary to visit Höch’s home, garden, and archives at Berlinische Galerie in 2009. Image: Alhena Katsof, Digging Hannah Höch, 2008 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5799107ebe6594eb1966b62a/1507214651419-7MCH1VVUU9W533SYWU6G/HH+Cover.jpg Hannah Höch Lectures - Hannah Höch Lectures This body of work stems from the artist Hannah Höch’s material output and her activities during the Third Reich, which include growing plants prohibited by Nazi horticulturalists while simultaneously burying in her garden Dada photomontages banned by the fascist regime. Taking the form of lectures, the project began as artistic research when Alhena was a student at the Glasgow School of Art and expanded in scope when she received a Scottish Arts Council Development Bursary to visit Höch’s home, garden, and archives at Berlinische Galerie in 2009. Image: Alhena Katsof, Digging Hannah Höch, 2008 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5799107ebe6594eb1966b62a/1516923904781-LDLJ69OX8JG2MLUUGZ6C/Susan+Cianciolo+RUN+PRAYER+RUN+CAF%C3%89+RUN+LIBRARY_Installation+View.jpg Hannah Höch Lectures - Bridget Donahue Thursday November 16th, 2017 A talk about Hannah Höch's garden, from within the folds of Susan Cianciolo's exhibition RUN PRAYER, RUN CAFÉ, RUN LIBRARY, at Bridget Donahue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5799107ebe6594eb1966b62a/1507215155267-9GZOS2LXEFF1CD7OFIH0/Page+16_Moscow.jpg Hannah Höch Lectures - Rongwrong April 1, 2016 At the invitation of Rongwrong in Amsterdam, as part of the ongoing program All Heal (Valerian), Alhena delivered a lecture about the relationship between fascism and ecology. Much as a twig might receive sap from a living plant if inserted into the slit of a trunk or stem correctly, this talk is grafted from one onto another. At Rongwrong, we explore process-oriented events such Hannah Höch’s burial of Dada photomontages in her garden during World War II, and the relevance of these gestures in our own troubled, authoritarian times. Photo: Alhena Katsof, Moscow 2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5799107ebe6594eb1966b62a/1470360292166-PYYOZKQOYVLKE4IYAKAP/Center+for+Experimental+Lectures+for+web.jpg Hannah Höch Lectures - Center for Experimental Lectures August 31, 2013 At the invitation of Gordan Hall and the Center for Experimental Lectures, Alhena delivered a lecture about gardens as non-binary sites of death and becoming. The lecture was delivered during an event hosted at The Shandaken Project in Phoenicia. Go into a garden - full of plants, herbs, flowers and weeds. As Giacomo Leopoldi says, 'Everywhere you look, you will find pain'. Loosely based on a body of research about Hannah Höch and her inner-exile through World War II, this lecture explores normative drag via the stories of gardeners: Medlar Lucan & Durian Gray, Hannah Höch, Derek Jarman and Vita Sackville-West. Follow this link for the video and transcript. http://alhenakatsof.com/storm daily 0.75 2018-10-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5799107ebe6594eb1966b62a/1470414289721-H1LAGF64L3NTR0MLTGME/MPA+Cover_Sized.jpg MPA: Directing Light onto Fist of Father - Directing Light onto Fist of Father September 15 - November 12, 2011 Alhena Katsof and Dean Daderko co-curated Directing Light onto Fist of Father, featuring new artworks and a performance series by the artist MPA at Leo Koenig Inc. and as part of Performa 11. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5799107ebe6594eb1966b62a/1470414289721-H1LAGF64L3NTR0MLTGME/MPA+Cover_Sized.jpg MPA: Directing Light onto Fist of Father - Directing Light onto Fist of Father September 15 - November 12, 2011 Alhena Katsof and Dean Daderko co-curated Directing Light onto Fist of Father, featuring new artworks and a performance series by the artist MPA at Leo Koenig Inc. and as part of Performa 11. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5799107ebe6594eb1966b62a/1472593978982-K6E9T43STRPUJX5N8GCI/MPA_Perform01_2011_300-700x466.jpg MPA: Directing Light onto Fist of Father - Directing Light onto Fist of Father The exhibition, Directing Light onto Fist of Father took place in three iterations: Part I – Initiation: September 15, 2011, 6-8pm Part II - The Act: September 16-November 5, 2011 (a series of unscheduled actions) Part III - The Invitation: November 8-12, 2011   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5799107ebe6594eb1966b62a/1472594051857-PJBDHLA7M4282HCVUT77/Revolution.+Two+Marks+in+Rotation+with+Amapola+Prada+2011+01.jpg MPA: Directing Light onto Fist of Father - Revolution. Two marks in rotation. November 8, 2011 Revolution. Two marks in rotation was a collaborative performance by MPA and Amapola Prada that took place in conjunction with the exhibition Directing Light onto Fist of Father, co-curated by Alhena Katsof and Dean Daderko. With a working relationship that spans more than 6 years, MPA and Amapola Prada will present their first-ever public collaboration, Revolution. Two Marks in Rotation. In their actions, MPA and Prada seek the edges of antagonism, permissibility, and collaborative movement. The performance took place at Leo Koening Inc., New York and was programmed as part of Performa 2011. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5799107ebe6594eb1966b62a/1472594280684-2FTIOUP5XUUVB0JA6JJR/MPA%2C+Initiation%2C+2011+performance%2C+Leo+Koenig+Inc.%2C+New+York.jpg MPA: Directing Light onto Fist of Father - Press Art in America, Roving Ei: The Avant-Garde Crowd, Eileen Myles, 12/11/11 Art Review, MPA and Amapola Prada, David Everitt Howe, 08/11/11 Observer.com, At Leo Koenig, MPA and Prada, Andrew Russeth, 09/11/11 New York Times, Directing Light onto Fist of Father, Holland Cotter, 27/10/11 Artforum.com, Critics Picks, MPA, Corrine Fitzpatrick, October Brooklyn Rail, MPA Directing Light onto Fist of Father, Litia Perta, October http://alhenakatsof.com/99-objects-louise-bourgeois daily 0.75 2016-10-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5799107ebe6594eb1966b62a/1472594714073-C8NXOCJT1S2AT39QGFPW/AVermin+for+Website.jpg A.Vermin - A.Vermin From 2006 - 2009, Alhena curated exhibitions in her Glasgow apartment and other venues around the city. Artists created site-specific artworks for each exhibition. The exhibitions were each open for 48 hours, during which time A.Vermin explored ideas about hosting and hospitality. Artists who participated in A.Vermin: Steven Anderson, Ruth Barker, Nicolas Ceccaldi, Jim Colquhoun, Amelie Guerin, Anna Mields, Mark Briggs, Grier Edmundson, Hrafnhildur Halldórsdóttir, Mair Hughes, Connor Kelly, Emmet Kierans, Kendall Koppe, Katie McGown, Kevin Pollock, Heather Mann, Raquel Mendes, Benny Merris, Dan Monks, Douglas Morland, Baldvin Ringsted, Jonathan Scott, Katri Walker, Stina Wirflet, Yuen Fong Ling Image: The A.Vermin kitchen, 2006   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5799107ebe6594eb1966b62a/1472594714073-C8NXOCJT1S2AT39QGFPW/AVermin+for+Website.jpg A.Vermin - A.Vermin From 2006 - 2009, Alhena curated exhibitions in her Glasgow apartment and other venues around the city. Artists created site-specific artworks for each exhibition. The exhibitions were each open for 48 hours, during which time A.Vermin explored ideas about hosting and hospitality. Artists who participated in A.Vermin: Steven Anderson, Ruth Barker, Nicolas Ceccaldi, Jim Colquhoun, Amelie Guerin, Anna Mields, Mark Briggs, Grier Edmundson, Hrafnhildur Halldórsdóttir, Mair Hughes, Connor Kelly, Emmet Kierans, Kendall Koppe, Katie McGown, Kevin Pollock, Heather Mann, Raquel Mendes, Benny Merris, Dan Monks, Douglas Morland, Baldvin Ringsted, Jonathan Scott, Katri Walker, Stina Wirflet, Yuen Fong Ling Image: The A.Vermin kitchen, 2006   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5799107ebe6594eb1966b62a/1472174879632-I8C8S0D3MZ1ENMRJN4UK/Mark+Installation+for+website.jpg A.Vermin - About and Press A.Vermin was an experiment in art and conversation. Each exhibition was held over the course of a weekend and the apartment was open for ongoing gatherings. In 2008, Alhena was a participant, under her host pseudonym A.Vermin in PRAKTIKA: A Seminar for Socially Engaged Art, Deveron Arts, Huntly. Press: Circa, Glasgow International Festival 2008, Susan Thomson, Issue 124 Summer ArtReview, Glasgow International Festival, Laura McLean-Ferris, Issue 23 June Frieze, Glasgow International, Martin Vincent, Issue 116 June/July/August Les Inrockuptiles, Gi, Judicael Lavrador, April The Skinny, A.Vermin, Jenny Richards & “To Be Alert”, Rosamund West, 23/04 The Herald, Outsiders Give The Art Festival Its Edge, Jack Mottram, 18/04 Image: Mark Briggs, video installation, 2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5799107ebe6594eb1966b62a/1472175069438-X9RPSHWVTVK9JSBRN4WT/%22+April+2008.jpg A.Vermin In 2008, A.Vermin participated in Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Art by organizing an exhibition and series of performance events at The State Pub - 148 Holland Street, Glasgow. In this case, we moved from the privacy of the home to the Public House. Artists in The State: Jim Colquhoun, Grier Edmundson, Hrafnhildur Halldórsdóttir, Emmet Kierans, Benny Merris, Dan Monks, Kevin Pollock, Baldvin Ringsted and Stina Wirfelt. Performances by: Jim Colquhoun, Dan Monks and Steven Anderson. Also at The State: Uncle Chop Chop launch event. Image: Jim Colquhoun and Voice Like Bones Perform "Weasels" at The State, Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Art, April 2008. http://alhenakatsof.com/metahaven-moma-ps1 daily 0.75 2016-08-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5799107ebe6594eb1966b62a/1472642723853-7NAR1FBQ6JHPMFYA2TCN/2013+MoMAPS1_Metahaven.jpg Metahaven: Islands in the Cloud - Metahaven - Islands in the Cloud January 20–April 21, 2013 Founded by Vinca Kruk and Daniel van der Velden in 2007 as a design and research studio, Metahaven has come to define a new methodology in graphic design. The studio’s speculative practice privileges the vocabulary of graphic design as a means of knowledge production, using it as a tool to analyze organizational models and power structures. Investigating political and economic design—including nation branding and logo production—in relation to statehood, currency and information networks, Metahaven places particular emphasis on transparency and visibility. The Amsterdam-based studio produces a continuous stream of research that rarely results in finite, codified work. They publish books and essays, organize conferences and collaborate with policy makers, concurrently working on new commissions while maintaining a variety of self-initiated projects. Recent activities have included a range of research, identity and product design for WikiLeaks, as well as proposals for the identity of Sealand, a self-proclaimed sovereign nation-state located on a platform built by the British seven miles off the English coast as part of a naval defense strategy during World War II. Materials from both projects are included in this exhibition, alongside elements relating to a new cloud hosting enterprise based in Iceland. Islands in the Cloud is the first museum show in the United States to focus on Metahaven’s unique practice. This exhibition was organized by Peter Eleey, Curator, MoMA PS1, with Alhena Katsof, Volkswagen Fellow. http://alhenakatsof.com/pauline-boudry-renate-lorenz daily 0.75 2018-10-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5799107ebe6594eb1966b62a/1501084851419-O6I0THPPCGBWYXWQET3X/participant2_SMALL.jpg Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz: Telepathic Improvisation - Telepathic Improvisation In 2017, Katsof co-organized, with Mason Leaver-Yap the first US-based solo exhibition and film commission by the artist duo Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz. The film streamed as part of the Walker Art Center Moving Image Commissions, with exhibitions taking place at PARTICIPANT INC. and Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. The project was realized in partnership with EMPAC / Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center and the Goethe-Institut, New York. Exhibition review of Everybody talks about the weather... We don't at PARTICIPANT INC. written by Alex Jovanovich for Artforum.com Image: Installation view of Everybody talks about the weather... We don't at PARTICIPANT INC. (2017) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5799107ebe6594eb1966b62a/1501084851419-O6I0THPPCGBWYXWQET3X/participant2_SMALL.jpg Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz: Telepathic Improvisation - Telepathic Improvisation In 2017, Katsof co-organized, with Mason Leaver-Yap the first US-based solo exhibition and film commission by the artist duo Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz. The film streamed as part of the Walker Art Center Moving Image Commissions, with exhibitions taking place at PARTICIPANT INC. and Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. The project was realized in partnership with EMPAC / Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center and the Goethe-Institut, New York. Exhibition review of Everybody talks about the weather... We don't at PARTICIPANT INC. written by Alex Jovanovich for Artforum.com Image: Installation view of Everybody talks about the weather... We don't at PARTICIPANT INC. (2017) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5799107ebe6594eb1966b62a/1495806252343-RDWO6R451AKP6O8J248E/Boudry+Lorenz_Telepathic+Improvisation_Press+Still+01.jpg Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz: Telepathic Improvisation - Everybody talks about the weather… We don’t June 2 - July 16 2017 Opening Reception: Friday June 2, 7-9 PM PARTICIPANT INC. 253 East Houston Street Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz present their first US solo exhibition Everybody talks about the weather… We don’t. It includes a major new moving image work — Telepathic Improvisation — and two new sculptures. With reference to current violent social conditions, Telepathic Improvisation explores the ways in which others (including other objects) might become part of our striving for alternative political and sexual imaginations. Humans and non-humans, movements, speeches, gestures, music, light, and smoke interpret composer Pauline Oliveros’ 1974 score of the same title. While the action of the film appears abstract, it nonetheless includes references to specific moments of leftist protest, queer S&M club life, acts of surveillance and, finally, fantasies of new relations between human and non-human objects in an interstellar dimension. The audience is called to communicate telepathically with all of the elements on screen, including performers Marwa Arsanios, Werner Hirsch, MPA, and Ginger Brooks Takahashi. Image: Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz, Telepathic Improvisation, 2017, HD, 20 min., courtesy of the artists, Ellen de Bruijne and Marcelle Alix   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5799107ebe6594eb1966b62a/1476461769747-JBDIX6126MSMR9ZDROC2/Pauline+Boudry+Renate+Lorenze_I+Want+for+web.jpg Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz: Telepathic Improvisation - Everybody talks about the weather… We don’t The exhibition is presented as part of a year-long series of presentations by Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz in the US, co-curated by Alhena Katsof in collaboration with the Walker Art Center’s Moving Image Commissions, Minneapolis; EMPAC / Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy; PARTICIPANT INC., New York; and Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH). Following the film's premiere and installation at PARTICIPANT INC., Telepathic Improvisation will stream online on the Walker Art Center Moving Image Commission page. The exhibition will be restaged in a new form at CAMH and accompanied by a catalogue with newly a commissioned essay by André Lepecki and contributions by the artists, Victoria Brooks, Dean Daderko, Lia Gangitano, and Mason Leaver-Yap. Events at EMPAC are announced on their website. This project is produced in partnership with the Goethe-Institut New York and generously supported by the Bentson Foundation, Service des affaires culturelles - Canton de Vaud, and ProHelvetia. Image: I Want, Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz, installation with double HD projection, 16 min, 2005, Performance: Sharon Hayes. Courtesy the artists. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5799107ebe6594eb1966b62a/1476461471482-1LDRQS7FS84EBGHN0S4X/Pauline+Boudry+Renate+Lorenz_OPAQUE_For+Web.jpg Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz: Telepathic Improvisation - Film Screening and Artist Talk Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz film screening and artist talk at the Goethe-Institut New York on Monday, September 19 2016.   Image: Opaque, Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz, installation with super 16mm/ HD, 10 min, 2014, Performance: Ginger Brooks Takahashi, Werner Hirsch. Courtesy the artists. http://alhenakatsof.com/about daily 1.0 2026-02-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5799107ebe6594eb1966b62a/1472599508269-AXB64JRJU0RSG52UYH89/Katsof+Bio+Image.jpg About