Plexus (no.8): Image in Practice — Thursday, March 14th
Plexus (no. 8) will be held at CHASHAMA 461 Gallery on Thursday, March 14th @7PM.
This event features speakers from three distinct disciplines, whose practices are linked by an emphasis on image-making. We will explore the roles played by images in the context of these speakers’ divergent subject matter: images are documents, pieces of evidence, fine art.
Crossing Over Documentary Valentine’s Dance Party – Friday, Feb. 15th
In partnership with PLEXUS and Immigration Equality, Crossing Over Documentary is having a Valentine’s dance party! Please join us at RABBITHOLE Studios in Dumbo, Brooklyn on Friday, February 15th at 8PM to dance, eat, drink and celebrate!
There will be art work on display from the making of the film and a love-themed Zine featuring the works of: Matt Porter, Katrina Sorrentino, Sasha Arutyunova, Caroline Washburn, Sophia La Fraga, Carrie Crowell, and Brittany Buongiorno.
Please RSVP at crossingoverdocumentary@gm
We hope to see you there!
Plexus Alums Launching Blunderbuss Mag in March 2013
We are excited to report that Plexus alums Alex Howe, Travis Mushett, and Kevin Tang are launching Blunderbuss Magazine, a webmag full of “essays, stories, poems, photographs, comics, and other bits of aesthetic shrapnel.”
Blunderbuss will go live this March, and we encourage you to keep up with their progress by giving them a Like on Facebook! http://www.facebook.com/
The Eye covers Plexus: Vox Populi, Vox Plexus
Get to know PLEXUSnyc a little better:
Check out the latest article about Plexus in the Columbia Spectator’s the eye magazine by Meredith Moore. Special thanks to all those quoted and to Meredith for her interest in our project!
Plexus (no. 7)
Thursday, OCTOBER 18
7-10PM Chashama 461 Gallery 461 W. 126th St. (nr. Amsterdam Ave.)
// Stephen Duncombe
Professor, writer, and director of the Center for Artistic Activism presents on creative forms of action bridging the worlds of performance art, dissent, and politics.
// Jesse Fuchs
Game creator and theorist (most recently the developer of the board game: Guts of Glory) discusses 20th century board games and gives us some keen insight into some of our favorites – like Monopoly!
// Phillip Stearns
Artist/engineer will discuss his sound and visual practice in electronic media, through which “the circuit is explored as a means for sculpting electricity.”
// special screening of video by Michael Haight.
+ DJ Carey Dunne
$2 BEER/WINE - FREE PASTA
EMMA magazine – help out on Kickstarter!
this is a great project started by some friends. it’s an awesome platform for expanding publishing opportunities for young artists and writers – as new content trends increasingly toward the web, it’s great when emerging artists can see their name in paper and ink! check it out and donate!
Room #4 in A Night of Clutter — September 8th
PLEXUSnyc and Rachel Valinsky are pleased to present Room #4 in the upcoming installment of A NIGHT OF CLUTTER.
COME JOIN US!
Saturday, Septmeber 8th – 8pm-1am @ Funkadelic Studios - 335 W35th St. 3rd floor
In this series—launched by Plexus (no. 4) presenter Brett Zweiman—live acts occupy each room of Hell’s Kitchen’s Funkadelic Studios for an evening, giving way to a diverse program of performances and experimentations.
Room #4 will mobilize dancers, visual artists, and musicians for a three-hour evolving collaboration. Dancers Tamrin Goldberg, Sarah Friedman, and Emily McNeely, explore improvised movement, working alongside Prism House, a Brooklyn-based audio, visual, and performance collective. The evening will also feature video by artist and Plexus (no. 1) presenter Ariel Yelen.
A Night of Clutter, in true Plexus spirit, offers open and collaborative spaces for expression of all kinds, and we are really excited to be a part of it!
Stay tuned to read more about Room #4 and our Clutter experience — coming soon!
ariel yelen, “monologue project”
ariel yelen presented at plexus (no. 1). she and lucy have known each other since the 7th grade, and her work consistently makes a big impression on me. she just posted stills from her newest piece – “monologue project” – and will be collaborating with plexus on an event sept. 8 (more on that soon – post to follow!)
the photo above is a still from “monologue project” – check out her work. it’s always such a pleasure to work with ariel and to see what she’s up to.
plexus blogs
welcome to our new site!
this is a new source find out what’s going on with us and our collaborators. it’s also a great place to keep the conversation going outside of plexus events.
check back and post often!