Interview

Formerly a food writer and party planner, Jennifer Rubell has recently endeavored toward food eventing, an invented media that has naturally garnered her a specific niche in the art world. At a 2007 event at Art Basel Miami Beach, Rubell—daughter of the Miami-based pack of collectors, and niece of Studio 54's Steve Rubell—greeted guests with a deconstructed take on breakfast, featuring enormous platters of hard-boiled eggs, croissant and bacon, with only surgical gloves as service. On Friday, Rubell's agenda was to provide sustenance to 500 attendees of the opening celebration of the fourth Performa Biennial, the vast, three-week performance art invitational founded and overseen by Roselee Goldberg that this year features 170 artists and 25 curators (not to mention not-by-invitation satellite performances). Rubell's dinner included an experience that played out, in descending order, over three floors, and many of the art world's most famous faces were faced with food and drink at its most conceptually liberated.

Read the full article on Art in America. Photo by Aimee Walleston.

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Born Neil Megson, Genesis P-Orridge first came to the attention of the London avant-garde in 1976, when his art collective, COUM Transmissions, staged a retrospective called "Prostitution." And the transgression, as they involved rituals and the body, hasn't stopped. As a ten year anniversary gift P-Orridge and his lover, Lady Jaye, embarked upon a project they called "Pandrogyny" and which involved the gradual melding of their bodies. A retrospective, "30 Years of Being Cut Up," opens tonight at Lower East Side Gallery Invisible-Exports and focuses on collage works. We asked P-Orridge to respond to some of her looks through the year, with first-hand commentary.




1. This is one was taken Laure Leber right after I got my surgery—you can see I’m still out of it from the pain killers—and my shirt says “stop staring at my tits.” Lady Jaye and I always thought black eyes were really sexy. 

















2. This is a still for the Psychic TV video that we made called “New York Story.” In the video, Jaye and I play these two glamorous call girls who are so in demand that they’re still bandaged up from their latest procedure while working Times Square.

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Still from The Star Parade, 2009. Courtesy the artist.

New York artist Ryan McNamara creates performances and videos imbued with humorous, macabre pop culture references, trenchant inquiries into identity, and a healthy dose of American spotlight-seeking. McNamara's performance tonight, "The Star Parade," puts the artist in the role of variety show host. He will present an array of acts, most still undisclosed, though there's little doubt that the show as a whole will be heavily endowed with the artist's canny, double-twisted wit. Read the interview on Art in America's web site.

Ryan McNamara performs tonight, 7–9 PM. Salon94 Freemans is located at 1 Freeman Alley, New York. McNamara is featured in the current group show, "Stars," at the gallery.

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This week, New York's CANADA Gallery hosts a screening series of works curated by video and film artists chosen by the gallery. Each of the nine artists have been given a one-hour timeslot for their presentation. The elements of each artist's presentation range from humorous, scatalogical examinations of the body (Brooklyn-based film artist Darren Floyd's presentation, screening Friday, is titled "Face or Ass?") to philosophy (queer theory- and feminist-informed artist Cecilia Dougherty's contributions, shot with a Coolpix digital still camera, include "bits borrowed from Martin Heidegger and others"), and inevitably, their overlap. Here, we speak to three of the curators about their programming choices. (LEFT: BLACK DICE, KOKOMO 2007. COURTESY THE ARTISTS AND CANADA NEW YORK)

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