Author: FD 13

… because you didn’t see its beauty by night.

The audience (in cars) circled the performance site, a vast piece of land/construction site between two old grain silos, while Malin Arnell was working/performing on different spots in- and outside of the circle of cars.
The action lasted for appr. 45 min.

https://vimeo.com/125933808

An interview with Malin Arnell paired with the documentation of the drive-in action.

https://vimeo.com/140832944

Cars driving around the action site.

 

FD13 residency for the arts presents: Malin Arnell Beyond This Point
A drive-in action.
Wednesday, March 18th 2015, 8 p.m. 

Performance takes place somewhere along the train tracks. Across from the Surly Brewery Company. Details below on the map. Please come by car.

Artist reception at FD13, 8.45 p.m.
926 W Hampden Avenue
Saint Paul, Minnesota 55114 

An interview with Malin Arnell and FD13’s director Sandra Teitge will be broadcast shortly before the performance, at 7 p.m., on KFAI’s program Art Matters with Marya Morstad.

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Interdisciplinary artist, researcher and educator Malin Arnell (lives and works in Brooklyn, Berlin and Stockholm) is a frequent collaborator with other artists, activists and writers. Through her practice, she emphasizes matter, doing, and actions, focusing on the experiences around/in/of the body (her body, their body, our body), presence, participation, membership, and other affective manifestations. Arnell most recently presented her work at Danspace Project | St. Mark’s Church, NYC (2014), INDEX, Stockholm (2014), Paço das Artes, São Paulo (2014), CCS Bard / Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (2014), White Columns, NYC (2014), and the Swiss Institute Contemporary Art, NYC (2013). Since 2010 Arnell is working on her artistic doctoral theses in Choreography at the University of Dance and Circus, Stockholm University of the Arts. She is currently a visiting scholar at the Department of Performance Studies at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.
Arnell’s FD13 residency runs through March 22, 2015.

Documentation here and here (location by daylight).

This residency and performance is made possible with support by Iaspis, the Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s International Programme for Visual Artists.

Malin Arnell Beyond This Point, Wednesday, 18 March 2015, 8 p.m. 

A drive-in action. (Location tba.) Followed by an artist reception. 

Interdisciplinary artist, researcher and educator Malin Arnell (lives and works in Brooklyn, Berlin and Stockholm) is a frequent collaborator with other artists, activists and writers. Through her practice, she emphasizes matter, doing, and actions, focusing on the experiences around/in/of the body (her body, their body, our body), presence, participation, membership, and other affective manifestations. Arnell most recently presented her work at Danspace Project | St. Mark’s Church, NYC (2014), INDEX, Stockholm (2014), Paço das Artes, São Paulo (2014), CCS Bard / Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (2014), White Columns, NYC (2014), and the Swiss Institute Contemporary Art, NYC (2013).

An interview with Malin Arnell and FD13’s director Sandra Teitge will be broadcast shortly before the performance, at 7 p.m., on KFAI’s program Art Matters with Marya Morstad.

This residency and performance is made possible with support by Iaspis, the Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s International Programme for Visual Artists.

Agustina Woodgate Radio Espacio at HmongTown Marketplace. Interviews.
audio station by the Hmong ABC bookstore, Mondays and Fridays, 12 – 7 p.m.
217 Como Ave, West Building, Suite 108, St. Paul, MN 55103

RADIO ESPACIO is a bilingual and nomad radio project that broadcasts from different cities, with programming bridging global investigations with local interests through interviews, music, sounds and noises. Argentinian artist Agustina Woodgate implemented RADIO ESPACIO into the St. Paul HmongTown Marketplace for one weekend and developed a program together with the Twin Cities Hmong community.

Listen to the program at the Hmong market audio station or
here: Radio Espacio Estácion at the Hmong market. (Languages: English/Hmong, Duration: 4:17 hrs)

Guest: Jonathan Siab Yaj, Pao Houa Her, May Lee-Yang, Wameng Moua

Jonathan Siab Yaj is a young Hmong-American poet and songwriter.

Pao Houa Her is a visual artist base in Minnesota. She studied at Minneapolis College of Art and Design and at Yale University School of Art.

May Lee-Yang, is a Hmong playwright, poet, prose writer, performance artist and community activist. She produces plays under the name Lazy Hmong Woman.

Wameng Moua is editor and publisher of Hmong Today.

 

We are proud to be part of this group of responsible non-profits:

Congratulations to Art League Houston, FD13, Issue Project Room, and The Artist’s Institute for choosing to become W.A.G.E. Certified!

These organizations join Artists Space in providing a guaranteed minimum income to the artists they work with, paid in accordance with W.A.G.E. Certification’s compensation standards and guidelines.

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Founded in 2008, Working Artists and the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.) is a New York-based activist group whose advocacy is currently focused on regulating the payment of artist fees by nonprofit art institutions and establishing a sustainable model for best practices between artists and the institutions that contract their labor.

Agustina Woodgate Radio Espacio at HmongTown Marketplace. Interviews.
audio station by the Hmong ABC bookstore, Mondays and Fridays, 12 – 7 p.m.
217 Como Ave, West Building, Suite 108, St. Paul, MN 55103

RADIO ESPACIO is a bilingual and nomad radio project that broadcasts from different cities, with programming bridging global investigations with local interests through interviews, music, sounds and noises. Argentinian artist Agustina Woodgate implemented RADIO ESPACIO into the St. Paul HmongTown Marketplace for one weekend and developed a program together with the Twin Cities Hmong community.

Listen to the program at the Hmong market audio station or
here: Radio Espacio Estácion at the Hmong market. (Languages: English/Hmong, Duration: 4 hrs)

Guests: Kao Kalia Yang, Sonic Rain, market visitors, and Sandra Teitge.

Born in 1980, Kao Kalia Yang, author of The Latehomecomer, is the co-founder of a company dedicated to helping immigrants with writing, translating, and business services. A graduate of Carleton College and Columbia University, Yang also co-hosts a weekly radio program focusing on the Hmong community and has recently released The Place Where We Were Born, a film documenting the experiences of Hmong American refugees.

Sonic Rain is a Twin-Cities Hmong music artist. Her first single was released in February 2014 and is called “The Lost Dance.”

Sandra Teitge had invited Agustina Woodgate to develop a radio program at the HmongTown Marketplace.

FD13 Director Sandra Teitge is spending ten days in Beirut in the framework of the Maskan Apartment Project at the marra.tein residency/initiative, where she is conducting research regarding future FD13 residents and giving a public talk on culinary politics.

 

Opening and launch of Maskan Apartment Project with a culinary installation by Franziska Pierwoss & Sandra Teitge.

 

Thank you to the musicians for framing the first FD13 holiday fundraising event.

FD13 residency for the arts is pleased to invite you to its very first fundraising event with live music by two Twin Cities-based musicians Cole Pulice & Noah Ophoven-Baldwin. Cole and Noah have recently been collaborating on new music for a horn ensemble which draws from long-form drone, noise, and minimalism. Though works-in-progress, they will be performing fragments of the compositions arranged for trumpet & saxophone duet.

Please join us at the firehouse for this holiday event with cocktails & hors d’oeuvres. (wine provided by The Piedmont Guy)

6.00 pm   doors open

6.30 pm   music performance / premiere of new collaborative pieces (and throughout the evening)

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Cole Pulice is a Minneapolis-based saxophonist, composer, and improviser. In addition to writing, arranging, and performing with a wide variety of ensembles in the Twin Cities, he also works alongside theater, film, and performance artists as a musical collaborator. He has recently received the Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature Fellowship to begin doctoral work at the University of Minnesota, where he works in the fields of sound studies, film music studies, and cultural musicology.


Noah Ophoven-Baldwin lives in Minneapolis where he plays trumpet/cornet and enjoys writing music. He received his BM in Trumpet Performance from the University of Minnesota. Noah is a co-founder of the Minneapolis-based musician’s collective, Six Families. He appreciates the learning experiences that he has gained from all of his friends/loved-ones/elders/mentors and is an advocate of building and participating in an arts community based in listening, loving and experimenting.

Documentation here.

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Thank you for all your generous support in 2014.

Our program would not be possible without each and everyone of you.