Movement Workshop: Untitled (Holding Horizon)
Monday, November 18^th, 6pm – 9pm
The Cowles Center for Dance, Tek Box
528 Hennepin Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55403

This event is free, but capacity is limited. Reserve your free spot here. 

FD13 residency for the arts welcomes Warsaw and London-based artist Alex Baczyński-Jenkins (b. 1987). Baczyński-Jenkins’ choreographic work employs dance, micro-gesture and poetic language in order to celebrate and make public a queer politics of desire. This visit marks the first of two trips Baczyński-Jenkins will make to Minneapolis, returning again in September 2020 to present a newly commission performance in response to the architecture and history of Peavey Plaza, the artists’ first U.S. commission.

In this workshop, Alex Baczyński-Jenkins will lead participants through a series of movements and exercises set to a live mixed soundtrack. As a group, we will revisit Baczyński-Jenkins 2018 work Untitled (Holding Horizon), which draws on the box step, a basic movement used in several social dances, to explore collectivity, subjectivity, queer embodiment and intimacy.

No formal dance or movement experience is required for this workshop. All abilities are welcome. For questions regarding access, please contact info@fd13residency.org.

Alex Baczyński-Jenkins’ residency events are made possible with generous support from lead project donors Ellen and Jan Breyer.

Happy Holidays from FD13!

Wishing you the very best this holiday season and a happy New Year.
Here is what we have planned for winter 2018.

LA-born, Berlin-based artist, writer, activist, and witch, Johanna Hedva presents the next iteration of This Earth, Our Hospital, an ongoing series of essays and performances about the politics of sickness, disability, and healing. The residency will begin with a two-day writing workshop focusing on astrology, mythology and storytelling, hosted at The Future project space in the South Minneapolis Witch District and will conclude with the launch of Hedva’s forthcoming sci-fi dystopian novella, On Hell.

Astrology and Mythology Writing Workshop, led by Hedva
Sun, Mar 4 at 4pm, and Tues, Mar 6 at 6pm
The Future
Booking available mid-February 2018

This Earth, Our Hospital reading and On Hell book launch
Thurs, Mar 8 at 7pm
Venue information and booking available in mid-February 2018

Johanna Hedva’s FD13 residency is co-presented with Triple Canopy and generously made possible with support from Goethe Institut Chicago.

You are invited to FD13 residency for the art’s pre-season launch on Friday, November 17, 2017, 6–7.30 pm.  

Join residency Co-Directors Sandra Teitge and Sara Cluggish as they present a year of FD13 programming, including details of the forthcoming winter/spring 2018 season.

Generously hosted by Henry & Son, purveyors of craft wine and spirits. Free wine tasting and refreshments will be served throughout the evening.

Henry & Son
811 Glenwood Ave
Minneapolis MN 55405

Located across from the International Market Square, just a few blocks away from the Minneapolis Farmers Market.
Please RSVP to info@fd13residency.org

We are looking forward to seeing you there!

FD13 residency for the arts presents:
Chantal Peñalosa. Performative Lecture on Murals.
Thursday, 28 September 2017, 6.45 pm

Mexican Cultural Institute of Washington D.C. 
2829 16th St NW
20009 Washington, D.C.
USA

Artist talk (via Skype)
Friday, 22 September 2017, 6.30 pm

The White Page
3400 Cedar Ave South
Minneapolis, MN 55407
USA

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For the summer and fall of 2017, FD13 residency for the arts is proud to partner with the Mexican Cultural Institute of Washington D.C. and select venues in New York City and Minneapolis.

Current FD13 artist-in-residence Chantal Peñalosa will present an audio-visual performance building upon research into the painted murals in the Mexican Cultural Institute’s historic 16th Street MacVeagh Mansion. Originally constructed in 1910 as a summer home, the building was re-designated as the official Embassy of Mexico in 1921. This same year Guatemalan painter Rafael Yela Günther arrived in Mexico where he met prominent painter Diego Rivera in the early years of the Mexican muralist movement. In 1925, Yela Günther was commissioned by the Mexican government to design a series of murals for the Mexican Embassy’s Dining Room, connecting the grand Beaux Arts style architecture to the cultural and stylistic traditions of Mexico. The decision also reflected an interest of the time in indigeneity on the South American continent.

Yela’s original murals were eventually painted over. Later, other murals were added with more nationalistic scenes composed by Roberto Cueva del Río, a student of the Rivera mural style of painting that was well-established by this time. This second generation of murals remain in the building to this day and display a cross-section of Mexico’s national history. The scenes range from depictions of the mythological founding of Aztec culture, the arrival of Christopher Columbus, rural and agricultural festivities to Mexico’s modern industrialization. As a whole, del Río’s murals celebrate the continuity of old Mexico and the new.
On September 28th, Peñalosa invites the public at the Mexican Cultural Institute to engage with these competing historical depictions in a 30-minute performance that employs sound, visuals, and movement.

One week prior to the culminating performance, Peñalosa will open her research to audiences in Minneapolis in an artist talk moderated by FD13’s Guest Curator Sara Cluggish and broadcast directly from the Mexican Cultural Institute building in D.C. to The White Page in Minneapolis. Images of the present-day Cueva del Río murals and a selection of Peñalosa’s previous moving images works will also be shown.
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Chantal Peñalosa studied Fine Arts at the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California and the University of São Paulo. Peñalosa’s research-based practice is inspired by small gestures and interventions in everyday life, which are meant to expound upon notions of labor, waiting and delay. Repetition is a crucial element in her process, functioning as an allusion to the absurdity, weathering, and alienating effects of work. She was awarded the Acquisition Prize in the XIV edition of the Biennale of the Northwest and was awarded FONCA fellowships in the Young Artists category (2013-2014 and 2015-2016). In 2014 she participated in the 4th edition of the Bancomer Program for young artists at the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil in Mexico City. Most recently, her work has been shown at Casa del Lago in Mexico City and at AIR Antwerpen.
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In times of political uncertainty FD13 suspends and expands its mission to promote an international network of artistic exchange in Minneapolis/St. Paul. Operating from the heart of the U.S. government instead, three invited Mexican artistswill develop context-specific projects for and in collaboration with the Mexican Cultural Institute of Washington D.C.
Following Adriana Lara’s summer residency, Chantal Peñalosa will develop and present work in Washington D.C. and in Minneapolis.

A special thank you to Gustavo Morales and Alberto Fierro Garza (MCI of D.C.), Cleopatra’s (Erin Somerville), and The White Page.

With the support of the Mexican Cultural Institute of Washington D.C., the Embassy of Mexico in the United States, and the Mexican Agency for International Development Cooperation.

FD13 residency for the arts presents:
Artist talk with Chantal Peñalosa moderated by Sara Cluggish 
Friday, 22 September 2017, 6.30 pm

The White Page
3400 Cedar Ave South
Minneapolis, MN 55407
USA

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In the framework of FD13’s partnership with the Mexican Cultural Institute of Washington D.C., Chantal Peñalosa is developing an audio-visual performance on Thursday, 28 September 2017, building upon research into the painted murals of in the Institute’s historic 16th Street MacVeagh Mansion.
In 1925, Guatemalan artist Yela Günther was commissioned by the Mexican government to design a series of murals for the Mexican Embassy building, connecting the grand Beaux Arts style architecture to the cultural and stylistic traditions of Mexico. The decision also reflected an interest of the time in indigeneity on the South American continent. Beginning in 1933, Yela’s original murals were painted over with more nationalistic scenes composed by Cueva del Río, a student of the Rivera mural style of painting that was well-established by this time. This second generation of murals remain in the building to this day and display a cross-section of Mexico’s national history.

Prior to the performance in D.C. Chantal Peñalosa will open her research to the public in Minneapolis in an artist talk moderated by FD13 Guest Curator Sara Cluggish and broadcast directly from the Mexican Cultural Institute building in D.C. to The White Page in Minneapolis. Images of the present-day Cueva del Río murals and a selection of Peñalosa’s previous moving images works will also be shown. 

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Chantal Peñalosa studied Fine Arts at the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California and the University of São Paulo. Peñalosa’s research-based practice is inspired by small gestures and interventions in everyday life, which are meant to expound upon notions of labor, waiting and delay. Repetition is a crucial element in her process, functioning as an allusion to the absurdity, weathering, and alienating effects of work. For Peñalosa repeating actions evoke latent states in which dialogue appears unilateral and time suspended. She was awarded the Acquisition Prize in the XIV edition of the Biennale of the Northwest and was awarded FONCA fellowships in the Young Artists category (2013-2014) and (2015-2016). In 2014 she participated in the 4th edition of the Bancomer Program for young artists at the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil in Mexico City. Most recently, her work has been shown at Casa del Lago in Mexico City and at AIR Antwerpen.

Happy Summer to all of you!

After a stimulating residency with Adriana Lara in May 2017 at the Mexican Cultural Institute of Washington D.C. we are taking a break for the summer.

We will be back in September 2017 with Chantal Peñalosa followed by Lorena Mal in October 2017.
Both artists will develop and present context-specific projects for the Mexican Cultural Institute of Washington D.C.

Furthermore, FD13 is proud to introduce Sara Cluggish as guest curator for the upcoming 2018 winter season.
Sara has worked for the past three years as Curator at Site Gallery in Sheffield, UK, where she oversaw the gallery’s exhibitions and events programming, as well as Platform, an experimental artist-in-residence series. Sara was previously Assistant Curator at Nottingham Contemporary and has worked in the exhibitions departments of Chisenhale Gallery, London; Whitechapel Gallery, London; and the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. At Site Gallery, she is currently curating a new moving image work by Daria Martin which experimentally adapts Franz Kafka’s short story A Hunger Artist.

FD13’s director Sandra Teitge moved to New York in the summer of 2016 and will focus her energy on the East Coast and international collaborations for FD13.

Stay tuned for news on our upcoming fall and winter program.

Warmly,
Sandra, Sara & Bruno

(Image credit: Tropez Berlin)

FD13 residency for the arts presents:
Artist talk with Adriana Lara moderated by Sandra Teitge 
Monday, 22 May 2017, 6 pm

Cleopatra’s 
110 Meserole Ave
Brooklyn, New York 11222

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Adriana Lara examines the instability of meaning, the structures and patterns, in which content and form merge, reflect on each other, and dissolve. Through this line of exploration Lara’s practice takes on many different formats and shapes as she experiments with different contexts with an open-ended, non-academic approach. Under the collective Perros Negros, she continues to curate exhibitions; she also has been editing the fanzine Pazmaker since 2006.

Lara’s work has been shown at Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden (2017), Kunstverein Braunschweig (2016), Air de Paris (2016), 21er Haus-Belvedere/Vienna (2014), Kunsthalle Basel (2012), Utah Museum of Fine Arts/Salt Lake City (2010) amongst many others. Her work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions at the Sculpture Center New York (2016), Kunsthalle DenFrie/Copenhagen (2015), the Marrakech Biennale 5 (2014), dOCUMENTA (13) (2012), CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts/San Francisco (2012), the New Museum/New York (2009), and the Jumex Collection in Mexico City (2008).

This New York City artist talk follows a residency that Lara conducted in Washington D.C. at the Mexican Cultural Institute (May 14-20), where she presented her ongoing project Club of Interesting Theories, a proposal for the potential visualization of the processes of theory-making and thought-production, this time with a focus on Mexican-U.S. American relations. An accompanying publication includes the theories paired with the artist’s abstract graphics that materialize the theories into abstract shapes. At the public event in D.C., a series of projected graphics from Lara’s visual system were in dialogue with readings of a few selected interesting theories along with a site-specific installation that unfolded as the evening advanced.

With the support of the Mexican Cultural Institute of Washington D.C. and New York, the Embassy of Mexico in the United States, and the Mexican Agency for International Development Cooperation.

FD13 residency for the arts presents:
Adriana Lara. The Club of Interesting Theories.

Thursday, 18 May 2017, 6.45 pm

Mexican Cultural Institute of Washington D.C. 
2829 16th St NW
20009 Washington, D.C.
USA 

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FD13 residency for the arts will collaborate with the Mexican Cultural Institute of Washington D.C. and various venues in New York City from May through October 2017.

For its D.C. debut, FD13 and the Mexican Cultural Institute of Washington D.C. invites Adriana Lara to develop and present her ongoing project Club of Interesting Theories, a proposal for the potential visualization of the processes of theory-making and thought-production, this time with a focus on Mexican-U.S. American relations. An accompanying publication will include the theories paired with the artist’s abstract graphics that materialize the theories into abstract shapes. At the public event, a series of projected graphics from Lara’s visual system will be in dialogue with readings of a few selected interesting theories along with a site-specific installation that will unfold as the evening advances.

Adriana Lara examines the instability of meaning, the structures and patterns, in which content and form merge, reflect on each other, and dissolve. Through this line of exploration Lara’s practice takes on many different formats and shapes as she experiments with different contexts with an open-ended, non-academic approach. Under the collective Perros Negros, she continues to curate exhibitions; she also been editing the fanzine Pazmaker since 2006.

Lara’s work has been shown at Kunstverein Braunschweig (2016), Air de Paris (2016),  21er Haus-Belvedere/Vienna (2014), Kunsthalle Basel (2012), Utah Museum of Fine Arts/Salt Lake City (2010) amongst many others. Her work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions at the Sculpture Center New York (2016),  Kunsthalle DenFrie/Copenhagen (2015), the Marrakech Biennale 5 (2014),  dOCUMENTA (13) (2012),  CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts/San Francisco (2012), the New Museum/New York (2009), and the Jumex Collection in Mexico City (2008), and most recently at the Sculpture Center NYC (2016) and Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden (2017).

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In times of political uncertainty FD13 suspends and expands its mission to promote an international network of artistic exchange in Minneapolis/St. Paul and, instead, will operate from the heart of the U.S. government with three invited Mexican artists who will develop context-specific projects for and in collaboration with the Mexican Cultural Institute of Washington D.C.
Following Adriana Lara, Chantal Peñalosa (September 2017) and Lorena Mal (October 2017) will develop and present work in Washington D.C. and in New York City.

A special thank you to Gustavo Morales and Alberto Fierro Garza.

With the support of the Mexican Cultural Institute of Washington D.C., the Embassy of Mexico in the United States, and the Mexican Agency for International Development Cooperation.

FD13 residency for the arts will be based at the Mexican Cultural Institute in Washington D.C. from May through December 2017.

In times of political uncertainty we suspend our mission to promote an international network of artistic exchange in Minnesota and, instead, will operate from the heart of the U.S. government with three invited Mexican artists who will develop context-specific projects for the Mexican Cultural Institute.

May 2017: Adriana Lara
September 2017: Chantal Peñalosa

Adriana Lara examines the instability of meaning and analyzes how structures, styles, content, and form merge, reflect on each other, and dissolve. She reflects with humor and precision on classification systems and power structures and translates them into formal abstract sign systems. Lara’s practice takes on many different formats and shapes as she experiments with continuous surfaces in fluid, playful ways. She made music under the name Lasser Moderna with Emilio Acevedo, continues to curate exhibitions under the collective Perros Negros, and has been editing the fanzine PAZMAKER since 2006.

Lara has exhibited her work at the Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden (2017), Kunstverein Braunschweig (2016), Air de Paris (2016),  21er Haus-Belvedere/Vienna (2014), Kunsthalle Basel (2012), Utah Museum of Fine Arts/Salt Lake City (2010) amongst many others. Her work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions at the Sculpture Center New York (2016),  Kunsthalle DenFrie/Copenhagen (2015), the Marrakech Biennale 5 (2014),  dOCUMENTA (13) (2012),  CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts/San Francisco (2012), the New Museum/New York (2009), and the Jumex Collection in Mexico City (2008).

Chantal Peñalosa studied Fine Arts at the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California and the University of São Paulo.
Peñalosa’s research-based practice is inspired by small gestures and interventions in everyday life, which are meant to expound upon notions of labor, waiting and delay. Repetition is a crucial element in her process, functioning as an allusion to the absurdity, weathering, and alienating effects of work. For Peñalosa repeating actions evoke latent states in which dialogue appears unilateral and time suspended.
She was awarded the Acquisition Prize in the XIV edition of the Biennale of the Northwest and was awarded FONCA fellowships in the Young Artists category (2013-2014) and (2015-2016). In 2014 she participated in the 4th edition of the Bancomer Program for young artists at the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil in Mexico City. Most recently, her work has been shown at Casa del Lago in Mexico City and at AIR Antwerpen.

 

FD13 presents: Moriah Evans. Be my Muse.

(in collaboration with Kampnagel Hamburg / in parallel to Common Time at the Walker Art Center)

Wed, 8 February & Thurs, 9 February 2017, 11am – 5pm
Friday, 10 February 2017, 11am – 3pm

(1-hour slots / sign up here: info@fd13residency.org)

Yeah Maybe
2528 E 22nd St
Minneapolis, MN 55406

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In Be my Muse, Evans will occupy various rooms at Yeah Maybe with a cycle of 49-minute performances commencing at the start of each hour. Evans will expose her process to a series of interventions and opinions from the public to produce an open choreographic system modulated through time and intimate yet momentary exchanges. The construction of a solo performance is examined whilst expressions of power, control, dominance, submission and the authority of the author are in a perpetual state of redefinition.

Hourly, from 11 am to 5 pm.

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Moriah Evans is a choreographer based in New York. Her compositions are processed not by form but by a procedure, insisting on the value of bodies in motion and relation. Her choreographic work has been presented by The Kitchen, MoMA/PS1, Danspace Project, Issue Project Room, Judson Church, AUNTS, American Realness, BAX, New York Live Arts, The New Museum, The Chocolate Factory, Dixon Place, CalIT2, and internationally at Kampnagel, Theatre de l’Usine, and CDC Atelier de Paris. In 2015, she received a Bessie award nomination for Emerging Choreographer. She is a graduate with honors of Wellesley College with a B.A. in Art History and English Literature and did her PhD studies in the Visual Arts Department at the University of California, San Diego. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the Movement Research Performance Journal and has been involved with the publication since 2009. During her 2011-2013 residency at Movement Research, she initiated The Bureau for the Future of Choreography–a collective apparatus involved in research processes and practices to investigate participatory images of performance and systems of choreography. In her recent diptych, Social Dance 1-8: Index and Social Dance 9-12: Encounter, Evans considers how we dance together and engage social relationships through the choreographic pathways of dancing and witnessing within the performative event–interrogating dance history as well as the exhibitionism inherent to performance.