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Nabadi is a coat made from felt or karakul (the short curly fur of young lambs of the breed of that name).

Karakul being quite expensive, burkas were usually sewn from felt treated to look like karakul. Nabadi are sewn with high, squared off shoulders, and wearers will have a distinctive high-shouldered silhouette.

Nabadi were part of the customary male garb of various peoples inhabiting the Caucasus region. Nabadi were adopted by Russian cavalry, and worn as part of the Russian military uniform from the middle of the 18th century until the 1850s, during the Caucasus War.

 

Metal Nabadi Workshop with Gela Patashuri, Ei Arakawa, and Sergei Tcherepnin
Saturday, 16 January 2016, 2-4 pm

Nabadi is a traditional shepherd’s outfit in Georgia. It is also a kind of construction, or architecture that can be worn. In this workshop artists Gela Patashuri, Ei Arakawa, and Sergei Tcherepnin will demonstrate and instruct you how to make Nabadi out of metal. Upon the completion, the group will make a procession to Hampden Park adjacent toFD13 to exercise anti-cold dance sessions.

This workshop is a performance introduction to the artists’ exhibition at Midway Contemporary Art on Saturday, January 23^rd, 2016.

Please rsvp before Friday, 15 January 2016: info@fd13residency.org

(Bring your mobile phone to the workshop!)

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Tbilisi-based artist Gela Patashuri and New York-based artists Ei Arakawa and Sergei Tcherepnin have been collaborating since 2005. Their collaboration was initiated in a Tbilisi exhibition series organized by Daniel Baumann.

Since then, their work has been shown at Casco, Utrecht, Netherlands; CAC Bretigny, Brétigny-sur-Orge, France; Georgian Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale; and Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland. The upcoming show at Midway Contemporary Art will be their first exhibition in United States.

This residency is made possible with the support of the Trust for Mutual Understanding (TMU).

Documentation here (workshop) & here (procession).

Thank you for a great year and for supporting our mission of bringing international artists to the Twin Cities and creating an exchange with Minneapolis/St. Paul-based artists and the local audience.

We could not have done it without you and appreciate your enthusiasm.

FD13 residency for the arts presents: Julia Kouneski. Skyway Performance. 
Saturday, 21 November 2015, 3–5 p.m.
(performed with Sarah Petersen)

3 p.m.
Inside the skyway crossing Washington Ave, between Marquette Ave & 2nd Ave. (see map below)
Access through skyways via Churchill Apartments (111 S Marquette Ave) or Restaurant Max/The Hotel Minneapolis (2nd Ave & 4th St)

4/4.30 p.m.
Post-performance conversation at Dunn Bros Freight House
201 3rd Ave S, Minneapolis (by The Depot) 

L.A.-based artist Julia Kouneski works with the limits of the sensing and the sensitive. She is interested in activating what she calls the ‘sensual body’ and speaking to a type of intelligence of the body. Most of her pieces involve setting up a frame for a performance, visually and situationally, while leaving it open for elements to unfold within this frame.

Most recently, Kouneski has presented her work at metro pcs Los Angeles and HomeLA.

For her FD13 performance, Kouneski is working with fellow artist Sarah Petersen to investigate how a sensory body translates within public space.

Documentation here and here (Skyway system).

FD13 residency for the arts presents: Adam Linder
Wednesday, 28 October 2015, 7 p.m.

The White Page
3400 Cedar Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55407

Cover at the door.
Drinks for purchase at The White Page bar.

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Adam Linder’s practice consists of works made for the theatre and the gallery space. He also offers Choreographic Services, which can be hired per hour and are not bound to a particular context.

Stage works by Linder have premiered at HAU Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin (Auto Fiction Reflexo, 2015; Parade, 2013), Kampnagel Hamburg (Cult to the Built on What, 2013), Silberkuppe Berlin (Ma Ma Ma Materials, 2012) and Tanz im August in Berlin (A Hip Reconnaissance, 2012).
Further presentations of these works have included ICA London (2015), Kunsthaus Bregenz (2014), American Realness in New York City (2014), Rencontres Chorégraphiques in Seine St. Denis (2014), Liste Performance Projects in Basel (2013), Museum für Gegenwartskunst Basel (2013) and Halle für Kunst Lüneburg (2012).
Linder’s Services have been hired by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco and many other venues.

During his residency in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Linder will experiment with scripts, images, and possibly librettos as part of his larger research into the notion of the abstract and the genre of the operetta.

Documentation here.

FD13 Season Opener, 13 September 2015
12 o’clock – 3 p.m.
with live music by Gabriel Stein

Please join us for a BBQ and some fabulous live music on Sunday, 13 September 2015, 12 o’clock.
We will present FD13‘s 2015 Fall Season and 2016 Winter Season accompanied by refreshments and grilled specialties generously sponsored by Kramarczuk’s.

Hampden Park (across from the Hampden Park Co-op & the firehouse FD13)
Raymond Ave/ Hampden Ave
Saint Paul, MN 55114

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Gabriel Stein is an electric guitarist, composer, and improviser. Stein received a scholarship to attend Berklee College of Music in Boston, graduating Summa Cum Laude. He is currently based in Minneapolis where he teaches, composes, and performs in a wide variety of musical styles with an emphasis on jazz and contemporary classical.

Documentation here.

This BBQ Season Opener is sponsored by Kramarczuk’s.

Adam Linder at Tanz im August in Berlin, Germany.
Below in the Magazin im August, in conversation with fellow performer Isabel Lewis.

Season Opener: 13 September 2015
with live music by Gabriel Stein

KINO HOLLY*OOD at Northern Spark, 13 June 2015, 9 p.m. – 5.26 a.m.
West Riverside Parkway, next to the Mill City Museum ruins (close to the Stone Arch Bridge)

Program:
9 p.m. – 11 p.m.          Holly*ood Special feat. local filmmakers Mark Ryan & Tom Siler
live intervention by Xavier Tavera
11 p.m. – 1 a.m.            Architecture in Film with live performance by Sam Hoolihan & John Marks
1 a.m. – 3.30 a.m.       From Beirut with Love feat. a selection of video works & home movies from Lebanon
3.30 a.m. – 5.30 a.m. Voyage, Voyage. An early morning special.

Cole Pulice live on saxophone:
10 p.m. – 10.15 p.m.  Holly*ood Special
12.30  – 1 a.m.            Architecture in Film
4.15 a.m. – 5.15 a.m. Voyage, Voyage. An early morning special.

All programs include works by local and international filmmakers, artists & amateurs, as well as works from the Kinothek, the archive of the KINO project.
With special thanks to Wiley Hoard, Timo Grimberg, Ziya Habib and all the local filmmakers.

Wednesday, 10 June 2015, 6.30 p.m.
Artist talk with SISKA and Osama Esid, in collaboration with Mizna
Northern Spark project space
530 University Ave SE, through the back door

Saturday, 13 June 2015, 9 p.m. – 5.26 a.m.
KINO HOLLY*OOD at Northern Spark, 13 June, 9 p.m. – 5.26 a.m.
West Riverside Parkway, next to the Mill City Museum ruins (close to the Stone Arch Bridge)

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KINO HOLLY*OOD is a temporary movie theater screening an all-night program of video works and private Super 8 and 16mm films. It is an on-site cinema-like installation investigating new and temporary locations and includes a ticket booth and a popcorn trolley cart.

After an in-depth research of the Twin Cities’ cinema history, KINO takes on the name of a former movie theater that was closed down, demolished, or transformed, as an act of memory but also as a way of reviving these theaters in the present. The neon sign of the respective cinema (KINO) is re-created and is used as a central physical reference: KINO HOLLY*OOD.

The program of KINO HOLLY*OOD features works on the city and the stories of her inhabitants. It reflects the particular nature of the Twin Cities that used to host over 100 cinemas, the cities’ artists and amateur filmmakers, as well as family film treasures such as recorded birthdays, journeys, and garden parties.

The actual screening is more of a gathering rather than a strictly scheduled film session. In reference to the traditional news cinema the evening starts with a cartoon and the audience is welcome to come and go throughout the night.

Documentation here and here (feat. Cole Pulice) and here (feat. Sam Hoolihan & John Marks)

The KINO project was initiated by visual artists Franziska Pierwoss & SISKA in 2009 in Beirut and has since travelled to Naples, Warsaw and Zürich.
KINO HOLLY*OOD is the U.S. premiere of the KINO project.

Franziska Pierwoss is a German performance and installation artist with a focus on durational performance and collaborative practices.

SISKA is a Lebanese filmmaker and artist whose work reveals a strong site-specific feature.

Both artists have shown their work extensively in Europe and Lebanon. This is the first time that they will be presenting it in the U.S.

KINO HOLLY*OOD is presented by FD13 as part of Northern Spark 2015, produced by Northern Lights.mn.