Events at the New Museum

The Mystery of Claywoman Friday, August 1, 2008 | 7:30 PM

NewMuseum.org — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:35:43 -0500

Claywoman is a 500-million-year-old enigma who, legend has it, can cure anyone of their deepest pain. She has traveled the universe searching for souls to heal and planets to save.

The Mystery of Claywoman, written and performed by Michael Cavadias and directed by Rob Roth, combines the forms of a documentary screening and lecture to actualize the story of Claywoman. Claywoman was originally developed by Cavadias while working with seminal downtown performance troupe Blacklips Performance Cult and with Mabou Mines E.T.C.’s artist residence program. The cast of the film includes Amy Poehler, Alan Cumming, Justin Bond, and Ruth Maleczech.

Michael Cavadias has acted in many films, including Wonder Boys (alongside Michael Douglas and Robert Downey Jr.), fronted the rock band “Bullet,” whose songs were featured in the film The Safety of Objects, and is currently a featured performer with the Citizens Band. As a fashion model, Cavadias has been photographed by Terry Richardson, Stephen Klein, Mario Testino, and Albert Watson. He is also known as dj and performance artist Lily of the Valley.

Director Rob Roth is a founding member of Click + Drag, the infamous Saturday night performance party at Mother, for which Roth created video installations, photography, design, and performance. Roth has collaborated and created works for Justin Bond (Kiki and Herb), Caden Manson/Big Art Group, Blondie/Deborah Harry, and choreographer Julie Tolentino. He is director and creator of Screen Test, the live rock opera with Theo and the Skyscrapers, and directed Deborah Harry’s new video for the single Two Times Blue.

The Mystery of Claywoman
Written and Performed by Michael Cavadias
Directed by Rob Roth
Edited by Rob Roth
Animation: Rob Roth, Brian Finney, Kenji Yamashita

Courtney Tichman: makeup
Jamie Clayton: makeup assistant
Ben Kato: lighting design
Todd Thomas: costume design
Trent Ermes: director of photography
Palmyra Delran and Sean Pierce: music

Film Cast

Justin Bond
Alan Cumming
Rachelle Garniez
Deborah Harry
Viatcheslav Kopturevskiy
Trip Langley
Ruth Maleczech
Amy Miles
Edgar Oliver
Amy Poehler
Mauro Von Waldenberg
Steve Wangh

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The Mystery of Claywoman
Directed by Rob Roth
Written and performed by Michael Cavadias

Friday, August 1, 2008 | 7:30 PM

Target First Saturdays for Families: Museum as Hub: Antikana Saturday, August 2, 2008 | 10:00 AM

NewMuseum.org — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:05:06 -0500

Visit “Museum as Hub: Antikhana,” an exhibition organized by Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art in Cairo, Egypt. Inspired by the Townhouse Gallery’s neighborhood, the artists included in this exhibition capture in their work the disorder and fusion of different historical eras, architectures, and inhabitants. Join participating artist Ayman Ramadan for a workshop about memories and neighborhood in the seventh-floor Sky Room.

Target First Saturdays for Families are free of charge. This program is designed for families with children 5 to 15 years old, and includes free New Museum admission for up to 3 adults per family. Children under 18 are always admitted free. No preregistration is required. Tickets are given out on a first-come, first-served basis.

For more information about Target First Saturdays for Families, email targetsaturdays@newmuseum.org.

Saturday, August 2, 2008 | 10:00 AM

Exhibition Walk-Through with Altoids Award Winner Michael Stickrod Saturday, September 13, 2008 | 2:00 PM

NewMuseum.org — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:47:09 -0500

Michael Stickrod addresses the psychology of human ties by cutting to the center of his familial circle. He uses scanned photographs and found audio to create nearly abstract sequences embedded between incising confessions and footage of his family. The videos on view take his mother and father as his subject matter, painting a landscape of Middle America that oscillates between bleak and hopeful. Stickrod was born in 1978 in Columbus, Ohio, and currently lives and works in New Haven, Connecticut. On September 13 he will discuss his work in the Altoids Award exhibition.

Saturday, September 13, 2008 | 2:00 PM

Ei Arakawa: Dance, Not Yet Titled Sunday, October 5, 2008 | 3:00 PM

NewMuseum.org — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 10:59:23 -0500

with Ronnie Bass / Eric Angles / Young Prada, Katie Brown, Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen, Eleanor Erdman / Kim Gordon / Nancy Garcia, Chase Granoff / Jenn Joy, Alix Pearlstein, Beau H Rhee, Georgia Sagri / Maria Sagri, Sakura Shimada, and Andrew Smith

Performances
Saturday, July 12, 3 p.m.
Sunday, October 5, 3 p.m.

Toying with notions of art production, Ei Arakawa works with numerous participants to create energized performances that he broadly refers to as "market." For this exhibition, he has collaborated with dancers and writers on a group of open-ended texts about objects in transition, leading to a series of amorphous performances that will occur over the course of the exhibition—all of which will contribute to a developing installation in the gallery space. In this show, texts printed on fabric hang from rolling racks and will remain in the exhibition space when not being used for rehearsals and performances. Adhering to the participatory and unkempt approach that interests Arakawa, the public events include the spectators themselves, turning his communal projects into spontaneous gatherings of people in which roles and definitions are constantly shifted and re-shaped. Arakawa’s practice is a celebration of instability and a ritual of exchange that never becomes static.

Open rehearsals
Wednesday, July 9, 3 p.m.
Friday, July 11, 3 p.m.
Thursday, October 2, 3 p.m.

Sunday, October 5, 2008 | 3:00 PM