Jamaica Flux: Workspaces & Windows 2010 Art as Action April 10 – June 12, 2010

(Jamaica, NY, March 17, 2010) – The third iteration of Jamaica Flux: Workspaces & Windows will open on April 10, 2010. The contemporary art project of the Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning (JCAL) is a site-specific, public art exhibition that is mounted every three years with the intention of using the urban environment as a studio and exhibition space.

Founded in 2004 by JCAL’s curator, Heng-Gil Han, Jamaica Flux includes the commission, creation, and exhibition of site-specific projects, that are installed at a variety of locations along Jamaica Avenue, including banks, stores, street intersections, parks, and other public spaces.

The selected works conceptualize this year’s theme, “Art as Action.” Artist perspectives will include art that references the tradition of gestural “action painting”; art that literally performs an action, such as a performance or event; and art that aims to solve social problems through constructive action, as opposed to art that merely represents or symbolizes social problems.

This year, Jamaica Flux Workspaces & Windows 2010 will include work by Hyong Nam Ahn, Ilona Granet, Robert Morris, Lia Perjovschi and Freddy Rodriguez.

More information at www.jcal.org

The Korean Times

Disband is featured in The Korean Times, online,  Spotlight on Women Artists at Incheon Biennale, 7/30/2009

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/art/2009/09/203_49336.html

Disband has just returned from South Korea!

We were invited to show and perform in the Incheon Women Artists Biennale.

http://iwabiennale.org/2009_new/eng/main/main.php

And then we stayed for 5 extra days to see where we were. Fun and intense as you might imagine. Now I am back attached to the ceiling at the Swedish Consulate. 2 weeks with Martha and Diane rehearsing and eating and wandering. Quite wonderful. I bought new glasses. Tried to come back with a little white poodle that walked and galloped around with its back left leg straight out. but only a fairytale.

It was August 1st 2009, that we performed for the opening and the show is up for the month. Safe signs. I think looked good. But i heard more about the performance. The artists voted us best and most popular for their evening awards ceremony at a little local bar. Now I can die happy. We now dream of doing an all asian tour, if only i could spell the cities i would tell you.

We have a new song, "Lost and Found" in honor of Clinton the dog, and my mom. We do the minuet.

Speed Trials...

The Speed Trials noise rock series organized by Live Skull members in May 1983 at White Columns. Among an art installationcreated by David Wojnarowicz and Joseph Nechvatal, various performance artists such as Ilona Granet and Emily XYZ did their acts intermixing with the music of The Fall, Beastie Boys, Live Skull, Sonic Youth, Lydia Lunch, Elliott Sharp, Swans and Arto Lindsay.

"Speed Trials" was eventually released as a live album recorded by Mark Roule and became one of the best-selling independent records of its time

Ilona's on youtube!

Painter/Performance Artist Ilona Granet appears live on Kestutis Nakas' 1982-83 talk show "Your Program of Programs".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzcVgDnwTQM

Clinton, The Dog that He Is (click to enlarge)
6.2.1996 (approx) - 3.27.2007 Photo: Teri Slotkin