Nobuko: Origami Workshop
October 17th, 11am-1pm
More possibilities to attend a workshop:
October 23rd and 24th, 2-4pm
ANIMALS AND MORE
For Adults as well as for Children.
Through NGO for cultural exchange, Nobuko has traveled to more than 20 countries promoting peace, human rights, equality, and sustainable development. She has exhibited her origami and taught the Japanese craft to the locals. Her ability to teach and share Origami connect her to people all ages.
Please RSVP , so we can have an idea. Just put the date and Number of people. We appreciate your $10 Donation.
Dean Moss
Oct 10th, 11am
The video will be also projected on the Gallery Window visible from the outside
Oct 9th and 10th, 8-11pm
As an artist working in both dance and video, I use the irrational logic of the body to articulate personal, cultural, and socioeconomic, forces that impact our perception of self and environment. Physically demanding, dense and visual, the resulting works reflect not only a desire to participate rigorously in the world of ideas, but also an interest in twinning a variety of forms and metaphors into visceral immersive performance experience.
Deborah, the wrong place at the wrong time
October 3rd, 11am
Deborah, the wrong place at the wrong time is a story about love and crime located in New York, the city of unexpected hopes. Lou Hoyer, Maximilian Thiel (Berlin) and Raphaela Riepl (Vienna) started this book project by accumulating their own feelings in collective drawings, which grew under the influence of pulsating city life in New York. In combination with text fragments, the collected and arranged drawings come to life and are readable in every way.
Manuel Sander
September 26, 11 am
Several years ago, S. H. and I were discussing a photograph I’d taken. He asked me to articulate what was on my mind when I took the image. “I like green,” I replied. He said that wasn’t enough. I said “Yes, it is.”
Manuel Sander is a graduate from the School of Visual Arts, MFA Photogaphy and Related Media Program, class of 1997. He lives in Brooklyn, NY with his wife, the artist and videomaker, Stefanie Koseff. His images can be seen at www.manythespaceman.tumblr.com.
Thomas Kohlwein
September 19, 11am
Cities have always been a major inspiration for arts and literature. New York City and its neighborhoods are based on the stories of their people. We want to invite you to share your personal stories with us, together we discuss the soul of our neighborhood and our hometown. The idea of mapping cities by their literature is also part of Thomas Kohlwein‘s new project lit.nyc, a community-based website where literary spots can be placed on New York’s city map.
Loren Munk
Sept 12th, 11 am –
“I am a big fan of art history, and I believe the lack of this knowledge is a prime reason that many artists will linger in careers of derivative mediocrity. Another fascination, and one that drives much on my current practice is the question of: what is art history? How is it made and who gets to decide what gets in and what doesn’t. In essence, who controls it?”
Severin Hagen and Sebastian Koch
All Sundays in June, 11am
The Artists in residence Sebastian Koch and Severin Hagen will host all Sundays in June. You are welcome to stop by and see the progress of their work, have a coffee and enjoy a conversation with them.
above: Severin Hagen: Bergwetter, Alpenglühen, mixed media, ca. 70x20x35cm
right: Sebastian Koch: The Beatles, Acrylic on wood, 40x50cm
Miho Suzuki: Our Children Today
May 30th 11am
“If we were able to in a quick flight over the United States in 1950 to look carefully at our nation’s children- what would we see?” How would the picture be different from what it was fifty or even ten years ago? What can we expect in the future? These are questions that can, at least in part, be answered.”
–Leona Baumgartner, M.D.
From the short essay, A Look at Children in The U.S.A., this quote has served as inspiration for Miho Suzuki’s ongoing photographic exploration of the glorious diversity of children in New York City. The artist will be sharing some of her images and ideas, and hopefully inspiring young and old to join her in a discussion of what it means to be a child. Please feel free to bring toys or favorite objects from your childhood to this May 30th edition of the cHURCH OF MONIKA.
James Leonard: Seeing in 5 dimensions
May 23rd 11am
During a period of self-reinvention, artist James Leonard began a visual exploration of four and five dimensional cubes. Arcane maybe, though not unheard of. Mathematicians have worked in higher dimensions for generations. Computers have allowed the construction of pristine, yet often impenetrable, renderings of “cubes” in ten dimensions and more. Unique from these predecessors, Leonard conducts his daily drawings by hand without device. He seeks to gain direct sensorial knowledge of these shapes and the higher dimensions they represent. The result has been a cognitive gymnastics best described as a strange form of Pythagorean transcendental meditation. After one year of private devotion, Leonard will share his technique with congregates at the cHURCH OF MONIKA.
If you are mathematically challenged, do not fear! This presentation will be step-by-step, interactive, and provide you with all the tools you need to draw your own higher dimensional shapes.
http://www.jamesleonard.org/
Lily White and Todd Isler
Sunday May 16th, 11am
We have tried to host the duo once before in April, but Todd Isler unfortunately was sick. This Sunday you have another chance to hear them!
Drummer, teacher and author Todd Isler is based in New York City, where he has been active in the jazz and world music scenes for over 20 years. He has released two original CDs, Two Step: Duets and Beyond, and his current Soul Drums, as well as his book You Can Takadimi This, published by Gerard and Sarzin in 2005.
Saxophonist and composer Lily White has released 3 CDs under her own name: Somewhere Between Truth and Fiction, No Pork Long line, and Big Blue Line.
She and Todd have been friends for over 20 years.
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upcoming
Evan Robarts and James Moore
Sara Bouchard: The News: Monday-Friday, Parts 1 & 2
Karl Spörk, Another Meeting
BETWEEN MOUNTAIN
Felipe Mujica: One Day This Will All Be Yours
Patrick Cadenhead
past
Open Source 2011
Open Source Soup Kitchen
Borderland Collective
Jason Reppert: Parlor Tricks
Felipe Mujica: One Day This Will All Be Yours
James Leonard – 927 Days at Sea
Soap Box Derby
Naoe Suzuki and Dramahound Productions: Mi Tigre, My Lover
Associated
Raphaela Riepl: adorable steamed sea urchin
Allison Read Smith: Thugs
Open Source Gallery 2008-2010
Soup Kitchen 2010
Pirmin Hagen: First
Nobuko: wa
ORFI nyc: live gig 2010
Peter Feigenbaum “Trainset Ghetto: Streetsmart”
Images NYC
make Soap Box Racers for the Soap Box Derby
ONE BIG WINDMILL
Open Source Residency w/Austrian Artists
Patricia Watwood: Portraits 20/10
Cornucopias: Paintings by Rachel Youens
Ondrej Brody & Kristofer Paetau: Wang Bin Torture in Commercial Quality, High Quality and Museum Quality
Akiyuki Ina: Emitting Evanescent Beauty
John Coburn: Fairlane Marauder
Soup Kitchen 12.1 – 12.24
Sara Ching-Yu Sun: Nov 7th- Nov 30
Victoria Stanton and Christian Richer: Sat Oct 10th
Patrick May: October 3 – november 2
Christian Brown: September 5 – October 1
Urban Plant Research: August 15 – August 30
Make Soap Box Racers! July 13th-August 8th
Hubert Dobler: June 6th – July 1st
Gary Baldwin: May 2nd – June 4th
Second Saturday Event: June 13, 7-10pm
Scott Groeniger: March 27 – April 26
Sara Bouchard: April 4th, 8pm
MonsterBASH | July 4th – August 15th | Party July 4th 4-7pm
Jeremy Slater and Tamara Yadao
