Family Business gallery and New Holland present
TAMIZDAT
18 May – 1 June 2013, New Holland, St. Petersburg, Russia
As the opening event of the Summer 2013 program of the New Holland pop-up gallery, in St. Pe- tersburg, FAMILY BUSINESS will present TAMIZDAT, an independent press exhibition and publication ‘mini- market’, and local incarnation of the MEGABODEGA Zine show that took place during July 2012 at Family Business Gallery in New York. For nearly 2 weeks, the entire New Holland pop-up gallery will be transformed into the FAMILY BUSINESS space, representing the art, environment and energy that the Family have been cultivating on a New York City street.
TAMIZDAT will present to the St. Petersburg public around 400 text-based, self-pub- lished art pieces from all over the world in the spirit of sharing these unique and highly original text-based, self-published art pieces. Moreover, nightly there will be zine presentations and book launches, as well as variety of events such as concerts, poetry readings and performances by international and local artists. The pop-up gallery will be painted from the outside by the graffiti artist SWAMPY.
TAMIZDAT is a Russian term refering to a key form of dissident activity during the Soviet era in which individuals reproduced censored, foreign publications by hand, and passed the documents from reader to reader. We would like to revisit that strong Russian tradition of self-published, paper- based products that lead to the democratization of information, where every person can make a book or a magazine expressing their thoughts and ideas, with a creative touch.
The art exhibition is curated by Victoria Yee Howe; the program is curated by Victoria Yee Howe and Family Business director Daria Irincheeva
the best installation New Holland team!!
working on the design!
materials arrived baby!
Brendan Mahoney at work
our shipping container in which the exhibition takes place by SWAMPY
TAMIZDAT!!
Family Business TAMIZDAT press breakfast! Daria Irincheeva, David Horvitz with The Brothers Karamazov, Brendan Mahoney, Swampy, Ruy Sanchez Blanco and Victoria Yee Howe! From Russia with LOVE!!
Family Business team!
The Brothers KARAMAZOV!!
first visitors of TAMIZDAT
the line outside New Holland, PUMPING!!
first visitor to buy a zine! Great choice!!
SWAMPY stick and poke tattooing!
Marina Goncharova at work! Yeah!
Cool grandfather checking out zines:)
Line for tattoos
Line was all day. 12000 people visited us the first day, WOW!!
MOTORAMA concert at New Holland!!
MOTORAMA concert at New Holland!!
Last Thursday evening The School of Death at Family Business:
“Learn how to Die” : Lecture by Simon Critchley
“…The sea. the sky, the mountains and the islands closed in and crushed me in a mighty systole, then scattered to the uttermost confines of space. The memory came faint and cold of the story i might have told, a story in the likeness of my life. I mean without the courage to end or the strength to go on”
Samuel Beckett, The End. The Complete Short Prose, translated by Richard Seaver in collaboration with the author, Grove Press, NY, 1995
School of Death / “Learn How to Die,” with Simon Critchley
Date: Thursday, 16 May 2013, 6:30-9 pm
School of Death / “Suicide and Epitaph Workshops,” with Simon Critchley and Jeff Dolven
Date: Saturday, 18 May 2013, 2-5 pmLocation: Family Business, 520 West 21st St, New York (map here)
Both events are FREE. NO RSVP required.
Organized by Cabinet and Simon Critchley. At the invitation of family Business
School of Death, organized by Cabinet and Simon Critchley, will run at Family Business from 7 May to 18 May 2013. This is the first incarnation of the school, an educational institution dedicated to exploring the relationship between death and the examined life. As the institution’s motto declares, “If the examined life is not worth living, then is death not worth examining”?
The school offers its final two programs of its inaugural semester:
16 May 2013, 6:30-9 pm: Lecture
Simon Critchley will give a lecture entitled “Learn How to Die.”
18 May 2013, 2-5 pm: Suicide Note and Epitaph Workshop
A hands-on workshop on suicide notes (2-3:30 pm) run by Simon Critchley, will be followed immediately by a workshop on epitaphs (3:30-5) run by Jeff Dolven. Please bring your works-in-progress for classroom discussion.
ABOUT THE PARTICIPANTS
Simon Critchley, who is not dead yet, teaches philosophy for a living at the New School for Social Research. He writes for the New York Times and his new book Stay, Illusion!: The Hamlet Doctrine, co-written with Jamieson Webster, will be published by Pantheon in June.
Jeff Dolven teaches English at Princeton University, where he is director of the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities (IHUM).
ABOUT FAMILY BUSINESS
Family Business is an exhibition space initiated by Maurizio Cattelan and Massimiliano Gioni. It is a free time-share: a space made available to people who have something interesting to say; a way to get to know new families and friends. Family Business is powered by the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College. A guest + a host = a ghost. Nadja Argyropoulou is the Family Business guest (or ghost) curator for 2013.
Founded in New York in 1999, Cabinet is a non-profit arts organization that aims through its publishing and presenting activities to encourage a new culture of curiosity about the world. For more information, see www.cabinetmagazine.org.
A new sighting at Family Business! Another Family Ghost is calling and Montezuma (fifth Aztec Emperor), a certain lover’s eye and the sign of serious concentration and pleasure are the evidence at Family Business. The calling card reads Konstantinos Ladianos and if there is serious interest on the ghost please contact us (godfather@familybusiness.us). We have stories to tell…
LOVER’ S EYE
Embroidery with cotton and golden and silver yarn on vintage cotton fabric
UNTITLED
Embroidery with cotton yarn on cotton fabric with handmade lace
Konstantinos Ladianos
MONTEZUMA
Embroidery with cotton and golden yarn on handmade fabric
Kate Gilmore “Hold on Her” at Family Business!
Katy Gilmore performance “Hold on Her”;
Smashing performance by Family and public;
Scones Radio (Brooklyn / WFMU)
Kate Gilmore performance “Hold on Her” at Family Business
Roberta Smith, Kate Gilmore and Jerry Saltz
Kate Gilmore and Zoe Lescaze
breaking performance “In Praise of Chance and Failure” part 2 at Family Business
breaking performance “In Praise of Chance and Failure” part 2 at Family Business
TONIGHT 13th April at Family Business!!
Kate Gilmore performance “Hold on Her” 6-9pm
Smashing performance by Family and public 7:30pm
Scones Radio (Brooklyn / WFMU) 7:30-9pm
http://wfmu.org/playlists/BX
Everybody welcome!:)
