Reception, Sunday, September 19, 7-9pm

PARTICIPANT INC, in conjunction with Silvershed, is pleased to present COLLECTIVE SHOW NY 2010, an artist-organized exhibition of contemporary art collectives. This collaboratively curated “group show of group shows” features local artist-run spaces, independent curatorial initiatives, not-for-profit endeavors and web-based groups established recently in New York.

Invited groups include: 25CPW, Boffo, Bruce High Quality Foundation University, Camel Collective, FARIMANI, Kunstverein NY, Parlour Projects, Silvershed, Submerged Art, The Metric System, Vector Productions, and guests: ACP, Night Gallery, and Human Resources (Los Angeles) and Temporary Contemporary (London).

Musical performances directed by Aleksei R. Stevens:
 Thursdays, October 14 and 21, and Friday, November 5, 7pm

At Anthology Film Archives

In conjunction with the NY Art Book Fair weekend, Thomas Lawson, Howard Singerman and Lauren O’Neill-Butler will discuss the history and future of art magazines, the delights and constraints of print, and the possibilities for new forms of online publishing.

Smithsonian Demonstration

Standard Gauge, Morgan Fisher, 16mm, 1984, 35 mins

Hellzapoppin’, HC Potter, 16mm, 1941, 84 mins

Program 1
Wednesday, January 26
The Films of Curtis Harrington
Fragment of Seeking 1946, 16mm
On the Edge 1949, 16mm
“Dynasty” Episode 4.7 ‘Tracy’ 1983, video

Program 2
Wednesday, February 23
The Sex Garage / Finished
Fred Halsted, The Sex Garage 1972, 16mm on DVD
William E. Jones, Finished 1997, 16mm

The Cooper Square Hotel Penthouse
25 Cooper Square
New York City

Performance with Ben Boatright, Sunday, April 10, 7pm

Program 3
MADAME X – AN ABSOLUTE RULER
Wednesday, March 30
Ulrike Ottinger, Madame X – An Absolute Ruler 1978, 16mm on DVD
Q&A with Gary Indiana

Program 4
MICHAEL ROBINSON / JACK SMITH
Wednesday, April 20
Jack Smith: No President, 1967-70, 16mm, 50 mins.
Michael Robinson: And We All Shine On, 2006, 16mm, 7 mins.
All Through The Night, 2008, DV, 4:20 mins.
These Hammers Don’t Hurt Us, 2010, DV, 13 mins.
Victory Over the Sun, 2007, 16mm, 12 mins.

Saturday, May 7

Survival AIDS/Hunter Reynolds: Performance & Panel

Visual AIDS, in collaboration with Participant Inc, presents a panel discussion and mummification performance by Hunter Reynolds, on the occasion of Survival AIDS and the Festival of Ideas for the New City. Panelists: Virginia Solomon, David Deitcher, Nathan Lee, and Anthony Viti.

Saturday, May 7

Visual AIDS, in collaboration with Participant Inc, presents a panel discussion and mummification performance by Hunter Reynolds, on the occasion of Survival AIDS and the Festival of Ideas for the New City. Panelists: Virginia Solomon, David Deitcher, Nathan Lee, and Anthony Viti.

featuring Jim Fletcher, Gary Indiana, and Kate Valk

Sikkema Jenkins & Co.
530 West 22nd Street
New York City

PARTICIPANT INC presents UNDEAD, a solo exhibition consisting of two recent bodies of work by John Jurayj. Untitled (Family Baggage) is a series of sculptures that addresses emotional loss and public anxiety, taking as its starting point luggage that the artist’s parents used when traveling through the Middle East in the 1960s. Cast in black plaster and gunpowder, the process of fabrication leaves flaws suggesting passage and disruption, while the choice of material implies aggressive potential, reflective of current concerns. The accompanying series of paintings, Untitled (Undead), maintains a very simple aim: to restore images of those killed in the Lebanese Civil War into an afterlife of painting.