Franklin Furnace Archive announces the 2021-22 Franklin Furnace Fund Recipients
Supported by Jerome Foundation, SHS Foundation and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
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This season marks the 36th anniversary of the Franklin Furnace Fund. Initiated in 1985 with the support of Jerome Foundation, Franklin Furnace has annually awarded grants to early career artists selected by peer panel review to enable them to prepare major performance art works in New York. This season, Franklin Furnace received 284 applications.
This year's panel of artists decided to award four $3,333 grants and five $5,000 grants. Franklin Furnace received support from Jerome Foundation, SHS Foundation and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
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Mrinalini Aggarwal (Supermrin) and
Jessica Fertonani Cooke (NY/Brasil)
Zeelie Brown (Brooklyn, NY)*
Armando Cortés (Wilmington, CA)
Liz Ferrer and Bow Ty Enterprises Venture Capital (Miami, FL)
Caroline Garcia and Gabriela López Dena (Brooklyn, NY)*
Lariel Joy (Edgewater, NJ)
Orgemdi Ude (Brooklyn, NY)*
Kiyan Williams (Brooklyn, NY)*
Robin Laverne Wilson (Dragonfly) (Brooklyn, NY)*
*Artists supported by Jerome Foundation.
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Mrinalini Aggarwal (Supermrin) and
Jessica Fertonani Cooke
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Braiding (Field)
Project Description
Braiding is a durational performance, part of a multi-site landscape intervention called Field. Field responds to modernist planning schemas, and establishes agreements with city bodies to pause the mowing of lawns of today's manicured public squares. Bio-sculptures made out of grass clippings embedded with native wildflower seeds will be introduced and meant to dissolve into the lawn. Braiding features a female body carefully using plaiting techniques on the growing grass blades of the site, where the no-mow lawn entwines with the bio-sculptures. The braiding body feels the grass and is intuitively guided to create what will become an intertwined web.
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Queer Mother's Space
Project Description
A Queer Mother’s Space is one where queer femmes, community workers, and mothers are invited to gather, connect and breathe. This space moves to celebrate a tradition of work done primarily by Black Southern women, both to negotiate and to supplant centuries of patriarchy; that despite the great wrongs of our world life might flow on. This will be my first Manhattan solo show which will open on Mother's Day at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts in 2022.
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Torito
Project Description
Torito consists of two parts:
1) The performance is a recreation of a torito, a bull, a syncretic form used in Mexico and throughout Latin America for feasts and celebrations. Its pyrotechnic presence is celebratory and menacing at once. My recreation will involve a live audience and a torito set ablaze. The interaction between the two will be determined in the moment.
2) A video installation will result from recordings made during the performance. The installation will encapsulate the 360 degree field of vision of a real bull.
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Liz Ferrer and Bow Ty Enterprises Venture Capital
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Novelas de Niñas
Project Description
Novelas de Niñas is a live bilingual feminist musical soap opera within a hyper visual quinces party. The installation will take the form of a traditional quinces birthday set up at a shopping mall banquet hall mixed with a reggaeton fem pop concert and animated video projections. The piece is a celebration of both the performers and its audience with an emphasis on Latinx and queer displacement.
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Caroline Garcia and Gabriela López Dena
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An Infiltration into the Women’s Side of a Public Pool
Project Description
An Infiltration into the Women’s Side of a Public Pool is a series of covert performance interventions at Kosciuszko Pool planned for the summer of 2022. This project is inspired by a street-theatre piece by the Japanese experimental group Tenjo Sajiki. Using an intersectional feminist lens, we will appropriate their play ‘An Incident on the Men’s Side of a Public Bath’ (1975) and produce a re-rendering of the script through a socially engaged investigation of hydrofeminism. Working with Bed-Stuy-based women and non-binary individuals, we will facilitate a skill-sharing program, exploring the performative relationships between gendered bodies, bodies of water, and public space, in order to create new “waterways” in the land-locked neighborhood.
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My American Dreams
Project Description
My American Dreams is a three part performance series that re-enacts my three American Dreams, which motivated me to immigrate to the US. My three American Dreams were, nude modelling for artists, trying out shibari or rope bondage, and dancing at a strip club. These dreams reflect my desire to discover who I am through reclaiming my body and sexual subjectivity as an unconventional Korean female-bodied person. Through the lens of my American Dreams, I find points of resonance with my late grandmother's American Dreams, who immigrated in the 80s and was also an unconventional Korean woman.
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Dig/Hear/Sing/
Project Description
Dig/Hear/Sing/— is a two-part project consisting of: a book of performance scores and personal essays, and a series of solo performances. This project explores death, loss, and mourning from a distinctly Black feminist perspective. The series of solos are called “Grief Scores.” Here, Ude uses movement, voice, and installation, researched through free writing, improvisation, and game play, to derive coping rituals in the aftermath of trauma. Each solo distinctly addresses the multiplicity of death, including physical, social, and civil death. All three "Grief Scores" will be transcribed into the book, alongside essays detailing the creative process.
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How Do You Properly Fry An American Flag
Project Description
How Do You Properly Fry An American Flag is a live performance and social practice project in which the artist deep fries and barbecues symbols that represent American democracy: including American flags flown over the capitol building and miniature statues of liberty. The performances will take place in public spaces in Brooklyn. The artist will invite collaborators and friends to fry flags using culturally specific culinary practices while reflecting on their relationship to the symbols of nationalism.
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Robin LaVerne Wilson (Dragonfly)
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ABSCONDED
Project Description
ABSCONDED is a ritual through public space facilitated by performance artist Dragonfly as American forgotten founding mother Ona Judge. Although she self-liberated at age 22, she was pursued for decades by George Washington and remained a fugitive until she died. As a living statue, Judge returns from the beyond as a mute yet outspoken witness to the consequences of extraction, dispossession, Black death, and climate catastrophe of the late Plantationocene Era. Ona’s third Manhattan processional begins on Wall Street, processes up through Lower Manhattan, acknowledges the landmarked African Burial Ground, and ends at the unmarked Second African Burial Ground at Sara D. Roosevelt Park. Accompanied by a sonic score of curated music, soundbites and commentary, this moving monument urges the audience to meditate on the extreme debt of unpaid labor owed to Black women and how the legacy of chattel slavery and white supremacy hides in plain sight. #AbscondedProject
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2021-22 Panelists
IV Castellanos
IV is a gender deficient Trans* Queer mx Latinx POC. One's work bridge's abstract performance art, sculpture and group task based vignettes. The anchor is the futility of labor and generating an action without a ‘purpose' or with no inherent value; questioning value structures. One is the co-steward/founder of Para\\el Performance Space in Brooklyn, NY. Has performed at the Queens Museum, Panoply Performance Lab, Dixon Place, Gibney, Judson, is a Franklin Furnace Recipient 2019 and has been on the Chez Bushwick, Culture Push, Judson, BIPAF, and the Artists of Color Council selection panels.
IG: @iv_castellanos
kara lynch
kara lynch is a time-based artist living en exilio – born in the momentous year of 1968. Her art practice is re-memory, vision, and movement. It manifests as poetics, process, and transfiguration, and conjures autonomy for Black and Indigenous people across Diaspora. Through low-fi technologies, collective practice, and social intervention lynch explores aesthetic/political relationships between time + space. This artist’s practice is vigilantly raced, classed, and gendered – Black, Queer and Feminist. Current Projects include: ‘We Travel the Space Ways: Black Imagination, Fragments and Diffractions’ – an edited volume of Black Speculation; and the current project, ‘INVISIBLE’ – an episodic, speculative, multi-site video/audio installation that excavates the terror and resilient beauty of the Black-Indigenous experience; RuleReverse! a series of video interventions learning from Sylvia Wynter's Maskarade; and "Come Prepared or Not At All," a series of drawings about Black Towns and Futures. She is an emerit@s Professor of Video and Critical Studies at Hampshire College. In 2020-21 Kara was awarded a Tulsa Artist Fellowship and has joined Gallery of the Streets as a principled artist collaborator.
Carlos Martiel
Carlos Martiel (b. Havana) lives and works in NY. Martiel’s works have been shown in the biennials of Venice, Sharjah, and Vancouver; at the Stedelijk Museum, Walker Art Center, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, MOLAA, Frost Art Museum, and the National Museum of Fine Arts of Havana, and elsewhere. His works are included in the collections of the Guggenheim Museum; Museu de Arte do Rio, and the PAMM, among others.
IG: @martielcarlos
Marlène Ramírez-Cancio
Marlène Ramírez-Cancio is a Puerto Rican cultural worker, artist, and educator based in Brooklyn. She is the Executive Director of EMERGENYC, an incubator and network for emerging artists-activists in New York City and beyond, focused on developing the voice and artistic expression of people of color, women, and LGBTQAI+ folks. She is also co-founding director of Fulana, a Latina satire collective, and Director of Implementation of the Latinx Arts Consortium of New York, a network of arts organizations dedicated to knowledge exchange, resource sharing, and collective action. Through Mujer Que Pregunta, she works as a Process Doula for artists, scholars, and cultural workers to shape their ideas and clarify their purpose. Marlène serves on the Board of Directors of the National Performance Network and the Board of Advisors of the Center for Artistic Activism. In 2018, she curated “Cuerpxs Radicales: Radical Bodies in Performance,” a live art series presented at the Brooklyn Museum in conjunction with the Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985 exhibition.
Joyce Yu-Jean Lee
Joyce Yu-Jean Lee is a visual artist working with sculpture, video, digital photography, and interactive installations that combine social practice with institutional critique. Her project about Internet censorship, FIREWALL, garnered backlash from Chinese state authorities in 2016 and has exhibited at Lincoln Center in New York City, the Oslo Freedom Forum in Norway, the Hong Kong Center for Community Cultural Development, and the Austrian Association of Women Artists (VBKÖ) in Vienna. Joyce’s artwork has been written about in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Hong Kong Free Press, China Digital Times, Huffington Post, Hyperallergic, and been featured by James Coomarasamy on BBC Radio. Her work is currently fiscally sponsored by NYFA and she is an Assistant Professor of Art & Digital Media at Marist College.
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