In the Lounge Communitas Curated by Frank J. Miles
About This Show
Communitas, a creative think tank, anticipates a new cultural topography, offering a refraction of the times we are moving toward. We continue the tradition of a Downtown Manhattan participatory social practice, congregating with evolving ideas in art, aesthetics, optimism, pacifism, iconoclasm, thought, imagination, vanguardism & New York City. Our salon, a symposium of social sculpture and the occurrent arts, brings together collaborators from the many worlds of New York City and beyond to create the next artistic rebellion for the city. We welcome a panhumanist spectrum of creative voices engaging in dialogical aesthetics and art intervention: voices bringing people together to open more worlds, make beauty and magic, create peace and freedom, and be more futurist than nostalgic to build a united tomorrow not equal but egalitarian.
In April, Communitas will present a showcase entitled: The Raw Is the Primal Is the Real Is the First: The Marginalization of Our Interiority
#Aufheben #CAPITALOCENE #Gattungswesen #Duende #Viscera #Affect #Tenderness #Monumentality #Metempsychosis #Aufhebung
Featuring Ruth Angel Edwards, Andrew Ross & Kenya Johnson.
About the Curator
Frank J Miles is a pandisciplinary artist based in New York City: a visual artist, an artistic philosopher, a social sculptor, who graduated from Columbia University & was a speechwriter for President Bill Clinton. The creator of Communitas, his next step is an MFA PhD program overseas in art & philosophy.
Ruth Angel Edwards is a multimedia artist currently living and working in the UK. She originates from Nottingham, England, and studied Fine Art at Central Saint Martins in London. Her work draws from specific, niche areas of pop culture – looking at the changing politics of music subcultures, both overt and concealed. Working between music, sound, moving image, sculpture, printed collage and online work, both underground and mainstream youth movements are referenced, appropriated and subverted, creating sensual and disorientating environments, exploring hedonism and spectacle and the role it plays within capitalism.
Alongside her individual art practice, she often works collaboratively. She has been involved with various self organising group projects, including studying on School of the Damned, a pioneering alternative art MA run by its students, conceived in protest against rising Higher Education fees which have lead to class exclusion and unfair favouring of affluent students in UK art schools. Other ongoing projects include a monthly radio show, ‘Got 2 b’ on Resonance fm in collaboration with Emily Pope, and promoting sporadic underground dance parties in London.
Andrew Ross is an artist and object maker living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Ross received his BFA from The Cooper Union, where he was awarded the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Trust Award. He has been a resident or participant of Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Swing Space, Atelier Mondial, and Open Sessions at The Drawing Center. Ross’s work has been exhibited at institutions including The Drawing Center, Artists Space Books and Talks, The James Gallery at CUNY Center for the Humanities, Signal Gallery, and The Studio Museum in Harlem.
Kenya Johnson b. 1992
A NYC based performance artist. Currently a curator-in-resident at BHQFU.
Monday, Apr. 25 at 7:30pm
A $5 Suggested Donation (cash at door) supports the artists.
60 minutes
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Credits
Curated By
Frank J Miles
Featured Artists
Ruth Angel Edwards
Andrew Ross
Kenya Johnson
Photo Credit
Lee Baxter