Dessert Train (Video Still, 2018)
Check out the great shout out to the upcoming Chocolate Factory Season including Creative Residencies curated by Blaze Ferrer including the return of GOOD DAY GOD DAMN!
And keep your eyes HERE for updates on dates and times!
Good Day God Damn - Extracted Excerpt
Traveling through the fractured American landscape, looming vibrations push the ground up and the cosmos down as our community-turned-cabal explores domestic terror as self-harm. Through the lens of a thriller our cell flows through domestic borders, mingles with the extraterrestrial and unpacks landlocked limitations through discursive research and rigorous ensemble development. This live event will include two GDGD ensemble members in person, and many others in absentia.
Performers/Collaborators: Performing Live Mimi Gabriel + Jessie Young (Developed along with Angie Pittman + Leslie Cuyjet) Dur. 15 min
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Pie & Performance*winter - Saturday, March 17 - Tickets at door: $10-$20 (sliding scale)
8pm Doors 8:30-10pm | 16 St. Francis Pl, Brooklyn, NY 11216
Pie & Performance gathers artist and audience interested in activating empathy and steeping in togetherness. The performances take place in various rooms, hallways, and corners of a three-story home in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. And, there is always pie! Organized seasonally by Amity Jones, Kirsten Schnittker, and Tara Sheena.
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Good Day God Damn - Extracted Excerpt by Stephanie Acosta | stephanieacosta.org
Performing Live Mimi Gabriel + Jessie Young Developed along with Angie Pittman + Leslie Cuyjet
untitled (panorama study II) by Laura Bartczak | laurabartczak.squarespace.com
collaborators: Laurel Atwell, Katelyn Hales, Corinne Cappelletti, Kay Ottinger, Amity Jones
Void: Honest Rituals for Lost Souls (working title) by Raha Behnam | rahabehnam.com
#myroomchronicles by Evelyn Lilian Sánchez Narvaez
King by Kyle Marshall | kmchoreography.com
chance realization + history by Sarah Snider | sarah-gwen.com
Photo by Jenna Bascom, courtesy of the Museum of Arts and Design
Museum of Art and Design - Choreographer in Residence
So excited to announce that I will be spending the Fall into Winter at the Museum of Art and Design as Choreographer in Residence! I'll be developing the first installment of an interdisciplinary project currently titled Good Day God Damn. There will be showings in February 2018 at MAD, Joining me as inaugural Choreographers in Residence are NIC Kay and Steven Reker, invited by the brilliant Danny Orendorff we will tackle sound and play and create new works in the new year. Check overly serious pic of me below!
Image courtesy of Same As Sister
This month's Sunday Service is bringing longtime loves Same As Sister on as curators. Titled Pairings in Horror: The Visceral + The Visual Impact, the evening will feature live and digital performances by Lamy Istrefi Jr. with Leo Genovese + Mersiha Mesihovic/CircuitDebris,Stacy Grossfield Dance Projects + Gil Sperling, plus a special reading by Rie Yamaguchi-Borden. Each pair will utilize live and digital elements to emphasize the sensory pleasure that best represents their collaboration between disciplines. Set in a haunted house, the artists’ unique interpretations of the shared text will become rooms into their uncanny and unpredictable imaginations, perhaps even nightmares.
About Sunday Service
Sunday Service is a curated series of short-form live performances across mediums. Taking place the first Sunday of each month in the Ready Room, a guest curator is invited to organize a salon style evening of in-progress works, performances, and presentations, anchored by a framing principle such as a question, proposition, theme, or formal structure. Sunday Service encourages works in progress and interdisciplinary endeavors showcased in a lo-fi environment to foster experimentation and critical discourse amongst peers.
Image Credit: James Allister Sprang, Untitled, 2017. Giclee Print, 17in x 25in.
So ready for upcoming Sunday Service hosted by Andrea Arrubla as part of BABZ FAIR 2017 and the line up is killer!!! The evening will reflect and celebrate the legacy of the seminal poet Essex Hemphill established among contemporary literary and visual artists with Tiona Nekkia McClodden, James Allister Sprang, Peter BD, and Karmenife X.
The 5th annualBABZ FAIR 2017 presented by Blonde Art Books is a weekend long event that features small press art and poetry publishers, and individual artist projects, alongside a program of performance, readings, and workshops. BABZ Fair will be taking place Friday, June 2 through Sunday, June 4, 2017.
Over the years the BABZ Fair has grown dramatically and this year the fair will feature art books and zines by over 100 publishers and artists from across the country. This year we are collaborating with artist Andrea Arrubla to produce the weekend programming. The full program schedule, including a new expanded program series, and workshop series, will be announced shortly.
Sunday Service is a curated series of short-form live performances across mediums. Taking place the first Sunday of each month in the Ready Room, a guest curator is invited to organize a salon style evening of in-progress works, performances, and presentations, anchored by a framing principle such as a question, proposition, theme, or formal structure. Sunday Service encourages works in progress and interdisciplinary endeavors showcased in a lo-fi environment to foster experimentation and critical discourse amongst peers.
Image courtesy of Caitlin Baucom Image: Walter Wlodarczyk, 'Activation IV: Fire' from GENERATION SHIP
NEXT WEEK we are BACK with the raging Sunday Service: Caitlin Baucom presents... An Only Child, Orlando Estrada, Greem Jellyfish, PAUL (Angelina Dreem),QUALIATIK, & Lorelei Ramirez.
The evening, titled 'A Raging Grace,' will gather artists across disciplines who are lit from within by a burning well, and rather than combust use its fuels to go higher and brighter.
‘It’s like having a sickness that gets more fierce as it passes on to wellness. We don’t have to view that period as an invitation to despair, but as a sign of potential transformation… whatever pain we are experiencing…’ –bell hooks
Working across performative disciplines, they are each also active as organizers and participants in their broader communities, acknowledging that the roots of rage go beyond the merely personal and its power can feed the world. Together ‘we admit that we don’t want to see the world blown up; we are for the human species.’
–Andrea Juno & V. Vale, Angry Women.
Sunday Service is a curated series of short-form live performances across mediums. Taking place the first Sunday of each month in the Ready Room, a guest curator is invited to organize a salon style evening of in-progress works, performances, and presentations, anchored by a framing principle such as a question, proposition, theme, or formal structure. Sunday Service encourages works in progress and interdisciplinary endeavors showcased in a lo-fi environment to foster experimentation and critical discourse amongst peers.
Thrilled to be joining the inaugural group of makers for Landing at Gibney Dance facilitated by Miguel Gutierrez. For the next 6 months I'll be furthering my choreographic game and working with artists like luciana achugar, niv Acosta, My Barbarian, Justin Vivian Bond Michelle Boulé Camille Brown, Ralph Lemon, Juliana May, Ben Prior, and Colin self.
Excited to be back in the movement studio and to show you what's next!
I Am A Potted Palm will manifest in TWO events as part of IN>TIME16 , A Winter Long Performance Festival for Chicago.
SAT - Feb 6th @ 3-6p | LA LIMPIEZA - | Regards 2216 West Chicago Ave
A durational meditation on the limpieza espiritual, or spiritual cleansing, engaging elements of the hybrid spiritual practices and creating a microclimate amidst Slant, a sound installation by Ethan Rose at Regards. [fb event HERE]
This durational action will continue with the artist delivering each palm in a trek to Defibrillator gallery. Join us for the evening length eruption!
MON - Feb 8th @7p | I AM A POTTED PALM | Dfbrl8r 1463 W Chicago Ave
An evening length performance amongst the palms, including cinematic bursts, objects, actions, light oceans, and fuchsia skies. In a rare chance to see Acosta perform solo, let's get clean, lets be salt, let's make oceans together. Epilogue with guest artist Joshua Kent! [fb event HERE]
[ Following the performance at Dfbrl8r we will migrate across the street to Beauty Bar at 8:30 for a special IN>TIME16 edition of SALONATHON! ]
Collage Collide, Video Projection Still, 2014
Excited announce the return of COLLAGE COLLIDE performing as part of The Current Sessions Vol. IV, Issue II.
This August 22 + 24 at the wild project in NYC.*
Jessie Young + Stephanie Acosta will perform with video projections by Acosta as part of a stellar line up. Collage Collide is an ongoing video and dance collaboration between Young and Acosta examining a continued making through extended time and expanded space.
Tickets are available HERE
*Collage Collide will show as part of 2 programs: Aug 22 @ 7:30p + Aug 24 @3p
A video snap of our Writing Group show at ROMAN SUSAN , captured by James Tate.
June 8, 2014
an evening of performances and installations by members of Writing Group a biweekly meeting of women artists who write, presented at ROMAN SUSAN, on June 8, 2014, performances + readings begin at 8pm.
Writing Group began meeting in Chicago in February of 2014, as an intentional group of women artists focused on creating space for words and critique within our individual practices. Our showing, 'an evening...' came at the request from Joshua Kent and served as the closing event of his project, 'On the impossibility of a singular hand' where Joshua lived in the gallery and attempted (successfully!) to grow a seed in the palm of his hand. Roman Susan was open 24-hrs a day for the week, and each evening featured a response from fellow artists.
Stephanie Acosta will be presenting at Chicago's Dfbrl8tr Performance Gallery along side International Performance Artist Duo ( Verena Stenke & Andrea Pagnes )
Saturday, SEPTEMBER 14th.
Performances begin @ 8pm.
For more info & facebook invite see below.
We home to see you there!
Stephanie
VestAndPage have been working together to create performance art, films, visual art, and creative writing since 2006. they are the curatorial force behind the acclaimed VENICE INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART WEEK. their live performances have been presented across EUROPE, ASIA and the AMERICAS. Mostly process-led and conceived psycho-geographically for architecture or in response to natural and historical sites, VestAndPage are interested in the fragility of the individual and its surroundings. They research private, social and contextual spheres through precariousness, transformation, liminality and authenticity.
THOU TWIN OF SLUMBER: HISTO investigates stasis and sleep as liminal spaces. Inspired by twin figures from GREEK mythology, HYPNOS (SLEEP) and THANATOS (DEATH), the artists embrace the MOTH as an archetypical symbol of life and transformation as they rigorously navigate a fragile terrain.
The evening will also includes work by artists:
STEPHANIE ACOSTA, CHUI FAN, JUSTUS HARRIS, AUTUMN HAYS, RYAN NOBLE, MICHAL SAMAMA, SANAZ SOHRABI, ALEX PAUL YOUNG.
