[spectre] FREE Events at LMCC--this week!

[Erin Donnelly]

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
30th Anniversary Summer Season
FREE Events at LMCC

1. Tuesday, May 13, 2003 7-9 pm
LMCC's 30th Anniversary Open House: Microviews/NYC Unit Exhibition Preview Event

2. Wednesday, May 14, 7-9pm
Thundergulch, LMCC's new media initiative presents: New Technology, Traditional Media 

3. Friday, May 16, 7-9pm 
Artists' Gestures Book Launch featuring live performances and actions by Raphaëlle De Groot, Carl Bouchard & Martin Dufrasne, and Devora Neumark

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1. Tuesday, May 13, 2003 7-9 pm
LMCC's 30th Anniversary Open House: Microviews/NYC Unit Exhibition Preview Event

There is so much to celebrate!  Come experience LMCC's One Wall Street Court:  a new cultural space in the heart of Downtown.  This night, the first of many, promises an eclectic mix of art and personalities.
Please RSVP 212-219-9401 ext. 306
 
LMCC's relocation was made possible with major funding from the J.P. Morgan Chase Foundation.
 
May 13-August 1, 2003
Exhibition: Microviews/NYC Unit A creative exploration of Downtown's past, this exhibit juxtaposes two projects, curated by artists, that use archives to create a lively and multi-layered experience of a changing neighborhood, and examine the implications of historic documents for the contemporary viewer.
 
Microviews - an archive of World Trade Center images made by resident artists in LMCC's studio program from 1997-2001. Organized by artists Christopher K. Ho and Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock
 
New York City Unit - a look inside the New York City Municipal Archives - Photography from the Federal Writer's Project, 1935-1942. Created by artist Matthew Bakkom

Regular gallery hours: M-F 11am-5pm

LMCC's visual arts programs are made possible, in part, with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

2. Wednesday, May 14, 7-9pm
Thundergulch, LMCC's new media initiative presents: New Technology, Traditional Media 

Artists who create traditional media discuss ways technology has changed their creative process. Panel discussion will feature Nancy Burson, Colette Gaiter, and Michael Rees; moderated by Bruce Wands.  

Organized by the New York Digital Salon in conjunction with the exhibition Vectors: Digital Art of Our Time on view the World Financial Center Courtyard Gallery and Winter Garden from April 22 through May 25, 2003

www.sva.edu/salon

Thundergulch/LMCC's new media initiative is made possible, in part, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and support of the May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation.

3. Friday, May 16, 7-9pm 
Artists' Gestures Book Launch featuring live performances and actions by Raphaëlle De Groot, Carl Bouchard & Martin Dufrasne, and Devora Neumark

Artists' Gestures
Project directors: Marie Fraser, Marie-Josée Lafortune

Participating artists: Carl Bouchard + Martin Dufrasne, Rachel Echenberg, Raphaëlle de Groot, Massimo Guerrera, Devora Neumark

The publication accompanies the Artists' Gestures exhibition curated by Marie Fraser and Marie-Josée Lafortune and organized by Optica, a contemporary art center, which was presented in Montreal from October 7th to 14th 2001 in conjunction with the Saison du Québec à New York.

With text by Moukhtar Kocache, Director of Visual and Media Arts of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and interviews with artists in the exhibition, this catalogue furthers a reflection on the nature of gesture, interrogating its mobility, fragility, transience and motion toward the world. From the self to the other, the gesture travels between two spaces, from the private to the social.

Artists' Gestures was originally planned as a series of street actions in various locations in New York City by six Quebec artists initiated by Optica and presented in collaboration with Artists Space and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. In the fall of 2001 the project had to be relocated to Montréal in a few hours notice. The publication focuses on the flexibility of the artists' processes, and critically documents their experiences of adapting their work to new conditions. LMCC is proud to host this launch event in New York featuring actions and performances by Raphaëlle De Groot, Carl Bouchard and Martin Dufrasne, and Devora Neumark as well as commentary by the curators and video footage of the Montreal performances.  

www.optica.ca
 
Artists' Gestures
Optica, Montréal, 2003, 88p. ill. color
ISBN 2-922085-08-2 
Special launch price $15
Regular price $17 

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Location & Directions

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
1 Wall Street Court
2nd Floor 
www.lmcc.net
212.210.9401
Subway and Bus Directions: 

2/3/4/5 to Wall Street
J/M/Z to Broad Street
M6 to Broadway and Wall Street 

Walk eastbound on Wall Street to Pearl Street. Turn right onto Pearl Street. The building will be directly in front of you. The entrance is on Pearl Street in the middle of the block.

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Over the last 30 years LMCC's mission - to serve artists and audiences downtown and throughout the borough's diverse neighborhoods and cultural communities - has been realized in ways that far outreach initial expectations.  Annual projects in the visual, performing, new media and community arts include over 200 grants to artists and arts groups, a world-class performing arts festival, residency, exhibition and public art programs that bring hundreds of artists to work Downtown, business, training for artists, and leadership in cultural planning.