Creator David Levine and Environment Designer Marsha Ginsberg took home a special citation Obie for the critically-acclaimed show, Habit, which premiered last September as part of PS122’s Fall 2012 season, co-presented by The French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF)’s Crossing the Line festival.

Half Straddle (PS122 COIL 13 artist) took home the Obie Grant Award acknowledging rising, young companies for their artistic excellence accompanied by a $1,000 grant. Half Straddle’s Chekhov inspired Seagull (Thinking of you) was commissioned by PS122 as part of the 8th Annual COIL Festival, co-presented with the New Ohio Theatre.

Congrats also goes to PS122 alums Rachel Chavkin, Lear deBessonet, Dave Malloy and Nature Theater of Oklahoma! See all the winners here…

So proud of our PS122 family accomplishments!

Photos by Jeso O’Neill and various facebook friends….

Hello Hi There @ Bitforms Gallery
May 30 – July 19, 2013
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 30. 6:00-8:30 PM
Summer Gallery Hours: Mon – Fri, 11 AM – 6 PM (beginning May 30)
529 West 20th Street, 2nd Floor | New York, NY 10011

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Illustration by Montse Bernal
Original design by Naomi Usher / Studio Usher
]]> http://www.ps122.org/gala-invitations-hitting-mailboxes/feed/ 0 http://www.ps122.org/amidst-teaser-on-otb-tv/ http://www.ps122.org/amidst-teaser-on-otb-tv/#comments Mon, 13 May 2013 21:00:12 +0000 Alex Reeves http://www.ps122.org/?p=5810 Our friends at Ontheboards.tv posted a teaser for Palissimo’s Amidst and it looking amazing. Part of COIL 13, Amidst was the final performance in PS122′s historic upstairs theater before our renovation which is currently in progress. The full video will be available to rent and own on Ontheboards.tv.

In August 2012, the NEA received 1,547 eligible applications for Art Works grants requesting more than $80 million in funding. Art Works grants support the creation of art that meets the highest standards of excellence, public engagement with diverse and excellent art, lifelong learning in the arts, and the strengthening of communities through the arts. The 817 recommended NEA grants total $26.3 million and span 13 artistic disciplines and fields. Applications were reviewed by panels of outside experts convened by NEA staff and each project was judged on its artistic excellence and artistic merit.

For a complete listing of projects recommended for Art Works grant support, please visit the NEA website at arts.gov. We are so happy to be on their list!

“It effortlessly lifts you right out of your immediate location into awareness of the space and your reading partner and the students around you.”
-Eva Yaa Asantewaa, InfiniteBody

“The act of reading was transformed into a strange — and sometimes very loud — drama of turning pages, pointing fingers and eerily drifting thoughts”
-Jennifer Schuessler, The New York Times.

Also our amazing intern Eleanor and volunteer Chuck are the subjects in the New York Times photo.

Exploring a new type of automatic performance, an audience of exactly two people perform the pieces themselves and for each other through listening to whispered instructions via headphones, iPods and teleprompters. No actors, no audience members, just the two participants themselves. The Quiet Volume was created by Ant Hampton and Tim Etchells, Cue China was created by Ant Hampton.

Performance Space 122 is looking for volunteer ushers to assist audience members for our upcoming Spring Season presentation of Ant Hampton’s The Quiet Volume, a collaboration with Tim Etchells, and Cue China (Elsewhere, Offshore).

Performances take place Monday, April 29 – Sunday, May 5 in 2 locations. Our most immediate need is for the NYU Bobst Library location, 70 Washington Square South in New York City. Each day has 2 possible shifts to choose from: 11:30am-4:30pm & 4:00pm-9:00pm. Ushers will set up audience members to experience an automatic, self-generating performance that happens via headphones, iPods and teleprompters. All volunteers will have a chance to experience the performances.

A training session is required either on Sunday, April 28th from 12:00-3:00 pm (snacks provided!) in our Greenpoint offices or through private case-by-case training.

Please RSVP to boxoffice@ps122.org.

Ant Hampton’s pieces are neither installations nor performances, they are experiences in which your environment and the people around you feel so intensely that even the smallest gesture turns into theater. The intimacy of the voices from his headphones are a kind of drug, that make faces and spaces distort to become mirrors of yourself. In The Quiet Volume you merge with an archive of books as if you were in a dream of J. L. Borges. And in Cue China (Elsewhere, Offshore) you travel through a computer-screen to the circumstances of the production of that same screen. Ant Hampton expands your mind to the size of everything you see.

The Quiet Volume was commissioned by Kaegi as part of his project CIUDADES PARALELAS / PARALLEL CITIES, a festival which offers eight perspectives on one city, three times over, and has taken place in Berlin, Buenos Aires, Warsaw and Zurich. Cue China (Elsewhere, Offshore) was also commissioned by Kaegi for the Malta Festival, Poznan – ‘Asian Investments’.