HOT TOPICS
Press Welcome
Friday, August 23, 2019
1:00PM - 2:00PM
Hudson Hall - West Room
Featuring: Hudson Artists, Curators, Venues
Publicist: Erik Bucci
Young Farmers and the Future of Food
Saturday, August 24, 2019
1:00PM - 2:00PM
Hudson Hall - West Room
Featured Moderator: Jaklyn Van Manen
Panelists: Ben Bruckenthal of The Fine Feast, Michelle Hughes of The Rolling Grocer, and D. Rooney of Rock Steady Farm
Substance Use: Developing Community Resources and Strategies
Sunday, August 25, 2019
1:00PM - 2:00PM
Hudson Hall - West Room
Featuring: Dr. Jeff Foote, Kamal Johnson and Dr. Carrie Wilkens
Coming Out, Being Out, Staying Out
Monday, August 26, 2019
1:00PM - 2:00PM
Hudson Hall - West Room
Co-Moderators: Rob Bujan, Charlie Ferrusi
Featuring: London Jae Precise, Tandra R. LaGrone and S.J. Williams
Protecting Inspiration for Generations To Come
Thursday, August 29, 2019
1:00PM - 2:00PM
Hudson Hall - West Room
Featuring: Ned Sullivan and Jon Bowermaster
Closing Salon
Sunday, September 1, 2019
1:00PM - 2:00PM
Hudson Hall - West Room
The Future of Hudson: New Architecture, Preservation and Parks
Tuesday, August 27, 2019
1:00PM - 2:00PM
Hudson Hall - West Room
Featuring: Chip Bohl and Matthew Frederick
Sean Kelly’s Collect Wisely
Friday, August 30, 2019
1:00PM - 2:00PM
Hudson Hall - West Room
Featuring: Sean Kelly
Hudson Valley Dance Community
Wednesday, August 28, 2019
1:00PM - 2:00PM
Hudson Hall - West Room
Featuring: Jonah Bokaer, Jack Ferver, Denise Roberts Hurlin, Alyson Pou
Environmental Truths about Food and Agriculture
Saturday, August 31, 2019
1:00PM - 2:00PM
Hudson Hall - West Room
Featuring: Gidon Eshel
ARTISTS
MARINA ABRAMOVIĆ
Marina Abramović was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. A pioneer of performance as a visual art form, Abramović has used her body as both subject and medium of her performances to test her physical, mental, and emotional limits—often pushing beyond them and even risking her life—in a quest for heightened consciousness, transcendence, and self-transformation. Abramović attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade (1965–70) and the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, Yugoslavia (1970–72). She received an honorary doctorate from the Art Institute of Chicago (2004).
Friday, August 23rd, 2019 @ Hudson Anchor
Films on display:
-Freeing The Voice
-Art Must Be Beautiful
-Artist Must Be Beautiful
-Freeing The Body
-Freeing The Memory
JONAH BOKAER CHOREOGRAPHY
Jonah Bokaer Choreography cultivates a new form of choreography merged with visual art & design. He is the author of 60 original works, produced in 34 nations, 27 of the United States, and 292 cities – including 41 museum exhibitions. Earned & contributed funds from Jonah Bokaer Choreography between 2002-2019 have realized 3 permanent Artspaces, creating over 14+ diverse jobs, and $11M+ in revenue. He is Tunisian-American, is an LGBTQIA leader, and exhibits / tours worldwide, while serving his Hudson community with the new Space 428 Hudson.
Jonah Bokaer Choreography ➝
Friday, August 23rd, 2019 @ Hudson Basilica
Dance Performance
Ryder cooley
*Featuring Leech House
Ryder Cooley is an inter-disciplinary artist, musician and performer. Weaving together chimeric visions with music, movement and imagery, her work places themes of hybridity, human-animal relations, and environmental awareness within contemporary juxtapositions of wilderness and urban decay. Based in Catskill NY, Ryder performs with the dark carnival band Dust Bowl Faeries and with Hazel, a disembodied taxidermy ram who is summonsed to life through music and performance. Ryder holds an MFA from Rensselaer Polytechnic and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. (Image by Dina Shirin)
Wednesday, August 28 @ Old Library
Visual Art Exhibition and Performance
davon
Dancer/performance artist/hostess Davon is a southern girl from Tennessee that has trained at prestigious art schools and has worked for many choreographers and directors during her career. Davon is now focused on performing her own improvisational based solo work to tell stories incorporating drag, music, storytelling and humor. Davon will be the final August 2019 participant in the Hudson As Muse Basilica Back Gallery Artist In Residence Series, presenting a FREE public performance of new work as the culminating event of The Hudson Eye inaugural series of programs. (Image by Tomm Roeschlein)
Friday, August 30th, 2019 @ Basilica Hudson
Dance Performance
Laura gutierrez
Laura Gutierrez is a performing artist and choreographer based between Houston and New York City. Gutierrez’s repertoire includes a series of solo works and concert dance works as well as choreographic projects that challenge audiences theater experiences in non traditional performance venues, such as but not limited to museums and galleries. She has worked with Jonah Bokaer Choreography since 2012.
patrick higgins
Patrick Higgins is a New York and Hudson based composer/performer of experimental music. Higgins has composed works for some of the nation's leading ensembles, ranging from chamber orchestra works, percussion cycles, and string quartets to smaller ensembles and soloists. He has scored works for television, museum exhibitions, and films both short-form and feature-length. As a soloist, he performs both classical acoustic and electric guitar in genre-bending contexts, utilizing extended technique and electronic processing.
Sunday, August 25th, 2019 @ Club Helsinki
Music Performance: “Dossier”
Alexander turnquist
Alexander Turnquist is a guitarist/composer who uses his 12 string acoustic finger-style approach in creating very dramatic and emotionally engaging music. Turnquist started playing at a young age with an experimental approach from the onset, and has always held to the use of the acoustic guitar as the driving force and foundation in his compositions. In addition to his guitar playing he cleverly writes into his compositions accompaniment in the form of mallet percussion instruments, strings, and piano, always emphasizing a unique use of harmonic overtone play and instrument sustain.
Sunday, September 1st, 2019 @ First Presbyterian Church
Music Performance:
“Awake In A Sleepwalker’s Circus”
Live 12-String Guitar Concert
elena mosley
Elena Mosley was the founding member and current Director of Operation Unite Education and Cultural Arts Center, a not-for-profit that provides programs for youth and community members in her community of Hudson. She also founded the Kuumba Dance and Drum Academy. The Kuumba Dance and Drum program offers a variety of African music and dance classes, as well as performance opportunities for all ages.
Tuesday, August 26th, 2019 @ Hudson Area Library
Dance Performance & Drum Circle - Kuumba Dance & Drum
rachel libeskind
Rachel Libeskind was educated in Berlin and New York and completed her B.A. at Harvard in 2011. She is a pioneer in the fields of collage, drawing, painting and video. Libeskind draws on a database of images encompassing fine art, socialist propaganda and historical tomes, clips from pop culture, and retro porn. By cutting up and manipulating these images in her work, Libeskind distorts and interrupts their obvious symbolism. Feeding instead on abstraction, shape, color and composition, she recapitulates a radical version of history through collage and paint.
Friday, August 23rd, 2019 @ Basilica Hudson
Visual Art Display
tony orrico
Tony Orrico (b. 1979, Hinsdale, Illinois) is a visual artist, performer and choreographer whose work merges the act of drawing with choreographic gesture and bio-geometrics. His works stem from the examination and exploration of his ability to transform his physical and mental endurance into visual compositions. As a former member of Trisha Brown Dance Company and Shen Wei Dance Arts, Orrico has graced stages including the Sydney Opera House, Australia; Teatro La Fenice, Venice, Italy; New York State Theater; and Théâtre du Palais-Royal, Paris. He was one of a select group of artists to re-perform the work of Marina Abramović during her retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. He recently moved back to Chicago after living and working in New York City for the last 10 years. Orrico's work has been presented and exhibited throughout the U.S., France, Germany, Mexico, the Netherlands and Spain. He was featured at "PopTech 2011: The World Rebalancing," as well as at the New Museum, New York, and the Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
Wednesday, August 28th, 2019 @ Old Library
Visual Art Exhibition
Monday, September 2nd, 2019:Dance & Performance Art:
Penwald: 12: prone to stand | 2011/2019
Tijana petrović
Tijana Petrović a filmmaker born and raised in the former Yugoslavia. Her films have screened at festivals and screening venues internationally including True/False, Ann Arbor, Anthology Film Archives and Dok Leipzig among others. Her work has received support from various institutions including The Enersen Foundation, University Film and Video Association, RI Council for the Humanities among others. Tijana studied documentary film at The New School in NY and holds an MFA in Documentary Film and Video from Stanford University. She is a lecturer at San Francisco State University and Stanford University. Currently she is a Resident at the SFFILM FilmHouse for 2019.
Friday, August 23rd, 2019 @ Hudson Anchor
Film On Display (looping): Canyon
Sheida soleimani
Sheida Soleimani (b.1990) is an Iranian-American artist who is based in Providence, Rhode Island. Soleimani makes work that combines photography with sculpture, collage, and film, to highlight her critical perspectives on historical and contemporary socio-political occurrences. Soleimani’s work critiques the Eurocentrism that pervades the study of art and art history. She is specifically interested in the intersections of art and activism, as well as how social media has shaped the landscape in current political affairs and uprisings. Her work has been recognized internationally in both exhibitions and publications such as Artforum, New York Times, Huffington Post, Interview Magazine, VICE, among many others. Recent solo exhibitions include Medium of Exchange at Contemporary Arts Center (Cincinnati, OH), Atlanta Contemporary (GA), CUE Arts Foundation (New York, NY) and Edel Assanti (London, ENG). In 2019 she will have solo exhibitions at Library Street Collective (Detroit, MI) the Southern Utah Museum of Art (Cedar City, UT), Andrew Rafacz Gallery (Chicago, IL) and will participate in the deCordova Biennial (deCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA). She received her BFA from the University of Cincinnati, MFA in Photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Photography, and is currently Assistant Professor of Photography at Brandeis University.
Saturday, August 31st, 2019 @ Allen Street
Dance Performance: "Medium Of Exchange"
timothy stanley
Timothy Stanley (b. 1984) is a visual artist from New York, NY. The primary focus of Stanley's artistic practice is the long-term sculpture project Ursula. He is also currently at work on his second novel, Măiastra: A History of Romanian Sculpture in Twenty-Four Parts by Igor Gyalakuthy, the first volume of which will be published by Pacific in Summer 2019. He lives and works in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Monday, August 26th, 2019 @ Hudson Wine Merchants
Performance & Reading: ”MĂIASTRA: A History Of Romanian Sculpture In Twenty-Four Parts By Igor Gyalakuthy”
Wednesday, August 28th, 2019 @ Old Library
Visual Art Exhibition
J.m. tate
Tate is a multimedia artist. He attended RISD and Cooper Union where he focused on printmaking and performance. He currently lives in Hudson, NY.
Wednesday, August 28th, 2019 @ Old Library
Visual Art Exhibition
Thursday, August 29th, 2019 @ County Clerk’s Office
Dance & Performance Art
women of resistance
Erika Schipa (Lecce, Italy, 1988) is contemporary dancer, performer and independent choreographer. She has bachelor’s degree in contemporary dance c/o National Academy of Rome and a master degree’s in Performing Art c/o ISAC in Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels. She has been performing since 2018 with PUBLIC MOVEMENT from Tel Aviv.
Betti Rollo is a dancer, performer, and choreographer from Italy. She graduated in the Teatrodanza Atelier in the Paolo Grassi School of Art, Milan in 2014. From 2014 on she has performed in the US company of Jonah Bokaer Choreography as one of the core interpreters.
Saturday, August 31st, 2019 @ Allen Street
Dance Performance