A panel discussion featuring a series of presentations by Purchase College professors and a performance by artist Nao Bustamante celebrates their publicationThe Body Reader: Essential Social and Cultural Readings (Feb. 2010, NYU Press).
Getting ready for an upcoming public appearance.
Sundance has a lot of mustaches and all the testosterone in the air left me feeling hairy.
Photo by Edge Journalist, Russ Klein. Me with promosexual, Matt Johnstone.
Fun Fact: Warhol was called “Drella” by his friends, a condensed version of Dracula and Cinderella. The nickname is attributed to Lou Reed, who felt it fit both sides of Warhol’s persona.
In 1964, Warhol cast Jack Smith as Dracula in his film Batman/Dracula. According to Warhol, Smith “really got into the part. He claimed that as he put his makeup on, he was slowly transforming himself, letting his soul pass out through his eyes into the mirror and back into him as Dracula, and he had this theory about how everyone was ‘vampirical’ to a certain extent because they ‘made unreasonable demands.’ ”
In Batman/Dracula, my impression is that Smith ends up taking over the film with his strong presence. Watch it and decide for yourself.
Today’s video update shows me attempting to meet Robert Redford at Sundance so I can invite him to my performance. We’re like two ships that pass in the night, I guess. Camerawork by Kalup Linzy.
See video on my YouTube page
Nao goes coocoo on the graffiti wall at the Sundance opening party. She’s so hardcore…
Sundance panel at New Fronier: Google’s Dave Eun talks about organic community building.
Opening night at Sindance. My direction to him: pretend that you like me…
Nao Bustamante director/writer/performer/editor, Ava Berkofsky director of photography, Andres Laracuente shadow dancer, Ruthie Doyle assistant camera, Eleanor Goldsmith still photography & giver of golden light, Victoria Kereszi props master & production assistant, Andrew Lynn stop-motion animation & technical assistance, Seana Biondolillo penis-image craft & dildo bejeweler, Salvatore Salamone headdress construction, Branda Miller production impresaria, Commissioned by the LIVE FILM/ Jack Smith festival, co-organized by Arsenal Institute for Film and Video Art and Hebbel-am-Ufer Theater (HAU) in Berlin, Produced at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute iEAR Studios with assistance from EMPAC
Filmmaker and artist Nao Bustamante returns to 2010 Sundance with a deliciously outrageous and ambitious new live performance celebrating legendary underground filmmaker Jack Smith.
SILVER & GOLD
Sundance New Frontier Live Performance by filmmaker & artist
Nao Bustamante
USA, Performance Running Time: 45 minutes
Silver and Gold performances:
Sunday, January 24, 6:30pm
Tuesday, January 26, 6:30pm
Thursday, January 28, 6:30pm
New Frontier on Main
333 Main St. (lower level)
**Free and open to all Festival Credential Holders and the general public as space permits.**
New Frontier at Sundance
New Frontier is a collection of digital art, film screenings, multimedia performances, site-specific installations and video presentations which will be presented in a fully immersive media lounge environment for Festival goers to experience throughout the Festival. Curated by Shari Frilot, Sundance Film Festival Senior Programmer, these works can be experienced at New Frontier on Main, open to the public Thursday, January 21 through Saturday, January 30, 2010.
Media Information:
Ms. Bustamante will be in Park City January 22 – 29th, and is available for interviews.
All press inquiries, to schedule interviews, or to request screeners, please contact:
mattjohnstone-pr@sbcglobal.net or call 323 938 7880
See the Press page for more information.
As you may have noticed, my website has gotten a makeover thanks to my long-time co-conspirator David Balluff. If you see any typos or errors, please let me know by leaving a note in the comments section of this post. Thanks!
June 17th: foxy moron (Nao Bustamante and Silas Howard debut) + DJ El Reyes
10PM – 2AM @ SILVER PLATTER 2700 W. 7TH 90057
WILDNESS is a FREE queer dance party and performance series happening every Tuesday in MacArthur park, Los Angeles. Find all the info at http://realwildness.com
0013_087_Feb2008, originally uploaded by Emerging Design & Photography.
A benefit for
Highways Performance Space
May, 10 2008 at Highways’ 19th Birthday: “Nervous Breakdown”
1651 18th St., Santa Monica, California 90404
Cost : $30/$25
Saturday, May 10 features an eclectic mix of new performance, music, and spoken word by members of Highways’ illustrious alumni. ARTEL presents “A Chapter from The Legendary Times of Bulgakov,” an excerpt from their full-length performance The Legendary Times of Bulgakov. Levan D. Hawkins presents a new performance incorporating drama, poetry, music, and dance with “I Did it My Way,” in which, after experiencing emotional trauma, a man learns his greatest lesson from Aretha Franklin. Mira Kingsley presents an excerpt from her current full length piece, Yes is a long time, written by Sibyl O’Malley, and performed by Kingsley and Antonio Anagaran, Jr. Dorian Wood and special guest Killsonic perform “The Pond,” a three-part lullaby about an army of children who wander into a dark forest and discover a deep, dark truth. The evening also includes a new, original performance by Nao Bustamante.
Nao is performing the piece titled “Given Over to Want”.
FRIDAY
blue13 dance company
DanceGood.Damnit!!!
Naked with Shoes (Anne + Jeff Grimaldo)
Rosanna Gamson/World Wide
SATURDAY
ARTEL
Nao Bustamante
LeVan D. Hawkins
Mira Kingsley
Dorian Wood
Fri + Sat 8:30pm $20/$15
www.highwaysperformance.org
RUSE
performance lounge
@
The Echo
(Los Angeles, CA)
Presents :
CINCO DE MAYPOLE
Thursday May 1st
$5.00 cover
18 and over
Doors open 8pm
Performances 9pm
A celebration of all things May and Pole
Featuring performances by:
The Poor Dog Group
Ayanna Hampton
Kristina Wong
Gregory Barnett
Meg Wolfe
Anna Scott
Pat Payne
and
Nao Bustamante
arts and crafts on the patio
special surprise guests
your hosts:
The Poor Dog Group and
Marcus Kuiland-Nazario
more info:
participant_observer@yahoo.com
Marcus Kuiland-Nazario
Participant/Observer
Creative Services @
The 18th Street Arts Center
1637 18th Street
SM CA 90404
323)445-3393
www.18thStreet.org
www.myspace.com/guttershrine
Nao will be speaking at noon on Thursday at the Cat in the Cream as part of the Margin Release New Media Lectures. Lunch will be served.
All Margin Release events are free and open to the public, and supported by the Luce Professorship of the Emerging Arts at Oberlin College/Conservatory.
Cat in the Cream Coffeehouse
Hales Annex
180 West Lorain Street
Oberlin, OH 44074-1078
Time: Noon, Thursday April 24, 2008
reblogged from: Arbitrary
Wed April 16, 7pm
Free with donation bar
Join us for a screening of film and video works relating to Ethnographies of the Future, an international selection of artistic practices that critically reflect on cultural histories impacted by colonial rule, proposing new ethnographic possibilities. Artists include Elia Alba, Pedro Barateiro, Lene Berg, Nao Bustamante, Katia Kameli, Grace Ndiritu, and Sriwhana Spong. Organized by guest curator Sara Reisman.
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008
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7:00pm – 10:00pm
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BRIC Rotunda Gallery
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33 Clinton Street, A,C trains to High Street, 2,3,4,5, to Borough Hall
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Brooklyn, NY
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This screening has been made possible with support from the Experimental Television Center’s Presentation Fund, with funds from the New York State Council on the Arts. Additional support provided by the Royal Norwegian Consulate General.
2nd floor projects presents
N A O B U S T A M A N T E
Untitled # 1, (from the series Earth People 2507)
April 19 – May 25, 2008
Essay by G L E N H E L F A N D
Untitled #1 (from the series Earth People 2507) plays the final NYUFF!
Festival runs Wednesday, April 2 to Tuesday, April 8. Closing Night is Sunday, April 6, and Monday and Tuesday are repeat screenings for those of you who just can’t get enyuff.
Subways:
F Train to Second Ave. stop. Get out at Second Ave. exit. Walk two blocks north to Second St.
6 Train to Bleecker St. stop. Walk east to Second Ave & Second St.
J, M, Z to Bowery stop. Walk north on Chrystie St. past Houston St. to Second St.
L to First Ave stop. Walk south to Second St., turn right to Second Ave.
Festival Location:
All screenings are at our beloved Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Ave. at Second St. We play hard to get, so we don’t list our nightly parties, so check in at the theater if you want to make a night of it.
ride bike hold coffee
muscular bums sing show tunes
fave taqueria
YBCA presents
THE WAY THAT WE RHYME
In conjunction with The Way That We Rhyme exhibition tours, discussions and screenings, join us for one-night-only evening event with artists Nao Bustamante and Julie Atlas Muz. Both women are conceptual performance pioneers whose interdisciplinary approaches make for challenging and entertaining experiences.
Miss Exotic World and Miss Coney Island 2006, Julie Atlas Muz presents Fecunditatis—the best of her short format work in a performance dedicated to spring, rebirth and the violence of creation. Bustamante is an internationally known performance and video artist whose work encompasses performance art, sculpture, installation and video.
Organized by YBCA (San Francisco, CA), The Way That We Rhyme showcases the politically charged work of a new generation of women. Emphasizing performativity, collaboration and coalition building, the works are influenced by the feminist ideologies and activist movements of the past, while also speaking loudly and clearly to the issues facing women right now. Adhering to the notion that there is strength in numbers, the show culls together work from women of differing backgrounds and disciplines to highlight the common goals of their practices.
Artists include: Lisa Anne Auerbach, Andrea Bowers, Nao Bustamante, Tammy Rae Carland, Vaginal Davis, Eve Fowler with Math Bass, Deborah Grant, MK Guth, Taraneh Hemami, Miranda July and Shauna McGarry, LTTR, Leslie Labowitz and Suzanne Lacy, Aleksandra Mir, Laurel Nakadate, Shinique Smith, subRosa, SWOON and Tennessee Jane Watson, The Counterfeit Crochet Project organized by Stephanie Syjuco, The Toxic Titties, Jessica Tully, and RiotGrrl zines from the Independent Publishing Resource Center, Portland.
Voces: Contemporary Actions by Latino Artists
Wednesday March 19, 6:30 -8:30 pm
José Muñoz, Department of Performance Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU moderates this panel featuring the work of contemporary Latino performance artists Nao Bustamante and Nicolás Dumit Estévez. Bustamante will perform her piece Given Over to Want an ongoing conversation within the artist’s performance works that deals with the themes of transformation and desire. Estévez will talk about his most recent performative work Pleased to Meet You (2007) where he proposed to meet all of the inhabitants of the town of Calaf, Spain during his visit in 2007 and a similar work that took place in Peterborough, NH as part of the artists residency at the MacDowell Colony. The performance is documented in a recent publication that will be presented after the panel.
Admission: Free.
For advance registration e-mail public_programs@elmuseo.org.
El Museo del Barrio
1230 Fifth Avenue (at 104th Street)
New York, NY 10029
Tel: 212.831.7272
Fax: 212.831.7927
| March 8-9, 2008 Studio. Join us for the next installment of Studio, REDCAT’s ongoing performance series that brings together a fresh line-up of six L.A artists to launch new projects, investigate new forms and experiment with new ideas. This edition features a dynamic range of emerging and established artists in works that draw on opera, performance art, dance and theater.
Featuring: Julie Adler & Sylvia Desrochers |
The Film Department of The Museum of Modern Art is proud to present “CELLuloid: Cell Phone-Made Documentaries,” screening February 20th at 6:30 p.m. in Theater 2 during the Museum’s annual Documentary Fortnight exhibition. The full exhibition program can be found online.
CELLuloid: Cell Phone–Made Documentaries
Pushing the boundaries of personal, political, and documentary art, these works produced using cell-phone cameras arise from established artists experimenting with new technology as well as first-time creators inspired to document the world around them. The results are alternately comic, poignant, topical, and socially relevant. This presentation is co-curated by Sally Berger, Assistant Curator, Department of Film, and Sara Rashkin, Independent Curator.
Dark Glass. 2006. UK. Directed by Clio Barnard
Wednesday, February 20, 2008,
6:30 p.m., Theater 2, T2,
68 min. screening + discussion
Bear. 2004. USA. Directed by Edward Lachman. 2 min.
A young man and his girlfriend defend themselves from a bear. From renowned cinematographer Lachman’s series of four Cell Stories, reported to be the first documentary shot using a mobile phone.
Télépattes. 2008. France. Directed by Vivian Ostrovsky. 9 min.
Philosophers embodied by cats – a felinosophy of life. English version. New York premiere.
Dark Glass. 2006. UK. Directed by Clio Barnard. 8 min.
A taut micro-drama that visually recreates in a single shot a spoken description of family photographs recalled under hypnosis. New York theatrical premiere.
They Can Shoot Me But They Can’t Kill Me And Neither Can You. 2008. USA. Directed by Jeffrey Peixoto. 7 min.
Woody Guthrie’s life and times told through black and white hand-drawn images and text. World premiere.
We Shall Remain (selected works). 2008. USA. Directed by Michael David Little, Rebecca Nelson. 14 min.
From We Shall Remain, a multi-media project that establishes Native history as an essential part of American history, comes a series of short, personal films by Native Americans from communities around the country. In these selections, Michael Little tells of his unlikely journey out of homelessness to success as a painter and gallery owner, and Rebecca Nelson describes how she created the best-Christmas-ever for her younger brother. We Shall Remain is a production of PBS’s American Experience. World premiere.
UFO Days. 2008. USA. Directed by Joshua Thorson. 8 min.
Eerie cell-phone video of a personal UFO encounter is intercut with scenes from Elmwood, Wisconsin’s annual “UFO Days” parade. World premiere.
Every (Text, Image, Sound, Movie) from my cell phone. 2008. USA. Directed by Darrin Martin. 9 min.
A collection of all material expunged from the artist’s cell phone after the holidays. An exercise in happenstance and a time capsule of life with a cell-phone. Theatrical premiere.
Nanookie Of The North. 2007. USA. Directed by Nao Bustamante. 1 min.
A mysterious and humorous send-up of the classic documentary Nanook Of The North (1922, Robert Flaherty). Staring Igor Vamos, Sandy Dubowski and Nao Bustamante, with cinephontography by Jason Plourde. Theatrical premiere.
New Love Meetings (excerpt). 2007. Italy. Directed by Marcello Mencarini, Barbara Seghezzi. 6 min.
Interviews with contemporary Italians on the subject of sex and love, a remake and update to Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1965 documentary Comizi d’amore (Love Meetings). Selection on sex, power and sexual tourism. Reported to be the first feature length movie shot on a mobile phone. In Italian; English subtitles. New York premiere. Program 60 min.
There will be a discussion with filmmakers following the screening.
UCLA Center for Performance Studies presents Nao Bustamante
Pathetic Instructions and the Longevity of Exchange
Thursday, February 28th 4:00-5:00 pm
CSRC Library Haines Hall 144
Co-Sponsored by the Chicano Studies Research Center
Reception to follow
More information @ www.performancestudies.ucla.edu
NEW YORK, NY – January 17, 2008 – El Museo del Barrio, New York’s premier Latino and Latin American cultural institution, is pleased to announce its groundbreaking exhibition Arte ≠ Vida: Actions by Artists of the Americas, 1960 – 2000, which will be on view from January 30 through June 8, 2008. “Arte no es vida” surveys, for the first time ever, the vast array of performative actions created over the last half century by Latino artists in the United States and by artists working in Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Mexico, Central and South America. Curated by Deborah Cullen, Director of Curatorial Programs at El Museo del Barrio, Arte ≠ Vida is the recipient of a prestigious 2006 Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award.
Over 75 artists and collectives are represented in Arte ≠ Vida, including ASCO, Tania Bruguera, Nao Bustamante, CADA, Lygia Clark, Papo Colo, Juan Downey, Rafael Ferrer, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Alberto Greco, Alfredo Jaar, Tony Labat, Ana Mendieta, Marta Minujin, Raphael Montañez-Ortiz, Hélio Oiticica, Tunga and contemporary practitioners including Francis Alÿs, Coco Fusco, Regina José Galindo, Teresa Margolles and Santiago Sierra. The exhibition is arranged in four major sections, in which each decade is represented by several specific themes that often cross national boundaries. 1960-1970 looks at select precursors, signaling, destructivism and neoconcretismo; 1970-1980 considers political protest, class struggle, happenings, land/body relationships and border crossing; 1980-1990 focuses upon anti-dictatorship protest and dreamscapes; and 1990-2000 references the Quincentenary, multiculturalism, postmodernism and endurance. An additional section highlights interventions that artists have carried out on television over the past 20 years. In these chronological, thematic groupings, viewers will be able to explore the interconnections among various artists’ actions as well as the surges of activities triggered by specific events in certain countries.
