Exhibition will remain on view through May 31st
Gallery hours: Friday-Sunday 12-6 and by appointment.
- Recent paintings by Tad Flynn
- THE SERENITY OF KNOWING: Laura Glazer & Phillip Patterson
- BODIES OF WORK: Paintings byAdam Hurwitz
- Recent paintings by Jack Millard
- Installation byAlexander Turnquist
- DORMANCY: Installation by Sara E. Worden
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Laura Glazer & Phillip Patterson, from The Serenity of Knowing
Tad Flynn
Adam Hurwitz
Jack Millard
Sara E Worden, Dormancy
Hudson area practitioners
share their
- herbal medicines and broths
- aromatherapy oils & unguents
- hands on therapies
ANDREA ELLIOTT - Acupuncturist & Chinese Herbalist
LAUREN GIAMBRONE - Herbalist & Medicine Maker
SARAH FALKNER - Licensed Massage Therapist & Aromatherapist
at (hi)story labor(atory)
Meet Hudson health and wellness providers Andrea Elliott, Lauren Giambrone & Sarah Falkner, and sample their wares!
— Andrea Elliott has, following three months in the Amazon, three years in Sichuan, and twenty-four months in Connecticut, settled in Hudson to start a Chinese medicine practice. She utilizes acupuncture and related therapies such as moxibustion, cupping and gua sha as well as Chinese herbal medicine in the treatment of a wide variety of ailments. Fluent in Chinese and versed in a branch of herbal medicine that utilizes classical formulas, she likes to see clear and rapid results with small Han dynasty formulas as well as constitutional changes with larger ones. http://www.eachm.com
— Lauren Giambrone is a community herbalist, medicine maker & health justice organizer living on a farm in Germantown, NY. She offers sliding scale & barter accessible herbal consultations and workshops, and is usually found wildcrafting & medicine making for her medicinal herb company, Good Fight Herb Co. For the past 5 years, Lauren has also been organizing with the Rock Dove Collective, a community health access network committed to making quality health care accessible to all (www.rockdovecollective.org). You can find her & her herbal wares every Saturday at the Hudson market, and every third Monday of the month on WGXC 90.7FM co-hosting Roots, Runners, Rhizomes: Health & Healing from the Underground with Sarah Falkner. http://www.goodfightherbco.com
— Sarah Falkner is a writer, artist, and NYS-licensed practitioner/provider/producer of healing arts services, education, community activist projects & matériel. Her practice is grounded in massage therapy and bodywork. She lives in Hudson where she is part of the (hi)story labor(atory) collective, and also maintains a practice in Brooklyn as a member of AUG Massage Collective; she is also a Rock Dove Collective provider and co-hosts a health radio show with Lauren (see above). http://www.sarahfalkner.com
March 26th proceeds will be applied to help offset costs of (hi)story labor(atory)’s not-officially-registered--but in word and deed and wallet--non-profit exhibition, performance and project space. Here’s a video of Ryder Cooley speaking about the event:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFhiN1ULUP4&feature=youtube_gdata_player
— Truppe Fledermaus are the theatrical division of the Royal Excavation Corps, founded by Kahn & Selesnick. This Weimar-era Dadaist cabaret puppet theatre troupe employs elaborate and precarious costumes, masks and props to tell tales of a bat-centric ecological tragedy brought on by an unforeseen side effect of the modern era’s quest for speed, intercontinental travel and exploration. Surprise dramatic performances, ledgerdemain and acrobatics will be documented in still and motion pictures for those unable to witness, react or confront them live. When the troupe is not in residence, visitors may find the Royal Excavation Corps making onsite fabrications and maintenance checks; the theatre and props remain on view, accompanied by video projections and terra cotta dioramas.
Kahn & Selesnick have been represented by (hi)story labor(atory)’s next-door neighbor Carrie Haddad Gallery since 1995, and have been showing their fictional narrative photographs and installations in over a hundred shows in galleries and museums worldwide since 1988. http://www.kahnselesnick.com
Die Truppe Fledermaus collaborator Sarah Falkner is a writer, artist and practitioner/provider/producer of healing arts services, education, community activist projects & matériel. http://www.sarahfalkner.com & http://ramshackle-utopia.blogspot.com/
—Ryder Cooley’s XIMALIA features songs about extinction with ukulele, singing saw, projections, taxidermy and more! http://ximalia.tumblr.com/, http://carolynrydercooley.org/
—Vanessa Haroutunian’s pure&magicalpussypower: a documentary is about Miranda July's Joanie4Jackie video chainletter from the 90's, with interviews by Miranda July, Vanessa Renwick, Gretchen Hogue, Myra Paci, Annie Mirabona, Goddess Kring, Ed Halter & footage from over 50 Joanie4Jackie videos.
— (hi)story labor(atory) is in fellowship, form, and function a set of conjoined triplets:
(hi)story labor(atory) v.1 (August 2010-January 2011):
SARTORIAL GOODS & SERVICES: Vilma Maré,
ARTIFACTS: Royal Excavation Corps,
HEALING ARTS CLINIC/APOTHECARY: Sarah Falkner, LMT
(hi)story labor(atory) v.2 (February-August 2011):
MEMORY THEATRE: Royal Excavation Corps
EXHIBITION, PERFORMANCE & PROJECT SPACE: Curated by Nicholas Kahn & Sarah Falkner
HEALING ARTS CLINIC/APOTHECARY: Sarah Falkner, LMT
v.1 collaborator Vilma Maré departed on annual sabbatical to her native Lithuania to make way for v.2’s new projects and configurations. Vilma will return in August 2011 with a new line of post-modern deconstructive fashions to launch (hi)story labor(atory) v.3
(hi)story labor(atory) v.1-3 invokes as tutelary spirit the three-ring circus. Its collaborative environment of disparate and diverse elements—united by their devotion to the cultivation of aestheticism, community, accessibility, and experimentation—foments odd fusions and startling recontextualizations its collaborators find fertile and catalyzing for their practices.
Press contact: Sarah Falkner, 347.436.6725 & sarah.falkner@gmail.com
(hi)story labor(atory) v.2 - February-August 2011
Now featuring:
THE MEMORY THEATRE
- the Royal Excavation Corps
EXHIBITION, PERFORMANCE & PROJECT SPACE
- on view February 11-March 11: CRUEL SEA and other paintings by Andrew Dupont
- Saturday, March 26: 7pm performance by Ryder Cooley
- Sarah Falkner, LMT & comrades
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(hi)story labor(atory)—in its form and function, a set of conjoined triplets—has recently reincarnated. v.1 collaborator Vilma Maré has departed on her annual sabbatical to her native Lithuania, making way for v.2’s new projects and configurations. Vilma will return in August with a new line of post-modern deconstructive fashions to launch (hi)story labor(atory) v.3
(hi)story labor(atory) v.1-3 invokes as tutelary spirit the three-ring circus. Its collaborative environment of disparate and diverse elements—united by their devotion to the cultivation of aestheticism, community, accessibility, and experimentation—foments odd fusions and startling recontextualizations its collaborators find fertile and catalyzing for their practices.
—Memory Theatre is the newest project of the Royal Excavation Corps, a recently-reawakened sleeper cell of Kahn & Selesnick. The Memory Theatre is a working installation visited periodically by the Truppe Fledermaus, a Weimar-era Dadaist cabaret puppet theatre troupe which employs elaborate and precarious costumes, masks and props to tell tales of a bat-centric ecological tragedy brought on by an unforeseen side effect of the modern era’s quest for speed, intercontinental travel and exploration. Surprise dramatic performances, ledgerdemain and acrobatics will be documented in still and motion pictures for those unable to witness, react or confront them live. When the troupe is not in residence, visitors may find the Royal Excavation Corps making onsite fabrications and maintenance checks; the theatre and props remain on view, accompanied by video projections and terra cotta dioramas. Kahn & Selesnick have been represented by (hi)story labor(atory)’s next-door neighbor Carrie Haddad Gallery since 1995, and have been showing their fictional narrative photographs and installations in over a hundred shows in galleries and museums worldwide since 1988. www.kahnselesnick.com
— (hi)story labor(atory)’s central room is now a dedicated space for exhibition, performance and projects curated by Nicholas Kahn, Sarah Falkner and guest curators.
February 11-March 11, Andrew Dupont presents Cruel Sea and other paintings, a group of mid-scale works in oil and enamel on masonite.
Abstractionists, like atheists, are united only in what they reject. Abstraction is not a specific way of doing art. Rather, it is a considered effort not to do what Western artists have made it their job to do for hundreds of years: namely, to construct credible depictions of people, places and things.
The underlying subjects in my work are emotional ones that can be spoken about only through metaphor, and for which the painter's means--color, structure, form, scale--are metaphors too, and not ends in themselves.
Enjoy the work. (Thanks to Barry Schwabsky for some choice words)
http://www.andrewdupont.com/
— (hi)story labor(atory)’s innermost room remains the healing arts clinic and apothecary, with services and products by Sarah Falkner, LMT and a boutique selection of body-focused artisanal wares by local comrades. In addition to offering private treatment sessions, the clinic will begin hosting monthly community healing arts events based on the community acupuncture model of providing accessible and low-cost treatments synergized by carefully-tended ambiance and group dynamics. Saturday, March 26th, 2-6pm will feature hands-on work by Falkner and licensed acupuncturist and Chinese herbalist Andrea Elliott, and consultations with Western herbalist and medicine maker Lauren Giambrone; with samples of teas, broths, tinctures, unguents and other handmade medicines for both internal and external use. Falkner and Giambrone co-host the monthly WGXC radio show Roots, Runners & Rhizomes: Health & Healing from the Underground, and will bring to the clinic/apothecary other events relating to organizing and activism around health and wellness from a liberatory perspective.
www.sarahfalkner.com & http://eachm.com/ & www.goodfightherbco.com
