The Bedroom

Performance by Nadja Verena Marcin

She was 21 years old. She had fallen in love with a filmmaker. He was ten years older, had gold teeth and a big mouth with which he could eat people.
- Gainexperienceaddiction - Maturityenvy – Innocentangelattitude -

He was known as a celebrity in his town. All his friends wanted to help him with his projects and to be there. She was like a piece of meat on his salver.

- Energyvampire - Pictureseducer - Applauseobducer -

They gagged her articulation and tied her gestures. They wanted her to be seen as a free-rider of Fassbinder. In this film, she played only his companion.

Respectdownthedrain- Identitytheft - Nothingandnobody-Nightshadeplantdarkness –

Only in the togetherness he turned the spotlight on her. It was his charm and he taught her to use his motorcycle. Her job was to convince other people of the legitimacy of his projects.

- Coarsenessmaneuvre- cameralensfiller -Innocencemisuser-

She was aware of her presence. She was a slumbering volcano. She went on a trip and left him her silver car. He used it to chauffeure his ex girlfriend around.

- Weaknesseinvestigator- Engineoildynamics – Missingbeatlimit - Observationfriend -

She smoked so many cigarettes that she was no longer hunger. Then she went to his house and slept with his best friend. Perhaps he knew nothing about it, he wanted to reconcile with her.

- Infidelitydrastic - Gardenfenceoutlook - Intimacyaggregat – Heartachesuspicion-

He asked her to come over for hot chocolate. She told him about her love affair. Then he kicked her out with all of her belongings. She stuck the milk on the garden fence. It squirted to all sides.

- Angerhormone- Abdominalideals- Copycatsubstainability - Distancekick -

Colleen Coleman, Performance, Good Luck Meal

Colleen Coleman, Drawings-Disaster Series

Katya Grokhovsky, Good Bloody Luck

Ryan Leitner's Photographic Series

Performance by Genevieve White

7pm - Midnight

One Night Exhibition and Performance event

Artists:
Nadja Verena Marcin

Nadja Verena Marcin is a New York City-based German performance artist. Internationally recognized as one of today’s premiere New Genre artists, she focuses on human behavior, elemental emotions, and psychological responses linked to role-playing through video, performance and photography. Born in Germany, she received her MFA from Columbia University, New York after graduating with honors from Academy of Fine Arts, Münster. Marcin’s creations are exhibited in museums, art spaces/galleries and distinguished collections worldwide. Her work has been selected for grants, global biennials and film festivals, including: DAAD, New York, 2011; “Qui Vive?” Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Moscow MOMA, 2010; ARTWORKinternational, Inc. Grant, 2010; Salon/Screening, ICA Philadelphia, 2010; Uncontrollable Flesh, Berkley Art Museum, 2010; Short-Term Deviation, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York; Kaunas Biennale, National Museum, 2009; Videonale 11 & 10, Kunstmuseum, Bonn; Mediations Biennale, Poznan, 2008; Models of Self-Reflection, AZKM, Muenster, 2008; FIFA-Festival pour Film sur L’Art, Montreal, 2008; EJECT-Ex teresa arte actual, Mexico City; Fulbright Award, 2007; and Jumpnights, Ludwig Museum, Cologne, 2007.

www.nadjamarcin.de

Genevieve White

Genevieve White is a Canadian performance and multimedia artist currently living and working in New York City. She primarily works in video, performance, photography, installation art, drawing and painting. She is a graduate of Parsons the New School for Design, where she received her M.F.A in 2009. Her work has been featured in venues such as MoMA, Chashama, the Whitney Museum, the Neuberger Museum, the New Museum, Deitch Projects, The Kitchen, Surreal Estate, 151 Gallery, Artist’s Space, Envoy Enterprises, Cooper Union, NYU Gallery, Summer Stage Festival in Central Park, the Performa Festival, the Engineer’s Office Gallery, Sugar gallery, The Rover Space and many others.

Genevieve White, “Thickly Reading Misty 2012 Through Glass”, Durational Performance.

"Using the technique of gazing into a glass ball to interpret the future, I will invite one person at a time to sit with me and look together for a message. We will concentrate and gaze, as I ask a question relating to their future. We will choose the answer in a form of a material, viscous in texture and apply it to the ball. I will try to find an answer in the image it creates whether abstract or literal. The process will not be a real reading, yet an attempt to create an atmosphere, a conversation around the idea of fate, whilst being playful with the concept of the reading and how it could be performed."

www.genevievewhite.comwww.genwhite.blogspot.comwww.vimeo.com/genevievewhite
Ryan Leitner

Ryan Leitner was a Navy brat who spent his formative years in Japan. He picked up his first camera at age 14 after glimpsing the Diane Arbus image Boy with a Toy Grenade in Central Park. Studying photography in a global hopscotch from Chicago to London to Paris, he’s mixed formal education with apprenticeships to hone an aesthetic at once immediate and alarming. Moving to New York, he’s focused his efforts on documenting friends and freaks as they rip at the night, flush with exploits that blend bodily fluids with breaking & entering.

Ryan will be exhibiting his recent photographic body of work.

www.ryanleitner.com

Colleen Coleman

Colleen Coleman is a multi-disciplinary artist, living in Brooklyn, New York. She is recent recipient of an MFA in Sculpture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Colleen Coleman's work uses a personal language of visual metaphor to explore life through history and projection of the future. Outer space, time travel, invisibility, tolerance: nothing is impossible in the worlds she constructs. She makes sculpture, prints, drawings, and animations to explore liminal states of becoming. She utilizes character narratives simultaneously with enigmatic adventure, explore diverse aspects of life and consciousness, dynamics of human interaction, and environmental changes. The world as it once was, treating the historical amnesia suffered by society. Her influences range from symbolism, surrealism and pop art in western tradition -- extending the Catholic and African traditions of object and altar making. It is Coleman's belief that all human beings share in a collective unconscious and her work reflects her own personal struggle to uncover the full meaning of what it means to be HUMAN.

Colleen Coleman will be creating durational performative actions.

www.colleenlcoleman.com

...and Katya Grokhovsky (Artist and Founder of The Bedroom)

will bake a cake.