Scratch Pad: November

Nov 01, 2021 By IIDA HQ

What to experience, watch, read, and listen to this month—from the 10th edition of Salon Art + Design in New York to an interview with Jenny Holzer, a gender 101 primer, and how to know if today is a bones, or no bones day.

By IIDA HQ Nov 01, 2021

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(Above: Lido Pimienta by Andrés Navarro Aguilera)

WHERE TO GO

Unstable Presence
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)
October 2, 2021 - March 6, 2022

International artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (Mexico City, 1967) presents his large-scale participatory installations at SFMOMA through March 6, 2022. The exhibit looks at the ephemeral and unstable relationship between physical presence and the natural and technological spaces we inhabit. His micro and macroscopic scales engage audiences with the poetic message that offers meditations on the realities of the complex social, economic, and political issues that occur in the digital technology space.

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, "33 Questions per Minute" (2000). Courtesy of the artist and bitforms, Max Estrella and Wilde Galleries, photo by Guy L. Heureux

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, "Sphere Packing Bach" (2018) Borusan Contemportary Art Collection, photo Mariana Yanez

Salon Art + Design
November 11-15, 2021

Returning to the Park Avenue Armory for its 10th anniversary, The Salon Art + Design features leading art and design galleries from around the world to show the best vintage, modern, and contemporary furniture, design, and art. Featuring innovative pieces by today’s young artists and designers alongside fine art and 20th century masters the show offers a refined inspiration for designers looking to create stunning environments for clients and for those looking to integrate their home and collections. Below: left to right: Culture-Object gallery's current exhibition "Adaptation," and Reynold Rodriguez, " The Table That Dreamed (Of Being Light) at Wexler Gallery.

WHAT TO READ

Hilma af Klint: Occult Painter and Abstract Pioneer
Text by Åke Fant. Translation by Ruth Urbom.
Bokförlaget Stolpe, 2021

Åke Fant’s 1989 account of Hilma af Klint’s life and work has been translated for the first time in English. Considered one of the first abstract artists in modern western art history, the mystic and artist who trained at the Swedish Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm created visionary works culminating in her magnum opus, a series of paintings intended for a spiritual temple. Her work often articulated mystical views of reality and occult themes, and went largely unseen until 1986.

Jenny Holzer by Hugo Huerta, as photographed for
Portrait of an Artist: Conversations with Trailblazing Creative Women

From Hilma af Klint: Occult Painter and Abstract Pioneer L-R: Group X Altarpiece No. 1 (1915), Group IX UW The dove No. 2 (1915)

Jenny Holzer on a Life of Turning Public Spaces Into Art
Hugo Huerta Marin, LitHub

Artist Hugo Huerta Marin sits down with artist Jenny Holzer to talk about her creative process, and the relationship between message and space. They touch on the importance of voice, medium, and the power of words. The conversation is adapted from Adapted from Portrait of an Artist: Conversations with Trailblazing Creative Women by Hugo Huerta Marin, Prestel Verlag, 2021.

WHAT TO WATCH

Bones or No Bones
Noodles the Pug and Jon Graziano

You may have heard your very online friends, colleagues, or relatives ask the eternal question: “Is it a bones, or no-bones day,” and been a little unsure of what this means. 13 year old Noodles the Pug and owner Jon Graziano have gone viral on Tik Tok with their daily morning videos that check whether Noodles has bones and stands tall, or flops back into bed because his bones are not working—a relatable Monday morning feeling!

Jon Graziano and Noodle the Pug finding out if today is a bones, or no bones day. Image via Tik Toc.

WHAT TO LISTEN TO

Gender Reveal
Episode 101: Gender 101 Revisited

Journalist and educator Tuck Woodstock tackles the basics in the Gender 101 episode of their podcast Gender Reveal, defining terms and ideas about gender for beginners, and for those wanting to learn. The podcast explores the vast diversity of trans experiences through interviews with a wide array of trans, nonbinary and two-spirit people and features interviews with trans artists and activists, answers listener questions, analyzes current events, to "get a little bit closer to understanding what the heck gender is."

Lido Pimienta
Miss Colombia, ANTI-Records, 2020

This fall choreographer Andrea Miller and composer Lida Pimienta made history as the first all-female team commissioned to create a piece for the New York City Ballet, “sky to hold.” For Lido, the Canadian-Colombian singer-songwriter, “sky to hold” is her first theatrical score, and establishes her as the first female composer of color to create a piece at City Ballet. Her music draws from Afro-Colombian and Indigenous sounds integrated into electronic sounds. Lido’s critically acclaimed 2020 album, Miss Colombia, is a masterful blend of modernized Latin sounds, written, recorded, and co-produced herself in Canada. The Spanish-language album dances with themes of self reclamation through racism and misogyny. (Above: Lido Pimienta by Andrés Navarro Aguilera, and below, right)

Host of Gender Reveal,Tuck Woodstock, photo by Salimatu Amabebe

Lido Pimienta and the New York City Ballet following the world premiere of Andrea Millers "sky to hold" featuring costumes by Esteban Cortázar. Photo Nina Westervelt