EVENTS

FRIDAY, December 5, 2008

“Performance at Noon”
Miller & Shellabarger
Untitled (Pink Tube)
and Untitled (Sewing)
NADA Stage

4–7pm
Davide Balula, booksigning of STOMACH RAINBOW
Galerie Frank Elbaz (Booth D6)

Peggy Honeywell (Clare Rojas)
Rose Kallal
Melissa Brown
Alexandre Singh
NADA Stage

Miller & Shellabarger: Husband and husband artist team Dutes Miller & Stan Shellabarger’s performances, always enacted in public and always together, document the bittersweet rhythms of human relationships. Their work shifts between moments of togetherness and moments of sepa-ration, between spaces of private and public, protection and pain and visibility and invisibility. At the 2008 NADA Art Fair, they will perform two works, Untitled (Pink Tube) and Untitled (Sewing).

Davide Balula will be signing his new artist book entitled STOMACH RAINBOW. It includes contributions from artists, writers, critics, musicians and philosophers: Kathy Alliou, Laetitia Bénat, Julien Berthier, Yann Chevallier, Peter Coffin, Antonio Contador, Angela Detanico & Rafael Lain, Le Gentil Garçon, Béatrice Gross, Olivier Lamm, Stéphane Laporte, Christine Macel, Valeria Motelli, Rui Pombal, Elisa Pône, Lee Ranaldo, Mirjam Schaub, Leah Singer, and Francesco Stocchi. Each partici-pant chose a fragment of his work and transformed it into a new two-dimensional piece. By making a body of work nimble and portable, the colors of this collaboration became a multi-personal revolution ready to be shared with the public.

Peggy Honeywell (Clare Rojas): Artist Clare Rojas has developed a deceptively complex visual language inspired by early American Folk traditions. Under the pseudonym of Peggy Honeywell, Rojas extends her exploration of Folk traditions into the music genre. Her songwriting is at once delicate and uncompromising. As Rojas describes, “Peggy Honeywell is from Philadelphia, a storyteller...starting playing music in 1998, has 5 albums out, 2 of which are home made.”

Rose Kallal is a New York City based 16mm film and sound performance artist. Her multiple film loop installations combine primordial imagery and a complex use of color, light and abstract forms accompanied with live sound performances using a variety of instruments such as analog synthesizer, tape delay, drums and guitar. Her improvised live soundscapes draw upon minimalism, drone, ambient and metal. Rose Kallal has presented her work at various galleries that include PS1/MoMa (NYC), Gavin Brown’s Enterprise at Passerby (NYC), Lisa Cooley Gallery (NYC) and Greener Pastures (Toronto).

Melissa Brown: Most of Ms. Brown’s prints, collages and performances dissect mass print media such as lottery tickets, currency and supermarket tabloids. Her work has been exhibited in New York City at Bellwether, Art In General, Canada and at Socrates Sculpture Park. She recently collaborated on a project entitled, “Time Booth”, which was included in Performa 07. “Time Booth” was designed as a screenplay to be performed using an Photo Booth machine. Select past performances have been at a MOMA pop rally, at the Frisbee Art Fair, at the Contemporary Art Center in North Adams, at Artist Space, and Lisa Cooley in New York City. The performance at the NADA will center around a demonstration of how to play, “Tabloid Tarot”, an original card game that predicts future super-market tabloid headlines. The Tabloid Deck is available through PictureBox, Inc. www.melissabrown.tv

Alexandre Singh is a Franco-British artist currently based in New York. His work posits a modern mythology based on the subversion and deconstruc-tion of traditional narrative genres and storytelling. His installations are recognizable for their combined use of modern building materials and mass-produced consumer items, accom--pa-nied by pains-takingly elaborate narratives and elements of performance. Recent exhibitions include “Assembly Instructions,” Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, 2008; “The Marque of the Third Stripe,” Monitor Gallery, Rome, 2008; “Of this Tale, I cannot guarantee a single word,” Royal College of Art, London, 2008; “Hello Meth Lab in the Sun” with Justin Lowe and Jonah Freeman, Ballroom, Marfa, TX, 2008; “Alexandre Singh,” White Columns, New York, NY, 2007.