Hope Blossoms-An Art Happening
Group Show featuring Fantastic Nobodies
Fundraiser
Opening Reception: Friday, October 16th, 7-11pm.
Location: Margulies Collection at The Warehouse
Directions: 591 NW 27th St, Miami, FL 33127
Benefiting: Lotus House Women's Shelter
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{CTS} creative thriftshop is over joyed to announce the participation of our artist the Fantastic Nobodies in a very special evening performance entitled Pandora (From the Series The Living Frame) in conjunction with the 5th Annual Fall Fundraiser of The Sundari Foundation, Inc. benefitting the Lotus House Women's Shelter. This one night event held at the world renown Margulies Warehouse in Miami, Florida on Friday, October 16th, 2009 from 8-11pm.
This event will be like no other - shaped as much by the audience as by the thirty international artists that will converge on stage through thought-provoking, interactive creative "art happenings.” In a flurry of mediums from sound, dance, video, sculpture, installation, conceptual and performance arts this extraordinary evening promises to push the boundaries of art and life, to create a moment in time where hope truly blossoms and to explore in an unfolding narrative the theme of spirit, the power of compassion, and celebrate a community coming together for a great cause.
Within the the theme of the evenings event “Hope Blossoms” the Fantastic Nobodies three hour performance of “Pandora” the artist present a modern interpretation of the classic tale. The opened box unleashes the evils and ills upon mankind that had not been known previously however and fortunately she had left something inside; Hope. Hope was personified in Greek mythology as Elpis, depicted as a young woman, usually carrying flowers or cornucopia in her hands. But without Hope to accompany all of their troubles, humanity would be filled with despair. And so it was for some time...It was a great relief when Pandora revisited her Box and let out Hope to take root and blossom. The moments created on stage are fragile, never still but always in a state of flux.
In Relational Aesthetics by Nicolas Bourriaud, the French curator and art critic coined "Relational Art": whereby "the audience is envisaged as a community. Rather than the artwork being an encounter between a viewer and an object, relational art produces inter-subjective encounters. Through these encounters, meaning is elaborated collectively, rather than in the space of individual consumption."
The Fantastic Nobodies use these kinds of social constructs and behaviors along with live, improvised interaction and gesturality, and couple them with cultural ready-mades such as costumes and masks to signify to the momentary communities that brave the stage during performances how they may enter into and collaborate with the artist. Each individual has to find their own way creatively and manifest their own version of his or her ideal "moment". Often humorous, gregarious, grotesque, and burlesque, the works contained therein are as much about accumulation as letting go.
We ask you to join us, buy a ticket or make a donation to this wonderful organization and help us give back. Sponsorships are available at many different levels.
artist included in exhibition: Fantastic Nobodies, Gema Alava, Allison Berkoy, Ruben Millares, Richard “Richie” Marquez, David Ellis, Roberto Lange, Ellen Fisher, Max Gimblett, Matt Jones, Trajal Harrell, Vlatka Horvat, Miwa Koizumi, Miami Poetry Collective, Peggy Nolan, Harumi Abe, Gloria Leigh O’Connell, Jason Schmidt, Shinique Smith, Lee Walton, and the Wet Heat Project
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Installation View: Margulies Collection at the Warehouse , Miami Fl. 2009.Image courtesy of {CTS}creativethriftshop, New York. 2009
about the artist: What began 10 years ago as party antics and costume wearing became, in the course of a decade, via relentless Bush Era disillusionment, a highly developed and unique artistic language, if not a cult of urban legend. The Fantastic Nobodies are a cast of performance characters who have collaborated together to create remarkable fusions of art and life. Acting as reflective mirrors for each other’s creativity, the collective has fostered great breadth of production including: performance, infiltrations, social sculptures, situations, happenings, road-trips, cooking, photography, installations, video, music, poetry, painting, and drawing.
about the event: The Fifth Annual Hope Blossoms-’An Art Happening’ is a fundraising effort undertaken by the non-profit organization Lotus House. This years event is inspired by the canonical moment in art history known as ‘Happening.’ It will include over thirty artist to engage in the community to benefit the underprivileged.
about the organization: Lotus House Women's Shelter is a non profit organization operated by Constance Collins Margulies, the president of the Sundari Foundation, INC., in an effort to facilitate the impoverished community of Women and Children in the Overtown, Miami area. Lotus House serves women who are homeless, whether due to domestic violence, untreated medical or mental illness, disability or economic reasons. The facility houses up to 50 women and children at a time and includes a special maternity wing for women who are homeless and pregnant and their infants. Women come to Lotus House through referrals from homeless outreach, shelters, safe houses, rehab centers, prisons, hospitals and courts, as well as the streets. For many, it is a shelter of last resort, as temporary shelters do not afford them an opportunity to address untreated medical and mental illnesses, obtain work or benefits, and save the funds needed to truly break the cycle of homelessness.
about the gallery: Margulies Collection at The Warehouse is a 45,000-square-foot space which holds a world class permanent and rotating collections of impressive photography from 1910 to the present, renownd video installations and sculpture. Real estate developer Marty Margulies opened his Miami space in 1999 and has maintain one of the most exciting public collections in the US.
Installation View: Fantastic Nobodies, Pandora (from the series The Living Frame) The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami, Fl. 2009Image courtesy of {CTS}creativethriftshop, New York.
Installation View: Fantastic Nobodies, Pandora (from the series The Living Frame) The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami, Fl. 2009Image courtesy of {CTS}creativethriftshop, New York.
Installation View: Fantastic Nobodies, Pandora (from the series The Living Frame) The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami, Fl. 2009Image courtesy of {CTS}creativethriftshop, New York.
Installation View: Fantastic Nobodies, Pandora (from the series The Living Frame) The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami, Fl. 2009Image courtesy of {CTS}creativethriftshop, New York.
Installation View: Fantastic Nobodies, Pandora (from the series The Living Frame) The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami, Fl. 2009Image courtesy of {CTS}creativethriftshop, New York.
Installation View: Fantastic Nobodies, Pandora (from the series The Living Frame) The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami, Fl. 2009Image courtesy of {CTS}creativethriftshop, New York.