SP Potluck Project

index inspiration

2009-03-15T17:20:00.000-07:00

now that our book is made, with its (imperfect, but effort-ful) index, I found this additional item of inspiration.

From Matta-Clark's FOOD restaurant:

This Sunday! SP Potluck @ Islip Art Museum

2009-02-18T11:27:00.000-08:00

Come out for a Sunday train ride on the coast. Islip Art Museum is just an hour outside of NYC. Live music and snacks, 3 collaborative projects, artists' books & displays from Women's Studio Workshop, and a lake view (*see below for transportation details). We are presenting our culminating video work and launching the SP Potluck Project book. Thank you again to everyone who has participated in the project so far! We would love to see you!

SP Potluck
Invites you to celebrate the exhibition
Out of the Incubator
COLLABORATIONS
From Women's Studio Workshop
curated by Ann Kalmbach & Tatana Kellner

Opening Reception: Sunday, February 22 from 2-4 pm

Out of the Incubator features new site-specific installations created by teams of artists who met at WSW during residencies and internships, and developed working bonds. These alumnae were commissioned to explore the creative possibilities engendered by the collaborative process.

Women's Studio Workshop and the Islip Art Museum present site-specific work by:

Natalie Campbell, Carissa Carman, Heidi Neilson, & Liz Zanis
SP Potluck Project, Video Installation, 2009

SP Potluck Project is a working laboratory for video collaboration, the first phase of which was at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Swing Space Residency. The long term goal of this project is an investigation into the process and nature of collaboration itself. As former residents, fellows, and interns at WSW, the group is interested in the utopian nature of artist communities. The communal meal is the premise for a video installation that documents and reflects the process of working together.

Carolyn Lambert & Dani Leventhal
Suspended in August (late), Multi-channel Video Installation, 2009

Suspended In August (late) is an owl drawing constant circles above a roadside-picnic-home-video. Eight years after these two artists first collaborated, Lambert and Leventhal reunite to create this low-tech installation that combines animation and video. Suspended In August (late) presents the relationship between the artists and the ways in which they understand their place in nature and manufactured space. The circling owl hunts and soars while the women eat potatoes, hamburgers, asparagus, and mayonnaise.

Clarissa Sligh & Chris Petrone
Drawing Conversations, Installation of Works on Paper, 2009

Drawing Conversations is a long-distance collaboration between Clarissa and Chris, using the US Postal Service. A series of mixed media prints and drawings on paper were sent back and forth between Philadelphia, PA, Asheville, NC, and Rosendale, NY. The artists explored the relationship between exchange and intuition as they altered each other's work, whose intimate dialogue is now presented in a public space.

Collectively, WSW's 35 years of commissioned works constitute a critical mass that is changing society's understanding and appreciation of the content of women's art. This exhibition offers an in-depth look into the history of support for women artists, and a celebration of this ongoing vision.

During the course of the exhibition, the Islip Art Museum will host a series of informative and technical workshops designed to give artists the tools they need to build successful careers in the art world. Call 631-224-5402 for a schedule and reservations.

Presented by
Islip Art Museum
50 Irish Lane
East Islip, NY 11730
631-224-5402
islipartmuseum.org

In association with
Women's Studio Workshop
PO Box 489
Rosendale, NY 12472
845-658-9133
wsworkshop.org

*Directions (let us know if you would like to coordinate transport!):

Islip Art Museum is located at 50 Irish Lane, East Islip, NY 11730.
http://www.islipartmuseum.org/directions.html

Public Transportation
From NYC, take the Montauk Branch of the Long Island Railroad to Islip
Station. You can then take a taxi 1 mile to the museum (or just walk).

Getting There:
Trains depart Penn Station for Islip at 11:10 (arr. 12:39) and 1:10 (arr. 2.39)

Leaving There:
Trains leave Islip at 3:46, 5:42 pm, etc.

sppotluckproject.blogspot.com
http://www.wsworkshop.org/
http://www.islipartmuseum.org/

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SP Potluck Project
Natalie Campbell, Carissa Carman,
Heidi Neilson, and Liz Zanis

SP Potluck Project is made possible by: Women's Studio Workshop in conjunction with the exhibition "Out of the Incubator: Collaborations" at the Islip Art Museum, Islip, NY, 2009; and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council 's Swing Space program, which was created with lead support from the September 11th Fund

1/31/09 update

2009-02-01T17:56:00.000-08:00

The installation at the Islip Art Museum has begun and we are excited about our table.

The public opening of the Potluck Project will be Sunday, February 22. Stay tuned.

SP Potluck Sendoff Potluck Filming & Screening!

2009-01-21T11:39:00.000-08:00

Please join us for our concluding LMCC Swing Space Sendoff Potluck video shoot! Come participate in a working laboratory for video collaboration, bring and share your favorite food or beverage, and the culmination of our LMCC Swing Space residency. We have been very grateful to have this opportunity to host these events and share this project. Thank you so much to those of you who have already generously sipped, snacked, and engaged in our previous brunches and happy hour. We hope you will be able to participate again! Please feel free to contact us with questions.

SP Potluck Project

LMCC Swing Space

125 Maiden Lane, 2nd Floor

Friday, January 23rd, 6-9 pm

Sendoff Potluck Filming & Screening
Please Bring Yourself and a Favorite Dish or Beverage to Share

(for access, RSVP to sp.potluck@gmail.com)

*SP Potluck Project is a working laboratory for video collaboration between Natalie Campbell, Carissa Carman, Heidi Neilson, and Liz Zanis, who first met through their affiliation with Women's Studio Workshop, an artist's studio center in Rosendale, NY. The work produced by the first phase of this collaboration will be exhibited as part of "IDEA LAB: Women's Studio Workshop at the Islip Art Museum," Islip, NY in 2009.

(http://www.lmcc.net/art/swingspace/125projectspace/index.html)

SP Potluck Project is made possible by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's 'Swing Space' program, which was created with lead support from the September 11th fund.

Islip Resarch

2009-01-17T08:19:00.000-08:00

Met Mary and Bill at Islip the other day. They are VERY excited and willing to be very flexible and accommodating.

Here is the lowdown.

I have reserved two ladders for installation, one 12 foot and the other 16 feet
They will re-paint a window that is seeping light, and cut a board that covers the glass in the door.
There is a "cubby" around both sides of the fireplace for a possible book install(sign-in book)
We have the option of installing the weekend after the previous exhibit gets de-installed. We have to coordinate in advance with them as they are normally closed on Sundays. The are willing to staff a "day-off", in which case we should let WSW know if anyone else would like to use a staffed weekend day.
I have detailed documentation/video of the space(uploading soon to come, cord at studio)
We need: installation mounting mechanism for the ceiling( I have drawings and measurements that will guide this)
They will have accessible a saw, misc hardware, paint on site. For install it is encouraged however to bring any tools that we will be using often.
Possible option to have the door window used for a sign/display.
Curtains should be double layered and 59" wide by 100" (to beam) or 111" (to floor)
Encouraged to make the projection holder first and then create the structure to install it to the ceiling beams or light beams (is better to visualize with photos)

SP Potluck Happy Hour!

2009-01-06T09:02:00.000-08:00

Please join us for a Happy Hour video shoot!

Come participate in a working laboratory for video collaboration,

enjoy refreshments, and see work-in-progress from our LMCC Swing Space residency.

SP Potluck Project

LMCC Swing Space
125 Maiden Lane, 2nd Floor

Monday, January 12, 6-8pm
Happy Hour Filming
Drinks & Light Snacks

(for access, RSVP to sp.potluck@gmail.com)

(Also, save the date: Friday, January 23, 6:00 – 9:00 PM will be a Sendoff Potluck Filming & Screening)
*

SP Potluck Project is a working laboratory for video collaboration between Natalie Campbell, Carissa Carman, Heidi Neilson, and Liz Zanis, who first met through their affiliation with Women's Studio Workshop, an artist's studio center in Rosendale, NY. The work produced by the first phase of this collaboration will be exhibited as part of "IDEA LAB: Women's Studio Workshop at the Islip Art Museum," Islip, NY in 2009.

SP Potluck Project is made possible by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's 'Swing Space' program, which was created with lead support from the September 11th fund.

Agenda for tonight

2009-01-02T11:49:00.000-08:00

- book

- attempt at editing: I have successful scored final cut, which i don't fully understand, but it doesn't seem to crash nearly as much as premiere.

- email/meet w/LMCC

- reschedule happy hour?

- stipend distribution

- what are we going to eat?

- i think i am getting a cold

coordinating

2008-12-20T07:32:00.000-08:00

just an update to say i think it makes sense if we divide and conquer, heidi does stills printing and i do the groceries/electronics drop midday today.

I'll be dropping off camera, laptop i think, decent computer speakers (audio could incorporate music OR even play layered audio from previous things, depending on cacophony of space, maybe we want to do an audio experiment with one shoot and not with the other?).

if the food is too much for one trip i bet i can do two runs from across the street and be fine, i think it depends on the fruit?

I uploaded a bunch of stills to flickr from ellen's & the first (& second, though we are maybe not printing this?) table building - I asked heidi to print 20 half page stills, 2 to a page from ellen's and the table building is that everything we are missing?

scale, and reconsidering

2008-12-19T23:04:00.000-08:00

re. scale of picture-deciding: I'm still open. I think it will help to see things printed out. I just uploaded the rest of the stuff we selected, and I made selections from ellens. In some cases there are a bit more than we need -- maybe is what the printouts will help with

I think i have a whole unopened box of 5 tapes at LMCC and possibly the firewire cord for the camera,which i will check when i meet carissa there at 2 tomorrow with a carload of food

in the meantime, check out flickr

update on event planning and newspapers

2008-12-18T18:09:00.000-08:00

Brooklyn Brewery may sponsor us for the January event but we will have to wait another week to hear from them.

Mark from the Jones may not be in the area. If not, a small challenge of locally minded food sources might be in order.

I am warming up to the local wine vendor down street. There might be a donation on the horizon.

Photocopying is not possible in the building without a code. We will have to make room for a small percentage of photocopying to be covered in our budget, unless there is a Saturday work station that is not cold like the dusty forge, that could work.

our brunch agenda!!!

2008-12-16T10:53:00.001-08:00

this is what was determined as our division of labor. we are going to meet at LMCC at 10 am on sunday to begin preparation. the reminder email and rsvp confirmation emails should be sent on wednesday or thursday morning? and then we could submit the final rsvp list to them friday midday? am i forgetting anything? this is open to edits.

NATALIE

email reminder for your group
rest of food shopping
adjustment of lights
installation of stills?
a script?
the egg project?

CARISSA

email reminder for your group
newspapers (great speckled bird, adirondacks papers, W.Y.W.A.)
music
small plates, napkins, and cups
klatch run

HEIDI

email reminder for your group
printing of stills
rest of food shopping
installation of stills

LIZ

email reminder for your group
select remainder of stills
collection of rsvps
klatch run

FOOD SHOPPING LIST

juice
grapes and bananas
party rye
whole wheat toast
mini bagels
butter
cream cheese
tofutti cream cheese
jam

IF EGGS OCCUR

eggs
griddle
condiments

IF EGGS DO NOT OCCUR

avocados?
hummus
cheese

monday night meeting agenda for december 21st

2008-12-16T10:31:00.000-08:00

so these are notes for next monday, still open for edits.

ITEMS

review footage from sunday

dinner

discuss book! layout the sample book!
10 minutes review of budget

SUPPLIES

dinner
footage from the brunch!
receipts from brunch to affix to money column

HOMEWORK

see brunch agenda for details

monday meeting review

2008-12-16T07:09:00.000-08:00

This is what we accomplished last night. Brunch agenda and next monday's meeting agenda to follow.

ITEMS

dinner!

reviewed footage from last monday's meeting (table part two)

reviewed rsvp for brunch thus far

make shopping list for brunch and schedule

HOMEWORK

asked ian about final cut pro validity!

emailed invite for brunch filming!

began to gather rsvps for LMCC!

table montages

2008-12-08T21:02:00.000-08:00

monday night meeting agenda for december 15th

2008-12-08T20:16:00.000-08:00

this is the upcoming agenda for next monday's meeting! it is always open for editing!

ITEMS

choose and arrange the stills
dinner
review footage from last monday's meeting (table part two)
review rsvp for brunch thus far
make shopping list for brunch
make a calendar

SUPPLIES

dinner: we have veggie burgers in the freezer. so bread, fixings, side dish?
drinks: we have wine.
print outs of new stills

HOMEWORK

ask ian about final cut pro validity - natalie
email invite for brunch filming
gather rsvps in list for LMCC?

monday meeting review

2008-12-08T19:23:00.000-08:00

this is what we accomplished:

ITEMS

level and screw together the table
mark placement on the floor of table
dinner
review the stills
review footage from LMCC december 6
make agenda for following monday meeting

SUPPLIES (these were all brought!)

dinner- cookies:liz, soup:carissa, bread&cheese:heidi, something else?:natalie
drinks-heidi
mitre box and handsaw-natalie
drill-heidi
footage from december 6
print outs of stills- liz
lazy susan research- liz
roll of paper-liz
labeled past receipts to be put on 'column of expenses' (zipcar, dv tapes, etc)

HOMEWORK

compile a group email list---still working on it
look at stills already posted on flickr (http://www.flickr.com/groups/892682@N25/)
natalie and carissa to extract stills from ellen's and lmcc (though i think this one could be together while we are reviewing saturday's footage)

does anyone know how to strike through lines of text on a blog? also, is it okay if i put some space photos on my facebook? should we make a facebook group?

monday night meeting agenda for december 8th

2008-12-06T15:57:00.000-08:00

this is the typed version of my notes from this afternoon. this is a rough list open to suggestions and edits. i liked today.

ITEMS

level and screw together the table
mark placement on the floor of table
10 minute budget overview
dinner
review the stills
storyboard the lulu book
review brunch invitation feedback
discuss donations progress
review footage from LMCC december 6
make agenda for following monday meeting

SUPPLIES

dinner- cookies:liz, veggies:carissa, bread&cheese:heidi, something else?:natalie
drinks-heidi
mitre box and handsaw-natalie
drill-heidi
footage from december 6
print outs of stills- liz
lazy susan research- liz
roll of paper-liz
labeled past receipts to be put on 'column of expenses' (zipcar, dv tapes, etc)

HOMEWORK

compile a group email list
look at stills already posted on flickr (http://www.flickr.com/groups/892682@N25/)
natalie and carissa to extract stills from ellen's and lmcc (though i think this one could be together while we are reviewing saturday's footage)
xerox notes
gather newspapers
order lulu book final january 7th (this was on the list--just a reminder)

ok I am weighing in for everyone

2008-12-04T19:49:00.001-08:00

ok everyone

liz you are the only one i haven't talked to. general consensus is 11 am start time saturday, will that work? if it needs to be pushed later i need to push it to dinner time like 5 or 6, not midafternoon.

hoping to leave by 3 saturday, others of course welcome to stay. thinking table building shoot+meeting+calendar making+takeout lunch on the table. i have already established the deli next door as well apportioned by bodega standards.

saturday am i am going to:
stop by studio and get circular saw

and
bring possibly oversize plastic dish i have been irrationally holding onto thinking it has some potluck use

and
bring DV tapes

and my computer
so we can also possibly make some headway on remaining still selection?

liz, let us all know about time. you had an opening tonight huh?

what's up saturday?

2008-12-03T11:57:00.000-08:00

When should we do the shoot? 11 am? 3pm and conclude with dinner? weigh in!

Monday, Dec 1 Report

2008-12-02T14:40:00.000-08:00

Yesterday we got table sawhorse legs out for a nice walk and subway ride. The lightweight tripod came to just under $40. May want to saw bottoms of sawhorse legs to be flush with floor. Initiated movement to evaluate funds and create a budget action-plan. Space appreciated, almonds snacked, tape rolled, echo listened-to. Heidi now has key.

Or this?

2008-12-02T08:53:00.001-08:00

Could this be a photo option?

2008-12-02T06:55:00.000-08:00

I don't know why there is a line in the middle. There wasn't one before.

the 6th post

2008-12-01T21:30:00.000-08:00

Well, I thought that this was going to be the space that would be instead of a website, that would have the calendar and what is on the calendar and the aftermath. It is nice to have a place for this too. Could we organize it into categories? Also, I uploaded things to the flickr, which I think I should just put them here too?

So many questions!

edit me

2008-12-01T21:07:00.000-08:00

you guys can feel free to edit/change all the beserko ness i added after i realized that i had already laid out a blog for this damn project & so needed to add the videos and links to this one instead. my question is, is this just for us, is it just to link on the LMCC site, or or or?

i know it is kind of foppish to have quotes, but i like having a place to put the things i come across doing other reading/research, at the same time it is potentially always a problem to be sharing group ideas about work that might or might not happen in a public place, but maybe that is the point, and we just expose ourselves a little more than usual?
thoughts?

another quote, about "Al's Cafe"

2008-12-01T20:30:00.000-08:00

Allan McCollum on Allen Ruppersberg
http://home.att.net/~amcimages/al.html
from
Allen Ruppersberg:
What One Loves About Life Are the Things That Fade

ART SHOULD BE FAMILIAR AND ENIGMATIC, JUST AS HUMAN BEINGS THEMSELVES.[5]

The Cafe was intended to be a limited-run restaurant, staged once a week—Thursday nights from eight to eleven—in a rented location in downtown Los Angeles. It was to function socially as a meeting place for friends, members of the art world, and anyone else who wanted to drop by. In direct opposition to what one might have expected from a young artist at the time, the decor was familiar to the point of strangeness: hyperfamiliar, you might say today. The look was as crafted as a movie set, true to the period, though the period could have been anywhere from 1925 to 1969. Against all Minimalist, Post-Minimalist, and Conceptualist expectations, this cafe was not an idea as an idea as an idea; it was sumptuously filled with romantic detail, suggesting a cafe that had existed for a lifetime of years and was filled with Middle American memorabilia—posters, nature calendars, fishing paraphernalia, pinups, picture postcards, and autographed photos of movie stars and sports heroes. The patterns of the tablecloths were everyday plaid, the counter and the tables and chairs were traditional. Odd bits of advertising novelties were everywhere, souvenirs of past events abounded, and the waitresses were beautiful. This was Al's Cafe, the American cafe of all American cafes, looking as if it had been nurtured for forty years by a caring cafe-owner, filled with memories to be shared with generations of patrons. It was a place where any American would have felt at home. It was exorbitantly familiar.

But once one recognized this, and once one was comfortable, a strangeness was invited to the table. The menu supplied by the beautiful waitress was on the outside perfectly normal-looking—but the "dishes" were rather odd. The first offering ("FROM THE BROILER") was TOAST AND LEAVES. The second offering was DESERT PLATE AND PURPLE GLASS. The third offering was SIMULATED BURNED PINE NEEDLES A LA JOHNNY CASH, SERVED WITH A LIVE FERN. And so on. From salad to desert, Al's Cafe mediated nature into sculpture, brought the forest and the desert to your table. And it was not, as I thought for a moment, a joke. When a person ordered a "plate," the waitress brought the order to the "kitchen" behind the counter, the "cook" (Ruppersberg) put together the dish (rather quickly, as I remember), and the order was delivered to the table—perhaps a SMALL DISH OF PINE CONES AND COOKIE ($1.50), or maybe THREE ROCKS WITH CRUMPLED WAD ($1.75).

2 quotes from 'The Power of Feminist Art', 1994

2008-12-01T20:28:00.000-08:00

From “Womanhouse” by Arlene Raven
The Womanhouse Dining Room, a collaboration among Beth Bachenheimer, Sherry Brody, Karen LeCoq, Robin Mitchell, Miriam Schapiro, and Faith Wilding, is a formal family room, but unoccupied (p. 50). The table is elaborately laid, but with entirely inedible artificial food (such as treated bread dough) on sewn fabric plates. A mural interpretation of a still life by Anna Peal on the wall features food more believable (although two-dimensional) than the chilly dinner on the table. The Dining Room is linked to other spaces by the passage of the viewer from room to room

From “Collaboration” by Judith E. Stein
In [Suzanne Lacy’s] view, the public rituals she creates form a continuum with the pageants staged by turn-of-the-century women’s labor and suffrage movements. Mindful that “organizers used dinners, birthday parties, and gift-giving as rituals to … build a sense of solidarity,” she has often shaped preexisting women’s networks into feminist art forms. For example, on March 14, 1979, she set in motion “The International Dinner Party” event to mark the opening of Judy Chicago’s Dinner Party. Over two thousand women dined together in various-sized groups to honor women of their choice.
Lacy went on to mine the informal collaborative tradition of the potluck dinner, which Lucy Lippard has insightfully described as “a classically feminist collage [bringing] together a highly disparate group of women and their culinary offerings.” In 1980, the Women’s Caucus for Art was obliged to hold its annual convention in New Orleans, in a state that had not ratified the Equal Rights Amendment. Lacy was invited by conference organizers to participate in the planning process, and collectively they staged the entire five-day event as an “expanded performance.” As a symbolic protest, they stayed in private homes and boycotted restaurants. The conference opened with a potluck meal that brought together five hundred ethnically diverse women to celebrate their southern heroines. Lacy choreographed this and other communal dinners as performances that succeeded in raising the political consciousness of the local women’s community. She also involved local artists in a variety of events and strategized an ERA media campaign.

The Signing

2008-11-25T05:02:00.000-08:00

The meeting-up and paper-review at LMCC yesterday went well yesterday.

The main logistical consideration is that we have only one key. So. Getting in and out during business hours is fine, no key necessary, we can get in through the LMCC office. Everything locks behind the last person out, so someone non-last person can take key, etc.

We set up to move in on Sunday, with things we can carry through the main door and elevators. Any large things (such as the table top) will need to be brought in by freight elevator, which is only available during business hours.

When should we meet up on Sunday to move in? What do we bring with us? Quick review of the plan: we're moving in such as camera, ladder, tape measure on Sunday, and then setting up the camera and taking measurements on how big the table should be, right? Then on Monday we're meeting up, going to such as Home Depot, and getting the table materials and moving them to the space? Maybe to avoid the parking/traffic issues we should hire van-person from HD to LMCC? Or maybe the tabletop is small enough we can carry on the train?

I guess the idea, right, is to get all the materials we will need and move them to LMCC before Saturday, where our actual filming and table-construction will happen.

How about we meet at 11:00 on 30th Street on Sunday?
Heidi

i had to sign in as myself

2008-11-22T22:05:00.000-08:00

otherwise i will lose the damn password.

i did have an idea! first blog:

maybe stills from the things we do separately are one book, and stills from the dinners and together activities are a second book. and the titles are "separately" and "together"

i don't know if this has implications for what is LMCC/not LMCC. what do you all think?