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It’s here! This is what MAKESHIFT has always been about...

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 11:09:50 -0400

It’s here! This is what MAKESHIFT has always been about for me. Everyone involved in production was 21 or under. We pulled together our strengths and collective desire to create to make something amazing. I’m deeply proud of this moment, and I hope to embark on many more projects like this in the future.

back in new york and it’s dirty and sweaty and filled with...

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 13:32:00 -0400

back in new york and it’s dirty and sweaty and filled with smiling homies from the makeshift fmly. good to be back. good to be back. miss you berlin;))

erin

Photo

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:17:38 -0400

should you find yourself in the LES tonight

Wed, 04 May 2011 03:03:35 -0400

check out some photos

voici-le all you mecs out there A+

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 13:37:47 -0400

voici-le all you mecs out there

A+

c h e c k i t o u t . . .

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 18:34:33 -0400

c h e c k i t o u t . . . :

OM talks to ny based artist will corwin about his recent show at Geroge and Jørgen in London

via whitehotmagazine

HELP US COMMEMORATE THE BIRTHS OF MAKESHIFT MEMBERS: OLIVA + ...

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 22:45:00 -0500

HELP US COMMEMORATE THE BIRTHS OF MAKESHIFT MEMBERS:

OLIVA + COLLIN

Global Arts Exhibition

Thu, 17 Feb 2011 21:40:00 -0500

“For The Ones I’ve Hurt Along The Way”
Hannah Daly
Video, Audio. Accra.

“For A Five-Year-Old Audience”
Alex Casso
Berlin

Exhibition opening, the Commons

The Commons Gallery presents the 2011 Global Arts Exhibition, a show of drawings, photographs, and video from three distinct art centers around the world, Berlin, Accra, and New York.

Organized by Liz Janoff and Sarah Faitell. Closes February 19th.

See more images from the show: http://thecommonsgallery.blogspot.com/2011/02/global-art-parisny-berlin-and-africa.html

The Harlem Biennale, as founded in 2009 by a group of Harlem...

Wed, 16 Feb 2011 10:03:00 -0500

The Harlem Biennale, as founded in 2009 by a group of Harlem residents, is an organization that wears many hats. It draws from and seeks to add to the cultural vitality of New York’s Upper Manhattan. All of HB’s programs keep in mind Harlem’s roots as a 20th century Mecca for African-American, African, Caribbean, and Latin Diasporas. Art and arts programming is thought of conceptually as a tool to produce knowledge as well as mediate divisions of ideologies, nationalities, races, and classes, both within the city of New York and universally. As a result, a series of thought provoking programs and exhibitions have been laid out for the 2011 year. All of which will culminate in a bi-annual event now slotted for May 2012. HB2012 will bring together artists, curators, educators, and the public to connect with the history and geography of Harlem and explore culturally relevant themes and issues.

The Harlem Biennale will be kicking off its first set of programs with a lecture series. Author Jonathon Gill, who in his newly released book has written extensively on the history of Harlem, will be speaking at different locations throughout the city. For more information on his lecture, “HARLEM: The Four-hundred Year History from Dutch Village to Capital of Black America”, visit www.harlembiennale.org or write to contact@harlembeinnale.org to be put on the mailing list and receive information on all upcoming events.

-Friend of Makeshift, Dana Haynes + AK

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 11:50:16 -0500

Time has passed, but the taste still lingers. Early last fall, Elisabeth Deogracias and I...

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 11:46:39 -0500

Time has passed, but the taste still lingers. Early last fall, Elisabeth Deogracias and I co-curated the inaugural dinner of our collaborative endeavor the Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner series. The project aims to bring together small groups of people who do interesting things, linked together by a loose theme that runs throughout each person’s work. With the food itself, we present both the responsible and innovative.

This first dinner entitled COLLABORATION brought together MAKESHIFT member Rioux and his video-making counterpartpoet Josh Cabrido, video artist Dan Herschlein, Ingrid, Chelsea, and Monica from The Way We See The World, and our amazing chef Jake Novick-Finder.

Each guest brought one locally grown ingredient to contribute to Jake’s meal, made on the spot. This literal act of collaboration became only one of many- as the rain began to fall on our courtyard table, the crew joined together to quickly transport our dinner under a makeshift roof.

The conversation was exhilarating: ideas were shared, plans were made, thoughts encouraged. Since that evening The Way We See The World has successful funded a Kickstarter to move forward with their Jelloware project. Rioux and Cabrido released their audio-visual album Everything You Need Is Right Here.

As MAKESHIFT members Rioux and Deogracias leave for time in Berlin and Buenas Aires respectively, we look forward to an eventual second installment of the dinner. We’re already hungry for both the cuisine and ideas.

vingtieme-bush-berg-wick: Sleigh Bells

Wed, 09 Feb 2011 07:16:00 -0500

Hier soir, Sleigh Bells rode into town to preform at La Maroroquinerie in Paris’ 20eme. Currently on a European/American tour after releasing “Treats”, the Brooklyn based duo brought their zombie-cheerleading sounds across the Atlantic. Alexis Krauss (vocals) sings as an angsty teen harpy who is as hypnotizing as she is explosive.

Highlights from the show: bilingual moshing, A/B machines including a fog machine, Krauss screaming into the audience time and time again while happy concert goers bissou-ed all over her hands, and closing the show with “Crown on the Ground”. After the final “ah-ee-oh, ah-ee-oh”, the lights were flipped on to a dazed and sweaty audience. No encore, no ease back into reality, just bright lights and steam.

Light played a big part in the show: as violent and spasmodic as the beats. The album has an intensity, but seeing Sleigh Bells live completed the experience. Its one thing to be bopping down the street with this in your headphones: its another to be bopping up and down in a place and with a people you dont know at all feeling globally homeless in the best possible sense

Pretty rock and roll, indeed.

FREE99

Mon, 07 Feb 2011 13:30:44 -0500

This past weekend, MAKESHIFT gathered with friends for the inaugural edition of FREE99, a strictly no-cost art swap, curated by HD.

Art quickly ate up the walls of the East Village apartment, as each attendee added their work. The only rule: don’t spend money. After a few hours of chatting, the artists swapped, ending up with a brand new object.

The soiree will continue in monthly installments, inviting new faces and old to share and giving us a reason to make from what we have.

The Global Exhibition is a collection of work from three different and distinct art centers around...

Sun, 06 Feb 2011 17:26:00 -0500

The Global Exhibition is a collection of work from three different and distinct art centers around the world, organized by MAKESHIFT’s Liz Janoff and Sarah Faitell.

Featuring work by:

NATE BERKOPEC / ALEX CASSO / TYLER CONSIDINE / HANNAH DALY / LIZZIE EISENSTEIN / SARAH FAITELL / EMILY FITZPATRICK / JOSH FREYDKIS / THEA GREGORIUS / NATALIE HENSEON / LIZ JANOFF / ALISON KEEFE / OLIVIA MURPHY / CARY POTTER

The show opens this upcoming Wednesday, Feb 9th from 5 to 8 PM, and runs through Feb 19th at the Commons Gallery, Barney Building, 34 Stuyvesant Street.

Pepe's House

Tue, 01 Feb 2011 10:08:00 -0500

When you think of Peruvian music, you might envision flutes and alpaca — right? But venture into the La Victoria district in the capital city and you will hear the authentic sound of Lima: afro-Peruvian beats. Percussionist, singer and composer, Pepe Villalobos, invites us into his home for some Pisco, dancing and a glimpse at the most talented living musicians connected to this music.

Click here: http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/global/peru/jazz/pepe/ to see Pepe’s interview/ photos and read more about afro-Peruvian music.

Makeshift’s Salon 13 (the salon is normally held on the 13th of each month) is an informal...

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 15:55:00 -0500

Makeshift’s Salon 13 (the salon is normally held on the 13th of each month) is an informal meeting of the minds. Host, EJ, invites a small group of young thinkers from a range of disciplines to share thoughts, stories, information, and book/film suggestions. Fiery debate is, as always, welcome. Contact Eva Jäger via Facebook or E-mail to find out the date/time/location/topic of the next Salon 13.

ANNE CARSON IS MY FAVORITE POET

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 14:50:18 -0500

Anne Carson is a New York based, Canada born poet and classicist. Her new book “Nox” came out from New Directions this winter and made me want to spend the rest of my life making books. Her work is witty, explorative, complicated and sad. She also has an impressive leather jacket collection and does performances at the Whitney with Sigur Ros. It was the best 35 dollars I’ve spent in 2011.

ELLEN GALLAGHER AT GAGOSIAN GALLERY

Sun, 30 Jan 2011 21:15:00 -0500

Unit, 2010

I am usually very skeptical of any exhibition at Gagosian, but the new Ellen Gallgher show (her first solo exhibition in NYC since her 2005 show at the Whitney) is a beautiful selection of some older works in conjunction with some amazing new work. The show does a good job of exhibiting both her large-scale mixed-media paintings, which Gallagher is known for, with smaller free-standing delicately made collages pressed between two panes of glass. Gallagher’s work is up until February 26th and definitely worth the trip to Chelsea. For anyone who likes Gallagher’s work, she can be found in the permanent collections of both the Studio Museum in Harlem and the Whitney.

-cm

DOUBLE RELEASE PARTY FOR OUR FRIENDS BMB AND MAKESHIFT MEMBER...

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 18:06:16 -0500

DOUBLE RELEASE PARTY FOR OUR FRIENDS BMB AND MAKESHIFT MEMBER RIOUX!

my favorite art isn't art

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 13:16:00 -0500

a few happenstance installations that transcended “pile of twigs” and become something more

Fragmented Entryway, Accra, 2010

Window Frame, Brooklyn, 2010

Compound Tagging, Paris, 2011

Two Gloved Hands Leaning, Accra, 2010

Two Trees and Three Buildings, Berlin, 2010

Popping Bottles, Paris, 2011

Chop Shop Illustration, Accra, 2010

AIDS3-D? Paris, 2011