FRISBEE Press release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- AS IN NOW

FRISBEE (miami)
DATES: December 1 > 4, 2005
TIMES: 1 > 7PM
PLACE: Cavalier Hotel 1320 Ocean Drive (between 13th &
14th) Across from the beach (ocean)

FRISBEE is SUPER PSCHYED to announce it’s 2nd
installation in Miami!

FRISBEE is a nomadic curatorial project co-founded by
Anat Ebgi and Jen DeNike. First and foremost we are
not an “art fair”. We will be hosting 14 hotel room
installations which include: independent curatorial
projects, artist’s projects, themed installations, and
galleries. The lobby, hallway, and conference room
will be installed with art and ephemera from our
Special Projects list. The other great addition this
year is a line-up of performances at the Cavalier and
at other locations in Miami. (see perfomance list)

14 ROOM PROJECTS: Centre of Attention (London),
Champion Fine Art (LA), Chris Verene Studio (NY), Anat
Ebgi (NY), Gescheidle (Chicago), HEEB Magazine (NY),
Joymore (Brooklyn), Katharine Mulherin Contemporary
Art Projects (Toronto), Metro Color Collision = Julie
Fishkin + Matt Lucas, O H+T (Boston), Plush (Dallas),
Sara Nightingale (Water Mill), Spirit Tours 2005:
David Hardy + Siebren Versteeg (NY), Studio 1012
(Havana)

Special Projects: Alterazioni Video (Italy), Peter
Coffin, Jen DeNike, DREAMACHINE (Iceland), Carlton
DeWoody, Jose Carlos Diaz, Feral Childe, Adriana
Farminga, Jonah Freeman, Chris Jahncke, Rose Kallal,
Marie Lorenz, Justin Lowe, Lorenzo Scotto di Luzio,
Domenico Antonio Mancini, Ferran Martin, Sigrid
Sandstrom, Aisling Hamrogue + Justin Sampson,
Alexandre Singh, Mike Skinner, Slowjams Band, Tensta
Konsthall (Sweden), COLORING BOOK Tracey Emin and
Edvard Munch’s works interpreted by Reala, Ida Borjel
and Lars Mikael, Raattamaa, Michael Vehrenwald, Abbey
Williams, Aaron Young, THE BUBBLEGUM PHOENIX (a.k.a
dearraindrop) MAX CLOUD

PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE (meet in lobby of the cavalier
hotel)Carlton DeWoody – “Kazoo the New Moon” Everywhere, all over Miami, all the time
Trong G. Nyugen – SATURDAY 12/02 - "Messages from Guantanamo" 9AM – 12PM
Champion Fine Art – SATURDAY 12/02 – “Champion Fine Art Dance” – 4PM
Feral Childe – SATURDAY 12/02 - “Dingo Derby” – 5PM
THE BUBBLEGUM PHOENIX (aka dearraindrop) MAX CLOUD –SATURDAY 12/02 – 6PM
Slowjams Band – SATURDAY 12/02 – “½ Hour of Power” –6:30PM

la bamba

the la bamba flight takes off tommorow am.....
justin and peter are doing a continental breakfast piece (more details coming) in the conference room. very very cool.

Smile when your friends are watching! 

for real

just returned to the warehouse after meeting up with anat and philip from london. philip just arrived in route to miami. we all met this summer in venice, then justin and i saw him in london. we picked up Justin in lower east side then went over to the "diner". all in post thanksgiving holiday pre-miami good mood.

Gescheidle Press Release

Gescheidle is proud to participate for a second year in frisbee (miami), a nomadic curatorial project, co-founded by Jen DeNike and Anat Ebgi. Our exhibition, The Last Room on the Right, is a selection of dreamy, diminutive visions by Mark Adkins, Diane Christiansen and Marci Rae McDade. These quiet, often melancholy reveries employ drawing to manifest fantasies both languid and mysterious. Rendered in graphite, gouache and embroidery, subjects wistfully resist the clarity of known time and space. Instead they linger in limbo, waiting to reconnect with lost desires. To sleep, to dream... in the last room on the right with gescheidle.

Diane earned her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. When she's not creating art, she's jamming in her band, Chicago's own "Dolly Varden." If you stumble across Pierogi Gallery while in Miami, check out Diane's work in their flatfiles too.

Marci is currently working toward her MFA degree at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is also an emerging independent curator. Her most recent project, "Perfect: a group exhibition" is finishing its 2005 national tour this month. (www.perfectexhibition.com)

Mark received his MFA from the University of Texas at Austin. Recent exhibitions include Le Papier, a group exhibition, with gescheidle, and the Evanston and Vicinity Biennial Exhibition, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL, curated by Monique Meloche (gallerist) and Dominic Molon, (Pamela Alpers Associate Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago).

For more info:
gescheidle
118 n. Peoria, 4th fl
Chicago, IL 60607
P 312 226 3500
F 312 226 6255
www.gescheidle.com

spirit tours... let the healing begin

Spirit Tours 2005 is pleased to announce the opening
of their flagship location at the Cavalier Hotel in
south beach Miami.

Ever felt lost in a sea of disconnected travelers
unable to escape those mundane roads and routines?
Well, Spirit tours may have the answer.

Spirit Tours is an exciting and new experimental
service which combines the power of high technology
with the familiar and comfortable interface of the
automobile. Here at Spirit Tours, our patrons
experience an intimately guided virtual out of body
driving experiences that literally allows them to see
themselves from above. For centuries now the quest for
perspectival tourism has been relegated to intangibles
– from crystals to snake oils to online relationships
to religious cults. We have long been promised the
possibility of experiential enlightenment—and the
owners of Spirit Tours have made this a tangible and
attainable reality.

In addition to offering a service that can change your
roadside perspective for years to come, Spirit Tours
2005 also produces and distributes a wide array of
memorabilia to help you preserve a unique experience.
From healing refrigerator magnets to wind-chimes and
t-shirts, all of Spirit Tours’ merchandise is handmade
by the entrepreneurs, ensuring each item is as unique
and individual as you are. So come aboard and enjoy
the view, you might just make a new friend or two, as
you travel the mind-expanding road of spirit tours.

Spirit Tours is a collaboration of David Hardy and
Siebren Versteeg and was conceived at The Skowhegan
School of Painting and Sculpture in summer 2004. They
will be taking reservations from their
office/room/gift shop at the Cavalier.

David Hardy received a BFA from Brown University
(Providence, RI) and a MFA from Yale School of Art
(New Haven, CT). Selected exhibitions include PS1
(LIC, NY), The Sculpture Center (Queens, NY), and
Southern Exposure (San Francisco, CA). Hardy lives and
works in Brooklyn, NY.

Siebren Versteeg received a BFA from the School of The
Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL) and a MFA from
University of Illinois (Chicago, IL). Selected
exhibitions include Rhona Hoffman Gallery (New York,
NY), the Fabric Workshop and Museum (Philadelphia,
PA), and the Ulrich Museum of Art (Wichita, KS). He is
currently represented by Rhona Hoffman Gallery
(Chicago, IL). Versteeg lives and works in Brooklyn,
New York.

throw me a bone

yo you frisbee losers and you know who you are what happened to yeah yeah oh yea we are all going to blog ummmm at our meeting the other night over wine huh. i'm the only one blogging...what's up with that?

Sun Post Interview

omar from miami sun post called tonight phone interview.
"we are not an art fair.....we are not an art fair....we are not an art fair..... i went on and on about centre of attention and their --bed in --(a la john lennon and yoko ono) it's a 4 day protest on art fairs. more other good news -- peter coffin and justin lowe are now doing a "continental breakfast" performance at the cavalier. what this means i don't know. but i'm sure it will be really good. details TBA

kick ass photos!

michael varenwald just came over to bring one his "universal default" photos to the warehouse for frisbee. I'm really excited we have this work. grassy mounds at night....the whitney just bought 2 for their collection. awesome......

pepto bismal puke out

ok anat and i talked about the bubble gum pink today...it's has to go. anat if your reading this 86 the pink.

coming out of the tunnel

i totally overslept today was already supposed to be in chelsea meeting anat. opps. just got an email from Gescheidle in Chicago (frisbee-ite) she is cool and one of the few galleries we invited back from last year. ok so i was going to blog more since this is my first one but it's time for gimme coffee. more later

Miami Press Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- AS IN NOW

FRISBEE (miami)
DATES: December 1 > 4, 2005
TIMES: 1 > 7PM
PLACE: Cavalier Hotel 1320 Ocean Drive (between 13th & 14th) Across from the beach (ocean) (water)

FRISBEE is super psyched to announce it’s 2nd installation in Miami! FRISBEE is a nomadic curatorial project co-founded by Anat Ebgi and Jen DeNike.

First and foremost we are not an “art fair”. This year we will positively rule with the coolest special performances & artist installations in town with some of our NYC homies Justin Lowe (j-lo), Aaron Young (good boy), Adriana Farminga (bunny), Martabel Wasserman (OC), Peter Coffin (Mr. Meatster), and many more. Collaborative groups including international participants like DREAMACHINE from Iceland and Tensta Konstall in Sweden, and Lorenzo Scotti di Luzio videos from Naples, Italy. Special projects will be installed in the lobby, hallway, and elevator of Cavalier Hotel; sound piece by Mike Skinner, an iconic installation of Jonah (JO-JO) Freeman's lost shoe fountains, SlowJam’s Band will do a “1/2 Hour of Power” jam session in the Cavalier Lobby, meteorite paintings by Chris Jahncke and a midnight “Kazoo the New Moon” with Carlton DeWoody (baby bunster), a beach performance by Feral Childe, and surprise events at locations around Miami (TBA). Travis Boyer and Abbey Walton will create a portal of pon-pon’s at the entrance of FRISBEE.

We will be hosting 14 hotel room installations which include: independent curatorial projects, artist’s projects, galleries, performances, and yes, HEEB Magazine. Our guests of honor and recipient of the FRISBEE Fellowship is Centre of Attention, a collaborative group of artists and curators from London. Jen (just do-it DeNike) met C.O.A at the Venice Biennial this summer and fell in love with their funeral installation Swan Song at the Arsenale. At Frisbee, C.O.A will be recreating John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s bed-in during the four-day duration of FRISBEE. Our very own Anat (ahari) Ebgi will be curating the FRISBEE Room. Brooklyn Hipster’s Julie Fishkin and Matt Lucas are bring down there curatorial club Metro Color Collision, and the young California dreaming curatorial team = Champion Fine Art will be installing for the last time ever a show of ephemera from past exhibitions before retiring to a bungalow in Venice, California. Returning FRISBEE favorites are Joymore Projects bringing down the adventurous sea-maiden & artist extraordinaire Marie Lorenz. Chris Verene and Cheri Nevers will once again offer up their services at the mini Self-Esteem Salon.

Oh, yeah, let us not forget to mention our favorite (and cutest) curator down in Miami -- Jose Carlos Diaz– who will be spreading holiday cheer by displaying artist-made ornaments on his curated Christmas tree in the Cavalier lobby. To balance the Christian lobby theme, we’ve invited our Jewish sexaholics, HEEB Magazine to participate in a room in which we still have no idea what the hell they’re up to. (Jen will be running around in her “Honorary HEEB” pink tee, while Anat has Heeb written all over her face – hey, check me out in the top 100 HEEB issue!) And Spirit Tours will be making reservations for the spiritually curious.

14 ROOM PROJECTS: Centre of Attention (London), Champion Fine Art (LA), Chris Verene Studio (NY), Anat Ebgi (NY), Gescheidle (Chicago), HEEB Magazine (NY), Joymore (Brooklyn), Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects (Toronto), Metro Color Collision = Julie Fishkin + Matt Lucas, O H+T (Boston), Plush (Dallas), Sara Nightingale (Water Mill), Spirit Tours 2005: David Hardy + Siebren Versteeg (NY), Studio 1012 (Havana)

Special Projects: Alterazioni Video (Italy), Peter Coffin, Jen DeNike, DREAMACHINE (Iceland), Carlton DeWoody, Jose Carlos Diaz, Feral Childe, Adriana Farminga, Jonah Freeman, Chris Jahncke, Rose Kallal, Marie Lorenz, Justin Lowe, Lorenzo Scotto di Luzio, Domenico Antonio Mancini, Ferran Martin, Sigrid Sandstrom, Aisling Hamrogue + Justin Sampson, Alexandre Singh, Mike Skinner, Slowjams Band, Tensta Konsthall (Sweden), COLORING BOOK Tracey Emin and Edvard Munch’s works interpreted by Reala, Ida Borjel and Lars Mikael, Raattamaa, Michael Vehrenwald, Abbey Williams, Aaron Young, THE BUBBLEGUM PHOENIX (a.k.a dearraindrop) MAX CLOUD