Barcelona: A Narrative Atlas

My friend Sara Blaylock (sarablaylock.com) has made an incredible research and art project about the hidden history of Barcelona.

The presentation is this sunday at 19h at Miscelanea in the Raval, and she asked me to read!  I will be reading in English, Spanish and Catalan about the recently built-up neighborhood but formerly isolated [...]

Seen and Not Seen

Well, as much as I would like to, for some reason, I still don’t have the clips of when I have been on this program.  But soon, subtitled versions WILL be up!  Until then, check me out today/tonight, 2.30 EST, 20.30h in Spain, at

http://www.vistinovist.cat/

where I will be speaking about cultural and artistic [...]

Vist i No Vist

Tonight! Catch me talking about Language and Art on the radio show “Vist i No Vist” (Seen and Not Seen). They will be broadcasting live from MACBA’s ZeroTV set, here’s the link!

http://www.livestream.com/macbazerotv1?utm_source=lsplayer&utm_medium=embed&utm_campaign=footerlinks

MACBA ZeroTV

I have spent the last 2 weeks at MACBA’s (Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona) ZeroTV, the temporary TV station set up in the documentation center and Museum Library associated with their exhibit “Are you ready for TV?”

We’ve given workshops, made videos and, the most fun of all, made some stop-motion animation!  Here are [...]

My Custom Ketubot!

After getting in so much practice making ketubot for Ketubah – family contracts, I decided to go traditional and start making them for weddings! Personalizing and crafting ketubot for couples is my way of manifesting the love I see between them as well as their hopes for their future.

Check out the brides and grooms [...]

Official Selection, New York International Film Festival, July 26, 2010

This was a HUGE DEAL for me!  Writing and directing “Document” was one of the best art-making experiences I have ever had.  So to be able to present it in my home town of New York to all my friends and family meant a lot.  I wish the great Txell Bonet (producer extraordinaire), Jordi [...]

Official Selection, The Barcelona Jewish Film Festival 2010, July 3, 2010

“Document” has been selected for the Jewish Film Festival of Barcelona!  It will be screened at Cine Maldà on July 6, and you can see the entire program on the festival website, www.fcjbarcelona.org

Contextos Intermedia, TeclaSala, April 29 - May 29 2010, L'Hospitalet, Barcelona

This collective exhibit at the historic TeclaSala Art Museam was 2 years in the making. The thread of the show, which attracted as much criticism as it did praise, was interdisciplinary concepts and methods in art-making.

I showed the video short “Document” alongside the Ketubah with an Estranged Sibling that was the basis [...]

Ketubah - contratos familiares (Ketubah - family contracts), December 10 2009 - January 10 2010. La Capella, Barcelona

This exhibit is the culmination of the project by the same name.  As it deals with family relationships, I decided to display the work in a replica of a domestic space.  In the entrance of La Capella, I converted an 81 square-foot, white, dry-wall cube into a family living room, complete [...]

Conney Conference on Jewish Arts, University of Madison, Wisconsin.

The incredible Judith Joseph presented our collaboration on the work Shelter.  Judith Joseph is a Chicago-based painter and ketubah artist whose work is like children’s storybook illustrations that have wandered off into an adult place.  I contacted her when I was beginning my research and drawings for Ketubah – family contracts, and a friendship [...]