Performance: Huewomanity & Junkanooacome: 1LOV All Colors
PERFORMANCE UNION SQUARE, NYC
Nov 3rd, Sunday, 3 - 4pm
Huewomanity & Junkanooacome : 1LOV All Colors
Huewomanity at the United Nations.
As Pasha Radetzki's public art work, Lov-ego= LOV at Union Square draws to a close on November 5th, we invite you to attend his collaborative interdisciplinary performance with Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow @lynkeeart Kevin Nathaniel @kevinnathanielhealing, Amit Sahu @amsa0929 + special guests.
Nov 3rd, Sunday, 3 - 4pm.
Union Square Park's center lawn, at the LOV sculpture site, near the Lincoln statue.
This site and time specific work emulates the call & response human interaction technique to examine the possibility of achieving what seems unachievable.
Stellar Unity Ensemble: Salieu Suso - kora/voice; Kevin Nathaniel - mbira/voice; Saco Myoji - mbira/voice; pashaRa - concept, bass, voice, install-action; Famoro Dioubate - bala/voice. photograph: Caterina Verde
The ‘LOV Sculpture’ is composed of three free-standing letters that spell out a newly created word - LOV - a neologism with its specific meaning of egoless love and pronunciation, /lɔv/. The audience is invited to enact the eclipsed letter E, representing one’s self or ego, by striking ‘the letter E pose’ to the right of the sculpture to interplay the words LOV and ‘Love’.
The sculpture features a miniature garden titled ‘3 Sisters-Americas.’ Its title refers to the notion of ‘Abya Yala,’ a unified vitality continent in Kuna language and which combines the plants native to the Americas.
The LOV sculpture also serves as a site for a series of participatory performances titled Unity On Union Square:
Major supporter - reState, a Swiss-based non-profit foundation dedicated to reimagining the future of governance and global collaboration.
Additional support - New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC), Art Yard LLC, radetzki studiO.
About the artist:
Pasha Radetzki, aka pasha Ra, is a visual artist working with public art sculpture, installation, performance, painting and drawing in Manhattan, New York, since 1997.
His artworks received the Future Art Award from Mozaik Philanthropy in Los Angeles in 2022, CodaWorx Award in 2014 and the ArtsLink Award in New York in 2002.
His public art LOV initiative was awarded the Creative Engagement grant from Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) in 2023, reSate Foundation grant and the New York Foundation for the Arts fiscal sponsorship in 2024.
Radetzki presented solo exhibitions in New York, U.S., Brazil, Mexico, Belarus and China. His works were featured at dOCUMENTA 13 (Hauptbahnhof, Kassel, Germany), Manifesta 11 (Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, Switzerland), 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, 4th Moscow Photo Biennial (Central Exhibition Hall Manezh); Manifesta 4 (Frankfurt, Germany), Beijing 798 Biennial (T Art Center, China) and 8th Cordoba Photo Biennial (Spain)
For more information: @ra_detzki & https://radetzki.net/current
Special thank you from Pasha
Elizabeth Masella at NYC Parks, Union Square Partnership team, Alexandra Seaman at reState foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Proyectos Raul Zamudio and Family, Lilianka, Annie Murdock, Tom Soper at Art Yard LLC, Lisa, Annie Yuan Zhang, Caterina Verde, Peat + Repeat, Ignatius Chithelen, Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, David Frackman, Kirsten Cole, Cristina Holmes, Yuko Arakawa, Amit Sahu, Orlando Palacios, Shirly, Eva Conant, Kevin Nathaniel, Salieu Suso, Famoro Dioubate, Saco Myoji, Ishkara, Michiko, Fernando Colón-González, Russo
UPCOMING: Essays and Interviews
Part II of Interview with Elke Luyten.
Interview with Anna Sang Park
Interview with Coder/Herbologist/Film Ace, Artist and Poet, Meredith Finkelstein
Essay on the work of Francine Hunter McGivern by Carter Ratcliffe
Keith Donovan new work in Montmorillon, France
PEAT and REPEAT BOOK SERIES:
Peat and Repeat is excited to announce that we are creating an artist book series that will include programming and workshop endeavors. We are launching a fundraising initiative for this series. More on this soon.
We really do rely on tax-deductible donations to keep going! The more we can fundraise the more projects in the community we can produce and our intention is to expand our community outreach.
Caterina Verde’s, Mole Mansions will be the first to emerge from this series. Expected due date December 2024