collaborations
I made a photo piece in collaboration with Chase Granoff that will be installed during his performance at The Chocolate Factory, in Long Island City, Queens this next week.
intuition is preceding over my understanding.
November 16-19, 2011 / 8 o’clock pm at The Chocolate Factory in LIC / Tickets $15
Chase Granoff’s intuition is preceding over my understanding. is a solo performance of a landscape exploring an expression of time and place, present and past. Interested in the movements of sustainability, slow and local and how they can be applicable to choreographic thought as expressed through improvisation and score, this choreographic exhibition will unfold through a multitude of expressions in hopes of offering various perspectives of the questions that created it – grounded in the honesty and transparency of the bread that will be offered.
Considering the Steve Paxton quote “researched the fiction of cultured dance and the ‘truth’ of improvisation” – is choreography an aesthetics of change? How is my interest in bread making part of a dance (life) practice? Is dance a politics? This solo has something to do with becoming a father. Re-becoming a dancer.
For tickets, please visit www.chocolatefactorytheater.org
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I shot some photos for my friend Cyril (item idem) and his design collaboration for Peter Mountain Works, on a limited edition backpack. Look for them in select stores soon! Item Idem blog here.
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I’m very excited to have collaborated with my friend Shabd on her SS12 lookbook, inspired by my project from the Studio Museum residency and featuring still lifes from her studio and working process. Here are a few shots I liked, more coming soon!
www.shabdismyname.com
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Hey Berliners! Tim Hull and TM Davy and I made a special project for ninety-five at 95 Torstrasse opening this Thursday night. Here are a couple of images below.
Timothy Hull, TM Davy and Paul Mpagi Sepuya, "Untitled' 2011 C-print, 2011, Ed 5/5
Hull, Davy and Sepuya, "Untitled' 2011, C-print, 16 x 20 in,2011, Ed 5/5
Hull, Davy and Sepuya, "Untitled' 2011, C-print, 8 x 10 inches, Ed 5/5
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I’ve been working with artist Chase Granoff on some imagery for a work-in-progress dance-movement piece. I love this photo, just one of many many to work with.
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Excerpts from AEOA were featured in PREF Magazine’s November – December issue celebrating the 100th anniversary of Genet’s birth, to accompany an article/conversation on Genet’s involvement in Arab and Palestinian causes. I’m not very familiar with the magazine, but if you know French, it’s a good read!
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The collaborative piece I created last year with Item Idem, as a gift to AA Bronson,
30 Years of Nazi Milk, will be in the group exhibition Lost Horizon / Head Shop at Exile: Berlin, which opens on the 17th of July. For my original post on the piece, click
here.
This July and August Exile presents its second annual Summer Camp curated by New York based artist, writer, editor and independent publisher Billy Miller. For this year’s SummerCamp Miller curated two simultaneous exhibitions entitled Head Shop and Lost Horizon:
Head Shop is both a nod to legendary ‘60s bohemian boutiques like Granny Takes A Trip, and an evocation of the idea of the mind as a storehouse of images and potentialities.
Artists: Dan Acton, The Agitators, Assume Vivid Astro Focus, Brian Belott, Nina Bovasso, Matt Borruso, Larry Carlson, Ryan Cummings, TM Davy, Michael Economy, Krista Figacz, Janie Geiser, Fritz Haeg, Christian Holstad, Brian Kenny, Paul Kopkau, Steve LaFreniere, Justin Lowe, Noah Lyon, Michael Magnan, Rachel Mason, Glynnis McDaris, Ashleigh Nankivell, Mary Nicholson, Darinka Novitovic, Genesis P. Orridge, Jason Peters, Kevin Regan, Alex Rose, Desi Santiago, Barbara Sullivan, Jan Wandrag, David West, Justin Yockel
Lost Horizon takes its title from the book and film of the same name, and suggests aspects of American Western mythology and “lost” possibilities – ecological, cultural, personal and otherwise.
Artists: D-L Alvarez, Rachel Beach, Michael Bilsborough, Colby Bird, Matthew Burcaw, Kathe Burkhart, Luke Butler, Brendan Carroll, Walt Cassidy, Wayne Coe, Reuben Cox, Pia Dehne, Peter Eide, Carl Ferrero, Jonah Freeman, Janine Gordon, Jonah Groeneboer, Marcus Gruendel, Tina Hejtmanek, Scott Hug, Stephen Irwin, Pat Keesey, Lisa Kirk, Lewis Klahr, Martin Kohout, Kristian Kozul, Paul Lee, Peter Maloney, Glynnis McDaris, Dean Sameshima, Paul Sepuya, Florent Tillon, Frank Webster, Ken Warneke
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Timothy Hull + Paul Mpagi Sepuya = Colossus of Memnon #2
Scan of collaged laser prints on paper. 2009
My friend Tim was asked to pick another artist to collaborate with for TOKION’s February issue and he asked me to work with him. The idea was each artist taking a work of theirs and mashing them up into a new piece. We used Tim’s photographs of the Costa Rican rainforest and Colossus of Memnon in Egypt along with my portrait, Avi (2005) to make this really fun collage!
We spent an afternoon back in December at my studio cutting up and arranging and scanning so many things that we decided we had enough to make a zine or a small book out of them all. So watch out for something special coming soon. But for now pick up the current issue of TOKION for this and a bunch of other great work.
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For years I have had in my mind to do a collaboration with a choreographer, dancer, or performance artist to do a series to be photographed. When my friend Ryan asked me to participate in his piece for Performa 09 (Ryan McNamara Presents The Sacred Band of Thebes AKA In Memory of Robert Isabell AKA Any Fag Could Do That, Friday November 13th at X Initiative), first thing I thought was, Let’s do a photo project from it. More to come! And do come out Friday night for the performance at 8pm.
Below are all photographs created in collaboration with Ryan and a few of his 30+ performing “Band of Thebes”:
Dancers Bradley Ellis and Luke Gutgsell, performance artist Jack Ferver, and artists Sam Roeck and Myles Ashby.
Myles and Sam.
Jack.
Bradley and Luke.
And if anyone is interested in doing any performance/photography collaborations, let’s chat.
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I will be participating in my friend and fellow artist Ryan McNamara’s performance piece at PERFORMA on November 13th, and making a collaborative photography-video piece with Ryan based on the one-night performance.
In 375 BC, the Sacred Band of Thebes, an elite force composed entirely of homosexual lovers, annihilated the Spartan army, a brigade three times their size, at Teygra. 2352 years later, party planner Robert Isabell triumphed as well, becoming an instant sensation when he filled Studio 54 with four tons of glitter.
Ryan McNamara is an artist working in New York City. In spring 2009, he worked on “Bernie, The Magic Lady,” a performance and installation at APF Lab. This summer, his video and performance work was included in the 2nd Athens Biennale and “Stars!” at Salon 94 Freemans. In August, McNamara wrote, directed, and starred in “Ryan McNamara presents Klaus von Nichtssagend: The Musical” at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery. McNamara has also performed as a dancer at numerous New York venues, including Dance Theater Workshop, P.S. 122, and The Kitchen.
Presented by X Initiative.
548 W. 22nd Street
Friday, November 13 8:00pm
FREE
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Polaroid sketch of TM painting Rafie, Warwick, NY.
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“As sharp and hot and love-laden as JUSTINE and BALTHAZAR, only more so!”, 2009. C-print.
I’ve made a new piece (above) to be turned into a silkscreen print as part of J. Morrisson’s MANPURSE IV: ASSEMBLY LINE at the New York Art Book Fair at PS1 Contemporary Art Center in Queens, October 1 – 4. Come to PS1 this next weekend to have a custom tote bag created by J., Scott Hug, Michael Magnan, Slava Mogutin, Dave Ortega, Dave Ulrich, Grant Worth and me! Each artist is contributing a unique screen to the assembly line.
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I just picked up my copy of MUSE Magazine, the current issue is dedicated to model/muse Natasha Poly. I did a contribution in collaboration with the genius Item Idem in drag as his “idol” Poly, amazing stylist Haidee Findlay-Levin and hair/make-up by Blair Jaffer. In the accompanying text on p.113 Calvin Klein misspelled my name, but I think Mpagy reads pretty great!
For those in Paris, Colette will be having a special Natasha Poly event beginning this Friday the 18th.
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Claudia Rosa Lukas has a nice feature up on Interview online, with some of the lookbook photos I did of her previous collection in Vienna. See it here.
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