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March 11, 2009, 6:30 pm
resident/alien
A series of conversations between apexart residents and Carlo McCormick
Sofija Grandakovska (Inbound from Macedonia), Jayson Keeling
(Outbound to Ethiopia), and Edwin Ramoran (Outbound to Greece) in
conversation with Carlo McCormick about their experiences as apexart residents.
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Sofija Grandakovska is a poet and researcher from Macedonia. She is currently pursuing
her PhD in Comparative Literature at the School of Philology at the
University Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Skopje, Macedonia. The title of
her thesis is The Akathistos Hymn of the Mother of God in the Context
of Byzantine Hymnography. Since 1992, Sofija has published research
studies, reviews, essays, and poetry in Macedonian and foreign
periodicals. She is the author of two books of poetry: The Eighth Day
(2005, in Macedonian and in English) and The Burden Sun (2007,
translated in Macedonian, English, Serbian, Albanian and Greek), and
she recently published Discourse of the Prayer (2008), a scientific
study. Ms. Grandakovska is currently in residence at apexart through
March 19.
Jayson Keeling
was born in Brooklyn, NY and attended The Fashion Institute of
Technology. He lives and works in Long Island City, Queens. For most
of his career Keeling worked almost exclusively in the medium of
photography but recently he has begun to explore painting, video, and
sculpture as well. His work has been featured in many exhibitions
including The Queens International 4, The Queens Museum of Art,
Queens, NY; Filmic, VideoStudio, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New
York; Summer Mixtape Vol. 1, Exit Art, New York and The Wu-Tang
googolplex Show (Congress), GBE@passerby, New York. Mr. Keeling
participated in the apexart Outbound Residency to Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia in January 2009.
Edwin Ramoran
was born and raised in Palm Springs, California. He lives in Harlem
and currently works as director of exhibitions and programs at
Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art in Newark, New Jersey. He is a
recipient of a Curatorial Research Fellowship from The Andy Warhol
Foundation for the Visual Arts for the forthcoming group exhibition
Me Love You Long Time that will be presented at Aljira in late
2009-early 2010. He has worked as a guest curator at institutions
such as the Museum of Chinese in the Americas, PERFORMA 05 at Artists
Space, Center for Book Arts, Dieu Donné Papermill and Gallery,
Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, South Asian Women's Creative
Collective, and Visual AIDS online. Mr. Ramoran participated in the
apexart Outbound Residency to Athens, Greece in November 2007.
Carlo McCormick is a popular culture critic and curator living in New
York City. He is the author of numerous books, monographs and catalogues
on contemporary art and artists, and has lectured and taught extensively
at universities and colleges around the United States. His writing has
appeared in Aperture, Art in America, Art News,
Artforum, Camera Austria, High Times, Spin,
Tokion, Vice and countless other magazines. He has curated
shows for the Bronx Museum of Art, New York University, the Queens Museum
of Art and the Woodstock Center for Photography. McCormick is Senior Editor
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Please join us.
All events are
free and open to the public.
Sofija Grandakovska's residency is supported in part by the Trust
for Mutual Understanding.
apexart's exhibitions and public programs are supported
in part by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Carnegie Corporation of New York, Edith C. Blum
Foundation, Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, The Greenwich Collection Ltd., The William Talbott Hillman Foundation,
and with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on
the Arts.
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291 Church Street, NYC, 10013
t. 212 431 5270
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