Narrowsburg Honeybee Fest
NARROWSBURG HONEYBEE FEST
Saturday / September 24 / All Day
The Mildred ComplexIty) presents an exhibition of curiosities celebrating our local Narrowsburg Honeybee Festival.
This idiosyncratic installation features a film by Jeremy Chien for Big Island Bees. The short film is about Garnett Puett and Whendi Grad's beekeeping operation and honey production located on the Big Island of Hawaii. The four-generation beekeeping family produces honey exclusively from Hawaiian bee colonies carefully attended to without using artificial feeds or chemicals. A slow and deliberate operation preserves the honey without heat or filtration. Samples of Big Island Bees Honey will be available.
Other curiosities include a selection of vintage and classic books and pamphlets on bees and beekeeping from the private collection of The Grafter’s Shack, a J. Morgan Puett project, on-site at Mildred’s Lane.
FLEA MARKET PROJECT // The Mildred Complex(ity)
The Mildred Complex(ity)
FLEA MARKET PROJECT
Everything Could Go
Opening Saturday / July 23, 2022 / 12 – 5
37 b Main Street / Narrowsburg, NY 12764
MARK DION / AMY YOES
with
MARY JANE JACOB / MERETE RØSTAD
in collaboration with the Abakanowicz Fellows:
Inés Arango / Elisa Benzo / Sophie Buchmueller / Johnny Doley / Miguel Espinoza / Ella Fainaru-Wada / Kelly Johnston / Jad El Khoury / Alice Matthews / Meghan McCray / Scott O'Brien / Vanessa Payne / Kirsten Schuck / Sarah Sekles / Katherine Skwira-Brown
A transient site for gathering and commerce, flea markets attract a range of publics: discerning collectors, professional pickers, resourceful vendors, and casual browsers. This summer, a cohort of Magdalena Abakanowicz Fellows attended the Circle Drive-in Flea Fair in Scranton, PA to delve into the mechanisms of the flea market and engage in alternative modes of production and exchange.
Drawing from the ethos of Mildred's Lane, this project builds off the social ecology of the flea market while collapsing boundaries between art and life. The interdisciplinary project plays with the layered dynamics between objects, place, time, and interpersonal connections.
The exhibition Everything Could Go, opening at The Mildred Complex(ity) Saturday, July 23, is one of a few iterations of this investigation. The show features artworks made from reimagined flea market finds, documentation of the group's booths at the Flea Fair, and records of conversations and interactions that unfolded.
The Flea Market Project and Exhibition are made possible by The Madalena Abakanowicz Arts and Culture Charitable Trust and The Department of Arts and Crafts in the Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO). Thank you all.
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MARK DION is an American conceptual artist best known for using scientific methodologies in his installations. His work examines how prevalent ideologies and institutions influence our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. The job of the artist, according to him, is to "go against the grain of dominant culture, to challenge perception and convention." ( Art 21). Dion is the co-director of Mildred's Lane, Pennsylvania.
AMY YOES works in a multi-faceted way, alternately employing installation, photography, video, painting, and sculpture. An interest in decorative language and architectural space permeates all of her work. She responds to formal topologies of ornament and style that have reverberated through time, informing our mutually constructed visual and cultural memory. Visit Hot Corners, a site-specific installation at MASS MoCA in North Adams MA. It is a multi-room, immersive environment with thematic forms and functions.
MARY JANE JACOB is a curator and writer who championed public, site-specific, and socially engaged art as a shared practice and discourse. She is Professor and Director of the Institute for Curatorial Research and Practice at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2018 she published Dewey for Artists with the University of Chicago Press. She is curating the Magdalena Abakanowicz exhibition at the Tate Modern opening this November.
MERETE RØSTAD is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and artist-researcher whose projects are rooted in examining collective memory, representation, and archives in the public sphere. Røstad is an Associate Professor in Art and Public Space (MFA) and head of research at the Department of Arts and Craft at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO).
THE MILDRED COMPLEX(ity) project space is the public face of Mildred's Lane. Located on Narrowsburg's Main Street, working-living-making-researching exhibitions, programs, and events by artists questioning our impact as cultural producers in every aspect of life in the 21st century.
ARTFORUM / On Site
image / Views of Mildred's Lane, Beach Lake, PA. Kitchen Laboratory, 2018. Photo: Robyn Lea.
... Mildred’s Lane is not a product to be consumed or an “experience” to be Instagrammed. It is a link in a larger countercultural chain that, like the variegated ecosystems of the property, may be critically endangered.
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GOOD HOUSEKEEPING
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World Hope Forum 2021
We are proud to announce that Mildred's Lane will be represented at the World Hope Forum 2021.
