FIAF FALL FESTIVAL SEP 10 OCT 4

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1 FIAF FALL FESTIVAL SEP 10 OCT 4

2 Nothing if not an adventure The New York Times Crossing the Line 2015 Welcome to the ninth edition of Crossing the Line, an international festival for New York City. The artists and companies in this year s festival invite us to leap with them across many lines the lines that traditionally define art forms, or demarcate national identity, or divide artists from audiences, or separate me from you. We are glad to join you on this adventure. Lili Chopra, Simon Dove, Gideon Lester Co-Curators, Crossing the Line 2015 Co-presented with: Fondation d entreprise Hermès Museum of Modern Art New Museum New York Live Arts Pioneer Works Tickets & Info: fiaf.org/ctl

3 JORIS LACOSTE Suite n 2 In Suite n 2, an uproarious and poignant performance emerges from the simplest of sources the spoken word. A group of five performers overlays and intertwines entries from French director Joris Lacoste s Encyclopédie de la parole a vast online archive of voice recordings in a virtuosic performance that decontextualizes speech into iconic mementos of civilization. Spanning the banal, the political, the intimate, and the public, this playful and compelling performance amplifies every hesitation, intonation, and utterance of human expression beyond words. FIAF Florence Gould Hall In multiple languages with English supertitles FIAF Members $20 Non-Members $25 Thu, Sep 10 & Fri, Sep 11 at 7:30pm Co-presented with the Hermès Foundation s (Fondation d entreprise Hermès) New Settings program US Premiere Supported by the Institut français, FACE Foundation, and Cultural Services of the French Embassy 2 3

4 SHEZAD DAWOOD It was a time that was a time What would you do if you were among the last people on earth? British multimedia artist Shezad Dawood and the Red Hook community together imagine life after a monumental disaster. The result is It was a time that was a time, an experimental post-apocalyptic film at the center of Dawood s first major US solo exhibition. Shot on the beaches of Far Rockaway, Coney Island, and Staten Island, this film investigates the lasting effects of Hurricane Sandy and envisions building a new society from the ruins of an environmental catastrophe. In addition to the commissioned film, Pioneer Works will display work in textile, neon, and video from this MoMA and Tate alum. Sat, Sep 12 Sun, Nov 1 Opening Fri, Sep 11 at 6:30pm Pioneer Works Free & open to the public Wed Sun from 12 6pm Presented by Pioneer Works as part of Crossing the Line 2015 World Premiere 4 5

5 OLIVIA BRANSBOURG ICONOfly French art director and curator Olivia Bransbourg turns the obsessive attention of her cult magazine ICONOfly, diary of an accessory to one of New York's most recognizable fashion statements: sneakers. In this special edition of ICONOfly, artists, writers, historians, and designers will create original work considering how sneakers impact the journeys physical, intellectual, emotional we take through, in, and around New York City. Featuring contributions from Jean-Pierre Bertrand, Laurent Derobert, Justine Emard, Edward Granger, Pierre Hardy, Emma Pratte, Tom Sachs, and Tatiana Trouvé, as well as Crossing the Line 2015 artists Gustavo Ciriaco, Andrea Sonnberger, Elana Langer, and Shezad Dawood. This edition, designed by Atelier Baldinger Vu-Huu in Paris, will be launched alongside a new perfume, Attache-Moi/It was a time that was a time, made in collaboration with British artist Shezad Dawood. In English & French Copies of ICONOfly will be available at select Crossing the Line events Check fiaf.org/ctl for details 6 7

6 ELANA LANGER WhatILiveBy New York-based artist Elana Langer considers the ultimate luxury in life to be thoughtfulness and our ability to apply it to our choices. Her product-less brand, WhatILiveBy, invites us to transform everyday accessories into affirmations of our truth by attaching the WhatILiveBy logo to things we already own. Following the brand s official launch, Crossing the Line will host WhatILiveBy pop-ups at festival events and kiosks around the city. Stop by with something you own that represents your values, brand it with a WhatILiveBy label, and share your story. Free & open to the public For times and locations of WhatILiveBy pop-ups, visit fiaf.org/ctl 8 9

7 MIGUEL GUTIERREZ Age & Beauty Age & Beauty Part 2: Asian the Werq Meeting or The Choreographer & Her Muse or &:@& Astounding American performer and choreographer Miguel Gutierrez meets midlife head-on in this wild and ebullient triptych that celebrates queerness, art-making, and mortality. Gutierrez explores the nostalgic past, the prosaic present, and the imagined future of a life in art in the New York City premiere of the complete Age & Beauty series. Sep 18 at 7:30pm Sep 19, 20 & 26 at 6pm Sep 24 & 25 at 10pm Gutierrez explores his relationships with longtime collaborators choreographer Michelle Boulé, lighting designer Lenore Doxsee, and producer Ben Pryor in this touching meditation on the challenges of aging, archive, and artistic administration. New York Live Arts Wed, Sep 16 Sat, Sep 26 In English Tickets from $15 Co-presented with New York Live Arts NYC Premiere Age & Beauty Part 3: Dancer or You can make whatever the fuck you want but you ll only tour solos or The Powerful People or We are strong/we are powerful/we are beautiful/we are divine or &: /// Age & Beauty Part 1: Mid-Career Artist/Suicide Note or &:-/ Sep 19, 20 & 26 at 3pm Sep 22 & 23 at 7:30pm Synchronized movement veers into irreverent disorderliness in this fierce duet between Gutierrez and dancer Mickey Mahar, originally created for the Whitney Biennial. Sep 16 & 17 at 7:30pm Sep 19, 20 & 26 at 8pm Sep 24 & 25 at 7:30pm As Gutierrez imagines his work having a life beyond him, he assembles his utopian ideal of a dance company for the end of the world. Jen Rosenblit, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Alex Rodabaugh, and Gutierrez s 8-year-old godchild Ezra Azrieli Holzman form a striking group; their ages, body types, and technical capabilities each captivating while disrupting the traditional image of the dancer

8 Age & Beauty Part 3 Miguel Gutierrez

9 MAZACCIO & DROWILAL By repurposing images from popular media, this caustic young pair of French photographers forces us to reconsider the subliminal messages we generally try to ignore. Creating deliciously ironic original images, they illustrate photographic clichés using strong colors and bold collages. Following acclaimed exhibitions in Arles, Paris, and Los Angeles, this show marks their New York debut. Wed, Sep 16 Sat, Nov 7 Opening Tue, Sep 15 from 6 8pm during FIAF s Open House FIAF Gallery Free & open to the public Tue Fri from 11am 6pm Sat from 11am 5pm Curated by François Hébel 14 15

10 GUSTAVO CIRIACO & ANDREA SONNBERGER Here whilst we walk In the tradition of the flâneur, Brazilian artist Gustavo Ciriaco and Austrian artist Andrea Sonnberger carefully guide you on an hour-long, silent walk through the streets of Red Hook. Literally bound to the group by a supersized rubber band, you become part of an instant community, a collective spectacle, an ephemeral space. Together, New York s quietest glimmers of beauty are yours to discover. Starts at Pioneer Books, 289 Van Brunt St, Brooklyn Sat, Sep 19 & Sun, Sep 20 at 11am, 2pm & 5pm $15 US Premiere Supported by the Austrian Cultural Forum New York as part of the Moving Sounds Festival 16 17

11 JACK FERVER & MARC SWANSON Chambre American writer, choreographer, and director Jack Ferver and American visual artist Marc Swanson take Jean Genet s The Maids as a point of departure for a farcical and haunting attack on our culture of celebrity and greed. Ferver refracts Genet through many lenses, including the gruesome facts of the real-life murders that inspired The Maids; Lady Gaga s infamous courtroom deposition speech; role-play; and a manic fantasy escape to the City of Lights. Swanson s mythic and evocative sculptures on view as an installation during museum hours function as both freestanding art and a theatrical set. Ferver is joined by performers Jacob Slominski and Michelle Mola in an exquisite and outrageous performance that asks not how such a violent thing could have happened, but why things like this don't happen more often. Installation Wed, Sep 23 Sun, Oct 4 Performances Sep 24 & 25 at 7pm Sep 26 & 27 at 3pm Oct 1 & 2 at 7pm Oct 3 & 4 at 3pm New Museum Theater Installation on view during museum hours with admission Performance in English FIAF & New Museum Members $15 / Non-Members $20 Co-presented with the New Museum as part of the R&D Season: PERSONA NYC Premiere 18 19

12 A N T H A M P T O N The Extra People Equipped with a flashlight, a neon vest, and a pair of headphones, you enter an empty theater as an extra, navigating a bespoke path through the cracked dreams of today's growing number of short-term, disposable workers. Your role shifts and switches as you set off on an adventure in the dark. A continuation of British artist Ant Hampton s Autoteatro series in which audiences are both spectator and performer, following cues delivered straight to their ears The Extra People challenges the assumption that theater is a space for community. Individually streamed recordings and tricks of perception isolate you from the rest of the audience and bring to this automatic process a hallucinatory edge. FIAF Florence Gould Hall In English Fri, Sep 25 at 7, 7:30, 8, 8:30 & 9pm Sat, Sep 26 at 5:30, 6, 6:30, 7 & 7:30pm FIAF Members $20 Non-Members $25 NYC Premiere A co-production with EMPAC, Kaaitheater, and Malta Festival Posnan; supported by the Culture Program of the European Commission via the House on Fire network, and King s Fountain 20 21

13 ADRIAN HEATHFIELD & ANDRÉ LEPECKI Afterlives: The Persistence of Performance Talk: Blackness and Nonperformance, Fred Moten Fri, Sep 25 at 6:30pm MoMA Artists, curators, and thinkers gather over three days to present talks and stage intensive conversations on vital issues for contemporary performance practice. Performance is increasingly documented, archived, institutionally incorporated, and globally disseminated. While its ephemerality is often celebrated, it binds performance to its many returns, its mediations, and afterlives. Now criticism is focused more on the recurrence and persistence of performance than on its disappearance. Whether a performance lingers as vague memories, oral legend, transmitted techniques, or as an infrastructure of feeling, performance s material remains support and project its continuing radical inclinations. Participants will rethink how performance matters and persists in time. Conversation: Performance Histories and Futures With contributions from Sharon Hayes, Janez Janŝa, and Ralph Lemon Talk: A Poetics of the Thing Outlived, Lin Hixson and Matthew Goulish (Every house has a door) Sat, Sep 26 at 2pm FIAF Sat, Sep 26 at 5:45pm MoMA Talk: Afterlives Special Guest Speaker Sat, Sep 26 at 7:30pm MoMA Fri, Sep 25 Sun, Sep 27 FIAF, Le Skyroom MoMA, Titus 2 All talks in English General $12 / Students $8 Co-presented with the Museum of Modern Art Conversation: Active Objects, Vital Matter, and the Lives of Things With contributions from Janine Antoni, Jane Bennett, and Clémentine Deliss Sun, Sep 27 at 2:30pm FIAF An initiative of Columbia University School of the Arts as part of Curating the Ephemeral, supported by the European Research Council 22 23

14 A L I M O I N I Lives Iranian artist Ali Moini delivers a complex investigation of identity and oppression in Lives. The tension between his selves fictional, political, mythical, and real becomes tangible onstage through a constrictive set, striking projections, and meticulous sound design. As Moini performs a delicate dance in the midst of these fragmented manifestations of self, a haunting meditation on the struggle for reconciliation, reclamation, and freedom emerges. New York Live Arts Tue, Sep 29 & Wed, Sep 30 at 7:30pm In English Tickets from $15 Co-presented with New York Live Arts & the Hermès Foundation s (Fondation d entreprise Hermès) New Settings program US Premiere 24 25

15 ALESSANDRO SCIARRONI Folk-s, will you still love me tomorrow? Six dancers enter the stage and perform in hypnotic unison in Folk-s, will you still love me tomorrow?, the East Coast debut of Italian performance maker Alessandro Sciarroni. Precise, rhythmically pounding feet and a pair of lederhosen are the only recognizable relics of a centuries-old Bavarian folk dance that is reduced here to its most elemental form. Working between dance, performance art, and anthropological ritual, Sciarroni deploys the body in all its sweaty physicality to push the limits of human potential in this visceral, mesmerizing piece. Thu, Oct 1 Sat, Oct 3 at 7:30pm New York Live Arts Tickets from $15 Co-presented with New York Live Arts East Coast Premiere Supported by the Italian Cultural Institute New York 26 27

16 Calendar 2015 September October 10 THU 7:30pm Joris Lacoste: Suite n 2 p.2 FGH 11 FRI 7:30pm Joris Lacoste: Suite n 2 p.2 FGH 12 SAT Opens > Nov 1 Shezad Dawood: It was a time that was a time p.5 PW 16 WED Opens > Nov 7 Mazaccio & Drowilal p.15 GAL 16 WED 7:30pm Miguel Gutierrez: Part 3 p.11 NYLA 17 THU 7:30pm Miguel Gutierrez: Part 3 p.11 NYLA 18 FRI 7:30pm Miguel Gutierrez: Part 2 p.11 NYLA 19 SAT 11am, 2, 5pm Gustavo Ciriaco & Andrea Sonnberger: Here whilst we walk p.16 PB 19 SAT 3pm Miguel Gutierrez: Part 1 p.10 NYLA 19 SAT 6pm Miguel Gutierrez: Part 2 p.11 NYLA 19 SAT 8pm Miguel Gutierrez: Part 3 p.11 NYLA 20 SUN 11am, 2, 5pm Gustavo Ciriaco & Andrea Sonnberger: Here whilst we walk p.16 PB 20 SUN 3pm Miguel Gutierrez: Part 1 p.10 NYLA 20 SUN 6pm Miguel Gutierrez: Part 2 p.11 NYLA 20 SUN 8pm Miguel Gutierrez: Part 3 p.11 NYLA 22 TUE 7:30pm Miguel Gutierrez: Part 1 p.10 NYLA 23 WED Opens > Oct 4 Jack Ferver & Marc Swanson: Chambre installation p.18 NM 23 WED 7:30pm Miguel Gutierrez: Part 1 p.10 NYLA 24 THU 7pm Jack Ferver & Marc Swanson: Chambre p.18 NM 24 THU 7:30pm Miguel Gutierrez: Part 3 p.11 NYLA 24 THU 10pm Miguel Gutierrez: Part 2 p.11 NYLA 25 FRI 6:30pm Talk: Blackness & Nonperformance, Fred Moten p.23 MoMA 25 FRI 7pm Jack Ferver & Marc Swanson: Chambre p.18 NM 25 FRI 7, 7:30, 8, 8:30, 9pm Ant Hampton: The Extra People p.21 FGH 25 FRI 7:30pm Miguel Gutierrez: Part 3 p.11 NYLA 25 FRI 10pm Miguel Gutierrez: Part 2 p.11 NYLA 26 SAT 2pm Conversation: Performance Histories & Futures p.23 SKY 26 SAT 3pm Jack Ferver & Marc Swanson: Chambre p.18 NM 26 SAT 3pm Miguel Gutierrez: Part 1 p.10 NYLA 26 SAT 5:45pm Talk: A Poetics of the Thing Outlived, L. Hixon & M. Goulish p.23 MoMA 26 SAT 6pm Miguel Gutierrez: Part 2 p.11 NYLA 26 SAT 5:30, 6, 6:30, 7, 7:30pm Ant Hampton: The Extra People p.21 FGH 26 SAT 7:30pm Talk: Afterlives Special Guest Speaker p.23 MoMA 26 SAT 8pm Miguel Gutierrez: Part 3 p.11 NYLA 27 SUN 2:30pm Conversation: Active Objects, Vital Matter & the Lives p.23 SKY 27 SUN 3pm Jack Ferver & Marc Swanson: Chambre p.18 NM 29 TUE 7:30pm Ali Moini: Lives p.25 NYLA 30 WED 7:30pm Ali Moini: Lives p.25 NYLA 1 THU 7pm Jack Ferver & Marc Swanson: Chambre p.18 NM 1 THU 7:30pm Alessandro Sciarroni: Folk-s, will you still love me tomorrow? p.26 NYLA 2 FRI 7pm Jack Ferver & Marc Swanson: Chambre p.18 NM 2 FRI 7:30pm Alessandro Sciarroni: Folk-s, will you still love me tomorrow? p.26 NYLA 3 SAT 3pm Jack Ferver & Marc Swanson: Chambre p.18 NM 3 SAT 7:30pm Alessandro Sciarroni: Folk-s, will you still love me tomorrow? p.26 NYLA 4 SUN 3pm Jack Ferver & Marc Swanson: Chambre p.18 NM Ongoing Elana Langer: WhatILiveBy Check fiaf.org for dates & locations p.8 Olivia Bransbourg: ICONOfly Check fiaf.org for details p.7 Ticketing & Locations Visit fiaf.org/ctl for tickets & info Only tickets to events taking place at FIAF are available at the FIAF box office. Locations of other venues are listed below. French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF) FGH Florence Gould Hall 55 East 59th St GAL FIAF Gallery, Ground Floor 22 East 60th St SKY Le Skyroom, 8th Floor 22 East 60th St Off-site Locations MoMA Museum of Modern Art 11 W 53rd St moma.org NM New Museum 235 Bowery newmuseum.org NYLA New York Live Arts 219 W 19th St newyorklivearts.org PB Pioneer Books 289 Van Brunt St, Brooklyn PW Pioneer Works 159 Pioneer St, Brooklyn pioneerworks.org #CTL15

17 Lead Sponsors Partnership with the Hermès Foundation s New Settings Program Sponsors Crossing the Line is thrilled to partner with the Hermès Foundation s (Fondation d entreprise Hermès) New Settings program for a third consecutive year. Launched in 2011, New Settings supports new performing arts productions that involve collaboration and creative dialogue between artists from the performing and visual arts. This year, works by the following artists are presented as part of the New Settings program within the framework of Crossing the Line: Joris Lacoste Suite n 2 (p.2), and Ali Moini Lives (p.25). Our Producer s Circle Ron Guttman, Isabelle Kowal, Elizabeth Krief Manardo, Tom McCarthy & Violaine Huisman, Virginia A. Millhiser, Marie Nugent-Head, and Elisabeth Wilmers. Special Thanks FIAF would like to thank the following for their generous support of Crossing the Line 2015: Cultural Services of the French Embassy; Enoch Foundation; European Research Council; FACE; Institut français; Italian Cultural Institute New York; King s Fountain; NYSCA; NYC Department of Cultural Affairs; Robert de Rothschild; SACD (Société des auteurs et compositeurs dramatiques); and The Austrian Cultural Forum New York. ENOCH FOUNDATION ROBERT DE ROTHSCHILD

18 Crossing the Line is the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF) s annual fall arts festival. The leading French language and cultural center in the US, FIAF is dedicated to innovative and unique programming in education and the arts, all exploring the evolving diversity and richness of French cultures. Images p.3: Suite nº2 Bea Borgers p.4: It was a time that was a time Marco Orozco p.6: ICONOfly Baldinger Vu-Huu p.9: WhatILiveBy DeBusmayeff p.12: Age & Beauty Eric McNatt p.14: The Dog s Best Friend: The Way You Make Me Feel Mazaccio & Drowilal p.17: Here whilst we walk Brittany Buongiorno p.19: Chambre Julieta Cervantes p.20: The Extra People Ant Hampton p.24: Lives Mathilde Delahay p.27: Folk-s, will you still love me tomorrow? Matteo Maffesanti Design Marion Bizet Copy-editing Jessica Massart Melissa Negro

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