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ARTIST TALK: EUPHORIA thursday, december 1, 2022 at 6:00pm featuring Berlin-based film artist Julian Rosefeldt in conversation with Park Avenue Armory Chief Artistic Producer Michael Lonergan
2022 SEASON SPONSORS
Support for Park Avenue Armory’s artistic season has been generously provided by the Charina Endowment Fund, the Donald A. Pels Charitable Trust, The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, the Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, the Howard Gilman Foundation, the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, the Marc Haas Foundation, The Prospect Hill Foundation, The Emma and Georgina Bloomberg Foundation, the Leon Levy Foundation, the May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, Gregory Annenberg Weingarten, GRoW @ Annenberg, the Richenthal Foundation, and the Isak and Rose Weinman Foundation. Additional support has been provided by the Armory’s Artistic Council. Park Avenue Armory is deeply grateful for Senator Charles E. Schumer’s visionary leadership of the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant program. Euphoria is supported in part by a generous gift from Jill and Peter Kraus. Cover image by Nicholas Knight.
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MEET THE PARTICIPANTS JULIAN ROSEFELDT
The Berlin-based artist Julian Rosefeldt (born 1965 in Munich) studied Architecture in Munich and Barcelona (MA 1994). He is internationally renowned for his visually opulent and meticulously choreographed moving image artworks, mostly presented as complex multi-screen installations. Inspired equally by the histories of film, art, and popular culture, Rosefeldt uses familiar cinematic tropes to carry viewers into surreal, theatrical realms, where the inhabitants are absorbed by the rituals of everyday life, employing humor and satire to seduce audiences into familiar worlds made strange. Rosefeldt holds a professorship of Media Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich since 2011. Recent solo shows were held at: Museum MACAN (2020), Jakarta; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC (2019); The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (2019); Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles (2018); Musée d’art contemporain Montréal (2018); Auckland Art Gallery (2018); Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen (2017); HOW Art Museum, Shanghai (2017); National Gallery Prague (2017); Park Avenue Armory, New York (2016); Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin (2016); Sprengel Museum Hanover (2016); and ACMI – Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne (2015). Recent group shows include The Cindy Sherman Effect, Kunstforum Vienna (2020); Hollywood and other Myths, Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2018); and 1st Riga Biennial (2018). Collections including his works, a.o.: Museum of Modern Art, New York; Goetz Collection, Munich; Nationalgalerie Berlin; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; CIFO – Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami; and Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
MICHAEL LONERGAN
Michael Lonergan is Chief Artistic Producer of Park Avenue Armory. Working alongside the Armory’s Marina Kellen French Artistic Director, Pierre Audi, he provides curatorial and producing support for the productions and programs presented at the Armory. Previous producing and management positions at Goodman Theater, Playwrights Horizons, New York City Opera, Village Repertory Theater, and Florida Grand Opera. As a stage director, he has staged works at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Victory Gardens Theater (Chicago), Village Repertory Theater, Minetta Lane Theater, and New York City Opera. Lonergan has held teaching positions at NYU Tisch School of the Arts in their Directing Program.
NEXT IN THE DRILL HALL LOVE
February 25 – March 25, 2023 LOVE makes its North American premiere and marks the New York debut of writer and director Alexander Zeldin. This powerful piece of drama, written after a years-long process of community collaboration and immersion, personal interviews, and first-hand accounts, draws attention to the cracks in the welfare system when several families are brought together in a shelter in the lead up to Christmas. The audience steps inside their reality and bears witness to touching, humorous, and profoundly human instances of their combined existence. Played with the house lights up and audience members seated amongst the company, the production reveals the cast seeming to live rather than act. The result is an engrossing and intimate story born out of the daily rituals of survival, highlighting the link between homelessness, mental health, and austerity politics, but also the yearning for, and power of, love.
THE DOCTOR
June 6 – August 19, 2023 After amazing Armory audiences with his adaptations of Aeschylus’s Oresteia (2022), Shakespeare’s Hamlet (2022), and Ibsen’s Enemy of the People (2021), visionary director and playwright Robert Icke returns with the North American premiere of this gripping moral thriller following lauded runs at London’s Almeida Theatre and West End. This scorching examination of our age, a striking reimagining of the Arthur Schnitzler’s Professor Bernhardi, utilizes the lens of medical ethics to examine urgent questions of faith, identity, race, gender, privilege, and scientific rationality. Olivier Award winner Juliet Stevenson stars as the doctor at the center of the drama where nothing is quite what–or who–it seems. A galvanizing piece of theater, the production serves as a stark health warning for an increasingly divided nation, where clashing views about ourselves and our world only magnify the complexities of life.
Thompson Arts Center at Park Avenue Armory | 643 Park Avenue at 67th Street
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Thompson Arts Center at Park Avenue Armory | 643 Park Avenue at 67th Street