BLITHE RILEY

Skowhegan Residency June 12- August 15
Video Collaboration at Monkeytown with sound artist Ian Epps.

March 7-9: Art and Code Symposium at Carnegie Mellon University

Spring 2009: Teaching Time-based Media Lab at Parsons in the Communication and Design Technology Department

I’m part of a group show curated by Mario Marzan and  Sharmila Venkatasubban at SPACE Gallery in Pittsburgh. Other participating artists include: Mike Wille, Roxana Perez-Mendez, Ivelisse Jimenez, Mario Marzan, Patricia Fernandez,  Diana Behl, Jeff Mueller and David Tinapple. The exhibition runs August 29 – October 11, 2008.

A video of Pink Bloque actions that I co-edited with Dara Greenwald is screening at Light Industry in a program curated by Nick Hallett.

Presenting a new performance sketch at Broadway 1602 gallery. The evening is part of a performance laboratory hosted by Shana Moulton. Also my video, The Problem will be playing in the gallery during the week as part of a continuous program with other participating artists.

Friday May 23, 2008 7PM

PERFORMANCES BY:
FERESHTEH TOOSI
BRYAN ZANISNIK
BLITHE RILEY
CIRCULAR FILE
ERICA MAGREY
BJORN KJELLTOFT in collaboration with SHANA MOULTON and others

I made a new video. Check it out.

April 26th. I’ll be showing a new piece at Monkeytown as part of a screening titled Space, curated by David Feller Jensenius.

* NEW! Recording of the workshop on PS1 Radio. Click here to listen.

FEB 24th, 2008. Participated in a talk at PS1 with Natalie Chap, and Dara Greenwald, two members of the Pink Bloque, a collaborative group I helped to co-found in 2002. The Pink Bloque was a Chicago-based radical feminist dance troupe that used popular culture and dance as a protest tactic from 2002-2004. The talk is part of a series of events held at PS1 for the Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution exhibition.

Spent 2 weeks in Serbia participating in a residency/workshop with these four other awesome artists: Ava Bromberg, Dara Greenwald, Sarah Kanouse and Marisa Jahn. We attended workshops about economic issues in the region, gave talks at the American Embassy, and met other Serbian and European artists.

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ArtLink – Art Interventions
The Return of the Gastarbeiters

The Project ‘The Return of the Gastarbeiters’, of which the first colloquia will be held this summer in Kucevo, will include 12 colloquia, 6 in Eastern Serbia and 6 in the host countries in Europe, on the subject of returning guest workers from Europe to Eastern Serbia and their influence on the local economy, politics, culture and environment. The project will incorporate a research phase by students of the anthropology and sociology department of the Philosophical faculty of Belgrade University. Each colloquium will consist of week long seminar that will include lecture on the history of the area and its current situation, on the subject of returning economical immigration and on engaged art and art in public space. The seminar will be followed by a two- week artist’s workshop in which will participate 16 artists, 8 Serb and 8 international and which will end in a three week exhibition.