The Shelly & Donald Rubin Foundation Announces PERFORMANCE-IN-PLACE, A Virtual Events Series with e place on May 19th with Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo

The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation is pleased to announce the launch of Performance-in-Place, a virtual performance series which complies with current social distancing guidelines. These virtual commissions will highlight the artistic potentials inherent in our current reality, reflecting the adaptability of artists whose practices are responding to the contradictions of an experience - one of collective isolation and restricted mobility - that can be felt throughout the world.

The first artist commission, On Art and Friendship, will take place on May 19th with Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo, Anna Recasens, and Laia Solé via Zoom. Other confirmed artists for the Performance-in-Place series include Latasha N. Nevada Diggs, Maria Hupfield, Baseera Khan, Eileen Myles, Alice Sheppard, and Aliza Shvarts. A full schedule of events will be released soon.

Additionally, on Tuesday, May 28, Rubin Foundation Executive and Artistic Director Sara Reisman will be in conversation with visual artist Edgar Heap of Birds about the role art can play in a time of crisis. Details forthcoming.

On Art and Friendship
Tuesday, May 19, 2020 at 5pm
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Nicolás (The Bronx), Anna (Jerez de la Frontera), and Laia (Barcelona) have been communicating since February 2020 between the U.S. and Europe through WhatsApp, making visible some of the aspects of art praxis that do not usually translate as art within the exhibition space: friendship and camaraderie. All three friends share common denominators: they met in Catalonia; have worked in community; and are interested in art that thrives within the day-to-day. Similarly, they have focused on shaping experiences and situations that defy art as a competitive field, and instead have labored within a context of partnership and familial relationships, where the artistic and the personal mingle and nurture one another.

This program will open with a Zoom conversation between Sara Reisman, Executive and Artistic Director of the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, and Nicolás on the influence of friendship in his work, leading to a discussion on the process of On Art and Friendship with Nicolás, Anna Recasens, and Laia Solé. The evening will close with an opportunity for attendees to briefly share about meaningful connections in their lives.

On Art and Friendship was conceived by Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo and developed in partnership with Laia Solé, and Anna Recasens.