Nothing Up My Sleeve Live!

Monday, November 16th

Santos Party House

96 Lafayette Street NYC

In conjuntion with PERFORMA 09, PARTICIPANT INC presents the live component of Stuart Sherman: Nothing Up My Sleeve, curated by Jonathan Berger:

9pm

Advanced Capitalism Reunion: Reparations and RetardationsVaginal Davis with Pedro, Murial, and Esther (P.M.E.), 1989-2009

10pm

A Rare NYC appearance by international singing sensation, Tony Clifton, and his 17-piece Katrina Kiss My Ass Orchestra sponsored by Comic Relief Followed by celebrity djs and surprise guests.

Admission $20

For reservations please call 212 254 4334 or email lia@participantinc.org

Tickets available night of show, doors at 8pm

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Help Support! Limited Editions

There are three limited editions that Participant Inc has produced to help fund the exhibition. Please email me if interested in supporting the show through purchase of any of these great editions.

Andy Kaufman

Limited Edition t-shirt

Edition of 150, $100

As worn by the peaunut gallery of Andy Kaufman's tv special, Uncle Andy's Funhouse

Elementary Set

Houdini bracelet

edition of 75, $150

Pedro, Muriel and Esther

The White to be Angry

CD and Signed poster

edition of 50, $75

the artist Vaginal Davis as Clarnece of PME

Stuart Sherman: Nothing Up My Sleeve at Participant Gallery

This blog is dedicated to helping fund the upcoming Stuart Sherman retrospective titled "Stuart Sherman: Nothing up my Sleeve" opening November 8th, at Participant Gallery 253 E Houston Street New york, curated by artist Jonathan Berger. Based on the work of the widely unknown, remarkable artist Stuart Sherman, Nothing Up My Sleeve will encompass relevant concerns which permeate Sherman's work including transubstantiation, perception, trompe l'eoil, illusion and magic, fiction, and alias and persona--exploring these themes as they manifest in the work of other artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. From Harry Houdini to Andy Kaufman, from Eileen Gray to Carol Bove, the artists included in the exhibition span a 200-year period, representing a diverse range of practices and relationships to art and culture, focusing on the notion of artists’ use of various forms of deception, which they are able to justify through the aspirations of their work. In doing so, these artists are able to revise the negative stigma attached to the act of lying, questioning the assertion that 'the truth' is fact, and instead engaging it as a subjective reality.

A complete list of the artists included in the show:

Stuart Sherman

Harry Houdini

Tony Clifton (the Andy Kaufman character/discovery)

Carol Bove

Matthew Branon

Site Projects

James Lee Byars

Super Studio

Eileen Gray

Katarina Burin