Join BFP Creative at 119 Ingraham Street in the New Temporary Storage Galleries (ground floor) for the opening reception of their inaugural group show.
Hrönir: Un-Lost Things takes its name from Jorge Luis Borges’ short story Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius. “Hrönir” are objects that, once lost, have been found–but they are duplicated and somehow affected by having been lost, or by having been found. The same missing pencil may be found by two separate individuals, with each finding a version of the pencil they expect to find. Hrönir are distorted by expectation and memory, but as personalized facsimiles of the original are valid and very real objects.
For the first group show hosted by BFPCreative, nearly 80 artists were asked to “recreate something lost,” effectively using art to manufacture something like hrönir in the real world. The resulting work ranges from heartfelt and tragic to humorous, irreverent takes on things lost.
The hottest ticket in the hood tonight: The Losers’ Lounge founder Joe McGinty runs the keys at Manhattan Inn for this recurring Tuesday night Live Piano Karaoke.
“Auditory landscapes can also be interpolations between space and time, space and reality, the psycho-social and the geographic, and temporality and memory. The act of listening involves a transitional state between attention and imagination, between sensual experience and understanding or seeking a possible meaning.” -Jean-Luc Nancy, Listening
“Spirits rise in all sorts of ways in “Ghost Quartet,” a rapturous little show that asks the musical question: “If you could be any kind of dead person, what kind of dead person would you be?”