American Book Review

Ilka Scobie’s “Three of a Perfect Pairing,” (rave) double-review of Party Everywhere (Wright /Rosenthal Collaboration) and Time on the Move, (Wallenstein/Rosenthal Collaboration). 42, Number 6 (https://muse.jhu.edu/article/836084/summary).

Time on the Move

Barry Wallenstein poetry; Barbara Rosenthal surreal photos.
available from Printed Matter: https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/57694

Rain Taxi

The spring 2022 issue of “Rain Taxi” features Greg Berrn's review (also rave) of Party Everywhere an image/text book by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright published by Barbara Rosenthal’s eMediaLoft.org studio imprint Xanadu Press (xanadupress.com). Buy review-issue here:  https://www.raintaxi.com/volume-26-number-4-2021-2022-104/ ).

Party Everywhere, is authored by East Village poet-hostmaster Jeffrey Cyphers Wright with Rosenthal’s collaborative page collages including some of her childhood objects incorporated with his drawings, and is available from Printed Matter: https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/39466/

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UPCOMING

Naked Videos
Date and Venue TBA
Sixteen films and videos in which the artist, alone or with others, appears nude:

AUTO-SURVEILLANCE IN REAL TIME: PSYCHIATRIC CAMERA; BARBARA ROSENTHAL CONTEMPLATES SUICIDE/SINGLE TAKE, 2005-9; BARBARA ROSENTHAL CONTEMPLATES SUICIDE: CHELSEA HOTEL, POOL ART FAIR VERSION, 2005-7; THE BATH, Oct. 1976; THE BLOW JOB, Jan. 2019; CLOTHES AND BOOKS, 1989; DUETS Super/8 film by Bill Creston; THE HAIRCUT, July, 1976; NEWS TO FIT THE FAMILY, 1988; NUDE SUPER-8 DANCE, 1990; PREGNANCY DREAMS, August 1, 1979; OLA, A FILM BY HER FATHER Super/8 film by Bill Creston; OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK, 24 HOURS A DAY Super/8 film by Bill Creston; PRIMING A WALL, August, 1979. Originally 1/2” BW Open reel portapak; PUSH ME, 2010.; PUSH ME PAS DE DEUX, 2011. With DJ RoBeat. Performance Text-Art Video in English and German.

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EARLIER: SUMMER, 2022

Online at CUNY Queens College, July 12
Guest Speaker about Archives at City University of NY / Queens College public Zoom

Discussion with Barbara Rosenthal about the acquisition of her extensive archives of personal and art-related materials, on Tuesday, July 12 at 7pm on Zoom link https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81667432.
Barbara Rosenthal has retained almost every piece of paper she has touched a pen or pencil to, and It is hoped that making these materials available will yield understanding of the nature of a life in image/text/media art, and how an artist develops ideas from the moment life “plurps” an inspiration, though to creative and technical processes of fabrication, to the machinations by which it is exhibited and reviews it results in. She is the poster child for turning life into art. (Above photo at Journal presentation, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, 2014)

L: Northwest wall of Rosenthal's current Archive Room at eMediaLoft.org. R: Exhibition of the artist's Journals at The Center for Book Arts, NYC, 2014.

Sidewalk in Front of David Zwirner GallerY, Chelsea
Aug. 12, 2022, 2-4pm
525 West 19th St.
New York, NY 10011


Provocation Cards Interaction, New York 2022

This "free ideas" low-tech givaway of high concept philosophy is Rosenthal's tenth iteration of the piece, in multiple languages and locations around the world since 2005. When she performed the interaction as the United States representative to Tina B: The Prague Contemporary Art Fair in 2009, the catalog noted her stand-out phrases in comparison to other text artists' "deep pockets, shallow thoughts." Whether or not the performance of this date and time is a direct challenge to Barbara Kruger's extravaganza inside the Zwirner Gallery, distributing Rosenthal's insights and humor among anyone hoping to be enlightened in there will be in for an unexpectedly mind-expanding afternoon.

Artists Space,
thru Aug 20, 2022
11 Cortland Alley, Tribeca
in the two vitrines on first floor, near entrance.

Weeks
Photographs by Barbara Rosenthal. Writings by Hannah Weiner. Hannah asked me to take photos off the TV news for this book. We hunkered on her bed, with the TV at the foot of it, and put the news on, and I shot 35mm frames, processed the film, made the prints, etc. She wrote the poetry. It was published by Xeoxial, in several editions. The cover in this jpg is from the second edition, which has better tonal range in my photos than the first edition here in the vitrine.
https://www.amazon.com/Weeks-Hannah-Weiner/dp/097700497X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=6TZCAZCB6MEN&keywords=weeks+hannah+weiner&qid=1655515475&sprefix=weeks+hannah+weiner%2Caps%2C62&sr=8-1

The Book of Revelation
Physical Book Cuttings by Barbara Rosenthal. Writings by Hannah Weiner. During a distressing dry spell for the late poet Hannah Weiner, I bought a horizontal version of the black blank hardbound books I keep my Journal in, and, using an X-acto for crisp cuts and a straight-edge for rough slices, cut each page into revealing patterns and presented it to her. She began using it immediately, and it subsequently became The Book of Revelations so-named by Hannah because parts of each page are revealed. When the manuscript was published, it was painstakingly recreated by Marta Werner in sans serif font. 
https://jacket2.org/feature/hannah-weiners-book-revelations

Printed Matter / St. Marks,
Summer, 2022
38 St. Marks Place, East Village
in vitrine to the left of the door

Seventy-five Plant Jokes
Riddles,  design and construction by Barbara Rosenthal, with illustrations Jeffrey Cyphers Wright. Edition of 12. Cleverly boxed, folded and bound to keep the answer secret till you’re ready, and one to a leaf, easily removable if you want to put one or two in your pocket and try on your friends. The piece can also be opened as a gorgeous round spread like a cake. Witty puns and funny takes, all involving the plant kingdom, sans Homo sapien.
https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/52181

Printed Matter / Chelsea,
Summer, 2022
231 Eleventh Ave, Chelsea
on the sales counter

Old Address Book
Rosenthal has taken her own outdated address book and photocopied it for all the world to see. It is a simple concept with a strangely intimate, even voyeuristic, appeal. This edition of 100 is a companion to her a 3D-Photo-sculpture from this Project: Old Address Book / Totem and Taboo, a folding totem pole of her wiro-bound enlargements of these pages.
https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/1175

Denise Bibro Gallery
"Art from the Boros"
April 20 - May 20, 2022

Conceptual Photoworks by Barbara Rosenthal will feature in the Denise Bibro Gallery “Art from the Boros” virtual exhibition April 20 - May 20.
https://www.artsy.net/partner/denise-bibro-fine-art/artists/barbara-rosenthal.
Rosenthal's multi-part piece in this show will be “Surreal-to-Conceptual Wafting Connected: Sunrise from Plane Window, Montreal 2020.” The 13 x 19 collaged work was fabricated in an edition of six.

9th Annual West Chelsea Artists Open Studios
Fri., May 20th, Sat., May 21st, Sun., May 22, 2022
May 20-22, 2022, 12-6 p.m. and May 23 - August 31 by appointment
OPEN STUDIO / TOUR OF ARCHIVES
Exhibition of current and retrospective artwork + preview tour of the archives in Barbara Rosenthal's studio as they are being cataloged before transport to the Szilvia Tanenbaum Archive Wing of the CUNY/QC Special Collections Library.
ARCHIVES INVENTORY LIST WITH IMAGES

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Barbara Rosenthal's archive, including wardrobe, has been acquired by The City University of New York in a combined sale and donation facilitated by a generous patron. "The enormous value of the lifetime of record-keeping, notes, drafts, versions and materials for every project in many media, plus every household and moment-to-moment life-recording and professional correspondences meticulously organized by this major artist is infinate. It is revelatory of the creative process in ways never made possible to this extent by any other collection," said Dr. Annie Tummino, Head of Special Collections and Archives. "An authority born of constant introspecion characterizes her photographic meditations upon experience and identity, writes the critic Ellen Handy, "Her work embraces chaos and uncertainty with a persistent grip upon the messy ephemerality of experience. Yet from that material she ceaselessly shapes and reshapes what may finally be understood as her apporoaches to a Platonic ideal that les behind the shifting forms and possibilities of her repeated motifs and variations upon themes...The slipage of images and motifs from one medium to the next is as evanescent and intricate as in memory over time."

PAST EXHIBITIONS and EVENTS
Sept. 1 - Nov. 30, 2021: Preview of archives in studio situ
Sept. 24 - Oct. 30, 2021: Library Exhibition of Independent Presses
Sept. 28, 2021. Online: TV Talk Show Interview
Oct. 24, 2021: Int'l Photo-Poetry-Performance Video Night

TV TALK SHOW
“Let Them Talk” hosted by Paul DeRienzo of WBAI
Barbara Rosenthal, Old Master of New Media:
an artist’s archive: evidence of life into art
YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/QS6vQOo2W_w
Recorded from air date Sept. 28, 2021 on mnn.org; FiOS 33; RCN 82; Spectrum 34 & 1995; Lifestyle Channel

Barbara Rosenthal's archive has been acquired by The City University of New York. Please tune in to TV TALK SHOW “Let Them Talk” hosted by Paul DeRienzo of WBAI. ***Tues, Sept. 28, 8pm*** mnn.org; FiOS 33; RCN 82; Spectrum 34 & 1995; Lifestyle Channel, and after that date, on YouTube: "Barbara Rosenthal, Old Master of New Media: An Artist’s Archive, Evidence of Life into Art."
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This is Barbara's fifth time as guest on the show, this time pre-recorded from her loft in the Westbeth Arts Complex in the Highline District, because the Manhattan Neighborhood Network recording studio on 57th St has been closed due to covid, though the editing and broadcast studios there are open.
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?DeRienzo shoots Rosenthal at a window overlooking the Hudson River, above the Promenade, an assortment of her books and DVDs from some of her Projects arrayed by him on the round wooden table rescued from the street in 1958 by her art/life partner Bill Creston. Paul comes from behind the camera to sit next to Barbara on white plastic chairs she had brought up from the street in 2002. Almost everything in their life has been found, repaired, repurposed. The frugality of her life evidences in her works.
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Throughout the half-hour interview, he calls her attention to the two hundred artworks on the walls and the pile he'd placed on the table. Rosenthal, ever the raconteur, talks about how creative ideas come to her, her "inventory of themes and iconography," her materials, and psychiatric "displosions." He presses her on the means by which the University bid for acquisition. That topic, plus more about the archives themselves, the archiving and acquisition process, etc, will be upcoming, when "Let Them Talk" will feature Barbara Rosenthal in joint interview with an archivist from the C.U.N.Y. library, on a future program.

***Sun., Oct. 24, 8pm***
International Photo-Poetry-Performance Video Night
LIMITED SEATING, VAX CARD, MASKS, EMAIL FOR SUBMISSIONS and TICKETS

eMediaLoft.org will present a 90-minute program to incude videos of submitted short-shorts from all over the world, and invited avant-garde video works mixing camera arts, on-screen text, electroic audio and performance from Spain, Belgium, Russia, US, UK, Italy, Finland and Germany.
One piece will be Fly Bus Out of Russia into Finland, a video by New Yorker Barbara Rosenthal with audio by Parisian Joseph Nechvatal. To submit work for this NYC screening, send a link to your piece of one to four minutes to eMediaLoft AT gMail DOT com.

***Sept. 24 - Oct. 23***
LIBRARY EXHITION of INDEPENDENT PRESSES
"Indy Indeed: A Half-Century of Downtown's Independent Presses"

Alyona Glushkenkova and the staff of NYPL Tompkins Square Library present an exhibition of walls and vitrines filled with labors of sacrifice and dedication to the joyful, often irreverant literary possibilties Greenwich Village is famous for. Curated by poets and publishers Ron Kolm, Greg Masters, Ilka Scobie, and Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, “Indy Indeed: A Half Century of Downtown’s Independent Presses” elicites nostalgia for old bygone standbys like Cover Magazine and the East Village Eye, and some newer imprints, such as Barbara Rosenthal's Xanadu Press, which last year issued books by Bonny Finberg, Barry Wallenstein and A. D. Coleman.
Tompkins Square Library
331 East 10th Street
New York, NY 10009
212-228-4747
M-TH 11-7; F 10-6; Sa 10-5

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

Un Bordado De Voces / An Embroidery of Voices
edited by C. D. Johnson, published by Rogue Scholars Press, NY, NY

   Two 26" x 40" Surreal-to-Conceptual Photoworks with Figures are reproduced as a two-page spread in "Un Bordado De Voces / An Embroidery of Voices," (ISBN-13: 978-1-942463-06-1, ISBN-10: 1-942463-06-5) This 2022 anthology comprises works by artists and poets who presented material during "The Alternative New Year's Re-Deferred Spoken Word Performance Extravaganza," which took place New Year's Day on Zoom instead of its usual live mounting at Nuyorican Cafe. 
     Rosenthal's two analog-to-digital pieces, on pages 188-189, are black and white distortion-composites of full-frame photos she shot in New York, Montreal, London and the German countryside from three of her Surreal Photo series "Trapped Figures," "Tiny Houses," and "Eerie Locations."
     The 308-pg 6" x 9"  book is available for $9 from Lulu: https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/the-rogue-scholars-collective-and-c-d-johnson/un-bordado-de-voces/paperback/product-q44rke.html?page=1&pageSize=4

Live Mag!
Online and in print: Two photo-based works by Barbara Rosenthal, are in the print issue # 17 of “Live Mag!” (pgs 27 and back cover); and one is in the online edition.

That piece, Conceptual Compositization Indiana, 2006 is an archival collage from digital prints of 35mm photography, one of her brain scans, and cropped stills from her video News to Fit the Family. It is available on vellum and other surfaces, and variable size, and online where editor Jeffrey Cyphers Wright has also linked it to her extensive list of provenances for the various segments: https://livemag.org/issue_17/barbara-rosenthal/
https://livemag.org/issue_17/barbara-rosenthal/bRosenthal-ConceptualCompositizationIndiana.pdf

Rosenthal’s second piece, on the glassy back cover of the current “Live Mag!” features a straight 35mm full-frame black and white photo from her Surreal Photos project, entitled White Circus Horse. This piece itself is an 11 x 14 selenium-toned silver-gelatin print she issued in an edition of 6.

"LiveMag!" Issue 17, edited by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright.

back cover:

White Circus Horse, from "Surreal Photos: Renegade Horses" series, 35mm full-frame analog photography by Barbara Rosenthal.

pg. 37:

Surreal-to-Conceptual Photo Compositization: Indiana/BrainScan/WorldInPalm/NudeBR
from series Surreal-to-Conceptual Photos, Compositizations. Prior to publication, this collage was shown at Denise Bibro Fine Art in 2020
Media: Full-frameSurreal Photos collaged with stills from Rosenthal's videos and elements from her live body. The separate elements are printed on archival digital photo paper, then dry mounted to strathmore, or produced in custom real or virtual media.

Time on the Move, Poetry by Barry Wallenstein, 35 Photos by Barbara Rosenthal
Xanadu Press, NYC:



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(L) St Petersburg Person Balloon On Arched Roof_6-07-14-19
(R) Indiana Roof Gondola_8-08-11-32

After the Clouds, The Sun, pgs 222-223, ed. C. D. Johnson, Rogue Scholars Press, NYC:





(L) Surreal-to-Conceptual Photos, Distorted: White Horse Tavern White Horse, NYC
(R) Surreal-to-Conceptual, Distorted, Black Horse, Rainy Night Market, London.

 

Emergency Index, Vol. 9, pgs 34-35, Ugly Duckling Presse:

In this resource book, "a bible of performance art activity," as blubed by Martha Wilson on the back cover, 310 works from 55 countries are documented and described in images and text, among them Rosenthal's ten-minute Existential Photo-Run Helsinki, as performed at The Lava Klub in Finland, 2019.

 

Not Born Digital: Poetics, Print Literacy, New Media, by Daniel Morris,
Bloomsbury Press, pgs 22-23 and 36-37

Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art

Conceptual Compositization Indiana 2006 was also reproduced in the August 2020 issue of Whitehot Magazine, edited by Noah Becker, within Rosenthal’s column, A Crack in the Sidewalk, in her essay Appropriate and Inappropriate Appropriation Art: Inspiration, Confluence or Rip-off:
https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/inspiration-confluence-or-rip-off/4691

PAST exhibitions, events and publications

Sunday, April 18, 2021, 2PM
ZOOM STUDIO VISIT
Local Knowledge: A Literary and Art Journal NY and LA, hosted by Sanjay Agnihotri and Jeffrey Cyphers Wright,
with artist Barbara Rosenthal, and writers Chris Kraus and Peter Valente
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/454461212307901/
Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83972953689
A native New Yorker, Barbara Rosenthal is a prolific, idiosyncratic, Media and Performance artist and writer, referred to as "Media Poet" by The Village Voice and elsewhere since the 1980s, and by Berlin Art Link in 2013 as “ever-evolving Old Master of New Media." Her works are in the collections of MoMA, The Whitney, The Tate, Berlin Kunstbibliotek and Artpool Budapest. On April 18, Local Knowledge will host her overview of the Surreal-to-Conceptual Photoworks Project, focusing on works from the suites in current exhibitions and publications including Denise Bibro Fine Art, LiveMag!, Xanadu Press, Rogue Scholars Press and Ugly Duckling Presse.

Below are excerpts from Barbara Rosenthal's notes for the April 18th Zoom Studio Visit about the Surreal-to-Conceptual Photoworks Project:

Surreal-to-Conceptual Photoworks Project

"I've only begun to understand these works as on a continuum within a single Project, but it does fall into two categories, the first becoming fodder for the second."

PART ONE: Surreal Photos
35mm full-frame analog photography

"Surreal Photos begin when I am in a kind of trance-state with my 35mm Olympus OM-1 analog cameras and lenses. When an image I see through the lense hits me in some psychological place, I snap it. I've been doing this since I bought the first of those cameras is 1973, and the categories they have fallen into read like nightmarish fairy tales: Trapped Figures, Tiny Houses, Renegage Horses, Aberrant Trees, etc. Current publications are "Time on the Move," the book of my photos with Barry Wallenstein's title and poetry published by Xanadu Press, and the back cover of Jeff Wright's new LiveMag!-17.

3 SURREAL PHOTOS in current publications


White Circus Horse, 35mm full-frame analog photography by Barbara Rosenthal.
This photo is on the back cover of the print version of the current issue of "LiveMag!" edited by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright.


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(L) St Petersburg Person Balloon On Arched Roof_6-07-14-19, and (R) Indiana Roof Gondola_8-08-11-32, two of Barbara Rosenthal's thirty-five Surreal Photos accompanying Barry Wallenstein's poems in the chapbook Time on the Move, Xanadu Press, NYC, 2020.

PART TWO: Surreal-to-Conceptual Photoworks
35mm full-frame analog photography, re-formed

"I had been producing photographs in the Surreal Photos categories from 1973, when by the mid-90's, embarking on a decade and a half of serious psychiatric treatment, I began experimenting with applying certain formalist principles to some of the shots, and by xxx the NY to Chatanooga transplant, the recently deceased inimical Bob Dombrowski, had an idea about why I distorted my photographs, which he said were indicative of distorted vision in the first place. He proposed I write an essay for the daily "Chatanoogan" under his title, Barbara Rosenthal: The Artist Who Works With Instability.https://www.chattanoogan.com/2016/1/27/316811/Dade-County-And-The-Arts---The-Artist.aspx

SURREAL-to--CONCEPTUAL PHOTOWORKS in current publications

(L) Surreal-to-Conceptual Photos, Distorted: White Horse Tavern White Horse, NYC and (R) Surreal-to-Conceptual, Distorted, Black Horse, Rainy Night Market, London. Two pieces from Rosenthal's series Surreal-to Conceptual Photos, Distorted, in print in the current literary-art anthology, After the Clouds, The Sun, ed. C. D. Johnson, Rogue Scholars Presse.

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(L) Surreal-to-Conceptual Photo Compositization: Indiana/BrainScan/WorldInPalm/NudeBR and (R) Surreal-to-Conceptual Photo Compositization: Russia/ShadowBox/Jan10/HandwritingAnalysis.
Two pieces from Rosenthal's series Surreal-to-Conceptual Photos, Compositizations. The one on the left was shown at Denise Bibro Fine Art in 2020, and is in print in the current literary-art magazine, LiveMag!-17, ed. Jeffrey Cyphers Wright. These are full-frameSurreal Photos collaged with stills from Rosenthal's videos and elements from her live body. The separate elements are printed on archival digital photo paper, then dry mounted to strathmore, or produced in custom real or virtual media.

 

 

SURREAL-to-CONCEPTUAL PHOTOWORKS COLLAGE
Spring, 2021
DENISE BIBRO FINE ART
#COLLAGEbiennial
(Virtual)
ON GALLERY WEB SITE: https://www.denisebibrofineart.com
and ARTSY: https://www.artsy.net/denise-bibro-fine-art/artist/barbara-rosenthal
Denise Bibro Fine Art is proud to announce our virtual exhibition #COLLAGEbiennial. This online exhibition taps into the ... medium of collage, highlighting some of the most talented contemporary artists.FEATURED ARTISTS INCLUDE:Ronald Gonzalez, Tm Gratkowski, Fred Gutziet, Tiko Kerr, Barbara Rosenthal, and The Scissorhands.
On exhibit by Barbara Rosenthal are photo-based collages from two of her Surreal-to-Conceptual Project Suites: Surreal-to-ConceptualNarratives-FourFromCastleToBeach-OnBlack (16x20), and Surreal-to-ConceptualWaftingConnected-Castles (13x19). In the 2020 show "Art from the Boros," Denise Bibro exhibited other Rosenthal photo-based collages, one of which, IndianaBrainscanWorldInPalmNewsToFitTheFamilyNudeBR (18x24) https://www.artsy.net/artwork/barbara-rosenthal-indianabrainscanworldinpalmnewstofitthefamilynudebr is reproduced in the current issue of LiveMag!.
Denise Bibro Fine Art
529 West 20th Street 4W
New York, NY 10011
212-647-7030
denisebibrofineart.com
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Two collages from Rosenthal's series Surreal-to-Conceptual Narrative on Black. The one on the right is on exhibit in Denise Bibro Fine Art #COLLAGEbiennial.
(L) Surreal-to-ConceptualNarrative-FourFromCastleToBeach-OnBlack (16x20). (R) Surreal-to-ConceptualWaftingConnected-Castles 16x20)
Separately printed full-frame photos dry mounted in a sequence as if to imply the narration of a journey.



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Three collages from Barbara Rosenthal's Surreal-to-Conceptual Photoworks, Wafting, Connected, and Surreal-to-Conceptual Photoworks, Floating, Connected series. The waft on the left is on exhibit in Denise Bibro Fine Art #COLLAGEbiennia now, and the float on the right was on exhibit at Denise Bibro in "Art from the Boros," 2020.
(L) Surreal-to-ConceptualWaftingConnected-Castles (16x20). (C) Surreal-to-Conceptual /FloatingConnected-Globes. (R) Surreal-to-Conceptual Floating Connected Paris Birds and Planes (16x20)
The one on the left is on exhibit in Denise Bibro Fine Art #COLLAGEbiennia now, and the one on the right was shown at Denise Bibro Fine Art in 2020

 

 

PART THREE: Surreal-to-Conceptual Photo Morph Videos
Video loops, with iterations of audio by various composers: (Charlie Morrow, MorrowSound,Helsinki; Matthew Lee Knowles, London; Claudio Scardino, Florence).
The Surreal Photos morph into and out of their Conceptual Distortions.

3 SURREAL-to-CONCEPTUAL PHOTO MORPH VIDEOS in recent screenings

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Single mid-morph frames from 10-minute looping in and out of the Surreal and Conceptual/Distortions, in video Transitionals Morphing.
CLICK TO PLAY: (L) One segment showcasing audio by Charlie Morrow, MorrowSound, as screened at Vuotolo Cultural Center, Helsinki, 2019; (C) One segment showcasing audio by Matthew Lee Knowles, London as screened at the Boddinale Film Festival, Berlin, 2020; (R) One segment showcasing audio by Claudio Scardino, Florence, as has been postponed for shows in Italy, until 2022)

"Transitionals Morphing ONE with audio by Matthew Lee Knowles had its Europpean premiere in Feb 2020 at the Boddinale Film Festival, Berlin. Transitionals Morphine TWO had been screened with audio by Charlie Morrow at the Vuotolo Cultural Center in Helsinki, in 2019, and had been scheduled with audio by Claudio Scardino for several venues in Italy, in March, 2020, but the Italy shows were postponed due to Covid-19, until probably Feb. 2022. When I first started making these morphs, I had planned to use the work-stages of the process I followed while distorting the original Surreal photos until I was satisfied with my final Conceptual Distortion. But as I worked with the technology of various morphing applications, I started choosing some that were working well to keep the integrity of the representational imagery while breaking up, and yet achieving an abstraction that let the separate images blend best. These pieces are good to watch in VR, if you can."

 

 

PART FOUR: Surreal-to-Conceptual Mediated Performances
Existential Ultraviolet Photo-Chase, live performances with audio

Existential Ultraviolet Photo-Chase, live performances with audio, interacting with projected imagery of Barbara Rosenthal's bizzarre, distorted landscape photos. Each time this piece is performed (London; Helsinki; New York) the documentation video of the prior performance becomes the projection, so that several images of Barbara Rosenthal appear with her live action, thus melding her live form and her image in ways the audience can not tell apart. The first iteration had been performed at Waterloo Action Centre, London, arranged by Tom Estes.

SURREAL-to-CONCEPTUAL MEDIATED PERFORMANCE in recent publication.

"My face is covered in these performances, so what I have to go on, in terms of space and direction is the changing light from the projector."

Still from Mediated Performance at Lava Klub, Helsinki, 2019 by Barbara Rosenthal. Documentation featured in "Emergency Index 9, 2021," Ugly Duckling Press, Bklyn, NY.

 

 

PAST EXHIBITIONS

NYC
PHOTO-BASED ART
Sept. 24 - Oct. 10, 2020
Opening: by Invitation
Public: Gallery Hours Tues-Sat 11-6
Masks are mandatory when entering the building and gallery.Hand Sanitzer is available.
DENISE BIBRO FINE ART
"Featured Artists from the Boros"
Denise Bibro Fine Art
529 West 20th Street 4W
New York, NY 10011
212-647-7030
denisebibrofineart.com
info@denisebibrofineart.com
Born in the Bronx, 1948, and living in Manhattan most of her life, Rosenthal is presented in the context of a dozen artists producing prodigiously in the five boroughs of New York City during this Covid-19 pandemic and represented on the Bibro Artsy. https://www.artsy.net/artist/barbara-rosenthal.
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Two collages from her series Surreal to Conceptual Photos: Compositizations with Video Stills and X-Rays are in this physical exhibition, arranged by the gallery in a playful installation.
The collage on the left will also be featured in the Fall 2020 issue of LiveMag!, the Appendix of which will enumerate the complex provenance of the piece as a whole, and of the four Surreal Photography, X-Ray and Video Still Cmponents separately.

NYC
PHOTO-BASED ART
Oct. 10-31, 2020
Opening View: Sat, Oct 10, 1-7pm.
Free Priority View Tix: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/intersections-the-union-square-show-priority-viewing-tickets-123222340337
Public Gallery Hours Wed-Sat 12-6
Masks are mandatory when entering the building and gallery.Hand Sanitzer is available.
Lichtundfire & Equity at ChShaMa
"Intersections: The Union Square Show"
ChaShaMa
7-11 E. 14th St, Storefront
New York, NY 10003
917-675-7835
lichtundfire.com
info@lichtundfire.com
Barbara Rosenthal disrupts the surfaces with an energetic dash of sharply cut and collaged imagery seemingly sparring in white space. The dramatic contrast of chiaroscuro connects the works of artists that seem to inhabit a monochromatic dream.
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Artist-produced hand-collaged digitally printed full-frame 35mm analog photographs and cropped video stills are trimmed to their borders and archivally dry mounted onto bright white smooth acid-free heavyweight Bristo lpaper, 18 x 24 inches.

VIDEOS ONLINE
https://barbararosenthal.org/frameVideo.htm

EU / UK updates about Jan-March 2020, what took place, what is postponed

BERLIN / LONDON
“Transitionals Morphing ONE”
Video by Barbara Rosenthal, New York
Audio by Matthew Lee Knowles, London
BODDINALE FILM FESTIVAL
Sat., FEB 22, 6pm This festival took place! We were ahead of the virus by a very short time!)
Am Flutgraben 3, 12435 Berlin, Germany
boddinale.com

LECCE, ITALY
“"Reading and Book-Signing by New York Author, Barbara Rosenthal: The Gianicolo at Sunset; " and "In Ostia” reading two Italy-inspired chapters from her novel 'Wish for Amnesia'"
Sat., Feb. 29, 11:30am (is postponed until 2022 due to Covid-19)
FELTRINELLI LIBRERIA
Via Giuseppe Libertini, 3, 73100 Lecce LE, Italy
+39 0832 258611accademialecce.it

BRINDISI, ITALY
Reading and Futurist Lecture
“Wish for Amnesia” and "Homo Futurus" by Barbara Rosenthal
Curated by Claudio Scardino
Mon., March 2, 6pm (is postponed until 2022 due to Covid-19)
MARCONI FLACCO TECHNICAL INSTITUTE
Via del Lavoro, 21/E, Brindisi BR, Italy
+39 0831 1621475, www.marconiflaccobelluzzi.it

ABRUZZI, ITALY
Installation, Video and Talk
“Serata con Barbara Rosenthal e Claudio Scardino"
Wed., March 4, 2020, 6 pm (is postponed until 2022 due to Covid-19)
“Existential Ultraviolet Photo-Run, Abruzzi"
 INVIZIN
SP 216 #24A, Tornareccio, CHJ , Italy
www.invizini.it

FERRARA, ITALY
Installation, Video and Talk
“Serata con Barbara Rosenthal e Claudio Scardino"
“'Hands & Feet' and Other Shorts"
Fri., March 6, 2020 6pm (is postponed until 2022 due to Covid-19)
FACTORY GRISU
Via M. Podrelli, 21, Ferrara, Italy
www.factorygrisu.it

MILAN, ITALY
"Provocation Cards Interact, Milano"
Sun., March 8, 2020 12-1pm (is postponed until 2022 due to Covid-19)
in front of
FONDAZIONE PRADA D'ARTE CONTEMPORANEA
      Largo Isarco, 2, Milano MI, Italy

past events, 2020

EXHIBITIONS

NYC
PHOTO-BASED ART
Jan. 9 - Feb. 8
Opening Jan. 9, 6-8PM
Informal Talk with Rosenthal, Sat., Feb. 8, 4-6pm
DENISE BIBRO GALLERY
Art from the Boros Show
Denise Bibro Fine Art
529 West 20th Street 4W
New York, NY 10011
212-647-7030
denisebibrofineart.com
info@denisebibrofineart.com
Born in the Bronx, 1948, and living in Manhattan most of her life, Rosenthal is presented in the context of other artists producing prodigiously in the five boroughs of New York City. Works from Barbara Rosenthal’s series Surreal to Conceptual Photos, Wafting, Connected will be in this exhibition, and will be included in the Denise Bibro Fine Art pages of Artsy, along with other related Rosenthal Surreal to Conceptual Photography. In addition, Denise Bibro Fine Art has included her in their Artsy artists. (https://www.artsy.net/denise-bibro-fine-art/artist/barbara-rosenthall). On the closing day of this show, she will talk with visitors about her processes for this project, and how it relates to all her work, and her 50-year career in art.
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Surreal to Conceptual, Wafting, Connected: Montreal Pubs and Bird Windows
and Surreal to Conceptual, Wafting, Connected: Paris Birds and Planes (16"x20") at Denise Bibro Gallery, NYC.

Surreal to Conceptual, Distorted. Triptych and other panels 26"x40" on the Denise Bibro Fine Art site of Artsy.

The BRONX, NY
VIDEO
Fri., Jan. 10 - Sun., Jan. 18
Opening Reception & Performances Fri., Jan 10, 6-10pm
Weekend Reception & Performances Sat., Jan. 11, 6-10
BRONX ART SPACE
Synthetic Zero Show
Bronx Art Space
Venue Hours:
12 - 6:30pm Wed-Friday; 12-5pm Saturday
305 East 140th St
Bronx, NY, 10454
bronxartspace.com
art@bronxartspace
718-401-8144
Rosenthal is presented in the context of other artists from the borough of her birth. During the run of the “Synthetic Zero Art Show,” curated by Bronx Art Space co-founder Mitsu Hadeishi, Rosenthal will screen The Screen Will Be Black and Silent for Some Time, a single-channel video from among the 130 she has created since 1976.
 
The Screen Will Be Black and Silent for Some Time video short by Barbara Rosenthal at Bronx Art Space

TV INTERVIEW

Tues. Feb. 4, 2020, 8PM

on Paul DeRienzo’s “Let Them Talk

In Manhattan, on these 4 cable stations:

FiOS 34

RCN 83

Spectrum 56 & 1996

On the Web, on these 2 channels

MNN.org

Long known as “Old Master of New Media," Rosenthal will be interviewed about current photo-based work at the Denise Bibro Gallery in New York (closing Feb 8), the new books being launched at Lichtundfire (Feb. 11, 6:30), also featuring Xanadu Press, A. D. Coleman, Jeffrey Cyphers Wright and Barry Wallenstein; and her upcoming photo/video/performance/text/lecture events in Germany and Italy, where she will present photos, videos and performances with Claudio Scardino and her long-held predictions about Homo Futurus, the title of her 1984 book (VSW Press), and a prediction she sees now coming true, "Homo Futurus, her prediction for the next hominid, a humanoid within a hive species, existing for a brief era upon an ecologically degraded, climatographically reeling, techno-topographical planet, which had been a major focus during the 40-year development of her 2018 novel WISH FOR AMNESIA (more info about novel: wishforamnesia.com<). This is her fifth time being solo guest on this talk show. To call in for live chat, log on to Twitter: @BRartistNYC. This is her fifth time being solo guest on this talk show; reports are coming back to MNN from excited listeners in LA and EU, who have been subsequently meeting her there! We never knew our station even had viewers that far from NY in either direction! Go, Barbara!!

Barbara Rosenthal on a previous interview by Paul DiRienzo on Let Them Talk. She will appear again on his show Feb. 4

NYC
BOOK LAUNCH
Thurs., Feb. 13, 2020, 7PM, 6:30pm Reception

LICHTUNDFIRE

Lichtundfire Art and Culture

175 Rivington Street

New York, NY 10002

917-675-7835

lichtundfire.com

info@lichtundfire.com

Lichtundfire is pleased to present readings and images by the authors of this 2020 booklist of new editions by the two presses collaboratively edited and designed by Barbara Rosenthal at eMediaLoft.org: Xanadu Press and Washington Street Press. https://emedialoft.org/artistsbooks/artistsbooks.htm. The books are:

poetic license / poetic justice: a footnote to ‘the london march’ by david antin (with commentary by charles bernstein), an essay and parental obituaries by noted photography critic A. D. Coleman;

Time on the Move, 12 poems by editor of the “American Book Review” Barry Wallenstein, with 35 Surreal Photos by media artist Barbara Rosenthal;

Party Everywhere, .an offset second edition of a single poem by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, interspersed with his color collages;

and Dual to the Finish: Erotic Poetry of Love, Chagrin and Irony, a forthcomig book of 150 poems by Barbara Rosenthal, illustrated with photos of segments from her personally-used erotica collections

Books by A. D. Coleman, Barry Wallenstein, Jeffrey Cyphers Wrigh (new edition)t and Barbara Rosenthal to launch at Lichtundfire, NYC. 

BERLIN

VIDEO: Deutschland Premiere

Sat., FEB 22, 6pm

BODDINALE FILM FESTIVAL

Boddinale Film Festival, 8th Edition
free films, cash bar

Am Flutgraben 3

12435 Berlin, Germany

boddinale.com

https://boddinale.com/contact
“Transitionals Morphing ONE”
Transitionals Morphing ONE, a digital projection “Surreal to Conceptual” photo-based video by Barbara Rosenthal with audio by London composer Matthew Lee Knowles, will be screened, a German premiere. Rosenthal will be onstage afterward to dialog in English with German translator and host, Italian ex-pat, Gianlucca Baccanico. This film festival presented Rosenthal with the Boddinale Independent Life Award, an award invented in her honor, in 2014. We are pleased to have included her in every Boddinale since our 2011 inception. For those of you who know some of the 130 performance and text-based videos she has been producing since 1976, this piece is closely akin to her other recent wall- and book-works, with much photo-digital technology.

A still frame from Transitionals Morphing ONE, a video by Barbara Rosenthal to screen in Berlin

LECCE, ITALY
“Incontra Barbara Rosenthal”

Installation, Video and Discussion /// Installazione, Proiezione e discussione
“‘HANDS AND FEET’ and OTHER SHORTS” /// “’Mani e piedi’ e altri pantaloncini”
Thurs., Feb. 27, 3pm (postponed due to Covid-19)
Fri., Feb. 28, 11:30am (postponed due to Covid-19)
ACCADEMIA di BELLE ARTI
       Via Giuseppe Libertini, 3
73100 Lecce LE, Italy
+39 0832 258611
accademialecce.it
Segreteria Tel.0832 258622 infosegreteria@accademialecce.it
The Accademia has mounted an installation of Surreal to Conceptual Photography by New York visual artist / writer / performer Barbara Rosenthal among sculptures and surround-sound audio by her Italian host, Claudio Scardino. Rosenthal will screen her video composite Hands & Feet and Other Shorts, present an overview of her 55-year career and speak with students, guests and visitors. She will talk about being a student in Italy, 1968-69, and works created here during subsequent visits and expositions, such as her text-art billboards in Padua, 2009-2010. These were giant iterations from her project Provocation Cards, which she produced as Provocation Cards Interact in Piazza Del Popolo in 2017 and will reprise in Milan March 8. Of special interest is the autobiographical, philosophical and anthropological underpinnings of her content, and she will be joined onstage by philosophy and anthropology professors from Puglia.

Surrel to Conceptual, Triptych: Berlin, St. Petersburg, Paris by Barbara Rosenthal (as single image photoprint in Lecce).

LECCE, ITALY
“"Reading and Book-Signing by New York Author, Barbara Rosenthal: The Gianicolo at Sunset; " and "In Ostia”

reading two Italy-inspired chapters from her novel 'Wish for Amnesia'"
Sat., Feb. 29, 11:30am (postponed due to Covid-19)

FELTRINELLI LIBRERIA
       Via Giuseppe Libertini, 3

       73100 Lecce LE, Italy

+39 0832 258611
As she did for her successful 2015 evening at Giubbe Rosse Film and Literary Café in Florence, Barbara Rosenthal will read chapters from her novel "Wish for Amnesia." A translator will be onstage during reading and discussion.

Barbara Rosenthal to read from her novel "Wish for Amnesia" at the bookstore in Lecce.

BRINDISI, ITALY

Reading and Futurist Lecture

Mon., March 2, 6pm (postponed due to Covid-19)

MARCONI FLACCO TECHNICAL INSTITUTE

“Wish for Amnesia” and "Homo Futurus"
      Marconi Flacco Technical Institute
Via del Lavoro, 21/E
Brindisi BR, Italy
+39 0831 1621475
www.marconiflaccobelluzzi.it

New York artist and writer Barbara Rosenthal will present the concept of Homo Futurus, her prediction for the next hominid, a humanoid within a hive species, existing for a brief era upon an ecologically degraded, climatographically reeling, techno-topographical planet.

A double-page spread from the annotated live-reading volume of Barbara Rosenthal's book "Homo Futurus."

ABRUZZI, ITALY

Installation, Video and Talk
“Serata con Barbara Rosenthal e Claudio Scardino"

Wed., March 4, 6pm (postponed due to Covid-19)

INVIZIN

“Existential Ultraviolet Photo-Run, Abruzzi"
 INVIZIN
SP 216 #24A
Tornareccio, CHJ , Italy
www.invizini.it

The Surreal-to-Conceptual photo-based art by New YorkerBarbara Rosenthal will be exhibited in installation with sculptures and surround-sound Italian Claudio Scardino, who has invented many audio elements for Rosenthal's videos, several of which she will present in person, along with a mediated performance, Existential Ultraviolet Photo-Run.

A documentation performance still from the Helsinki variation of Existential Ultraviolet Photo-Run, a mediated performance Barbara Rosenthal will produce in Abruzzi.

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FERRARA, ITALY

Installation, Video and Talk
“Serata con Barbara Rosenthal e Claudio Scardino"

Fri., March 6, 6pm (postponed due to Covid-19)

FACTORY GRISU

“'Hands & Feet' and Other Shorts"
      Factory Grisu
Via M. Podrelli, 21
Ferrara, Italy
www.factorygrisu.it

A still frame from Transitionals Morphing TWO, a video in the Hands & Feet and Other Shorts compilation by Barbara Rosenthal to screen at Accademica n Lecce

The Surreal-to-Conceptual photo-based art by New YorkerBarbara Rosenthal will be exhibited in installation with sculptures and surround-sound Italian Claudio Scardino, who has invented many audio elements for Rosenthal's videos, including for some of the shorts being shown tonight.

MILAN, ITALY

"Provocation Cards Interact, Milano"

Sun., March 8, 12-1pm (postponed due to Covid-19)

in front of FONDAZIONE PRADA D'ARTE CONTEMPORANEA
      Largo Isarco, 2
Milano MI, Italy
www.fondazioneprada.org

Variations of this interactive philosophical text-art piece, with Rosenthal’s 22 Provocation Cards printed up with new languages added as the countries change, have been performed in front of Helsinki Art Museum, Finalnd (2018); in Piazza Del Popolo, Rome (2015), Sara Roosevelt Park, New York City (2014); The Upstairs Room, Brisbane, Australia (2014); Undercurrent Projects, NYC (2014); Place de Centrale, Brussels (2010); 10 Gales Gallery, London (2010), SET Gallery, Brooklyn (2009); in front of KV Kunst-Werke, Berlin (2008); in front of the Guggenheim Museum and the White Box Gallery, NYC (2005). The text-art and blow-ups of the cards were exhibited at the Lucas Carrieri Gallery in Berlin (2009) and at eMediaLoft, NYC (2019). Folios of the 22 cards are in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art (NYC), The Whitney Museum of American Art (NYC), eMediaLoft.org (NYC), Tate Gallery (London),the Berlin Kunstbibliotek (Berlin), and Artpool (Budapest). Claudio Scardino’s electronic audio piece Holler will pervade the space. Some of the texts are as follows:
“God is the Idol of Science” /// “Dio é l’idolo della Scienza.”
“Homo Futurus Will Not Be Human” /// “Homo Futurus non sará umano.”
“The Ideal Is Always Fraught With Flaws That Cause Its Foil By Reality” /// Solo cio che esiste é abbastanza perfetto per rompere in realta. Che cosa é bveramente perfetto, qujidi, Ee quello che esiste veramente.”
“Time Plays Tricks” /// “Ora gioca brutti scherzi."

Documentation photo by Claudio Scardino of earlier iteration of Provocation Cards Interact, when performed in Piazza Del Popolo by Barbara Rosenthal, who will reprise it in Milan.

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PAST EVENTS, 2019

RAGAZINE.cc
Column: A CRACK IN THE SIDEWALK
***Jan-Feb Bimonthly Issue***
"Studio Assistants: Expect the Unexpected and What to Expect"
https://www.ragazine.cc/columns/barbararosenthal-acrackinthesidewalk/
A Crack in the Sidewalk continues for another year, every issue in Ragazine, a bi-monthly online mag of arts and culture edited by Mike Foldes. Barbara Rosenthal's column began in Ragazine in September, 2017. It first appeared in the Franklin Square Bulletin, in 1963, when Rosenthal was 15 years old.
In this month's column, "Studio Assistants: Expect the Unexpected and What to Expect," Rosenthal, whose studio eMediaLoft.org has engaged paid assistance and volunteer interns sincew 1982, will approach the position from the vantage of both employee and employer.

"A Crack in the Sidewalk" column by Barbara Rosenthal in "Ragazine."

MITCHELL ALGUS GALLERY, NYC
Conceptual Photo Distortions
BACKROOM SOLO: Barbara Rosenthal: Surreal to Conceptual Photo-Morphs
***Exhibition: January 12 - February 17***
***Opening Reception: Saturday, Jan. 12, 6-8pm***
***Informal Artist's Talk with Visitors, Saturday, Jan. 19, 4-6pm***
press release PDF
artist's statement PDF
Location:
Mitchell AlgusGallery
132 Delancy St., 2nd floor. (enter on Norfolk St)
Lower East Side/NYC, 10002
cell: 516-639-4918
mitchellalgusgallery.com
office@mitchellalgusgallery.com

6 panels, 26" x 40" each, Samples of Conceptual Photo Distortions in Contiguous Installation by Barbara Rosenthal from the at Mitchell Algus Gallery, NYC.

VIRIDIAN GALLERY
featured reading, NYC
THURS, JAN. 17, 2018, 7PM.
FEATURED READER, Reading "Chapter 33: Toto and Jewel Return to the Shack" from WISH FOR AMNESIA (Deadly Chaps Press)
WISH FOR AMNESIA is a modern-day mix of futuristic fable and historical fact that follows six idiosyncratic characters in New York and Rome from 19§8-85, Hippiedom to Halley’s Comet
See wishforamnesia.com for more info about the book, and come here Barbara Rosenthal read:
in "Opening Performances Two" curated by Armand Ruhlman and Vernita Nemic
KIRKUS REVIEW, on the STARRED AND RECOMMENDED LIST: “…satirical, fantastical, and philosophical….. We see the world…most rivetingly…. readers will find that they can’t take their eyes away. They’ll also sometimes wonder what’s real and what’s not—and exactly what kind of magic might be at work. A celebration of the dysfunctional that will keep readers turning pages."
HOME PLANET NEWS REVIEW: “…Clinical precision and vertiginous pace combine into one of the most astounding passages of English prose you’ll ever read.”
LOCATION
Viridian Gallery
548 W. 28 St. NYC
ADMISSION: FREE

Barbara Rosenthal will read Chapter 33 at Viridian Gallery, NYC on Jan.17.

REYKJAVIK, ICELAND
Performance Interaction
***Fri, Jan 25, 2019, Sunset (4:30pm)***
The Northern Lights will form the dramatic backdrop for this Rosenthal's international 7-language text-based piece, "Provocation Cards Interact: Reykjavik"
LOCATION: AUSTRURVöLLUR SQUARE
REYKJAVIK, ICELAND
ADMISSION: FREE

Barbara Rosenthal performing Provocation Cards Interact in Paris, 2013, which she will reprise in Reykjavik on Jan. 25.

THREE SHOWS IN HELSINKI, FINLAND
1. Text Performance
2. Raconteur and Videos
3. Projection-Performance

HELSINKI 1.
Text Performance Interaction
Sun, Jan 27, 2019, Sunset (2-3pm).
International 7-language text-based piece, "Provocation Cards Interact: Helsinki
LOCATION: HAM: ART MUSEUM PLAZA
HELSINKI, FINLAND
ADMISSION: FREE
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photo: Barbara Rosenthal performing Provocation Cards Interact in the Gran' Place, Brussels, 2010, which she will reprise in Helsinki on Jan. 27, 2019.

HELSINKI 2.
VUOTALO CULTURAL CENTER
HELSINKI, FINLAND
90min Performance, Video and Discussion
***Mon, Jan 28, 2019, (on stage 6-7:30pm).***
As part of Rosenthal's year-long SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY INTERNATIONAL RETROSPECTIVE, she has been honored with the inaugural of the curatorial organization MUU (which means "Other" in Finnish. http://www.muu.fi. She will speak about her 55 years as an artist, showing projections of her important works, such as HOMO FUTURUS WALL WORK, discuss her practice, and screen an hour of performance/text/photo-based videos 1976-2019.
This event, and several more mini-events around Helsinki, has been made possible by Charlie Morrow, an international sound artist who has contributed audio for several of her projects, and curators and facilitators Petri Kuljuntausta, Timo Soppela and Rita Leppiniemi.
Videos will include:
Lighted Match, The Secret of Life, Shadow Box, Hands and Feet, Breaking Glass, American Denominations, Colors and Auras, Daddy: Spider Story, World View, Nonsense Conversation, Dog Recognition, Fly Bus to Finland, How Much Does the Monkey Count, Push Me, Transitionals Morphing Two, and Toil of Three Cities.
LOCATION:
VUOTALO CULTURAL CENTER and LIBRARY
Mosaiikkitori 2, 00980 Helsinki, Finland
Phone: +358 9 31012000

photo: A still from Barbara Rosenthal's video TRANSITIONALS MORPHING TWO, which will screen in Helsinki on Jan. 28.

HELSINKI 3.
THE LAVA KLUB
HELSINKI, FINLAND
"Existential Ultraviolet Photo-Run 2019"
"I'm Growing Up"
and Various Improvisations" during
an Evening with Barbara Rosenthal, Charlie Morrow and Friends
***Tuesday, January 29, 2019, (all evening).***
Barbara Rosenthal will perform Existential Ultraviolet Photo-Run 2019, her blindfold-clothingscreen-photoprojection-videomorph action piece,
Identity Theft Mask Morph / I'm Growing Up, her multi-self mask projection video endurance piece,
and various improvisations and Mediated Performances with sound, text and interactions with audio-artist Charlie Morrow and other artists from Finland.
LOCATION:
THE LAVA KLUB (LAVAKLUBI)
L?NTINEN TEATTERIKUJA
HELSINKI, 00100 FINLAND
Phone: +358 9 31012000

photos: Two moments with Barbara Rosenthal onstage in her Existential Ultraviolet Photo-Run, as performed at the Waterloo Action Center in London, 2016.
She will reprise the piece in reconfigured and transparency form in Helsinki on January 29, 2019.

RIGA, LATVIA
Performance Interaction
***Sun, Jan 30, 2019, 3-4pm***
International 7-language text-based piece, "Provocation Cards Interact: Riga
LOCATION:
RIGA AIRPORT RIX
Departure Area for flight BT603
RIGA, LATVIA
ADMISSION: FREE

Barbara Rosenthal will perform Provocation Cards Interact at RIX in Riga on Jan. 30.

NADINE LABORATORY FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS
an hour of VIDEOS and DISCUSSION
TUES, FEB. 5, 8PM.
As part of Rosenthal's "Seventieth Birthday International Video Retrospective," the Nadine Laboratory of Contemporary Arts will host the artist and an hour of her video shorts, 1976-2018. She's made over 130 shorts, and for this evening, she will screen some of her humorous philosophical photo-and-performance-based pieces.
Videos will include
Boggle, Hands and Feet, Words Come Out Backwards, American Denominations, Breaking Glass, News to Fit the Family, Postcards, World View, Hot and Cold Shakeup, Dog Recognition, Nonsense Conversation, How Much Does the Monkey Count, Mandates for Art, Identity Theft Masks Morph, Push Me, and Toil of Three Cities.
LOCATION
NADINE LABROTORY FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS
Nieuwbrug 3 Rue du Pont Neuf
1000 Brussels
http://nadine.be/

A still from Barbara Rosenthal's video IDENTITY THEFT MASK MORPH, which will screen in Brussels on Feb. 5.

BODDINALE FILM FESTIVAL, BERLIN
an hour of VIDEOS and DISCUSSION
SAT, FEB. 9, 6PM.
As part of Rosenthal's "Seventieth Birthday International Video Retrospective," the Boddinale Film Festival will host the artist and an hour of her video shorts, 1976-2018. She has been in this festival for every year since its inception. She's made over 130 shorts, and in this festival, which honored her by inventing the "Boddinale Independent Life Award" for her in 2016, she will screen some of her rarely, or in some cases NEVER SEEN and most risqué, pieces.
Boddinale Film Festival
LOCATION: Loophole Theatre and other locations
Boddinstrasse 60
Berlin (Neuköln), Germany 12053
boddinale.com

VIDEO STILL from ""THE BATH" (1976) with Bill Creston: Barbara Rosenthal will present an hour of videos in Berlin.

TV INTERVIEW
Tues, Feb 19, 2019, 8PM
on Paul DeRienzo’s show “Let Them Talk:
In Manhattan, on these 4 cable stations:
FiOS 34
RCN 83
Spectrum 56 & 1996
On the Web, on these 2 channels
MNN.org
Lifestyle channel
Long known as “Old Master of New Media," Rosenthal will be interviewed about her 60 years of Journal-keeping, the relationship between her photo/video/performance work and writings, and about the 40-year development of her novel WISH FOR AMNESIA (more info about novel: wishforamnesia.com). This is her third time being solo guest on this talk show. 

photos: Barbara Rosenthal appeared three times before on this talk show, and will be Paul's guest again Feb. 19.

LACDA: Los Angeles Center for Digital Arts
July 11-Aug 3. 
Artwalk Preview Thurs, Aug. 11, 7-9; Opening Reception Sat, July 13, 6-9.  The artist will be present.
Four 34" x 44" prints by Barbara Rosenthal
1. "Installation Documentation Photo 1, from DEVOLUTION OF SELF, Pickled Art Centre, Beijing, 2006”
2. "Mediated Performance Documentation Video Still, from EXISTENTIAL ULTRAVIOLET PHOTO-RUN, Waterloo Action Centre, London, 20163.
3. "Surreal to Conceptual, Wafting: Castles Berlin, Moscow, St Petersburg”
4. "Surreal to Conceptual, Wafting, Tiny Houses Berlin, Moscow, St Petersburg”
free
LOCATION:
104 E. 4th St, LA, CA, USA, 90013
lacda.com, +1-323-646-9427
 
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Barbara Rosenthal will present "PROVOCATION . CARDS INTERACT" in front of
MoCA-Geffen, LA
Sun, July 14, Noon-1pm
interaction with passersby involving 23 "Provocation Cards" of her philosophical text art, including:
"The Flaw of the Ideal is that it does not encounter Time or Touch."
free, outdoors
LOCATION:
152 N. Central Ave., LA, CA, USA, 90036
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LICHTUNDFIRE GALLERY
SUMMER COCKTAILS and READING BY BARBARA ROSENTHAL
Fri, July 26, 6-8
Barbara will read a chapter from WISH FOR AMNESIA, her much-acclaimed novel about personal and artistic idealism, taking place in NYC and Rome, Italy.
(See more info on the novel at wishforamnesia.com)
free
LOCATION:
175 Rivington St, NY, NY, USA, 10002
info@lichtundfire.com, +1-917-675-7835
 
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JULY-AUGUST COLUMN
RAGAZINE.cc
A CRACK IN THE SIDEWALK: "Art as a Transcendent, not Pedestrian Endeavor"
Rosenthal is a Philosophy of Art columnist for this bi-monthly publication.
https://www.ragazine.cc/columns/barbararosenthal-acrackinthesidewalk/

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TV INTERVIEW
Tues, July 23, 8PM 
on Paul DeRienzo’s show “Let Them Talk:
In Manhattan, on these 4 cable stations:
FiOS 34, RCN 83,Spectrum 56 & 1996
On the Web, on these 2 channels
MNN.org, Lifestyle channel
Long known as “Old Master of New Media," Rosenthal will be interviewed about her
"Vector Theory of Psychological Reality" and the latest ABR, American Book Review rave review of her novel WISH FOR AMNESIA (more info about novel: wishforamnesia.com). This is her fourth time being solo guest on this talk show. 

NYC
TUES., OCT. 1, 9PM (doors 8:30)
PHOTO-MEDIATED READING PERFORMANCE
at THE WEST END
“Mind-Roaming Journeys: Surreal Photo Stories from Sensations
Projected Images and Mediated Live Performance Reading”
MC: Ronnie Norpel; Show: "Pink!
LOCATION:
The West End Lounge
955 West End Ave (at 106th St) New York, NY 10025
(212) 531-4759
Subway: 1 to 103
9PM show, 8:30 doors open
No cover or minimun, great food and drink available.
http://thewestendlounge.com/
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/417812478918051/

Barbara Rosenthal at The West End Lounge, NYC
 
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new acquisitions, BUDAPEST
Artpool Art Research Center
VI, Liszt Ferenc tér 10.
Budapest 23, Hungary
Research in the archive and library is available by appointment
e-mail: artpool at artpool dot hu
tel.: (+36-1) 268-01-14
Barbara Rosenthal’s pieces currently in the Artpool collection are:
BOOKS: Soul & Psyche: The Zygotes of Art, 1996; Soul & Psyche, 1996; One 4-Word Book / Four 1-Word Books; Weeks (colab with Hannah Weiner); Homo Futurus Blank Book, 1985; Homo Futurus, 1986; Sensations, 1984; Clues to Myself, 1981.
PAMPHLETS: Retrospective, 1994; Children’s Shoes, 1992; Introduction to the Trilogy, 1985 Old Address Book, 1985; Structure and Meaning, 1981
INTERACTIVE NOVELTIES: One 4-Word Book / Four 1-Word Books; Button Pins: Nice, 1995; Assorted Cards & Postcards, 1986; Bookmarks Exploded Book, 1986; You & I Cardgame, 1986; Pocketful of Poesy, 1996.
VIDEO BOXED DVDs: Helen Webster: Cancer and Self Discovery, 1981; Pregnancy Dreams, 1979; Barbara Rosenthal Contemplates Suicide, Single Take Version, 2005; Postcards and Other Shorts: 21 Videos in 29 Minutes, 1976-2013
PRESENTATION EPHEMERA & IMAGES: Chance-Future, 1996; Self-Portrait Room, 1968-2003; Video Mirror, 1986-2004; Bird Hands Rondel, 1985-2005.
Being added now are:
BOOKS: Wish for Amnesia, 2018.
PAMPHLETS and NOVELTIES: Haunted House,1991; Identity Theft Masks Book, 2009; Names/Lives and The Allen Project, 2000;Provocation Cards Folio, 2015; Fly Paper Book, 2003; Barbara Rosenthal Chai Dollar Bill, 2001.
BOXED BOOKWORKS: Animal Joke Book (with Jeffrey Cyphers Wright), 2014; Plant Joke Book (with Jeffrey Cyphers Wright), 2018; Dirty Book, 1990-2018; Alphabet Clock, 2003; Button Pin Boxed Set, 1985-2014.
SPOKEN-WORD AUDIO CDs: Sensations (Readings From), 2005; Homo Futurus (Readings From), 2005; Soul & Psyche (Readings From), 2003.
EPHEMERA CDs / CATALOG CDs: Conceptual Photography Catalog 2006; Current Work: 6 Images, 2006; Catalog Raisonne of Cross Media Editions 1968-2006.
VIDEO BOXED DVDs: Dead Heat, 1987-2009; Existential Word Play: 33 Shorts in 72 Minutes, 1978-2010; Four Buggy Videos, 1976-2016; I Have a New York Accent, 1988-2009; International Garbage, 2006-2010; News Corral, 1990-2014; Nonsense Conversation and Other Shorts, 1976-2013; Ola Writes the Alphabet, 1982-2015; Pregnancy Dreams, 1979-2006; Push Me Pas De Deux, 2010; Rules / Regeln, 2009; Space and Time, 1990-2010; Two Humorous Architectural Videos, 1990-2014.

PHOTO: Documentation photos of SELF PORTRAIT ROOM, 1968, built trapezoidically to her various body measurements, at a time and place in history when the concepts of "performance art" and "installation" were as yet unheard of; one of Barbara Rosenthal's works among the Artpool holdings.

NEW REVIEWS and PUBLICATIONS
2018
Weichselbaum, Lehman. "The Puzzle-Structure of Wish for Amnesia, a Novel by Barbara Rosenthal"; Home Planet News, Jan. 2018
Rosenthal, Barbara. "Three Bottles"; Brownstone Anthology 2017; Brownstone Press, April 2018
Rosenthal, Barbara. Dual to the Finish: Erotic Poetry of Love, Chagrin and Irony
2017
Novel Wish for Amnesia, Definitive First Edtion, 2017, Deadly Chaps Press, NYC: Paperback: ISBN 978-1-937739-92-8, Price: $15.00: https://www.amazon.com/Wish-Amnesia-First-Barbara-Rosenthal/dp/1937739929
Wish for Amnesia, a Novel by Barbara Rosenthal. Kirkus Review , Fall, 2017: https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/barbara-rosenthal/wish-for-amnesia/
Barbara Rosenthal at Waterloo Action Centre, London. Emergency Index Vol. 6,Ugly Duckling Press, eds Sophia Cleary, Katie Gaydos and Yelena Gluzman, Brooklyn, NY, Nov. 2017.https://shop.uglyducklingpresse.org/products/564
Sept 11, 2001 in From Somewhere to Nowhere: The End of the American Dream. Unbearables Anthology 2017, ed Ron Kolm, Shalom Neuman, Jim Feast; Autonomedia Press, NYC, Oct 2017.https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/49683/
Book Review: Wish for Amnesia by Barbara Rosenthal. Review by Pam Kray in Afterimage, July, 2017:http://vsw.org/afterimage/2017/07/16/book-review-wish-for-amnesia-by-barbara-rosenthal/
Someone at the Upstairs Window . Poem in Brownstone Anthology, ed. Patridia Carragon, Brooklyn NY: Paperback: ISBN 1544703749, Price $17.99
https://www.amazon.com/Brownstone-Poets-Anthology-Patricia-Carragon/dp/1544703740/ref=as_li_bk_tl/?tag=brownst-20&linkId=ab509b5102f770f3e0fc4fcf8ad134ab&linkCode=ktl
Article about Barbara Rosenthal by Clare Carswell, in Iris Art Insights, LONDON: http://irisartinsights.tumblr.com/post/158152931546/tribute
Wish for Amnesia Review by Angharad Lodwick, Tinted Edges, AUSTRALIA https://tintededges.wordpress.com/2017/03/05/wish-for-amnesia/
Wish for Amnesia Review by Mike Foldes, Ragazine, NYC http://ragazine.cc/2016/11/more-book-reviews-v12-n4/
Wish for Amnesia Review by Kleio Bhagwati, Wicked Venom / We Love Quality Books, INDIA http://www.welovequalitybooks.biz/wish-for-amnesia-a-review/
Article about Barbara Rosenthal by Lehman Weichselbaum in Jewish Voice, NYC: http://jewishvoiceny.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=16330:a-jewish-sojourn-amnesia-author-hard-to-forget&catid=93&Itemid=788&lang=en
Review of Rosenthal's video I Have a New York Accent by Bill Creston in Gathering of the Tribes magazine, NYC: http://www.tribes.org/web/2017/2/21/a-true-and-timeless-universality

ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY 1962-2016: http://www.emedialoft.org/artistspages/imagesbrreviews/BarbaraRosenthal-Bibliography-Sept4-2016.pdf

VIDEOS in new release for distribution

at Film-makers CoOp: 39 videos: http://film-makerscoop.com/filmmakers/barbara-rosenthal
at PrintedMatter: 42 boxed DVDs: https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/artist/641
2018
BzzClickSsshhTingle http://film-makerscoop.com/catalogue/rosenthal-barbara-bzzclickssshhtingle
2017
http://film-makerscoop.com/rentals-sales/search-results?fmc_authorLast=barbara+rosenthal&fmc_title=&fmc_description=&x=0&y=0
I Have a New York Accent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HDEIeug9FI
Barbara Rosenthal Describes Her Eyebrows (with Mitch Corber) https://vimeo.com/152181342
TALK-TALK: Six Videos About Spoken Communication http://film-makerscoop.com/rentals-sales/search-results?fmc_authorLast=barbara+rosenthal&fmc_title=&fmc_description=&x=0&y=0

Works Available for Public Viewing and Research in
NY, London, Budapest and Berlin:

NEW YORK

ARTIST’S BOOKS:
MoMA: Museum of Modern Art / Dada Base
By Appointment http://www.moma.org/learn/resources/library/faq_dadabase, email: library@moma.org. 
Including Retrospective; Bookmarks; Introduction to the 1979-1986 Trilogy, First and Second Editons 1985 and 1986; Cards & Postcards; Children’s Shoes; Homo Futurus, 1986; Old Address Book; Photography Bio File; Sensations; Soul & Psyche; Weeks (with Hannah Weiner); You & I Cardgame
http://arcade.nyarc.org/search~S8?/arosenthal+barbara/arosenthal+barbara/1%2C2%2C22%2CB/exact&FF=arosenthal+barbara+1948&1%2C21%2C

ARTIST’S BOOKS:
WHITNEY MUSEUM
By Appointment http://whitney.org/Research/Library  library@whitney.org.
Including Catalogue Raisonné 2005; Bookmarks, 2000; Pocketful of Poesy, 2000; Fly Paper Book, 2003; Names/Lives, 2001; Four 1-word Books / One 4-word book; You & I Cardgame; Soul & Psyche, 1998; Children’s Shoes, 1992; Old Address Book, 1985; Structure and Meaning, 1981; Clues to Myself, 1981; Sensations, 1984; Homo Futurus, 1986; Introduction to the 1979-1986 Trilogy; Weeks (with Hannah Weiner), 1990; 
http://library.whitney.org/vwebv/search?searchArg=barbara+rosenthal&searchCode=GKEY%5E*&limitTo=none&recCount=50&searchType=1&page.search.search.button=Search

ARTIST'S STUDIO:
eMediaLoft.org
By Appointment eMediaLoft.org or BarbaraRosenthal.org
Archives, Journals, Manuscripts, Surreal Photography, Conceptual Photography,
Performance Artifacts and Documentation, Image-Text Prints, Existential Cartoons,
Videos, Artist's Books, New Media 1966-2017
744 Washington St, #629, NYC / Highline District
+1-646-368-5623 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Rosenthal

ARTISTS BOOKS, PRINTS,VIDEOS AND PRINT-INSTALLATIONS
Represented by and On View at
CENTRAL BOOKING/ Artspace
Th-Su, 12-6pm and by appointment. info@centralbookingnyc.com.
21 Ludlow St, NYC / Lower East Side
+1-646-368-5623
http://centralbookingnyc.com/galleries/gallery-1-artist-books-prints/artists-work/barbara-rosenthal/

70 BOOKS and BOOKWORKS, SPOKEN WORD CDs, BUTTON PINS + VIDEOS
PRINTED MATTER(new location)
231 Eleventh Ave, NYC / Chelsea
Mon-Sat 11am-7pm
http://printedmatter.org/catalog/artists/641

LONDON
ARTIST’S BOOKS:
TATE BRITAIN LIBRARY and READING ROOM 
By Appointment reading.rooms@tate.org.uk 
Bookworks including: Old Address Book; Homo Futurus blank book; Homo Futurus; Soul & Psyche; Clues to Myself; Structure and Meaning; Childrens Shoes; Dirty Book; Introduction to the Trilogy 1979-1986; Sensations; Provocation Cards folio 2008; Provocation Cards folio 2010; Barbara Rosenthal Contemplates Suicide Folio; Catalogue Raisonneé 2006, Catalog: Retrospective One 4-Word Book; Names/Lives; Identity Theft Masks Book; Old & New Masters of Super-8 Festival Catalogs 1-6. 
Spoken Word Audio CDs including: Readings from Soul & Psyche; Readings from Homo Futurus; Readings from Sensations.

BUDAPEST
ARTIST’S BOOKS, VIDEOS, DELUXE OBJECTS, PERFORMANCE DOCUMENTATION, INTERACTIVE NOVELTIES and AUDIO:
ARTPOOL ART RESEARCH CENTER / Budapest Museum of Fine Arts
By Appointment Budapest VI, Liszt Ferenc tér 10., first floor OR MAIL TO: 1277 Budapest 23, P.O. Box 52, Hungary - tel. / fax.: (+36-1) 268-01-14 - mobile: +36-70-683-1872 email artpool@artpool.hu
Mixed-Media Titles and presentation documentation including Chance for the Future, 1996; Fire & Ice, 2012; Elements from ‘Self-Portrait Room', 1968; Video Mirror, 1985, Bird Hands Rondela, 2005;http://www.artpool.hu/Rosenthal/
Books including Soul & Psyche, 1998 and proto-edition: Soul & Psyche: The Zygotes of Art, 1996; One 4-Word Book, 1995; Weeks (collaboration with poet Hannah Weiner:, 1989; Homo Futurus, 1986;Sensations, 1984; Clues to Myself, 1981 http://www.artpool.hu/Rosenthal/RosBooks.html
Pamphlets including Retrospective, 1994; Children’s Shoes, 1992; Introduction to the Trilogy 1979-1986; Old Address Book, 1995; Homo Futurus blank book, 1984; Stucture and Meaning;http://www.artpool.hu/Rosenthal/RosPamph.html
Interactive Novelties including: One 4-word Book / Four 1-word Books, 1995; Button Pins Page: Nice, 1982-1995; Assorted Catrds and Postcards Folio, 1986; Bookmarks, 1986; You and I Cardgame, 1986; Pocketful of Poesy, 1996; http://www.artpool.hu/Rosenthal/RosInteract.html.

BERLIN

ARTIST’S BOOKS
BERLIN KUNSTBIBLIOTEK / Staatliche Museen zu Berlin 
By Appointment Telefon: +49 (0)30 / 266 42 4141 E-mail: auskunft.kb@smb.spk-berlin.de
Houses Rosenthal's bookworks including: Names/Lives, 2000; Introduction to the 1979-1986 Trilogy, Fourth Edition, 2000; Soul & Psyche; One 4-word Book / Four 1-word Books, 1995; Children’s Shoes, 1993; Weeks (with Hannah Weiner), 1990; Introdution to the 1979-1986 Trilogy, First Edition, 1985; Old Address Book, 1985.
http://iaiweb1.iai.spk-berlin.de/DB=2/LNG=DU/SID=fc835f22-1/CMD?ACT=SRCHA&IKT=1016&SRT=YOP&TRM=%22Barbara+Rosenthal%22

VIDEO
JEWISH MUSEUM BERLIN (Jüdisches Museum Berlin) 
By Appointment Lindenstraße 9-14, 10969 Berlin, Germany; +49 30 25993300; http://www.jmberlin.de
Vdeo Leah Gluck: Victim of the Twins Experiments, 1983

MORE INFO:
WEBSITE: barbararosenthal.org
WIKIPEDIA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Rosenthal
FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/barbara.rosenthal1

PAST EVENTS CALENDARS:

PAST 2018

Exibitions, Readings, Performances and Screenings, Jan-Feb, 2018

NYC / Lower East Side) (BOOKWORK PERFORMANCE)
CENTRAL BOOKING
***EXHIBITION: Nov 9, 2017-Jan 22, 2018***
*******PERFORMANCE: Thurs, Jan 18, 2018********
What do vegetables exchange at their wedding?
Why did the vine make large tips as a go-go dancer?<
BOXED ARTIST BOOK: "75 Plant Jokes" (x a na d u p r e s s, 2017, with Lehman Weichselbaum, and Jeffrey Cyphers Wright.). 75 individually 4" x 4" 4-page/1-leaf, ring-bound cleverly written and illustrated riddles about plants of all kind, especially vegetables! Edition of 12. This show, "Garden of Earthly Delights" is curated by Maddy Rosenberg in the HABER SPACE, which is dedicated to art about scientific phenomena.
PERFORMANCE: During the evening, Barbara Rosenthal, Lehman Weichselbaum, and Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, will casually mingle among the visitors, handing out separate pages from the “75 Plant Joke Book” riddles, with a list of prizes on the back (which may be traded and discussed at will). At the time appointed by curator Maddy Rosenberg, the three artists will assemble, do a little shtik and dissembling, ask who amongst you can venture any guesses, and award the Asparagus Answer Prizes and Dandelion Door Prizes.
FB Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1887296001344891/
MORE INFO: OTHER WORK by Barbara Rosenthal can be viewed and ordered online from this gallery: http://centralbookingnyc.com/galleries/gallery-1-artist-books-prints/artists-work/barbara-rosenthal/
LOCATION:
CENTRAL BOOKING
21 Ludlow St. (Between Canal and Grand. F to East Broadway)
Lower East Side / NYC
347-731-6559

Boxtop from 75 Plant Jokes Book Text by Barbara Rosenthal, Image by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

THE FILM-MAKERS CoOP GALLERY & Screening Room (Photograph)
***Sat., Jan. 27, 2018, 5-7PM***
View East On 57th St Outside the NY Gallery Building, Full Moon, With Karen Yager, 0136, NYC
photograph at auction to benefit the Film-makers CoOp, NYC 5-7PM FREE / New Works Screening Fest
LOCATION:
474 Park Ave South, 6th floor (at 32nd St.)
New York, NY 10016
212-267-5665
www.film-makerscoop.com
info@film-makerscoop.com

View East On 57th St Outside the NY Gallery Building, Full Moon, With Karen Yager, 0136, NYC signed 11 x 14 unmanipulated digital photograph by Barbara Rosenthal at Film Co-op Gallery, NYC.

NYC / Lower East Side) (CONCEPTUAL PHOTOGRAPHY)
Haber Space / CENTRAL BOOKING
***EXHIBITION: Feb. 8 - March 25, 2018***
*******OPENING, THURS, Feb 8, 2018, 6-8********
Starfish / Fossil / Twins
in "Fossil Tales" exhibition of art based on Paleontology curated by Maddy Rosenberg. Catalog available.
Starfish/Fossil/Twins, 1991-2018. Mediated original and appropriated photographs; digitally printed on Hahnemuhle rag paper, 4-panel quad.
Image: 4 framed panels 13” x 13" each, arranged in quad. All objects found and owned by artist as real things. UL: dorsal side of starfish. UR: fossil rock. LL: appropriated images from page 293 of book "Human Genetics" by E. Novitsky 1977; photo by K. Fredga) of twin children showing them in similar body positions. LR: ventral side of starfish.
Medium/process: 1991: 35mm BW photographs of 2 real objects and 1 appropriated page, printed in gelatin silver that year, then negatives were scanned in 2003, and images digitally, archivally printed 2018. Each part is framed in 1/4” black frame, and hung butting. Edition of 6; 26 inches x 26 inches
Exhibitions: “Barbara Rosenthal: Mid-Career Reterospective” 450 Broadway Gallery, SoHo-NYC, 1994; MoMM Permanent Installation / eMediaLoft.org, NYC, 2010-2017; “Fossil Tales, “ CENTRAL BOOKING, NYC, 2018.
Reproductions / Reviews: Cover Magazine. Review by Robert C. Morgan
Catalog: Fossil Tales
MORE INFO: OTHER WORK by Barbara Rosenthal can be viewed and ordered online from this gallery: http://centralbookingnyc.com/galleries/gallery-1-artist-books-prints/artists-work/barbara-rosenthal/
LOCATION:
HABER SPACE / CENTRAL BOOKING
21 Ludlow St. (Between Canal and Grand. F to East Broadway)
Lower East Side / NYC
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/150441942339351/
347-731-6559

Starfish / Fossil / Twins, 1991. 26" x 26" quad. Conceptual Photography by Barbara Rosenthal at Haber Space in NYC.
This quadratic piece is a first print of an AP 1991 exhibited in Rosenthal's mid-career retreospective at the 450 Broadway Gallery, 1994,
reviewed in "Cover" magazine by Robert C. Morgan.

BERLIN / Friedrichshain (Video)
"Many Thanks from Bila and Barbara"
Boddinale Film Festival
***Feb 15-25, 2018***
Twenty cameras (most vintage, some quite new, owned since 1973) record a simultaneous shoot of Barbara Rosenthal with "Bila," the doll-like statue presented to her in 2015 to represent the Boddinale Independent Life Award, inaugurated just for her by the Boddinale. She and the statue have a dialog wherein the artist expresses how much Bila has meant to her, and how it changed her life. As she speaks, m
free entryany facets of these two, all from different cameras and stocks in Rosenthal's studio cabinets for decades, pop around the screen.
FB Event and More Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/514090185635853/permalink/547972882247583/
LOCATION:
Urban Spree Theatre at RAW
 Revalerstrasse 99 (corner Warschauer)
10245 Berlin / Friedrichshain
boddinale.com
+49 30 740 78 597
contact@urbanspree.com

Barbara Rosenthal video award thank you to premiere in Berlin.
Link to the video on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/253128612

WALES / Caernarfon (Video)
Words Come Out Backwards When Spoken to Screen Left
One-Minute Film Festival, Vol VI
***Feb 23-25, 2018***
***Preview at BALACLAFA CARN Fri. Feb 23, 6.30-800pm
Words Come Out Backwards When Spoken to Screen Left video by Barbara Rosenthal in Programme 3:
WORDS COME OUT BACKWARDS WHEN SPOKEN TO SCREEN LEFT: One irregularly-shaped portrait still of the artistl shot by Bill Creston as she purses her lips to speakOut comes a strange configuration of letters on the screen as we hear her voice recite them in ways much more familiar. How did she think up this project? She answers, Last night I was up talking to myself, when the words appeared visimagically before my lips, and kept coming out. If you were on my right and saw them also, they’d be backwards coming forwards as they were. This video is yet another example of how Rosenthal apprehends the same universe as appears before the eyes of us all, yet finds its way into her mind and out again as art to reassert and interpret itself in the most surprising ways! Premiered at the Nihilist Film Festival, LA/Santa Monica, CA, 2004. Featured at Rosenthal's solo show Existential Cartoons, L-Gallery, Moscow, 2006. Screened Boddinale, Berlin; Directors Lounge, Berlin; Millennium, NYC; eMediaLoft.org,NYC; Furtherfield, London; Balaclafa Carn, Wales.
More Info:
LOCATIONS and SHOWTIMES Feb 23-25, 2018:
BALACLAFA CARN
Balaclava Road
LL55 1TG Caernarfon
Saturday 11am - 5pm Sunday 11am - 4 pm
CARNafan
Castle Square, Caernarfon
outside Cafe Gisda
Saturday 11am - 4pm
Pitchblack Paradise
Studio 12, Parc Glynllifon.
LL54 5DY
Saturday 11am -5pm

Barbara Rosenthal video to screen in Wales.
Link to the video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXgUkw1K8os
Available as Boxed DVD from PrintedMatter: https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/18555/
Available for Rent or Purchase from Film-makers CoOp: http://film-makerscoop.com/catalogue/barbara-rosenthal-words-come-out-backwards-when-spoken-to-screen

East Village / NYC (Featured Reading)
***Friday, March 2, 2018, 8-10pm***
A-Space
Reading "Four One-page Chapters from Wish for Amnesia"
Chapter 13: Jewel; Chapter 39: In the Air; Chapter 40: Caroline at Computer II; Chapter 41: From the Skies over Italy
in "An East Village Happening: Poetry, Prose and Music" curated by Armand Ruhlman
Free Entry: Donations entitle you to an appreciative glass of wine!
LOCATION:
A-Space
614 E. 9th St (Ave B/C) (L train to 1st Ave)
NY, NY 10009


Barbara Rosenthal will read from her novel WISH FOR AMNESIA at A-Space, NYC.
See inside the novel, reviews and more: wishforamnesia.com

NYC (Video)
Seventieth Birthday Interantional Video Retrospective:
Program 1: 70th Birthday Video Party
***Aug 15, 2018, 7PM***
THE FILM-MAKER'S CoOPERATVIE
Featuring performance-based videos by Barbara Rosenthal and friends Carolee Schneemann, Charlie Morrow, Jerome Rothenberg, Noe Kidder, Pam Kray, Maria Beatty, Tessa Hughes-Freeland, Joel Schlemowitz, Mary Magdalene Serra, Coleen Fitzgibbon, Coleen Fitzgibbon, Terry Berkowitz, Ela Troyano, Henry Hills and Bill Creston.

“Outer Bodies, Inner Selves” is the theme for the night’s screenings by Barbara Rosenthal and other artists who have used their own and other physical bodies to explicate humanity in terms that include, but are not limited to sex.

This party is the kickoff to a year of Rosenthal’s 70th Birthday International Video Retrospective. It will begin here at 7PM on Wed, August 15, with the following films, (and then Barbara will be traveling throughout the year on with various of the 130 video shorts she has made since 1976, to Miami and Buenos Aires (facilitator Daniela Luna), Berlin (Boddinale Film Festival), Helsinki (facilitator Charlie Morrow), Brussels (facilitator Alex Dementieva) and points east.

The 7PM party at the Film CoOp will include:
Barbara Rosenthal NEWS TO FIT THE FAMILY // PREGNANCY DREAMS // WHISPERING CONFESSION // BARBARA ROSENTHAL CONTEMPLATES SUICIDE // PUSH ME
Carolee Schneemann INFINITY KISSES
Charlie Morrow & Jerome Rothenberg SONGS OF FLOWERS AND STONES
Noe Kidder A PARADISE OF CHILDREN
Pam Kray THE GHOST SONATA
Maria Beatty BANDAGED
Tessa Hughes-Freeland BABY DOLL
Joel Schlemowitz ABRASIONS
MM Serra CHOP OFF
Coleen Fitzgibbon, BEACH
Terry Berkowitz EYE OF THE CAMERA (excerpt)
Ela Troyano POST PLASTICA 
Henry Hills SSS 
Bill Creston OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK 24 HOURS A DAY

ADDRESS: Film-makers CoOp
475 Park Ave South (at 32nd St), 6th floor, NY, NY 10016
(212) 267-5665
DATE & TIME: Wed, Aug. 15, 7pm sharp.
Seating is limited. 
Please RSVP. filmmakerscoop@gmail.com
Donation: $10.




STILLS: "Pregnancy Dreams" 1979, "Push Me" 2019, Videos by Barbara Rosenthal at Film CoOp, NYC

TV INTERVIEW
Tues, Sept 11, 2018, 8PM
on Paul DeRienzo’s show “Let Them Talk:
In Manhattan, on these 4 cable stations:
FiOS 34
RCN 83
Spectrum 56 & 1996
On the Web, on these 2 channels
MNN.org
Lifestyle channel
Long known as “Old Master of New Media," Rosenthal will be interviewed about her 60 years of Journal-keeping, the relationship between her photo/video/performance work and writings, and about the 40-year development of her novel WISH FOR AMNESIA (more info about novel: wishforamnesia.com). This is her third time being solo guest on this talk show. 

photos: Barbara Rosenthal appeared twice before on this talk show, and will be Paul's guest again Sept. 11, 2018.

performance workshop, NYC
THURS, SEPT. 20, 2018, 5:30-7PM.
Improvisation with audience members and other featured players
in the Performance/Reading Workshop curated by Armand Ruhlman.
East Village Performance Reading Series
LOCATION: Tompkins Square Libray
331 E. 10th St. (Ave A-B)
ADMISSION: FREE

photo: Barbara Rosenthal will present an improv in NYC.

featured reading, NYC
MON, SEPT. 24, 2018, 8PM.
FEATURED READER, Reading Chapter TBA from the definitive first edition (2018) of novel "Wish for Amnesia" (Deadly Chaps Press, NYC), nominated for National Book Award and Pushcart Prize.
Saturn Reading Series
PROGRAM: Saturn Reading Series curated by Su Polo.
http://www.supolo.com/Saturn_Series_Poetry.html
LOCATION: Barlovento
430 Third Avenue at corner of 30th Street, NYC
Train: 6 to 33th Street, walk East to 3rd Ave. and down 3 blocks to 30th Street. (28t St. Stop is closed)
ADMISSION: $3 contrib. (Food, Drink Available.)

READING: Barbara Rosenthal will read from the 2018 definitive first edition of her novel "Wish for Amnesia" (Deadly Chaps Press), Sept. 18, in NYC.

featured reading, Brooklyn
SAT, SEPT. 29, 2018, 3PM.
FEATURED READER, Reading a poem from her upcoming chapbook DUAL TO THE FINISH: EROTIC POETRY OF LOVE, CHAGRIN AND IRONY.
100,000 Poets for Change
curated by Dorothy Friedman August, and also featuring Nancy Merade, Michael Andre, Robert Roth, Lydia Cortex, Yuko Otomo and Steve Dalachinsky
LOCATION: Unnameable Books
600 Vanderbilt Ave (near 7th Ave) Brooklyn, NY
ADMISSION: FREE

READING: Barbara Rosenthal will read from her upcoming chapbook (Xanadu Press), in Bklyn.

OMPKINS SQUARE LIBRARY
featured reading, NYC
TUES, DEC. 11, 2018, 5PM.
FEATURED READING of "Chapter 30: Jewel Swims Out" from WISH FOR AMNESIA (Deadly Chaps Press)
See wishforamnesia.com for more info about the book, and come hear Barbara Rosenthal read:
in "Opening Performances Two" curated by Armand Ruhlman and Vernita Nemic
KIRKUS REVIEW, on the STARRED AND RECOMMENDED LIST: “…satirical, fantastical, and philosophical….. We see the world…most rivetingly…. readers will find that they can’t take their eyes away. They’ll also sometimes wonder what’s real and what’s not—and exactly what kind of magic might be at work. A celebration of the dysfunctional that will keep readers turning pages."
HOME PLANET NEWS REVIEW: “…Clinical precision and vertiginous pace combine into one of the most astounding passages of English prose you’ll ever read.”
LOCATION
Tompkins Square Library
331 East 10 St. NYC
ADMISSION: FREE

Barbara Rosenthal will read Chapter 30 at the NYPL Tompkins Square Library, NYC on Dec. 11.

VIRIDIAN GALLERY
featured reading, NYC
THURS, DEC. 13, 2018, 7PM.
FEATURED READER, Reading "Chapter 31: Exhausted and Exposed" from WISH FOR AMNESIA (Deadly Chaps Press)
WISH FOR AMNESIA is a modern-day mix of futuristic fable and historical fact that follows six idiosyncratic characters in New York and Rome from 19§8-85, Hippiedom to Halley’s Comet
See wishforamnesia.com for more info about the book, and come here Barbara Rosenthal read:
in "Opening Performances Two" curated by Armand Ruhlman and Vernita Nemic
KIRKUS REVIEW, on the STARRED AND RECOMMENDED LIST: “…satirical, fantastical, and philosophical….. We see the world…most rivetingly…. readers will find that they can’t take their eyes away. They’ll also sometimes wonder what’s real and what’s not—and exactly what kind of magic might be at work. A celebration of the dysfunctional that will keep readers turning pages."
HOME PLANET NEWS REVIEW: “…Clinical precision and vertiginous pace combine into one of the most astounding passages of English prose you’ll ever read.”
in "Opening Performances One" curated by Armand Ruhlman and Vernita Nemic
LOCATION
Viridian Gallery
548 W. 28 St. NYC
ADMISSION: FREE
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/362322061197933/

Barbara Rosenthal will read Chapter 31 at Viridian Gallery, NYC on Dec. 13.

Jefferson Market Library
featured reading, NYC
SAT, DEC. 15, 2018, 2PM.
FEATURED READER, Reading her poem in the current anthology, THREE BOTTLES, reprinted from Rosenthal's 1986 book SENSATIONS (Visual Studies Workshop Press).
Brownstone Poets Anthology
curated by Patricia Carragon, editor of the Brownstone Anthology.
LOCATION: Jefferson Market Library
425 Avenue of the Americas (at W. 10th St), NYC 212-243-4334
ADMISSION: FREE
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/315854225642147/

READING: Barbara Rosenthal will read at the Jefferson Market branch of the NYPL New York Public Library, NYC on Dec. 15.

PAST 2017

Exibitions, Readings, Performances and Screenings, Jan-Dec 2017

NYC (VIDEO)
FILM-MAKERS CoOP
***January 28, 2017, 7 pm***
VIDEO SHORT I Have a New York Accent (1990, 1.5mins)  in
"New Year: New Works in Collection and Distribution" Screening Night
ENTRY: $ 10.
LOCATION:
FILM-MAKERS CoOP
475 Park Avenue South, between 31-32 Sts, 6th floor
Park Ave South / NYC

VIDEO: I Have a New York Accent by Barbara Rosenthal on YouTube.
REVIEW: A True and Timeless Universality, the 1500-word review of this 1.5-minute film, in "Gathering of The Tribes" magazine.

NYC (PRINTS, BOOKWORKS, VIDEOS)
HABER SPACE at CENTRAL BOOKING
***Thurs., Feb 9 - Sun. March 26, 2017. Opening Thurs., Feb 9-6pm***
Image/text Print in exhibition "THE WASTELAND?" (art about endangered plant species)
Curated by Maddy Rosenberg, HABER SPACE is dedicated to art about scientific phenomena. This season’s exhibit “The Wasteland?” exploring endangered plant species includes work by Barbara Rosenthal, Nina Kuo, Adrienne Moumin, Gerhild Ebel. Works by Rosenthal at this gallery are::
1. PRINT: World's Oldest Known Plant Gains Refuge, 1985. This is a re-configured article from the NY Times that Rosenthal first used in her 1986 artist’s book, Homo Futurus.
The book is also on sale at the gallery, as are several of her print installations and mixed-media works, in the front room “Artist’s Book Gallery” :
2. PRINT INSTALLATION: Sewn Jackets and Shirts Installation 4 archival digital print collages of scanned articles of clothing belonging to the artist, and still worn, since the 1960s; Each piece comprises 12 prints, sewn back-to-back and together by the artist with black cotton thread. Each is placed in Artelope See-Throughs, and hung by Steel Binding Rings suspended from Blond Wooden Hangars, 26 x 38 inches each, complete set of 4,
3. BOXED BOOKWORK: Dirty Book, Boxed, 2009. A boxed, comb-bound, handcrafted book of 8 actual sheet of laminated “dry dirt” cleaned from distinct areas of the artist’s kitchen and studio, plus 51 scanned and digitally printed, double-sided sheets. Two chapters: “Past Life” and “Art History”, plus a “Dirty Joke.” Each lamination and print have been created as an abstract collage of authentic debris. 5 x 5 inches, edition of 25.
4. OFFSET BOOK: Homo Furturus, 1986. Publisher: Visual Studies Workshop Press. An offset book with smythsewn binding, printed spine, varnished black, white and cyan cover, containing 37 surreal photographs, 26 trompe l’oeil overlays, 34 pages of continuous journal-form entries as texture-to-be-read. Private, public, social and universal materials from news sources, literature, science and personal archives mix in unified visual-verbal double-page images to reveal a philosophical perception of art and humankind, Judith Hoffberg, Umbrella. 8.5 x 5.5 X .25 inches, edition of 500.
EVENT: https://www.facebook.com/events/1233750673410226/
MORE INFO: OTHER WORK by Barbara Rosenthal can be viewed and ordered online from this gallery: http://centralbookingnyc.com/galleries/gallery-1-artist-books-prints/artists-work/barbara-rosenthal/
ENTRY: Free.
LOCATION:
CENTRAL BOOKING
21 Ludlow St. (Between Canal and Grand. F to East Broadway)
Lower East Side / NYC
347-731-6559
http://centralbookingnyc.com/

World’s Oldest Known Plant Gains Refuge, 1985, print by Barbara Rosenthal at HABER SPACE / CENTRAL BOOKING, NYC.

NYC (READING for Women’s History Month)
CORNELIA STREET CAFE
***Sunday, March 26, 6-8pm***
Reading Patterns, a poem by Amy Lowell:
Literary Readings for Women’s History Month. Curated by Dorothy Friedman.
Readers include Lydia Cortes, Yuko Otomo, Tsaurah Litsky, Jane Ormerod and Barbara Rosenthal.
Rosenthal will read “Patterns,” by Amy Lowell. She chose this piece because it was the poem she was trained to read by her high school, when they entered her to win the New York State Poetry Reading Championship, in 1965.
MORE INFO: https://www.facebook.com/events/1772945059689439/
LOCATION:
CORNELIA STREET CAFE
29 Cornelia Street (off Bleeker. Subway W. 4th St.)
Greenwich Village / NYC
(212) 989-9319
info@corneliastreetcafe.com
ENTRY: $ 10. admission at the door includes a drink.

Barbara Rosenthal at Literary Reading.

NYC
“An Evening with Barbara Rosenthal and Friends: Bookworks, Photos, Videos and Talks”
PRINTED MATTER
***FRI, April 28 6-8pm ***
The definitive first edition of Rosenthal’s 38-year project, the novel Wish for Amnesia, is finally here from Deadly Chaps Press! And it has 58 photos between the chapters. Printed Matter Artist’s Bookshop will celebrate by hosting an evening comprising projections and readings from the pages, plus some image-text videos also carried by Printed Matter. In addition, this evening will feature several writers and video artists whom Rosenthal has published via her own imprint, x a n a d u p r e s s, and videos featured at her own studio, eMediaLoft.org: Bonny Finberg, Coleen Fitzgibbon, Prudence Groube and Jeffrey Cyphers Wright.
EVENT: https://www.facebook.com/events/239499883124326/
MORE INFO: Over 70 OTHER BOOK & VIDEO WORKS by Barbara Rosenthal can be viewed and ordered online from this shop: https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/artist/641
ENTRY: Free.
LOCATION:
PRINTED MATTER
231 11th Ave (at W. 26th St. A/C/E to 23rd St.)
Chelsea / NYC
(212) 989-9319
printedmatter.org

"Front Cover: Wish for Amnesia, definitive first edition, Deadly Chaps Press, 2017"

BROOKLYN (Reading)
BROWNSTONE ANTHOLOGY
Reading "Someone Upstairs"
***Sat., May 20, 2017, 2:30 pm***
This is the launch of Brownstone Poets 2017 Anthology , edited by Patricia Carragon, and besides Rosenthal includes Zev Torres, Yuko Otomo, Thaddeus Rutkowski, Su Polo, Steve Dalachinsky, Ron Kolm, Olivia Wu, Jay Chollick, George Wallace, Francine Witte, Dorothy Friedman August, Diane Block, Bob Heman and Amy Barone.
LOCATION:
Park Plaza Diner Reading Corner
220 Cadman Plaza W, Brooklyn, NY 11201
subway High Street / Clark Street
Phone: (718) 596-5900
Free entry. Food and drink available.

READING: Barbara Rosenthal will read from the anthologized version of her poem "Someone at the Upstairs Window," May 20, in Brooklyn.

NYC (New Media Showcase)
Sat, June 10, 2017, 8pm
 "Barbara Rosenthal--Surreal Photography Stabilized Morph Projection: Black, 2013"
DVD projection morphing Rosenthal's Surreal and Conceptual Photographs from the same source, revealing the underpinnings of some of her quest for stability and definitive identity. Audio by Matthew Lee Knowles
As with many of her works, many media, both analog and digital, anre seamlessly combined. Viewers are welcome to bring New Media samples under 10 mins to showcase "open mic."
LOCATION: eMediaLoft
Westbeth Artists Complex
744 Washington St.
6th floor, studio 629
646-368-5623
$8. doors and concession open 7:30

Three Still frames from Surreal Photography Stabilized Morph Projection: Black, 2013, by Barbara Rosenthal in New Media Showcase at eMediaLoft, NYC.

HELSINKI (and Online)
24-hour VERNAL EQUINOX / SPRING SOLSTICE GLOBAL PROJECT
***00:00 GMT June 21 - 00:000 GMT June 22, 2017: http://solstice24.com
Curated once again this year by the inimitable Charlie Morrow and Peter Kirby. Featuring Bob Holman, Barbara Rosenthal, Jerome Rothenberg, et al.

VIDEO: International Garbage: see on YouTube. and Dog Recognition: see on Vimeo.

Lifestyle Channel -TV INTERVIEW, April 11, 2017

*** Tues, April 11, 8pm, INTERVIEWED LIVE 30 MINS.***
Barbara Rosenthal INTERVIEWED LIVE by Manhattan Neighborhood Network, Channels 56, 83, 35 and MNN.org (Lifestyle Channel) about her 38-year project, the novel-with-photographs, WISH FOR AMNESIA, and how it fits into her life's work in video, text and performance. As well as what this iconoclastic intellectual might think about politics and philosophy. The interviewer is Paul DeRienzo. This will be his second interview of Rosenthal at this station. They plan to jump off from a point made earlier this week by Lehman Weichselbaum, during his interview of her at eMediaLoft: the games and puzzles and tricks in and machinery of Rosenthal's novel WISH FOR AMNESIA, and how much chicanery and puzzle works there are in so many of her other projects.

MNN: Manhattan Neighborhood Network.
MNN Online Video Recording of the Interview: http://www.nhltv.net/video/barbara-rosenthal-author-of-wish-for-amnesia/TlN941ugp08+5LXZLIqmwfM
in Manhattan:
Spectrum/TWC channel 56,
RCN channel 83,
FIOS channel 34
On The Internet
MNN.org click on the Lifestyle channel
YouTube Online Video Recording of the Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LXZLIqmwfM&feature=em-share_video_user

Lower East Side, NYC (PHOTOGRAPH at AUCTION)
THE FILM-MAKERS CoOP at NEXT TO NOTHING GALLERY
***Aug 23-Sept 6, 2017***
View East On 57th St Outside the NY Gallery Building, Full Moon, With Karen Yager, 0136, NYC, photograph at auction to benefit the Film-makers CoOp, NYC: BID ONLINE: https://paddle8.com/auction/filmmakerscoop/ (NEW LINK 2017 TBA)
Auction includes works by John Ahearn, Peter Fend, Su Friedrich, Jenny Holzer, Jim Jarmusch, Kurt Kren, Jonas Mekas, Tom Otterness, Walter Robinson, Barbara Rosenthal, Carolee Schneemann, Rudy Shepherd, Kiki Smith, E.S.P. TV, Sara VanDerBeek, Jack Waters, et al.
Facebook Event: TBA
Auction Curators: MM Serra and Molua Muldown.
Viewing Location:
Next to Nothing Gallery
181 Orchard St., Lower East Side/NYC
info@N2N.NYC.com
(917) 265-8156
filmmakerscoop@gmail.com

View East On 57th St Outside the NY Gallery Building, Full Moon, With Karen Yager, 0136, NYC signed 11 x 14 unmanipulated digital photograph by Barbara Rosenthal at Film Co-op 2017 Online Auction, NYC.

Park Slope, BROOKLYN (Reading)
BROWNSTONE ANTHOLOGY at BKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY
Featured Reading "'Chapter 29: Toto, Beatrice and Jewel Drive to Ostia,' from novel Wish for Amnesia (Deadly Chaps Press, 2017)"
***Wed., Sept. 13, 2017, 5:45 pm***
This is the second event of Brownstone Poets 2017 Anthology , edited by Patricia Carragon, and besides Rosenthal includes Zev Torres, Ron Kolm, Olivia Wu, Jay Chollick, Francine Witte, Dorothy Friedman August, Diane Block, Bob Heman and Amy Barone.
LOCATION:
Brooklyn Public Libray
431 Sixth Ave (at 9th St), Park Slope/Brooklyn
subway R to 9th St/4th Ave. or F to 7th Ave.
Phone: (718) 832-1853
Free entry.

READING: Barbara Rosenthal will read from her 2017 definitive first edition of her novel "Wish for Amnesia" (Deadly Chaps Press), Sept. 13, in Brooklyn.

featured reading)
MON, SEPT. 18, 2017, 8PM.
FEATURED READER, Reading Chapter 21: Jewel Enters Beatrice's Party Alone from the definitive first edition (2017) of novel "Wish for Amnesia" (Deadly Chaps Press, NYC), nominated for National Book Award and Pushcart Prize.
Saturn Reading Series
PROGRAM: Saturn Reading Series curated by Su Polo.
http://www.supolo.com/Saturn_Series_Poetry.html
LOCATION: Shades of Green, 125 E 15th St, New York, NY 10003
(212) 674-1394
ADMISSION: $3 contrib. (Food, Drink Available.)

READING: Barbara Rosenthal will read from her 2017 definitive first edition of her novel "Wish for Amnesia" (Deadly Chaps Press), Sept. 18, in NYC.

"Ragazine" NYC (Announcing New Column!)
GOES LIVE SEPT 18: http://ragazine.cc/2017/09/barbara-rosenthal-a-crack-in-the-sidewalk/
A Crack in the Sidewalk is back after a hiatus of 50 years! Ragazine, edited by Mike Foldes, will resume publication of Barbara Rosenthal's column of philosophy, art and social commentary in September, 2017. It first appeared in the Franklin Square Bulletin, in 1963, when Rosenthal was 15 years old!

"A Crack in the Sidewalk" column by Barbara Rosenthal will resume in "Ragazine," Sept 18, 2017, NYC.

"La Repubblica" ITALY (Print & Online Interview)
Oct 2, 2017 Interview
Interview of Barbara Rosenthal by Andrea Lattanzi will discuss her association with Italy as a student of Art History in Pistoia and Rome,1968-69, her video/film tour of the cities along the Danube in 1996, and her exhibitions, screenings, performances, conferences and readings in Puglia, Florence and Rome in 2016. The occasion of this interview is the extraodinary situation of a 1967 photograph of her turning up in an envelope full of bullets in the mountains of Tuscany, in a hideaway connected to a political assassination!
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NYC (Painting)
Contemporary Self-portraits
OCTOBER 5 - NOVEMBER 18, 2017. Opening Reception: Thursday, Oct 5, 6-7:30pm
The early career of Barbara Rosenthal begain in painting. She holds BFA and MFA Painting degrees, and her first 6 years of college teaching were in painting and related subjects. This is a Self-Portrait in Studio, painted when Rosenthal was 20 years old, at Tyler School of Art in Rome, Italy. She decided to loan this painting to the show because of its relevance to the current La Repubblica article about her experiences in Italy.
EXHIBITION: “Me, My Selfie and I: Contemporary Self-Portraits” curated by Rick Krieger and Jim Furlong.
Artists include: Chris Costan, Liz Curtin, Elisa Decker ,Vija Doks, Charles Dvorak, Bonnie Epstein, Marty Friedman, Jill Gewirtz, Edward Herman, Amy Hil,l Elisabeth Jacobsen, Judy Rifka, Bonnie Rosenstock, Barbara Rosenthal, Arlene Rush, Barbara Slitkin, SuZen, Elise Tak, Jeanne Wilkinson, Jeff Wright
LOCATION:
Hudson Guild Elliot Center
441 W 26 St (at 9th Ave)
NY, NY 10001
Subway A, C, E to 23rd St.
212-760-9837
Viewing Hourts
Tu-Fr 10-8
Sat 10-6

"Self-Portrait in Studio, #18," 1968, Rome Italy. On exhibit at the Elliot Center, NYC.

SoHo / NYC (Reading)
BROWNSTONE ANTHLOGY at NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
Featured Reading "'Chapter 5: Beatrice, Effluvia' from novel Wish for Amnesia, (Deadly Chaps Press, 2017)"
***Sat., Oct. 21, 2017, 2 pm***
This is the third event of Brownstone Poets 2017 Anthology, edited by Patricia Carragon, and besides Rosenthal includes Zev Torres, Yuko Otomo, Thaddeus Rutkowski, Su Polo, Steve Dalachinsky, Ron Kolm, Olivia Wu, Jay Chollick, George Wallace, Francine Witte, Dorothy Friedman August, Diane Block, Bob Heman and Amy Barone.
LOCATION:
New York Public Library
109 Jersey Street (between Mullberry and Lafayette)
Free entry.

READING: Barbara Rosenthal will read from her 2017 novel "Wish for Amnesia" (Deadly Chaps Press), at the NYPL.

NYC (New Media Showcase)
Tues., Nov. 20, 2017, 8pm
 "Barbara Rosenthal--Surreal Photography Stabilized Morph Projection: Black, 2013"
DVD projection morphing Rosenthal's Surreal and Conceptual Photographs from the same source, revealing the underpinnings of some of her quest for stability and definitive identity. Audio by Matthew Lee Knowles
As with many of her works, many media, both analog and digital, anre seamlessly combined. Viewers are welcome to bring New Media samples under 10 mins to showcase "open mic."
LOCATION: eMediaLoft
Westbeth Artists Complex
744 Washington St.
6th floor, studio 629
646-368-5623
$8. doors and concession open 7:30 
  
Three Still frames from Surreal Photography Stabilized Morph Projection: Black, 2013, by Barbara Rosenthal in New Media Showcase at eMediaLoft, NYC.

NYC / Lower East Side / (Featured Reading)
                Spoken Word Sunday / Great Weather For Media
***Sun., Nov. 26, 2017, 4 pm***
PARKSIDE LOUNGE
"Selections from Rosenthal's 5 Major Books 1980-2017:'Wish for Amnesia'; 'Clues to Myself'; 'Sensations'; 'Homo Futurus'; and 'Soul & Psyche'"
Featured Reading In this series curated by George Wallace, Rosenthal will read a short sampling from her various books.
LOCATION:
Parkside Lounge
317 East Houston Street (at Attourney Street)
Subway: F to Delancy or J to Essex
Free entry. (food and drink available)

Barbara Rosenthal will read from 5 of her literary works at Parkside Lounge, NYC.

NYC / Lower East Side / (Featured Reading)
***Fri., Dec 15, 2017, 8:30 pm (doors open at 8)***
A-SPACE
Rosenthal will read a chapter from 'Wish for Amnesia'; Deadly Chaps Press, 2017
Featured Reading curated by Armand Ruhlman
Free Entry: Donations entitle you to an appreciative glass of wine!
LOCATION:
A-Space
614 E. 9th St (Ave B/C) (L train to 1st Ave)
NY, NY 10009

Barbara Rosenthal will read from her novel WISH FOR AMNESIA at Cinema Stage, NYC.

NYC (Painting)
Contemporary Self-portraits
*** Through - NOVEMBER 18, 2017 ***
The early career of Barbara Rosenthal begain in painting. She holds BFA and MFA Painting degrees, and her first 6 years of college teaching were in painting and related subjects. This is a Self-Portrait in Studio, painted when Rosenthal was 20 years old, at Tyler School of Art in Rome, Italy. She decided to loan this painting to the show because of its relevance to the ongoing La Repubblica investigation into an Italian archeological site at which a 1967 photo of her turned up in an envelope of bullets.
EXHIBITION: “Me, My Selfie and I: Contemporary Self-Portraits” curated by Rick Krieger and Jim Furlong.
Artists include: Chris Costan, Liz Curtin, Elisa Decker ,Vija Doks, Charles Dvorak, Jill Gewirtz, Judy Rifka, Barbara Rosenthal, Arlene Rush, Barbara Slitkin, SuZen, and Jeff Wright
LOCATION:
Hudson Guild Elliot Center
441 W 26 St (at 9th Ave)
NY, NY 10001
Subway A, C, E to 23rd St.
212-760-9837
Viewing Hourts
Tu-Fr 10-8
Sat 10-6

"Self-Portrait in Studio, #18," 1968, Rome Italy. On exhibit at the Elliot Center, NYC.

NYC / Lower East Side) (PRINTS, BOOKWORKS)
HABER SPACE at CENTRAL BOOKING
***Nov 9, 2017-Jan 22, 2018***
******OPENING Thursday, Nov. 9, 2017********
1. new::::: BOXED ARTIST BOOK: "75 Plant Jokes" (x a na d u p r e s s, 2017, with Lehman Weichselbaum, and Jeffrey Cyphers Wright.). 75 individually 4" x 4" 4-page/1-leaf, ring-bound cleverly written and illustrated riddles about plants of all kind, especially vegetables! Edition of 12. This show, "Garden of Earthly Delights" is curated by Maddy Rosenberg, HABER SPACE is dedicated to art about scientific phenomena.
This bookwork is featured in this show, and several of her print installations and mixed-media works, are also in the front room “Artist’s Book Gallery” :
2. PRINT INSTALLATION: Sewn Jackets and Shirts Installation 4 archival digital print collages of scanned articles of clothing belonging to the artist, and still worn, since the 1960s; Each piece comprises 12 prints, sewn back-to-back and together by the artist with black cotton thread. Each is placed in Artelope See-Throughs, and hung by Steel Binding Rings suspended from Blond Wooden Hangars, 26 x 38 inches each, complete set of 4,
3. BOXED BOOKWORK: "Dirty Book," Boxed, 2009. A boxed, comb-bound, handcrafted book of 8 actual sheet of laminated “dry dirt” cleaned from distinct areas of the artist’s kitchen and studio, plus 51 scanned and digitally printed, double-sided sheets. Two chapters: “Past Life” and “Art History”, plus a “Dirty Joke.” Each lamination and print have been created as an abstract collage of authentic debris. 5 x 5 inches, edition of 12.
4. OFFSET BOOK: Homo Furturus, 1986. Publisher: Visual Studies Workshop Press. An offset book with smythsewn binding, printed spine, varnished black, white and cyan cover, containing 37 surreal photographs, 26 trompe l’oeil overlays, 34 pages of continuous journal-form entries as texture-to-be-read. Private, public, social and universal materials from news sources, literature, science and personal archives mix in unified visual-verbal double-page images to reveal a philosophical perception of art and humankind," Judith Hoffberg, Umbrella. 8.5 x 5.5 X .25 inches, edition of 500.
FB Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/143902669572498/
MORE INFO: OTHER WORK by Barbara Rosenthal can be viewed and ordered online from this gallery: http://centralbookingnyc.com/galleries/gallery-1-artist-books-prints/artists-work/barbara-rosenthal/
free entry
LOCATION:
CENTRAL BOOKING
21 Ludlow St. (Between Canal and Grand. F to East Broadway)
Lower East Side / NYC
347-731-6559

Boxtop of "Seventy-Five Plant Jokes!" Boxed book opening in NYC.

NYC / Lower East Side) (READING)
at A-SPACE
***FRI, DEC 15, 8pm***
READING CHAPTER 35: Caroline at Computer I, from 2017 novel Wis
h for Amnesia, Deadly Chaps Press
in “an East Village Happening, an Evening of Music, Spoken Word and Performance, including the Reverend Mother Marcy and the latest episode of FANTOMAS, Metaphysical Vampire of the Lower East Side” curated by Armand Ruihlman.
“free; donations accepted for a complimentary glass of wine”
LOCATION:
 A-Space
614 E 9th St, (Aves B/C)East Village
DATE & TIME:
Fri., Dec. 15, 2017, 8-10pm

Come hear a chapter at A-Space, NYC.

NYC / Lower East Side) (PERFORMANCE WORKSHOP)
at the TOMPKINS SQ LIBRARY
***THURS, DEC 21, 5:30***
CONDUCTING an interactive STAGE MOVEMENT workshop
free and open to all of ALL AGES in the “Writing/performance Lab” directed by Armand Rhulman.
LOCATION:
Tompkins Sq. Library
331 East 10th Street<
New York, NY, 10009<
Library Manager: Corinne Neary
212-228-4747
DATE & TIME:Thurs, Dec 21, 5:30-7pm
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION and FREE REGISTRATION: https://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2017/12/21/writingperformance-lab (only your name; other boxes are optional)

Come participate in an interactive stage movement workshop NYC.

PAST, continued

Exibitions, Readings, Performances and Screenings, January-December 2016

NYC (featured reading)
New Year's Day, Fri, Jan 1, 2016
At the Window, Fester, Snowy Morning After
reading poem published in “Palabras Luminosas / Luminous Words: ROGUE SCHOLARS PRESS ANTHOLOGY 2016”
Nuyorican Poets Cafe
236 E. Third St, NYC / East Village
212-780-9386

Barbara Rosenthal reading At the Window, Fester, Snowy Morning After , New Years Day, 2016 at Nuyriican, NYC.
Photo by Su Polo. NYC (video).

NYC
Wed, Jan 13, 2016, 8pm
Toil of Three Cities / Liebesmüh
in "Videos from Brussels, Paris and New York"
featuring Beatrjs Albers, Reggy Timmermann, Bill Creston, Barbara Rosenthal and Armand Rhulman.
eMediaLoft.org
744 Washington Street, #A-629
NYC / Highline-Meatpacking-WestVillage
Toil of Three Cities / Liebesmüh on Vimeo:https://vimeo.com/165153306

Still from VIDEO Toil of Three Cities / Liebesmüh at eMediaLoft, NYC.

NYC
Thurs, Jan 21, 2016, 6:30pm
PANELIST: “TWISTED DATA: EUGENICS + PHRENOLOGY”
Haber Space Science and Art / Central Booking
Rosenthal and will screen her video Daddy: Spider Story and speak in the panel  "Humanizing The Dehumanized: The Legacy Of Eugenics And The Relevance Today." Panelists: Noah Fuller, Geraldine Ondrizek, Barbara Rosenthal. Moderator: Nickie Phillips.
info@centralbookingnyc.com.
LOCATION: Haber Space / Central Booking Artspace
21 Ludlow St
NYC / Lower East Side
+1-646-368-5623
http://centralbookingnyc.com/galleries/gallery-1-artist-books-prints/artists-work/barbara-rosenthal/
REVIEW: http://www.craveonline.com/art/929611-secret-histories-twisted-data

LEFT: A still from Daddy: Spider Story, Barbara Rosenthal's video screened during her talk on the Eugenics panel at Haber Space Science in Art, NYC.
RIGHT: Maddy Rosenberg, Barbara Rosenthal, Samm Cohen and Stephanie Young, with Margot Niederland, background left, at a recent Central Booking theme event. 

BERLIN
Feb 12-19, 2016
Vernissage Fri, Feb 12, 7-10pm
Closing Fri, Feb, 19 , 7-10pmh
58 PHOTOS FROM NOVEL “WISH FOR AMNESIA”
Deadly Chaps Press
vernissage Fri, 12 Feb, 19-22h, featuring Music by Claudio Scardino
closing Fri, 19 Feb, 19-22h, with Reading + Booksigning
Studio Baustelle
Berthelsdorfer-str, 11, Berlin/Neukölln
studio-baustelle.org
info@studio-baustelle.org

Barbara Rosenthal and Claudio Scardino at Studio Baustelle, Berlin.

BERLIN (premiering a video short)
Feb 13-18, 2016
Barbara Rosenthal Describes Her Eyebrows with Mitch Corber
Boddinale Film Festival
Loophole Theater
Boddinstrasse, 60, Berlin/Neukölln
boddinale.com

VIDEO Still from Barbara Rosenthal Describes Her Eyebrows at the Boddinale, Berlin.

LONDON (new media performance)
Feb 27, 2016, 6-9pm
Existential Ultraviolet Photo-projection Chase 
in “Ultraviolet Sun” performance evening curated by Tom Estes.
sponsored by MoMM: The Museum of Modern Media
WAC Waterloo Action Centre
14 Baylis Rd, London SE1 7AA
 

Barbara Rosenthal in Existential Ultraviolet Photo-projection Chase, solo New Media performanceat the Waterloo Action Centre, London.

BROOKLYN (3 photographs)
Feb 1 - 28, 2016
Poodle Dog, Paris, 1990; Paris 123; Paris 456
benefit for victimes of Paris terrorism attack
Galerie Café Georges-André
558 Halsey St, Bklyn/Bed-Stuy

35mm PHOTO French Poodle On Sidewalk Paris, 1996 by Barbara Rosenthal at George-André, Brooklyn.

BROOKLYN (featured reading and booksigning)
Sat, March 5, 2016, 2pm
Barbara Rosenthal will read one chapter from her NOVEL Wish for Amnesia
Deadly Chaps Press, in the Brownstone Reading Series curated by Patricia Carragon.
Brownstone Poets at Park Plaza
220 Cadman Plaza W, Bklyn Heights

Barbara Rosenthal holding up the current proto-edition of her novel Wish for Amnesia during her reading in the Brownstone Poets Series, Brooklyn.

BROOKLYN (print wallwork)
Thurs April 14, 2016, 7-9pm reception. 
Exhibition Th April 14, 2016- Tu, May 24
Spines in Bluejeans Over-lifesized Triptych with Ropes, Grommets and C-Clamps
PRINT WALL-WORK INSTALLATION in “The Art of Healing” curated by Joseph A. W. Quintela. Catalog: https://issuu.com/deadlychaps/docs/art_of_healing__catalog_
Formal presentation of each piece by the artist: 7:30pm during Opening: Sarah E. Brook, Prudence Groube, Charles Heppner, Moray Hillary, Barbara Rosenthal, and TJ Volonis. 
Smith&Jones Gallery at Vespa Projects
262 Court St (F/G to Bergen)
Cobble Hill / Bklyn
646-652-9116
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1731552780396100/
sales@smithandjonesart.com

Photo by Andy Brown of Barbara Rosenthal in front of "Spines in Bluejeans" at Vespa, Brooklyn.

LIVERPOOL (video)
Friday, May 13, 2016, 4-11pm.
Words Come Out Backwards When Spoken To Screen Left 
PERFORMANCE VIDEO TEXT ANIMATION SHORT
in “One Minute Videos Volume 6” curated by Kerry Baldry
Liverpool Small Cinema
57-59 Victoria St
Liverpool, L1 6DE, UK
http://liverpoolsmallcinema.org.uk/event/light-night-2016-one-minute-vol-3-9
Click here to see Words Come Out Backwards video online. https://vimeo.com/166512248

Still from Barbara Rosenthal's video "Words Come Out Backwards" at Liverpool Small Cinema, Liverpool.

NYC
Sun., May 22, 2016, 12-2pm
Provocation Cards Interact
a street-performance interaction as part of  “Ideal for Action” curated by Shalom Neuman
Adriaan Van der Plas Gallery
156 Orchard St (F to 1st Ave)
LES/NYC
Variations of this piece, with the Provocation Cards printed up with new languages added as the countries change, have been performed in in Piazza Del Popolo, Rome (2015), Sara Roosevelt Park, NYC (2014), The Upstairs Room, Brisbane (2014), Undercurrent Projects, NYC (2014), Place de Centrale, Brussels (2010), Hackney 10 Vales Gallery, London (2010), SET Gallery, Brooklyn (2009), Wooloo in Front of KV, Berlin (2008), in front of the Gughgenheim Museum and White Box Gallery, NYC (2005)

LEFT: Other portions of the "Provocation Cards Project," including a still from video "Lying Diary / Provocation Cards"
CENTER: "Provocation Cards: Padua Billboards, " Padua, Italy, 2010.
RIGHT: Logo Image for Barbara Rosenthal's "Existential Interact with Provocation Cards," Van Der Plas Gallery, Orchard Street, NYC.

NYC
Sun, May 29, 2016, 5-8pm
White Horse Tavern
39th Anniversary Party of Bill Creston / Barbara Rosenthal Co-lharbitration.
567 Hudson St
West Village / NYC
Open bar.
We've made some interesting films and videos together over the years. Here’s Duets, one that was screened at Creston’s 1989 solo Cineprobe at MoMA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gje2jXMhXn0
Link to Bill Creston artist's page: http://www.emedialoft.org/artistspages/billcreston.htm
PPH

PHOTO: Bill Creston and Barbara Rosenthal in front of Rosenthal's mirror in her Summer-1976 sublet at 25 Thompson St. The cat is "Stripe," kept with her through her divorce from Terry Liss a few weeks earlier. She engaged this sublet from the sister of a woman who came to look at the loft at 95 Ave B that Barbara and Terry were divorcing from. Barbara and Bill have since also raised one more cat, three dogs, two children and two grandchildren. They have only moved once, since they moved in together at 727 Sixth Ave, and that only a few blocks dowriver to the West Village. Come celebrate at their favorite West Village place, made famous by the writer Dylan Thomas. White Horse Tavern, NYC.

LOS ANGELES
Tues, June 7, 2016
Toil of Three Cities / Liebesmüh
15-min video, an L.A. premiere, as part of the “New Media Film Festival” (June 7-9)
Landmark Theater
10850 W. Pico Blvd
LA, CA 90064
Rosenthal gives a short talk and participates on the panel, presented as as "Old master of New Media." 
Festival info: http://newmediafilmfestival.com/schedule.php#ev-01
Toil of Three Cities / Liebesmüh on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/165153306

Still from video "Toil of Three Cities / Liebesmüh" by Barbara Rosenthal at New Media Film Festival, L.A.

NYC. (SOLO - surreal photography)
Exhibition June 9 - July 2, 2016
Reception Tues, June 14, 6-7pm; Readings 7-8pm
“Barbara Rosenthal: 50 Photos from ‘Wish for Amnesia” 
Catalog preview: https://issuu.com/deadlychaps/docs/art_of_healing__catalog_
Catalog preview: Fifty 35-mm surreal photographs shot by Rosenthal in NY, Germany, Wales, London, Prague, Moscow, Beijing, Japan, Australia, etc, yet all with the instability but perfect timing of this artist’s fleeting personal nightmare — a nightmare we suddenly all remember being in! Each of these photos also introduces each chapter in her novel “Wish for Amnesia,” which has been issued in draft-editions and ongoing galleys since 1985, had a Deadly Chaps Press International Launch at the Cialuna Library in Barletta, Italy, in Feb 2015, a Deadly Chaps Press First Galley Launch at Cornelia St Cafe in NYC, and will have a Final First Edition Launch will take place here! Curator and publisher: Joseph A. W. Quintela. Featured readers at 7pm during the June 14 reception will be Barbara Rosenthal, Dorothy Friedman, Mitch Corber, Amy Barone and Lehman Weichselbaum
Smith&Jones @ Galerie Protégé
197 Ninth Ave
NYC/Chelsea
212-807-8957

LEFT: Postcard announcement, with Surreal Photo "Bird in Window, Montreal," 2011, by Barbara Rosenthal, for her solo show at Galerie Protégé, NYC.
RIGHT: Barbara Rosenthal standing in front of her solo show title displayed at Galerie Protégé , NYC.
Photo by Bill Creston. NYC.

HELSINKI, FINLAND (and ONLINE 24-hr streaming)
Tues, June 21, 2016
by Timezone, beginning 5pm at International Date Line
One, Two, Three, Four
videos in Solstice 2016, curated by Charlie Morrow, Bob Holman, Jerome Rothenberg, Adrian Hayman and Marc Nasdor
www.solstice2016.com
Eastern Daylight Time UTC-5 program begins 12am June 21
Central Europe Time UTC_1 program begins 6am June 21
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thesolstice2016
Full Program Info and Press Kit: http://www.solstice2016.com/SOL16-Press-kit.zip
+1-646-235-7228; 212-989-2400 ex 502; info@solstice2016
Here is link to one of Rosenthal's four videos: SPACE AND TIME: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk7hRKk002M

Still from video "Space and Time" by Barbara Rosenthal in Solstice2016, Helsinki.

BERLIN
Fri, June 24 - Sun, June 28, 2016
Alien Fetuses in Jars, 0044, St Petersburg, Russia, 2007
35mm Surreal Photo, digitally printed, in 48 Stunden Festival / 48 Hours in the Neukölln Art District curated by Monika Berstis
Studio Baustelle
Berthelsdorfer-str. 11
Neukölln / Berlin
info@studio-baustelle.org

"Alien Fetusus in Jars" 2007, Surreal Photograph by Barbara Rosenthal, at Studio Baustelle, Berlin.

NYC
Thurs, June 30, 2016, 5:30-7:30pm
Book Talk and Readings
Reception II: solo photo exhibition runs through July 2
Barbara Rosenthal: 50 Surreal Photographs from the Novel ‘Wish for Amnesia’ and All Draft-Editions 1980-2016
Tonight is the second reception for this solo show curated by Joseph A. W. Quintela of Barbara Rosenthal's Surreal Photos between the chapters of this new novel he also published (Deadly Chaps Press). CATALOG: https://issuu.com/deadlychaps/docs/barbara_rosenthal_-_50_surreal_phot
About 6:30, Rosenthal will do an A/V and live presentation about the 36-year development of her novel Wish for Amnesia, with a tableful of binders, drafts, notes, and 12 proto-editions published 1986-2016. Joining us to read from their own works will be Patricia Carragon, Su Polo and Ronnie Norpel.
Smith&Jones @ Galerie Protégé
Galerie Protégé, s197 Ninth Ave (E, A, C to 23rd)
NYC/Chelsea
212-807-8957
646-652-9116
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/2016057921952754/

Composite-image of the 12 proto-editions of Wish for Amnesia by Barbara Rosenthal, published in small runs since 1985. Originals on exhibit at Galerie Protégé, NYC.

HULL, ENGLAND, UK (video)
Fri, July 1, 2016. Festival Opening
Sat, July 23 Screening Date
Paths to Follow
video in The 75-sec Film Challenge for Amy Johnson Film Festival curated by Kerry Baldry
tickets (free, but limited): https://www.hullboxoffice.co.uk/tickets/view
Hull Cinema
Kardomah94, 94 Alfred Gelder Street, Hull HU1 2AN 
If you can't make it to the screening, here is PATHS TO FOLLOW, online: https://vimeo.com/160455087

Video Still from "Paths to Follow" by Barbara Rosenthal at Hull Cinema, UK.

KAMLOOPS, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA -
NOTE: July 2016 exhibit POSTPONED TO FUTURE DATE
DUE TO DEATH IN FAMILY
Eleven Loopy Videos for Kamloops, Looped 
videos by Barbara Rosenthal
New York / Canadian Dialogue(s) curated by Tricia Seller and Jayne Holsinger
Four of Rosenthal’s videos using her body and both original and quoted on-screen and vocalized texts to consider the values we share or abuse as human beings.
Chazou Gallery
791 Victoria St.
Kalooomps (British Columbia), Canada V2C 2B5
250-374-0488
http://www.chazou.com/exhibitions.htm
Here is one of Rosenthal's videos online: https://vimeo.com/48370354 
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Video Still from "Siddhartha" on Eleven Loopy Videos by Barbara Rosenthal scheduled for Canada.

NYC
Sun., July 10, 2016; 12-2pm
Provocation Cards Interact in NaDada on Orchard St.
a street-performance interaction as part of “NaDada” curated by Shalom Neuman and Ron Kolm
Adriaan Van der Plas Gallery
156 Orchard St (F to 1st Ave)
LES/NYC
646-368-5623

LEFT: Existential Interaction with Provocation Cards, performed by Barbara Rosenthal in La Grand-Place, Brussels, 2010. 
RIGHT: Logo Image for Barbara Rosenthal's Provocation Cards Interact, Van Der Plas Gallery, Orchard Street, NYC.

NYC (PHOTOGRAPH at AUCTION)
THE FILM-MAKERS CoOP
Aug 20-Sept 6, 2016
Six Baby Trees Like Wheat Stalks, Finland, 2007, a 35mm photograph was sold at auction to benefit the Film-makers CoOp, NYC: https://paddle8.com/auction/filmmakerscoop/
Facebook Event:  https://www.facebook.com/events/1729323913990415/?active_tab=posts
Auction Curators: MM Serra, Joel Schlemowitz and Coleen Fitsgibbon .
Viewing: 475 Park Ave South, NY, NY 10016
(212) 267-5665
filmmakerscoop@gmail.com

Six Baby Trees Like Wheat Stalks, Finland, 2007 signed 11 x 14 BW photograph by Barbara Rosenthal sold at Film Co-op Online Auction, NYC.

NYC (VIDEO)
THE FILM-MAKERS CoOP
Aug 25, 2016; 7pm
1-min video I'VE GOT THE WORLD IN THE PALM OF MY HANDS, 1990,
 475 Park Ave at 32 St, $ 10.
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/682601241892762/?active_tab=posts
Link to the video if you can't come: https://vimeo.com/61677353
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"Ive Got the World in the Palm of My Hands" Face Page from DVD screened at Film Co-Op, NYC.

NYC (performed reading)
ADRIAAN VAN DER PLAS GALLERY
Wed, Sept 14, 2016, 6-8pm 
Page with Shopping List from 'Homo Futurus,' 1986
Literary Readings with the Unbearables Collective. Featuring Dorothy Friedman, Shalom Neuman, Ron Kolm, Barbara Rosenthal, Stephen Paul Miller, Bonny Finberg, Tsaurah Litzky, and Hillary Keel in Shalom Neuman's performance curatorial "La Dada."
LOCATION: Adriaan Van Der Plas Gallery 
vanderplasgallery.com
156 Orchard St (F to 2nd Ave)
Lower East Side / NYC
212-227-8983

Page with Shopping List from 'Homo Futurus,' 1986 reading by Barbara Rosenthal at Van Der Plas Gallery, NYC.

NYC (PRINTS, BOOKS & VIDEOS)
HABER SPACE at CENTRAL BOOKING
Sept 7 - Oct 30, 2016 Exhibition: TALK TALK (art about spoken communication)
Thurs, Sept 22, 6-8 Opening Reception: Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/954626234665599/
Curated by Maddy Rosenberg in this space dedicated to scientific phenomena, this season’s exhibit “Talk Talk,” exploring human speech, includes the following three works by Barbara Rosenthal
1. PRINT: “Mouth-a-Bet”, 1966-2016. This is a digitization of a pen-and-ink sentence that looks like some a code of cursive symbols, and then the key: an alphabet designed by this artist in 1966, when she was 18 years old, from the shape of her own mouth as it says each letter. This extraordinary piece is for the first time being presented publicly, now as archival ink-jet print edition of 12.
2. TWO VIDEOS: “Nonsense Conversation” (“Unsinn Conversation”), 1988 Barbara Rosenthal and Ola Creston, age 9. Improvisation with brilliant child actress. Premiered The Kitchen, NYC, April, 1988, Screened recently at Directors Lounge, Berlin; Millennium Film Workshop, NYC. VHS original, 1988 DVD remaster 2009 (3min 8sec 8fr).
“I Have a New York Accent,” 1988. A Barbara Rosenthal short performance video, in which her own voice gives way to that of others speaking her word, meaning her same meanings, but showing us that what we believe is really quite variable. Another example of Rosenthal's investigations into self, other selves, humanity, and urban identity. VHS original, 1988 DVD remaster 2009 (1min 37sec 8fr).
Note: These two videos on exhibition and sale here at this time, are a segment of the Special Edition DVDs created in honor of this event: “Talk Talk: Six Videos About Spoken Communication,” which also comprises an additional four shorts: “I Have a NY Accent,” (featuring Hannah Weiner), I Can Talk Burp Talk (featuring Ola Creston), Words Come Out Backwards and How Much Does the Monkey Remember.
LOCATION: HABER SPACE at CENTRAL BOOKING
21 Ludlow St. (F to East Broadway)
Lower East Side / NYC
347-731-6559
http://centralbookingnyc.com/

LEFT: Mouth-a-Bet 1966, print by Barbara Rosenthal at Haber Space / Central Booking Sept 7 - Oct 30.
CENTER: Nonsense Conversation” (“Unsinn Conversation”), 1988 still from loop of two video shorts at Haber Space / Central Booking Sept 7 - Oct 30.
RIGHT: I Have a NY Accent, 1988 still from loop of two video shorts by Barbara Rosenthal at Haber Space / Central Booking, NYC, Sept 7 - Oct 30.

NYC (book release party)
CHUMLEY'S
WED, NOV 30, 2016, 5:30-7:30pm 
Book Release Party for Pink Skin Proto-Editon of new novel WISH FOR AMNESIA
LOCATION:Chumley's 
chumleysnewyork.com
86 Bedford St. (between Grove and Barrow)
West Village/ NYC
212-675-2081

Barbara Rosenthal with Bill Creston, Marcia Resnick and Anthony Haden-Guest at Chumley's, NYC.
Photo by Johnathan Morpurgo.

NYC (reading)
ADRIAAN VAN DER PLAS GALLERY
Sat, Dec 10, 2016, 6-8pm 
A short chapter from forthcoming Definitive First Editon of novel WISH FOR AMNESIA
Literary Readings with the Unbearables Collective. Featuring Dorothy Friedman, Shalom Neuman, Ron Kolm, Barbara Rosenthal
LOCATION: Adriaan Van Der Plas Gallery 
vanderplasgallery.com
156 Orchard St (F to 2nd Ave)
Lower East Side / NYC
212-227-8983

Cover of forthcoming 2017 Definitive First Editon of novel WISH FOR AMNESIA,by Barbara Rosenthal. Reading at Van Der Plas Gallery, NYC.

NYC (New Media Showcase)
Mon, December 5, 2016, 8pm
 "Barbara Rosenthal--Surreal Photography Stabilized Morph Projection: Black"
DVD projection morphing Rosenthal's Surreal and Conceptual Photographs from the same source, revealing the underpinnings of some of her quest for stability and definitive identity. Audio by Matthew Lee Knowles
As with many of her works, many media, both analog and digital, anre seamlessly combined. Viewers are welcome to bring New Media samples under 10 mins to showcase "open mic."
LOCATION: eMediaLoft
Westbeth Artists Complex
744 Washington St.
6th floor, studio 629
646-368-5623
$8. doors and concession open 7:30

Three Still frames from Surreal Photography Stabilized Morph Projection: Black, 2013, by Barbara Rosenthal in New Media Showcase at eMediaLoft, NYC.

NYC (featured reading)
MON, DEC 12, 8PM.
FEATURED READER, Reading Chapter 33:Toto and Jewel Return to the Shack from the Pink Skin Proto-edition of novel "Wish for Amnesia" (Deadly Chaps Press, NYC), nominated for Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, PEN/Robert W.. Bingham Prize for Debut Novel, National Book Award and Pushcart Prize.
Saturn Reading Series
PROGRAM: Saturn Reading Series curated by Su Polo. Featured Readers: Barbara Rosenthal and Sarah Sarai
http://www.supolo.com/Saturn_Series_Poetry.html
LOCATION: Shades of Green, 125 E 15th St, New York, NY 10003
(212) 674-1394
ADMISSION: $3 contrib. (Food, Drink Available.)

Barbara Rosenthal reading at Shades of Green, NYC.

SEPTEMBER-DECEMBER ONLINE, NYC (from Archives)
@NewMuseum @The Keeper
Online https://www.instagram.com/p/BJ3XAq2DQ_E/?taken-by=barbararosenthal_emedialoft
https://www.instagram.com/newmuseum/

“Doll Collection, from the Archives of Barbara Rosenthal at eMediaLoft.org” in The New Museum / The Keeper Project on Instagram, Fall 2016.

Exibitions, Readings, Performances and Screenings, Jan-Dec, 2015

BERLIN (video shorts)
Wed, Feb 11, 2015, 6pm
"THE BATH"
1976 performance video
at The Boddinale Film Festival, BERLIN, Germany
www.boddinale.com
The artist will be present.
Boddinale Film Festival
Loophole Theater
Boddinstrasse, 60, Berlin/Neukölln
U-7 to Rathaus Neuköln
boddinale.com

Still from The Bath, 1976, 1/2" open reel video to DVD by Barbara Rosenthal,also featuring Bill Creston, at the Boddinale, Berlin.

BERLIN (video)
Thurs, Feb 12, 2015, 6pm
"PLAYING WITH FIRE (the Feature): THE MAKING OF PLAYING WITH MATCHES"
1990 performance video of Sena Clara Creston and Barbara Rosenthal
at THE BODDINALE Film Festival, BERLIN, Germany
www.boddinale.com
The artist will be present.
Boddinale Film Festival
Loophole Theater
Boddinstrasse, 60, Berlin/Neukölln
U-7 to Rathaus Neuköln
boddinale.com<

Poster for Barbara Rosenthal's videos in the 2015 Boddinale Film Festival,
 The Bath, 1976, and Playing With Fire (The Making of Playing With Matches), at the Loophole Theater, Berlin.

BARLETTA, ITALY (solo book launch with reading and videos)
Wed, Feb 17, 2015, 7pm
BOOK LAUNCH FOR NOVEL "WISH FOR AMNESIA".
"THE SECRET OF LIFE AND OTHER SHORTS" video compilation, and international book launch party with reading from her new novel WISH FOR AMNESIA and discussion.
Cialuna Literary Collective and Bookstore
Barletta Library
Via Nazareth 34, Barletta Italy.
www.cialuna.it

Poster advertising Barbara Rosenthal's book launch and video screening in Barletta, Italy.

BROOKLYN (photography)
Feb 21, 2015, 7-10PM ( the artist will not be in NY)
"COUPLE UNDER UMBRELLA OBSERVED BY GETTYSBURG SOLDIER" and "CANNON AND FLAG DOWN THE PATH" photos in "Love is a Battlefield", BROOKLYN
35mm black and white vintage gelatin-silver photographs in group show of 5 artists.
Smith&Jones Gallery
673 Classon Ave, #1R, Brooklyn NY 11238
http://www.smithandjonesart.com/2015/love-is-a-battlefield.html
 
Surreal Photo Couple Under Umbrella Observed By Gettysburg Soldier by Barbara Rosenthal in "Love is a Battlefield," in Brooklyn.

FLORENCE, ITALY (solo videos and reading)
Feb 20, 2015, 5pm
THE SECRET OF LIFE AND OTHER SHORTS solo video compilation, and reading from new novel WISH FOR AMNESIA followed by discussion.
Giubbe Rosse Film and Literary Cafe
Piazza della Repubblica 13/14, Florence, Italy
tel: 055.21.3300

Poster for Barbara Rosenthal's solo shows at Café Giubbe Rosse, Florence, Italy.

ROME (duo performance/interaction)
Feb 26, 2015, 12noon
"MIXTURE: PROVOCATION CARDS AUDIO INTERACTIVE PERFORMANCE"
Claudio Scardino and Barbara Rosenthal
Piazza del Popolo
Rome, Italy

Poster for Mixture: Provocation Cards Audio Interactive Performance by Barbara Rosenthal and Claudio Scardino, Rome, Italy.

ROME (guest speaker)
Feb 26, 2015, 5pm (literary conference with reading)
GIOVEDÌ 26 FEBBRAIO - Scrittrici italiane e scrittrici straniere di lingua italiana si confrontano sui temi del lavoro, delle politiche culturali e sociali, dei percorsi di genere, della rappresentanza. Barbara Rosenthal will be reading from "WISH FOR AMNESIA" and, participating in the debate and convention with international publishers and writers about how our work is received in Italy.
I N C O N T R I L E T T E R A R I SLC
Gennaio-Giugno 2015
ore 17,00 – 20,00
VIA OFANTO 18 / A2
00198 ROMA RM
tel. 06. 8417303

Notice about the literary conference in Rome, Italy.

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NYC (featured reader)
SUN, JUNE 7, 2015, 11am
“Piano and Poetry Brunch”
Café Vivaldi
Featured Readers: Neke Carson, John Casquarelli, Barbara Rosenthal, Justine McCullough, Alina Gregorian, Jeffrey Cyphers Wright and Sharon Mesmer.
Hosted by Gabriel Don.
LOCATION: Café Vivaldi
32 Jones Street
New York, NY 10012
Suibway: 6 to Bleeker; A/B/C/D/E/F to W 4th

Barbara Rosenthal reading Three Packages from her artist's book Sensations at Bowery Poetry, 2013, repriesed at Café Vivaldi, NYC.

NYC (solo New Media)
July, 11, 2015, 8-10pm
NEW MEDIA SHOWCASE: Identity Theft Mask Morphs Projection
MediaLoft.org
Morphing mediated portraits of the artist from birth to the present, on a huge screen, with audio by Charlie Morrow. This New Media computer projection from source material well over a half-century old, exists as part of Rosenthal's Identity Theft Masks Project, which comprises Identity Theft Masks Button Pins, a small artist's book Identity Theft Masks Book, and a set of lifesize laminated masks themselvese.
This piece being showcased here in the studio where it was created, Identity Theft Mask Morphs Projection mixes all the technologies Barbara Rosenthal has interlaced, in a quest for personal and social identity. Both elements are hallmarks of her work.
LOCATION: MediaLoft
Westbeth Artists Complex
744 Washington St.
6th floor, studio 629
646-368-5623
$8. doors and concession open 7:30

Still frame from Identity Theft Mask Morphs Projection by Barbara Rosenthal in New Media Showcase, NYC..

L.I.C. (video)
FRI, AUG 14, 2015, 6:30PM
NYC FILM FESTIVAL AT CHAIN THEATER
VIDEO "Toil of Three Cities / Liebesmüh, " possibly Rosenthal's magnum opus video, an auteur film also featuring Berlin's DJ RoBeat,
and original music by Charlie Morrow, Brandstifter, Matthew Lee Knowles, et al, and Super-8 footage by Bill Creston.
PROGRAM: N.Y.C. Film Festival at Chain Theater, Aug 1-16.
http://www.chainfilmfestival.com/
LOCATION: N.Y.C. Film Festival at Chain Theater
21-28 45 Rd
Long Island City, NY 11101
Subway: 7,E, G, or M to Court Street Station. (If E, take stair at back of train, turn Left 1 block, then Left 1/2 block.)
TICKETS: $10.

Barbara Rosenthal in a still from her DVD “Toil of Three Cities / Liebesmüh" screened at Chain Theater, LIC.

BROOKLYN (featured reading)
WED, AUG 26, 2015, 6-9PM
Smith&Jones Gallery
GALLERY READING, Reading a chapter from just published novel "Wish for Amnesia"
in The Art of Giving, curated by Samm Cohen, Opening 6-9, free.
The son of Holocaust survivors develops a Messianic Complex.
This debut novel, 30 years in the making, has just been nominated for Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Novel, National Book Award and Pushcart Prize.
PUBLISHER: Deadly Chaps Press, NYC
DISTRIBUTORS: Amazon; SPD Small Press Distribution; eMediaLoft.org, Printed Matter
E-BOOK: Ingram
FULL PREVIEW and BOOK ORDERS: http://www.deadlychaps.com/novel/
SIGNED COPIES: Available at reading Aug 26.
LOCATION: Smith&Jones Gallery
673 Classon Ave, #1R, Bklyn 11238
Subway: C, S, 2, 3, 4, 5 to Franklin Ave

Six Quick Letters: Jack and Beatrice chapter in novel “Wish for Amnesia” by Barbara Rosenthal, reading at Smith&Jones, Brooklyn.

NYC (feature and co-host)
TUES, SEPT 22, 2015, 5-7 PM
Percy's Tavern
BOOK LAUNCH for "55 Animal Jokes" (Xanadu Press, NYC)
Jokes by Barbara Rosenthal, Collages by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright.
PROGRAM: Performances by Artists, Magicians and Writers:
Hillary Keel, Olivia Wu, Tsaurah Litzky, Bonny Finberg, Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, Barbara Rosenthal and Pavel Lembersky.
LOCATION: Percy's Tavern
210 Avenue A @ 13th St, New York, NY 10009, (212) 437-7770
ADMISSION: Free. Food, Drink Available.
Animal Joke Book available through Printed Matter: https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/43370

LEFT: Barbara Rosenthal and Jeffrey Cyphers Wright presenting their boxed edition of Fifty-five Animal Jokes.
RIGHT: Sample pages from Animal Joke Book; Collages (JCW), Jokes (BR); launch at Percy's Tavern, NYC.

NYC (featured reading)
MON, OCT 5, 2015, 8PM.
FEATURED READER, Reading the chapter “Caroline and Jewel Drive to the Country” from Fine Print Proto-edition of novel "Wish for Amnesia" (Deadly Chaps Press, NYC), nominated for Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, PEN/Robert W.. Bingham Prize for Debut Novel, National Book Award and Pushcart Prize.
Saturn Reading Series
PROGRAM: Saturn Reading Series curated by Su Polo. Featured Readers: Barbara Rosenthal, Ronnie Norpel, and Larry LIt, followed by Open Mic
http://www.supolo.com/Saturn_Series_Poetry.html
LOCATION: Shades of Green, 125 E 15th St, New York, NY 10003
(212) 674-1394
ADMISSION: $3 contrib. (Food, Drink Available.)

Barbara Rosenthal reading from “Wish For Amnesia” Fine Print Proto-edition 2015 at Shades of Green, NYC.
Photo by Su Polo.

NYC(featured reading)
THURS, OCT 8, 2015, 8PM
FEATURED READER, Reading the chapter “Six Quick Letters, Jack and Beatrice” from j from Fine Print Proto-edition of novel "Wish for Amnesia"
PROGRAM: We Heart NYC Writers, curated by Joseph Quintela, hosted by Michael Geffner
parksidelounge.net
LOCATION: Parkside Lounge, 317 E Houston (@Attorney St), NY, NY 10002
212-673-7270
ADMISSION: Free. (Food, Drink Available.)

Open double page from “Wish For Amnesia” Fine Print Proto-edition by Barbara Rosenthal, 2015, featuired reading at Parkside Lounge, NYC.

BROOKLYN(prints)
WED, OCT 14, 2015, 6-9PM
AUDIO & TEXT-BASED ART, Audio: On The Record: Barbara Rosenthal Interviewed by Joseph Quintela
and TEXT ARTt: Two Psychiatric File Notes and Medication Charts, Authentic, Collaged, 2003
in in “On The Record” curated by Joseph Quintela
LOCATION: Smith&Jones Gallery
673 Classon Ave, #1R, Bklyn 11238
DIRECTIONS: C, S, 2, 3, 4, 5 to Franklin Ave; if C to Franklin, walk 1 block west on Fulton, then north 2 blocks on Classon.
ADMISSION: Free.

Barbara Rosenthal: TEXT-BASED ART: one of two PRINTS: ““Two Psychiatric File Notes and Medication Lists, 2003” 2015. at Smith&Jones.

FRANKFURT, GERMANY (book fair)
OCT 14-18, 2015
BOOK FAIR BOOKS: Rosenthal won't be present, but the 2015 Fine Print Proto-edition of her novel, WISH FOR AMNESIA, will be
represented by Foreword Reviews at the Frankfurt Book Fair / Frankfurter Buchmesse
PUBLISHER: Deadly Chaps Press, NYC: deadlychaps.com/novel
NOTE: This is a proto-edition for scholarly and industry purposes, one of the 12 Proto-editions published in Limited Editions since Barbara Rosenthal completed the first draft in 1985. The "Definitive First Edition" will be released January 1, 2017.
LOCATION: Frankfurt Trade Fair Grounds,
Frankfurt am Maim, Germany
TICKETS: http://www.buchmesse.de/en/tickets/

LEFT: Publisher's "sell sheet" for Barbara Rosenthal's novel WISH FOR AMNESIA Pink Skin Proto-editon, release date Nov 30, 2016
RIGHT: Publisher's "sell sheet" for Barbara Rosenthal's novel WISH FOR AMNESIA Fine Print Proto-edition, 2015 at Book Fair, Frankfurt.

NYC
Mon, Nov 3, 2015, 8PM (featured reading)
HiFi Bar
FEATURED READER - Reading Chapter “Caroline Parks Car and Walks Back Alone” from just published Pink Skin Proto-edition of novel "Wish for Amnesia" (Deadly Chaps Press, NYC), nominated for Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, National Book Award, IPPY Awards 2016 Independent Publisher Book Awards, National Jewish Book Council Award for Debut Novel, Indiefab, Virginia Commonwealth University Cabell First Novelist Award and Pushcart Prize. 
PROGRAM: “The Disagreement Reading Series,” curated by Bryant Musgrove and Melissa Swantkowski
FEATURED READERS: Barbara Rosenthal, Kevin Dugan, Jay Deshpande and Erin Swan
https://www.facebook.com/events/1668360643450918/
LOCATION: HiFi Bar, 169 Avenue A, NY, NY
ADMISSION: Free. (Food, Drink Available.)

Barbara Rosenthal making some notes in her Journal while she has a quiet beer before her reading from "Wish for Amnesia" at HiFi, NYC.

BROOKLYN (featured reading)
Thurs, Nov 5, 2015, 6PM
Reading a chapter from from Fine Print Proto-edition of new novel "Wish for Amnesia" (Deadly Chaps Press, NYC)
PROGRAM: “Deadly Chaps Authors” curated by publisher Joseph A. W. Quintela
FEATURED READERS & SOUNDSCAPES: Barbara Rosenthal, Denver Butson, Sophia Starmack, Joanna Valente and Marcus Bowers
LOCATION: Vespa Project Space
262 Court St, Brooklyn, NY
ADMISSION: Free.

Open double page from from Fine Print Proto-edition of novel "Wish for Amnesia" by Barbara Rosenthal. Reading at Vespa, Brooklyn.

Hull, UK (looped video)
Sun, Nov 8, 2015, 10am-4pm
VIDEO: “Words Come Out Backwards”
in “One Minute Films, Volume 6,” curated by Kerry Baldry in Hull International Short Film Festival
LOCATION: Museum of Club Culture
Suite 5, Bond 31, 42 High Street, Hull, HU1 1PS.
ADMISSION: Free.
(The artist will not be present.)

Still from video Words Come Out Backwardsby Barbara Rosenthal  in UK.

NYC (video and prints)
Nov 19, 2015- Jan 22, 2016
Opening Thurs, Nov 19, 6-8pm
Haber Space for Science in Art / Central Booking
VIDEO: “Leah Gluck: Victim of the Twins Experiments”
and PRINT DIPTYCH: “Evidence of Personality: Phrenology and Palmistry”
info@centralbookingnyc.com.
LOCATION: Haber Space / Central Booking Artspace
21 Ludlow St
NYC / Lower East Side
+1-646-368-5623
http://centralbookingnyc.com/galleries/gallery-1-artist-books-prints/artists-work/barbara-rosenthal/
REVIEW: http://www.craveonline.com/art/929611-secret-histories-twisted-data

LEFT: Evidence of Personality: Phrenology and Palmistry, 1990, two prints by Barbara Rosenthal, at Haber Space/Central Booking.
RIGHT: Still from Leah Gluck: Victim of the Twins Experiments, 1984, video by Barbara Rosenthal
in "Twisted Data: Eugenics + Phrenology" at Haber Space / Central Booking, NYC.

NYC (featured reading)
Sunday, Dec 6, 2015, 6-8pm
FEATURED READER: “Caroline Parks Car and Walks Back Alone," chapter from Fine Print Proto-edition of Wish for Amnesia (Deadly Chaps Press).
Barbara Rosenthal reading with Dorothy Friedman and others in the Sunday Night Reading Series
LOCATION: Left Bank Books
84 Hudson Street, NY, NY 10014 
(A, E, C, 1, 2, 3 to 14th St)
 
Barbara Rosenthal reading from her novel Wish for Amnesia, at Left Bank Books, NYC

NYC (photograph)
Sat, Dec 12, 2015 - Sun, Jan 2, 2016 
Opening Sat, Dec 12 6-8pm
East on 57th St, Full Moon, with Karen
LOCATION:Westbeth Gallery
55 Bethune St, Courtyard Entrance
NYC / Highline-Meatpacking-WestVillage
646.368.5623

 Looking East on 57th St, Full Moon, with Karen, 2010, Surreal Photograph by Barbara Rosenthal at Westbeth Gallery, NYC.

BROOKLYN (photographs)
Sun, Dec 13, 2015- Sun Feb 28, 2016
Opening Sun, Dec 13, 2015, 3-6pm
Three Photographs from Paris, 1990. in benefit for victims of The November Paris Terror Attack, curated by Dahn Hiuni.
LOCATION:Galerie Café Georges-André
558 Halsey St
Brooklyn, NY 11233
A or C to Utica
347.762.5578

Barbara Rosenthal and Armand Rhulman, who are collaborating on a stage-play called The Angel and the Caveman, are at Galerie Café Georges-André, Bklyn.

Exibitions, Readings, Performances and Screenings, Jan-Dec. 2014

NYC (Print Suite Wall Work and Journals)
Jan 17 - March 28, 2014
Opening Jan 17, 6-8pm
Center for Book Arts
“Seven Real Journal Volumes From Barbara Rosenthal’s 50 years of Journal-Keeping”, and “Homo Futurus Wall Work”
in ““Silence Unbound: The Artist’s Lexicon in the Making” -- Buzz Spector, Allison Knowles, Dean Ebben and Barbara Rosenthal. Curated by Heather Powell.
ebook.com/events/619527214784501/?ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming
LOCATION: The Center for Book Arts
28 W. 27 St, 3rd fl (between 6th Ave and Broadway)
(212) 481-0295
Subway: N/R to 28th; F to 23; B/D/Q/F to 34th; 6 to 28th; 1 to 28th St.

LEFT: Barbara Rosenthal standing in front of Homo Futurus Wall Workthe first time it was exhibited: Carlo Lamagna Gallery, 57th St, NYC, 1988.
CENTER: Art-handler Chris Cook installing 41-segment Homo Futurus Wall Work," 1985 at The Center for Book Arts, NYC.
LEFT: Visitor at The Center for Book Arts viewing Barbara Rosenthal's piece Homo Futurus Wall Work, 1985, in situ, now reprised at CBA, NYC.

BERLIN (video)
Feb 6-16, 2014
Boddinale Film Festival
“Barbara Rosenthal Contemplates Suicide” (single version)
in The Boddinale Film Festival
FESTIVAL HOURS: Feb 6-16, 20:00hr ->
boddinale.com
LOCATION: Boddinale Film Festival
Loophole Theater
Boddinstrasse 60
Berlin/Neukölln
U: Hermannplatz

Still frame from Barbara Rosenthal Contemplates Suicide in the Boddinale Film Festival, Berlin.

NYC (two-artist talk)
MARCH 28, 2014
CENTER FOR BOOK ARTS
Talks by Barbara Rosenthal and Dean Ebben at The Center for Book Arts tonight.
Rosenthal's wall work, Homo Futurus Wall Work and 12 of her now 75 Journals have been in installation for two months here as part of "Silence Unbound: The Artist’s Lexicon in the Making" curated by Heather Powell.
Tonight, Rosenthal will project some images from the pages of her offset book Homo Futurus and from her handwritten volumes, and project a 3-min Journal-based video, as part of her multi-media talk about her practice and topics such as “authenticity in art."
NYArts: http://www.nyartsmagazine.com/?p=16548
Flatiron News: http://www.flatironhotnews.com/2014/03/20/flatiron-art-silence-unbound-exhibition-at-center-for-book-arts/
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/619527214784501/?ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming
nts/619527214784501/?ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming
LOCATION: The Center for Book Arts
28 W. 27 St, 3rd fl (between 6th Ave and Broadway)
(212) 481-0295
Subway: N/R to 28th; F to 23; B/D/Q/F to 34th; 6 to 28th; 1 to 28th
6:30 reception
7pm talks

LEFT: Open coverJournalVol55-May22_July4-2006
CENTER: from A double-page from one of Barbara Rosenthal's now 75 volumes of Journals she has kept since age 11.
RIGHT: Twelve of Barbara Rosenthal's Journalsare displayed in a case, and a DVD installation with open pages turning, at The Center for Book Arts, NYC.

NYC (solo book launch)
APRIL 20, 2014, 8PM
BOOK LAUNCH for GALLEY Wish for Amnesia novel by Barbara Rosenthal
Reading a chapter from just-galleyed novel “Wish for Amnesia” Deadly Chaps Press, NYC.
Featured Novelist: Barbara Rosenthal and Featured Guest Readers: Katie Peyton, Ron Kolm, Shalom Neuman, Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, Ronnie Norpel.
Hosted by Deadly Chaps Press publisher Joseph Quintela.
LOCATION: Cornelia St. Cafe
29 Cornelia St, NYC (between W. 4th and Bleeker)
NYC / Greenwich Village
Novel can be previewed here: www.deadlychaps.com/novel

The book launch for Barbara Rosenthal's novel, Wish for Amnesia, will take place at the Cornelia Street Café, NYC.

NYC (open studio / New Media)
TUES, MAY 13 - FRI, MAY 30. 2014
OPEN STUDIO by appointment
PHOTOGRAPHS, BOOKS, VIDEOS, AUDIOS, ARCHIVAL, REFERENCE & PERFORMANCE MATERIALS & INTERVIEWS.
eMediaLoft.org
Westbeth Artists Complex
744 Washington St.
6th floor, studio 629
646-368-5623 voice only, no texts.
Meatpacking District/Highline/West Village, NYC
by appointment

The central media pod of Barbara Rosenthal's studio at eMediaLoft.
Visible are the projectedimage/text video "Push Me," five "Conceptual Photographs on the back wall,
three videos on small screens, and part of her Library of over 7,000 books, and a few scattered volumes of her own, at eMediaLoft, NYC.

NYC (featured reading)
SUN, May 18, 2014, 7PM
Fusion Arts Museum
Reading “Alone in a Junk Shop” from 1984 book “Sensations”, Visual Studies Workshop Press
in the "Crap Art" show curated by Shalom Neuman and Ron Kolm. Other readers include Tsaurah Littzky and Dorothy Friedman.
LOCATION: Fusion Arts Museum
57 Stanton St
Lower East Side / NYC, (between Allen and Forsyth)
F to 2nd Ave (1st Ave exit)

Barbara Rosenthal's offset artists book Sensations 1984, Visual Studies Workshop Press, contains twenty-five Surreal Photographs and separate one-page writings.
It is available at Printed Matter Bookshop and Online: http://printedmatter.org/catalog/artists/641. She will read Alone in a Junk Shop from it at Fusion Arts Museum, NYC.

NYC (featured reading)
TUES, May 27, 2014, 7PM
Reading excerpt “Spring, 1985” from 1998 book “Soul & Psyche”, Visual Studies Workshop Press.
LOCATION: Entwine,
765 Washington St, NYC
(between W. 12 and Bethune, West Village)

Jewel Case of the CD of Barbara Rosenthal's edited Journal-text project Readings From Soul & Psyche, 1998, Visual Studies Workshop Press.
The CD and offset book are available from http://printedmatter.org/catalog/artists/641. She will read the portion written in the spring of 1985 tonight at Entwine, NYC.

NYC (solo interaction, in fake French)
SAT, May 31, 2014, 7:30PM
Performance “Frenchiotic”, a Barbara Rosenthal interuptive interaction in a public place. This time, in French, and with the Journal.
LOCATION:Scratchers
E. 5th St, NYC (between Bowery and Second Ave, East Village.)

Barbara Rosenthal writing in French in her Journal while speaking in fake French with other bar patrons at Scratchers, NYC.

L.I.C., NYC (video)
SAT, June 14, 2014, 7:30 PM
Fourth Under the Subway Series
Local Project, New York
Secret Codes in this video night of shorts by artists in NY, Spain, Peru and Argentina, is curated by Antonio Ortuño.
LOCATION: The Local
1302 44th Ave
Long Island City, Queens, NY 1110

LEFT: Still from Quotation from Paul Gauguin video by Barbara Rosenthal screened in "Under the Subway."
CENTER: The Local, LIC theater on June 14, 2014.
RIGHT: Barbara Rosenthal with Justin Neely and Moray Hillary for her screening of Quotation from Paul Gauguin at The Local, L.I.C., NYC.

GOVERNOR'S ISLAND, NYC (featured reading)
June, 2014
Reading from novel Wish for Amnesia Deadly Chaps Press, forthcoming November 2016.
New York Poetry Festival
LOCATION: The White Horse Stage
Governor's Island, NYC

Barbara Rosenthal (right) setting up cameras to document her featured reading from novel Wish for Amnesia, as publisher Joseph Quintela of Deadly Chaps Press tests the mic at the "New York Poetry Festival" on Governor's Island, NYC.

BROOKLN (photographs)
Wed. August, 2014
Ola Crossing Sunbeams
Smith&Jones Gallery
35mm 11x14 photograph in the "Rite of Passage" group show of 5 artists curated by Joseph Quintela.
LOCATION: Smith&Jones Gallery
673 Classon Ave, #1R, Brooklyn NY 11238
PRINT & ONLINE CATALOG: https://issuu.com/deadlychaps/docs/rite_of_passage

LEFT: Ola Crossing Sunbeams, 1986 35mm unmanipulated 11 x 14 photograph by Barbara Rosenthal at the Smith&Jones Gallery, Brooklyn.
CENTER: Cover of Catalog for "Rite of Passage" with photograph Ola Crossing Sunbeams, 1986 by Barbara Rosenthal.
RIGHT: Anthony Hayden-Guest with Barbara Rosenthal in front of her photograph Ola Crossing Sunbeams in the passageway that inspired the exhibition at Smith&Jones Gallery, Brooklyn.

BROOKLYN (video)
Oct 25, 2014, 7:30pm
 Secret Codes video and panel discussion with Barbara Rosenthal hosted by Ben Eastop and Bruce Allen in
Difference Screen
www.differencescreen.net
LOCATION: UnionDocs
322 Union Ave.
Williamsburg/Brooklyn, NY 11211

LEFT: Face Page from Secret Codes, video by Barbara Rosenthal screened at UnionDocs, Brooklyn.
RIGHT: Poster for "Difference Screen" October 2014 video program in Brooklyn.

LIMA, PERU

Se Cayó Todo, Terror Gallery, Lima, Peru.

COIMBRA, PORTUGAL

Fondlad Digital Arts Festival, Coimbra, Portugal.

NYC
EVENTS OCTOBER 2014


Postcard of Barbara Rosenthal event notifications for Oct 2014, Brooklyn and NYC.

NYC (guest appearance)
Mon. Oct 27, 2014
LIVE MAG! issue 10 launch
La Mama
Barbara Rosenthal's “Caveman: Lascaux” cartoon, which, as it so well speaks for almost all of us, has the honor of centerfold-right page!
Costumes, music, readings, dancing, drinks and lots of fun! Hosted by editor Jeffrey Cyphers Wright.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1472232996387836/

The centerfold-right page Caveman Cartroon: Lascaux by Barbara Rosenthal in Live Mag! issue 10, 2014, at LaMama, NYC.

BROOKLN (photographs)
Wed. Oct 2, 2014
"Mother's Dying / Mother's Death"
Smith&Jones Gallery
in the "What Do You Want On Your Tombstone" show curated by Joseph Quintela.
35mm black and white vintage gelatin-silver photographs in group show of 5 artists.
LOCATION: Smith&Jones Gallery
673 Classon Ave, #1R,
Brooklyn NY 11238
PRINT & ONLINE CATALOG: https://issuu.com/deadlychaps/docs/what_do_you_want__catalog_

Open double page from Barbara Rosenthal's 1986 book Homo Futurus, depicting "Mother's Dying / Mother's Death," her two 35mm photographs at the Smith&Jones Gallery, Brooklyn.

Exibitions, Readings, Performances and Screenings, Jan-Dec. 2013

NYC (solo video)
SAT, JAN. 12, 2013, 8pm 
SOLO, VIDEO SCREENING
Millenium Film Workshop
"Barbara Rosenthal—Video Mini-Retrospective: Existential Word Play"
+ Discussion with audience
A landmark survey of image/text/performance video shorts 1976-2012 by one of the world's most eccentric artists. A rare treat: her last NY video retrospective was at The Kitchen in 1988, and she's made many more gems since then! "Rosenthal's work is incessantly personal, even naked, with an emphasis on language realized through stories, puns, songs, names and confessions." -- Manohla Dargis, The Village Voice
Including: "Lettering Too Big," "Secret Of Life," "Nancy and Sluggo," "A Boy and His Father Butcher a Deer," "Boggle," "Paths To Follow," "Words Come Out Backwards," "Quotation from Paul Gauguin, "This Is A," "Dog Recognition," "Postcards," "Rules," "Space and Time," "World View," "Names and Faces," "Siddhartha," "Black and Silent," "Whispering Confession," "Secret Codes," "Push Me," "Burp Talk," "Daily News," "News To Fit The Family," "I Have a New York Accent," "Lying Diary/Provocation Cards," "Semaphore Poems," "News Wall," "Nonsense Conversation," "Society," "How Much Does the Monkey Remember," "Feet Handoff," "Pregnancy Dreams," and "Handwriting Analysis."
http://millenniumfilm.org/category/screenings/upcoming/,
Host: Tom Jarmusch
$8/$5
LOCATION:
Millenium Film Workshop
66 East 4th St., Basement
New York, NY 10003
+1 (212) 673-0090
subway:  F to 2nd Ave (exit 2nd Ave)

Gallerist Stefan Stux clowning around with Barbara Rosenthal at her solo performance-text video screening at Millennium, NYC.
That summer, 2013, Stux includes Ola Writes the Alphabet, 1982, one of Rosenthal's early 1/2" open reel to digital videos, in his gallery as an installation-loop.
Photo by Bill Creston.

LONDON (video)
SAT/SUN, FEB 1 & 2. 2013, 12-4 pm
  "Words Come Out Backwards When Spoken To Screen Left"
video in the One Minute Volume 6 Film Festival
curated by Kerry Baldry
Barbara Rosenthal will be there Saturday, Feb 2, 12-4, with pub party after.
http://www.furtherfield.org/programmes/exhibition/one-minute-volumes-1-6
VIDEO LOCATION (12-4pm):
Furtherfield Gallery
McKenzie Pavilion
Finsbury Park, London, N4 2NQ
+44 (0) 208 802 2827
Tube: Manor House or Finsbury Park
NEARBY PUB PARTY LOCATION (4-6pm):
The Finsbury
336 Green Lanes, London N4 1BY
(Manor House Tube)
The artist's London cell phone: +44.075.357.3380
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"Words Come Out Backwards When Spoken To Screen Left"
conceptual performance photo-text animation video by Barbara Rosenthal screened here at Furtherfield Gallery, London.

PARIS (performance interaction)
Mon, FEB 4, 2013, 2-4pm
 "Barbara Rosenthal--Existential Interact with Provocation Cards, Paris 2013"
Solo, interactive street performance with Button Pins and Provocation Cards in English and French. 2-4pm. Party nearby 4-6pm.
Performance interactive rue avec goupilles de bouton et de Provocation des cartes en anglais et en français. 14:00-16:00. Parti à proximité 16:00-18:00.
Curator and host: Nico Derné
LOCATION:
Trocadero Plaza, backdropped by Eiffel Tower (any weather) (tous les temps)
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Trocadero+Plaza&hl=en&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF-8&ei=pBTdUKiyDMrB0AGhkYGADw&ved=0CAsQ_AUoAA
Esplenade du Trocadéro, Paris, France, 75116
metro: Trocadéro
+33 (0)1 45 86 62 42, +44.075.357.3380

Barbara Rosenthal performing "Existential Interact with Provocation Cards " in English, German and Italian on the Place de Trocadero, Paris, 2013.
Photo by Johnny Coole.

BERLIN (videos)
TUES, Feb, 12, 2013 8pm
"Barbara Rosenthal -- Postcards and Other Video Shorts"
Boddinale Film Festival
Loophole Theatre
Boddinstr. 60
U7 Rathaus Neukölln
+49(0)1512.669.4548
www.loophole-berlin.com
http://www.facebook.com/loophole.berlin

Face Page from DVD Postcards and Other Shorts, Boddinale Film Festival, Loophole Theatre, Berlin.

BERLIN (2-person photo exhibition)
FEB 14-28, 2013
Vernissage: DONNERSTAG, 14 Feb, 19:00h
"Interior Space: Photographs by Barbara Rosenthal and Elsa Thorp"
Elsa and Barbara will be there. Elsa und Barbara werden.
LOCATION:
Studio Baustelle
Berthelsdorfer Str. 11, 12043 Berlin (Neukölln)
www.studio-baustelle.org
+49(0)1512.669.4548 ; +49(0)1512.695.6281
Th, Fri, Sat 1-6, and by appointment
Do, Frei, Sam 13:00-18:00 und nach Vereinbarung,
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Poster in recessed street window box, depicting "Surreal Photo: Green Mirror, Moscow" by Barbara Rosenthal photo by Barbara Rosenthal at Studio Baustelle, Berlin.
ARTICLE: Le, Ngan Le: The Secret of Life in Art: Barbara Rosenthal’s Surreality in Berlin, Berlin Art Link, May 28, 2013. Berlin, Germany
http://www.berlinartlink.com/2013/03/28/the-secret-of-life-in-art-barbara-rosenthal/
ARTICLE 2: Reprint of article Le, Ngan Le: The Secret of Life in Art: Barbara Rosenthal’s Surreality in Berlin, from Berlin Art Link, in Koxtrok, Berlin
http://koxtrok.org/magazine/photography/the-secret-of-life-in-art-barbara-rosenthal-s-surreality-in-berlin/#.UmPm0OBc_8t .

NYC (featured reading)
Center for Book Arts
Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here: Readings About Loss
Barbara Rosenthal will read read the "Mother's Dying / Mother's Death" pages from her 1986 book, Homo Futurus. Readers will be Lynne DeSilva-Johnson,Moira Williams ,Sam Jablon, Katherine R. Sloan,  Megan DiBello, Dan Dissinger, Iris Cushing, Montana Ray,  Amy King, Aimee Herman, Nikhil Melnechuk, The Poetry Brothel, Steve Dalichinsky, Isak Berbic,  Joseph Quintela, Barbara Rosenthal, Gina Mobilio and Bob Holman. Curated By Moira Williams.
LOCATION:
Center for Book Arts
28 W 27th St between 5th and 6th Aves. 5th floor.
New York, NY 10001
tel: +1.212.481.0295; +1.646.368.5623
www.centerforbookarts.org

For this event, Rosenthal read the "Mother's Dying / Mother's Death" pages about Evelyne Rosenthal, her own mother's last few days at North Shore Hospital,
from Homo Futurus, at Center for Book Arts, NYC.

ROCHESTER, NY (photo at auction)
Friday, April 12, 2013, 6-9PM
By appointment April 8-11
"Pennsylvania-18"
photograph in "2013 Visual Studies Workshop Auction"
curator: Tate Shaw
LOCATION:
Visual Studies Workshop
31 Prince Street Rochester, New York 14607
tel: +1.585.442.8676
http://auction.vsw.org/
tateshaw@vsw.org
previews: free
auction entrance: $20

Surreal Photo "Pennsylvania-18" by Barbara Rosenthal at auction, Rochester, NYC.

BROOKLYN (New Media Performance)
Tuesday, April 16, 2013, 9pm
  "I'm Growing Up"
solo morph-media performance
in "Performance Heart" at Grace Exhibition Space
curated by Geraldo Mercado
LOCATION:
Grace Exhibition Space
840 Broadway, 2nd floor
Brooklyn, ZIP
tel: +1.646.578.3402, +1-646-541-4772
http://www.grace-exhibition-space.com/performance.php?event_id=403
info@grace-exhibition-space.com
suggested donation: $5.

Postcard Announcing Barbara Rosenthal's media-morph performance at Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn.
Photo by Geraldo Mercado.
ARTICLE: Kray, Pam: “Barbara Rosenthal Existentially Grows Up”, in Book Arts UK, Sept. 2013
http://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/newspdfs/84.pdf (Page 40).

NAPLES, ITALY (video)
Sat., May 4, 2013, all-day loop, the artist won't be present.
"Words Come Out Backwards When Spoken To Screen Left"
in "One Minute Video Vol 6 / Magmart Festival" at Casoria Contemporary Art Museum
curated by Kerry Baldry
LOCATION:
CAM, Casoria Contemporary Art Museum
Via Duca D’Aosta 63/A
80026 Casoria/Napoli/Italia
tel: +39 081 7576167
casoriacontemporaryartmuseum@hotmail.com

Still from Video Will, a video short by Barbara Rosenthal similar in absurdist possibility as Words Come Out Backwards, video at Casoria Museum, Naples.

NYC (duo screening, Super-8 film)
Fri., May 17, 2013, 8pm
"Early Open-Reel Video & Super-8 Films by Small-Gauge Pioneer Bill Creston"
starring Barbara Rosenthal and Dick Miller
curated by Tom Jarmusch
LOCATION:
Millenium Film Workshop
66 East 4th St., Basement
New York, NY 10003
+1 (212) 673-0090, +1.646.541.4772
subway:  F to 2nd Ave (exit 2nd Ave)
millenniumfilm.org/

TOP: Bill Creston as "The Bum" in several of his auteur films.
BOTTOM: Barbara Rosenthal in "Duets," a super-8 film by Bill Creston.
Both being shown at eMediaLoft, NYC.

DORDRECHT, HOLLAND (video)
MAY 18, 2013, 7:30pm
"The Screen Will Be Black and Silent for Some Time"
video in '222lodge Extern: The Eye of the Beholder" at Pictura Gallery
curator: Frans van Lent
LOCATION:
Pictura Gallery
Voorstraat 190-192
3311 ES Dordrecht, Netherlands
tel: +31 78 614 9822
https://www.facebook.com/events/173617672778768/?ref=ts&fref=ts

Still from video "The Screen Will be Black and Silent for Some Time" by Barbara Rosenthal at Pictura Gallery, Holland.

L.I.C., NYC (video)
Sat., June 1, 2013, 8:30-10:30pm
"American Denominations"
in 'Under the Subway Video Night 3" (free)
curator: Antonio Ortuño
A one-minute spoof on an American fascination. Real? Fake? Come see for yourself.
Rosenthal has the honor of closing the show, so come early, stay late, and go dancing nearby!!
LOCATION:
Local Project Artspace
45-10 Davis Street, Long Island City
7 train to 45th Court Square, or E,M,G to 23rd Street/Ely
NY, NY 11101
http://www.localproject.org/
antonio@antonioortuno.com
https://www.facebook.com/events/1472232996387836/

Facepage from DVD of American Denominations composite animation video short by Barbara Rosenthal at Local Project Artspace, LIC.

NYC (Solo Video and Performance)
FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 8pm
  “An Evening with Barbara Rosenthal: Provocation Cards Interact & Existential Video Shorts"
curated by Lee Wells and Katie Peyton
8-9pm: Handouts, harangues, jokes, jostles this interactive performance with one of the world's most eccentric artists involves hats, pins, and philosophical calling cards (recently purchased by the Tate Gallery, London, in three languages, and displayed as billboards in Padua, Italy).
9-10pm: “The Secret of Life and Other Shorts” 13 video shorts reprised from Rosenthal’s winter show in Berlin. (See review below) (free)
Including: “Quotation from Paul Gauguin”, “A Boy and His Father Butcher a Deer”, “Bill Creston: Mona Lisa Story”, “The Secret of LIfe”, “News to Fit the Family”, “Nonsense Conversation”, “BuzzClickSsshTingle”, “How Much Does the Monkey Count”, “Secret Codes”, “Body Found in Suitcases”, “Daddy: Spider Story”, “Memphis Party Doll”, “Surreal Photo Stories: Icy Cold”, and “Toil of Three Cities/Liebesmüh.”
LOCATION:
Peanut Underground / Undercurrent Art Projects
Lower Level, 215 East 5th St. (off Bowey)
subway: F to 2nd Ave. or 6 to Bleeker
NYC / East Village
917-723-2524

LEFT: Still from Rosenthal video Quotation from Paul Gauguin.
RIGHT: Postcard for "An Evening with Barbara Rosenthal at Peanut Underground, NYC.”

NYC (artist's books and prints)
Sat June 15 - Sept 30, 2013 (Thurs-Sun 10-6 )
Soft Opening Reception: SATURDAY, JUNE 15, 2013 2-4
Rosenthal will be there Saturday, June 15, 2-4, with pub party happy hour after.
  “Shirts & Jackets Prints 1, 2, 3 & 4 and Dirty Book (elements from)”
In the Front Gallery of the new East Village location of Central Booking, will be an assortment of prints and bookworks by Barbara Rosenthal. The gallery does not officially open until Sept 12, so this is a great opportunity to visit the space, and spend time with this artist, ahead of the crowd!
(free)
LOCATION:
Central Booking,
21 Ludlow Street, NY, NY 10002, el:
646-541-4772
http://centralbookingnyc.com/galleries/gallery-1-artist-books-prints/artists-work/barbara-rosenthal/

Front cover of Homo Futurus offset artist’s book by Barbara Rosenthal at Central Booking, NYC.

NYC (video loop)
Stux Gallery
July 11 - Sept 7, 2013
Opening Thurs. July 11, 2013, 6-8pm.
Finissage, Sept 7, 6-8pm
Stefan Stux Gallery
Hours T-Sat 10-6
Ola Writes the Alphabet (1982) by Barbara Rosenthal, in "Happy Flies Kissing Beautiful Face: Works in Black and White."
Artists James Busby, Steven Charles, Gia Edzgveradze, Carl Fudge, Heide Hatry, Richard Humann, Takesada Matsutani, Kosyo Minchev, Osmo Rauhala, Barbara Rosenthal, Carolee Schneemann, David Shrigley, Nancy Spero, Aldo Tambellini.
DESCRIPTION:
Ola Writes The Alphabet, 1982, was one of Rosenthal's single-take "Video Verité" pieces about cognition and text. It survived through many technological upgrades: 1982 1/2" open reel, VHS transfer 1990; 3/4 remaster 1992; Digital remaster 2004. Edition of 25 DVDs: 2013. Run TIME: 12 min.
“Ola Writes The Alphabet” is a “decisive moment” in both video and child development by a consummate artist of another of her neologisms: "Video Verité". At her mother’s (the artist's) prompting, Ola Creston, age 3, recalls some letters of the alphabet perfectly, but others only with great creative latitude, letting us see into the development of letter-forms in a young brain. An extremely straight-forward, observational presentation with no filmmaker-type interference, this DVD was originally shot in 1982 on black and white 1/2” open reel videotape. It is a boundary-crossing work that can find audiences among child and family psychologists, neurologists, linguists, educator, parents and children themselves, well beyond this artist’s usual base within video history and the avant-garde.
LOCATION
Stefan Stux Gallery
530 W. 25th St. Street Level.
NY, NY 10012
212.352.1500
http://www.stuxgallery.com
http://www.stuxgallery.com/sites/stuxgallery.com/files/Press%20ReleaseB%26W.pdf

“Ola Writes the Alphabet” 1982 video by Barbara Rosenthal at Stux Gallery, NYC.

L.I.C., NYC (interactive performance)
Sat, July 13, 2013, 12-2pm.
(rain date July 20)
"Existential Interact with Provocation Cards"
in "Poet Sculptures" curated by Sam Jablon
Socrates Sculpture Garden
The full roster of poet-performers is:
Samuel Jablon, Megan DiBello, Daniel Dissinger, Aimee Herman, Peter Rugh, Bob Holman (in spirit), Nikhil Melnechuk, David Lawton, and Gina Mobilio, Lynne DeSilva-Johnson, Stephanie Berger, Steve Dalachinsky, Yuko Otomo, Iris Cushing, Montana Ray, Peter Milne Greiner, Joseph Quintela, Moira Williams, Katherine Sloan, Barbara Rosenthal, and Amy King.
LOCATION: Socrates Sculpture Garden

Image: some of the "Provocation Cards." This is the famous event at which Barbara Rosenthal first met Joseph Quintela, the future publisher of her novel Wish for Amnesia.
The two images depict her holding two of the the Provocation Cards Project. They are stills from her VHS video Lying Diary / Provocation Cards, the first media use of the cards after they had been originally generated as anonymous mail art from Rosenthal of phrases she had written in her Journals of the 1980s, and published within Homo Futurus, 1986 (Visual Studies Workshop Press.) These are some of the phrases on the cards she gave out at Socrates Sculpture Garden, L.I.C.

NYC

Postcard announcing upcoming shows Aug-Oct, 2013, NYC.

NYC (solo conceptual photography / collage / video / new media)
Peanut Underground / Undercurrent Art Projects
Birthday Party and Vernissage, Sat, Aug 17, 2013, 8-10pm. (celebration and video installation)
Barbara Rosenthal: Solo Exhibition of Conceptual Photo Collages
curated by Katie Peyton
Aug 17-26, hours Sat, Sun, Mon Noon-7pm & by appointment.
Sat, Aug 17, 2013, 10-11pm. (video screening)
Conceptual Photo Collages (Paper on Vellum, 2008) and “Pregnancy Dreams / Priming a Wall” (Video, 1979)
Please join us Sat, August 17, 8-11pm, for a birthday party at the vernissage of the solo show of wall art and video by international media and performance artist Barbara Rosenthal! Peanut Underground is proud to announce a solo exhibition to usher in the fifth decade of the idiosyncratic and dynamic career of this
old master of new media for her 65th birthday party, at which we will premiere six new photo collages (2008-13) and a digitally remastered 1979 video “Pregnancy Dreams / Priming a Wall." These recent photo collages contain images and video stills spanning 30 years of the artist's vision and provide viewers a window into the rich and provocative world of an individual considered a fixture of the avant-garde since the 1970's. Floating within the frame in unconventional shapes, with jutting angles, they also reference the disorienting cropping and framing techniques Rosenthal uses to reinterpret her subject matter. Each of the six pieces creates a surrealist and existential dialogue taking place in six different, mysterious landscapes. Precariously balanced, the collages incorporate moments from the life, travels, iconography and subconscious of the artist, evoking an implied narrative which takes place in the present moment and in the mind of each of her viewers. Students from Parsons School of Design and elsewhere have been invited to create fictions based on these works.
In installation as well will be an early video diptych, which originated in Super-8 film and 1/2” open reel video, in 1979. At its premiere at BACA the Brooklyn Arts and Culture Association, "Pregnancy Dreams" was censored and roundly denigrated because it depicts the artist at age 30, nine months pregnant and nude. It is being presented at this moment now at our gallery because it was just archived this week by the New Museum’s XFR STN and uploaded to The Internet Archive for viewing in perpetuity (http://archive.org/). It is a counterpoint to the collages because this artist is a consummate producer of art-life-mind connections that go well beyond simple day occurrences or individual ethnography to tell us much more all about ourselves.
LOCATION
Peanut Underground / Undercurrent Art Projects
215 E. 5th St. Lower Level.
NY, NY 10003
+1.917.723.2525; +1-646-368-5623
nyc@peanutunderground.com
http://www.peanutunderground.com/exhibitions/barbara-rosenthal.html

LEFT: “Conceptual Photo Collage Indiana 2009” at Peanut Underground / Undercurrent Art Projects, NYC.
RIGHT: Still from original Super-8 film, "Pregnancy Dreams" by Bill Creston and Barbara Rosenthal, now incorporated into the work screened at Undercurrent, NYC.

NYC (prints and bookworks)
Central Booking
Sept 8 - Sept 30, 2013
Lower East Side Gallery Walk PREVIEW: Sunday, Sept 8, 2013, 6-8pm
“Shirts & Jackets Prints 1, 2, 3 & 4" and "Dirty Book, 2010( plus: elements from)”
In the Front Gallery of the new East Village location of Central Booking, is an assortment of prints and bookworks by Barbara Rosenthal.
The pages in these books were compiled from laminated collection of sweepings from the artist's studio (the "Art History" section) and her kitchen (the "Leftovers" section) and one "Dirty Joke" on Lawrence Weiner. The laminates themselves exist in dozens of binders in Rosenthal's archives at eMediaLoft.
The 2010, 51 scanned and printed 3-1/2" x 4" double-sided sheets and 8 actual sheet of laminated "dry dirt" sweepings cleaned from distinct areas of the artist's kitchen and studio. "Past Life": dog hair, dust, haircuts, her lover's nail pairings, dropped change, spilled plant soil, coffee, spices, ash trays...; and "Art History," i.e. what falls on the floor when artmaking is over: paper slivers, torn labels, rubber bands, pencil shavings, hole-punches, string, dootz, glass shards, film... Each lamination and print have been created as an abstract collage from authentic debris. Comb-bound. Edition of 12. Signed and numbered. ( Also available: "Dirty Book Deluxe 'Editions'" of 4- 9x12 containing unique pages of laminated physical debris also available; "Dirty Book Polytek Rubber Uniques"; "Dirty Book Pages Print Suite"; "Dirty Book Singles Print Suite.")
LOCATION:
Central Booking
21 Ludlow Street
NY, NY 10002
http://centralbookingnyc.com/galleries/gallery-1-artist-books-prints/artists-work/barbara-rosenthal

LEFT: Dirty Book Boxed Book
CENTER: Dirty Book Poly-Tek Rubber Uniques Spiral Book
RIGHT: Dirty Book Laminated Page Print 29.
Three versions of Barbara Rosenthal's two-decade long ongoing project DIRTY BOOK at Central Booking, NYC.

NYC (New Media Performance and host)
Bowery Arts and Science
Mon, Sept. 9, 2013, 7pm
Surreal Photo-Stories: Icy Cold”
in “Mind-Roaming Journeys: Surreal Performances with Projection, Text and Voice”
with Abby Donovan, Dean Ebben, Allan Grauabard, David Moscovich, Katie Peyton / Lee Wells, Barbara Rosenthal, Joseph Quintela, with an homage to the late Peter Grzybowski.
Hosted by Adam Horowitz
LOCATION:
Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery
New York, NY 10012
tel: +1.646.368.5623
bowerypoetryclub.com

LEFT: Postcard for the first performance of this mediated piece, in 2013 at Tribes, NYC.
RIGHT: Barbara Rosenthal reprises Surreal Photo-Stories: Icy Cold in Mind-Roaming Journeys Surreal Media Poetry at Bowery Poetry Club, NYC.

NYC (prints and bookworks)
Central Booking
Central Booking Artspace moved from Brooklyn!
Thursday, Sept 12, 2013, 6-8pm
Gala Gallery Reopening Here in Manhattan
TONIGHT Wearable Books Fashion Show Performance
Featuring Barbara Rosenthal, Joseph A. W. Quintela, Gerlado Mercado, Coleen Fitzgibbon, et al.
LOCATION:
Central Booking
21 Ludlow Street
NY, NY 10002

“Shirts & Jackets Prints 1, 2, 3 & 4" sewn front-and-back segments, laminated, and on real hangars on a real clothes bar, the authentic old clothes of the artist being worn in the wearable art performances portion of this exhibition, by Rosenthal and three of her friends:Joseph A. W. Quintela, Gerlado Mercado, Coleen Fitzgibbon.
“Four Button Pin Shirts in LIVE Wearable Books Fashion Show Performance at Central Booking, NY
Print Installation by Barbara Rosenthal at Central Booking, NYC.
ARTICLE: Photo in Article in The Villager, NY:
http://thevillager.com/2013/10/03/word-up-artists-reopen-gallery-in-novel-fashion/

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA (solo video and talk)
Wed, Sept 18, 2013, 1:30pm
Authenticity in Art: Talk with Barbara Rosenthal
Monash University
Lunchtime ArtForum at Monash University
followed by screening of conceptual image-text-animation-performance video compilation "Existential Word Play"
+ Master Class next week (Contact the University for that location and access)
  "Authenticity in Art: Screenings and Discussions with Barbara Rosenthal"
Host: Prof. Anne Marsh, Dean
LOCATION:
MADA Lecture Theatre (G1.04)
Building G, Art and Design
Monash University, Caulfield Campus
900 Dandenong Rd.
Caulfield East VIC, Melbourne, Australia 3145
tel: 03.9903.1856

LEFT: Monash Art Design & Architecture Logo.
CENTER: Face page of DVD “I’ve Got the World in the Palm of My Hand” at Monash, Melbourne
RIGHT: Setting up Barbara Rosenthal's program in the huge MADA Theatre, Melbourne.
NEWS ARTICLE: Hawker, Phillapa, Barbara Rosenthal: In the Moment, With Originality, in "The Age," Melbourne and the "Sydney Morning Herald," Sydney, Australia:
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/in-the-moment-with-originality-20130917-2tx2q.html

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA (solo talk and video)
Thurs. Sept 19, 2013, 12:30pm
VCA / Victorian College of the Arts
University of Melbourne
  The Medium is NOT the Message: Screening and Discussion with Barbara Rosenthal
Host: Dr. Kate Daw, Head of Painting / School of Art
LOCATION:
VCA: Victorian College of Art
Building 878, Level 1 |
234 St. Kilda Road
Southbank VIC 3006
Melbourne, Australia
tel: +61.3(0).9035.9454; +61.3(0).9035.9459
kdaw@unimelb.edu.au
www.vca.unimelb.edu.au

Face Page from DVD “Push Me” presented by Barbara Rosenthal at VCArts, Melbourne.
REVIEW: Rijs, Cassandra, Barbara Rosenthal: Hoarder of Life to Yeild Art, “Interface,” UK. http://www.a-n.co.uk/interface/reviews/single/3824777.

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA (solo video and talk)
NOTE: Mon, Sept 30, 2013, 6:30pm live event CANCELLED
DUE TO ADMINISTRATIVE LEAVE.
DLUX Media Arts – scanlines: the forum
“Join us for an informal forum facilitated by Kate Richards and in conversation with visiting New York artist Barbara Rosenthal.”
http://existenceperformanceart.wordpress.com/
VENUE: THE MEAT & WINE CO ! DARLING HARBOUR
L1, 31 Wheat Road, IMAX Theatre Complex
Cockle Bay, Darling Harbour ! Sydney NSW 2000
RSVP by Wed Sept 5, tel: 9568 1458  ! or via return email: scanlines@dlux.org.au
as well as:
SYDNDY, AUSTRALIA: dLUX Media Arts
  An Evening with Barbara Rosenthal: “Toil of Three Cities / Liebesmuh” Multi-Media Video + Discussion
Host:Tara Morelos
LOCATION:
dLUX Media
91 Canal Rd. Lilyfield NSW 2040, Sydney, Australia
+61-2-9568-1458
 dlux.org.au
HOWEVER: DLux Media Arts INTERVIEW with by RHYS VOLTANO interviewing BARBARA ROSENTHAL is on Vimeo:
Video interview of Barbara Rosenthal by Rhys Voltano of dLUX Media, Sydney, Australia: https://vimeo.com/80948797

Announcement for Barbara Rosenthal's Sept 30, 2013 event scheduled in Sydney.

BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA (talk and panel)
Friday, Oct 4, 2013, 6pm
“My Journal Gives Me Ideas: How An Artist Keeps A Daybook, My 70 Volumes in 54 Years"
in Panel Discussion: “Diaries or Dirty Laundry: How Artists Keep Diaries”
Host: Rebecca Cunningham
LOCATION:
Metro Arts
199 Boundary St.
West End, Brisbane, Australia

Barbara Rosenthal’s "Trunks of Journals, Drafts and Mock-ups" projected at talk on panel at Metro Arts, Brisbane.
Event photo by Alan Warren.
RADIO INTERVIEW: Radio interview on “At The Local”, Brisbane, Australia:
http://www.4zzzfm.org.au/podcasts/culture/local-interview-barbara-rosenthal-and-rebecca-cunningham-part-1

BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA (2 performances)
Sunday October 6, 2013 from 6:30pm
Audiopollen at The Upstairs
“I’m Growing Up” (2013) and "Existential Interact with Identity Theft Masks and Provocation Cards / English” (2009) in
AUDIOPOLLEN “EXIST-ENTIAL IN SPACE” with Bonnie Hart (expanded cinema), Barbara Rosenthal (mediated performance), Leif Gifford (expanded cinema), Rachael Archibald (installation and poster/flyer), Velvet Pesu (sound, projection, wearable instrument/art)
EXIST curates Host: Rebecca Cunningham
LOCATION:
Club 199
199 Boundary St, Upstairs at West End
Brisbane, Australia

LEFT: Barbara Rosenthal performing “I'm Growing Up” at The Upstairs in Brisbane. Photo by Alan Warren.
RIGHT: Poster for “I'm Growing Up,” et al, at The Upstairs in Brisbane.
RADIO INTERVIEWS: Radio interview on “No Brow Art Show”, Brisbane, Australia:
http://www.4zzzfm.org.au/podcasts/culture/no-brow-art-show-speaks-barbara-rosenthall-part-1
http://www.4zzzfm.org.au/podcasts/culture/no-brow-art-show-speaks-barbara-rosenthall-part-2
http://www.4zzzfm.org.au/podcasts/culture/no-brow-art-show-speaks-barbara-rosenthall-part-3

BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA (videos and after-words)
Room 60
Sunday October 6, 2013, 6pm
“An Evening with Barbara Rosenthal: ‘Boggle’ and Other Video Shorts + informal Discussion in the Taproom"
EXIST curates Host: Rebecca Cunningham
LOCATION:
Room 60
22 Carraway St,
Fortitude Valley QLD 4006
Brisbane, Australia

‘Boggle and Other Video Shorts” video performance-text compilation by Barbara Rosenthal screened at Room 60, Brisbane.

BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA (talk and videos)
IMA: Institute of Modern Art
NOTE: Thurs, Oct 10, 2013, 6:30pm live event CANCELLED
DUE TO ADMINISTRATIVE LEAVE.
“Barbara Rosenthal Contemplates Suicide’ and Other Performance Videos + Discussion”
EXIST curates Host: Rebecca Cunningham
LOCATION:
IMA: Institute of Modern Art
420 Brunswick St, Fortitude Valley
Brisbane, Australia

Still from DVD Barbara Rosenthal Contemplates Suicide, 2003, scheduled at Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane.

NYC (print)
Nov 7 - Dec 31, 2013
Opening NOV 7, 2013: New York,
Haber Space for Science and Art / Central Booking
“Spine in Bluejeans: Gray Panel, Color, Triptych” 2003-2005
in “Science and Art: The Medicine Show" A science-based art exhibition with the theme Anatomy and Medicine.
Artists: Barbara Rosenthal, Despo Magoni, Miriam Schaer, Brandstifter, Purgatory Pie Press, Paul Teklenberg. Curated by Maddy Rosenberg.
LOCATION: HABER SPACE at CENTRAL BOOKING
21 Ludlow St. (F to East Broadway)
Lower East Side / NYC
347-731-6559
http://centralbookingnyc.com/

LEFT: Postcard of Rosenthal's first use of her Spine in Bluejeans image, for the studio's announcement of her first website, in 2003.
CENTER: First "spec sheet" on the project, as it was in 2005.
RIGHT: “Spine in Bluejeans: Gray Panel, Color, Triptych” 2003-2005, the framed panel by Barbara Rosenthal, 30" w x 60" h, at Central Booking, NYC.

MIAMI, FLORIDA (video)
Dec 4-7, 2013
Kill Your Idol Lounge
“‘The Secret of Life’ and Other Shorts”; “Pregnancy Dreams/Priming a Wall”; “Surreal Photo Stories: Icy Cold” (videos)
in “Art Basel Miami Beach 4th Annual Video Art After Hours
Artists: Barbara Rosenthal, Colette Lumiere, Peter Fend, Frank Shifreen, Gary Indiana, Heide Hatry, Karen Finley, Katie Peyton, Lee Wells. Curated by Lee Wells
HOURS; 8:00 pm - 5:00 am, looped. (Barbara will not be present. Lee will be, and probably some lucky others!)
LOCATION
Kill Your Idol Bar & Lounge
222 Espanola Way, Miami Beach, Florida 33139
(305) 672-1852
Transportation: http://www.walkscore.com/score/222-espanola-way-miami-beach-fl-33139

Priming a Wall, 1979 1/2" Open Reel "Video Verite" by Barbara Rosenthal at Kill Your Idol Lounge, Miami, Florida.
ARTICLE: This video was recently restored by Barbara Rosenthal with technicians at The New Museum during the XFR STN project, which was the subject of this article: Article in Blowin Art Info, NY:
http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/935564/a-day-at-the-new-museums-rescue-center-for-endangered-media

NYC(featured reading)
Dec. 27, 2013
Percy's Tavern
“Surreal Stories: Sorted Slides" (from SENSATIONS)”
in "Birthday Readings for Gabriel Don"
LOCATION: Percy's Tavern
210 Avenue A @ 13th St, New York, NY 10009, (212) 437-7770
ADMISSION: Free. Food, Drink Available.

Barbara Rosenthal Reading Sorted Slides from her book Sensations (VSW Press). Victor Weiss on Guitar, at Percy's Tavern. Photo by Bill Creston.

Exibitions, Readings, Performances and Screenings, Jan-Dec. 2012

BERLIN (video)
Sat, Feb 18, 2012
Director Lounge Berlin Film Festival
World premiere of new video,
"TOIL OF THREE CITIES / LIEBESMÜH" 2012
15min, looped 6-7:45pm
description: Formally, a parody of the classic documentary (picture illustrates narration), this socio-politically serious film about urban workers, police action and the legalization of prostitution, spins into a funny, absurdist fable for our time. Strong jazz and experimental music by Charlie Morrow and five other composers plus hundreds of succulent photos from Rosenthal's travels and library darting around the screen, accompany the main character's research into the reasons other people "work hard for the pleasure of others", as she tries to open her own heart.
cast & crew: auteur: Barbara Rosenthal; cast: Barbara Rosenthal, DJ RoBeat; music: Charlie Morrow, DJ RoBeat, Virgil Segal, Brand Stifter, Matthew Lee Knowles; extra footage: Bill Creston, Jenny Irish, Jaimie Pene, Nicole Mittenbühler; technical assistance: Ich Bin Künstler.
location: Sat, Feb 18th, 6-7:45. Directors Lounge International Video Festival; Naherholung Sternchen (Basement Wohnzimmer Loop Theatre); Berlinastrasse (behind Rathaus Mitte, behind Kino International); U5 Schillingstrasse (or short walk from Alex). (free). Rosenthal will be present for brief discussion, q & a.

Open DVD cover of Barbara Rosenthal's video Toil of Three Cities / Liebesmüh premiering at Directors Lounge, Berlin.

BROOKLYN(New Media video)
Sun., March 4, 2012, 7pm
Microscope
"Toil of Three Cities / Liebesmüh", a tongue-in-cheek 15-min experimental documentary performance fable in English and German by Barbara Rosenthal about the international nature of work, love, travel, yoga, police, music and photography. The video, with live introduction and follow-up q&a by Rosenthal, is part of the Filmmakers Co-Op evening of new films including works by Tom Jarmusch, Pam Kray, Joel Schlemowitz, and MM Serra and Ken Jacobs. Curated by Elle Burchill.
LOCATION: Microscope Gallery
 4 Charles Place,
Brooklyn, NY.
www.microscopegallery.com

BarbaraRosenthal_STILL fromToilOfThreeCities-FOURGIRLSAtlasOfAnatomyForArtistsByFritzSchider-Dover1947-54-57--Plate90-FromTheResearchRecordsOfChildWelfareofUCalCourtesyDrNancyBayley-PhasesInTheDevelopmentOfAGrowingGirl.jpg from Barbara Rosenthal's personal library, a still in her new media video, Toil of Three Cities, screened at Microscope, Brooklyn.

NYC (video and discussion)
Tues, March 6, 2012, 6.30pm-10.30pm
Synchronicity/Syncr On City/Playground 9
ET Modern
"Quotation from Paul Gauguin", "Rules/Regeln", and "Whispering Confession", three video short-shorts in English and German by Barbara Rosenthal that explore the nature of words as expressions of inner or double intentions. Part of the PlayGround 9 evening of "films, music, performances and talks by 10 of the world's most original creative minds", including Clarina Bezzola, Vydavy Sindicat, Doug Fitch, Ben Korta, Miru Kim, Lena Viddo, Jihae; curated by Andrei Severny.
FILMS, MUSIC, LIVE PERFORMANCES AND TALKS BY SOME OF MOST ORIGINAL CREATIVE MINDS FROM AROUND THE WORLDa platform for new ideas and collaborations by a diverse group of filmmakers, musicians, designers, architects, dancers, artists to share their latest works on big screen or perform live. In one evening a dozen of creative talents will introduce their artistic worlds, share ideas and good energy.
PlayGround is organized by Andrei Severny
Selected participants have 1sec -10 min for a live performance or a big screen demo projected from a file, CD or DVD. They will have a few minutes for take questions. This may be an opportunity to show a new work in progress to artist colleagues and get feedback.
Guests are by invitation only. Please email us if you would like to invite somebody as active and talented as you are and we’ll do our best to accommodate.
NYC / Chelsea.
Tues, March 6, 6:30-11pm.
LOCATION:ET Modern
547 W 20TH St
NYC/Chelsea
http://www.severny.com/on/SYNCHRONICITY.html

Still from Whispering Confession mixed still photo and animated text video on a shockingly intimate subject by Barbara Rosenthal, shows at ET Modern, NYC.

CORTLAND, NEW YORK (bookworks)
Sun, March 12, - Fri, April 6, 2012
Reception Th, March 15 4-6pm. Mon., March 19,  4-6pm reception. (artist won't be present)
Bound by Silence
Dowd Gallery
SUNY Cortland
Cortland, New York
The following pieces by Barbara Rosenthal will be exhibited (Rosenthal will not be present.):
Clues to Myself  1981(unbound pages, framed & bound book).
Structure and Meaning  1982 (book).
Identity Theft Masks Rondola Single Images Print (framed); Identity Theft Masks Button Pins on Page (framed) 2011.
Identity Theft Masks (loose to handle) 2009.
Identity Theft Masks Book (in vitrine, standing open zig zag) 2010.
Journal (pages from, projected) selected pages from 2008-11
Bound by Silence curated by Heather Powell, Dowd Gallery, State University of NY at Cortland.
 "Identity Theft Masks", "Clues to Myself", "Structure and Meaning", "Pages from the Journals", and other bookworks by Barbara Rosenthal that develop a nexus between identity, idea, language, image and communication will be displayed as part of the "Bound by Silence" exhibition and catalog of "artists who create a personal and unique language" including Barbara Kruger, Ed Ruscha, Buzz Spector, Jenny Holzer, John Baldessari, Alison Knowles, Barbara Rosenthal and Carl Andrel.
"These works examine the relationship between the visual elements and literary devices at play and emphasize the correlation between meaning and metaphor. The five artists featured in Bound by Silence have at some point been driven to create an object that incorporates their language into a book-like design.  This exhibit presents a series of artist-made manuscripts that consider the translation of the artist’s aesthetic vocabulary into writing systems that concentrate on the source and treatment of artistic language.  Some of these artists have assembled their content from critical techniques, biographical information, and elements of fiction, as well as asemic styles of communicating.  All of these works are a record of the artist’s private life- poetic and imaginative, careful and exact, revelatory and explicit.
"The artists featured in Bound by Silence have at some point been driven to create an object that incorporates their language into a book-like design.  This exhibit presents a series of artist-made manuscripts that consider the translation of the artist’s aesthetic vocabulary into writing systems that concentrate on the source and treatment of artistic language.  Some of these artists have assembled their content from critical techniques, biographical information, and elements of fiction, as well as asemic styles of communicating.  All of these works are a record of the artist’s private life- poetic and imaginative, careful and exact, revelatory and explicit. These works examine the relationship between the visual elements and literary devices at play and emphasize the correlation between meaning and metaphor." -- Heather Powell, Curator (Founding Director of Outerspace, Marathon & Broolkyn, NY)
Location: Dowd Gallery
Dowd Fine Arts Center # 162
49 Graham Ave.
SUNY Cortland
Cortland, NY 13045
607-753-4216
http://www.heatherallysonpowell.com/curated-exhibitions/
http://www2.cortland.edu/departments/art/dowd-gallery/
http://www2.cortland.edu/visitors-guide/campus-venues.dot

On display by Barbara Rosenthal at Dowd Gallery. LEFT: Front Cover of Clues to Myself, 1981. CENTER: Open double page from Homo Futurus depicting painted figure by Ola Creston, age 2. RIGHT:Identity Theft Masks Rondola Single Images Print. Cortland, NY.

NYC
Tues., March 20, 2012, 7pm (video and guest appearance)
Book Launch and Video.
"Emergency Index", an Ugly Duckling Presse anthology
The Kitchen
"Dog Recognition" a short, funny video animation in English, German, and Russian by Barbara Rosenthal  that explores the phenomenon of individuals recognizing others like and unlike themselves will be screened during the book launch of "Emergency Index", an Ugly Duckling Presse anthology of recent performance art, that includes information and images from Rosenthal's "Identity Theft Masks Performance WIth Button Pins and Provocation Cards." The book, which focuses on the problems driving each work and the tactics used to address them, includes an index of terms shared by the diverse range of contributors connecting geographically or stylistically far-flung projects, also includes documentation of performances by Ariel Goldberg, Vito Acconci and Bernadette Mayer, and is edited by Matvei Yankelevich and Yelena Gluzman.
LOCATION: The Kitchen
Center for Performance, Video and Music
512 West 19th Street, New York, NY 10011
(212) 255-5793 voice or 646-541-4772 text.
http://www.thekitchen.org/event/299/0/1/
http://www.uglyducklingpresse.org/catalog/browse/item/?pubID=217

LEFT: "Emergency Index" book cover.
RIGHT: Still from Dog Recognition video by Barbara Rosenthal screened on loop at Ugly Duckling Press booklaunch for Emergency Index, The Kitchen NYC.

NYC (2 artists' videos)
Th, March 22, 2012, 8pm
Barbara Rosenthal's Berlin Video Evening in NY
eMediaLoft
. The following performance & text-based conceptual video shorts, screened 2009-2012 in Berlin, Prague, Brooklyn, and the Lower East Side will be exhibited together in NY's Meatpacking/West Village:
Society 1990, 4min.
I Have a New York Accent 1990, 1min.
Playing with Matches 1991, 1min.
I've Got The World in the Palm of My Hand 1992, 2min.
Two Physics Videos: Some Balls Stick 1992, 46sec; and Space and Time 1990, 1min.
Rules 2010, 2min.
Secret Codes 2010, 4min.
Dead Heat 2009, 3min.
Car Coming 1990/2009, 1min.
Hot & Cold Shakeup 2010, 2min
Push Me and/or Push Me Pas De Deux 2009, 2010 3min.
International Garbage 2010, 3min.
Feet Handoff 2010, 7min.
TOIL OF THREE CITIES / LIEBESMÜH 2012, 15min.
Rosenthal will be present.
This program will be followed by two Super-8 films by Bill Creston, rly small-gauge films were presented in a solo Cineprobe at The Museum of Modern Art in 1989 will be in attendance to dialog with the audience about his seminal works, including:
"Cripple", 1965, 10min., "Cracks", 1964, 10min., "S.E.G", 1964, 4min., "Taxi, Taxi", 1994, 15min., "I Saw Where You Was Last Night", 1984, 14min., "Runner", 1981, 18min., "Coupons" 1989, 7min., and "Duets" 1987, 10min., plus open-call shorts under 7 minutes, so please bring whatever you'd like to show, too!
Free Admission; Cash Bar.
location: Th, March 22, 8pm. eMediaLoft Projects, Westbeth Artists Complex, 55 Bethune St. 6th Floor A-629, Meatpacking/West Village, NY, NY 646-368-5623.
Rosenthal and Creston will be present for q & a. (Free. Cash bar.)
CHANGED FROM MARCH 22 to MARCH 29, New York
     8pm:
"Berlin Videos in NY" Evening by Barbara Rosenthal. The following performance & text-based conceptual video shorts, screened 2009-2012 in Berlin, Prague, Montreal, Brooklyn, and the Lower East Side will be exhibited together in NY's Meatpacking/West Village, where Rosenthal will dialog with the audience:
"Society" 1990, 4min., "I Have a New York Accent" 1990, 1min., "Playing with Matches" 1991, 1min., "I've Got The World in the Palm of My Hand" 1992, 2min., "Two Physics Videos: Some Balls Stick and Space & Time"  1992, 46sec; 1990, 1min., "Rules/Regeln" 2010, 2min., "Secret Codes" 2010, 4min., "Dead Heat" 2009, 3min., "Car Coming" 1990/2009, 1min., "Hot & Cold Shakeup" 2010, 2min
"Push Me and/or Push Me Pas De Deux" 2009, 2010 3min., "International Garbage"  2010, 3min., "Feet Handoff" 2010, 7min., "Dog Recognition" 2003/7/10, 3 min., "Toil of Three Cities / Liebesmüh" 2012, 15min.
     9pm:
"80th Birthday Tribute of Super-8 films and Video History Videos by Bill Creston." Creston, who was one of the first five video artists in the world, and whose early small-gauge films were presented in a solo Cineprobe at The Museum of Modern Art in 1989 will be in attendance to dialog with the audience about his seminal works, including:
"Cripple", 1965, 10min., "Cracks", 1964, 10min., "S.E.G", 1964, 4min., "Taxi, Taxi", 1994, 15min., "I Saw Where You Was Last Night", 1984, 14min., "Runner", 1981, 18min., "Coupons" 1989, 7min., and "Duets" 1987, 10min.
    10pm
Open-call video shorts under 7 minutes, so please bring whatever you'd like to show, too!
LOCATION: eMediaLoft Projects
Westbeth Artists Complex, 6th floor, studio 629
646-368-5623
Meatpacking/West Village, NY, NY   646-368-5623.
(Free admission. Donations encouraged. Cash bar.)
www.emedialoft.org

Poster for double bill of Founders Night at eMediaLoft.org:
A still from Secret Codes 2012 video by Barbara Rosenthal, and a still from Lunch Hour 1993 Super-8 film still, Bill Creston shown at eMediaLoft, NYC.

BROOKLYN (bookworks)
Through Sun. April 8.
Proteus Gowanus Gallery
Five Feathers, Berlin, True Story, a 3-D bookwork by Barbara Rosenthal which uses text and real feathers to tell a love story that questions how we know when any life experience is safe or dangerous, is exhibited in "Object Migration",. 
LOCATION Proteus Gowanus Gallery
543 Union Street, #1C
Brooklyn, NY 11215 
tel 718-243-1572 Hours: Thurs & Fri: 3 – 6; Sat &
Sun: 12 – 6
http://proteusgowanus.org/migration

Five Feathers, Berlin, True Story by Barbara Rosernthal at Proteus Gowanus, Brooklyn.

NYC (solo event)
Th, May 24, 2012, 8-11pm:
Photo-projections, reading and talk by Barbara Rosenthal,
"DECADE OF MADNESS: COLD TURKEY AT THE DOG RUN"
FOURTH STREET PHOTO GALLERY;
8pm reception; 9pm event; free (donations accepted)
The Fourth Street Photo Gallery (NY) will present "DECADE OF MADNESS: COLD TURKEY AT THE DOG RUN", a photo-projection, reading and talk solo by BARBARA ROSENTHAL about the physical, emotional, psychological and creative events during her struggle to rid body and brain of 15 years of 30 psychiatric medications and withdrawl off, and the book of that title currently in development.  
The topic will include Rosenthal's thoughts about photography, and all art, as a manifestation of the artist's "soul and psyche," and her directive to "photograph in a trance-state."
The photo-projections will include many images from her "Surreal Photography" work, particularly from the portfolios "Trapped Figures", "Dangerous Locations", "Renegade Horses", "Dogs in the City", and "NYC."
For a full description, click here: 
http://www.facebook.com/events/293245220765953
time: Th, May 24, 8-11pm. 
LOCATION: FOURTH STREET PHOTO GALLERY; Alex Harsely, Director
67 E. 4th St.
NY, NY 10003
gallery tel: 212-673-1021
Subway: 6 to Bleeker, or F/M to 2nd Ave, or L to 1st Ave.
To contact the artist before the show, call 646-368-5623 (voice).
Gallery Website: 
http://fith-artcollective.jimdo.com/the-4th-street-photo-gallery/
Barbara Rosenthal's Surreal Photography Website: 
http://www.emedialoft.org/artistspages/frameSurrealSpecial.htm

"Cold Turkey at the Dog Run" Preview show solo by Barbara Rosenthal at Fourth Street Photo Gallery, NYC.

L.I.C. / NYC (video)
Sat, May 26, 2012, 7pm
POSTCARDS
Video by Barbara Rosenthal, 2 min.
LOCAL PROJECT ARTSPACE,
Synopsis: "POSTCARDS" 1988 footage; edit 1992; remastered 2010
Three curious postcards. What is the writer's relationship to "Friends"? Does she mean us? Two scenes are isolated, one is densely packed. Two are from the city, one is not. All are remote. The text does not come easily. We think something is wrong, but we don't know what it is. The postcards might set our relationship right again, but the writer isn't sure.  The music is melancholy. We are made uneasy.
Typical of Barbara Rosenthal's videos, this piece evolved over time. It began as a series of 35mm slides shot while driving to Florida in 1988, and from the window of her top-floor loft on Avenue of the Americas, NYC. In 1990, a slide-adapter transferred three slides to VHS, and text was added with Amiga computer. In 1992, the 3-part piece served as one segment of the 3/4" composite video "Shadow Boxes, Etc." The original slides have been digitally scanned and enhanced, the font replaced, and timing tweaked during remastering, 2009.
time: Sat, May 26, 7pm; free (donations accepted)
location: LOCAL PROJECT ARTSPACE, Antonio Ortuño, Director
45-10 Davis Street, Long Island City.
NY, United States, 11101
Subway: 7 to Courthouse Sq/23rd.
To contact the artist before the show, call 646-368-5623 (voice).
Gallery Website: 
www.localproject.org
Barbara Rosenthal's Video Website: 
http://www.emedialoft.org/artistspages/frameVideo.htm

A still from "Postcards" video by Barbara Rosenthal at Local Project, Long Island City, Queens, NYC.

BERLIN (video photo-composite)
Friday, June 1st, 2012
"Flying Films Festival" (the artist will not be present)
Among the videos will be "BuzzClickSsshhTingle" that Rosenthal made with music and photographs by Berlin's DJ RoBeat.
Morgenvogel at Zionskirche
(English): http://flyingfilms.morgenvogel.net/?lang=en
(Deutsch): http://flyingfilms.morgenvogel.net/?lang=de
Film info:
Title: "BuzzClickSsshhTingle"
Producer/Director/Concept/Editor: BARBARA ROSENTHAL (from NY)
Photo/Audio: DJ RoBEAT (from Berlin)
Year: 2010-2011
Genres/keywords; EXISTENTIALISM, INSECTS, FLYING, COMPOSITING, HUMOR, NATURE.
Languages: None (music only)
Run time: 3min
Description:
Whether left to their own resources (or not), insect life (and perhaps our own) can be pretty resourceful. Several insects, not of the same species or size or even habitat, commingle, mate, and perhaps devour each other to the beat of this experimental compositization and soundtrack by two artists communicating in cyberspace. DJ RoBeat's music and insect photos are composited by Rosenthal. Whatever creatures can develop when two unalikes unite??? Just watch!
location: Zionskirche
Invalidenstrasse 4
Berlin / Mitte

Still from video BuzzClickSsshhTingle by DJ Robeat and Barbara Rosenthal in Berlin.

BROOKLYN (video animation and talk)
Saturday, June 2nd, 2012
I invite you to join me at the "Red Hook Cine Soiree," curated by Joel Schlemowitz, which will include Rosenthal's video animation "Dog Recognition" in 4 languages: English, German, Russian and Chinese.
Festival details:
https://www.facebook.com/#!/events/247586792011890/
Film info:
Title: "Dog Recognition"
Artist: Barbara Rosenthal
Year: 2003-2012
Genres/keywords; EXISTENTIALISM, DOGS, ANIMATION, LANGUAGES, HUMOR, IDENTITY.
Languages: English, German, Russian and Chinese
Run time: 4min
Description:
DOG RECOGNITION is a quick-paced, hysterical inquiry into the mind of a dog recognizing other dogs, himself as a dog, and the difference between himself and the other animals he happens upon.  How does one recognize others like oneself? Premiered X-Fest, Remote Video Lounge, NYC, 2004. 
location: BWAC Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Cinema
499 Van Brumt St
Red Hook / Brooklyn

Still from video "Dog Recognition" by Barbara Rosenthal at BWAC Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Cinema, Brooklyn.

BERLIN (artist's book and prints)
19 June (opening party) through 15 July, 2012 (closing party) the artis won't be present
Dirty Book  (Artist's Books and Prints Project by Barbara Rosenthal)
"Central Booking in Berlin" at K-Salon
This show, curated by Maddy Rosenberg, director of Central Booking, in Brooklyn, NY, "presents a selection of artists' books and prints by American artists with ties to Berlin."
It includes portions of Rosenthal artist's books and prints project "Dirty Book", an English-language pun on sex books, but which instead is an edition handmade book of 51 scanned and digitally printed 3-1/2" x 4" double-sided sheets and 8 actual physical sheets of laminated "dry dirt" cleaned from distinct areas of the artist's kitchen and studio, and two suites of prints of "Laminated Sweepings." 
Two chapters: 1. "Past Life": dog hair, dust, haircuts, her lover's nail pairings, dropped change, spilled plant soil, coffee, spices, ash trays...; and 2. "Art History," i.e. what falls on the floor when artmaking is over: paper slivers, torn labels, rubber bands, pencil shavings, hole-punches, string, dootz, glass shards, film... Each lamination and print have been created as an abstract collage for authentic debris. Comb-bound. Edition of 25. Signed and numbered. Deluxe edition of 4- 9x12 containing many more pages of laminated physical debris also available.
party times: Opening 19 Juni, 19h; Closing 15 Juli, 15h (includes Curator Talk and Tour) 
gallery hours: Mon-Thurs 12-16h; Fri 12-20h; Saturday & Sunday, 12–18h pm
location: K-Salon
Bergmannstrasse, 54; 10961 Berlin
(nahe u-Südstern)
gallery tel: 030-6129-9100
Berlin gallery website: www.k-salon.de
Central Booking, Brooklyn, NY, Website:
www.centralbookingnyc.com
Barbara Rosenthal's Artist's Books Website: 
http://www.emedialoft.org/artistspages/frameBooks.htm

Three prints from the Six-up Laminated Sweepings Prints, Double Sided from Barbara Rosenthal's Dirty Book project at K-Salon, Berlin.

BROOKLYN (bookworks)
through Sun. July 1, 2012:
Homo Futurus;  Homo Futurus Blank Book; Homo Futurus (Readings From)  (2 artists books and a CD; Courtesy of Central Booking, Bklyn.)
Furture Migration
Proteus Gowanus Gallery, Brooklyn (Red Hook), NY
This show, curated by Krista Dragomer, "presents an exploration in art, artifacts and books of the possibilities and predicaments of life in the anthropocene future."
It includes two of Rosenthal artist's books and a CD of her reading, in which she predicted that the next hominid will be genetically engineered.
Here's the link to images of both bookcovers with descriptions, Judith Hoffberg's review of Homo Futurus" in "Umbrella" magazine, and Lori Schneider's in "Score."
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.411979278829975.108283.100000537200807&type=3&l=98fb20c17c
Both books and the audio CD version of Homo Futurus are available through Proteus Gowanus for $25 each, signed. "Homo Futurus Wall Work" and "Homo Futurus Print Suite" (not in this exhibition, and last on view at the Carlo Lamagna Gallery on 57th St, NYC, in 1989-90) are available through eMediaLoft.org.
time: Through Sun. July 1 
hours: Thursday & Friday, 3–6 pm; Saturday & Sunday, 12–6 pm
Location: Proteus Gowanus Gallery
543 Union Street (at Nevins)Brooklyn, NY 11215
(R train to Union; F or G to Carroll)
gallery tel: 718.243.1572
gallery website: http://proteusgowanus.org/
Barbara Rosenthal's Artist's Books Website: 
http://www.emedialoft.org/artistspages/frameBooks.htm

LEFT: Homo Futurusem>, 1986. VSW Press. Offset interactive artist's book (100pgs)
CENTER: Homo Futurus blank book200 pgs; 1 printed with game instructions. 1984. Variations of the game, and/or correspondence relating to it, comprise artists, scientists, etc, including Stephen Jay Gould and Paul Zelvansky.
RIGHT: Readings from Homo Furturusem> (Spoken Word Audio CD)
Three bookworks from Barbara Rosenthal's Homo Futurus project on exhibit at Proteus Gowanus, Brooklyn.

NYC (Mediated Performance)
Sunday, July 22, 2012
"Icy Cold"
Surreal Performance With Projections and Text
Tribes Gallery / Gathering of the Tribes
285 E. 3rd St, NY, NY
location: Tribes Gallery
285 E. 3rd St, NY, NY
NYC / East Village

"Icy Cold" Mediated Performance Reading by Barbara Rosenthal at Tribes, NYC.

MEXICO CITY (performance video)
Aug 30-31, 2012 (the artist won't be present)
"Hot and Cold Shakeup"
Perfomance Video
in the P3RFORM4NC3 EJECT 4 INTERNATIONAL VIDEOPERFORMANCE FESTIVAL OF MEXICO CITY
videoeject@hotmail.com
xteresa_arteactual@yahoo.com.mx
www.exteresa.bellasartes.gob.mx
Pancho Lopez - EJECT director
Ex Teresa Arte Actual
Lic. Verdad 8
Centro Histórico
C.P. 06060
México D.F.
+ 52 55 5522 9093 / +52 55 5522 2721

Barbara Rosenthal in her performance video "Hot and Cold Shakeup" at Arte Actual, Mexico City.

LONDON
THURSDAY, SEPT 27, 2012, 7pm
 Words Come Out Backwards When Spoken To Screen Left
London Underground Film Sessions
video in the One Minute Volume 6 Film Festival
curated by Kerry Baldry
as part of the London Underground Film Sessions. 
popculture@thehorsehospital.com
http://www.thehorsehospital.com/
tickets, £5.00 discount: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/182071
or at door, £6
LOCATION:
The Horse Hospital for Underground and Avantgarde Media
Colonnade, Bloomsbury
London, UK, WC1N 1JD

Still from DVD of Words Come Out Backwards When Spoken To Screen Left, 2009 by Barbara Rosenthal at London Underground Films, London.

NYC (featured reading)
SATURDAY, SEPT 29, 2012, 5pm 
"Made of Glass" 
(Rosenthal Live Reading)
in Jazzoetry For Surreal Dreams / 1000,000 Poets for Change
for the "Dream-poetry! Jazzoetry! Poe-music! " of the New York Surrealist Group 
Also featuring: Steve Dalachinsky, Ron Kolm, Shelley Miller,  Valery Oisteanu, Yuko Otomo,  Jeffrey Cyphers Wright 
organized by Valery Oisteanu
http://100tpcmedia.org/100TPC2012/2012/08/new-york-surrealist-group-new-york-city-new-york/
zendadanyc@earthlink.net
LOCATION:
Sidewalk Cafe
94 Ave A at E. 6th St
New York, NY 10009 
tel: 212-473-7373)
subway:  F to 2nd Ave (exit 1st Ave)

Barbara Rosenthal's reading "Made of Glass" from her book, ˆSensations," (VSW Press, 1984) at Sidewalk Café, NYC.

MANCHESTER, UK (video)
SUNDAY, SEPT 30, 2012, 12noon-10pm (the artist won't be present)
 Words Come Out Backwards If Spoken To Screen Left
video in the One Minute Volume 6 Film Festival
curated by Kerry Baldry
as part of 'One day Wonder(ment)' screening on a pedal powered cinema
https://www.facebook.com/events/406186502774166/?ref=ts
LOCATION:
Alexandra Park
Princess Road A5103, and Demesne Road
Manchester, UK

Open DVD cover from Words Come Out Backwards When Spoken To Screen Left, video text animation by Barbara Rosenthal in Manchester.

PHILADELPHIA (video)
Oct 11-Nov 4
Reception+Screeing: THURSDAY, OCT 11, 5-8 PM
"Space and Time"
video in the "About Time" program
curated by Aria Alamalhodaei and Tracy Lisk
as part of the Inside the Moment International Short Film Festival
presented by The ~curARTorial LAB & Crane's International Curatorial Exchange (I.C.E.)
info@cranearts.com
LOCATION:
Crane Arts
Crane Arts LLC
1400 N American Street
Philadelphia, PA 19122-3803
tel 215.232.3203

Still from "Space and Time," video by Barbara Rosenthal at Crane Arts, Philadelphia.

MONTREAL, CANADA (solo photo exhibition)
Oct 29-Nov. 13
Opening/Vernissage: Sat, Nov 3, 3-6pm
"Barbara Rosenthal—Surreal Photographs: Trapped Figures and TIny Houses"
SOLO exhibition of new color and BW photographs at the Visual Voice Gallery.
(Rosenthal will be present at the opening, and in Montreal Oct 22-Nov 17.)
http://visualvoicegallery.com/VVG-intro-E.html
http://www.visualvoicecollections.com/artists/barbara-rosenthal/
LOCATION:
Visual Voice Gallery
Édifice Belgo
rue 372 Ste-Catherine Ouest, suite 421
Montréal QC H3B 1A2
+1-514-878 3663 
info@visualvoicegallery.com 
station: Place-Des-Artes

Pointy Coffin Doll, 35mm photo in solo show "Barbara Rosenthal—Surreal Photographs: Trapped Figures and TIny Houses" Visual Voice Gallery, Montreal.
Review of "Surreal Photography: Trapped Figures and Tiny Houses" solo photography show, Visual Voice Gallery, Montreal, Nov. 2012: http://www.thebelgoreport.com/2012/11/looking-inside-the-uncanny-world-of-barbara-rosenthals-photographs/.

MONTREAL, CANADA (solo video screening)
Wednesday, Nov. 7, 7pm
"Existential Word Play"
SOLO video screening of photo/text/performance videos + audience discussion.
host: Allan Diamond
www.montrealartcentre.com
mtlartcentre@gmail.com
info@montrealartcentre.com
LOCATION:
Montreal Art Centre
1844 William
Montreal QC
H3J 1R5
station: George-Venier
tel: 514-667-2270

"Existential Word Play" (composited block of video stills & DVD face pages), solo video at Montreal Art Centre, Montrea.

MONTREAL, CANADA (solo video screening)
Sat, Nov 10, 6pm.
Surreal Photo-Stories: Icy Cold
Visual Voice Gallery
SOLO Video screening and Live Performance Reading WIth Projections
(Rosenthal will be present.)
LOCATION:
Visual Voice Gallery
Édifice Belgo
rue 372 Ste-Catherine Ouest, suite 421
Montréal QC H3B 1A2
gallery tel: +1-514-878 3663 
gallerist cell: +1-514- 8822889 
artist cell: +1-646-541-4772
email: info@visualvoicegallery.com 
station: Place-Des-Artes

Open DVD box insert for Surreal Photo Stories: Icy Cold by Barbara Rosenthal screened at Visual Voice Gallery, Montreal