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We are so excited to announce the lineup for this year’s FLOWERS FEST! Join us August 21-23 and 28-30 with over 30 artists, featuring performance, music, poetry, and more. Pencil it in, more details as each night approaches…

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Final days at Kiang Malingue New York, Once More Encore: The First Year of Benny’s Video Remixed, an exhibition by Benny’s Video, a curatorial project of Craig Jun Li.

In the video program, the camera is an unfixed apparatus through which the entanglement of relationships, perspectives, and subjectivity are explored. Dave McKenzie, Wilfred and Me, 2012, is a filmed performance that negotiates the past and the future, amidst the infrastructural failure of the public health system, prompted by Magic Johnson’s AIDS diagnosis announcement. Glen Fogel, Why Don’t I ... Pretend To Be Your Dad, 2015, wrestles with a film in which a character named Glen greatly resembles the artist, reconciling it as a projection and a fiction. Cooper Campbell, Elephant, 2024, shows two police officers training at a jujutsu facility disarming each other of firearms. Vijay Masharani, Tree, 2026, shows a swaying tree on a windy night outside of the artist’s window. In William Wiebe, Double Feature, 2024, the camera is focus hunting through a moving tree.

Simon Shim-Sutcliffe, Quarters, 2025, is an atlas of the open pit mines, sewer systems, gardens, and volcanoes of the Pacific, shot through Cold War-era telephoto lenses, as an epilogue to the artist’s Chinese family who worked on the Panama Canal. Erin Johnson, Heavy Water, 2018, set in South Carolina’s Savannah River Site, a nuclear weapons program facility and home to a population of wild dogs, traces a timeline of survival amidst the precarious future of radioactive waste. Through optical printing, Mary Helena Clark, Orpheus (outtakes), 2012, stakes out an interstitial space of haunting through Jean Cocteau’s Orphée. P. Staff, On Venus, 2019, questions the construction of the “others,” through color inversion footage of industrial farming and animal commodities, against a poem on the volatile life on Venus, as a queer state of being. In Kevin Kelly, Interference, 2020, a worker interacts with enigmatic images on his iPhone to probe misinformation and image as empirical evidence.

Plan your visit through August 7, 2026, at 50 Eldridge Street, New York.

#KiangMalingue #2026 #hkny

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This is the FINAL week to visit Once More Encore: The First Year of Benny’s Video Remixed, on view until August 7 at Kiang Malingue, New York at 50 Eldridge Street. The gallery is open Mon-Fri, 10-6pm. @kiangmalingue

The video program on loop includes 11 works from 10 artists, accompanied by functional sculptures from Gwenn Thomas as seating.

In order:
Glen Fogel
Why Don’t I ... Pretend To Be Your Dad, 2015
2-channel video, sound 29 minutes

Cooper Campbell
Elephant, 2024
Digital video, sound 6 minutes 40 seconds Ed 2/6 + 2AP

Vijay Masharani
Tree, 2026
Single channel video, sound 1 minute 2 secs Ed 1/3 + 2AP Courtesy of the artist and @clima_gallery

Simon Shim-Sutcliffe
Quarters, 2025
HD video digitalized from 16mm, black and white, sound 9 minutes 38 seconds

Erin Johnson
Heavy Water, 2018
Video, sound 15 minutes 35 seconds

Dave McKenzie
Old Man/ Sarcophagus, 2013
Color video, sound 3 minutes 54 seconds Ed 1/5 + 1AP

William Wiebe
Double Feature, 2024
Digital video, HD, no sound 9 minutes 22 seconds Ed 1/2 + 1AP

Mary Helena Clark
Orpheus (outtakes), 2012
Digital transfer from 16mm, sound 6 minutes Ed 1/5 + 1AP
Courtesy of the artist and @hoffman.donahue

P. Staff
On Venus, 2019
13 minutes, sound AP
Courtesy of the artist and @commonwealthandcouncil

Kevin Kelly
Interference, 2020
Video, sound 15 minutes 9 seconds Ed 1/5

Dave McKenzie
Wilfred and Me, 2012
Video, color, sound 7 minutes 30 seconds Ed 1/5 + 1AP

#GlenFogel @coopercampbell @vijay.masharani @simonshimsutcliffe @erin_johnson____ #DaveMcKenzie @emmelines.biz @maryhelenaclark @p___staff @kktootall

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After hours @kiangmalingue with @jepisalla @carrie.yamaoka and Andrea Blum

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Open by appointment this weekend

Kevin Kelly
Some Acts Around Rocks and Stones (Part 1), 2017
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"Some Acts Around Rocks and Stones (Part 1), is about the morphology of discourse around an artwork. It begins with found footage of Marcel Duchamp defending the conceptual legitimacy of an artwork. It is then followed by a sequence of word for word subtitles by an art dealer using his spiel of what a readymade is to sell an artwork. The latter part of the video focuses on an interview with an art historian. She wrote her master’s thesis on the public reaction to Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty and then has lived near and observed the jetty for 25 years. Cut amongst this dialogue is an artistic form of labor, in which I turn over the basalt rocks located in and around the Spiral Jetty. Does this change the work? What if you can’t tell because it’s a sculpture in the environment that is slowly changing? Through this unlimited inquiry with the historian and work itself, I bring back the experiential quality to an artwork that is mostly known through images." @kktootall

#KevinKelly

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Opening Next Thursday July 24, 6-9pm reception

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We did it again… I wrote the music for @kktootall ‘s latest film about Spinoza’s house. The film was exhibited and supported by @80wse and wrapped this past weekend. Always proud to be a part of Kevin’s beautiful work.

#art #music #experimental #films #newyork #spinoza

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Last week to see Kevin Kelly, “Caute”, featuring an evocative new film employing speculative optics to journey the radical life and philosophy of Baruch Spinoza. Closes March 15.

Through meticulous research and experimental film techniques, Kelly captures the intimacies of Spinoza’s world, formed by his exile by the Amsterdam Sephardic Jewish community at the age of 23 and his life as a lens grinder for microscopes and telescopes — a chosen profession that informed his philosophical ideas.

Images: Courtesy of artist.

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Opening Tonight: Kevin Kelly, “Caute”, featuring an evocative new film employing speculative optics to journey the radical life and philosophy of Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677).  
Kevin Kelly CAUTE January 31 – March 15, 2025  Opening reception:  January 31, 2025 6–8PM  
Through meticulous research and experimental film techniques, Kelly captures the intimacies of Spinoza’s world, formed by his exile by the Amsterdam Sephardic Jewish community at the age of 23 and his life as a lens grinder for microscopes and telescopes — a chosen profession that informed his philosophical ideas.   In Caute, Kelly’s exploration focuses on micro-details from his biography along with the sensorial. Through an interview with the caretaker of his former places of residence and recreating 17th-century optical perspectives by filming scenes Spinoza is known to have looked upon through his singlet lens. He brings viewers into Spinoza’s intellectual landscape and physical surroundings as Spinoza wrestled with radical ideas that linked God and nature, explored the dynamics of emotion, and championed intellectual autonomy in the face of religious dogma and state ideology.   Through poetic visual fragments, the film reflects his pursuit of truth amid religious and social isolation and the tolerant community who supported him. The exhibition title, Caute—Spinoza’s motto meaning “be cautious”—is a tribute to his steadfast quest. Spinoza’s signet ring bore this message, marking letters he sent into the world.  Organized by Howie Chen  Produced by Jon Huron

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Kev show opens tonight at 80wse everyone should go🕳️

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80WSE is pleased to announce our upcoming exhibition, Kevin Kelly, “Caute”, featuring an evocative new film employing speculative optics to journey the radical life and philosophy of Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677). Through meticulous research and experimental film techniques, Kelly captures the intimacies of Spinoza’s world, formed by his exile by the Amsterdam Sephardic Jewish community at the age of 23 and his life as a lens grinder for microscopes and telescopes — a chosen profession that informed his philosophical ideas.

Kevin Kelly
CAUTE
January 31 – March 15, 2025

Opening reception:
January 31, 2025
6–8PM

In Caute, Kelly’s exploration focuses on micro-details from his biography along with the sensorial. Through an interview with the caretaker of his former places of residence and recreating 17th-century optical perspectives by filming scenes Spinoza is known to have looked upon through his singlet lens. He brings viewers into Spinoza’s intellectual landscape and physical surroundings as Spinoza wrestled with radical ideas that linked God and nature, explored the dynamics of emotion, and championed intellectual autonomy in the face of religious dogma and state ideology.

Through poetic visual fragments, the film reflects his pursuit of truth amid religious and social isolation and the tolerant community who supported him. The exhibition title, Caute—Spinoza’s motto meaning “be cautious”—is a tribute to his steadfast quest. Spinoza’s signet ring bore this message, marking letters he sent into the world.

Organized by Howie Chen
Produced by Jon Huron

IMAGE: Still from Kevin Kelly, CAUTE, 2025.

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Credits

Caretaker: Marie-Therese Daniels-Dirven
Mother: Maria Camarena
Baby: Sophia Sinaguglia

Camera/Writing/Color Grade: Kevin Kelly
Editor: Karlis Bergs
Composer: Coleman Zurkowski
Sound Design: Andrew Siedenburg
Compositor: Raza Kazmi

Special Thanks: Philipp Farra, Adam Golfer, Mike Crane, Lucy Kerr, Will Wiebe, Che Gossett, Kevin Hernandez Rosa, Greicy Mella, Steven Nadler, Volunteers at Het Spinozahuis, Zeiss Museum of Optics

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🫡Junie B. Junin’🫡

🫡 we have the meats
🫡 Fam Stoned Haiku
🫡 Manifest giving me everything
🫡Rare Woman with Kev in Window
🫡 Basically an MLK quote
🫡 it’s rain, folks
🫡 NL stuntin
🫡 Sun Ray lobotomy
🫡 33 freakin
🫡 BTS of our new film Ocean’s Catch 11™️

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