MICHELLE HANDELMAN | FALL EXHIBITIONS | SFMOMA COMMISSION & NYC SHOW

M I C H E L L E H A N D E L M A N UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS & TALKS FALL 2017

Michelle Handelman, "Hustlers & Empires", 2018, 4k multichannel installation, color, sound, 63:00.

Hi Everyone, I'm very excited to announce that the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has commissioned my new project HUSTLERS & EMPIRES as part of their Performance in Practice Series. It will premiere at SFMOMA in March 2018. HUSTLERS & EMPIRES is a multichannel film installation with live performance that takes inspiration from Iceberg Slim's novel PIMP, Marguerite Duras' novel THE LOVER, and Federico Fellini's film TOBY DAMMIT. It looks at transgression as a mode of survival and examines how the hustler survives despite all odds.  It stars the amazing performers  SHANNON FUNCHESS,  JOHN KELLY,  and VIVA RUIZ who each write and perform original songs for the piece. There's a lot of collaborators on this project including cinematography by Ed David; costumes by Karen Young and Neon Music; set design by And or Forever; original music by the performers and additional music by Jonathan Kreinik. I'll be sending more images and updates in the coming weeks. I'm in San Francisco this week presenting a talk at the San Francisco Art Institute with SFMOMA curator Frank Smigiel.  THIS WEEK Tues Nov 7, 7:00-9:00p at San Francisco Art Institute.

Michelle Handelman, "Hustlers & Empires", 2018, 4k multichannel installation, color, sound, 63:00. Work in progress production still.

MICHELLE HANDELMAN: HUSTLERS & EMPIRES TUESDAY, NOV 7, 2017, 7:00PM - 9:00PM San Francisco Art Institute Graduate Lecture Series Osher Lecture Hall 800 Chestnut St. San Francisco, CA Michelle Handelman: Hustlers & Empires | November 7 Graduate Lecture Series co-presentation with SFMOMA Michelle Handelman's presentation phantasmagoric video installations create hypnotic and complex spaces of ever-shifting queer identities. Blurring the line between performance and reality, she re-contextualizing historical figures in cinema and literature by casting subcultural icons who play versions of themselves within a cinematic framework. Exploring philosophical questions of existence, she confronts the things we collectively fear and deny—sexuality, death, chaos. Handelman will introduce her project Hustlers & Empires, a SFMOMA co-commission and her project Irma Vep, The Last Breath (2013/15) starring Zackary Drucker and Flawless Sabrina. Michelle Handelman is a Guggenheim Fellow who has exhibited at Broad Art Museum; MIT List Visual Arts Center; Participant, Inc, NYC; PERFORMA Biennial; The Henry Art Gallery; Guangzhou 53 Art Museum; and REDCAT. During the 1990s, Handelman was based in SF where she collaborated with Monte Cazazza, a pioneer of the Industrial music scene; directed the feature doc BloodSisters (1996), and performed in several films by Lynn Hershman-Leeson. Her work is in many collections including Kadist Art Foundation; di Rosa Foundation and Preserve; Zabludowicz Art Trust. She’s an Associate Professor in the Film, Media and Performing Arts department at Fashion Institute of Technology, NYC. CLICK HERE for more information on the talk.