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SWISS EVENTS
IN NEW YORK AND IN THE NORTHEASTERN PART OF THE U.S.
for the period of February 5 - 19, 2013

UPCOMING/ONGOING EVENTS
Music | Visual Arts | Literature | Theater | Above and Beyond | Coming Soon | Meanwhile in Switzerland Dates, locations and ticket prices are subject to change. Please confirm before visiting events!

HIGHLIGHT
Thursday, February 14 8pm Friday, February 15 8pm (followed by a discussion with Sylviane Dupuis) Saturday, February 16 2:30pm + 8pm GODOT ACTE 3 US PREMIERE To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the creation of Waiting for Godot in Paris, the Columbia University-based theatre company Les Non-Dits is happy to present a one-act play by Swiss playwright and scholar Sylviane Dupuis. Adapted and directed by Nomie Ndiaye, PhD student in Theatre, and produced by Pascale Crpon, faculty member in the department of French, Columbia University. Performance in French, with English subtitles. Run: 70 min. This production is sponsored by the Department of French, Columbia University, the Department of French, Barnard College, and the Swiss Consulate General, New York. Glicker-Milstein Theatre Diana Center, lower level 2 Barnard College New York, NY Reservations at: godotact3@gmail.com

MUSIC
Tuesday, February 5 10pm Wednesday, February 13 9:30pm FILTRON M JAZZ CONCERT Keyboardist, pianist and composer Manu Koch belongs to a New York-based, transnational tribe of artists who are reshaping the contours of contemporary groove-based music in the 21st century. His debut album, Triple Life, released in March 2011, is an eclectic genre border-crossing experience that distills his multipledimensional musical life as a performer into one funky, jazz-inected amalgam of global electronic music. The arrival of this musical project also marks the beginning of his role as a bandleader and his live band collective Filtron. Image: Manu Koch Oskar Landi DROM 85 Avenue A New York, NY www.dromnyc.com Terraza 7 40-19 Gleane Street Elmhurst, NY www.terrazacafe.org

Friday, February 8 9:30pm

SEBASTIEN AMMANN QUARTET JAZZ CONCERT The Sebastian Ammann Quartet performs at Shapeshifter Lab on Friday, February 8th with Michal Attias (alto saxophone), Sebastien Ammann (piano), Noah Garabedian (bass), and Nathan Ellman-Bell (drums). Image: Sebastien Ammann, Montreal, 2012

Shapeshifter Lab 18 Whitwell Place Brooklyn, NY www.shapeshifterlab.com

Tuesday, February 12 7:30pm

GREGOIRE MARET JAZZ CONCERT Gregoire Maret performs with Frederico Pena, Ben Williams, and Clarence Penn at Dizzys Club. There used to be only Stevie and Toots; first-name-only wonders who singularly dominated the harmonica. Now theres Gregoire. Unlike the aforementioned legends, Gregoire is not a multiinstrumentalist, yet his dedication has taken his humble instrument to even further heights. Image: Gregoire Maret Ingrid Hertfelder

Dizzys Club Coca-Cola Broadway at 60th Street New York, NY www.jalc.org

Wednesday, February 15 7pm

BEAT KAESTLI JAZZ CONCEERT Swiss singer Beat Kastli performs at Somethin Jazz Club on Wednesday, February 15 with Camila Meza-voice / guitar, Elisabeth Lohninger-voice, Melissa Stylianou -voice, Gabrielle Stravelli-voice, and Jamie Reynolds-piano. Image: Beat Kaestli

Somethin Jazz Club 212 East 52nd Street New York, NY www.somethinjazz.com

Saturday, February 16 3pm

MARCO BIAGGIO CELLO RECITEL Young Swiss cellist Marco Biaggio, student of Andr Emelianoff, performs works by Tchaikovsky, Popper, Beethoven, Faur, Cassad, and Lalo accompanied by Alexandra Joan on piano. Image: Marco Biaggio Chelsea Beedle, 2013.

Juilliard School Morse Hall 60 Lincoln Center Plaza New York, NY www.juilliard.edu

VISUAL ARTS
Friday, February 15 6 8pm FORD GALAXIE EXHIBITION The 1964 Ford Galaxie was the first of the big performance Fords with bucket seats, console, and posh interior trim. This custom model features a stripped body by Jacob Kassay. Visible are all welding, dents, and scars of the metallic substructure. Detailing continues to the inside of the Galaxie, retrofitted by Olivier Mosset and Servane Mary. On view until February 17th. Saturday, February 16 11am JOEL TETTAMANTI GALLERY TOUR + MEET THE ARTIST Jol Tettamanti's photographs are a vast archive of the structures, villages and cities that people create and inhabit, and the landforms and climates that shape their culture. Although his photographs are often devoid of people, the focus of his work is the Swiss Institute 18 Wooster Street New York, NY www.swissinstitute.net

MIT Museum 265 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA www.mit.edu

human presence in the landscape and the people who are uplifted and sometimes defeated by the land they inhabit. This contradiction of human frailty and resilience, and the continuities people form with the land, are embedded in Tettamanti's photographic vision. The exhibition Compass Points is on view until August 31, 2013. Image: Jol Tettamanti, Qaqortoq, Greenland, 2004. Wednesday, February 20 7pm MM SERRA FILM SCREENING MM Serra presents an avant-garde film program that examines gender and sexuality within the poetics of cinema. Sourcing films from the Film-Makers' Cooperative, Serra's selection specifically discusses male / female representation in underground experimental alternative media. SI will screen Christmas on Earth (1963) by Barbara Rubin, an intimate, explicit underground classic. Peggy Ahwesh's Color of Love (1994) will also be shown, amongst many others. Please join SI for a very special evening of cinema. Image: Still from Martha Colburn, Spiders In Love: An Arachnogasmic Musical 1999. Through March 2 ILLUSTRATORS 55 EXHIBITION The exhibit Illustrators 55 Part 2 features works by leading contemporary illustrators worldwide, selected by a prestigious jury of professionals. Gold Medal winners in the Book category include Anna and Elena Balbusso for their image Tatyana, Victo Ngai's Jacks and Queens at the Green Mill, and Sam Weber for Lolita. Silver Medals are awarded to Julianna Brion's Wirefox, Etienne Delessert's Ionesco Stories 2, and Yuko Shimizu for her piece The Unwritten. Image: Illustration by Etienne Delessert Through April 1 [UN]NATURAL LIMITS EXHIBITION This international group exhibition gathers together different artistic reactions to the alienating effects of the unfettered global exploitation of resources, and offers insight into the denial and myopia of current political responses to what increasingly appears to be a perpetual crisis. Artists include Desire Machine Collective, Thomas Hirschhorn, Mathias Kessler, Superflex, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, and Lois Weinberger. Curated by Dieter Buchhart and Arnaud Gerspacher. Image: Thomas Hirschhorn, ResistanceSubjecter 2011, Courtesy of the artist & Gladstone Gallery, NY. Photo by Anna Kowalska. Swiss Institute 18 Wooster Street New York, NY www.swissinstitute.net

Museum of American Illustration Society of Illustrators 128 East 63rd Street New York, NY www.societyillustrators.org

Austrian Cultural Forum 11 East 52nd Street New York, NY www.acfny.org

Through April 13

DIETER ROTH, BJRN ROTH EXHIBITION OPENING On 23 January 2013, Hauser & Wirth New York will open Dieter Roth. Bjrn Roth, a landmark exhibition of masterworks that highlights this remarkable twenty-year collaboration and, through it, the diversity of the practice that has established Dieter Roth as one of the most inventive and influential artists of the second half of the 20th century. Dieter Roth. Bjrn Roth culminates Hauser & Wirths 20th anniversary and inaugurates the opening of the gallerys new, second exhibition space in New York City, at 511 West 18th Street, between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues. Images: The Floor II (Studio Floor from Mosfellsbaer, Iceland). 1977 1998. Photo by Jens Kirchner.

Hauser & Wirth 511 West 18th Street New York, NY www.hauserwirth.com

LITERATURE
Monday, February 11 5pm SYLVIANE DUPUIS LECTURE Swiss poet, playwright, essayist, critic and teacher at the University of Geneva, Sylviane Dupuis presents a lecture on Frenchspeaking Swiss literature at the Maison Franaise entitled Il ny a pas que Ramuz ! Aperu de la littrature de Suisse francophone. Lecture will be held in French. For more information contact Pascale Crpon at pc2499@columbia.edu Image: Sylviane Depuis Maison Franaise Columbia University Buell Hall, 2nd Floor Broadway Boulevard at West 116th Street www.maisonfrancaise.org

THEATER
Monday, February 11 Saturday, February 16 8:30pm DIE (IRR)WITZIGE, (HALB)SEIDENE KARRIERE DES FRULEIN ERNA PERFORMANCE Die (irr)witzige, (halb)seidene Karierre des Frulein Erna is a turbulent story set all over Europe, freely adapted by Verena Kurth from the novel Karriere by Switzerland-based author and journalist Robert Neumann. The play is directed by Rupert Henning and the musical accompaniment is provided by violinist Aliosha Biz. In this one-woman play, Austrian actress Mercedes Echerer will play the role of Erna - and 31 other characters. Performances in German. Image: Gabriela Brandenstein Dorothy B. Williams Theater HERE 145 Sixth Avenue New York, NY www.here.org

ABOVE AND BEYOND

Through Monday, April 1

ALBERT GALLATIN EXHIBITION New York University Libraries will host an exhibition Albert Gallatin: a Genevan at the Heart of the American Dream in the Mamdouha Bobst Gallery in the Bobst Library beginning December 7, 2012 through April 1, 2013. The exhibition will feature the many roles Gallatin played in the United States as statesman, diplomat, ethnographer, and founder of New York University. The original exhibition was curated by the Library of Geneva and was on display there last year. The exhibit is open to the public from 9:30am-6:00 pm, Monday through Saturday. Image: Albert Gallatin statue in Wash. DC.

New York University Mamdouha Bobst Gallery New York, NY www.nyu.edu

COMING SOON
Thursday, February 21 6pm GIVE ME MORE RECEPTION + PANEL DISCUSSION From February 21 through March 2, 2013, a new exhibition will enable visitors to explore the link between the physical and digital worlds via augmented reality-based immersive installations that fascinate, engage and delight. The Give Me More exhibition was created by Swiss design EPFL+ECAL Lab and was awarded the DMY International Design Festival Berlin Prize 2010. EYEBEAM 540 West 21st Street New York, NY www.eyebeam.org

Friday, February 22 Sunday, February 24

FESTIVAL NEUE LITERATUR 2013 READINGS + DISCUSSIONS Festival Neue Literatur has invited Germanlanguage authors Clemens Setz, Cornelia Travnicek, Leif Randt, Silke Scheuermann, Ulrike Ulrich, and Tim Krohn, as well as U.S. authors Joshua Ferris and Justin Taylor, to present their work to a New York audience of publishers and readers from 22-24 February, 2013. Under the curatorial direction and moderation of Susan Bernofsky and Claudia Steinberg, this years festival will feature panel discussions on dystopianism and modern travelogues alongside a conversation with Columbia University grad students and the ever-popular Frhschoppen brunch readings.All Festival Neue Literatur events are free and open to the public. Just visit the events page for more information and RSVPs. Image: Ulrike Ulrich Ute Schendel, Tim Krohn Jonas Knecht.

FNL 2013 www.festivalneueliteratur.org

MEANWHILE IN SWITZERLAND
BASEL FERDINAND HODLER JANUARY 27 MAY 26, 2013 The Fondation Beyeler is the first Swiss museum to present a comprehensive exhibition of the late work of Ferdinand Hodler. The exhibition, comprising some 80 works, concentrates upon pictures that Hodler painted in the last five years of his life, between 1913 and 1918. The exhibition has been organized in conjunction with the Neue Galerie in New York and includes loans from

renowned Swiss and American private collections and major national and international museums. he e hibition is curated by Ulf ster (Fondation Beyeler) and Jill Lloyd (Neue Galerie). Image: Ferdinand Hodler, Die Dents du Midi von Champry aus (Detail), 1916. www.fondationbeyeler.ch LUCERNE JORGE MACCHI. CONTAINER FEBRUARY 23 JUNE 16, 2013 For his first institutional solo exhibition in Switzerland, Jorge Macchi (born 1968) is developing spatial installations in situ. This allows the Argentinean artist to respond sensitively to the e isting e hibition architecture. Jorge Macchis work, at once poetic and melancholic, creates ambivalent moods that can be attractive and unsettling in equal measures. Image by Jorge Macchi www.kunstmuseumluzern.ch

Contact :
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