MICHAEL
PORTNOY CV
PERFORMANCE/EXHIBITION HISTORY (SELECTED)
Sep 7 opening, Taipei Biennial, Taipei, Taiwan (forthcoming)
Sep 24 opening, Le Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse, France (forthcoming)
Dec, The Place you see has no size at all..., Kadist Foundation, Paris, France
Nov, The Prompt, Performa 09 Biennial, New York, USA
September 23 , Human Intwist Group, Kunstverein, Amsterdam
May 8 - May 22, STRIP/STRIPE, group show Emily Harvey Foundation, NY- High Action Drama Painting
Mar 19 - May 17, Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France - solo show, and "Watching Wood" (performance) w/ David Adamo
Dec 13 - Jan. 24, 2009, The Dudion Levers, Martos Gallery, NY
Oct. 16-Nov. 17, Lend
a Polt in the Put, IBID PROJECTS, London
July
2 - Sep 20, One of these things is not like the other things, unosuonove,
Rome, Curated
by
Raimundas
Malasauskas
June 28 - Oct 5, Word Event, Kunsthalle Basel, Curated by Roos Gortzak and Maxine Kopsa
June 26 - Aug 15, The Left Hand of Darkness, The Project, NY, Curated by Sarvia Jasso and Yasmin Dubois
Nov. 2, A Seminar
in Subliminal Carnage - The 33 Holdmusic Variations, Swiss Institute,
NY, Performa 07
Sep. 8 - Nov. 3,
July 12, Reading on the
Rocks, Sculpture Center, L.I.C. Queens, NY
June 11-17, WANDBISS, Art Unlimited 38 Basel, Presented by The Swiss Institute
NY
April 28, The
Gutsongs of XAR, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
2006
Nov. 19, Mike Skinner
- 8 Track Attack, (vocalist), Roulette, NY.
Jan 20 Necktie over the Atlantic, Performance with Theodore Fivel at Migros Museum, Zurich
2005
Sep 24-Dec 11, Concrete Castle, Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France (film,
performance, and installation)
Sep 10, Deitch
Gallery
Art Parade, NY
Sep 9, Three
As Four fashion
show, NY
Aug 27-30, The Put-Its, Kaaitheater, Brussels.
June 17, Night of A Thousand Ribs, part of group exhibition Still Ill, Momenta
Art, Brooklyn, NY.
April 30 - July 3, Jump on Me, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany. Composed
music for video by Rita Ackermann and Agathe Snow
2004
November 8-12, Billy Joel Nose, chashama, NY.
May 14, Strangergames:
Nooks, part of group exhibtion Collision, Ace Gallery,
NY.
March 12-13, Shucking the What,
The Kitchen, NY.
February, Shucking
the What (prelude), Canada Gallery, NY.
January-February, BIERZ ULICE! (This Block
is On!), part of group exhibtion
Domestic Porn, Galeria Fundacji Foksal, Warsaw.
2003
September 22, Screening
of Laughing
with Gudnut, Avant-Aerobics
Workshop,
Julliard University, NY.
Aug 18, Secrets, Little Theater, Tonic, NY.
March 17, Professor Kiffy on Kitchen Jokes, Little Theater, Tonic, NY.
2002
Arena Sommerkino & Votiv Kino, Vienna, Austria, and Tribeca Grand,
NY: screening of Ground Cut, a 50 min film, directed in collaboration with
Tina
Schula.
October 31, The Yoghurt Boys, Bowery Poetry Club, NY.
March 10, As Four
Opera, Cooper Union Great Hall, NY. music and performance for
fashion show/opera
2001
July 28, strangergames, Summer Dance Warm Up, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center,
NY.
March 3, Curare,
Curare!, part of group exhibtion Arse about Face, Jack Tilton
Gallery, NY.
2000
October 15, The
Yoghurt Boys, Dumbo Arts Festival, Brooklyn, NY.
Sep. 2000, Curated "Critic as Grist", White Box, -- 20 artists were invited to create a piece about a living art critic of their choice. Artists: Alex Bag, Bill Beckley, Paco Cao, Terrence Gower, Jane Kaplowitz, Komar and Melamid, Les Levine, Ryan McGinness, Dennis Oppenheim, Erik Parker, Martha Rosler, Peter Saul, Schuldt, David Shapiro, Paul D. Miller (aka DJ Spooky), Fairsbie Tabs, Xar Taplik, Claude Wampler, Thomas Zummer.
(Images
of
July-August, Tie-Off
Fear Sleeves, Chashama, NY.
1998-1999
Bucket,
(the working title), (in collaboration w/ Claude Wampler), Triple X
Festival, Amsterdam, Nov. '99, Kaiitheater, Brussels, Nov. '99, Victoria
Festival, Ghent, Mar. '99, P.S. 122, Feb, '99, National Festival of Live Art,
Glasgow, Oct. '98, Downtown Arts Fest., NY, Sept., '98. opera/installation
October '99, Bunnipatchers, White Box, NY.
August '98, 24 Hours on the Staten Island Ferry, Staten Island Ferry,
(organized by Julie Atlas Muiz).
August '98, Eviannese Gesamtcuntsjerk, Audio Room, Vienna, Austria. 15 min.
video
February 27-28, '98, The Shattering of All Undertakings That Presuppose Man To
Be Something, P.S. 122, NY.
February 26, '98, Soy
Bomb, Grammy Awards, Radio City Music Hall, NY.
January '98, SONTAG, Movement Research @ Judson Church, NY.
1995-1997
Renssalaer (video), by
Portnoy and Marianne Vitale
January '97, How'm I Doin' ? -- a laboratory, HERE Gallery, NY.
Cement Beach (Solo Performance Series), P.S. 122, NY.
Vicious (music video directed
by Steve Buscemi for Maggie Estep, feat. Lou Reed)
moronmachine,
P.S. 122, NY.
Avant-Garde-A-Rama, P.S. 122, NY.
Lepsies, St. Marks Church, Downtown Arts Festival, NY.
RELATED EXPERIENCE
Bard MFA Faculty, 2009
Yaddo residency, Saratoga Springs, NY, Oct 2005 -Nov 2005
April 2005, dancer for ChameckiLerner, performances in NY and Brazil.
December 2004, dancer and composer for Maria Hassabi's company, DTW, NY.
April 2004, actor in The Appeal, a play by Young Jean Lee, Soho Rep, NY.
Member of Dance Kumikokimoto '97-'01, multimedia dance company directed by
Koosil-Ja Hwang: Whitney Museum at Phillip Morris, NY, May '01, 92nd Street Y,
Harkeness Dance Project, NY, Mar. '00, The Kitchen, Mar. '99, Central Park
Summerstage '97
MISCELLANIOUS
Director of Behavior, Session,
NY.
Current composer and singer for XAR, and PUT IT.
Singer and instrumentalist for The Liquid Tapedeck, '95-'03.
Creamier, Contemporary
Art in Culture: 10 Curators, 100 Contemporary Artists, 10 Sources, Phaidon,
June 2010 Raimundas Malasauskas, ‘Pedagogical
Porn’, Mousse Magazine, April-May, 2010 Kopsa, Maxine, I did not have relational
asthmatics with that woman, although I did cough in her lemongrass soup.,
Metropolis M, October 2009 Momus, 600
Words with Michael Portnoy, Art in America, August 28, 2009. Portnoy's
Pornthology, Art
Newspaper,
March 6-8, 2009. Currie, Nick, Satirizing
Luxury, The New York Times, July 11, 2008 Gordon,
Margery, No
Fair, ARTINFO, June 2007. Psibilskis, Liutaurus, Critic's
Picks Artforum, June 2007. Nguyen, Trong G., Reykjavik!,
NY Arts Magazine, January/February 2007. Thóra Thórisdóttir, Innrás
úr undirheimum New York, Morgunbladid, Nov. 8, 2006. Hansson, Gunnar, Kakkalakkaklám á Laugavegi,
Frettabladid (daily Iceland newspaper), Oct. 24, 2006 Haden-Guest, Antony, One
way or another, the show must go on, Financial Times, Aug 6,
2006. Kourlas,
Gia, Very
special K, Time Out New York, June 1-7, 2006. Alemani, Cecilia, artforum.com,
Feb 23, 2006. Musto, Michael, La
Dolce Musto, Village Voice, Sep. 19, 2005. Sohn, Amy, Strangers
in the Night, New York, Jan. 24, 2005.
Staniszewski,
Jacek, "W
DRGAWKACH LAMBADY", Fluid,
issue 38, Feb '04, p. 53-59.
Anik,
Daz., "Graj na Chmielnej: Amerikanin wymysla zabawy dla
warszawiakow", Zycie Warszawy, Jan. 24, 2004, p.2
Wadler,
Joyce, "The Restauranteur Who Invented Downtown",
The
New York Times, Jan. 18, 2004 (Portnoy occassionally dines and plays
strangergames in the washroom at Schiller's)
Pratt, Tim, Reviews (review of repellent sounds ...sonic rec
room cd), XLR8R (Issue
71), Sep. 2003.
New York Press,
(in Picks section)"XAR",
June 25, 2003.
Smith,
George, "Tales from
Pornographic Oceans: Soy Unchained" , Village Voice (June 18-24, 2003).
Calhoun,
Ada, "The
Show Goes Downtown", New York (May 5, 2003), p.41.
Turner,
Grady T. "Portnoy's Complaint: A Memo To Fellow Art Critics", Flash Art (March-April 2001), pp. 43, 51.
Heartney,
Eleanor. " 'Critic as Grist' at White Box," Art
in America (February 2001),
p.148.
Bivens,
Heidi, "almost famous", Tokion (Jan/Feb 2001).
Sinclair,
Tom. "Golden Airings: 100 Greatest Rock & Roll Moments on TV" Entertainment
Weekly, July 28, 2000, pp. 22+.
Kramer,
Hilton. "If
You Strike a Critic, You'd Better Snuff Him," The New York Observer, Oct. 2, 2000, p.1.
Portnoy,
Michael. "Kramer Vs. Curator", The New York Observer, Oct. 23, 2000, p.4.
Tyrangiel,
Josh, "People: People." Time,
September 18, 2000, p. 98.
Jowitt,
Deborah, "New Storytelling", The Village Voice, March 29,
2000.
Hainley,
Bruce. "Bruce Hainley"( lists cultural events of the 1990s that
defined the
decade) Artforum (December
1999), p. 130.
Derek
Yip. "MICHAEL PORTNOY aka SOY BOMB , Upstart Pissing on the
Contemporary Mix", Performing Arts Journal (PAJ), NO. 61 (January 1999), pp. 36-44.
Jowitt,
Deborah, "Of Marvels", The Village Voice, March 31,
1999.
Kourlas,
Gia. "Total recall," Time Out NY, March 11-18, 1999.
"Grammy grinch torments 'SNL' star" New York Post,
PAGE SIX, Dec 15, 1999.
Dunning,
Jennifer. "The Topic is Rich, The Vignettes Heartless", The New York Times, March 13, 1999.
Murrin,
Tom. "THE
BOMB, Michael Portnoy's More Than Soy", PAPER (July 1998), p.104.
Hendrickson,
Matt. "Random Notes", Rolling Stone, April 16, 1998, p.17.
Sparrow, "Why, You
Own The Title?", New York Press, April 8-14, p.82.
Carr,
C. "Rad Like
Who? The Soy Bomber Blasts Off" Village Voice, March 24, 1998, p.61.
Chaplin,
Julia. "All too real," New York Post, March 5, 1998, p. 49.
Dermody,
Dennis. "Hello My Name is Soy Bomb", Details, May 1998, p.43.
Brunner,
Rob. "Bombs Away," Entertainment Weekly, March 13, 1998, p. 14.
Gideonse,
Theodore. "A Real Show at the Grammys", Newsweek, March 9, 1998, p.47.
Talkington,
Amy. "Steve Buscemi Remakes Lou Reed's 'Vicious'," RayGun, August 1997, p.48.
Jowitt,
Deborah. "All Kindsa Rites", Village Voice, February 4, 1997, p.88.
True,
Cynthia. "Alterna Be thy Name: Say goodbye to stand-up
as we know it. The
new wave is here." Time Out New York, June 5-12, 1996, pp.43-44.
The Liquid Tapedeck has
had repeated write ups in The Village Voice, New York Press, Time Out NY, and
CMJ since 1995.
Eftir Thórodd Bjarnason, (Best
of 2006) Innrás frá New
York , Morgunbladid (lesbók), Dec 30, 2006.
Sulcas, Roslyn, A
Joke Collector and a Kitchen Walk Into a Theater..., NY Times, June 10,
2006.
Dunning, Jennifer, A Funky Fashion Show With
Wit and Imagination, NY Times, Dec. 15, 2004.
Soloski, Alexis, Romantic
Idol, Village Voice, April 19, 2004.
