Neointegrity is a movement dedicated to renewing and evoking the passion of self-fulfillment within every possible media of art.
We see no reason to limit our impetuses and are offering them a venue for regenerative exchange.
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July 4, 2002 // This Land is your Land
respects the transience of right to space within our nation founded on manifest destiny - on a day that has been acculturated as a celebration of independence within the entrapment of infra/super-structures. Our event is art as an environmental moment seeking to surpass the current limitations of market driven purpose and divisions of art forms that neglect the collectively variable underlying energies of manifested creation.
art. music. spoken word. performance. video. comics. publications. space.
FEATURING:
Jas: photography, painting // Scrapworm: collage, sculpture // Mary Ella Robbins: mural painting // Jenny Monfort: photography //Jessica Mott: painting // Joni Lum: cartographic design // Keith Mayerson: painting // Roland Guirand: painting // Jen Mazer: photography // Mindy Kaplan: painting// Ivette Ziguelboim: painting // Carmine Castronuova: painting // Nikki Derry: sculpture // Thea Deluga: painting // Rain: painting // Dan Heching: publication, video // Peter Heacock: video // Aubrey Benmark: spoken word, painting // John York: spoken word, publication // Patricia Hanudel: painting // Charles Youssef: painting // Ari Ingber: Sculpture // Mary Beth Rondina: spoken word // Goga: women’s improv comedy theater // Kristin Theiling: spoken word, publication // Nathan Miles: spoken word, publication // Liz Baillie: comic // Jen Stark-Hernandez: zine // Darby Hickey: zine // German Cars vs. American Homes: Far-out Crap-Core // Deep Sound Diver: Country Infused Folk/Funk // Object: Tonal Guitar Rock // The Lab: Extreme Progressive Fusion Trio // Coastal Drag: Powerful Space rock // Becca Schack: Electronic, Symphonic, Dance // Mr Furious: Poppy Punk Rock // Femm Nameless: Afro - One World Beat // Trick and the Heartstrings: Rock and Soul // Antisocial Music: Emerging Composers, Chamber // JOaNNA ScarI: Tewkesbury
We do what helps us survive our synthesis of perceptions and understandings of living with ourselves, society and the physical universe. Our responses grow inside voids that we can’t explain- but that fill getting through days with eyes, ears, bodies, and personal languages of being. Uncontainable. Manifested in time, space, and a collective vision. We are Neointegrity. We do what we have to do. |
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"Neointegrity" has web-expanded over years to involve many young artists that have graduated from NYU and SVA. The specific word is a reference to the teachings of Keith Mayerson. The founding/debut show was at American Fine Arts on May 12, 2002, "NeoIntegrity: this is your dinner". Several shows have followed with changing names, annually and bi-annually.
While some shows are still referred to as "Neointegrity", I personally believe that the outlook of purpose implied by this jargon has evolved to extend far beyond itself. I also believe that Prof. Mayerson created the term in a keen awareness of what needs to happen in the contemporary art spirit, and that he had tuned into the contemporary collective unconscious that is making new art under many labels and is offered great critical dialogue within his theories on art making.
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-scrapworm, also a lead organizer and press writer, 2002