Laupäeval 25. jaanurail 2025 toimus New Yorgis, Manhattanil, Garibaldi platsil, Washington Square pargis performance aktsioon Non Grata NYC. Lisaks Non Gratale esinesid New Yorgi alternatiivkollektiivid Guerilla Theater ja AnarkoArtLab.
Kahetunnine improviseeritud performance “Melting point” sadadest pealtvaatajatest ümbritsetuna Big Aplle’i südamikus sulatas üheks sinised ja punased, mustad, valged, kollased, beezid ja oranzid, et jätkata ühtse tervikuna navigeerimist universumi lõpututel radadel.
Non Grata esines koosseisus Anonymous Boh, Devil Girl, Harmony, Hannes Paldrock, Oliver Rull.
Non Grata rühmituse ümber keerleb juba pikka aega erinevaid müstilisi legende ja kuulujutte. Surnud konventsionaalse kunsti seisukohast on ta kehastanud kohutavat ja ebaisikulist mentaalsust, mis paljastab kiivalt varjatud kuivuse diskursuse.
Neile, kellele kunstimaailm algab sealt, kus artworld lõpeb, on Non Grata olnud vabastaja, orfiline avaus manamise juurte juurde, tervendav aadrilaskmine, mis ravib ühiskondliku insestipaha. Non Gratat tuntakse tema eetikast: primitiivsuse, anonüümsuse ja eksperimentaalse kollektiivse sünergia positsioonist. Rühma esteetilised ja provokatiivsed väljakutsed on elavad koodid, füüsilised tekstid, millede ortograafia ning lugemine sõltub paljuski vaataja avatusest ja interpretatsioon on vastuvõtja intellektile vastav.
Guerilla Theatre on NYC-s asuv eksperimentaalsete etenduskunstnike ja muusikute kollektiiv. Enamasti teevad nad New Yorgi tänavatel ekstaatilisi multimeedia improviseeritud grupietendusi. Nende avalik esinemine on viis jõuda massideni, lõigata läbi status quo ja kaotada barjäär kunsti ja publiku vahel. Guerilla theater praktiseerib avalikus ruumis improviseeritud mittehierarhilist kollektiivset tegevust otsides inspiratsiooni uue kultuuri loomiseks, mis hõlmab inimkonda andes kõigile vabaduse osaleda ja väljendada end ükskõik millisel loomingulisel viisil, mida nad ette kujutavad.
AnarkoArtLab’i mõtteviis ja tegutsemine on vastuseisuks hierarhilistele kapitalistlikele struktuuridele, mis on ökoloogiliselt
katastroofilised ja sotsiaalselt rõhuvad, pidades silmas marginaalsust ja vägivalda, klassiprobleeme, rassismi, põlisrahvastiku ja metsa väljasuretamist.
AnarkoArtLab korraldab linnainterventsioone, tegevuskunstietendusi, kunstisündmusi, transmeediaüritusi ja keskkonnaprojekte, stimuleerides kriitilist mõtlemist. 2007. aastal asutatud ANARKOARTLABil on viiteid The Living Theatre ‘le, rõhutute teatrile, Artaud’le, somale, fluxusele, futurismile, dadaismile ja situatsionistidele. Selle moodustavad kujutavad kunstnikud, esinejad, fotograafid, muusikud, filmitegijad, luuletajad ja tantsijad – enamik neist immigrandid.
ANARKOARTLAB on juba hõivanud The Living Theatre, Judson Memorial Churchi ja praegu toimuvad nende üritused kord aastas La Plaza Community Gardenis [East Village]. Need on avangardkunsti jaoks ajalooliselt olulised kohad. The Living Theatre on anarhistlik kollektiiv, mille asutasid 1947. aastal Judith Malina ja Julian Beck.
MEEDIA:
MÜÜRILEHT: https://www.muurileht.ee/galerii-ruhmitus-non-grata-korraldas-new-yorgis-performancei
CREATRIX MAGAZINE: https://creatrixmag.com/melting-point-non-grata-nyc/
New York University Radio station
RADIO WNYU 89.1 FM: Interview with Al Paldrok / Taje Paldrok / Maxwell Abeles / CrackheadBarney:
https://on.soundcloud.com/Ph7G3YCQQVBeqrFy9
On Saturday, January 25, 2025, the Non Grata NYC performance took place in Garibaldi Square, Washington Square Park, Manhattan, New York.
In addition to Non Grata, the New York alternative collectives Guerilla Theater and AnarkoArtLab performed. The two-hour improvised performance “Melting point,” surrounded by hundreds of spectators in the heart of the Big Apple, melted blues and reds, blacks, whites, yellows, beiges and oranges into one, to continue navigating the endless paths of the universe as a unified whole.
Non Grata performed with Anonymous Boh, Devil Girl, Harmony, Hannes Paldrock, Oliver Rull
Around the name NON GRATA there have been different hushes and shushes for a long time. Already from the point of view of death of conventionalization of art it has embodied the horrible and unwanted disembodiment of human person, from which the meaninglessness of nowadays art, is pouring out. For those, whose world of arts starts from the point, where the art world ends, NON GRATA has been a liberator, the orphic gap in the seemingly unalterable course, which however betrays us, it is a cure from incest. The main point of the group is ethical – it is the image of primitivism, impersonality and experimental creativity. The performances of the group take place according to the logic of avoiding codes. The presentations are physical texts, whose ways of orthography and reading are kept within limits of real actions by the group members. Aesthetical and provocative challenges are represented in places, where the Art World doesn’t work.
Guerrilla Theater is a collective of experimental performance artists and musicians based in NYC. They mostly do ecstatic multi-media improvised group performances in the streets of New York. They support independence from all oppression and a freedom to pursue self expression. They create public disturbances in order to wake up the sleeping giant. Public performance is a way to reach the masses and disrupt the status quo and losing barrier between artist audience. They practice improvised non-hierarchical collective action in the public space in the hopes that people will be inspired to create a new culture. One that embraces the chaos of humanity giving everybody the freedom to participate and express in whatever creative way they can imagine.
The current art production of ANARKOARTLAB collective (NYC) promotes relations between art+feminist+ queer+anarchist+decolonization.
Their way of thinking and making art are situated in a position of resistance to hierarchical capitalist structures, ecologically catastrophic and socially oppressive, with regard to the bipartite division of genders, the oppression of women, the marginality and violence to which the LGBTQIA+ community is subjected, the class issues, the racism, the extinction of the indigenous population and of the forest. All those fronts of struggle, consequences of colonialism and the neoliberal logic in its updated manifestation, are recognized by these artists and assembled in their intersectional way of producing art, by building networks and connections between different social demands. The members make urban interventions, performances, happenings, trans media events and environmental projects through immersive, collaborative, participatory and symbolic art projects, stimulating critical thinking.
Formed in 2007, ANARKOARTLAB has references in The Living Theater, Theater of the Oppressed, Artaud, Soma, Fluxus, Futurism, Dadaism and the Situationists. It is formed by visual artists, performers, photographers, musicians, filmmakers, poets and dancers – most of them immigrants. ANARKOARTLAB has already occupied The Living Theater, Judson Memorial Church and, currently, its events take place once a year at La Plaza Community Garden [East Village]. These are historically important places for avant-garde art. The Living Theater is an anarchist company founded in 1947 by Judith Malina e Julian Beck.
Fotod: Kertin Vasser
