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GO NORTH, NEW YORKER!
September 11, 2006

Artnet News

What do the following list of Blue Chip contemporary art curators all have in common? Camilo Alvarez, Priska C. Juschka, Karlos Carcamo, Ingrid Chu, John Daquino, Juliana Driever, Tania Owcharenko Duvergne, Daniel Fuller, Trong G. Nguyen, Blanca de la Torre García, Micaela Giovannotti, Angela Kotinkaduwa and Sam Tsao, Emily Puthoff, Micah Silver, Lisa Paul Streitfeld and Peter Zangrillo. Give up? They are all heading up the Hudson River this weekend to Peekskill, N.Y. (pop. 22,000), as part of the burg's giant contemporary art project, "Peekskill Project 2006."

Peekskill -- known as the birthplace of New York State governor George Pataki -- opens the third-annual art-blitz at venues throughout the city, everywhere from local businesses and stores to parks and ferries. The 18 curators and project director Alison Levy have lined up a banquet of some 111 contemporary artists from all over the world to participate.

What can those who take the train up to Peekskill hope to see? Among other things, the opening weekend's festivities are graced by a BBQ by installation artist Elanit Kayne, an art-kite event by John Daquno titled "Kites Are for Love and Peace," a rock-skipping contest by Brooklyn artist Kambui Olujimi, mandala-like crop circles by Michael Natiello and a UFO at the downtown gazebo by Thomas Sandbichler, as well as video screening and performance "based on the original Dutch trade with Native Americans for the land in Peekskill."

The weekend also coincides with the opening of the Daniel Fuller-curated "Only the Paranoid Survive" at Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art on Main Street, Sept. 17, 2006-Jan. 21, 2007, bringing together art inspired by "war on terror" paranoia by Darren Almond, Marc Bijl, Nigel Cooke, Sean Dack, Jacob Dyrenforth, Kendell Geers, Matt Greene, Mauricio Guillen, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Keegan McHargue, Tim Noble & Sue Webster, Todd Norsten, Trevor Paglen, Adam Putnam, Sterling Ruby, Lisa Ruyter, Tom Sachs, Anj Smith, Scott Treleaven and Amy Wilson.

More info about "Peekskill Project 2006" is available at the HVCCA website (www.hvcca.org).

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