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• Josée Bienvenu Gallery Josée Bienvenu Gallery 529 West 20th St, New York, New York  is pleased to present Making friends: a series of events and performances organized by Sam Roeck concurrent with Yeah we friends and shit. Wednesday August 15th, 6:30pm Anton Ginzburg presents a screening of his film , "A Million" (starting at 6:30pm), that shows three portraits, each person counting a million. The duration of the film is 45 minutes–the combined time that takes each person to count the banknotes. Anton Ginzburg is a New York–based artist who uses an array of histo rical and cultural references as starting points for his investigations into art’s capacity to penetrate layers of the past. He constructs lines of memory and imagination, whether collective or individual, and traces them to points of intersection. Born in 1974 in Saint Petersburg, Russia, Ginzburg received a classical arts education before immigrating to the United States in 1990. He earned a BFA from Parsons The New School for Design in 1997 and is currently working on his MFA degree at Bard College. His art has been shown at the 54th Venice Biennale, Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, White Columns, the first and second Moscow Biennales, and the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. His work is represented in the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, as well as in private collections around the world. Rebecca Patek is a Brooklyn based choreographer and performer creating work that is a synthesis of dance and comedy. She is currently an Artist in Residence at Movement Research. Past residencies include Dance Theater Workshop (now New York Live Arts) as part of Fresh Tracks Performance and Residency Program, Atlantic Center for the Arts with Master Artist Susan Marshall and Earthdance as part of E/merge Artist Residency. Patek's work has been presented at Dance Theater Workshop, The Chocolate Factory Theater, The Joyce Soho, Movement Research at Judson Church, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, 92nd Street Y, Center for Performance Research, Dixon Place, Mulberry Street Theatre, The Tank, Aunts, Triskelion Arts, The LoFt, The Overture Center (Madison WI), Brickyard Pond (NH), and Nexus Foundation for Today’s Art, among others. In 2005 Patek along with Liza Clark founded Mascher Space Co-operative, a low cost artist run rehearsal and performance space in Philadelphia. Patek’s film collaboration, The Princess and The Vagicorn, was shown at Philadelphia Dance Project’s Motion Pictures 2009. She will be premiering a new work this October at The Museum of Art and Design. Nathaniel de Large presents “Counting Careful” a work which examines movement used to close the “pain gate” plus a dose of Schadenfreude. Based on the involuntary movements of the body's reaction to pain, i.e. AFV™, performed with Mira Cook. Nathaniel de Large is an artist based in New York. Bay Breezes will be served before the event. Past events July 11th: Lonely Christopher, Wayne Koestenbaum July 18th: Colleen Asper, Justin Lieberman, Ryan McNamara July 25th: Burr Johnson, Allison Brainard August 1st: Baker Overstreet, Rebecca Patek August 8th: Diana Joy, Flora Choi, Kim Brandt Yeah we friends and shit: June 28 - September 8, 2012 Nin Brudermann Marti Cormand Austin Eddy Anton Ginzburg Kirk Hayes Sharka Hyland Chris Johanson Matt Keegan Andrew Kuo Natalie Labriola Mingering Mike Sam Roeck Mathias Schmied Ryan Schneider Ken Solomon Devin Troy Strother Julianne Swartz