Peekskill Project V
September 29, 2012 – July 28, 2013
Opening Weekend: September 29 – 30, 2012
Saturday, Sept 29th 12 – 6 pm: Performance “Postcard People” by Andrea Bianconi throughtout Town and the Riverfront. Sunday, Sept 30th 4 pm: Andrea Bianconi in conversation with curator and artist Marcy B. Freedman, HVCCA.
Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art (HVCCA)
is pleased to announce Peekskill Project V: a citywide
art festival devoted to bringing cutting edge contem-
porary art out of the museum and into the community.
Using the city as a stage, Peekskill Project activates the
urban environment and its inhabitants through site-spe-
cific art exhibitions, performances and screenings sited
in multiple venues throughout Peekskill.
Peekskill Project V is a departure from previous installments of the project, which were limited to a single weekend of events and
exhibitions. This year’s festival begins with an exciting opening weekend on September 29th & 30th, 2012. Related events will
continue through the end of July 2013. Programming occurs on the second Sunday of each month, October 2012 – July 2013.
The Project calls upon artists to reinterpret the contemporary landscape and the urban and suburban condition. These works aim
to deconstruct ideas of home, history and place in the context of the modern age of technology, information and mobility.
Peekskill Project V artists were selected by a team of curators: Anna Adler, Cristina Arnold, Paul Clay, Kari Conte, Kerry Cox,
Marcy B. Freedman, Matthew Leonard, Cheryl McGinnis, Wilfredo Morel, Lise Prown, Alix Sloan, Livia Straus, Lilly Wei and
Emma Wilcox.
Andrea Bianconi (Italy, 1974) lives and works in New York and Vicenza (Italy). He is currently working as an artist-in-residency at Residency Unlimited, NYC. He has had exhibitions at: Peekskill Project 2012,
Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY, USA (Upcoming); Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX; Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons The New School for Design, New York; ISCP, Brook-
lyn, NY; Volta Show, New York; Film Society Lincoln Center, New York; Italian Embassy, Washington DC; Centro del Carmen, Valencia, Spain; Matadero, Madrid, Spain; Kunsthal Charlottenburg, Copenhagen,
Denmark; Swiss Architecture Museum, Basel, Switzerland; Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates; Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy; Furini Arte Contemporanea, Rome. And had also made public art perfor-
mances such as The Chinese Umbrella Hat Project (Part I), Wujiang Rd West Nanjing Rd, Shanghai, China a collateral event of the Expo 2010; The Chinese Umbrella Hat Project (Part II), Piazza San Marco, Venice,
Italy a collateral event of the Venice Biennial 2011.His works are presented in many public and private collections and recently published in a monographic and multilingual publication by Charta Edition.
His first artist book will be published in September 2012 by cura.books.
His first artist book will be published in September 2012 by cura.books.
