On Saturday, October 12th, I will present my new performance Secret Book at Mains D'oeuvres in Saint-Ouen, France in conjunction with Alexandra Grant’s Forêt Intérieure/Interior Forest. Secret Book reflects reoccurring themes drawn from Hélène Cixous’ Philippines, including telepathy, doubling, and the relationship between dream-life and the limitless imagination of childhood. I will transverse the space using the professed secret books of Hélène Cixous and Alexandra Grant, while enacting a private ritual that explores transference between the interior and exterior body through quiet meditations and symbolic gestures.
HYENA
Edited by Cindy Rehm and Adrienne Walser, the publication includes texts and images that look to the legacy of women’s surrealism, explorations of identity, inner-life, corporeality, ritual, eroticism, animality, and mortality. Inspired by Leonora Carrington, we take the hyena as our emblem given her feral and ravenous nature, her ability to provoke gender and identity mix-ups, and her proclivity for habitation in matriarchal clans. Hyena offers visions of possibility as the book shapeshifts through surrealist renderings by over eighty contributors working in text and image.
Filled with rebellious voices, Hyena is awash with mutations and transformations. The Alchemy of Toyen honors “the dissolution of prescribed boundaries that come about in the life of an unshackled mind of Toyen,” an artist who exemplified the surrealist spirit. The liberated queer minds and bodies of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore float across Revolutionary Dreaming, “trying to picture a world of mutual and total liberation.” Within the pages of Hyena, we experience an intimate reciprocal love-affair with a shark, are encouraged to speak to flowers, and become the “humanimal in Remedios Varo's Creation of the Birds. Within the witch bell, we hear evocations of the “wild heart” as Wolf and Bull sing a language of primoradial desire. The Will to Flower exudes a feral constitution while Sisters “cleave in healing.” Images convey visceral manifestations of fluidity, as bodies exude water, milk, and blood, and untamed imaginations depict animal familiars and give birth to hybrid beings that sprout flora and grow skin of fur and feathers. In honoring mutability, Hyena promotes the possibilities of transformation.
Hyena contributors: Beth Abaravich, Julie Adler, Erin Alexander, Tricia Avant, Renée Azenaro, Thérèse Bachand, Olivia Baes, Lucia Beatty, Adele Bertei, Marina Blitshteyn, Holly Boruck, Alex Branch, Sally Jane Brown, Alicia Byler, Amina Cain, Ingrid M. Calderon, Rebecca Campbell, Karen Carrie, Rosemary Carroll, Alexandra Carter, Katie Cercone, Andrea Biller Collins, Anne Colvin, Karin Crona, dama, Paola Daniele, Laura Darlington, Emilie Dashe, Nicole Daskas, Paula Elion, Errika Deli, Maria Adela Diaz, Jen D’Mello, Dolorosa, Ashley Edes, Rebecca Efstathiou, Cassie Fielding, Finley Finley, Sara Ellen Fowler, Malado Francine, Marisa J. Futernick, Anne Gauldin, Shari Gaynes, Maya Gurantz, Marc Herbst, Larkin Maureen Higgins, Sharon Kivland, Karen Lofgren, Viola Lour, Shana Lutker, Aline Mare, Christina Mesiti, linn meyers, Robert Nashak, Deborah Meadows, Sharifa Lafon, K. A. Laity, Elizabeth Leister, Leigh Lugosi, Arianna Patterson, Minna Philips, Xiana Posada, Annabella Pritchard, Kelly Puig, Heather Rasmussen, Michelle Robinson, Jaklin Romine, Sheridan Rose, Penelope Rosemont, Meena Satnarain, Molly Segal, R.L. Sin, Janice Sloane, Penny Slinger, Chelsea Steele, Catherine Street, Ali Schwartz, elin o’Hara slavick, Astri Swendsrud, Yoony Takeuchi, Camilla Taylor, Sophie Bathsheba Thatcher, Maggie Tseng, Danielle VonLehe, Leora Wien, Logan White, Sally Anne Wickenden
Itinéraires Fantômes oracle deck
Author & Artist: Alexandra Grant with Hélène Cixous
Contributors: Adel Abdessemed, Pierre Alechinsky, Sara Barker, Gabrielle Berger, Louise Bourgeois, Leonardo Bravo, Maria Bussmann, Sarah Cain, Lewis Carroll, Bertrand Charneau, Maria Chevska, Michael Kennedy Costa, Laura Darbutaitė, Tacita Dean, Edgar Fabián Frías, Jeffrey Gibson, Francisco Goya, Alexandra Grant, Mathew Hale, Simon Hantaï, Johanna Hedva, Roni Horn, Victor Hugo, Hanna Hur, Franz Kafka, YeRin Kim, Lynn Marie Kirby, Jean-Jacques Lemêtre, Colin Lemoine, Laure Prouvost, Elsa Prudent, Addy Rabinovitch, Keanu Reeves, Cindy Rehm, Saranya Siegel-Berger, Shinique Smith, Nancy Spero, Luc Tuymans, Unyimeabasi Udoh, Roger Viollet, and Anna Winger
Design: Unyimeabasi Udoh
Published in 2024 by X Artists’ Books
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Friday March 8, 2024
Heavy Manners Library 1200 N Alvarado St, Los Angeles, CA 90026
Published by HEXENTEXTE, The Formless is What Keeps Bleeding extends Cindy Rehm’s research into lost women—those who have been silenced throughout time through suppression or appropriation. Rehm’s project is comprised of nearly two-hundred collage drawings in response to Marcel Duchamp’s installation Étant donnés. The lifeless female body central to this work contains three women central to Duchamp’s life, who remain culturally obscure: book binder, Mary Reynolds, Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, and his second wife Alexina "Teeny" Duchamp. In this series, Rehm explores the lingering presence of these three women and considers the possibility for a line of communication between women across generations.
The evening will feature a screening curated by Rehm in conversation with themes in the book, including fragmentation of the body, haunted landscapes, and somatic imprints of misogyny and violence. Works by: Tricia Avant, Ursula Brookbank, Camille Cléant, Georgie Flood, Guta Galli, Angie Jennings, Ibuki Kuramochi, Elizabeth Leister, Aleksandra Murawska, Shana Robbins, Anne Lesley Selcer, Nataša Prosenc Stearns, and Eija Temisevä.
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Screening Program here.
The Labyrinth
A virtual conversation on Anaïs Nin with Amanda Maciel Antunes & Katie Doherty
Sunday, October 22 1pm (PST)
Join HEXENTEXTE for The Labyrinth: a conversation on Anaïs Nin with Amanda Maciel Antunes & Katie DohertyWe will take Nin’s short story The Labyrinth, published in Under a Glass Bell (1948), to discuss Antunes and Doherty’s research and responses to Nin’s work with a focus on dreamlife, personal narrative, and pathways through the creative process.
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link to Nin’s story The Labyrinth
My new book Transference is available for pre-order at Curious Publishing
Book Launch Thursday, September 15th 7pm at The Philosophical Research Society
Transference, collects three series of collage drawings that consider the generative possibilities of the trance state through references to automatic writing, dermatographia, haunted texts, and narratives produced through the body.
My series House Moth is included in issue 13 of La Vague Journal
The House Moth series responds to the following texts, reading being a kind of bibliomancy:
Johanna Hedva’s The Erinyes,
John Ruskin’s The Ethics of the Dust: “You must either be house-Wives or house-Moths; remember that. In the deep sense, you must either weave men's fortunes, and embroider them; or feed upon and bring them to decay,”
Sawako Nakayasu’s Beard of Death: “A moth slams into the window as to touch the outside world, like the backside of an embroidery,”
and Virginia Woolf’s Death of a Moth.
The Invisible Archive: Cindy Rehm (ONLINE EDITION)
written by Virginia Arce
Vol. LA, Issue No. 1
August 2020, Los Angeles
link to PDF
I have contributed a new series of collage works and been interviewed for the first issue of The Invisible Archive. The journal Launches at PAM Sunday, March 24th, 2-4pm. Goodbye Books will present The Invisible Archive at the Printed Matter’s 2019 LA Art Book Fair (LAABF).
About The Invisible Archive:
Born from an urgency to produce artist-led dialogue on how strategies of performativity and embodiment complicate and inform current conditions of living and making, The Invisible Archive is a new research journal of performance art with a focus on the intersection of body, time, and place. Each edition uses the in-depth interview to critically reflect on the practice of one artist. We invite writers, artists, and inquisitors of culture to expand the discourse of performance art and to manifest new relationships between rigorous writing, research, with the radical nature of the time itself. The first volume archives performance artists in Los Angeles.
TRANSCRIPTIONS
Cindy Rehm + Sheila Talbitzer
July 13 – September 1, 2018
Opening Friday July 13, 6-9pm
Darger HQ
1804 Vinton Street
Omaha, NE 68108
TRANSCRIPTIONS, opening Friday, July 13 6-9pm, will feature work by Cindy Rehm (Los Angeles, CA) and Sheila Talbitzer (Omaha, NE).
TRANSCRIPTIONS is part of a series of collaborative and experimental projects facilitated by Darger HQ. Darger HQ connects artists to the world by creating collaborative working opportunities between local artists and national and international artists with related practices, and develops partnerships that benefit artists by providing new means of support through combined private and non-profit sources. Darger HQ also educates, enriches and exposes the community to some of the most innovative contemporary art being produced today.
Cindy Rehm & Sara Ellen Fowler: Feminist Love Letters
The ICA LA
Sunday February 11, 1-4pm
In 1971 Nancy Spero sent Lucy Lippard a letter with the simple but impassioned message: “The enemies of women’s liberation in the arts will be crushed. Love Nancy.” This note serves as the inspiration for Feminist Love Letters, a project that invites participants to profess their love, send words of support and encouragement, or unleash their feminist fury in a letter to a contemporary or historic feminist. We will provide papers, pens, and stickers to accommodate your epistolary declarations. All letters will be documented and archived at http://feministloveletters.tumblr.com.
Sara Fowler and Cindy Rehm initiated Feminist Love Letters on Valentine’s Day 2016, for a Women’s Center for Creative Work residency at the LA Art Book Fair.
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homeLA // Larchmont: The Way Light Moves Through
4-7pm on Saturday August 26, 2017
*Exact location will be revealed upon ticket purchase*
Performances are ongoing, with timed ticket entry at 4pm, 5pm, and 6pm.
homeLA // Larchmont: The Way Light Moves Through will be a durational performance where audiences can roam freely. There will be new works from Zena Bibler, Jay Carlon, Emily Marchand, J. Alex Mathews, NoodleRice & Friends, Cindy Rehm with Elizabeth Leister, and Selwa Sweidan with Christine Meinders.
Curated by Samara Kaplan & Rebecca Bruno
Documentation and Media by Andrew Mandinach
homeLA provides a platform to independent dance, body-based, sound, and intermedia artists at various stages of their careers to develop new works and one-of-a-kind performances in response to the architecture and ethos of Los Angeles homes.
http://www.homela.org/
homeLA is fiscally sponsored by the Pasadena Arts Council's EMERGE program.
(En)Gendered (In)Equity: The Gallery Tally Poster Project
Organized by Micol Hebron
Opening Reception March 9, 2016
Exhibition Dates March 10 – April 17, 2016
LACE presents a retrospective of all Gallery Tally posters created to date – including over 400 original, artist-designed posters that visualize gender ratios in the contemporary art world. Since 2013, Gallery Tally has collected and visualized data pertaining to the radical underrepresentation of women in all facets of the art world and beyond.
Please join me for the opening of Rosette - a group show organized by Mary Anna Pomonis at Charlie James Gallery, Saturday January 9th, 6-9pm. The exhibit features works by Suzanne Adelman, Lili Bernard, Mattia Biagi, Annie Buckley, Kristin Calabrese, Angel Chen, Sarah Cromarty, Cherie Benner Davis, Mark Dutcher, Christine Dianne Guiyangco, Sabina Ott, Mary Anna Pomonis, Cindy Rehm, Allison Stewart and Vincent Ramos. The show opens January 9th and runs until February 20.
Charlie James Gallery
969 Chung King Road
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Our Prime Property recently gave me the opportunity to place my work into a dream location...Clarice Lispector's living room!
My work will be on view as part of the exhibit Illuminate, curated by Holly Boruck
August 8th - September 5th
Opening Reception Saturday, August 8th, 6-10pm
Surrogate Gallery 123 Morgan Alley, Pasadena, CA