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Sunday October 29, 2-5pm<\/span>
\nMarni Kotak: “Ajax\u2019s Spooktacular 6th Birthday Party\u201d<\/span><\/strong>
\nPerformance \/ Party<\/span><\/strong>
\nPlease RSVP to rsvp@microscopegallery.com<\/a> for location info<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nImage courtesy of Marni Kotak<\/em><\/span>
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As part of the ongoing \u201cRaising Baby X\u201d project by Marni Kotak, the artist invites the public to join her in the annual birthday party and performance celebrating her son Ajax\u2019s 6th birthday, \u201cAjax\u2019s Spooktacular 6th Birthday Party\u201d, held for the first time in the family\u2019s home. <\/span><\/p>\n

As Ajax is increasingly involved in the planning of his birthday parties, he has chosen like last year to be a Halloween-themed birthday party where the participants are encouraged to wear costumes. The home will be decorated as a haunted house with ghoulish surprises throughout. Food, cake and refreshments will be served and weather permitting, there will be also be a backyard barbecue, with s\u2019mores. There will also be a jack-o-lantern pi\u00f1ata, a fortune teller, and spooky games for kids. <\/span><\/p>\n

Kotak views the birthday party as our culture\u2019s quintessential celebration of life. Past parties have included \u201cFirst Birthday\u201d, incorporating a marching band and a giant pop out cake; \u201cYear 2: Ajax\u2019s Singing in the Rain\u201d, complete with umbrellas and an artificial downpour;\u00a0\u00a0\u201cYear 3: Cool Car Cut\u201d,\u00a0\u00a0first haircut in a sports car barber\u2019s chair to the accompaniment of a Beatles\u2019 cover band; \u201cYear 4: Ajax\u2019s Silly Spooky House of Mirrors\u201d, a mad maze of fun mirrors and a magician with crazy tricks; and \u201cYear 5: My Halloween Birthday Party\u201d, the first year that Ajax helped in the creation of the party decorations, including large-scale cardboard trees, light up ghosts and tiny hanging bats. <\/span><\/p>\n

With \u201cRaising Baby X\u201d the artist positions the act of motherhood within the context of her wider body of work considering everyday life as art and its rituals, accomplishments and achievements as personal triumphs to be shared and celebrated.<\/span><\/p>\n

Please RSVP to rsvp@microscopegallery.com<\/a> to receive location information.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nMarni Kotak is a performance artist who makes multimedia works in which she presents her everyday life being lived. Her most recent solo exhibition “Treehouse\u201d (2017) was response to a devastating fire in the family\u2019s home. Other solo exhibitions at the gallery include\u00a0\u201cMad Meds\u201d (2014) during which the artist\u00a0gradually withdrew from psychiatric medications prescribed for postpartum depression and her 2011 \u201cThe Birth of Baby X\u201d, where she gave birth to her son as a live performance at the gallery during a month-long exhibition.\u00a0Kotak\u2019s other \u201cFound Performances\u201d, or works based on daily activities, experiences, or accomplishments, include \u201cSelf-Medication\u201d (2014), \u201cCalorie Countdown\u201d (2013), \u201cRaising Baby X\u201d (ongoing), \u201cPostpartum Depression\u201d (2012), and staged re-enactments of her own birth, attending her grandfather\u2019s funeral and losing her virginity in a blue Plymouth. Kotak\u2019s works have been reviewed in Artforum, The New York Times, Blouin Artinfo, The Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic and others. They have also entered a broader discourse in publications including Time, Los Angeles Times, The Times of London, Vice, The Huffington Post, Salon, and numerous others. Kotak was a recipient of a Franklin Furnace Grant (2012-2013) and has received grants from NYSCA\/BAC. Public collections include the Library of Congress, Washington DC and Rhizome, NY. Kodak received a BA from Bard College and an MFA from Brooklyn College. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Sunday October 29, 2-5pm Marni Kotak: “Ajax\u2019s Spooktacular 6th Birthday Party\u201d Performance \/ Party Please RSVP to rsvp@microscopegallery.com for location info Image courtesy of Marni Kotak As part of the ongoing \u201cRaising Baby X\u201d project by Marni Kotak, the artist invites the public to join her in the annual birthday party and performance celebrating her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_mc_calendar":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-20169","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20169"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20185,"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20169\/revisions\/20185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}