Selected Performance and Exhibition History
2008
July 2 - Sep 20, One of these things is not like the other things, unosuonove, Rome, Curated by Raimundas Malasauskas
June 28 - September, Word Event, Kunsthalle Basel, Curated by Roos Gortzak and Maxine Kopsa
June 26 - Aug 15, The Left Hand of Darkness, The Project, NY, Curated by Sarvia Jasso and Yasmin Dubois
May 4 - July 28, Casino Ilinx, SculptureCenter, LIC, NY. Curated by Sarina Basta. [on view now]
2007
Dec 1 - Jan. 1, 2008, A Choreographed Exhibition, Kunsthalle St. Gallen, curated by Mathieu Copeland
Nov. 2, A Seminar in Subliminal Carnage - The 33 Holdmusic Variations, Swiss Institute, NY, Performa 07
Sep. 8 - Nov. 3, JINGSKOOT, Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, Texas
July 28-end of Aug., TALUS, Dexter Sinsiter, NY
July 12, Reading on the Rocks, Sculpture Center, L.I.C. Queens, NY
June 11-17, WANDBISS, Art Unlimited 38 Basel, Presented by The Swiss Institute NY
June 1, Piano Destruction Party, Session, NY
April 28, The Gutsongs of XAR, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
Mar. 3-8, 5 on 5 is 5, Moscow Biennial, Central House of Artists, in The Saloon, curated by Adina Popescu
2006
Nov. 19, Mike Skinner - 8 Track Attack, (vocalist), Roulette, NY.
Nov. 15, Screening of "Operratic Manimalism", 3 Minutes:3 Hours, curated by Marina Zurkow, EFA Gallery, NY.
Oct 13-Nov. 5, THE INVASIONISTAS, Kling & Bang Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland
Sep 9, Deitch Gallery Art Parade 2006, NY
Aug 13, screening of I KNOW WHO I AM!, Wayward Gallery, London, England
June 11, screening of I KNOW WHO I AM!, Brooklyn International Film Fest, Brooklyn Museum
June 8-10, The K Sound, The Kitchen, NY
May 18, An Evening of Experimental Jokes (and other joke swills), Andrew Kreps Gallery
April 16, Male Entertainment (Pete Drungle,Theodore Fivel, Michael Portnoy, w/ special guest Mike Skinner, and moment by David Adamo), Monkeytown, Brooklyn, NY
Feb 2-March 26 The Lemonwater Project by C.O.T.E. (Portnoy & David Adamo) at EFA Gallery, NY part of the exhibition Everything beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation
Jan 20 Necktie over the Atlantic, Performance with Theodore Fivel at Migros Museum, Zurich
2005
Sep 24-Dec 11, Concrete Castle, Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France (film, performance, and installation)
Sep 10, Deitch Gallery Art Parade, NY (images)
Sep 9, Three As Four fashion show, NY
Aug 27-30, Strangergames, Kaaitheater, Brussels.
June 17, Night of A Thousand Ribs, part of group exhibition Still Ill, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY.
April 30 - July 3, Jump on Me, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany. Composed music for video by Rita Ackermann and Agathe Snow
2004
November 8-12, Billy Joel Nose, chashama, NY.
May 14, Strangergames: Nooks, part of group exhibtion Collision, Ace Gallery, NY.
March 12-13, Shucking the What, The Kitchen, NY.
February, Shucking the What (prelude), Canada Gallery, NY.
January-February, BIERZ ULICE! (This Block is On!), part of group exhibtion Domestic Porn, Galeria Fundacji Foksal, Warsaw. (pics from perf. at opening)
2003
September 22, Screening of Laughing with Gudnut, Avant-Aerobics Workshop, Julliard University, NY.
Aug 18, Secrets, Little Theater, Tonic, NY.
March 17, Professor Kiffy on Kitchen Jokes, Little Theater, Tonic, NY.
2002
Arena Sommerkino & Votiv Kino, Vienna, Austria, and Tribeca Grand, NY: screening of Ground Cut, a 50 min film, directed in collaboration with Tina Schula.
October 31, The Yoghurt Boys, Bowery Poetry Club, NY.
March 10, As Four Opera, Cooper Union Great Hall, NY. music and performance for fashion show/opera
2001
July 28, strangergames, Summer Dance Warm Up, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, NY.
March 3, Curare, Curare!, part of group exhibtion Arse about Face, Jack Tilton Gallery, NY.
2000
October 15, The Yoghurt Boys, Dumbo Arts Festival, Brooklyn, NY.
Sep. 2000, Curated "Critic as Grist", White Box, -- 20 artists were invited to create a piece about a living art critic of their choice. Artists: Alex Bag, Bill Beckley, Paco Cao, Terrence Gower, Jane Kaplowitz, Komar and Melamid, Les Levine, Ryan McGinness, Dennis Oppenheim, Erik Parker, Martha Rosler, Peter Saul, Schuldt, David Shapiro, Paul D. Miller (aka DJ Spooky), Fairsbie Tabs, Xar Taplik, Claude Wampler, Thomas Zummer.
(Images of bionic slug-artist Xar Taplik(creation of Portnoy))
July-August, Tie-Off Fear Sleeves, Chashama, NY.
1998-1999
Bucket, (the working title), (in collaboration w/ Claude Wampler), Triple X Festival, Amsterdam,
Nov. '99, Kaiitheater, Brussels,
Nov. '99, Victoria Festival, Ghent,
Mar. '99, P.S. 122,
Feb. '99, National Festival of Live Art, Glasgow,
Oct. '98, Downtown Arts Fest., NY,
Sept.'98, opera/installation
October '99, Bunnipatchers, White Box, NY.
August '98, 24 Hours on the Staten Island Ferry, Staten Island Ferry, (organized by Julie Atlas Muiz).
August '98, Eviannese Gesamtcuntsjerk, Audio Room, Vienna, Austria. 15 min. video
February 27-28, '98, The Shattering of All Undertakings That Presuppose Man To Be Something, P.S. 122, NY.
February 26, '98, Soy Bomb, Grammy Awards, Radio City Music Hall, NY. January '98, SONTAG, Movement Research @ Judson Church, NY.
1995-1997
Renssalaer (video), by Portnoy and Marianne Vitale
January '97, How'm I Doin' ? -- a laboratory, HERE Gallery, NY.
Cement Beach (Solo Performance Series), P.S. 122, NY.
Vicious (music video directed by Steve Buscemi for Maggie Estep, feat. Lou Reed)
moronmachine, P.S. 122, NY.
Avant-Garde-A-Rama, P.S. 122, NY. Lepsies, St. Marks Church, Downtown Arts Festival, NY.
Related Experience
Oct 2005-Nov 2005 Yaddo residency, Saratoga Springs, NY.
April 2005, dancer for ChameckiLerner, performances in NY and Brazil.
December 2004, dancer and composer for Maria Hassabi's company, DTW, NY.
April 2004, actor in The Appeal, a play by Young Jean Lee, Soho Rep, NY.
Member of Dance Kumikokimoto '97-'01, multimedia dance company directed by Koosil-Ja Hwang: Whitney Museum at Phillip Morris, NY, May '01, 92nd Street NY.
Harkeness Dance Project, NY.
Mar. '00, The Kitchen,
Mar. '99, Central Park Summerstage '97
August 1999, actor in Ruben, a short film by Grant Barbeito, Sundance Film Festival.
Miscellaneous
Director of Behavior, Session, NY. Session is a space which hosts curated evenings of collaborations and happenings between small groups of strangers.
Current composer and singer for XAR, and PUT IT.
Singer and instrumentalist for The Liquid Tapedeck, '95-'03.
Selected Press
2007
Gordon, Margery, No Fair, ARTINFO, June.
Psibilskis, Liutaurus, Critic's Picks Artforum, June.
Nguyen, Trong G., Reykjavik!, NY Arts Magazine, January/February
2006
Eftir Thórodd Bjarnason, (Best of 2006) Innrás frá New York , Morgunbladid (lesbók), Dec 30.
Thóra Thórisdóttir, Innrás úr undirheimum New York, Morgunbladid, Nov.8.
Hansson, Gunnar, Kakkalakkaklám á Laugavegi, Frettabladid (daily Iceland newspaper), Oct. 24.
Haden-Guest, Antony, One way or another, the show must go on, Financial Times, Aug 6, Sulcas, Roslyn, A Joke Collector and a Kitchen Walk Into a Theater..., NY Times, June 10.
Kourlas, Gia, Very special K, Time Out New York, June 1-7.
Alemani, Cecilia, artforum.com, Feb 23.
2005
Musto, Michael, La Dolce Musto, Village Voice, Sep. 19.
Sohn, Amy, Strangers in the Night, New York, Jan. 24.
2004
Dunning, Jennifer, A Funky Fashion Show With Wit and Imagination, NY Times, Dec. 15.
Soloski, Alexis, Romantic Idol, Village Voice, April 19.
Staniszewski, Jacek, "W DRGAWKACH LAMBADY", Fluid, issue 38, Feb, p. 53-59.
Anik, Daz., "Graj na Chmielnej: Amerikanin wymysla zabawy dla warszawiakow", Zycie Warszawy, Jan. 24, p.2
Wadler, Joyce, "The Restauranteur Who Invented Downtown", The New York Times, Jan. 18. (Portnoy occassionally dines and plays strangergames in the washroom at Schiller's)
2003
Pratt, Tim, Reviews (review of repellent sounds ...sonic rec room cd), XLR8R (Issue 71), Sep.
New York Press, (in Picks section)"XAR", June 25.
Smith, George, "Tales from Pornographic Oceans: Soy Unchained" , Village Voice (June 18-24).
Calhoun, Ada, "The Show Goes Downtown", New York (May 5), p.41.
2001
Turner, Grady T. "Portnoy's Complaint: A Memo To Fellow Art Critics", Flash Art (March-April 2001), pp. 43, 51.
Heartney, Eleanor. " 'Critic as Grist' at White Box," Art in America (February 2), p.148.
Bivens, Heidi, "almost famous", Tokion (Jan/Feb).
2000
Sinclair, Tom. "Golden Airings: 100 Greatest Rock & Roll Moments on TV" Entertainment Weekly, July 28, pp. 22+.
Kramer, Hilton. "If You Strike a Critic, You'd Better Snuff Him," The New York Observer, Oct. 2, p.1.
Portnoy, Michael. "Kramer Vs. Curator", The New York Observer, Oct. 23, p.4.
Tyrangiel, Josh, "People: People." Time, September 18, p. 98.
Jowitt, Deborah, "New Storytelling", The Village Voice, March 29.
1999
Hainley, Bruce. "Bruce Hainley"( lists cultural events of the 1990s that defined the decade) Artforum (December 1999), p. 130.
Derek Yip. "MICHAEL PORTNOY aka SOY BOMB , Upstart Pissing on the Contemporary Mix", Performing Arts Journal (PAJ), NO. 61 (January), pp. 36-44.
Jowitt, Deborah, "Of Marvels", The Village Voice, March 31.
Kourlas, Gia. "Total recall," Time Out NY, March 11-18.
"Grammy grinch torments 'SNL' star" New York Post, PAGE SIX, Dec 15.
Dunning, Jennifer. "The Topic is Rich, The Vignettes Heartless", The New York Times, March 13.
1998
Murrin, Tom. "THE BOMB, Michael Portnoy's More Than Soy", PAPER (July),
p.104.
Hendrickson, Matt. "Random Notes", Rolling Stone, April 16, p.17.
Sparrow, "Why, You Own The Title?", New York Press, April 8-14, p.82.
Carr, C. "Rad Like Who? The Soy Bomber Blasts Off" Village Voice, March 24, p.61.
Chaplin, Julia. "All too real," New York Post, March 5, p. 49.
Dermody, Dennis. "Hello My Name is Soy Bomb", Details, May, p.43.
Brunner, Rob. "Bombs Away," Entertainment Weekly, March 13, p. 14.
Gideonse, Theodore. "A Real Show at the Grammys", Newsweek, March 9, p.47.
1997
Talkington, Amy. "Steve Buscemi Remakes Lou Reed's 'Vicious'," RayGun, August p.48.
Jowitt, Deborah. "All Kindsa Rites", Village Voice, February 4, p.88.
1996
True, Cynthia. "Alterna Be thy Name: Say goodbye to stand-up as we know it. The new wave is here." Time Out New York, June 5-12, pp.43-44.
1995
The Liquid Tapedeck has had repeated write ups in The Village Voice, New York Press, Time Out NY, and CMJ since.