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DESCRIPTION:*Saturday\, November 13\, 2010\nDoors open at 7 pm\nPerforman
 ce starts at 8 pm sharp*\n\nThird Streaming is pleased to announce a new
  performance by *Derrick Adams*\, titled _Feed Them with a Long Spoon_. 
 The performance pays homage to the ritualistic American pastime of watch
 ing TV while breaking bread. Using visuals and sound\, Adams incorporate
 s his work _Everything I Kill I Eat_ (2010) on display at Third Streamin
 g\, which uses spears where spoons\, forks\, and knives replace the arro
 wed heads. The artist will spin an arrangement of hip-hop\, bmore beats\
 , pop\, and alternative tunes after the performance.\n\nDerrick Adams is
  a New York-based artist who works in a wide range of media\, including 
 performance\, installation\, sculpture\, and photography. He is preoccup
 ied with consumer objects and American iconography\, all influenced by p
 op culture\, television\, education\, and his black male experience in t
 he US. The artist scripts performative identities by using environments\
 , costumes\, as well as daily objects he collects and reconfigures. He d
 isrupts their functions and therefore exposes their presupposed meanings
 .\n\nAdams obtained his MFA from Columbia University and holds a BFA fro
 m Pratt Institute. He is also an alumnus of the Skowhegan School of Pain
 ting and Sculpture\, as well as the Marie Walsh Sharpe Space Program. Re
 cent solo exhibitions and performances include _Welcome to Monument City
 _\, Collette Blanchard Gallery\, New York\, NY (2010)\; _Go Stand Next t
 o the Mountain_\, The Kitchen\, New York\, NY (2010)\; _Sometimes I Just
  Don’t Feel Like Myself_\, Momenta Art\, Brooklyn\, NY (2009)\; and _A
 new_\, Performa Visual Art Performance Biennial (2005). Selected group e
 xhibitions are _1968: Then and Now\, Department of Photography and Imagi
 ng_\, Tisch School of the Arts\, New York University\, New York\, NY (20
 08)\; _The Pulse of New Brooklyn_\, Museum of Contemporary African Diasp
 oran Art\, Brooklyn\, NY (2006)\, and _Greater New York_\, MoMA/P.S.1\, 
 Queens\, NY (2005).\n\nThis event is organized in conjunction with the e
 xhibition "_Bite: Street Inspired Art and Fashion_":http://thirdstreamin
 g.com/calendar/17-bite-street-inspired-art-and-fashion\n
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SUMMARY:Derrick Adams’ _Feed Them With A Long Spoon_
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