Impossible Archives: March 3

Monday, March 3rd, 5:30 pm
Kevorkian Center, NYU
Sullivan Street at Washington Square South, ground floor library
Admission: FREE

Participants:
Orit + Tal Halpern, Leslie Hewitt, Ramzi Kassem, Althea Wasow, Martha Wilson. Moderators: Chitra Ganesh + Mariam Ghani

Description:
This roundtable will explore legal, historical, professional and artistic strategies for archiving impossible (unspeakable, unutterable, censored, undocumented, disappeared or disappearing) materials. We will discuss the role of artists and activists as archivists of unofficial or suppressed histories; the various manifestations of archive fever; and the relationships between witnesses, testimony, memory and archives.

http://www.kabul-reconstructions.net/index/nyu.html

(image is film still from The Wannabe, directed by Althea Wasow, showing David Lemus' release from prison.)

Collaboration + Feminism: March 2

Sunday, March 2nd, 3-5 pm
Bronx Museum of the Arts, North Wing, 3rd floor
Admission: $5.00, free for Bronx Museum members
Please RSVP for public programs at 718.681.6000x102 or education@bronxmuseum.org

Participants: Wendy Babcox (6+), Tiffany Ludwig and Renee Piechocki (Two Girls Working), Uzma Z. Rizvi (SAWCC), Emily Roysdon (LTTR), Faith Wilding (SubRosa), and exhibition curator Carey Lovelace. Moderator: Amy Mackie (New Museum)

Description:
Making It Together: Women’s Collaborative Art + Community, the exhibition guest-curated by Carey Lovelace for the Bronx Museum, surveys the period in the 1970s and early 80s when women artists, inspired by the 70s feminist movement, worked collectively in new ways to engage communities and address social issues. Taking the exhibition as a point of departure, this discussion (the first of two held in conjunction with the show) will trace the influence of gender-based critique in shaping artists’ collective and collaborative practices over the past 30+ years. Participants in the discussion represent a range of currently active groups whose work reflects this influence.

http://www.kabul-reconstructions.net/index/bxma.html

This is the first in a series of 4 roundtables called "Tracing the Index": http://www.kabul-reconstructions.net/index/series.html

Night School Seminar 2: February 28-March 1

Night School Public Seminar 2:
Martha Rosler, Art and Social Life: The Case of Video Art
The New Museum, 235 Bowery

Thursday, February 28, 7:30pm
Friday, February 29, 7:30 pm
Saturday, March 1, 3pm

See New Museum website for full event description and details.

Night School is an artist's project by Anton Vidokle in the form of a temporary school. A yearlong program of monthly seminars and workshops, Night School draws upon a group of local and international artists, writers, and theorists to conceptualize and conduct the program.

*Open to the public. The event is free with Museum admission, but tickets are required. Tickets can be reserved online or at the Museum. A limited number of tickets will be available starting at 6:30 p.m. the day of the event. Unclaimed tickets will be released promptly at 7:30 p.m.

On Richard Diebenkorn: Feb 27

Diebenkorn (and Others): Early and Late
Wednesday, February 27, 6:30 pm
New York University
Silver Center, Room 300 (enter at 32 Waverly Place)

In this lecture, John Elderfield, The Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, will explore the significance of Diebenkorn’s early work in New Mexico—which anticipates modes of organization and feeling that continued throughout his career—noting the rarity of such an early-late affinity. Along the way, he will discuss Diebenkorn’s sources in the art of Edward Hopper, Giorgio de Chirico, and late Cubism, all filtered through the painter’s encounters with Abstract Expressionism and the transformative effect of New Mexico’s desert landscape.

Programs are free of charge, no reservations, seating is limited. Photo ID required at door. All programs are subject to change. Information: 212/998-6780, greygallery@nyu.edu.

http://www.nyu.edu/greyart/programs/programs.html

Cai Guo-Qiang: Feb 22

I Want to Believe
Friday, February 22, 7 p.m.
Participants: Thomas Krens, Alexandra Munroe, and Cai Guo-Qiang
This special conversation between curators and artist presents the creative forces behind the organization of Cai Guo-Qiang's spectacular retrospective. A short book signing by the artist follows the program.
$10/$7

http://www.guggenheim.org/education/tours_lectures.shtml#category_10

Mapping Power in the City: Feb 20

Mapping Power in the City:
Lize Mogel, Alexis Bhagat, and Elise Youn
Wednesday, February 20, 1:30 PM
New Museum, 235 Bowery
Museum as Hub Space, 5th Floor

Artists and cartographers Lize Mogel and Alexis Bhagat lead an informal conversation about the use of mapping in the cultural sphere, examining several of the maps in their recent collaborative project, An Atlas of Radical Cartography, a collection of ten maps and ten essays addressing social issues from globalization to garbage collection, surveillance to extraordinary rendition, statelessness to visibility, deportation to migration. It pairs artists, architects, and designers with writers to explore the possibilities of the map as a tool of political agency. The discussion will focus on how mapping can be used to define the borders of conflict, contestation, and power between communities in a specific geographic area, as well as how it can alternatively be used to rethink, resist, or subvert these same borders.

http://www.newmuseum.org/events/142

Janine Antoni: Feb 19

Tuesday, February 19, 6:30pm
School of Visual Arts
133/141 West 21 Street, room 101C
Free and open to the public

The Bahamian-born artist Janine Antoni makes work by way of intimate collaborations with her own body. Her works confound the usual boundaries between the internal and external, leaving them unbalanced just enough to restore some connection between the artist and her observers. Presented by the BFA Fine Arts and Visual and Critical Studies Departments.

http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/events/index.jsp?sid0=70&page_id=181&content_id=2161

Montage: Unmonumental Online: Feb 16

Montage: Unmonumental Online
Saturday, February 16, 2008, 3pm
The New Museum, 235 Bowery
Free with Museum admission but tickets are required*

Michael Bell-Smith, William Boling, Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung, and Nina Katchadourian Discuss "Montage: Unmonumental Online"

Rhizome Curator-at-Large Marisa Olson leads a conversation with four artists from "Montage: Unmonumental Online." The artists will give brief presentations of their work and join in a roundtable discussion of their diverse approaches to practices of appropriating, sampling, remixing, and otherwise responding to found material online.

http://www.newmuseum.org/events/129

Beth Campbell: Feb 15

Friday, February 15, 2008, 8 pm
Gallery Talk: Tina Kukielski and Beth Campbell
Whitney Museum, 945 Madison Ave

Multimedia artist Beth Campbell has employed video, paint, and furniture to create environments that explore the relationships among memory, objects, and physical space. Her work is always staged as an inquiry, notes critic Deidre Stein Greben: "What is it -- our bodies, our actions, our decisions, a moment in time -- that makes us ourselves?" Join senior curatorial assistant Tina Kukielski and Campbell as they discuss the artist's installation at the Whitney.

Free with Museum admission, which is pay-what-you-wish on Fridays, 6-9 pm. This is a standing event in the gallery.

http://whitney.org/www/programs/eventInformation.jsp?EventTypeID=1#ad-calendar

Where the Truth Lies: Feb 15

Where the Truth Lies: A Symposium on Propaganda Today
Organized by Stewart Ewen, Steve Heller, and Mary Jeys
Friday, February 15, 2008, 9am- 4pm
Baisely Powell Elebash Recital Hall
CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave at 34th St.
$35 general admission/ $20 students

MODERATOR: David Brancaccio
KEYNOTE: Milton Glaser

SPEAKERS
Maro Chermayeff, Stephen Duncombe, Sam Ewen, Stuart Ewen, Jeffrey Graham, Julia Hobsbawm, Eugene Secunda

http://www.wherethetruthlies.org/

Explorations in Second Life: Feb 13

Parallel Worlds: Explorations in Second Life
Confounding Expectations: Photography in Context
Panel Discussion
Wednesday, February 13, 2008, 7:00 p.m.
The New School, Tishman Auditorium
66 West 12th Street

Coinciding with the first of a series of articles in Aperture magazine by Fred Ritchin exploring “postphotographic” media and emerging technologies, this panel focuses on the community within Second Life, where within a 3D world, users can explore, build, and socialize. Panelists include Fred Ritchin, a contributing editor to Aperture magazine and professor at NYU; Michael Van Horn, curator of the Joseph Monsen Collection in Seattle, and Richard Minsky, founder of the Center for Book Arts, an independent not-for-profit organization.

http://www.aperture.org/store/events-month.aspx?Month=2

Huma Bhabha: Feb 11

Subjective Histories of Sculpture II: Huma Bhabha
Monday, February 11, 2008, 6:30pm
Theresa Lang Center at The New School
55 West 13th Street, 2nd Floor

SculptureCenter, in collaboration with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School, presents a series of artist-led lectures: Subjective Histories of Sculpture II. This lecture series furthers SculptureCenter's exploration of how contemporary artists think about sculpture - its conventions, and its legacies.

http://sculpture-center.org/pe_ca_feb.html

"Gorging on Images": Feb 11

Gorging on Images: The Archive in Contemporary Photography
A Lecture by Sven Spieker

Monday, February ll, 2008 at 7:45 pm
NYU Silver Center, Room 300,
100 Washington Square East (entrance on Waverly Place)

Organized by Professors Ulrich Baer and Shelley Rice, as part of the seminar Archive, Image, Text: The Myth and Reality of What Archives Hold, sponsored by the Departments of Photography, German, Art History, English and Comparative Literature.

The archive in contemporary photography—from Gerhard Richter to Susan Hiller and Tacita Dean—oscillates between the pathos of total inclusiveness and the specter of radical dispersion and discontinuity. In this lecture Spieker will trace this double orientation: first to the 19th-century (photo) archive with its rhetoric of preservation and identification, and second to what has been referred to as the early 20th century’s turn towards archival forms of organization as a result of the waning of the aesthetic of shock during the 1920s (photomontage). Using two seminal essays in the history of photography— Alexander Rodchenko’s ““Against the Synthetic Portrait, for the Snapshot” (1928) and Sigfried Kracauer’s“Photography” (1927)—he will demonstrate that this archival turn, whose impact on contemporary photographic practice is considerable, was not without its own internal fissures and contradictions. Whereas Rodchenko appeals to a monumental, totalizing archive of photographs with a transcendent referent (the founder of the Soviet Union, Lenin), Kracauer, who views photography as a form of counter-memory, proposes an archive of radical dispersion. By way of a conclusion he will highlight the different ways in which the fractured “archival turn” of the early 20th century lingers in contemporary photographic practice.

http://arthistory.as.nyu.edu/object/ah.gorgingonimages.html

Nextcity: The Art of the Possible: Feb 8

Nextcity: The Art of the Possible
Part of New Silent
Friday, February 8, 2008, 7pm
New Museum, 235 Bowery
$8 General Public, $6 Members

Rhizome's New Silent Series looks at the ways digital technologies have fundamentally altered our lives and experiences of urban space. Featured projects by Stamen Design, J. Meejin Yoon, and Christian Nold blur the boundaries between art, design and technological development. Moderated and introduced by Everyware author Adam Greenfield.

Emergent digital technologies are rapidly changing both the face of our cities and our daily experience of them, whether invoked in the production of architectural form, the representation of urban space, or our interface to the locative and other services newly available there. Dynamic maps update in real time; garments and spaces deform in response to environmental, biological and even psychological conditions. We find our very emotions made visible, public, and persistently retrievable. Somewhere along the way, we find our notions of public space, participation, and what it means to be urban undergoing the most profound sort of change

http://www.newmuseum.org/events/124#images_panel

Inaba, Wigley & Flood: Feb 7

Ambitions: Jeffrey Inaba, Mark Wigley, and Richard Flood in Conversation
New Museum
235 Bowery
Thursday, February 7
7:30pm

Free with Museum admission but tickets are required

This event about philanthropy, education, architecture, and other forms of influence is co-presented by New Museum and Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. It takes place in conjunction with Jeffrey Inaba's installation Donor Hall at the New Museum as well as the release of Issue 13 of the architecture magazine Volume, of which Inaba is an editor. The discussion will be followed by music by Jamo and Nick Kay.

http://www.newmuseum.org/events/

Allan Kaprow Tribute: Feb 7

A Tribute to Allan Kaprow
Thursday, February 7, 2008, 6:30 p.m.
MOMA Education and Research Building,
Theater 3 (The Celeste Bartos Theater), mezzanine

This program is dedicated to the artist Allan Kaprow (1927–2006), whose events and narratives engaged the environment, the public, and the fabric of everyday life. Through a discussion moderated by Judith Rodenbeck (Noble Chair in Modern Art & Culture, Sarah Lawrence College, and Editor-in-Chief, Art Journal), artists and scholars reflect on Kaprow's legacy. Letty Eisenhauer, Professor, Borough of Manhattan Community College, discusses her contributions to Kaprow's Happenings, and Alison Knowles, artist, offers her perspectives on performance and Fluxus. André Lepecki, Associate Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Performance Studies, New York University, addresses his experience of remaking Kaprow's 18 Happenings in 6 Acts, and Robert Whitman, artist and former student of Kaprow's, reflects on his participation in this moment of artistic revolution. After the program, audience members have the opportunity to view material from The Museum of Modern Art Library's Special Collections.

Tickets ($10; members $8; students, seniors, and staff of other museums $5)

http://www.moma.org/calendar/events.php?id=7392&ref=calendar

Allison Smith: Feb 7

Thursday, February 7, 2008, 7pm
SVA Amphitheater, 209 East 23 Street, 3rd floor
Free and open to the public

Allison Smith recently organized and directed the public art event The Muster. Inspired by the aesthetic and performative qualities of American Civil War reenactments, Smith enlisted an army of participants from the art and queer communities who fashioned uniforms, built campsites and declared their causes publicly to an audience of spectators. Presented by the BFA Fine Arts Department.

http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/events/index.jsp?sid0=70&page_id=181&content_id=2160

Martha Rosler: Feb 7

An Evening with Martha Rosler
Wollman Hall, Eugene Lang Building
65 West 11th St, 5th fl (enter at 66 West 12th)
February 7, 2008, 6pm

The Arts Program at Eugene Lang College presents the Visiting Artist for Spring 2008, Martha Rosler. Ms. Rosler, who has been active as an artist since the early 1970s, will give a presentation of her work including photography, performance, writing, and video.

Rosler is an artist who works primarily with images and texts. Most of her work concerns social issues, manifested at various sites such as the kitchen, the television set, and the streets and transportation systems. Describing her work, Rosler says, "The subject is the commonplace—I am trying to use video to question the mythical explanations of everyday life. We accept the clash of public and private as natural, yet their separation is historical. The antagonism of the two spheres, which have in fact developed in tandem, is an ideological fiction—a potent one. I want to explore the relationships between individual consciousness, family life, and culture under capitalism." Rosler's career retrospective, Positions in the Life World, was exhibited in Europe and New York City. Rosler lives in Brooklyn.

Free; no tickets or reservations required; seating is first-come first-served

http://www.newschool.edu/eventDetail.aspx?id=14210

Eve Ensler: Feb 4

The New School Celebrates the 10th Anniversary of The Vagina Monologues with Eve Ensler

Monday, February 4, 2008 at 7:00 p.m.
Tishman Auditorium, Alvin Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall, 66 West 12th Street
Admission: $5; free to all students and New School faculty, staff, and alumni with ID

Seating is limited and advance tickets are required. In person purchases can be made at The New School Box Office at 212 229-5488 or boxoffice@newschool.edu. For more information, please email vday@newschool.edu or call 212.229.5687.