SanctionedArray Roundtable: Nov 2

Tuesday, November 2,7pm

White Box, 329 Broome Street

Roundtable including Wafaa Bilal,artist; Hamid Dabashi, author and professor, Columbia University; Shayana Kadidal, attorney, Center for Constitutional Rights; and Ricardo

Miranda Zúñiga, artist; moderated by SpecifyOthers.

SanctionedArray events shall coincide with Play biennial at The Guggenheim New York, extending representation of video entries considered not eligible by Origin, by YouTube and The Guggenheim, and challenging a status quo.

http://www.whiteboxny.org/news/news_index.html

What is the Future of the Alternative?: Oct 15

What is Alternative? / What is the Future of the Alternative?

Friday, October 15 , 7–9pm

Exit Art, 475 10th Ave

Moderator: Robert Storr, Dean of Yale School of Art and former Curator in Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, NY (1990 – 2002)

Participants: Papo Colo, Artistic Director / Co-Founder, Exit Art; Martha Wilson, Founder / Director, Franklin Furnace; Peter Cramer and Jack Waters, Former Directors of ABC No Rio, Founders / Director of Le Petit Versailles

This opening conversation amongst founders / directors of early and emerging alternative art spaces looks at the various definitions of an “alternative” space. Is alternative an accurate and appropriate word to describe its activities? What alternatives do these spaces provide, and for whom are they intended?

http://exitart.org/exhibition_programs/current_programs/althistories.html

Lynne Tillman: Words Are Images, Too: Oct 14

Lynne Tillman: Words Are Images, Too

Thursday, October 14, 7 pm

SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street

Free and open to the public

Lynne Tillman will talk about her fiction, especially those works that address art and visual culture using stories and characters. In writing alongside art, Tillman engages a perpetual problem: How to discuss, describe, and comment upon one medium through another. Tillman has crossed and recrossed the lines between fiction and criticism often, especially in This Is Not It: Stories by Lynne Tillman (D.A.P., 2002). She is the author of the novels Haunted Houses (Serpent's Tail, 1987); Motion Sickness (Serpent's Tail, 1991); Cast in Doubt (Serpent's Tail, 1992); No Lease on Life (Mariner Books, 1998); and the story collections Absence Makes the Heart (Serpent's Tail, 1990) and The Madame Realism Complex (Semiotext(e), 1992). Her non-fiction books include The Velvet Years: Warhol's Factory 1965 - 1967 (Thunder's Mouth Press, 1995); The Broad Picture (Serpent’s Tail, 1997); and Bookstore: The Life and Times of Jeannette Watson and Books & Co (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1999). She writes regularly on art, books, and culture and contributes frequently to artists' books and museum catalogues.

http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/events/index.jsp?sid0=70&page_id=181&content_id=3499

Jason Fox: Oct 14

Thursday, October 14, 5:30pm

NYU Steinhardt

Einstein Auditorium at 34 Stuyvesant Street

http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/art/visiting_artists

Judi Werthein: Oct 13

AMT Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Judi Werthein

October 13, 2010 6:15 p.m.

Kellen Auditorium, Johnson Design Center, 66 Fifth Avenue

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

Judi Werthein was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She received an MA in Architecture and Urbanism from the Universidad de Buenos Aires. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Werthein is an artist who works across a range of media. She addresses strategies of domination. Conflating the dominant form with that which it subordinates, her work destabilizes the authority that is often taken as a given. Interpreting identities as flexible, plastic, and untranslatable, Werthein conveys the experience of the outsider through the language of mass culture, reconceiving western conventions from an unfamiliar perspective. Her work has been shown at the Tate Modern, De Appel, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art and The Bronx Museum for the Arts. Manifesta 7, InSite_05, and the 7th Bienal de La Habana.

http://www.newschool.edu/eventDetail.aspx?id=55919

Art and the State in East Germany, 1967–90: Oct 13

"The state's restrictions were not complete! There were holes ...":

Art and the Statein East Germany, 1967–1990

Wednesday, October 13, 6:30 pm

Silver Center, NYU, Room 300 (enter at 32 Waverly Place)

Examining artists’ relationships with the state in East Germany between 1967 and 1990, Emily Pugh, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Center for Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, will explore artists’ practices in the East German regime, considering what was allowed or disallowed and why. She will also discuss relationships between underground art movements and the resistance groups who spearheaded the “peaceful revolution” of 1989–90.

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

"WINGING IT” IN HIGH HEELS AND A BLINDFOLD: Sept 24

"WINGING IT” IN HIGH HEELS AND A BLINDFOLD:

A Discussion with Ishmael Houston-Jones, Mark Russell, Terry Fox, and Lucy Sexton:

Part of THEM AND NOW

Friday, September 24, 7pm

New Museum

Please contact 212-219-1222 x555 for ticket sales.

A presentation and panel discussion around the performance works of master improviser Ishmael Houston-Jones, “WINGING IT” will include a screening of scenes from Houston-Jones’s past works. Following the screening, performance artist of Dance Noise fame Lucy Sexton will moderate a discussion with Houston-Jones, Under the Radar Curator and former P.S.122 Artistic Director Mark Russell, and Philadelphia Dance Project Executive Director Terry Fox.

http://newmuseum.org/events/473

Emily Jacir: Sept 23

Thursday, September 23, 5:30pm

NYU Steinhardt

Einstein Auditorium at 34 Stuyvesant Street

http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/art/visiting_artists

Notations in the Flicker: Sept 23

Notations in the Flicker: Brion Gysin’s Text and Image Now

Thursday, September 23, 7pm

New Museum Theatre

The New Museum hosts two consecutive lectures on topics related to the exhibition “Brion Gysin: Dream Machine.” Emphasizing interdisciplinary, they link Brion Gysin’s work and legacy to contemporary systems and practices that are constantly rethinking and redeploying the contexts in which they are operating. All of the participants, in their specific ways, see Gysin as a model for rethinking the driving ideas of their practices. The New Museum’s Kraus Family Senior Curator Laura Hoptman discusses aspects of the exhibition “Brion Gysin: Dream Machine,” and addresses Gysin’s work in the framework of drawing as an expanded field. Anthropologist Michael Taussig discusses Gysin’s techniques and ideas in connection with the work of William S. Burroughs, with focus on notions of field notation and their relationship to ideas of drawing, synesthesia, and communication.

A subsequent panel with Gean Moreno, Maika Pollack, Dan Torop, and Jesse Bransford on topics related to “Brion Gysin: Dream Machine” will take place on Thursday, September 30, at 6:30 p.m. at the Einstein Auditorium at 34 Stuyvesant Street, hosted by the Department of Art and Art Professions at the NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.

http://newmuseum.org/events/469

"Listening There: Scenes from Ghana": Sept 23

Thursday, September 23, 7pm

Studio-X New York, 180 Varick Street, Suite 1610

Free and open to the public

Panel discussion, featuring:

IKEM STANLEY OKOYE, University of Delaware

FELICITY SCOTT, Columbia GSAPP

PETER TOLKIN, Peter Tolkin Architecture

MABEL WILSON, Columbia GSAPP

Panel accompanies an exhibition of photographs and videos by SideProjects (a collaboration between Mabel Wilson and Peter Tolkin), "Listening There: Scenes from Ghana" cuts a spatial and temporal section through the west African nation’s architecture, cities, peoples, and social spaces. Wilson and Tolkin's multi-media project explores the genesis and impact of modernity, from the hulking masses of coastal slave forts to the modernist architecture that signaled the nation-building agendas of Ghana's post-colonial regimes.

As architects increasingly operate within an interconnected world, "Listening There" considers the difficulty of navigating across cultural difference. The photographs and videos tune into to the contemporary cultural resonances emanating from the cell-phone kiosks, teeming markets, and crowded thoroughfares of Accra, Kumasi, and Cape Coast.

http://www.arch.columbia.edu/studiox

Decency, Respect and Community Standards: What Offends Us Now?: Sept 22

(Part of "How Obscene is This? The Decency Clause Turns 20")

Wednesday, September 22, 6:30pm

The New School's Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th St

Free Admission

Participants include:

Wafaa Bilal, Iraqi American artist, whose installation Virtual Jihadi was closed down by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York;

Holly Hughes, performance artist, one of the NEA4;

Carolee Schneemann, filmmaker and visual artist who has battled censorship for the last 50 years.

Moderated by Laura Flanders of GritTV.

Related Programming:

Indecent Exposure: A Discussion and Screening of Films You Are Unlikely to See Elsewhere

Monday, September 27th, 6:30 PM

SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street, New York

Free Admission

http://ncac.org/How-Obscene-Is-This

Sam Durant: Sept 22

AMT Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Sam Durant

September 22, 6:15 pm

New School, Kellen Auditorium, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, 66 Fifth Avenue

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

Sam Durant is a multimedia artist whose work explores relationships between culture and politics and focuses on such subjects as the civil rights movement, southern rock music, and modernism. He has had solo museum exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany; S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium; and the Govett-Brewster Art Galler, New Zealand. His work has been included in the Panamá, Sydney, Venice, and Whitney Biennales. Durant shows with Blum and Poe in Los Angeles, Paula Cooper Gallery in New York, Praz-Delavallade in Paris, and Sadie Coles Gallery in London. In 2006, he compiled and edited a comprehensive monograph of Black Panther artist Emory Douglas’ work. He has co-organized numerous group shows and artists benefits and is a co-founder of Transforma, a cultural rebuilding collective project in New Orleans. Durant teaches at the California Institute of the Arts.

http://www.newschool.edu/eventDetail.aspx?id=55916

Nina Katchadourian: Sept 21

Art & Science Transdisciplinary Lectures: Nina Katchadourian, Artist

Tuesday, September 21, 6pm

Kellen Auditorium, Johnson Design Center, 66 Fifth Avenue

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

A new initiative organized by Parsons’ School of Art, Media, and Technology, this lecture series captures the increasingly transdisciplinary nature of scientific, academic, artistic, and cultural practices. Clustered around specific subjects such as geophysics, system theory, economics, and the physics of time, the lectures are presented in thematic pairs one week apart from each other . Members of The New School’s acclaimed faculty alternate with external scholars, experts, and artists. All lectures are open to the public.

Nina Katchadourian’s work often examines the relationship between the human and natural worlds and questions our assumptions about those two terms. Katchadourian discusses her older works (e.g., Mended Spiderwebs, Natural Car Alarms, and Animal Crossdressing) to provide background for the artist’s most recent animal-oriented piece: a multi-channel video and sound environment entitled Zoo. Shot in zoos all around the world between 2001 and 2008 (and ongoing), Zoo asks what we desire from and what we project onto the animal-human relationship.

Nina Katchadourian’s lecture follows a talk by anthropologist Laurel Braitman on September 14, also focusing on human-animal relationships.

http://www.newschool.edu/eventDetail.aspx?id=55907

Christian Marclay's Theater of Found Sound: Sept 21

Tuesday, September 21, 7pm

Whitney Museum

$8 general admission; $6 senior citizens and students; free for members.

Christian Marclay is joined by musician Alan Licht and cultural critics Liz Kotz and Christoph Cox for a conversation on his “theater of found sound.”

http://www.whitney.org/Events/ConversationsOnArtMarclaySPerformanceWork

Danh Vo in Conversation with Elena Filipovic: Sept 18

Saturday, September 18, 6pm

Artists Space, 38 Greene St

http://www.artistsspace.org/#

Yates McKee; Sept 17

Critical Regionalism, Critical Climate Change: Field Notes from Southeastern Ohio

16Beaver Street, 4th Floor

Friday, September 17, 7:15 pm

Free and open to all

One of the richest components of this group / space has been the opportunity to engage, trace, and inform the work of various artists, activists, and thinkers over an extended period of time publicly. And to attempt in that publicness, not simply to affirm certain practices or efforts over others, but to find friends willing to also grapple with the emergent political processes, forms, and questions of our time.

The starting point for this talk is the micro-exhibition Political Ecology Research Sites, organized by Matthew Friday and Yates Mckee of the Ohio University Critical Regionalism Initiative in early 2010. This exhibition was an experiment in linking contemporary art history, graduate art training, regional field research, and environmental activism, with a special emphasis on the past, present, and future of coal and the conflicts surrounding it at local, national, and planetary scales. Drawing on the work of figures ranging from Robert Smithson to Van Jones, the exhibition set out to redefine Kenneth Frampton's classic project of "critical regionalism" in light of the discourse of experimental geography, with the aim of complicating the often depoliticizing visions of ecological sustainability put forth by artists, designers, and curators in recent years. With recent debates concerning the status of "the contemporary" in mind, this talk will argue for the necessity of linking art and criticism to a broad project of "critical climate change" in the Humanities that would be attuned to the multifaceted urgency of global warming. Artists to be discussed include Robert Smithson, Matthew Friday, Jeff Lovett, Jason Nein, Kainaz Amaria, and Ray Klimek, among others.

http://www.16beavergroup.org/events/archives/003139.php

Ryan Gander: Sept 16

Ryan Gander: Loose Associations

Public Art Fund Talks

Thursday, September 16, 6:30pm

The New School

John Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street

Tickets: $10; Students FREE

To purchase advance tickets call 212.223.7805

Artist Ryan Gander will launch the fall 2010 Public Art Fund Talks series with one of his celebrated Loose Associations presentations. In the form of a narrated PowerPoint presentation, he strings together a series of images, memories, facts, and histories in a hybrid performance-lecture. These intense and sometimes comedic presentations have taken place across Europe, each a unique experience. Public Art Fund Talks are organized by the Public Art Fund in collaboration with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School.

http://www.publicartfund.org/pafweb/talks/talks_index.htm

Babak Radboy: Sept 16

Thursday, September 16, 5:30pm

NYU Steinhardt

Einstein Auditorium at 34 Stuyvesant Street

http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/art/visiting_artists

A Hearing on the Activities of the International Necronautical Society: Sept 15

Wednesday, September 15, 7pm

Triple Canopy, 177 Livingston Street, Brooklyn

FREE. No RSVP necessary

On the eve of the publication of Tom McCarthy's novel "C," Cabinet and Triple Canopy convene a panel of experts to probe the corpus of the International Necronautical Society, which McCarthy founded in 1999, and its putative effort to "map, enter, colonise and, eventually, inhabit" the space of death. McCarthy will be joined by the society's Chief Philosopher, Simon Critchley.

Interrogators will include editors from the two publications, as well as Joshua Cohen and Christian Lorentzen; members of the audience are encouraged to prepare their own questions and accusations.

www.canopycanopycanopy.com

How Obscene Is This?: The Decency Clause Turns 20

The National Coalition Against Censorship presents a series of programs on the effects of the culture wars on the arts featuring artists, filmmakers, funders, and former NEA Chair Bill Ivey.

Panels: September 15 and 22 at 6:30-8:30pm

The New School's Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street, New York.

Film Screening: September 27 at 6:30pm

SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street, New York

http://ncac.org/How-Obscene-Is-This

Paul Ryan: Sept 15

AMT Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Paul Ryan

September 15, 6:15 pm

Parsons The New School for Design

Kellen Auditorium, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, 66 Fifth Avenue

Admission:Free

Paul Ryan has shown his video art in countries such as Japan, Turkey, Israel, France, Germany, Holland, and Spain. In the United States, his work has been featured in The Primitivism Show in The Museum of Modern Art and The American Century Show at the Whitney Museum of American Art. His Environmental Television Channel design was presented at a United Nations Conference. His program for a Hall of Risk in Lower Manhattan was presented at the Venice Biennial. Radical Software published his seminal writings on video, and NASA published his Earthscore Notational System. An associate professor at The New School, Mr. Ryan authored Cybernetics of the Sacred, Video Mind, Earth Mind, and the Three Person Solution. The Smithsonian Institution is archiving his papers and tapes. dOCUMENTA 13, a global exhibition mounted once every five years in the town of Kassel, Germany, will present his work in 2012.

http://www.newschool.edu/eventDetail.aspx?id=55915

The Zookeeper's Couch: Sept 14

Laurel Braitman, Historian: The Zookeeper's Couch

Art & Science Transdisciplinary Lecture

Tuesday, September 14, 6pm

Parsons The New School for Design

Kellen Auditorium, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center

2 West 13th Street at 5th Avenue

Admission: Free

A new initiative co-organized with the School of Art, Media, and Technology and the Fine Arts Program Parsons, this lecture series captures the increasingly trans-disciplinary nature of scientific, academic, artistic and cultural practices and, in particular, focuses on the complex cross-disciplinary settings for art's production in contemporary life. Clustered around specific subjects such as geophysics, system theory, economics, and the physics of time, the lectures are presented in thematic pairs, one week apart from one another. Members of The New School's acclaimed faculty alternate with external scholars, experts and artists. All lectures are open to the public.

Looking at other animals is, for most humans, a fun thing to do. That is, unless it's depressing. Contemporary zoos go to surprising lengths in order to satiate our desires to see animals that look happy—from spraying Calvin Klein cologne in tiger enclosures (to inspire them to be more active) to giving female gorillas human contraceptives so that they can have the joy of sex without the complication of too many babies. But how do we know if a zoo animal is happy or not? And once we've figured it out, what on earth do we do about it? In this talk, Laurel Braitman explores human understandings of animal happiness and discontent in the context of zoos and aquariums and just what these ideas say about us.

Laurel Braitman's lecture is paired with a talk by artist Nina Katchadourian on September 21, 2010, also focusing on human/animal relationships.

http://www.16beavergroup.org/events/archives/003140.php

Anthony Ramos: Sept 14

Screening + Conversation

Tuesday, September 14, 2010, 7:30 pm

Light Industry, 177 Livingston Street, Brooklyn

Performance and media artist Anthony Ramos was among the first generation of artists to use video as a tool for a critique of mass media, and for giving agency to marginalized individuals and communities. In his potent but rarely seen video works of the 1970s, Ramos sought to combine art and activism. His 1977 video About Media, included in the screening program, is an incisive deconstruction of television news. It documents an interview Ramos gave to news reporter Gabe Pressman on the subject of Ramos's eighteen-month prison term for draft evasion during the Vietnam War. Ramos appropriates the interview, contrasting the unedited interview footage with the final televised news report, exposing the artifice of television news. He also interjects footage of his extraordinary and unnerving early performances, which speak to the influence of Allan Kaprow, with whom Ramos had studied and worked in California.

Ramos traveled extensively throughout Africa, China, Europe, and the Middle East in the 1970s and '80s. He videotaped the end of Portugal's colonial rule in Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau, Tehran during the 1980 hostage crisis and Beijing just prior to the Tiananmen Square massacre. Ramos has produced a number of videos that critique the media through deconstruction and appropriation, and explore the relation of mass cultural imagery and subaltern identity.

At Light Industry, Ramos will introduce About Media and a selection of excerpts from his work in video. Following the screening, Ramos will appear in conversation with EAI's Rebecca Cleman.

http://www.eai.org/currentPrograms.htm

www.lightindustry.org

Hot Art Action ist im Urlaub....

Hot Art Action is spending some time in Leipzig but has not forgotten you, dear readers. We'll be back in the fall to fill your calendars with art treats.

Bis bald!

Hua Hsu and Greg Tate: March 31

A Conversation with Hua Hsu and Greg Tate
Wednesday, March 31, 7pm
Exit Art Exit, 475 10th Ave

Writer and professor of English Hua Hsu and cultural critic and musician Greg Tate will talk about their views on art, commerce, race and globalization. Using the work in Global / National -- The Order of Chaos as jumping off points, the speakers will engage in a free-wheeling discussion about the state of American culture at a time when the “local” is being threatened by globalization. $5 suggested donation. Cash bar.

http://www.exitart.org/site/pub/exhibition_programs/global_national/index.html#events

Andrea Zittel: March 31

Artists at the Institute: Andrea Zittel
Wednesday, March 31, 6:30 pm
NYU IFA
Open to the public; reservation required.
RSVP to IFA.events@nyu.edu with “Zittel” in subject line.
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/fineart/events/artists.htm

Andrea Geyer: March 31

Wednesday, March 31, 6:30 pm
MoMA
Theater 3 (The Celeste Bartos Theater), mezzanine
Cullman Education and Research Building

Artist Andrea Geyer talks about the way artists use networks and systems to turn knowledge into works of art. MoMA director Glenn D. Lowry moderates the discussion.

Tickets ($10; members, corporate members $8; students, seniors, and staff of other museums $5) are available online, or at the Museum at the lobby information desk or the Film desk.

http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/events/8567

John Miller: March 31

AMT Visiting Artists Lecture Series: John Miller
March 31, 3:15pm
Parsons The New School for Design
Kellen Auditorium, Johnson Design Center, 66 Fifth Avenue

John Miller is an artist, writer, and teacher based in New York and Berlin. In the January 2010 issue of Artforum he is described as “an artist and critic whose work continually unpacks the claims of the day’s prevailing artistic approaches—to say nothing of the seemingly inexhaustible detritus of culture at large.” A survey of his work will be featured at the Kunsthalle Zurich in August 2009. A collection of his criticism, The Price Club: Selected Writings, 1977–1996, was co-published by JRP Editions and the Consortium in 2000. Miller is currently an associate professor in Barnard College’s Art History department and is represented by Metro Pictures in New York.

Free; no tickets or reservations required; seating is first-come first-served
http://www.newschool.edu/eventDetail.aspx?id=47275

Spinning Straw into Gold: March 27

“Spinning Straw into Gold—Art, Value, and the Alchemical Collector,” 

A panel discussion featuring Mark Dion, Sal Randolph, McKenzie Wark, and Robert Williams

Saturday, March 27, 6–7 pm

Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street

This panel discussion will be followed by an opening reception for "An Ordinall of Alchimy," a Mildred’s Lane project organized by Mark Dion & Robert Williams, with Matt Bettine, Joey Cruz, Kathryn Cornelius, Gabriella D’Italia, Scott Jarrett, Aislinn Pentecost-Farren, John Wanzel, Laura E. Wertheim, and Bryan Wilson. 

"An Ordinall of Alchimy" inaugurates "999," an occasional series of exhibitions presented by Cabinet in which artists are invited to assemble work under a single constraint: everything installed in the gallery must have been acquired on Ebay for a total of less than $999. When the exhibition comes down, its contents are offered for sale as a single item, once again on Ebay.

In 2009, Mark Dion, Robert Williams, and their students at the Pennsylvania artists’ colony Mildred’s Lane used Cabinet’s invitation as an opportunity to explore the theme of alchemical transformation. “An Ordinall of Alchimy” comprises the objects they assembled, a collection keyed to the seven basic processes of practical alchemy: Calcination, Fixation, Solution, Distillation, Sublimation, Separation, and Projection.

http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/events/eventspacemain.php

A Proposition by Rodney McMillian: March 26+27

A Proposition by Rodney McMillian: 13 unrelated ideas

New Museum, 235 Bowery

Friday: 7pm lecture by Rodney McMillian

Saturday: 3pm Performance by Rodney McMillian, Tracie D. Morris, and Chicava HoneyChild

How does performance function in each of the vignettes presented (Bobby Womack, Jada Fire, Samuel R. Delaney, Nina Simone, Michael Jackson, Aliens, Funkadelic...)? How do we understand subjectivity or personae in terms of abstraction? How do we understand subjectivity from within the performances? Are these really the questions? Or is it about physicality, images, sound, historical perspectives and the insistence of a need to utter that's being presented or represented? Alternatives to other forms of political, cultural or domestic powers? A freedom? A possibility that film, photography, material, and performance are a form of time travel? A possibility, like in Samuel R. Delaney’s science fiction novel Dhalgren, whereby potential and repetition are actions?

http://www.newmuseum.org/events/407

The Review Panel: March 26

The Review Panel with David Cohen

Friday, March 26, 6:45pm 

National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts

1083 Fifth Ave

Art critics Michelle Kuo, David Levi-Strauss, and Mark Stevens join moderator David Cohen to discuss contemporary art currently on view at some of New York’s finest art galleries.

http://artcritical.com/REVIEWPANEL/index.htm

Bunk Bed Conversation:"The Poetics of Sleep": March 25

Bunk Bed Conversation: "The Poetics of Sleep," with Jeff Dolven & Wayne Koestenbaum

March 25, 7–9 pm

Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn

FREE. No RSVP necessary.

From the top and bottom bunks, respectively, Jeff Dolven and Wayne Koestenbaum will consider the ancient friendship between sleep and poetry, touching on such topics as embowerment, somnambulism, styles of sleeping, crepuscular consciousness, no-doz, and drowsy syrups.

The first in a series of bunk bed conversations at Cabinet, exploring the public potential of this most private, archaic, and companionable of American scenes. For a long time, we used to go to bed early. On March 25, won't you stay up and talk with us? 

http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/events/eventspacemain.php

Alfredo Jaar: March 25

Alfredo Jaar: The Ashes of Pasolini
Thursday, March 25, 7pm
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Free and open to the public

Alfredo Jaar is an architect, artist and filmmaker who lives and works in New York City. He has created more than 50 “public interventions” around the world, and more than 40 monographs have been published about his work. Following a screening of Jaar’s new short film The Ashes of Pasolini, he will discuss the film--and Pier Paolo Pasolini’s importance as poet and critic--with MFA Art Criticism and Writing Department Chair David Levi Strauss. Presented by the MFA Art Criticism and Writing Department in partnership with Aperture.

http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/events/index.jsp?sid0=70&page_id=181&content_id=3244

Lin and Lam: March 24

AMT Visiting Artists Lecture Series: Lin and Lam
Parsons The New School for Design
Kellen Auditorium, Johnson Design Center, 66 Fifth Avenue

Wednesday, March 24, 3:15pm

The Spring 2010 Visiting Artists Lecture Series is sponsored by the School of Art, Media, and Technology at Parsons The New School for Design .Inspired by a particular site, historical incident, or political issue, Lin + Lam’s work emerges from the interrelation between current events and residues of the past. Recent project have addressed the construction of national identities through propaganda and democratization, and the haunting of daily life by the specter of war, militarism, and socio-political inequities. Attentive to materiality, site, and the specificities of different medium, their collaboration integrates individual strengths and backgrounds. Trained in architecture, H. Lan Thao Lam uses photography, sculpture, and installation to address social memories of time and place. Lana Lin’s interests extend from a tradition of critical cinema, raising questions about the inadequacies of translation and the politics of producing strangers. Their work has been exhibited at international venues including the New Museum, the Kitchen, the Queens Museum, and the 3rd Guangzhou Triennial, China. Free; no tickets or reservations required; seating is first-come first-served.

http://www.newschool.edu/eventDetail.aspx?id=47273

Barbara Probst: March 23

Barbara Probst
Tuesday, March 23, 6:30 pm
Aperture Gallery & Bookstore
547 West 27 Street, 4th floor

Aperture and the Photography Program in the School of Art, Media, and Technology at Parsons The New School for Design are pleased to present an artist lecture with internationally recognized visual artist Barbara Probst. In Probst’s photographs, the subject of the work becomes the photographic moment of exposure itself. Using a radio-controlled release system, she simultaneously triggers the shutters of several cameras pointed at the same scene from various viewpoints. The resulting sequences of images suspend time and stretch out the split second. The prismatic effect is heightened by the backdrops, which are often enlarged stills from well-known movies. The apparent narrative is confounded by the multiple locations, which further enhance the sense of artifice. Both illusion and device are always manifest—cameras, studio lights, and tripods are all visible. These, as well as the photographer(s) themselves, are both the object and viewpoint of a revelatory, photographic exposure.

http://www.aperture.org/events/detail.php?id=649

Robert Lazzarini: March 23

Tuesday, March 23, 6:30pm
SVA, 133/144 West 21 Street, room 101C

With emphatically lowercased titles like guns, knives and brass knuckles, the wall-mounted sculptures by artist and alumnus Robert Lazzarini (BFA 1990 Fine Arts) describe violence and anxiety. Currently a fellow at the Neiman Center for Print Studies, Columbia University, Lazzarini is represented by Deitch Projects, New York. Presented by the BFA Fine Arts and BFA Visual & Critical Studies Departments. Free and open to the public

http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/events/index.jsp?sid0=70&page_id=181&content_id=3243

Javier Téllez and Doris Salcedo: March 22

Vis-à-vis Series: Javier Téllez and Doris Salcedo
Monday, March 22, 6:30 pm
Americas Society, 680 Park Avenue

http://as.americas-society.org/calevent.php?id=743

Matthew Monahan: March 17

Public Art Fund Talks: Matthew Monahan
Wednesday, March 17, 6:30pm
The New School, Tishman Auditorium
66 West 12th Street

This spring's Public Art Fund Talks series features three artists whose works reinvent and extend the language of figurative sculpture for a new era.

March 17: Matthew Monahan
April 14: Huma Bhabha
May 12: Thomas Houseago

$10 Single talk, $20 Full series, FREE to all students with valid ID. Tickets may be purchased on the day of each talk but purchasing in advance is recommended. See http://www.publicartfund.org/pafweb/talks/talks_current.htm

Through Other Lenses: March 9

Through Other Lenses
Tuesday, March 9, 6:30 pm
NYU Fales Library

Photographers Moyra Davey, LaToya Ruby Frazier, and A. L. Steiner will discuss how their works have been influenced by Downtown photography. Moderated by curator Dean Daderko.Co-sponsored by NYU’s Fales Library, Department of Photography and Imaging (TSOA), and Grey Art Gallery. Information: 212/998-2596.

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

Sean Landers' [sic]: Feb 27

An Unmissable One Time Only Performance/ Reading
Saturday February 27, 6pm-2am*
hosted by Saatchi+Saatchi, 375 Hudson St (enter on King St)
Presented by White Columns and Art Production Fund
(*Guests are welcome to come and go or stay for the full eight hours)

Sean Landers' legendary 1993 novel "[sic]" will be read by:

Sean Landers 6:10 - 22 min
Michelle Reyes 6:31 - 26 min
John Currin 6:57 - 26 min
Rachel Feinstein 7:23 - 32 min
Lisa Yuskavage 7:55 - 18 min
Cecily Brown 8:13 - 20 min
Clarissa Dalrymple 8:33 - 19 min
Tod Lippy 8:52 - 15 min
Linda Yablonsky 9:07 - 19 min
Matvey Levenstein 9:26 - 15 min
Andrea Rosen 9:41 - 19 min
Richard Phillips 10:00 - 21 min
Liam Gillick 10:21 - 19 min
Matthew Higgs 10:40 - 17 min
Gavin Brown 10:57 - 19 min
Adam McEwen 11:16 - 18 min
Jessica Craig-Martin 11:34 – 16 min
Paul Ha 11:50 - 16 min
Andrea Scott 12:06 - 18 min
Friedrich Petzel 12:24 - 28 min
Rob Pruitt 12:52 - 28 min
David Rimanelli 1:20 - 28 min
Kevin Landers 1:48 - 19 min
Sean Landers 2:07 - 16 min

Please note: Guests must be 21+ to attend.
http://whitecolumns.org/text.html?type=news

Foodprint NYC: Feb 27

Foodprint NYC
Saturday, February 27, 1-5:30pm
Studio-X, 180 Varick Street, Suite 1610

Foodprint NYC is the first in a series of international conversations about food and the city. From a cluster analysis of bodega inventories to the cultural impact of the ice-box, and from food deserts to peak phosphorus, panelists will examine the hidden corsetry that gives shape to urban foodscapes, and collaboratively speculate on how to feed New York in the future. The free afternoon program will include designers, policy-makers, flavor scientists, culinary historians, food retailers, and others, for a wide-ranging discussion of New York’s food systems, past and present, as well as opportunities to transform our edible landscape through technology, architecture, legislation, and education. Organized by Sarah Rich and Nicola Twilley. See www.foodprintproject.com for more information.

1-1:55pm: Zoning Diet:
Sean Basinski, Joel Berg, Nevin Cohen, Stanley Fleishman
2-2:55pm: Culinary Cartography:
Jonathan Bogarin, Makale Faber Cullen, David Haskell, Naa Oyo A. Kwate
3-3:55pm: Edible Archaeology:
Rebecca Federman, William Grimes, Annie Huack-Lawson, David Sax
4-4:55pm: Feast, Famine & Other Scenarios:
Amale Androus, Marcelo Coelho, Natalie Jeremijenko, Beverly Tepper

Moderated by Sarah Rich, Geoff Manaugh (BLDGBLOG) & Nicola Twilley (Edible Geography)

Ute Meta Bauer: Feb 26+27

A Proposition by Ute Meta Bauer: Light Years and Multiverses
Friday, February 26, 7pm and Saturday, February 27, 12pm
New Museum, 235 Bowery
$6 Students/Seniors, $8 General Public

Ute Meta Bauer will screen and comment on collective projects by artist Otto Piene and collaborators, including one of the first broadcasted television programs created by experimental visual artists, “Black Gate Cologne” ( 1968). Piene produced “Black Gate Cologne” along with intermedia artist and filmmaker Aldo Tambellini.

Propositions is a public forum that explores ideas in development. Inspired by the scientific method of hypothesis, research, and synthesis, each two-day seminar explores a topic of current investigation in an invited speaker’s own artistic or intellectual practice. Over the course of a seminar session, these developing ideas are presented to the public, responded to, “researched,” and discussed to propel the ideas forward in unique ways.

The structure of Propositions is as follows:

Friday, 7pm – Ute Meta Bauer: Initial proposition and lecture

Saturday, 12pm – Ute Meta Bauer and Otto Piene response, followed by a lunch break

Saturday, 3pm – Discussion

http://www.newmuseum.org/events/405

The Review Panel: Feb 26

Friday, February 26, 6:45pm
National Academy, 1083 Fifth Ave

Art critics Carly Berwick, Michele Cone, and Joachim Pissarro join moderator David Cohen to discuss the current exhibitions of El Anatsui, Damian Hirst, Yvonne Jacquette and Tino Sehgal.

http://artcritical.com/REVIEWPANEL/index.htm

Renato Gonzalez Melo and Robert Storr: Feb 23

Renato Gonzalez Melo and Robert Storr on Mexican Muralism
Tuesday, February 23, 6:30 pm
Americas Society, 680 Park Avenue

Speakers: Renato González Mello (Professor and Researcher at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) and Robert Storr (Dean of the School of Art at Yale University). Moderated by Anna Indych-López (Associate Professor at The City College of New York and The Graduate Center, CUNY)

By considering the visual construction of the Mexican Revolution, 1930s exhibition culture, and portable frescoes, Muralism without Walls investigates how U.S. perceptions of Mexican cultural identity shaped the muralists’ creative processes and politics. The exhibition will also explore the aesthetic and social histories of the murals themselves.

http://as.americas-society.org/calevent.php?id=642

The Law of Capital: Histories of Oppression: Feb 23

Tuesday, February 23, 7pm
apexart, 291 Church St

Lecture and presentation of the exhibition-symposium project "The Law of Capital: Histories of Oppression" by Marina Grzinic and Sebastjan Leban (Ljubljana, Slovenia)

http://apexart.org/specialevents.htm

Monika Szewczyk and Allan Sekula: Feb 22

Monday, February 22, 6:30pm
Monika Szewczyk and Allan Sekula: This Ain't China
The Cooper Union, Rose Auditorium, 41 Cooper Square

http://e-flux.com/shows/view/7739

The Medium Was Tedium: Feb 19

The Medium Was Tedium
Panel discussion featuring Mel Bochner, Daniel Bozhkov, and Erin Shirreff
Friday, February 19, 7 pm
The New Museum, 235 Bowery
$6 New Museum members, $8 general public

Triple Canopy is an online magazine that explores how the Web informs the experience of reading literature and viewing artworks. The publication’s development has been inspired in part by a critical engagement with the legacy of Aspen magazine (1965-71). Artists and writers contributed projects to Aspen in the form of easily distributable media such as flip books, flexi-disc records, and paper sculpture. These projects coincided with a broader contemporaneous phenomenon: artworks intended to appear exclusively in magazines. The New Silent event, The Medium Was Tedium, examines how this move from the exhibition space to the printed page has been subsequently repeated by artists in relation to other media, such as television programming and the Internet. Triple Canopy’s editors will discuss practices that traverse mediums and the media with artists Mel Bochner, Daniel Bozhkov, and Erin Shirreff.

http://canopycanopycanopy.com

Amy Stein, Lyle Rexer, and Film Screening: Feb 19

Amy Stein, Lyle Rexer, and Film Screening
Friday, February 19, 7:30pm
Caption Gallery, 55 Washington Street, No. 802, Brooklyn

Photographer Amy Stein will discuss her new series Stranded and speak with renowned art critic Lyle Rexer about the themes that run between her images and Kelly Reichardt’s award winning film Wendy and Lucy. The conversation will be followed by a special screening of the film. This screening is part of Caption’s current exhibit "Instruments of Empire: Photographs by Amy Stein and Brian Ulrich."

http://www.caption.is/currentEvent.html

Penelope Umbrico: Feb 18

Penelope Umbrico
Thursday, February 18, 7pm
The School of Visual Arts Amphitheatre
209 East 23rd Street (between 2nd/ 3rd Ave), Third Floor
Free to CCNY members, SVA students, faculty, and staff
General admission $5, $3 for other students with valid student ID

A New York based artist and educator, Penelope Umbrico has, in her work, examined typologies found in sales catalogs, search engines, photo sharing sites and online classified communities. She attended Ontario College of Art in Toronto, Canada, and received her MFA at the School of Visual Arts. Umbrico has exhibited nationally and internationally, and is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, NY; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, International Center of Photography, NY; Metropolitan Museum of Art, among others. She also has received numerous grants and fellowships, including Anonymous Was A Woman, Aaron Siskind Foundation Fellowship, NYFA Artists Fellowship, NYFA Catalogue Project Grant, and the Harvestworks Scholar Fellowship. Umbrico is currently core faculty at the School of Visual Arts, both its BFA Photography program and MFA Photography and Related Media program and is the Chair of MFA Photography at Bard College, NY.

www.cameraclubny.org

Lawrence Weiner: Feb 18

MFASO Visiting Artist
Thursday, February 18, 7:30pm
Hunter College MFA Building
450 West 41st Street, 2nd Floor Lounge
http://huntermfaso.org/calender/

Art or Archive?: Feb 16

Art or Archive? What Matters To Artists’ Estates
Tuesday, February 16, 6:30 pm
The Fales Library, Bobst Library
NYU, 70 Washington Square South, Third Floor

Ann Butler, Director of the Library and Archives, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College; Joy Episalla, Gesso Foundation and Frank Moore Estate; Penny Pilkington, Co-owner, PPOW Gallery; and Michael Ward Stout, LLD., Partner, Stout, Thomas, and Johnson, and President, Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, will examine issues surrounding artists’ estates, their placement in archival repositories, copyright issues, and other concerns about the disposition of artists’ papers. They will explore how an artistic legacy is maintained and offer practical advice on securing an artist’s oeuvre.

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

IABR: Reports from Rotterdam: Feb 16

Tuesday, February 16, 6:30pm
Studio-X, 180 Varick Street, STE 1610

TOBIAS ARMBORST, DANIEL D'OCA and GEORGEEN THEODORE, sub-curators of the 2009 International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, will discuss their selections from the US on the theme of the "Open City: Designing Coexistence." MATHAN RATINAM and ANDREA ZALEWSKI will screen and discuss their film "Cities of Preference" which was produced (with Toni Schade) last summer at Studio-X for its premiere at the IABR. Free and open to the public. RSVP: gdb2106@columbia.edu

Megan Craig: Feb 16

Megan Craig
Tuesday, February 16, 6:30pm
SVA, 133/141 West 21 Street, room 101C

Megan Craig is a painter and an assistant professor of philosophy and art at SUNY Stony Brook. Her most recent solo exhibition, “Lines of Flight,” was presented at New York’s Sundaram Tagore Gallery in December 2008. Presented by the BFA Fine Arts and BFA Visual and Critical Studies Departments. Free and open to the public

http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/events/index.jsp?sid0=70&page_id=181&content_id=3238

Yog Raj Chitrakar: Memory Drawing IX: Feb 13

World Premiere: Yog Raj Chitrakar: Memory Drawing IX screening and discussion with Eungie Joo, Keith Haring Director and Curator of Education and Public Programs
Saturday, February 13, 2pm
New Museum

From November 4-8, 2009, Nikhil Chopra occupied the New Museum lobby gallery in the character of Yog Raj Chitrakar, a turn of the century mapmaker, draughtsman, and chronicler of the world. Inspired by the 1920s and New York City’s role in that defining moment in the history of the world—a time of deep physical, imagined, and sociological changes—Memory Drawing IX explores the expectation of America, a dream of progress still traceable in the city’s architecture and imagination. For this performance, Chopra traveled for three consecutive days to Ellis Island in character to document New York from this unique vantage point in charcoal on canvas. Each evening, he returned to the New Museum to install his large-scale charcoal drawings, eat, groom, and subtly or abruptly develop as a character. The video premiering this evening documents Yog Raj Chitrakar’s activities and transformation over the entire five-day performance as he encounters New York.

http://www.newmuseum.org/events/427

The Third Wave of Feminism and Beyond: Feb 11

“The Third Wave of Feminism and Beyond”
February 11th, 6:30-8:30pm
Steven Kasher Gallery, 521 West 23rd Street
Please RSVP for this event to kirsten@stevenkasher.com

Organized and moderated by Liz Abzug, President of the Bella Abzug Leadership Institute, feminist activist and President of Liz Abzug Consultant Services, the panel discussion will examine the roots of the Feminist movement and its evolution into the 21st century.

Panel members include Anne Waldman, Lee Grant, Jerin Alam, and Mia Herndon. The panel discussion will be preceded by: a dance performance by a member of the Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre and a poetry reading by Anne Waldman. This panel discussion will be held in conjunction with two exhibitions: Cynthia MacAdams: Feminist Portraits, 1974-1977 and Timothy Greenfield-Sanders: Supermodels of the 70s and 80s.

http://www.stevenkasher.com/html/home.asp

Ann Lauterbach: The Given and the Chosen: Feb 11

Ann Lauterbach: The Given and the Chosen
Thursday, February 11, 7pm
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Free and open to the public

Ann Lauterbach is a poet and critic, who serves as co-chair of writing at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College and a visiting critic at the Yale University School of Art. Her talk will focus on how the work of art mediates the given and the chosen, taking its place between fixities of received orders and possible forms that simultaneously confirm and escape those fixities. Lauterbach’s most recent book, Or to Begin Again (Penguin, 2009), was nominated for the National Book Award. Presented by the MFA Art Criticism and Writing Department.

http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/events/index.jsp?sid0=70&page_id=181&content_id=3237

Omer Fast: Feb 10

Omer Fast
Wednesday, February 10, 7:30pm
Hunter College, 68th Street and Lexington Avenue
North Building, Room 1527
http://huntermfaso.org/calender/

"Taking to Our Beds: On Hypochondria": Feb 10

"Taking to Our Beds: On Hypochondria,"
with Simon Critchley, Brian Dillon, and Peter Dunn
Wednesday, February 10, 7pm
Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn
FREE. No RSVP necessary

In his new book "The Hypochondriacs: Nine Tormented Lives" (Faber & Faber), Brian Dillon, Cabinet’s UK editor, explores the lives of nine eminent malingerers — including Darwin, Proust, and Warhol — and the fear of illness that drove them to withdraw from the world. This talk/performance will feature Dillon in conversation about culture and hypochondria while sharing a sickbed and hot-water bottle with philosopher Simon Critchley, author of "The Book of Dead Philosophers." The invalids will be attended by psychoanalyst Peter Dunn.

http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/events/eventspacemain.php

The Art of Hypochondria: Feb 9

An Evening with Cabinet: "The Art of Hypochondria,"
with D. Graham Burnett, Brian Dillon, and Marina van Zuylen
Tuesday, February 9, 7pm
The Kitchen, 512 West 19th Street
FREE

Hypochondria is an ancient name for a malady that is always fretfully new: the fear of disease and the experience of one's body as alien and unpredictable. In his new book "The Hypochondriacs: Nine Tormented Lives" (Faber & Faber), Brian Dillon, Cabinet’s UK editor, explores the lives of nine eminent malingerers — including Darwin, Proust, and Warhol — and the fear of illness that drove them to withdraw from the world. Science historian D. Graham Burnett (Princeton University) and literary historian Marina van Zuylen (Bard College) will join Dillon in a discussion of this most elusive of conditions. The evening will end with a Q&A with the audience.

http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/events/eventspacemain.php

Papo Colo and Jeanette Ingberman: Feb 4

Papo Colo and Jeanette Ingberman
Iconic Shows: A Talk with Exit Art's Founders
Thursday, February 4, 7pm
SVA, 209 East 23 Street, 3rd-floor amphitheater

Starting in 1982 with “Illegal America,” which used mimeographs, Xeroxes and other radical means to present multimedia artwork, Exit Art founders and creative directors Papo Colo and Jeanette Ingberman have mounted more than 100 groundbreaking presentations of art, theater, film and video. They will discuss some of the most iconic shows of this historic, independent New York City cultural space.Presented by the BFA Fine Arts Department as part of the Art in the First Person lecture series.
Free and open to the public

http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/events/index.jsp?sid0=70&page_id=181&content_id=3235

David Joselit: States of Form: Against Meaning: Feb 4

David Joselit, States of Form: Against Meaning
NYU IFA, 1 East 78th Street
Open to the public; reservation required.
RSVP to IFA.events@nyu.edu with “Varnedoe” in subject line.

As the 2010 Kirk Varnedoe Visiting Professor, Institute of Fine Arts, David Joselt will present three lectures considering how contemporary art responds to the geographical and informational networks of globalization on the one hand and the World Wide Web on the other. States of Form refers to a kind of artwork whose nature is dynamic—whose form literally changes state either through material transformation, temporal reenactment, or spatial dislocation.

Thursday, February 4th, 6PM: Against Meaning
Tuesday, February 16th, 6PM: Governing Images
Wednesday, March 3rd, 6PM: Plug-ins

http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/fineart/academics/varnedoe.htm

Public Art and Sustainability: Feb 4

Panel Discussion: Public Art and Sustainability
Organized and Moderated by Sara Reisman
Thursday, February 4, 7pm
Exit Art, 475 Tenth Avenue

Panelists: Jennifer McGregor, Director of Arts and Senior Curator for Wave Hill, a public garden and cultural center in Bronx, New York; Mary Miss, artist working primarily with issues of sustainability, collaboration, and public art; and Mierle Laderman Ukeles, a “maintenance artist” known for her feminist and service-oriented artworks.

This panel discussion will focus on how public art and art in general can be sustainable, with an emphasis on how the terms “temporary” and “permanent” impact the possibilities for sustainability when it comes to artmaking.

http://www.exitart.org/site/pub/exhibition_programs/calendar.html

Architecture as Total Art Work: Feb 1

Architecture as Total Art Work: Iannis Xenakis and Le Corbusier
Columbia University, GSAPP
Monday February 1, 6:30 PM

Panel Discussion at Columbia University's Wood Auditorium (Avery Hall) with exhibition co-curator Sharon Kanach, along with Kenneth Frampton, Ware Professor of Architecture, GSAPP, and David Lieberman, University of Toronto. Moderated by Raphael Mostel, composer / Barnard College.

http://www.arch.columbia.edu/events

Life In Lieu of Art: Jan 30

Alexander Dumbadze presents Life In Lieu of Art: Bas Jan Ader’s “In Search of the Miraculous”,
Saturday, January 30, 6:30pm
X Initiative, 548 West 22nd Street

http://x-initiative.org/blog/2010/01/16/future-events/

Liam Gillick and Gianni Vattimo: Jan 30

Liam Gillick and Gianni Vattimo
Wyoming Evenings: What Is the Good of Work? Talk series
Saturday, January 30, 3pm
Goethe-Institut Wyoming Building
5 East 3rd Street (at Bowery)
$10 and $25 (brownpapertickets.com), Tel.: +1 (212) 439-8700
http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/ney/enindex.htm

The Man I Wish I Was: Jan 27

The Man I Wish I Was: Talkies Edition
Film Screening + Discussion with artists Thomas Allen Harris, Sarah Maple, and Linda Montano
Wednesday, January 27, 6pm
X-initiative, 548 West 22nd Street

ARTBOOK in conjunction with A.I.R. Gallery will hold a special film screening and roundtable discussion at X-initiative. The films to be screened augment the selections that comprise The Man I Wish I Was, a month-long exhibit currently on display at A.I.R. Gallery through January 31st. Click here for a full press release.

The Art and Influence of Robert Blanchon: Jan 26

"You are Cordially Invited”: The Art and Influence of Robert Blanchon
Tuesday January 26, 6:30 - 8:30pm
The Fales Library & Special Collection
Bobst Library, New York University
70 Washington Square South, Third Floor

A Panel Discussion with:
Sasha Archibald, independent writer and curator
Mary Ellen Carroll, artist and manager of the Robert Blanchon Estate
Laura Parnes, artist and Momenta Art founder
Nelson Santos, artist and Visual AIDS Associate Director
Ginger Brooks Takahashi, artist
moderated by Amy Sadao

The Fales Collection at New York University in collaboration with Visual AIDS present an event discussing Robert Blanchon as a conceptual artist whose work expands and reiterates many of the themes of 1990s art. Through brief presentations and “interviews” with panelists we will explore Blanchon’s connection to artists as well as emerging trends in contemporary art. Throughout his career, from parodies of the art world to AIDS agit-prop to cerebral, minimalist photography, Blanchon gleaned from art history in order to make his own crucial intervention, and taught his students to do the same. RSVP: 212 992-9018 or rsvp.bobst@nyu.edu

http://newsgrist.typepad.com/visualaids/2010/01/robert-blanchon-artists-panel-fales-library-.html

No Fixed Points in Space: Jan 26

No Fixed Points in Space:
Transferring Form, Time, and Narrative between Architecture and Performance
Tuesday, January 26, 6:30 pm
Columbia University
Miller Theatre: 2960 Broadway at 116th Street

Moderated and curated by architect Annie K. Kwon, No Fixed Points in Space will include a panel discussion with distinguished voices from both fields to explore the relationship between architecture and performance, focusing in particular on the notions of multiple perspectives and spatial plasticity. Panelists include:

* Trevor Carlson, Executive Director, Cunningham Dance Foundation;
* Michelle Fornabai, Principal, Ambo Infra Design;
* Paul Kaiser, digital artist, Open Ended Group;
* Paul Miller (aka DJ Spooky), artist; composer; writer
* Tere O’Connor, Artistic Director, Tere O’Connor Dance; and
* Bernard Tschumi, Principal, Bernard Tschumi Architects

http://calendar.columbia.edu/sundial/webapi/get.php?vt=detail&id=37864&con=embedded&br=ais

Discs to Downloads: Jan 26

Discs to Downloads: New Directions in the Music Industry
Tuesday, January 26th at 7pm
Broadway and 4th Street

Continuing No Longer Empty's panel discussion series, Discs to Downloads will focus on how technology has transformed the music industry and how contemporary gadgets and the Internet have impacted twenty-first century music production, listening and consumption. No Longer Empty (NLE) hosts the following music industry panelists:

David Goodman: President, CBS Interactive Music Group
Elliot Groffman: Music Attorney, Founding member of Codikow, Carroll, Guido and Groffman, LLP, who represent several celebrity clients including Dave Matthews Band and Jay-Z
Kevin Patrick: Artist Manager of the 2009 MTV Video Music Award for Breakthrough Video Matt and Kim, Lord Wardd, Vivian Green
Ted Riederer: Featured NLE artist of Never Can Say Goodbye's
David Weiss: President DLB Media, Co-Founder/Co-Editor of SonicScoop.com and Editor of Mix Magazine
Moderator: Brad LeBeau, Founder of PRO MOTION

Limited seating. Please RSVP to rsvp@nolongerempty.org

Court sketch artist Jane Rosenberg: Jan 25

Artist @ the Library presents:
"An Evening of Art in High Drama, with court sketch artist, Jane Rosenberg"
January 25, 6:30pm
NYPL Mid-Manhattan Library

Covering thirty years of court drama, from the trials of mobster John Gotti and notorius Ponzi scheme artist Bernie Maddoff, to police corruption in the Abner Louima case and sensational trial of Anthony Marsharll, accused of stealing millions from his socialite mother Brooke Astor, Jane Rosenberg with steady hand and a clear eye, captures the drama of the famous trials in pastel for the New York Daily News, Vanity Fair Magazine and tv news shows.

http://nypl.org/node/64200

A Proposition by Hans Ulrich Obrist: Jan 15+16

A Proposition by Hans Ulrich Obrist: Maps for the 21st Century
Saturday January 16, 4pm, and
Sunday, January 17, 12pm
New Museum, 235 Bowery

Propositions is a public forum that explores ideas in development. Inspired by the scientific method of hypothesis, research, and synthesis, each two-day seminar explores a topic of current investigation in an invited speaker’s own artistic or intellectual practice. Over the course of a seminar session, these developing ideas are presented to the public, responded to, “researched,” and discussed to propel the ideas forward in unique ways.

The structure of Propositions is as follows:
Saturday, 4:00 PM – Initial proposition and lecture
Sunday, 12:00 PM – Guest speaker responds, followed by a lunch break
Sunday, 3:00 PM – Discussion

http://www.newmuseum.org/events/403

Landscape Talks Back: Jan 16

Landscape Talks Back
Sunday, January 16, 7pm
X-initiative, 548 West 22nd St

Inspired by Georgia O’Keeffe’s and Roni Horn’s engagement with landscape as both subject and object, this program explores the question of an animated landscape. Terry Gunnell, professor of folklore in Iceland, and Elizabeth Hutchinson, professor of art history who specializes in Native American traditions and American art, consider the ways in which Iceland and the American southwest are rich territories for living landscapes. Moderated by Sina Najafi, editor of Cabinet Magazine. Organized by artist Spencer Finch as part of the Whitney’s My Turn series.

http://x-initiative.org/blog/

Blogging the contemporary arts: Jan 14

BLOG THIS! Blogging the contemporary arts
Friday, January 14, 6:30pm
X-Initiative

Panelists: Barry Hoggard, Paddy Johnson, William Powhida, Kelly Shindler, Edward Winkleman Moderator: Robin White. RSVP required and limited to 125 people. **SOLD OUT**

http://x-initiative.org/blog/

Interactive Architecture: Reinventing Social Spaces: Jan 15

Interactive Architecture: Reinventing Social Spaces
Friday, January 15, 7-9:30pm
Exit Art
475 Tenth Avenue

A discussion with Natalie Jeremijenko, Terreform One and BLDGBLOG creator Geoff Manaugh. In conjunction with the exhibition WATERPOD: Autonomy and Ecology. $5 Suggested Donation. Cash bar.

http://www.exitart.org/site/pub/exhibition_programs/calendar.html

Walid Raad on Bernd and Hilla Becher: Jan 11

Walid Raad on Bernd and Hilla Becher
Artists on Artists Lecture Series at Dia:Chelsea
Dia:Chelsea
535 W 22nd Street
January 11, 2010, 6:30pm
http://www.diaart.org/programs/main/16

Art Education: A Study: Jan 10

Art Education: A Study
Sunday, January 10, 7pm
Cabinet
300 Nevins St, Brooklyn

Ad Hoc Vox and Cabinet Magazine are pleased to invite you to Art Education: A Study, a panel discussion on the relationship between art and pedagogy developed in response to Cabinet Magazine's Darcy Lange: Work Studies in Schools.

Too bohemian for the establishment, too avant-garde for the academy, too anti-intellectual for school: the artist, in many popular conceptions, resists education. Yet from the Académie des Beaux-Arts, to the Bauhaus, to the MFA, the history of art is also a history of the institutions that have accredited its practitioners. These institutions have determined both how art is made and distributed, and what art is—defining art not only functionally, but also philosophically.

Ad Hoc Vox, itself an educational context, will not only examine this history in light of current debates about the MFA and the professionalization of the arts, but also by considering alternatives offered to us by non-traditional methods of education, the history of the academy, and models for the future of art school. To do so we have gathered together artists and art historians who have looked closely and critically at how art education has shaped artistic production. The panel's participants are Bruce High Quality Foundation University, Colin Lang, Robert Linsley, Mira Schor, and Howard Singerman. Colleen Asper will moderate the panel, which will be followed by a Q&A with the audience.

http://www.adhocvox.com/upcoming.html

16 TONS: The Caseros Prison Demolition

16 TONS: The Caseros Prison Demolition
Talk by Seth Wulsin
Thursday, 7 January, 7 - 8pm
Eyelevel BQE, 364 Leonard St, Brooklyn

Wulsin will examine the transformations of a decomposing emblem of modernist dystopia, exploring themes of architectural immanence, historical resonance and the human survival complex through the lens of the 16 Tons: Caseros Prison Project.

16 Tons was a direct action on the 22-story Caseros Prison building that sought to connect the scales of human perception and cosmic movement through the filter of demolition architecture. After five weeks of on-site work, the artist created 48 faces spanning 18 unique stories, visually formed across the rows of windows that line the prison's exterior. The countenances themselves—inscribed in a pixel-like system on the gridded windows, knocked out or left intact—were evoked regularly with the coming of the day's light. Over the course of the following year and a half, the building was demolished floor by floor—and with it, these images.

http://platformed.org/programs/16tons.html