"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