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