Tom Klinkowstein: May 26

Tom Klinkowstein
Tuesday, May 26, 6:30pm
Drawing Center

In conjunction with the FAX exhibition, artist Tom Klinkowstein speaks with curator João Ribas in the Drawing Room.

http://www.drawingcenter.org/events_public_01.cfm

Hakan Topal: May 26

Tuesday, May 26, 7pm – 9pm
Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn
FREE. No RSVP necessary

In this roundtable discussion, artist Hakan Topal will present the artist collective xurban's work, including their current research on the idea of neighborhood and local community in relation to post-industrial cities in various part of Europe. The presentation will form the basis for an active discussion of the subjects addressed by xurban, including regional conflicts, military spatial confinement, urban segregation, and "neo-liberal" exclusion strategies.

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

Younger Than Pontius Pilate: May 22

Younger Than Pontius Pilate
Friday, May 22, 6:45pm
The National Academy Museum
1083 Fifth Ave. at 89th St.

Four young writers: Colleen Asper, Becky Brown, Nora Griffin and Ben Larocco join David Cohen to review the New Museum's Younger Than Jesus. Followed by an end of the season party.

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

Eleanor Antin: May 19

Artist Talk + Screening
Tuesday, May 19, 2009, 6:30 pm
EAI, 535 West 22nd Street, Fifth Floor

Eleanor Antin has worked in film, video, photography, installation and performance for four decades. In the 1970s, Antin produced a series of feature-length narrative videos starring hand-painted paper dolls. Performing with a cast of two-dimensional characters, Antin tackled major issues of the day, while lampooning contemporary gender roles and cultural stereotypes. Antin will speak about this series and screen excerpts from works including The Adventures of a Nurse (1976), The Nurse and the Hijackers (1977) and The Angel of Mercy (1981). A Q&A with the artist will follow.

http://www.eai.org/eai/publicProgramArtists.htm?id=117

Optical Drama and Residual Modernities: May 19

Panel Discussion: Optical Drama and Residual Modernities
Tuesday, May 19, 6:30 p.m.
Americas Society, 680 Park Avenue

The Americas Society hosts a panel discussion on the role of the moving image in constructing discourses of modernity. Speakers include: Mauricio Dias, Artist, Walter Riedweg, Artist, Beatriz Jaguaribe, Associate Professor, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, John Hanhardt, Consulting Senior Curator for Film and Media Arts, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gabriela Rangel, Curator, Dias & Riedweg...and it becomes something else, and Heike Arzápalo, Independent filmmaker, (Moderator) This event is free and open to the public.

http://as.americas-society.org/calevent.php?id=505

Nancy Davenport on On Kawara: May 18

Nancy Davenport on On Kawara
Monday, May 18, 2009, 6:30 pm
Dia Art Foundation, 535 West 22nd Street

Nancy Davenport, who was born in 1965 in Vancouver, lives and works in New York. Her recent solo shows include exhibitions at DHC/Art Fondation pour l’art Contemporain, Montréal (2008); Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York (2008); and MIT List Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts (2004). Admission is $6; $3 for members, students, and seniors. Tickets are available at the lecture only. For reservations call 212 293 5583 or artistsonartists@diaart.org

http://www.diacenter.org/prg/lectures/artists/index.html

Simon Starling: May 18

Simon Starling
Subjective Histories of Sculpture III
Monday, May 18, 6:30pm
SculptureCenter
44-19 Purves St, Long Island City

(Due to illness this event was rescheduled from May 4)

Sculpture is a medium-in-motion, eluding concise definition. As artists continuously re-invent its rules, materials, and conventions, we are challenged to incorporate new understandings of what, in fact, constitutes a sculpture. Linked to urbanism, architecture, and acoustic and visual perception, it is a charged territory that mirrors political, social and technological developments. As part of exploring how contemporary artists think about sculpture, SculptureCenter, in collaboration with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School, presents the third series in this partnership examining artist-led lectures alongside its exhibition program. In this series, established mid-career artists present specific works, bodies of work, texts, or even personal anecdotes, taken from inside and outside sculpture, and inside and outside “art” to tell their own story of sculpture’s history. These subjective, incomplete, partial, mis-remembered, or otherwise eclectic histories together examine sculpture’s evolving strategies, behaviors, dreams, and mistakes over the course of human civilization. The third lecture in this series is delivered by British conceptual artist Simon Starling, winner of the 2005 Turner Prize.

http://www.sculpture-center.org/eventsEvent.htm?id=11907

The ’90s vs. The ’90s: May 15

The ’90s vs. The ’90s
Friday, May 15, 7pm
New Museum
$6 Members, $8 General Public

This panel includes Michael Azerrad, Mark Greif, Emily Gould, A.S. Hamrah, Marisa Meltzer, and Aaron Lake Smith, and considers the legacy of the ’90s and how we are being shaped by them. If the ’70s was the “Me Decade” and the eighties was the “Greed Decade,” what were the ’90s? If we are nostalgic for the era, what are we nostalgic for? The critic Stephen Metcalf has called 1983 "the year the ’80s became the ’80s." 1991 is often referred to as "the year that punk broke" not only in reference to the Sonic Youth concert documentary of the same name, but also because it was a year of despair (the recession, the Persian Gulf War, the preceding decade of vapid pop culture). It has often been said that there was an obsession with authenticity in the ’90s, from slackers to sellouts. Does the selling-out debate exist any longer? What is the relationship between the economy, culture, and art? Is 2009 1991? Generation X is forever identifiable with the ’90s, but with many members of the subsequent Generation Y identifying with ’90s signifiers, are generations about birth year or identity? And how do you parse out the Gen X and Gen Y micro-generations?

http://www.newmuseum.org/events/336

The Free Skool at the University of Trash

The Free Skool at the
University of Trash
Sculpture Center
44-19 Purves St.
Long Island City, NY

The Free Skool at the University of Trash is an informal educational program that invites the public to become transient professors and students by proposing and participating in workshops, classes, meetings and more. Running during all open hours from May 11th- August 3rd, the University of Trash will host workshops ranging from weekly reading groups, book making workshops, to physical education intensives. To propose a project or event for the Free Skool, email freeskool@universityoftrash.org.

Editor's Note: I will post a number of Free Skool events on Hot Art Action! but for a complete schedule, please visit SculptureCenter's website or the Facebook page for University of Trash.

http://www.sculpture-center.org/eventsUpcomingEvents.htm
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Long-Island-City-NY/University-of-Trash/78339536852

This Thursday, and every Thursday through July 30, the Free Skool will host a "Capital Reading Group" from 6-8pm. The group will follow David Harvey's video lectures on Marx's Capital Volume 1 and discuss the reading and its relevance to the current crisis in an informal setting, likely to adjourn to a near by bar for further discussion. Attendance is open, however you must have your own copy of Capital Volume 1, Penguin classics edition.

Imagining Recovery: May 13

Imagining Recovery Competition:
Announcement of Winners and Public Jury Discussion
Wednesday, May 13, 7pm
Studio-X, 180 Varick Street, Suite 1610

The competition calls on designers to act as mediators between policy and the public by producing an image of the lived experience of recovery, increasing the transparency and intelligibility of the charts, maps and graphics of Recovery.gov. This image is to be supported by a design strategy offering a means to get from the present to recovery. The competition brief is a living document, collectively written by the design participants and a select panel of public policy students from prestigious policy schools around the world.

The event will include a slideshow of all works submitted, and a discussion of the competition, the deliberation, and an announcement of the winners by jurors, moderated by Reinhold Martin. The competition jury includes:

Mark Wigley – Dean, Columbia GSAPP
Bernard Tschumi – Bernard Tschumi Architects
Barry Bergdoll – Chief Curator of Architecture and Design, MoMA
Michael Rock – Founding Partner & Creative Director, 2x4
Kate Orff – Founding Principal, SCAPE
Damon Rich – Founder, Center for Urban Pedagogy; Urban Designer/Waterfront Planner, City of Newark
Brian Loughlin – Chief Architect, Jersey City Housing Authority

A dedicated publication, a spread in Volume Magazine, and a traveling exhibition – currently committed in the US, Beijing, Rotterdam, Mumbai, and Amman – will follow the results of the jury. To learn more about this open international design ideas competition, please visit www.imaginingrecovery.com, and contact imaginingrecovery@gmail.com with any inquiries.