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