Wangechi Mutu: April 1

Wednesday, April 1
3:15- 5:15pm
Parsons, The New School
66 Fifth Ave.
Kellen Auditorium
Ticket Price: Free

Wangechi Mutu is an artist who lives and works in New York. She moved to New York from Kenya in the 1990s to study anthropology and fine art at Cooper Union (BFA, 1996), and Yale University (MFA, 2000). She creates painted and collaged images of female figures, first painting outline images on PET film, then adding detail with photographic fragments of idealised women collected from print magazines. The figures generally feature grotesque distortions of form and skin texture, which critics read as commentary on a variety of feminist and racial issues.

Mutu’s work has exhibited internationally at galleries and museums including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Tate Modern in London, the Studio Museum in Harlem, Kunstpalast Dusseldorf in Germany, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. She also participated in the 2004 Gwangju Biennale in South Korea. She is represented by Sikkema Jenkins & Co. in New York, Susanne Vielmetter in Los Angeles and Victoria Miro Gallery in London.

http://www.parsons.newschool.edu/events/event_detail.aspx?eID=1035

Doug Aitkin: April 1

Doug Aitkin
Wednesday, April 1, 6:30-8:30pm
Columbia University GSAPP
Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall

http://beta.arch.columbia.edu/event/gsapp-event/today?mini=calendar/2009-04/all

OULIPO in New York: April 1

Oulipo in New York: A Workshop of Experimental Literature
Wednesday, April 1, 7pm
The New School
Tishman Auditorium, Alvin Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall
66 West 12th Street

Oulipo stands for "Ouvroir de littérature potentielle," which translates roughly as "workshop of potential literature." It is a loose gathering of French-speaking writers and mathematicians, and seeks to create works using constrained writing techniques. It was founded in 1960 by Raymond Queneau and François Le Lionnais. Other notable members include novelists Georges Perec and Italo Calvino, the poet Oskar Pastior, and the poet and mathematician Jacques Roubaud. The group defines the term “littérature potentielle” as: "the seeking of new structures and patterns which may be used by writers in any way they enjoy" (rough translation).

Featuring Marcel Bénabou, author of Jacob, Menahem, and Mimoun: A Family Epic; Anne F. Garréta, author of Not a Day; Jacques Jouet, author of Une Mauvaise Marie; Herve LeTellier, author of Esthétique de l’Oulipo; Harry Matthews, author of Oulipo Compendium; Ian Monk, author of Family Archeology and Other Poems; and Jacques Roubaud, author of Some Thing Black. Hosted by Honor Moore, faculty, the Writing Program and Jean-Jacques Poucel, associate professor of French at Yale University.

Cosponsored by the Poet's House, the French Embassy, Columbia University, Yale University, and the New School Writing Program. Oulipo in New York is being held from April 1-4, 2009 at several venues throughout New York City. All events are free and open to the public. For more information on this and other events, please visit www.frenchculture.org.

http://www.newschool.edu/generalstudies/events.aspx?id=27166

Concept: Home: March 31

Concept: Home
Tuesday, March 31, 7pm
209 East 23 Street, 3rd-floor amphitheater

This panel discussion, moderated by SVA faculty member Loretta Lorance, will explore the "good, bad and ugly" relationships between technology and our homes. Panelists include Tom Huhn, chair of the Art History and BFA Visual and Critical Studies Departments at SVA; Lisa Moren, artist and faculty member at the University of Maryland Baltimore County; and Mark Ihnat, humanities professor at Humber College. 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=2763

Notes on Conceptualisms: March 31

Notes on Conceptualisms
Tuesday, March 31, 7pm
The Kitchen
512 West 19th Street

Book launch with performances by Jen Bervin, Lytle Shaw, Steve Zultanski, Nada Gordon, and Kim Rosenfield. Hosted by Notes authors Vanessa Place and Robert Fitterman.

http://uglyducklingpresse.org/events.html

Katy Grannan: March 30

Katy Grannan
Monday, March 30, 6:30 pm
Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street

Aperture and Parsons The New School for Design present Katy Grannan in the third lecture of an ongoing series. Born in Arlington, Massachusetts, in 1969, Grannan currently lives and works near San Francisco. Her work will be included in a March 2009 group exhibition Into the Sunset: Photography's Image of the American West at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Her photographs have been exhibited at the Photographer's Gallery, London; the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain; the Whitney Museum of American Art's 2004 Biennial, New York; and the 2004 Arles Photo Festival, France. Grannan was the recipient of a 1999 Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant; the 2000 PASS Award, with Margaret Talbot, for her photographs accompanying Talbot's New York Times Magazine story "What's Become of the Juvenile Delinquent?"; the 2004 Baum Award for Emerging American Photographers; and the 2005 Aperture Award for an Emerging Artist. Her first monograph, Model American: Katy Grannan, was released by Aperture in 2005, and her second, The Westerns (Fraenkel Gallery/Greenberg Van Doren Gallery/Salon 94 Freemans), debuted in January 2008.

http://www.aperture.org/events/detail.php?id=521

Bifo and MacKenzie Wark: March 30

Bifo and MacKenzie Wark
The Change You Want To See Gallery
Monday, March 30th, 7:30pm (free)
84 Havemeyer St, at Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn

The Change You Want To See Gallery presents a conversation with renowned philosopher, media activist and cultural agitator Franco Berardi (aka Bifo) and media theorist MacKenzie Wark, author of Game Theory and A Hacker's Manifesto.

http://www.thechangeyouwanttosee.org

Office for Subversive Architecture: March 27

projections with the Office for Subversive Architecture
(Reinventing Goethe with ifau + Jesko Fezer)

Friday, March 27, 6:30pm
Goethe-Institut New York Wyoming Building
5 East 3rd Street

The Goethe-Institut Wyoming Building is proud to present the next event of the venue’s kickoff series Reinventing Goethe, an intriguing examination of issues regarding public, private and performance space, as the Wyoming space is itself being developed. series Reinventing Goethe will be collaboratively curated by Joseph Grima, the director of the Storefront for Art and Architecture, and ifau (Institut für angewandte Urbanistik/Institute for Applied Urbanism) + Jesko Fezer.

Leading off is a lecture/presentation by members of the Office for Subversive Architecture, a network of international architects examining the interface between architecture and art. projections plays with ideas of light and color, brightness and darkness, and, as the title itself suggests, with the very concept of projection. It also acknowledges the interplay of the very-contemporary Goethe-Institut with its very-historical namesake, specifically with his theories on light, color and optics. projections is a hands-on experience of theory, an discussion in which the space itself demonstrates what is being discussed. Please join us for this unique event exploring the possibilities of projection—and the projection of possibilities.

http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/ney/kue/en4303155v.htm

Rachel Harrison: March 25

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 at 6:30pm
The New School, 66 West 12th Street
Tickets are $5 ($3 for seniors) and FREE to students with valid ID

Rachel Harrison is well known for her conceptual works constructed from combinations of found objects and handmade creations. Employing multiple mediums at once to create forms both abstract and figurative, she presents an array of clues and many layers of meaning in her work. Prompting a deeper level of thought from viewers, Harrison’s work reflects her interest in the act of experiencing an art object and the path that one takes towards comprehension. Harrison received her B.A. in Fine Art from Wesleyan University in 1989 and currently lives and works in New York City.

To guarantee seats, purchase tickets ahead of time by ordering online at www.publicartfund.org or by calling 212.980.4575

Karim Rashid: March 25

Wednesday, Mar 25, 6:30 pm
Museum of Art and Design
2 Columbus Circle

Karim Rashid is a leading figure in product and interior design, furniture, lighting, and art. Working with an impressive array of clients over the years including Alessi, Umbra, Prada, Issey Miyake, and Method, Karim has infused consumer culture with his signature Sensual Minimalism. To date, around 2500 objects designed by him have been produced. Successes such as the Dirt Devil Kone, Umbra Garbo, and Method Home designs illustrate Karim’s ethos of affordable, democratic design for the masses. Karim’s language has graced all aspects of life from furniture to cosmetics, artwork to architecture. His award winning interior work includes the Morimoto restaurant in Philadelphia and Semiramis hotel in Athens as well as many retail stores and restaurants world wide. $10/ $9 members

http://www.madmuseum.org/DO/Calendar/200903/Karim%20Rashid.aspx