Moyra Davey on Louise Bourgeois: Sept 14

Moyra Davey on Louise Bourgeois
September 14, 6:30pm
Dia Art Foundation, 535 West 22nd Street
Admission is $6; $3 for members, students, and seniors.

Moyra Davey, born in Canada in 1958, lives and works in New York. Her solo exhibitions include presentations at the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts (2008); Goodwater, Toronto (2002); and American Fine Arts, Co. New York (1994, 1999).

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

Hellen van Meene + Jorg Colberg: Sept 14

Monday, September 14, 7pm
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Free and open to the public

Dutch photographer Hellen van Meene has exhibited her work in New York City, London, the Netherlands and Germany. Her photographs have been collected in several books, including the recently published Hellen van Meene: New Photographs (Schirmer/Mosel, 2009). Blogger Jorg Colberg is the founder and editor of the pioneering photo blog Conscientious. In 2006, he was named one of American Photo's Photography Innovators, and is a regular contributor to their Web site. Presented by the BFA Photography Department and Dear Dave, magazine.

http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/events/index.jsp?sid0=70&page_id=181&content_id=3036

Martin Beck Panel: Sept 14

Nothing Better Than a Touch of Ecology and Catastrophe to Unite the Social Classes.
Martin Beck, Felicity Scott and Mark Wasiuta
September 14, 6:30pm
Columbia University GSAPP
Avery Hall, Wood Auditorium

Drawing from architecture, design and popular culture, Panel 2: "Nothing better than a touch of ecology and catastrophe to unite the social classes..." continues Martin Beck's interest in exhibitions as a medium and addresses questions of historicity, referentiality and authorship. The show features works in different media, each pointing to distinct yet interwoven historical narratives that coalesce around the terms "ecology" and "panel" as display or discussion.

http://www.arch.columbia.edu/event/gsapp-event/panel-2-nothing-better-touch-ecology-and-catastrophe-unite-social-classes

Dan Graham and Glenn Branca: Sept 12

Dan Graham in Conversation with Glenn Branca
Saturday, September 12 at 7 pm
X Initiative, 548 West 22nd Street

Dan Graham joins avant-garde composer and musician Glenn Branca for a conversation about past collaborations, rock music, and shared interests working in New York City. This evening also includes a screening of Westkunst (Modern Period): Dan Graham Segment (1980) by Dan Graham and Ernst Mitzka. This is a free event. No reservations. Space is limited; first-come, first-seated.

http://www.whitney.org/www/educational_programs/public_programs.jsp

Juergen Teller with Cathy Horyn: Sept 12

Juergen Teller in Conversation with Cathy Horyn
Saturday, September 12, 7pm
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Free and open to the public

In addition to his recent celebrity-studded ad campaign for Marc Jacobs, influential fashion photographer Juergen Teller is known for his raw, un-retouched commercial and autobiographical images. To mark his solo exhibition “Paradis” opening Thursday, September 10 at Lehmann Maupin gallery, Teller will speak with New York Times fashion critic Cathy Horyn, who also writes the blog On the Runway for NYTimes.com. Presented by the BFA Photography Department and Dear Dave, magazine.

http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/events/index.jsp?sid0=70&page_id=181&content_id=3100

Nature as Artifice: Sept 12

Nature as Artifice:
New Dutch Landscape in Photography and Video Art
Saturday, September 12, 1pm
SVA Theater, 333 23rd Street

Coinciding with the 400th anniversary of the arrival of Henry Hudson to New York Harbor aboard the Dutch vessel Halve Maen, Aperture Gallery is pleased to present the New York debut of Nature as Artifice: New Dutch Landscape in Photography and Video Art, curated by Maartje van den Heuvel, a major survey of work by contemporary Dutch artists who, over the past twenty years, have taken contemporary Holland as their point of departure.

In support of the exhibition, Aperture and SVA will present a panel discussion on the significance and implications of the artworks showcased. Moderated by Tracy Metz, catalogue co-editor, panelists include exhibition curator Maartje van den Heuvel; Alison Nordstrom, George Eastman House; and exhibited artists Jannes Linders, Hans van der Meer, Frank van der Salm, and Edwin Zwakman.

This event will be followed by a reception in the lobby of the SVA Theater.

http://www.aperture.org/events/detail.php?id=579

Bifo: September 8

Franco Berardi (Bifo)
Recomposition, Subjectivation, Recombination
Tuesday, September 8th, 6:00 pm
Eugene Lang College, The New School
Wollman Hall, 65 West 11th Street

Franco Berardi Bifo is a contemporary writer, media-theorist and media-activist. Founder of the magazine A/traverso (1975-1981), he was part of the staff of Radio Alice, the first free pirate radio station in Italy (1976-1978). Like other intellectuals involved in the political movement of Autonomia in Italy during the 1970's, he fled to Paris, where he worked with Felix Guattari in the field of schizoanalysis. He has been a contributor to several magazines and newspapers, and author of Mutazione e Ciberpunk (Genoa, 1993), Cibernauti (Rome, 1994), Felix (Rome, 2001, London 2009) and Generacion Postalfa (Buenos Aires 2007). His new book Soul@Work, published by Semiotext(e) will be in bookstores at the end of the year 2009. He is teaching social history of communication at the Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, and is the co-founder of the e-zine rekombinant.org and of the telestreet network. His talk focuses on the concept of recomposition, drawing on the work of Deleuze and Guattari to examine how social production and communication are related to capitalism.

http://www.16beavergroup.org/events/archives/002941.php

Connective Mutations: A Seminar with Bifo

Connective Mutations:
Autonomy & Subjectivation in the Coming Century
16 Beaver Street
Thursday, September 3- Sunday, September 6, 2009

In addition to Bifo, expect a nice group of interventions by those taking part in the seminar and/or guests including: Jack Bratich, Zoe Beloff, Erika Biddle, Jonah Bossewitch, Stephen Duncombe, Jim Fleming, Brian Holmes, Mallory Knodel, Jamie McClelland, Jackie Orr, Paolo Pedercini, Claire Pentecost, Annie Robinson, Stevphen Shukaitis, Abe Walker, Mckenzie Wark

For more info, please visit the website:
http://www.16beavergroup.org/bifo/

For some useful reading, please see:
http://www.16beavergroup.org/bifo/precariousrhapsodyweb.pdf

Négritude Dialogues: July 21

Négritude Dialogues
Tuesday, July 21, 7-9 pm
Exit Art, 475 Tenth Ave

In these intimate, public conversations, participants in the exhibition Négritude will talk with an artist, scholar or cultural producer of their choice about various aspects of the Négritude movement and Black identity. These in-depth conversations will contextualize the exhibition within larger discussions about the politics and culture of Blackness, from the Americas and the Caribbean to Africa. $5 Suggested Donation. Cash bar.

7pm: A Conversation with Négritude artists Vladimir Cybil Charlier Juste and Andre Juste, Moderated by Thomas C. Spear, French and Francophone scholar and Professor of French at Lehman College (CUNY) and at the Graduate Center (CUNY).

8pm: Racial Spacial Facial Glacial: A Group Lecture on the Architectonics and Antipsychotics of 4th-Stage Négritude and other Dub Strategies. A conversation with ('VËRSION'), the newly formed collective of Xaviera Simmons, Arthur Jafa, and Greg Tate.

http://www.exitart.org/site/pub/exhibition_programs/negritude/events.html

A Protest Against Forgetting: July 20

A Protest Against Forgetting: A Brief History of Curating
Monday, July 20, 6:30 pm
Guggenheim Museum

"It is rare that we have the opportunity to celebrate our own ecosystem." —Richard Armstrong

Director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and Museum, Richard Armstrong, and Serpentine Gallery Codirector, Hans Ulrich Obrist, discuss the legacy of Walter Hopps, one of the 11 groundbreaking curators gathered together in A Brief History of Curating, Obrist's most recent book. Through their focus on reinvention and experimentation, the practices of these innovative curators provide a guide into emerging artistic landscapes. The program is followed by a reception.

$5 General Admission; FREE for members, students, and staff of other museums with ID and RSVP. To RSVP, call the Box Office at 212 423 3587, Mon.–Fri., 1–5 p.m. Space is limited.

http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/education/adult-and-academic-programs