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The New Normal - Panel Discussion - Part 3 of 3 ARTISTS SPACE Wednesday, May 28, 2008 6:30 - 8:00p.m. Public Program at Artists Space co-organized by iCI and Artists Space Panel discussion focusing on works of art and themes addressed in the exhibition, The New Normal. The participants will include exhibition curator Michael Connor, artists Jill Magid, and Jennifer and Kevin McCoy. The panel will be moderated by Benjamin Weil, director of Artists Space. Tags: visual arts media Artists Space Michael Connor Jennifer Kevin McCoy Jill Magid |
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The New Normal - Panel Discussion - Part 2 of 3 ARTISTS SPACE Wednesday, May 28, 2008 6:30 - 8:00p.m. Public Program at Artists Space co-organized by iCI and Artists Space Panel discussion focusing on works of art and themes addressed in the exhibition, The New Normal. The participants will include exhibition curator Michael Connor, artists Jill Magid, and Jennifer and Kevin McCoy. The panel will be moderated by Benjamin Weil, director of Artists Space. Tags: visual arts media Artists Space Michael Connor Jennifer Kevin McCoy Jill Magid |
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The New Normal - Panel Discussion - Part 1 of 3 ARTISTS SPACE Wednesday, May 28, 2008 6:30 - 8:00p.m. Public Program at Artists Space co-organized by iCI and Artists Space Panel discussion focusing on works of art and themes addressed in the exhibition, The New Normal. The participants will include exhibition curator Michael Connor, artists Jill Magid, and Jennifer and Kevin McCoy. The panel will be moderated by Benjamin Weil, director of Artists Space. Tags: visual arts media Artists Space Michael Connor Jennifer Kevin McCoy Jill Magid |
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POETS OF PLAYLAND part1of3 ARTISTS SPACE Blue Room Event Wednesday, May 7, 7:30 p.m. POETS OF PLAYLAND Plus: Copper Canyon Press Prize-winning poets gather to read their latest work presenting strange, funny and luminous poems, an oral exhibition of linguistic art. Readers include a visual artist and past president of Artists Space. Plus: After the reading, Denise Banker of Copper Canyon Press will explore why the heralded West Coast poetry publisher wants to forge relationships in NYC. The Blue Room is one of many ways Artists Space fosters artistic experimentation and dialog in contemporary culture. Tags: language poets poems linguistic art |
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The Money Mountain - Ana Prvacki ARTISTS SPACE April 8 - April 12, 2008 Ana Prvacki: The Money Mountain Curated by Marina Abramovic Artists Space is pleased to present the fourth installment of the durational performance series When Time Becomes Form curated by Marina Abramovic. After the success and high demand experienced with the Money Laundering service at the UBS bank, Ananatural Production offers a five-day mega money laundering service at Artists Space. With a whole mountain of money already available and a fleet of launderers, Ananatural Production offers a five-day mega money laundering service. Born in Pancevo, Serbia, Ana Prvacki lives and works in Singapore and New York. In 2003, Prvacki founded Ananatural Production, an innovation and lifestyle consultancy that combines conceptual concerns, contemporary issues and various methods of communication. Tags: Ana Prvacki Marina Abramovic visual arts performing Artists Space Moby |
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The New Normal part 1of3 ARTISTS SPACE April 25 - June 21, 2008 Opening Reception: Friday, April 25, 6-8PM MAIN SPACE: The New Normal Curated by Michael Connor Co-organized with ICI (Independent Curators International) With works by: Sophie Calle, Mohamed Camara, Hasan Elahi, Eyebeam R & D/Jonah Peretti & Michael Frumin, Kota Ezawa, Miranda July & Harrell Fletcher, Guthrie Lonergan, Jill Magid, Jennifer & Kevin McCoy, Trevor Paglen, Corinna Schnitt, Thomson & Craighead, Sharif Waked The New Normal brings together thirteen recent artworks that use private information as raw material and subject matter. The concept of privacy, though widely invoked, is difficult to define. The private sphere encompasses domestic spaces, bodies, thoughts, communications, and behaviors—contexts that are usually rendered inaccessible to the public eye by legal, social, and physical boundaries. The practices that demarcate the private sphere are so much a part of the fabric of everyday life—wearing clothing, politely pretending not to overhear a cell-phone conversation— that they only become noticeable when they shift, making the private sphere visible to the public eye. Privacy, to put it bluntly, captures our attention only when it is under threat. In the wake of 9/11, the specter of terrorism was used to justify increased collection and sharing of personal data by governments around the world. This time of heightened surveillance, characterized by luggage searches, Internet monitoring, and wiretaps, was dubbed "the new normal" by U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney. The spread of social technology has affected privacy no less profoundly. With the rise of online commerce, many banks and retailers have developed sophisticated methods of tracking and studying the behavior of consumers, while increased use of the Internet has created new platforms for voluntary self-disclosure, from blogs to MySpace. Private information has never been less private, as evinced by Kota Ezawa's Home Video II, made from "leaked" video files of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee's honeymoon,widely available on the Web. Each of the works in The New Normal—video, Web sites, sculpture, artist's books, found objects, and photographs—grants access to the private sphere of the artists themselves, of strangers, and of public officials. Overall, the exhibition creates a sense that access to private information is a kind of currency, the exchange of which is growing and evolving in bewildering ways. We may find it frightening or fascinating, but we are all inescapably complicit in it. The exhibition is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue co-published with Independent Curators International, with essays by Michael Connor, Clay Shirky and Marisa Olson. Tags: visual arts Artists Space New York |
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The New Normal part 3of3 ARTISTS SPACE April 25 - June 21, 2008 Opening Reception: Friday, April 25, 6-8PM MAIN SPACE: The New Normal Curated by Michael Connor Co-organized with ICI (Independent Curators International) With works by: Sophie Calle, Mohamed Camara, Hasan Elahi, Eyebeam R & D/Jonah Peretti & Michael Frumin, Kota Ezawa, Miranda July & Harrell Fletcher, Guthrie Lonergan, Jill Magid, Jennifer & Kevin McCoy, Trevor Paglen, Corinna Schnitt, Thomson & Craighead, Sharif Waked The New Normal brings together thirteen recent artworks that use private information as raw material and subject matter. The concept of privacy, though widely invoked, is difficult to define. The private sphere encompasses domestic spaces, bodies, thoughts, communications, and behaviors—contexts that are usually rendered inaccessible to the public eye by legal, social, and physical boundaries. The practices that demarcate the private sphere are so much a part of the fabric of everyday life—wearing clothing, politely pretending not to overhear a cell-phone conversation— that they only become noticeable when they shift, making the private sphere visible to the public eye. Privacy, to put it bluntly, captures our attention only when it is under threat. In the wake of 9/11, the specter of terrorism was used to justify increased collection and sharing of personal data by governments around the world. This time of heightened surveillance, characterized by luggage searches, Internet monitoring, and wiretaps, was dubbed "the new normal" by U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney. The spread of social technology has affected privacy no less profoundly. With the rise of online commerce, many banks and retailers have developed sophisticated methods of tracking and studying the behavior of consumers, while increased use of the Internet has created new platforms for voluntary self-disclosure, from blogs to MySpace. Private information has never been less private, as evinced by Kota Ezawa's Home Video II, made from "leaked" video files of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee's honeymoon,widely available on the Web. Each of the works in The New Normal—video, Web sites, sculpture, artist's books, found objects, and photographs—grants access to the private sphere of the artists themselves, of strangers, and of public officials. Overall, the exhibition creates a sense that access to private information is a kind of currency, the exchange of which is growing and evolving in bewildering ways. We may find it frightening or fascinating, but we are all inescapably complicit in it. The exhibition is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue co-published with Independent Curators International, with essays by Michael Connor, Clay Shirky and Marisa Olson. Tags: visual arts Artists Space New York |
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The New Normal part 2of3 ARTISTS SPACE April 25 - June 21, 2008 Opening Reception: Friday, April 25, 6-8PM MAIN SPACE: The New Normal Curated by Michael Connor Co-organized with ICI (Independent Curators International) With works by: Sophie Calle, Mohamed Camara, Hasan Elahi, Eyebeam R & D/Jonah Peretti & Michael Frumin, Kota Ezawa, Miranda July & Harrell Fletcher, Guthrie Lonergan, Jill Magid, Jennifer & Kevin McCoy, Trevor Paglen, Corinna Schnitt, Thomson & Craighead, Sharif Waked The New Normal brings together thirteen recent artworks that use private information as raw material and subject matter. The concept of privacy, though widely invoked, is difficult to define. The private sphere encompasses domestic spaces, bodies, thoughts, communications, and behaviors—contexts that are usually rendered inaccessible to the public eye by legal, social, and physical boundaries. The practices that demarcate the private sphere are so much a part of the fabric of everyday life—wearing clothing, politely pretending not to overhear a cell-phone conversation— that they only become noticeable when they shift, making the private sphere visible to the public eye. Privacy, to put it bluntly, captures our attention only when it is under threat. In the wake of 9/11, the specter of terrorism was used to justify increased collection and sharing of personal data by governments around the world. This time of heightened surveillance, characterized by luggage searches, Internet monitoring, and wiretaps, was dubbed "the new normal" by U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney. The spread of social technology has affected privacy no less profoundly. With the rise of online commerce, many banks and retailers have developed sophisticated methods of tracking and studying the behavior of consumers, while increased use of the Internet has created new platforms for voluntary self-disclosure, from blogs to MySpace. Private information has never been less private, as evinced by Kota Ezawa's Home Video II, made from "leaked" video files of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee's honeymoon,widely available on the Web. Each of the works in The New Normal—video, Web sites, sculpture, artist's books, found objects, and photographs—grants access to the private sphere of the artists themselves, of strangers, and of public officials. Overall, the exhibition creates a sense that access to private information is a kind of currency, the exchange of which is growing and evolving in bewildering ways. We may find it frightening or fascinating, but we are all inescapably complicit in it. The exhibition is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue co-published with Independent Curators International, with essays by Michael Connor, Clay Shirky and Marisa Olson. Tags: visual arts Artists Space New York |
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Public Program: Performing Life part 2of4 ARTISTS SPACE Saturday, December 15, 2007, 3-5 p.m. WHEN TIME BECOMES FORM Public Program: Performing Life What is "real life" in performance art today? How many lives can a performance have? Are virtual experiences comparable to live performance? What is the future of performance art? Please join us for a panel discussion inspired by these questions and the ongoing performance series When Time Becomes Form curated by Marina Abramovic for Artists Space. With panelists: Marina Abramovic, Emcee C.M., Master of None, and Ana Prvacki Moderated by: Jovana Stokic About the participants: Born in Belgrade, New York-based Marina Abramovic has been producing seminal work in performance, film and video since the early 1970's. Using her body both as subject and medium, she has produced work independently as well as in collaboration with Ulay, who she worked with until 2000. She has received numerous awards and distinctions, including The Golden Lion at the Biennale di Venezia in 1997. Brooklyn-based Emcee C.M. is an emerging everyman nobody, a loving caricature of the world's preoccupation with the questions of work and leisure. He received his MFA at the University of Connecticut in 2005 and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2007. He has presented numerous unofficial and collaborative projects in public spaces and is currently artist in residence at the Cue Art Foundation in Chelsea. Born in Pancevo, Serbia, performance artist Ana Prvacki lives and works in Singapore and New York. In 2003, Prvacki founded Ananatural Production, an innovation and lifestyle consultancy that combines conceptual concerns, contemporary issues and various methods of communication. For more information visit www.ananatural.com Belgrade born, New York-based art historian and critic Jovana Stokic is a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. She received her BA from the Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Art History at Belgrade University (Yugoslavia), and her MA from the Art History Department at the University of California, Riverside. She is currently Curator of the Kimmel Center for University Life, New York University. When Time Becomes Form is an ongoing performance series of long-durational work curated by Marina Abramovic. The performance series grows from Artists Space's commitment to experimentation across all art forms and recent efforts to return performance art to its central position within the gallery's activities and exhibitions. The series consists of twelve distinct, but interrelated, durational performances, each created and presented by a different performance artist, all members of the Independent Performance Group (IPG). The series explores and questions issues of concentration, will power, and determination, and uses the gallery space for 6 hours during each day of its presentation. Tags: performing arts visual Marina Abramovic Ana Prvacki Jovana Stokic Artists Space |
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Public Program: Performing Life part 1of4 ARTISTS SPACE Saturday, December 15, 2007, 3-5 p.m. WHEN TIME BECOMES FORM Public Program: Performing Life What is "real life" in performance art today? How many lives can a performance have? Are virtual experiences comparable to live performance? What is the future of performance art? Please join us for a panel discussion inspired by these questions and the ongoing performance series When Time Becomes Form curated by Marina Abramovic for Artists Space. With panelists: Marina Abramovic, Emcee C.M., Master of None, and Ana Prvacki Moderated by: Jovana Stokic About the participants: Born in Belgrade, New York-based Marina Abramovic has been producing seminal work in performance, film and video since the early 1970's. Using her body both as subject and medium, she has produced work independently as well as in collaboration with Ulay, who she worked with until 2000. She has received numerous awards and distinctions, including The Golden Lion at the Biennale di Venezia in 1997. Brooklyn-based Emcee C.M. is an emerging everyman nobody, a loving caricature of the world's preoccupation with the questions of work and leisure. He received his MFA at the University of Connecticut in 2005 and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2007. He has presented numerous unofficial and collaborative projects in public spaces and is currently artist in residence at the Cue Art Foundation in Chelsea. Born in Pancevo, Serbia, performance artist Ana Prvacki lives and works in Singapore and New York. In 2003, Prvacki founded Ananatural Production, an innovation and lifestyle consultancy that combines conceptual concerns, contemporary issues and various methods of communication. For more information visit www.ananatural.com Belgrade born, New York-based art historian and critic Jovana Stokic is a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. She received her BA from the Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Art History at Belgrade University (Yugoslavia), and her MA from the Art History Department at the University of California, Riverside. She is currently Curator of the Kimmel Center for University Life, New York University. When Time Becomes Form is an ongoing performance series of long-durational work curated by Marina Abramovic. The performance series grows from Artists Space's commitment to experimentation across all art forms and recent efforts to return performance art to its central position within the gallery's activities and exhibitions. The series consists of twelve distinct, but interrelated, durational performances, each created and presented by a different performance artist, all members of the Independent Performance Group (IPG). The series explores and questions issues of concentration, will power, and determination, and uses the gallery space for 6 hours during each day of its presentation. Tags: Marina Abramovic performing arts visual Ana Prvacki Jovana Stokic Emcee C.M. Artists Space |
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Lofty Pursuits discussion ARTISTS SPACE - Blue Room Event Saturday, February 16, 2008 As part of On Being An Exhibition, a group exhibition at Artists Space that explored the reciprocal relationship between artists and the infrastructure of the art space, The Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) organized a talk-show style event in November 2007 entitled Lofty Pursuits. Taking a step back from the microcosm of the exhibition, CUP poses questions about artists' involvement in the urban ecology, implicating the exhibition and gallery as a capsule of culture that can inflect the value of a neighborhood. On Saturday February 16th, Artists Space curator Joseph del Pesco will host a follow-up conversation with CUP's Rosten Woo after a video screening of documentation from the Lofty Pursuits talk show event. With Lofty Pursuits, CUP staged a conversation between urbanist and sociologist Sharon Zukin and real estate developer Jed Walentas, vice-president of Two Trees. Zukin has published several books examining urban culture including "Loft Living: Culture and Capital in Urban Change" (1982), a landmark work on the transformation of SoHo from manufacturing space to cultural locus to residential lofts. Ostensibly taking cues from this history, Walentas and the Two Trees corporation began their own project of transformation, changing Brooklyn's post- industrial waterfront into a residential neighborhood. During their conversation Zukin and Walentas discussed culture, capital, and real estate from SoHo to DUMBO Tags: visual arts Artists Space Joseph delPesco Rosten Woo Lofty Pursuits CUP New York |
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Lofty Pursuits video and conversation part 3of3 ARTISTS SPACE - Blue Room Event Saturday, February 16, 2008 As part of On Being An Exhibition, a group exhibition at Artists Space that explored the reciprocal relationship between artists and the infrastructure of the art space, The Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) organized a talk-show style event in November 2007 entitled Lofty Pursuits. Taking a step back from the microcosm of the exhibition, CUP poses questions about artists' involvement in the urban ecology, implicating the exhibition and gallery as a capsule of culture that can inflect the value of a neighborhood. On Saturday February 16th, Artists Space curator Joseph del Pesco will host a follow-up conversation with CUP's Rosten Woo after a video screening of documentation from the Lofty Pursuits talk show event. With Lofty Pursuits, CUP staged a conversation between urbanist and sociologist Sharon Zukin and real estate developer Jed Walentas, vice-president of Two Trees. Zukin has published several books examining urban culture including "Loft Living: Culture and Capital in Urban Change" (1982), a landmark work on the transformation of SoHo from manufacturing space to cultural locus to residential lofts. Ostensibly taking cues from this history, Walentas and the Two Trees corporation began their own project of transformation, changing Brooklyn's post- industrial waterfront into a residential neighborhood. During their conversation Zukin and Walentas discussed culture, capital, and real estate from SoHo to DUMBO. Tags: visual arts Artists Space Joseph delPesco Rosten Woo Lofty Pursuits CUP New York |
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Lofty Pursuits video and conversation part 2of3 ARTISTS SPACE - Blue Room Event Saturday, February 16, 2008 As part of On Being An Exhibition, a group exhibition at Artists Space that explored the reciprocal relationship between artists and the infrastructure of the art space, The Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) organized a talk-show style event in November 2007 entitled Lofty Pursuits. Taking a step back from the microcosm of the exhibition, CUP poses questions about artists' involvement in the urban ecology, implicating the exhibition and gallery as a capsule of culture that can inflect the value of a neighborhood. On Saturday February 16th, Artists Space curator Joseph del Pesco will host a follow-up conversation with CUP's Rosten Woo after a video screening of documentation from the Lofty Pursuits talk show event. With Lofty Pursuits, CUP staged a conversation between urbanist and sociologist Sharon Zukin and real estate developer Jed Walentas, vice-president of Two Trees. Zukin has published several books examining urban culture including "Loft Living: Culture and Capital in Urban Change" (1982), a landmark work on the transformation of SoHo from manufacturing space to cultural locus to residential lofts. Ostensibly taking cues from this history, Walentas and the Two Trees corporation began their own project of transformation, changing Brooklyn's post- industrial waterfront into a residential neighborhood. During their conversation Zukin and Walentas discussed culture, capital, and real estate from SoHo to DUMBO. Tags: visual arts Artists Space Joseph delPesco Rosten Woo Lofty Pursuits CUP New York |
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Lofty Pursuits video and conversation part 1of3 ARTISTS SPACE - Blue Room Event Saturday, February 16, 2008 As part of On Being An Exhibition, a group exhibition at Artists Space that explored the reciprocal relationship between artists and the infrastructure of the art space, The Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) organized a talk-show style event in November 2007 entitled Lofty Pursuits. Taking a step back from the microcosm of the exhibition, CUP poses questions about artists' involvement in the urban ecology, implicating the exhibition and gallery as a capsule of culture that can inflect the value of a neighborhood. On Saturday February 16th, Artists Space curator Joseph del Pesco will host a follow-up conversation with CUP's Rosten Woo after a video screening of documentation from the Lofty Pursuits talk show event. With Lofty Pursuits, CUP staged a conversation between urbanist and sociologist Sharon Zukin and real estate developer Jed Walentas, vice-president of Two Trees. Zukin has published several books examining urban culture including "Loft Living: Culture and Capital in Urban Change" (1982), a landmark work on the transformation of SoHo from manufacturing space to cultural locus to residential lofts. Ostensibly taking cues from this history, Walentas and the Two Trees corporation began their own project of transformation, changing Brooklyn's post- industrial waterfront into a residential neighborhood. During their conversation Zukin and Walentas discussed culture, capital, and real estate from SoHo to DUMBO. Tags: visual arts Artists Space Joseph del Pesco Rosten Woo Lofty Pursuits CUP New York |
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Ascendant Landing - TBL (TallBlondLadies) "All three performances are dynamic and go through different phases of stillness and movement." TBL (TallBlondLadies) Artists Space is pleased to present TBL (TallBlondLadies), a collaborative project between the artists Anna Berndtson (Sweden/Germany) and Irina Runge (Germany). This exhibition marks the third installment of the durational performance series When Time Becomes Form curated by Marina Abramovic. The duo will present Solidly Grounded, a collection of three works, performed over five days for five hours per day, in Artists Space's main galleries. TBL inverts female stereotypes through the composition of absurd and unexpected performative gestures, often incorporating a range of accoutrement from high-end fashion to sports gear. Their works present diametrically opposed concepts; beauty and grace are juxtaposed and diminished through brute action and athleticism, tacitly disrupting and challenging gender-based categorizations. The three pieces to be included, Big Dip, Ascendant Landing, and Potential Fertility Rite, are distinct yet share the recurrent core elements of sound, rhythm, and form embodied through purposeful movement. The symbols of the Celtic knot, the line, and the Lemniscate (eternity sign) provide the foundation for each of their performances, allowing for a poetic exploration of female tropes through notions of timelessness and the everyday. Tags: Artists Space TBL TallBlondLadies Anna Berndtson Irina Runge performing arts visual Marina Abramovic |
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A conference by Guillaume Désanges part 3of3 ARTISTS SPACE Blue Room Event Saturday, January 26, 5:30 p.m. A history of performance in 20 minutes: A conference by Guillaume Désanges The Blue Room is a flexible area within Artists Space dedicated to improvisational discourse. A hybrid between library and living room, this addition to Artists Spaces' program allows for informal conversations, lectures, small gatherings, and performative projects. Including an always open and ever-changing curated library of publications, the Blue Room is in constant transition as it reacts to issues of the day. A history of performance in 20 minutes is a conference that aims at dividing the history of performance into 10 gestures: 1. Appearing, 2. Receiving, 3. Holding back, 4. Escaping, 5. Aiming, 6.Falling, 7. Crying, 8. Biting, 9. Empting oneself, 10. Disappearing, discussing very subjectively those 10 gesture in a rather performative form. Guillaume Désanges (born in 1971, lives in Paris ) is curator, critic, and co-founder of Work Method, a Paris based agency for artistic projects. A member of the editorial board of Trouble Magazine, he collaborates with the magazines Exit Express and Exit Book ( Madrid ). He has coordinated projects such as Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers between 2001 and 2007, and worked with Thomas Hirschhorn (the 24h Foucault project, and Musée Précaire Albinet). Désange is currently an invited curator at Centre d'Art Contemporain La Tôlerie and teaches at Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Clermont-Ferrand. Tags: performing arts visual artists space Guillaume Désanges lecture conference |
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Nobile - Ivan Civic NOBILE is the second installment of When Time Becomes Form, an ongoing performance series of long-durational work, curated by Marina Abramovic for Artists Space. Ivan Civic's piece, NOBILE, was first staged at the 2007 Dance and Performance Biennale in Venice, as part of Body and Eros, a project by IPG (Independent Performance Group), curated by Marina Abramovic. Civic's performance at Artists Space further explores the obsessive narcissism and dependency on perfected images in Western culture. The work is also inspired by highly ritualized exercises in auto-eroticism developed by nobility in the late 17th century. NOBILE is the second installment of When Time Becomes Form, an ongoing performance series of long-durational work, curated by Marina Abramovic for Artists Space. The series explores and questions issues of concentration, will power, and determination, and involves the artists' use of the entire gallery space for 6 hours during each day of their performance. Twelve distinct, but interrelated, durational performances, each created and presented by a different performance artist (a member of the Independent Performance Group (IPG)), will occupy the Main Space galleries between exhibitions. The entire series will unfold over the course of the next two years. Tags: performing arts visual Artists Space Marina Abramovic Ivan Civic |
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A conference by Guillaume Désanges part 2of3 ARTISTS SPACE Blue Room Event Saturday, January 26, 5:30 p.m. A history of performance in 20 minutes: A conference by Guillaume Désanges The Blue Room is a flexible area within Artists Space dedicated to improvisational discourse. A hybrid between library and living room, this addition to Artists Spaces' program allows for informal conversations, lectures, small gatherings, and performative projects. Including an always open and ever-changing curated library of publications, the Blue Room is in constant transition as it reacts to issues of the day. A history of performance in 20 minutes is a conference that aims at dividing the history of performance into 10 gestures: 1. Appearing, 2. Receiving, 3. Holding back, 4. Escaping, 5. Aiming, 6.Falling, 7. Crying, 8. Biting, 9. Empting oneself, 10. Disappearing, discussing very subjectively those 10 gesture in a rather performative form. Guillaume Désanges (born in 1971, lives in Paris ) is curator, critic, and co-founder of Work Method, a Paris based agency for artistic projects. A member of the editorial board of Trouble Magazine, he collaborates with the magazines Exit Express and Exit Book ( Madrid ). He has coordinated projects such as Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers between 2001 and 2007, and worked with Thomas Hirschhorn (the 24h Foucault project, and Musée Précaire Albinet). Désange is currently an invited curator at Centre d'Art Contemporain La Tôlerie and teaches at Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Clermont-Ferrand. Tags: visual arts performing conference lecture Guillaume Désanges Artists Space |
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A conference by Guillaume Désanges part 1of3 ARTISTS SPACE Blue Room Event Saturday, January 26, 5:30 p.m. A history of performance in 20 minutes: A conference by Guillaume Désanges The Blue Room is a flexible area within Artists Space dedicated to improvisational discourse. A hybrid between library and living room, this addition to Artists Spaces' program allows for informal conversations, lectures, small gatherings, and performative projects. Including an always open and ever-changing curated library of publications, the Blue Room is in constant transition as it reacts to issues of the day. A history of performance in 20 minutes is a conference that aims at dividing the history of performance into 10 gestures: 1. Appearing, 2. Receiving, 3. Holding back, 4. Escaping, 5. Aiming, 6.Falling, 7. Crying, 8. Biting, 9. Empting oneself, 10. Disappearing, discussing very subjectively those 10 gesture in a rather performative form. Guillaume Désanges (born in 1971, lives in Paris ) is curator, critic, and co-founder of Work Method, a Paris based agency for artistic projects. A member of the editorial board of Trouble Magazine, he collaborates with the magazines Exit Express and Exit Book ( Madrid ). He has coordinated projects such as Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers between 2001 and 2007, and worked with Thomas Hirschhorn (the 24h Foucault project, and Musée Précaire Albinet). Désange is currently an invited curator at Centre d'Art Contemporain La Tôlerie and teaches at Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Clermont-Ferrand. Tags: Artists Space conference lecture performance Guillaume Désanges performing arts visual |
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Beech Forest - Viola Yesiltac The first installment of When Time Becomes Form, an ongoing performance series of long-durational work, curated by Marina Abramovic for Artists Space. The German artist Viola Yesiltac has noticed in recent years that her performances have more and more resembled photographs (standing against photo studio backdrops, she would make only the most minimal and mundane movements), and her photography has more and more looked like a performance (palpable traces of activity and feelings hovering in empty spaces). In her new project at Artist's Space, Yesiltac pinpoints time as the factor that charges her practice. In the place of Yesiltac, a paid actor will occupy the gallery at all times, standing in front of a photo backdrop frame. Yesiltac herself will visit the gallery every night to draw on the walls, tracing from a slide projection a Photograph by Albert Renger Patzsch Beech Forest, 1936. Juxtaposing these elements, Yesiltac manipulates two types of nowness: the frozen moment of the photograph becomes a natural and inexorable growth of lines on a wall; the infinitely extended, always unraveling moment of human presence aspires to the fixity of a photograph. Beech Forest is the first installment of When Time Becomes Form, an ongoing performance series of long-durational work, curated by Marina Abramovic for Artists Space. The series explores and questions issues of concentration, will power, and determination, and involves the artists' use of the entire gallery space for 6 hours during each day of their performance. Twelve distinct, but interrelated, durational performances, each created and presented by a different performance artist (a member of the Independent Performance Group (IPG)), will occupy the Main Space galleries between exhibitions. The entire series will unfold over the course of the next two years. Tags: visual arts performing Marina Abramovic Viola Yesiltac Artists Space |