| 2008 |
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| JUN 14 |
public program: Response:
incomplete world |
New York video artist Shelly Silver
organizes a day of activity around issues of individual and
collective responsibility, which includes a preview of her soon
to be finished film incomplete world. |
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| JUN 12 |
public program: Abecedarium
for Our Times |
Radhika Subramaniam launches an
Abecedarium for Our Times - a chapbook for re-visioning our
words and our world with contributions from 26 writers and artists. |
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| JUN 11 |
public program: Supermasochist |
Sheree Rose, companion and dominatrix
of Bob Flanagan shows unseen segments of and talks about Sick:
The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist. Preceded
by daytime film screenings. |
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audio file of Sheree Rose in conversation (1 hour 26 min,
39Mbs) |
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| JUN 7 |
public program: Love
Thy Neighbor |
Berlin-based artist Daniel Seiple
curates Love Thy Neighbor, including works by Peter Fend, Robert
Longo, Michael Smith, and Lester Miller. |
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| JUN 6 |
public program: Jocasta
preview |
Vicky Shick curates excerpts projected
on the walls from Elise Kermani's film, Jocasta, along with
objects in the gallery space by Barbara Kilpatrick. |
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| JUN 4 |
resident performance: Azeb
Worku Sibane |
The Devil's Scarf and The Lion's
Whiskers. Traditional Ethiopian Fairy Tales. apexart’s
current international resident Azeb Worku Sibane, Addis Ababa,
engages the audience in stories originating from her native
Ethiopia. |
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| MAY 26 |
exhibition opening: ABACA |
ABACA (Arts Benefits All Coalition
Alternative) high school students
Opening Reception, Blue Print. From the Ground Up.
With special student presentation at 7pm. |
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| APR 30 |
film screening: The
Devil and Daniel Johnston |
Delve into the artistic genius and
manic depression of singer/songwriter/artist Daniel Johnston
to learn about madness, creativity and love. Current footage,
vintage performances, home movies and interviews with friends
and families draw an intimate portrait of one of the founders
of Indie music. Directed by Jeff Feuerzeig. |
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| FEB 29 |
exhibition talk: Boris
Groys |
Please join apexart and Boris Groys
in a public discussion of the current exhibition, Thinking in
Loop: Three videos on iconoclasm, ritual and immortality. Groys
will describe the inception and method behind his video collages,
followed by questions from apexart Executive Director Steven
Rand and the audience. |
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| FEB 20 |
exhibition opening: Boris
Groys |
Thinking in Loop: Three videos on
iconoclasm, ritual and immortality |
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| FEB 16 |
performance:
Already in Progress |
Join us for Already in Progress,
a multimedia comedy about the best modern art America is producing
today...television! |
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| FEB 6 |
public program:
Out of the Studio: Writing and Drawing in Three Dimensions |
Join apexart and ISCP in a conversation
between current apexart resident Stefan Çapaliku (Albania)
and ISCP residents Miha Presker and Luiza Margan (Slovenia),
who are working in the literary and visual arts, respectively.
In spite of their relative geographic proximity, the artists
and writer have noted the vast cultural differences between
Albania and Slovenia and they will take this rare opportunity
to speak about bringing their artistic media into new realms. |
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| JAN 9 |
exhibition opening: The
(Self)Promotion Show |
apexart held an open call, requesting
submissions of a 30-second TV commercial about us from individuals
and collaborative groups. In addition to being on view as part
of the living-room-style installation, the commercials are available
for viewing on our website, where viewers voted for their favorite
commerical which aired on TV. |
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| 2007 |
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| DEC 12 |
resident talk:
Maria-Ines Rodriguez |
Resident Maria Inès Rodriguez,
a Colombian-born curator working in France and Spain, discussed
her recent project -- part exhibition, part seminar, part meeting
place -- entitled Habitat / Variation. |
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| NOV 30 |
artist talk:
Amy Balkin and Jens Haaning |
Jens Haaning and Amy Balkin on Art
and Public Domain in conjunction with the exhibition Land
Grab |
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| NOV 29 |
public workshop:
Land Grab |
"Strategies of Occupation:
Grabbing Land and The Political Agency of The Artist" Join
Land Grab curators for a Public Workshop at Vera List Center
for Art and Politics at The New School |
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| NOV 13 |
resident talk:
Dorothy Amenuke |
Resident Dorothy Amenuke (Kumasi,
Ghana) in discussion with Judy Sigunick |
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audio file of Dorothy Amenuke talk (1 hour 43 min, 47Mbs)
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| NOV 11 |
artist talk:
John Hawke |
The artist gives an on-site talk
about his intervention in a bus shelter in Bedford-Stuyvesant,
Brooklyn, in conjunction with the exhibition Land Grab |
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| NOV 9 |
artist talk:
Lars Vilks |
Lars Vilks discusses his large-scale
outdoor sculpture and the politics of keeping it alive, in conjunction
with the exhibition Land Grab |
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| NOV 7 |
exhibition opening:
Land
Grab |
curated by Sarah Lookofsky and Lillian
Fellmann |
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| NOV 3 |
exhibition talk:
Beyond Nostalgia |
The exhibition's curators and special
guests Croatian artist Sanja Ivekovic and Russian-American theoretician
Svetlana Boym discussed in conjunction with the current exhibition
Stalking with Stories: The Pioneers of the Immemorable. |
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| OCT 25 |
panel discussion:
The State of Residency |
Residency programs have become
an essential component of the arts community, bringing hundreds
of artists, curators and others to New York each year. apexart
presents a discussion with program administrators, funders,
and artists on the residency as an institution. Nathalie Angles,
Fritzie Brown, Alexandra do Carmo, Kambui Olujimi and Steven
Rand in conversation. |
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VIDEO |
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| OCT 10 |
resident talk: Eduardo
Verderame |
Brazilian artist and curator Eduardo
Verderame, discussed the complex and ever-changing role played
by public art in Brazil -- and, by way of comparison, New York
-- based on his experience as an organizer of several large-scale
arts events that are part festival, part street intervention. |
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audio file of Eduardo Verderame talk (33 Mbs) |
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| SEP 19 |
exhibition opening
Antonia Majaca
Ivana Bago |
Stalking
with Stories: The Pioneers of the Immemorable |
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| JUL 25 |
exhibition talk
|
In conjunction with The Most Curatorial
Biennial of the Universe: A talk
with Carlo McCormick, Sara Reisman and Steven Rand |
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| JUL 6 |
exhibition opening
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The
Most Curatorial Biennial of the Universe |
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| JUN 26 |
film screening
Terror Tactics |
In connection with the films screening
Terror
Tactics, Olga Kopenkina, independent curator and art critic,
discusses issues related to paranoia with Mark Boswell, Jim
Finn and Anton Koslov. |
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| JUN 13 |
residency talk
Stella Brennan |
"There and Back Again: Location,
Situation and the Export Imperative" talk by current resident
Stella
Brennan |
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| MAY 16 |
exhibition opening
Luc Sante |
The
Museum of Crime and the Museum of God organized by Luc
Sante |
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| MAY 9 |
residency talk
Dejan Krsic |
Is it possible to be a great (and)
Eastern European artist?
Current apexart resident Dejan
Krsic (Designer and artist, Sarajevo ) in dialogue with
Gary Dufour |
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| MAY 1 |
exhibition opening
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Don't
Get It Twisted: Violence affects everyone organized by
ABACA's Curatorial Studies students - Curators' Talk at 7
pm |
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| APR 18 |
residency talk
Boyan Manchev |
"Our Capital is Joy"
- Current apexart resident Boyan
Manchev (Philosopher, Paris, Sofia) in dialogue with Radhika
Subramaniam, Director of Cultural Programs at Lower Manhattan
Cultural Council; Boyan Manchev will discuss "open concepts"
such as disorganisation, resistance, joy and community, while
reflecting on the question: can contemporary art still be radical
if it can be at all. |
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| APR 20 |
film screening
Wendelien van Oldenborgh |
Maurits Script by Wendelien van
Oldenborgh
Discussion with filmmaker and Emily Pethick (Director of Casco
Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht ) will follow the
screening. |
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| 2006 |
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| DEC 5 |
residency talk
Hinako Kasagi |
Current apexart resident Hinako
Kasagi (curator, Nagoya City, Japan) and New York-based video
artist and filmmaker Shelly Silver discuss the past, present
and future role of Japanese women in the arts in Japan and abroad. |
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| NOV 29 |
exhibition opening
Thanks: Returning the Favor |
Thanks: Returning the Favor, reconsiders
the relationship of philanthropy, hidden meaning and gift giving. |
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| NOV 15 |
public program
Jeff Howe |
Jeff Howe (WIRED Magazine) discusses
"crowdsourcing" as a new corporate and cultural methodology. |
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| NOV 8 |
public program
Davy Rothbart
Jason Bitner |
FOUND Magazine's Davy Rothbart &
Jason Bitner share the latest, greatest finds to land at FOUND
HQ and talk about publishing FOUND Magazine. Featuring music
from celebrated one-man 80's band Anvil. |
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| NOV 1 |
residency talk
Erzen Shkololli |
Current apexart resident Erzen Shkololli
(artist and curator, Kosovo) in conversation with New York-based
artist and writer Sabrina Gschwandtner. |
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| OCT 18 |
exhibition opening
Andrea Grover |
Phantom Captain: Art and Crowdsourcing
curated by Andrea Grover, the founder of the Aurora Picture
Show, a non-profit center for film, video and new media in Houston,
Texas. |
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| SEP 6 |
exhibition opening
Cristiana Perrella |
Neo-Con. Contemporary Returns to
Conceptual Art curated by Cristiana Perrella, curator of the
Contemporary Arts Program of the British School at Rome. |
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| AUG 2 |
public program
Satch Hoyt |
Visual artist and musician Satch
Hoyt will present improvised, self-conducted "soundscapes"
on flute, percussion, and toys, with special guest Charles Fambo. |
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| JUL 5 |
exhibition opening
Alexander Nagel |
Gifts go in one direction curated
by Alexander Nagel, a writer and art historian who teaches at
the University of Toronto |
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| MAY 24 |
exhibition opening
Edi Muka |
Sweet Taboos: A Mini Tirana Biennale
in New York curated by Edi Muka, a freelance curator based in
Tirana and Stockholm. |
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| MAY 17 |
exhibition talk
Aniko Erdosi
Hakan Topal
Katarina Sevic |
Displaced Histories: What are the
potential gains of physical and intellectual relocation? And,
more importantly, can we displace our focus without losses?
Aniko Erdosi (curator and art historian, Budapest, Hungary),
imam (Hakan Topal) (artist and founding member of Xurban_Collective,
New York - Istanbul), and Katarina Sevic (artist, Budapest)
will discuss issues of transference and displacement as addressed
by the exhibition. |
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| MAY 10 |
residency talk
Tamara Diaz Bringas |
Current apexart resident Tamara
Diaz Bringas (curator and writer, Costa Rica) and New York-based
artist Pablo Helguera discuss creative trends in Central America. |
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| APR 12 |
exhibition opening
Aniko Erdosi |
Re_dis_trans curated by Aniko Erdosi,
an art historian and independent curator from Budapest. |
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| JAN 22 |
exhibition opening
Amei Wallach |
Neo Sincerity: The Difference Between
the Comic and the Cosmic is a Sigle Letter curated by Amei Wallach,
art critic based in NYC |
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| JAN 11 |
exhibition opening
Mark Soo |
One Brief Moment curated by Mark
Soo, artist based in Vancouver. |
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2005 |
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| MAR 30 |
residency
talk
Nathalie Zonnenberg |
Nathalie
Zonnenberg curator (Netherlands/Berlin) |
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| MAR 19 |
gallery
talk
Jonas Ekeberg
|
Curator Jonas Ekeberg talks about
Social
Democracy Revisited |
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| MAR 16 |
opening
Jonas Ekeberg
|
Social
Democracy Revisited curated by Jonas Ekeberg,
Director, The Preus Museum (Horten, Norway) |
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| MAR 12 |
opening
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Maurizio Couldn't
Be Here
Bootlegs by Eric Doeringer, organized by Fernanda
Arruda |
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| MAR 5 |
opening
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Maurizio Couldn't
Be Here
The Taste of Others - video, installation,
performance works and traditional Afghan dish tasting) curated
by Leeza Ahmady |
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| FEB 26 |
opening
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Maurizio Couldn't
Be Here
New Humans + Matthew Suib and VOY + Kirby Conn,
+ tba - live
collaborations between bands + video artists |
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| FEB 23 |
residency
talk
Kai Ozawa |
Kai
Ozawa, curator (Tokyo, Japan) with Yukie
Kamiya, Associate Curator, New Museum (NYC) |
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| FEB 19 |
opening
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Maurizio Couldn't
Be Here
ARTCOM
- The Final Frontier Professional TV directors
create 30 or 60 sec. spots featuring artists and their work |
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| FEB 12 |
opening
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Maurizio Couldn't
Be Here
Harrell Fletcher presents
Come Together (NYC) - an all day event with
25+ special guest speakers |
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| FEB 9 |
panel
Negar Azimi
Abbas Milani
Farhad Moshiri |
Too
Much Pollution to Demonstrate with Negar Azimi, Abbas Milani,
and Farhad Moshiri at the Tribeca Grand, Grand Screen room |
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| OCT 27 |
resident
talk
Beatriz Santiago Muñoz |
Beatriz Santiago Muñoz
will speak about the contemporary art scene in Puerto Rico
and screen some Puerto Rican archival films alongside some of
her recent videos. Co-Director and Co-Founder of Cinema Tropical
(NYC) Carlos Gutierrez will introduce Beatriz
and moderate a discussion following. |
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| JAN 5 |
gallery
opening
Amiel Grumberg |
Too
Much Pollution to Demonstrate: Soft Guerrillas n Tehran's Contemporary
Art Scene curated by Amiel Grumberg |
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| NOV 10 |
gallery
opening
Marta Kuzma |
Drafting
Deceit |
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| OCT 27 |
resident
talk
Adrian Paci
Natasa Petresin |
A
talk about recent representational trends in South Eastern
Europe, introduce their own work and the work of their peers
from this region. |
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| OCT
20 |
special
program |
A
Residency Mixer for NY-based art residency programs - ArtsLink,
iscp, Art in General, LMCC and others. |
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| OCT 16 |
gallery
talk |
Vittorio Messina (Italy) and Anila
Rubiku (Albania) speak about their work in the Place
for the Self. |
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| OCT 13 |
gallery
opening
Amnon Barzel |
Place
for the Self |
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| OCT
2 |
special
program
Etgar Keret
Sina Queyras |
Sina Queyras (writer, Brooklyn)
will introduce Etgar Keret (writer, Israel), who will then read
some of his award-winning short stories, followed by a question
and answer session. |
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| SEP 29 |
residency
talk
Philippe Pirotte |
Belgian curator and writer Philippe
Pirotte will speak on notions of the idyll as a reflection
on temporality. |
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| SEP
22 |
gallery
talk
Gregory Green
Beryl Korot |
Two artists speak about their work
in the exhibition Building
the Unthinkable curated by Christian Stayner. |
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| SEP 8 |
gallery
opening
Christian Stayner |
Building
the Unthinkable |
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| JUL 14 |
gallery
talk
Cay Sophie Rabinowitz
Wade Guyton |
Cay Sophie Rabinowitz will speak
with artist Wade Guyton about how his work relates to the 2004
Summer Exhibition selection. |
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| JUL 8-15 |
CONFERENCE
3 |
Inside Out: Reassessing International
Cultural Influence at The Contemporary Art Museum, Honolulu,
Hawai'i |
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| JUN 30 |
gallery
opening
Cay Sophie Rabinowitz |
2004
Summer Exhibition |
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| JUN 2 |
residency
talk
Adania Shibli
Rasha Salti |
Rasha Salti (ArteEast, NYC &
Ashkal-Alwan, Beirut) will introduce Adania
Shibli (writer, Palestine), who will then read from a selection
of her short stories about daily life in Palestine in both Arabic
and English. A discussion following will be lead by Suhail Shadoud
(Adjunct Professor, Arabic Language at Columbia University) |
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| MAY 12 |
special
program
Bob Holman |
The Reemergence of the Oral Tradition
in the Digital Age: POETRY TV! Bob Holman, poetry pioneer and
founder of the Bowery Poetry Club in New York, will present
some of his poems and show excerpts from The United States of
Poetry. |
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| MAY 5 |
residency
talk
Arik Miranda
Nancy Schwartzman |
Arik
Miranda and Nancy Schwartzman will speak about Xtra Large
and Heeb Magazine, the work of their peers, and introduce their
own multi-disciplinary art practices. |
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| APR 21 |
gallery
opening
Black Dragon Society |
Black
Dragon Society |
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| APR 7 |
residency
talk
Gavin Shettler |
Gavin
Shettler (curator, Portland, Oregon) will speak about The
Modern Zoo: Center for Arts and the Portland contemporary art
scene. |
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| MAR 24 |
gallery
talk
AAA |
In relation to the exhibition The
Future of the Reciprocal Readymade curated by Stephen Wright |
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| MAR 20 |
gallery
talk
Stephen Wright |
On the
use-value of art, presented by Stephen Wright with the participation
of Bureau d'études, Atlas Group, Grupo de Arte Callejero,
Yes men and special guests. |
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| MAR 17 |
gallery
opening
Stephen Wright |
The
Future of the Reciprocal Readymade (The use-value of art)
curated by Stephen Wright (critic, Paris). What happens when
art crops up in the everyday, not to aestheticize it, but to
inform it? |
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| MAR 10 |
residency
talk
Maria Clara Bernal
Caecilia Tripp |
Maria Clara Bernal (art historian,
Bogota/London) will give a historical introduction to the terms
"Créolité" and "Creolization"
– which refer to the way cultures change through exchange.
Caecilia Tripp (P.S.1 resident artist, Paris) will screen fragments
of her video work Une agor reunionnaise which deals with different
aspects of these terms. |
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| FEB 25 |
exhibition
walk-through
Janine Antoni |
With contributors to Treasure
Maps, curated by Janine Antoni
Chitra Ganesh, Tim R. Riley, Michael Schumacher, Elizabeth Streb
and Vinzenz Unger will speak about their work. In addition,
Susan Sollins will speak about the work of Earle Brown. |
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| FEB 11 |
gallery
opening
Janine Antoni |
Treasure
Maps |
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| JAN 28 |
residency
talk
Stanford Watson
Catherine Amidon |
The Jamaican Experience through
images and dialogue, examining the differences and similarities
between Caribbean and North American art practices. |
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| JAN 31 |
artist
talk
Michael Rakowitz |
in conjuction with Adaptations |
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| JAN 14 |
gallery
talk
Craig Buckley |
A conversation with artists Oscar
Tuazon and Ocean Earth in conjuction with Adaptations |
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| JAN 10 |
artist
talk
Kim Adams
Stealth Group |
artists talk: Kim
Adams (Toronto) and Stealth Group (Rotterdam/Belgrade) in conjuction
with Adaptations |
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| JAN 7 |
gallery
opening
Craig Buckley |
gallery opening:
Adaptations |
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| 2003 |
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| DEC 10 |
residency
talk
Zhang Weiwei
Christopher Phillips |
The talk will introduce the Pearl
River Delta area - the landscape, urbanization, economics, and
local culture - as context for exploring Chinese contemporary
art and the strategy of Vitamin Creative Space. |
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| DEC 3 |
special program
Carin Kuoni |
Three Artists on Modernism and the
Relevance of its Social and Aesthetic Utopia to Their Work organized
by independent curator Carin Kuoni: Terence Gower (Mexico City
and New York), Nicholas Herman (New York), and Ivan Navarro
(Santiago, Chile and New York) will talk about their work and
discuss shared—and divergent—takes on Modernism.
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| NOV 19 |
special program
Serkan Özkaya |
A talk by Turkish artist Serkan
Özkaya |
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| NOV 15 |
curator talk
WHW |
Looking
Awry |
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| NOV 12 |
gallery
opening
Craig Buckley |
gallery opening:
Looking Awry organized by Zagreb-based curatorial collective
'What, How & for Whom' (WHW) - Ivet Curlin, Ana Devic, Natasa
Ilic and Sabina Sabolovic |
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| NOV 1 |
gallery
talk
GCH/Galeria Chilena |
in conjunction with To
be Political it has to Look Nice |
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| OCT 29 |
gallery
program
Carlos Gutiérrez |
Video screening of work by "El
Vicio, Posesión Extraterrestre"; Helena Producciones,
"El Libro de Ultratumba"; and Miguel Calderón,
"Discípula del Velocímetro" led by Carlos
Gutiérrez (co-founder and co-director, Cinema Tropical,
NYC) |
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| OCT 22 |
residency
talk
Savvas Christodoulides |
Savvas Christodoulides is an artist
who was born in Cyprus and is currently obtaining his PhD in
Arts Plastique at the University of Provence in Marseille, France. |
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| OCT 14 |
gallery
talk
Pablo León de la Barra |
in conjunction with To
be Political it has to Look Nice |
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| OCT 11 |
gallery
opening
Pablo León de la Barra |
To
be Political it has to Look Nice |
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| OCT 1 |
special program
Gary Cannone |
A video/film programmed by Gary
Cannone (artist, Los Angeles/Rome) selected by Irene Tsatsos,
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions |
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| SEP 24 |
residency
talk
Douglas Rodrigo Rada Parejas |
The Identity of the Mexican Art
Scene: Confronting the Mainstream
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