Photos from Charles Atlas/Lia Gangitano at NYPL
Check out the pictures from yesterday night’s screening of Paradox and discussion with Charles Atlas and Lia Gangitano, Director of Participant Inc, at the Mid-Manhattan Library.
Art21 is co-presenting monthly screenings of each Season 4 episode at the NYPL throughout the spring.
Art21 & Mel Chin at NAEA
Check out Art21’s photos from last week’s NAEA conference in New Orleans. Featured are Art21-featured artist Mel Chin’s SuperSession, Art21’s professional development workshop for teachers (coopted by Chin), and Art21 and Mel’s team on the ground around town.
Photos from Judy Pfaff/Betsy Sussler at NYPL
Check out the pictures from last Monday night’s screening of Romance and discussion with Season 4 artist Judy Pfaff and Betsy Sussler, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of BOMB Magazine, at the Mid-Manhattan Library.
Art21 is co-presenting monthly screenings of each Season 4 episode at the NYPL throughout the spring.
Laylah Ali talk at the new DIA this Sunday
As part of Black History Month at the new DIA (Detroit Institute of Arts), on Sunday, February 24 at 2pm, Season 3 artist Laylah Ali will be speaking about her artwork.
Laylah Ali creates gouache-on-paper paintings that take many months to complete. She meticulously plots out in advance every aspect of her work, from subject matter to choice of color, achieving a high level of emotional tension in her paintings as a result of juxtaposing brightly colored scenes with dark, often violent subject matter.
Visit the DIA’s website for more information.
Never Mind That Noise You Heard: Allora & Calzadilla in Amsterdam
Last Friday, February 8, Never Mind That Noise You Heard, the first solo exhibition in the Netherlands by Season 4 featured artists Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, opened at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.
Never Mind That Noise You Heard displays recent installations and videos that consider the continuum between noise and music as a tool through which cultural, social, and political relationships can be considered. Many works in the exhibition are the outcome of Allora & Calzadilla’s investigations into militarism, war, and the inscriptions of power encoded in and through sound.
One of these pieces is Sediments Sentiments (Figures of Speech) (2007), an amorphous sculptures that consists of two white truncated forms with tunnel-like passageways. From the tunnels come the voices of opera singers performing fragments of speeches by key actors in recent political history, from Martin Luther King and the Dalai Lama to George Bush and Saddam Hussein. You can see a video of this work and fragments of the video Returning a Sound (2003) here.
Made in Vieques, Puerto Rico, Returning a Sound is the genesis of the central work of this show, a monumental sound and light installation entitled Wake Up (2007). For this piece, the artists asked trumpet players from around the world to interpret
Other featured works include: Unrealizable Goals (2007), There Is More Than One Way to Skin a Sheep (2007), and Sweat Glands, Sweat Lands (2006).
Allora & Calzadilla - Never Mind That Noise You Heard is on view through May 5, 2008 at the Stedelijk Museum. Download the show’s brochure here.
Do-Ho Suh interviewed by DesignBoom
The online magazine designboom features an interview with Season 2 artist Do-Ho Suh. In this interview, conducted in Seoul last December, Suh talks about his childhood, the influence of Korea and New York on his work, and the artists that inspire him.
Read the full interview here.
[via designboom]
Hubbard and Birchler speak tonight at Vanderbilt University
More in artists’ talks: Teresa Hubbard & Alexander Birchler (Season 3), the internationally acclaimed video artists, will speak tonight at 7pm at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.
Hubbard/Birchler began their collaboration in the mid-1990s, making sculpture, installation, photography, and performance-based work. They make short films and photographs about the construction of narrative time and space without the context of a traditional story line. These open-ended works elicit multiple readings.
In their first commission for television, Art21 invited Hubbard/Birchler to create original works of video art to conclude each of the four episodes in Season 3. Each beautiful and enigmatic short film uses the same setting—the interior of a police car at night—and begins when one officer brings a cup of coffee for another. Using recurring and non-recurring characters, interrelated dialogue, and ambient sound, the suite of films evoke not only the Season 3 themes of Power, Memory, Structures and Play, but also sleep, dreams and longing. View each film on their Art:21 webpage here.
This lecture is free and open to public.
On a related note, Season 4 artist Mark Dion will be speaking as part of the same StudioVU lecture series on February 27.
Vanderbilt University
Room 103 of Wilson Hall
Nashville, TN
Gabriel Orozco speaks January 30 at MoMA (sold out)
Tomorrow at 6:30pm, Glenn Lowry, Director of the Museum of Modern Art will moderate a talk with Art21-featured artist Gabriel Orozco (Season 2). Orozco’s sculptures, photographs, drawings, installations, and videos weave the everyday with the philosophical; he explores how meaning is made from chance encounters and found objects. Works by the artist are currently on view in MoMA’s current exhibition, New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930‚Äì2006: Selections from a Decade of Acquisitions.
The event is sold out but perhaps you may have some luck with getting a ticket at the door.
Laurie Simmons at the Metropolitan Museum on Sunday
THE MUSIC OF REGRET
A film by Laurie Simmons
Sunday, January 27, 2008 at 3pm
The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, The Metropolitan Museum
The Joyce and Robert Menschel Hall for Modern Photography
In conjunction with the opening of the new Joyce and Robert Menschel Hall for Modern Photography, Doug Eklund, assistant curator in the Department of Photographs, moderates a discussion with Laurie Simmons (Art:21 Season 4), who has work in the Museum‚Äôs collection. Simmons’ film is part of the afternoon‚Äôs focal point to explore contemporary photography and filmmaking.
At 2pm, there will a screening of No by Sharon Lockhart, followed by discussion with the artist.
View an excerpt of The Music of Regret on Art21’s YouTube channel.
Podcast: Roni Horn at Frieze 2007
From the Frieze archives: a podcast of artist Roni Horn (Season 3) describing the site-specificity and seriality in her work. In this 40-minute keynote lecture from the 2007 Frieze Art Fair in London (”Cultural Cartography,” October 14), Horn talks about her time and works in Iceland and her most recent project, Library of Water, in particular. It is the culmination of a lifelong interest in the relationship of language to place.
Access this podcast here.
[via Frieze]
