Prospect.1 New Orleans Coming in November
Slated as the largest biennial of international contemporary art ever organized in the United States, Prospect.1 New Orleans will open November 1, 2008 and run through January 18, 2009. Founding director and chief curator of this new biennial, Dan Cameron (former Senior Curator of the New Museum and recently appointed Director of Visual Arts of the Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) in New Orleans) was inspired to organize an exhibition in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The recently announced list of 75+ artists from around the globe includes Art21 artists Allora & Calzadilla, Mark Bradford (both Season 4), Cai Guo-Qiang, Arturo Herrera (both Season 3), Janine Antoni, and Trenton Doyle Hancock (Season 2).
Calling for a total of 100,000 square feet of exhibition space, Prospect.1 New Orleans will be divided among several buildings in various historic New Orleans neighborhoods, including the Warehouse District, the Bywater, French Quarter, the Marigny, and the Treme. A number of existing institutions and halls - CAC, New Orleans Museum of Art, and Ogden Museum of Southern Art - will be used, along with converted warehouses, commercial structures and other public spaces and found sites throughout the city.
How will Prospect.1 New Orleans help the damaged city? “[It] will contribute to the cultural rebuilding of New Orleans by creating an entirely new narrative about the city, its architecture, and its history. By re-branding the city as a place where the visual arts can thrive, the long-term aim of Prospect.1 New Orleans is to create an entirely new category of cultural tourism for the city, and to broaden its image overall.”
While the Prospect.1 website is good for answers to logistical questions, and briefly addresses the terms “global art” and “biennial,” what is perhaps most important here (as demonstrated in the above excerpt) is attention to the city’s predicament and progress-Prospect.1 tells us the state of things in New Orleans.
For further information and updates, please go to the Prospect.1 New Orleans website.
Antoni, Charles, and Hamilton in Points of Convergence in TX
Currently on view at the Gallery at the University of Texas at Arlington is Points of Convergence. Seven nationally-recognized contemporary artists, who received MFA degrees from seven different American university art programs, have been paired with seven emerging artists currently completing the MFA program at those same universities for the exhibition, which runs through Tuesday, March 4.
Work by Art21 artists Janine Antoni (Season 2), Michael Ray Charles, and Ann Hamilton (both Season 1) is shown alongside that of David Bates, Ross Bleckner, Enrique Chagoya, and more.
In conjunction with the exhibition, Michael Ray Charles gave an illustrated lecture about his work last Thursday, Feb. 21. If you happened to attend, please share your impressions or any photos you may have taken with us.
For more information or visit www.uta.edu/gallery.
Janine Antoni at Weatherspoon
Currently on view at the Weatherspoon Art Museum is an exhibition by Janine Antoni, who was featured in Season Two of Art:21—Art in the Twenty-First Century.
Internationally acclaimed, Janine Antoni is known for translating the daily routines of bathing, eating and sleeping into unique art forms. In the present exhibition, Antoni presents work that uses succinct physical gestures to examine the nature of three powerful, identity-forming relationships.
In each piece she chooses a radically different medium in order to best express her meaning. In describing the concept for the show, the artist states,
“This exhibition maps out my relationship to the world beginning with my mother in “If I Die Before I Wake (mother’s hand meets daughter’s hand in prayer),” (2004), my husband in “Mortar and Pestle” (1999), and the landscape in “Touch” (2002). It could be said that each work records a moment of contact. In all cases I have chosen an unexpected way to touch in order to expose something about these relationships and my longing for connection.”
(Read full quote here)
Weatherspoon Art Museum
Greensboro College
Spring Garden St. & Tate St.
Greensboro, NC 27402
Exhibition on view until December 23
Three Art21 artists exchange roles at Sean Kelly
Art21 featured artists Laurie Anderson (Season 1), Janine Antoni (Season 2) and Matthew Barney (Season 3) are all taking part in Role Exchange, a group show of twenty-seven artists at Sean Kelly Gallery through August 3, 2007.
These artists address the process through which identity is constructed by exploring different roles and characters. Though disparate in formal resolution, the artists in this exhibition share an impulse to transform traditional social roles. They require us to redefine our perceived categorizations of gender and identity, allowing for more nuanced systems of classification and a greater understanding of their abiding interest in role exchange.
Other artists in Role Exchange include: Marina Abramovic, Sophie Calle, Samuel Fosso, Robert Gober, Anthony Goicolea, Douglas Gordon, Fergus Greer / Leigh Bowery, Johan Grimonprez, Lyle Ashton Harris, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Michel Journiac, Nikki S. Lee, Kalup Linzy, Urs Lüthi, Robert Mapplethorpe, Duane Michals, Yasumasa Morimura, Robert Morris, Adrian Piper, Cindy Sherman, Yinka Shonibare, Gavin Turk, Andy Warhol, and Gillian Wearing.
