Art of Assembly book launch

A conversation at the Graduate Center with curator Florian Malzacher to launch the English translation of his book The Art of Assembly (2023). A video of the conversation is archived here.

Art of Assembly XIV

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Florian Malzacher's long-running and excellent series Art of Assembly came to NY in March. I was totally thrilled to be doing my first in-person public event in 2+ years, and in the company of (insane combination alert) Tania Bruguera and Ann Liv Young. I also discovered I was completely out of practice at navigating live Q&A. Here's the vid.

Conversation with Alexandra Pirici

A public conversation with the artist Alexandra Pirici about her performance work, for the Impulse Theatre Festival 2017. This event at Kunstverein Düsseldorf was billed as "Gestures of the Political" but we talk more about digital technology than politics. Link here.

Post-Discipline? Contemporary Artists and Research

A new public seminar series, co-organised with Lindsay Caplan and Katherine Carl for the Center for the Humanities at CUNY Graduate Center.

What can artistic approaches to research tell us about the relationship between history and its interpretation? And what creative lessons might artistic examples offer to researchers in the humanities? Does the restlessly hybrid character of these artistic endeavours provide a model for post-disciplinary research?

30 September - Walid Raad
28 October - Andrea Geyer
9 December - Trevor Paglen

Spring dates tbc - Jill Magid, Eyal Weisman and Antoni Muntadas

Reading and registration required - please sign up here.

Deskilling - The Aesthetics of Amateurism

A five-part interdisciplinary seminar series at CUNY Graduate Center, co-organised with Lindsay Caplan (graduate student, Art History), and open to everyone in the city (further info and registration click here).

Guest speakers:
15 October 2010: Caroline Jones, MIT
19 November 2010: Kenneth Goldsmith, writer and ubu.web
10 December 2010: Randy Martin, NYU
25 February 2011: Kristin Ross, NYU
8 April 2011: Gary Genosko, Lakehead

A blog about the seminar series can be found here.

Conversation with Xavier Le Roy

On the back of Xavier Le Roy's amazing performances at Boston ICA in April, I organised a lecture by this leading proponent of so-called 'conceptual dance' at the Martin Segal Theatre Centre (at CUNY Graduate Center). The audio will be available online soon.