If you could not make it to Isaac's exhibition, please choose one of the following ongoing performances/exhibitions to attend. Make notes in your sketchbook, and be prepared to discuss in class 11.29.12. If you went to Isaac's exhibition, you are welcome to attend one of these for extra credit.
1. Martha Rosler
Meta-Monumental Garage Sale
November 17 to 30, 2012, MoMA
Wednesday–Thursday, 12:00–5:00 p.m.
Friday, 12:00–7:30 p.m.
Saturday–Monday, 12:00–5:00 p.m.
Closed on Tuesdays and Thanksgiving Day, November 22
For her first solo exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, Martha Rosler (Brooklyn, New York) will present her work Garage Sale in The Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium from November 17 to 30, 2012. Rosler, through her artistic practice, teaching, and writing, is widely regarded as one of the most influential artists of her generation. For more than 40 years, Rosler has made “art about the commonplace, art that illuminates social life,” examining the everyday through photography, performance, video, and installation.
http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2012/garagesale/
2. Krzysztof Wodiczko
Abraham Lincoln: War Veteran Projection
November 8 - December 9, 6-10 PM daily, Union Square Park North at 16th Street passageway
Beginning November 8th, voices of recent veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars will animate a bronze commemorative statue of Abraham Lincoln that has stood silently in Union Square Park since 1870.
For thirty-two days, the memories and feelings of ordinary Americans will speak through Lincoln as part of an outdoor public art installation by Krzysztof Wodiczko, an artist renowned for his large-scale light projections on architectural facades and monuments. Abraham Lincoln: War Veteran Projection marks a return of sorts to Manhattan for the artist, whose last monumental work here was the influential and still often cited Homeless Project (1988).
http://www.moreart.org/artists/krzysztof-wodiczko/
3. Performing Histories (1)
September 12, 2012–March 11, 2013, MoMA
Performing Histories (1) is the first part of a two-part exhibition of media artworks that engage with history in various ways. These works, which have all recently entered the Museum’s Media and Performance Art collection, represent a wide range of perspectives, reflecting the diversity of the artist’s practices and backgrounds. The featured artists are Kader Attia (b. France, 1970), Andrea Fraser (b. USA, 1965), Ion Grigorescu (b. Romania, 1945), Sharon Hayes (b. USA, 1970), Dorit Margreiter (b. Austria, 1967), Deimantas Narkevičius (b. Lithuania, 1964), and Martha Rosler (b. USA, 1943).
The practices, exemplified in these works, of revisiting existing narratives and examining one’s own cultural, social, and personal history are not bound to any specific medium; they are part of critical artistic practice, in general. In recent decades, artists have increasingly chosen to employ performance in conjunction with cinematic mediums, such as film, slide projection, video, and photography, in orderto create multifaceted narratives and provide new readings of past events.
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1312
*There is a related conference about performance art today this Friday and Saturday, but it's sold out. You can still go the day of, and try to get in.
How Are We Performing Today?
New Formats, Places, and Practices of Performance-Related Art
November 16 and 17, 2012, 1–7pm
How Are We Performing Today? examines the shifting conditions and rising popularity of performance-related art, and its evolving—and frequently ambivalent—relationship to the museum. Drawing on the double meaning of "performance" as both a live element in the arts and a benchmark for economic productivity, the conference seeks to understand the character and consequences of new performance formats and strategies used by artists, curators, and institutions. Moreover, it explores how performance is tied to the experience economy—in which memory itself is a product—and how it is framed institutionally. The program of prominent scholars, artists, and curators addresses questions including: Where and under what conditions does performance art emerge today? How can artists and institutions address performance's migration from the margin to the center of contemporary art discourse? What kinds of transformations or conditions might be necessary to create a meaningful or critically engaged performance art program within the museum?
Through this conference, MoMA's Department of Media and Performance Art seeks to deepen its engagement with the theory and practice of performance-related art—reflecting on the medium's changing parameters, modes of production, and presentation.
November 16
Introduction
Sabine Breitwieser, Chief Curator, Department of Media and Performance Art, MoMA
Keynote Address
Judith Butler, Professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature and Co-director of the Program of Critical Theory, University of California, Berkeley
Shannon Jackson, Professor in the Arts and Humanities, University of California, Berkeley
Moderator: Sabine Breitwieser, Chief Curator, Department of Media and Performance Art, MoMA
Session 1: The Places of Performance
Rachel Haidu, Associate Professor in the Department of Art and Art History and the Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies, University of Rochester
Andrea Fraser, Artist, Professor for New Genres, University of California, Los Angeles
Moderator: Johanna Burton, Director, graduate program at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College
November 17
Session 2: New Formats
Pierre Bal-Blanc, Director, CAC Brétigny, Paris, France
Boris Charmatz, Director, Rennes and Brittany National Choreographic Centre (Musée de la Danse)
Tim Griffin, Executive Director and Chief Curator, The Kitchen, New York
Stephanie Rosenthal, Chief Curator, Hayward Gallery, London
Moderator: Ana Janevski, Associate Curator of Performance, Department of Media and Performance Art, MoMA
Session 3: New Artistic Practices
Film screening: Grand Openings. Return of the Blogs, by Loretta Fahrenholz
Jutta Koether, artist, writer, and Professor, Hochschule für bildende Künste (HfbK), Hamburg
Jay Sanders, Curator of Performance, The Whitney Museum of the American Art, New York
Simon Leung, artist and Professor of Art, University of California, Irvine
Emily Roysdon, artist and writer
Moderator: Claire Bishop, Associate Professor in Art History, CUNY Graduate Center, New York
Archival Case Studies
Jonathan Lill, Project Archivist, MoMA
Michelle Elligott, Archivist, MoMA
David Senior, Bibliographer, MoMA
Organized by Sabine Breitwieser, Chief Curator, and Ana Janevski, Associate Curator of Performance, with Leora Morinis, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Media and Performance Art.
How Are We Performing Today? is made possible by MoMA's Wallis Annenberg Fund for Innovation in Contemporary Art through the Annenberg Foundation.
Live-stream the conference at MoMA.org/live.
Find out more about the symposium and other performance-related events at MoMA.org/performance.
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