Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School
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What Now?
dal 3/4/2014 al 4/4/2014
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3/4/2014

What Now?

Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School, New York

Collaboration & Collectivit. Taking the central question of how we work together and how we form a community, the two-day symposium explores collaborations between artists and institutions.


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What Now? 2014 is a two-day symposium organized by Art in General in collaboration with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics. This launches a new series of annual conferences, called to investigate issues arising in the field of contemporary art. This year’s conference is dedicated to Collaboration and Collectivity and organized around three sessions spanning Friday and Saturday, with a keynote lecture on Friday evening, delivered by Charles Esche.

In the spirit of philosopher Hannah Arendt, who taught at The New School for many years, the symposium examines collaboration through a politics of place—how the way in which we live and work together directly creates the political landscape we inhabit. In Arendt’s words, “To live together in the world means essentially that a world of things is between those who have it in common, as a table is located between those who sit around it; the world, like every in-between, relates and separates men at the same time.”

Taking this central question of how we work together and how we form a community, What Now? 2014 explores collaborations between artists and institutions while examining the modes and methods of collective action, including positions of disengagement. With collaboration becoming a more prominent form of practice for both artists and institutions, the symposium examines some of the reasons behind this phenomenon—from the desires to produce new projects, knowledge, or research to developing new institutional structures. Through a series of presentations by various collectives, artists, scholars, curators, and writers, What Now? 2014 aims to generate new thinking around these issues, including authorship and authenticity as well as modes of collaboration as strategies for social change.

The symposium comprises three sessions, Collective Authorship, Collective Bargaining and Collective (Dis)engagement. Confirmed speakers include: Anne Barlow, Director, Art in General, New York
Charles Esche, Director of the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, and Curator of the 2014 São Paulo Biennial
Mariam Ghani, artist, New York
Sean Jacobs, The New School for Public Engagement, New York
Carin Kuoni, Director and Curator, Vera List Center for Art and Politics, New York
Johan Lundh, Co-Director, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
Laura Raicovich, Director of Global Initiatives, Creative Time, New York
Sarah Rifky, Co-Director, Beirut in Cairo
Nitin Sawhney, The New School for Public Engagement, New York
Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento, artist, founder of The Art Law Office, New York
Robert Sember, Ultra-red, New York
Luis Silva and João Mourão, Co-Directors, Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon
Sonja Srdanovic, Tufts University, Boston
Tercerunquinto, Mexico City
The Yes Men, New York
Pieternel Vermoortel, Co-Founder and Director, FormContent, London

Program

Friday, April 4

4:30–6:00p.m.
Session 1: Collective Authorship
In terms of institutional collaboration, the session will look at examples of collaboration that involve putting aside one central curatorial/authorial/artistic voice in order to take part in the exchange of ideas and the creation of joint projects. In terms of this collective way of working, how do individuals and/or organizations reach a creative consensus, and how are issues such as diverse local contexts, languages, time differences, and institutional capacities handled?

Is an institution the coming together of people towards shared aims, supported by the creation of a legal entity and situated in a certain place at particular time, or can it be framed as simply the notion of a shared voice? When and what happens in the shift between collective and institution and how does this difference reflect and shape their roles?

This panel will use Art in General’s newly formed partnership APRIL (Art in General, NY; Beirut, Cairo; CAC Derry-Londonderry; FormContent, London; Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon) as the springboard to expand on the central question of their first meeting, What is an Institution?

6:30–7:30p.m.
Keynote lecture by Charles Esche

Saturday, April 5

11:00a.m.–1:00p.m.
Session 2: Collective Bargaining
A panel of artists, curators, and academics will discuss the different aspects of collective work. Whether a group of individuals answering to a single name or namelessly acting together, what are the different structures of group entities and how do these structures affect the ability to provoke heightened self-awareness of our own social sphere?

By exploring the vision of the collective as a unified body in which individuals are drawn into an anonymous mass alongside the notion of collective action with its multidirectional and unpredictable group dynamics, the panel will discuss the different modes of collaboration as artistic strategies for social change.

1:00–2:00p.m.
Lunch Break

2:00–4:00p.m.
Session 3: Collective (Dis)engagement
Cultural or academic boycott is a strategy of protest and change often advocated by cultural producers, artists, and members of the creative industries. The boycott of South Africa during Apartheid is usually referenced as a particularly influential and successful example. In our contemporary moment, we ask for an appropriate form of engagement to affect change in a situation, government or institution that is not necessarily our own, whose ethics, however, is considered a source of conflict. As artists are increasingly recognized as producers of cultural, social, and economic capital, how can they leverage this power and act collectively in the most efficient ways to affect political, social, or cultural change?

A panel of artists, curators, and academics offers examples of different tactics that have been employed by groups or collectives to insert different discourses into existing contexts and structures, either by engaging or disengaging with them. What can be accomplished by creating an artist exchange with North Korea, by bringing gay artists’ work to a biennial in St. Petersburg, by not traveling to certain countries or states? A brief summary of the South African boycott from the 1960s to 1990 introduces a discussion on how to align ethical standards of diverse groups of people, how to carve out an impactful role for collective bodies without ignoring the complexity inherent in any situation or site of discordance.

More information regarding the session panelists is forthcoming.

What Now? 2014 is organized by Art in General in collaboration with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, as part of the Center’s curatorial initiative on Alignment. Art in General gives special thanks to the Lambent Fund of the Tides Foundation and the Trust for Mutual Understanding for their generous support of this conference.

The Vera List Center for Art and Politics is an idea incubator and a public forum for art, culture, and politics. It was established at The New School in 1992—a time of rousing debates about freedom of speech, identity politics, and society’s investment in the arts. A pioneer in the field, the center serves a critical mission: to foster a vibrant and diverse community of artists, scholars, and policy makers who take creative, intellectual, and political risks to bring about positive change.

We champion the arts as expressions of the political moments from which they emerge, and consider the intersection between art and politics the space where new forms of civic engagement must be developed. We are the only university-based institution committed exclusively to leading public research on this intersection. Through public programs and classes, prizes and fellowships, publications and exhibitions that probe some of the pressing issues of our time, we curate and support new roles for the arts and artists in advancing social justice. www.veralistcenter.org

The New School, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Auditorium
66 Fifth Avenue - New York City
Friday, April 4, 4.30–7:30p.m.
Saturday, April 5, 11:00a.m.–4:00p.m.
Free admission: To reserve tickets, please RSVP to vlc@newschool.edu

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