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19/11/2001

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White Columns, New York

Sharon Hayes, Los Angeles
Jenny Bass, New York City

This event brings together two projects which deal with the representation of the 'autobiographical', questioning the moments of its production as well as the moments of its representation.

Sharon Hayes will present a project employing a tape of Patricia Hearst which was made during her time with the Symbionese Liberation Army in the 1970's. Jenny Bass will introduce her work "My Affair With The Teacher" combining different interviews with retired Prima Ballerinas from Robert Tracy's book, "Balanchine's Ballerinas; Conversations with the Muses."

Sharon Hayes' work moves between multiple mediums and is concerned with developing representational strategies which confuse the roles of "self" and "other" by situating them in constantly shifting and unreliable narratives. To this aim, she employs conceptual and methodological approaches borrowed from artistic and academic practices such as theater, dance, anthropology and journalism. In her most recent work, she re-speaks texts from the audio cassettes that Patricia Hearst and the Symbionese Liberation Army sent to her family during her kidnapping in 1974, raising questions around authorship, brainwashing and the re-insertion of this historical text into a present political moment.

Jenny Bass is a artist who has experimented with performing quoted and verbatim text in several pieces: "The Betty Crocker Miracle" (Betty Crocker cookbook text) in collaboration with Matthew Buckingham; ' Troika ' (an interview with Russian Nationaist Vladimir Zhiranovsky taken from Playboy magazine) in a film by Jennifer Montgomery.

Big cities are in a continuous flux, with a coming and going of people who settle in, stay temporarily or move through. Newcomers enter this flux, become part of the life of the city, and make connections with others. The city, as a space, contains possibilities through the dynamic relationships between people, which may provoke an active engagement. Strangers become friends, ideas become practice, models are being transformed into action.


NOMADS & RESIDENTS makes connections with people who live here and with people who visit, by setting up an active network of collaborators, and creating and organizing public events in a variety of places. NOMADS & RESIDENTS invites artists, guests, curators, critics, activists, travelers and passers-by to present insight into their practice, their ideas, histories, and drives.

The curatorial and organizing group of NOMADS & RESIDENTS will consist of 50% New York based and 50% temporary residents. They will actively seek out information about who is coming to New York and when, they will invite guests to present his/her ideas and will solicit the involvement of spaces where these presentations can take place. They welcome advice, ideas and the enthusiastic support of others. The events will be partly informal and casual, and will include presentations, lectures, talks, slide-shows, small exhibitions, performances. No real topics will be set beforehand. Priority will be given to proposals that could become projects that will be shared among the participants, to a practice that can make resources and ideas available for common use.

Catherine Cruello (curator, New York)
Heather Fealty (curator, New York)
Andrea Geyer (New York based artist)
Ashley Hunt (artist, New York)
Gordon Knox (initiator and organizer of Civitella Ranieri, Italy)
Peter Lasch (artist, New York)
John Menick (New York based artist)
Phill Niblock (New York based artist, director of Experimental Intermedia, New York and Gent)
Shelly Silver (New York based artist)
Wolfgang Staehle (artist, New York)
Valerie Tevere (artist, New York)
Ben Young (writer, New York)

For more information or suggestions for the program, contact us via email at info@nomadsresidents.org or check http://www.nomadsresidents.org

White Columns
320 W15th Street
entrance on Horatio Street between 8th Avenue and Hudson Street

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