6/10/2000
Aestheticization of war
MoMA PS1, New York
A forum for visitors in the arts: making connections, supporting networks, setting up meetings. Participants: Emily Jacir, Leon Golub, Nancy Spero, Ivo Skoric, Thomas Keenan, Walid Raad, Martha Rosler, Trebor Scholz. The evening will discuss issues around the representation of recent politically motivated violence and acts of war.
A forum for visitors in the arts: making connections, supporting networks,
setting up meetings.
Oct 7th, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, 22-25 Jackson Ave. At the intersection
of 46th Ave in Long Island City (studio Wing - 2nd floor; entrance at south
corner of PS1, on 46th Rd., in front of the Amoco gas station)
PROGRAM
5 - 6.30 pm: presentations
6.30: coffee break
6.45: presentations and round table discussion moderated by Trebor Scholz.
Participants: Emily Jacir, Leon Golub, Nancy Spero, Ivo Skoric, Thomas
Keenan, Walid Raad, Martha Rosler, Trebor Scholz
The evening will discuss issues around the representation of recent
politically motivated violence and acts of war. What are the problems inherent
in aestheticizing political conflicts through different media? What are the
strategies used to shift the focus away from macrostructures of international
politics to the microstructures of individual tragedies?
TREBOR SCHOLZ is an artist and curator born in East Germany, currently
teaching Contemporary Art History and Theory at the University of Arizona. He
will present 'Kosov@: Carnival in the Eye of the Storm', a project organized
in response to the war in Kosovo that consisted of an exhibition on view at
the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon (April 2000), a film
and video program, an international conference, and a website.
http://projects.pnca.edu/kosovo
LEON GOLUB, New York based artist. Since 1950, through painting and large
scale installations, Golub has focused on stress, violence and war; and most
recently on a sardonic "pseudo metaphysical" look at current "realities." in
our schizoid media saturated contemporaneity.
THOMAS KEENAN is Visiting Assoc Professor of Comaparitive Literature at Bard
College. He is author of "Fables of Responsibility" (Stanford, 1997) and is
currently finishing a book on humanitarianism, media, and post-Cold war
conflicts called "Live Feed". He will present the Human Rights Project.
MARTHA ROSLER, New York based artist, works with photography, video and
installation. She teaches photography and media at Rutger University, and just
had an exhibition at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York.
NANCY SPERO's art spans four decades across several media. Spero challenges
assumptions about the nature of women's power and presence by culling images
of women victims of war and rape, goddesses from ancient history and mythology
as well as current media images of roller skaters, athletes, dancers, old
women, etc. Her most recent installation was at the 7th Cairo Biennial where
Spero was the American
representative.
WALID RAAD is a Lebanese artist currently living and working in the US. His
works include textual analysis, video, performance and photography projects
that concentrate on the Lebanese civil wars. Raad is an Assistant Professor of
Media and Cultural Studies at Queens College (CUNY) and is also Executive
Director of The Atlas Group (Beirut/New York). He will be showing documents
(notebooks and videotapes) form the Atlas Archive.
EMILY JACIR is a New York based artist.. Her work incorporates a variety of
media and has dealt with issues of exile and the Palestinian/Israeli conflict.
IVO SKORIC is a New York based journalist writing for the on-line mailing
list "Net time". He will talk about the use of digital vs. analog electronic
media during the Kosovo war.
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 consists of
New York based and temporary residents. They actively seek out information
about who is coming to New York and when, they invite guests to present their
ideas and solicit the involvement of spaces where these presentations can take
place. They welcome advice, ideas and the support of others. The events will
be partly informal and casual, and will focus on exchanging ideas, initiating
new projects and networks. They will also include
short presentations, lectures, talks, sideshows, small exhibitions,
performances, discussions. 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.
Liesbeth Bik (artist, The Netherlands), Catherine Cruello
(curator/organizer, New York), Heather Felty (New York based curator)Andrea
Geyer (New York based artist), Gordon Knox (New York based initiator and
organizer), Jan Kopp (artist, France), John Menick (New York based artist),
Phill Niblock (New York based artist), Olu Oguibe (New York based
artist/curator), Cesare Pietroiusti (artist, Italy), Jos van der Pol (artist,
the Netherlands), Annette Schindler (curator, Switzerland), Shelly Silver (New
York based artist); Wolfgang Stahle (New York based artist).
For more information or suggestions for the program, please contact us at nomadsresidents@hotmail.com