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Syndicate: NOMADS & RESIDENTS - Aestheticization of war |
From: "trebor" <treborscholz@earthlink.net> > NOMADS & RESIDENTS > A forum for visitors in the arts: making connections, supporting networks, > setting up meetings > > "Aestheticization of war" > > Oct 7th, 5 pm > 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) > > 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? > > 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 > > 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 Comparative 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 Rutgers 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), 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). > > For more information or suggestions for the program, please contact us > at nomadsresidents@hotmail.com <mailto:nomadsresidents@hotmail.com> ------Syndicate mailinglist-------------------- Syndicate network for media culture and media art information and archive: http://www.v2.nl/syndicate to unsubscribe, write to <syndicate-request@aec.at> in the body of the msg: unsubscribe your@email.adress