12 Talks with Notable Artists, Critics and Curators

January 19 - April 22, 2010

School of Visual Arts (SVA) announces the Spring 2010 Art in the First Person lecture series, 12 free talks that bring together notable artists, critics and curators for in-depth discussions on issues in contemporary art. The spring series begins on January 19 with a lecture by electronic media artist and SVA faculty member Perry Bard. Offering a 360 degree perspective on art today, speakers this season include:

• artists Alfredo Jaar, Robert Lazzarini and Shirin Neshat
• critics Boris Groys and Ann Lauterbach 
• curators Barbara London, Papo Colo and Jeanette Ingberman
  

All Art in the First Person events are free and open to the public. No reservations are required. Please visit www.sva.edu/events or call 212.592.2010 for more information.

Event Details

Perry Bard
Video in the Age of YouTube
Tuesday, January 19, 6:30pm
133/144 West 21 Street, Room 101C
Electronic media artist and SVA faculty member Perry Bard will speak about participatory culture and her current project Man With A Movie Camera: The Global Remake, which invites people around the world to create a mash-up of the 1929 Russian film. Bard has shown work at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Reina Sofia National Art Museum, Madrid; the Shang Elements Contemporary Art Museum, Beijing; and the S?o Paolo and Montreal Biennials. Presented by the BFA Fine Arts and BFA Visual & Critical Studies Departments.

Boris Groys
Everybody is an Artist
Thursday, January 21, 7pm
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Boris Groys is professor of Russian and Slavic Studies at New York University. He will discuss the ways that contemporary art has become a mass cultural practice, with artistic rights beginning to manifest themselves as general human rights. Groys is a critic, curator, essayist, media theorist, philosopher and author of Art Power (MIT Press, 2008), and Medium Religion with Peter Weibel (Walther Konig, 2009), along with several books on the works of artist Ilya Kabakov. Presented by the MFA Art Criticism and Writing Department.

Papo Colo and Jeanette Ingberman
Iconic Shows: A Talk with Exit Art’s Founders
Thursday, February 4, 7pm
209 East 23 Street, 3rd-Floor Amphitheater
Starting in 1982 with “Illegal America,” which used mimeographs, Xeroxes and other radical means to present multimedia artwork, Exit Art founders and creative directors Papo Colo and Jeanette Ingberman have mounted more than 100 groundbreaking presentations of art, theater, film and video. They will discuss some of the most iconic shows of this historic, independent New York City cultural space. Presented by the BFA Fine Arts Department.

Ann Lauterbach
The Given and the Chosen
Thursday, February 11, 7pm
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Ann Lauterbach is a poet and critic, serving as co-chair of writing at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College, and a visiting critic at the Yale University School of Art. Her talk will focus on how the work of art mediates the given and the chosen, taking its place between fixities of received orders and possible forms that simultaneously confirm and escape those fixities. Lauterbach’s most recent book, Or to Begin Again (Penguin, 2009), was nominated for the National Book Award. Presented by the MFA Art Criticism and Writing Department.

Megan Craig
Tuesday, February 16, 6:30pm
133/144 West 21 Street, Room 101C
Megan Craig is a painter and an assistant professor of philosophy and art at SUNY Stony Brook. Her most recent solo exhibition, “Lines of Flight,” was presented at New York’s Sundaram Tagore Gallery in December 2008. Presented by the BFA Fine Arts and BFA Visual & Critical Studies Departments.

Between Paradigms: Invention, Interface and Intuition
Tuesday, March 2, 7pm
209 East 23 Street, 3rd-floor Amphitheater
Aimee Morgana, artist and interspecies communication researcher, and artists Frank Gillette and Michael Joaquin Grey will discuss experimental systems and their application in art, design and research projects. The panel discussion will be moderated by artist and BFA Fine Arts Department Chair Suzanne Anker. Presented by the BFA Fine Arts Department.

Robert Lazzarini
Tuesday, March 23, 6:30pm
133/144 West 21 Street, Room 101C
With emphatically lowercased titles like guns, knives and brass knuckles, the wall-mounted sculptures by artist and alumnus Robert Lazzarini (BFA 1990 Fine Arts) describe violence and anxiety. Currently a fellow at the Neiman Center for Print Studies, Columbia University, Lazzarini is represented by Deitch Projects, New York. Presented by the BFA Fine Arts and BFA Visual & Critical Studies Departments.

Alfredo Jaar
The Ashes of Pasolini
Thursday, March 25, 7pm
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Alfredo Jaar is an architect, artist and filmmaker who lives and works in New York City. He has created more than 50 “public interventions” around the world, and more than 40 monographs have been published about his work. Following a screening of Jaar’s new short film The Ashes of Pasolini, he will discuss the film--and Pier Paolo Pasolini’s importance as poet and critic--with MFA Art Criticism and Writing Department Chair David Levi Strauss. Presented by the MFA Art Criticism and Writing Department.

Apertures of Awe: Windows to the World Made Strange by Images
Thursday, April 1, 7pm
209 East 23 Street, 3rd-floor Amphitheater
Art historian Shira Brisman, photographer Jason Eskenazi and art scholar Joel Upton will discuss the relationship between image and imagination, sight and insight, surprise and recognition; moderated by poet Ashley Makar. Presented by the Honors Program.

Barbara London
Cutting Edge: Still Sharp
Tuesday, April 6, 7pm
209 East 23 Street, 3rd-floor Amphitheater
SVA faculty member Barbara London is a curator of media at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, where she founded the video exhibition program and collection. She has organized more than 120 exhibitions, including one-person shows by Laurie Anderson, Nam June Paik and Bill Viola, and was the first curator in the United States to show the work of Asian artists Song Dong, Yang Fudong, Teiji Furuhashi and Feng Mengbo. Presented by the BFA Fine Arts Department.

Rochelle Feinstein
Tuesday, April 13, 6:30pm
133/144 West 21 Street, Room 101C
Rochelle Feinstein is a painter whose work makes frequent use of photography, video, light and sound. Her exhibitions have increasingly taken the form of thematic and atmospheric installations, most recently I Made a Terrible Mistake at the Art Production Fund Lab Space. Feinstein’s work is included in numerous public and private collections, and she has exhibited in galleries across the United States and Europe. Presented by the BFA Fine Arts and BFA Visual & Critical Studies Departments.

Shirin Neshat
Women Without Men
Thursday, April 22, 7pm
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Shirin Neshat is an Iranian-born artist and filmmaker. She will discuss the transition of her work from still photography to video installation, and most recently, to feature-length film. Her directorial debut, Women Without Men, based on a novella by Shahrnush Parsipur that had been banned in Iran, received the Silver Lion Award for Best Director at the 2009 Venice Film
Festival. Presented by the MFA Art Criticism and Writing Department.

About SVA

School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City is an established leader and innovator in the education of artists. From its inception in 1947, the faculty has been comprised of professionals working in the arts and art-related fields. SVA provides an environment that nurtures creativity, inventiveness and experimentation, enabling students to develop a strong sense of identity and a clear direction of purpose.

Media Contact: For more information, please contact Keri Murawski, publicist, at 212.592.2164 or kmurawski@sva.edu.