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Night School at the New Museum: Application Deadline December 15

Benji Okuda instructing a life drawing class, an adult night school group at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Heart Mountain, Wyoming. Image courtesy of the National Archives, Records of the War Relocation Authority, 1941-1947.

New Museum
235 Bowery
New York, NY 10002
http://www.newmuseum.org

Night School is an artist commission in the form of a temporary school. For this project, artist
Anton Vidokle is organizing a yearlong program of monthly seminars and workshops that use the New Museum as a site to shape a critically engaged public through art discourse. Night School takes place on the last weekend (Thursday-Sunday) of each month, January 2008 through January 2009.

Night School is comprised of eleven seminars organized around three thematic tracks. The program begins with three series of seminars, workshops and film/video screenings conducted by Boris Groys, Martha Rosler and Liam Gillick that examines possibilities for progressive cultural practices. During the spring and summer months, the focus of the program turns to artistic agency today, and includes seminars with Walid Raad & Jalal Toufic, Paul Chan, Maria Lind and Owkui Enwezor. The fall program considers self-organization in the field of cultural production, presenting seminars and workshops with Rirkrit Tiravanija, Zhang Wei and Hu Fang, Natascha Sadr Haghighian and Raqs Media Collective. All topics will be addressed from the perspective of ongoing research and production, and as such will constitute the core structure of the school. Lectures, screenings, and conversations will take place in the New Museum theater, the 5th Floor Museum as Hub space, and informal locations thro
ughout the
local neighborhood.

In the tradition of free universities, many of Night School’s events are open to all those interested to take part. A core group of 25 participants will be selected by application, to participate in additional private workshops and discussions, and will be offered complimentary New Museum membership for one year. The Night School is now accepting applications from cultural producers including visual artists, architects, writers, filmmakers, journalists, curators, composers, performers, and others who can commit to participating in the full program throughout the year. Accepted participants will be expected to attend all monthly seminars and be present in New York for the duration of the project. To download an application form, please go to http://www.newmuseum.org/events/night_school
Application deadline: December 15th, 2007.

Night School is the second in a series of art projects organized around a temporary school format and initiated by Anton Vidokle. Vidokle initiated research into education as site for artistic practice for Manifesta 6, which was cancelled. In response to the cancellation, Vidokle set up an independent project in Berlin called Unitednationsplaza–a twelve-month exhibition as school involving more than a hundred artists, writers, philosophers, and diverse audiences. Located behind a supermarket in East Berlin, UNP’s program featured numerous seminars, lectures, screenings, book presentations and projects including the Martha Rosler Library.

Founded in 1977, the New Museum is the first and only contemporary art museum in New York City and among the most respected internationally, with a curatorial program unrivaled in the United States in its global scope and adventurousness. With the inauguration of the Museum’s new, state-of-the-art building at 235 Bowery on December 1, 2007, the New Museum will be the destination for new art and new ideas.

For further information please write to nightschool@newmuseum.org

Night School is part of the Museum as Hub, which is made possible by the Third Millennium Foundation.

With additional generous support from the MetLife Foundation

Additional support is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and the New York State Council on the Arts.

Endowment support is provided by the Skadden, Arps Education Programs Fund and the William Randolph Hearst Endowed Fund for Education Programs at the New Museum

lille3000

lille3000 presents the exhibition:
PASSAGE DU TEMPS
COLLECTION FRANCOIS PINAULT FOUNDATION
TRIPOSTAL, LILLE (F)
16 OCTOBER 2007 - 01 JANUARY 2008

39 INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS
100 PHOTO / VIDEO / LIGHT WORKS
FROM THE SEVENTIES TO THE PRESENT DAY
http://www.lille3000.com

On a proposal of Martine Aubry, Mayor of Lille, President of lille3000, and Jean-Jacques Aillagon, former Director of Palazzo Grassi in Venice, from 16 October 2007 to 1 January 2008, lille3000 will be presenting an exhibition called “Passage du Temps” thanks to the François Pinault Foundation Collection loaning works of art. This exhibition, spread over 6000m2, showcases artistic techniques using photography, video, and light. It focuses on the contemporary history of these techniques with six themes being featured : BEDAZZLE - THE SEVENTIES – SHALL WE PLAY ? - HISTOIRES DE CINEMA - LIVING AND SURVIVING - PASSAGE OF TIME.

Featuring Adel Abdessemed, Dan Flavin, Gilbert & George, Douglas Gordon, Dan Graham, Pierre Huyghe, Shirin Neshat, Tim Noble & Sue Webster, Pierre & Gilles, Martha Rosler, Cindy Sherman, Bill Viola…

Curator: Caroline Bourgeois / Scenography: Agence Search

lille3000 official partners: Lille City Council, Nord Department, SFR, Accor, EDF, Auchan

Project partners of the “Passage du Temps” exhibition: Redcats Group, La Redoute, Crédit Agricole Nord de France, Veolia Environnement

Project supplier of the “Passage du Temps” exhibition: Panasonic

EXHIBITION INFO:

16 october 2007 - 01 january 2008

Tri Postal
Avenue Willy Brandt F-59777 Euralille (France)
Underground station: metro Gare Lille Flandres
2 minutes on foot from Lille Flandres and Lille Europe train stations
Regular shuttles to and from Lille Lesquin airport

Opening hours
Wednesday, Thursday & Sunday - 10 :00 to 19 :00
Friday & Saturday - 10 :00 to 21 :00
Closed Mondays & Tuesdays
Exceptional openings: 24, 25 & 31 December 2007 & 1st january 2008 - 10:00 to 19:00

Public information number: +33 3 59 57 94 00
Online tickets: http://www.lille3000.com

Public information URL: http://www.lille3000.com

Arthouse

Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin, Texas (building detail)
Photo: Florian Slotawa

Florian Slotawa: One After the Other
November 23, 2007 - January 13, 2008

Talking Art with Florian Slotawa
Sunday, November 25, 3pm at the Jones Center
Arthouse at the Jones Center
700 Congress Avenue
Austin, TX 78701

http://www.arthousetexas.org

Florian Slotawa (b. 1972) is a Berlin-based conceptual artist who, in a conscious refrain from adding objects to an already overflowing world, utilizes everyday items, existing objects and spaces to create temporary sculptural assemblages and installations that invite discussions about the contexts and implications of institutional display, the boundaries between private and public space and notions of artistic preciousness. Many of Slotawa’s past projects involved his own personal possessions–from meticulously photographing and cataloguing his clothing, cassette tapes, cooking utensils, and other items; to constructing large-scale referential sculpture from his furniture and electrical appliances; to even selling the entire inventory of his belongings to a collector. Similarly, Slotawa has worked with art collectors and museum staff to display their respective belongings as installations or reconstructions of spaces within institutions (for example, in one project, a cur
ator’s home furnishings replaced those in the museum shop, and in another, museum gallery and office spaces were switched). Dismissing objects’ traditional functions, he liberates them from a closed system of interpretation, thereby revealing their latent artistic potential, a strategy which he has also extended to the exhibition space.

Slotawa has been invited by Elizabeth Dunbar, Arthouse’s new curator, to create a temporary, site-specific installation that draws upon the Jones Center’s rich and layered history as a theater, women’s department store, and finally, contemporary art space. Slotawa plans to transform Arthouse’s interior space into a monumental sculptural installation that encourages visitors to radically re-engage with the surrounding environment and to consider its past, present and future incarnations.

About the Artist
Slotawa has had solo exhibitions of his work at the Bonner Kunstverein (2004) and Kunsthalle Mannheim (2002), both in Germany, and the Kunstmuseum Thun in Switzerland (2003). Recently, his work was included in the acclaimed “Of Mice and Men,” the 4th Biennial for Contemporary Art in Berlin (2006) and “Made In Germany,” a major survey of contemporary German art organized by the Sprengel Museum, Hannover; the Kunstverein Hannover and the Kestergellschaft in 2007. This is his first solo exhibition in the United States and will be accompanied by a full-color publication. In Summer 2008, Slotawa will have his second U.S. solo exhibition at P.S. 1 MoMA in New York.

Support
Exhibition sponsors: Sies+Höke Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany and Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany, Houston, TX

Arthouse Season Sponsors: Austin Ventures, InterContinental Stephen F. Austin, Jones Asset Management, Mastodon Ventures, Inc., Neiman Marcus and The Rosemary Haggar Vaughan Family Foundation

Arthouse at the Jones Center is supported in part by the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division and by a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts. This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes a great nation deserves great art.

Arthouse public programs are supported by The Berman Family Foundation.

About Arthouse
Headquartered at the Jones Center in Austin, Texas, Arthouse is the oldest statewide contemporary visual art organization in Texas. Arthouse seeks to promote the growth and appreciation of contemporary art and artists in Texas. Through its exhibitions and programs in Austin and statewide, Arthouse helps nurture artists’ careers and deepen public understanding of contemporary art. All exhibitions and programs at Arthouse are free and open to the public.

For more information on Arthouse, please visit http://www.arthousetexas.org or contact Virginia Jones at vjones@arthousetexas.org or at tel. (512) 453-5312.