Whitney Museum of American Art

Marina Rosenfeld. Rehearsal for Teenage Lontano, 2008.
The performance will take place Saturday, March 8th, in the Drill Hall of Park Avenue Armory.
Photo credit: Phoebe Sudrow

Whitney Biennial 2008
March 6-June 1, 2008

http://www.whitney.org

The Whitney Biennial 2008 opens today and runs through June 1. For the first time the Biennial will extend beyond the Museum to Park Avenue Armory (at 67th Street) with installations and performances daily through March 23. A full schedule of events is available at whitney.org/biennial

Featuring 81 visionary artists, with works ranging from a dance marathon to a man-made animal habitat in the Museum’s sculpture court, the 2008 Biennial shows where American art stands today.

The 2008 Biennial is curated by Henriette Huldisch, assistant curator at the Whitney, and Shamim M. Momin, associate curator at the Whitney and branch director and curator of the Whitney Museum at Altria, and overseen by Donna De Salvo, the Whitney’s chief curator and associate director for programs. Three advisors worked with the curatorial team throughout the process: Thelma Golden, director and chief curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem; Bill Horrigan, director of the media arts department at the Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University; and Linda Norden, independent curator and writer. Biennial events at Park Avenue Armory are organized by the Whitney and Art Production Fund in association with Park Avenue Armory.

Donna De Salvo noted, “The Biennial is a laboratory, a way of ‘taking the temperature’ of what is happening now and putting it on view. It influences our thinking on multiple levels and, for the Whitney, translates directly into the choices we make about our exhibitions and collections. In dealing with the art of the present, there are no easy assessments, only multiple points of entry. For the Whitney, and for our public, we hope the Biennial is one way in.”

Whitney Museum of American Art
945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street
New York City
(212) 570-3600
http://www.whitney.org

Park Avenue Armory
643 Park Avenue at 67th Street
New York City
(212) 616-3930
http://www.armoryonpark.org

Ersta Konsthall

Ersta Konsthall propose that Flaggfabrikken send this very announcement by e-flux on today’s date, March the 6th 2008 to announce this announcement.

This announcement is a special effect (and a cooperative project) exploring the limits and possibilities of fiction within institutional constructions. Ersta Konsthall has begun a nomadic and experimental trajectory in a so far unknown landscape. We are just not happy with the existing limits of exhibition production, display and distribution. In the context of Flaggfabrikken presenterer: we will try new means of developing these fields by invoking e-flux subscribers to participate in the survey of these new occurences of existence by reading this announcement.

The experience from Ersta Konsthall taking place in various locations, for example The Institute of Contemporary Art – Dunaújváros, Hungary and The Swedish National Museum, as well as cooperation with other institutions as Tensta Konsthall, Galleri60e and the Academy of Fine Arts in Umeå has brought us to thinking about our practice as purely a question of constructed identity. Ersta Konsthall is merely what it is said to be and described as. This is a turning point into the future and a further step into an imaginary existence. The next thing will be in your mind only.

Subjects of trial and participating artists in this event will be: The present audience, The members of Flaggfabrikken: Hilde Jørgensen, Anne Szefer Karlsen, Kjetil Kausland, Olaf Knarvik, Åse Løvgren, Kjersti Solberg Monsen, Heidi Nikolaisen, Arne Skaug Olsen, Ulf Styren, Kristin Tårnesvik and Maya Økland. All of the former artists who contributed to this phase of Ersta Konsthall: Amelie Rydqvist, David Bestué, Marc Vives, Juan Pedro Fabra, Paletten, ak28, Dorkbot, OEI, Squid, Emma Kihl, Source Video Magazine, Johanna Gustavson Fürst, Love & Devotion, Konst2, Tova Mozard, Elin Wikström, Julieta Aranda, Michele Masucci, Konst Bio, Cecilia Edefalk and Carla Zaccagnini.

This announcement is curated by Linus Elmes

Flaggfabrikken presenterer: is a monthly event at Landmark/Bergen Kunsthall made by members of Flaggfabrikken – centre for photography and visual art since 2005. The spring programme of 2008 is curated by Åse Løvgren and Anne Szefer Karlsen and is titled Flaggfabrikken presenterer: For God’s sake Kate, where is the camera (Show Title, #266 by Stefan Brüggemann), and happens at Landmark, Bergen, Norway first Thursday of the months February, March and April at 21.00.

Flaggfabrikken presenterer: is for 2008 supported by Bergen municipality, Arts Council Norway, Bergen National Academy of the Arts and Bergen Kunsthall/Landmark

http://www.flaggfabrikken.net

El Pulguero de los Artistas - The Artists’ Flea Market

“Pulguero” is the Puerto Rican word for “flea market”. El Pulguero de los Artistas is an experimental and truely unique flea market: a two day exibition and sales event in the Pabellón de la Paz at the Parque Muñoz Rivera in San Juan, Puerto Rico where you’ll find more than 80 renown and emerging artists behind their tables and installations. Among the artists are Chemi Rosado Seijo, Miguel Luciano, Charles Juhász-Alvarado and Papo Colo. The event runs parallel to the International Art Fair CIRCA 08.

El Pulguero is a project by El Status - Independent Platform for Contemporary Puerto Rican Art (http://www.el-status.com). It is being organized by the Swiss-Puerto Rican cultural investigator Lisa Ladner, http://www.lisaladner.com and the Puerto Rican artist Carmelo Sobrino, http://www.carmelosobrino.com.

Flea markets symbolize the anti- or subculture and offer an ideal field to study a culture in its historic context. El Pulguero visually reflects Puerto Rico’s economic (and colonial) situation. But instead of lamenting or falling into a depression the participating artists want to invite a specialized and general public to invest in contemporary art and openly discuss art and market related topics.

Information for artists and visitors: http://www.el-status.com/pulguero

Akbank Art Center

Negar Tahsili
“Of one essence”, 2004.

UNRECORDED
5 March – 16 April 2008
Akbank Sanat, Istanbul

Curated by Basak Senova

http://www.akbanksanat.com

UNRECORDED

The perceptual re-construction of space is a continuous process, generated by diverse inputs such as our senses, memory, history, consciousness as well as technology. It is a process, consisting of momentary fragments, which are impossible to record. They are temporary, augmented, designed,
and loaded.

“Unrecorded” exhibition looks at the notion of space as a decisive factor in our perception of the realities that surround us. The works of Kati London (US), Thomas Duc (France), Laila El-Haddad (Palestine), Dan Phiffer (US), Mushon Zer-Aviv (Israel), Daniel Garcia Andujar (Spain), Zhou Hongxiang (China), Banu Cennetoglu (Turkey), Negar Tahsili (Iran), Kate Armstrong (Canada), and Ali Taptik (Turkey) unfold and restructure all possible perceptual codes through their own inspections, observations, and approaches. They ask questions about the physicality of the space; content of mediatized spaces; clashes between realities and perception of spaces; spaces and situations, discharging information; and narrative spaces.

Exhibition space is deliberately designed to minimize the interaction between the data input of physical space and the audio-visual senses of the viewer, in order to drive the viewer into the realm of each work. Thus, each and every work leads to another, through a unique navigation established by each viewer. In this respect, works in the exhibition are re-positioned, re-linked in space-time relative to the “reading” done by each viewer, building alternative paths. Inevitably, the exhibition takes the phases of informational capitalism, global scenarios for socio-political, cultural and economic gaps into consideration, on each and every visit.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a series of lectures and workshops developed by a group of artists, writers, curators and theorists including Jalal Toufic (LB), Nat Muller (NL), Technologies To The People (Daniel G. Andujar) (ES), Laila El-Haddad (PS), Dan Phiffer (US), and Mushon Zer-Aviv (IL).

6 March 2008
A presentation and talk by Laila El-Haddad (Palestine), Dan Phiffer (US) and Mushon
Zer-Aviv (Israel)

You Are Not Here
Laila El-Haddad, Dan Phiffer and Mushon Zer-Aviv will present the You Are Not Here project and discuss the mediated interpretation of space in the context of military occupation and the resistance to it. You Are Not Here project tries to expose the contrasts and the similarities between two cities. Both in the case of Baghdad / New York and that of Gaza City / Tel Aviv while the cities realities are politically involved both the emotional and cognitive perception of these corresponding spaces are completely detached from one another. You Are Not Here attempts to challenge this detachment by providing a mediated experience that still maintains a human scale.

8 March 2008
A talk by Nat Muller (The Netherlands)

Soft Reality meets Soft Space: An Attempt towards an incomplete Glossary
A proposal for interpreting the soft collisions between messy systems of representation and
spatial conceptions.

13-14-15 March 2008
A 3 days practical and theoretical workshop/meeting by Technologies To The People. Directed by Daniel G. Andújar (Spain)

DIT “Do It Together” Workshop Series
The Apprehension of reality from the Postcapital Archive
This interdisciplinary workshop is open to cultural & media producers, artists, scientists, theorists, activists, and anyone interested in design, visual communication, art, media, and cultural sciences. The objective of the workshop is to facilitate reflection upon the structures of the “public” process, communication methods, and the possibilities these present. It also aims to intervene artistically using modern communication technology methods, and to test new “public” participation models.

31 March – 1 April 2008
A 2 days lecture by Jalal Toufic (Lebanon)

You Said “Stay,” So I Stayed
Attending to the film Groundhog Day, Jalal Toufic will lecture on the will and its relation to eternal recurrence. The ordeal of the will is not only that one has to go through countless recurrence and, in the guise of one’s computer emulations or of some of one’s versions in other branches of a bifurcating universe, in desperation commit suicide myriad times; but also that once the will is accomplished, one thenceforth is going to have not only to accept everything that happens, even vast catastrophes, but also, since a genuine will is an ontological selector that automatically renders anything that cannot be willed in the mode of eternal recurrence impossible, to affirm its eternal recurrence: amor fati.

Admission is free. Registration in advance is needed for the workshops.

Akbank Art Center
Istiklal Cad. Zambak Sok. No:1
Beyoglu, Istanbul
Tel: (0 212) 252 35 00 – 01
Fax: (0 212) 245 12 28
akbanksanat@akbank.com
http://www.akbanksanat.com