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“ Ecuador ” is a fundraising show for the School of Photography.

• Find beautiful images being sold and signed by Eddie Figueroa Photography

• Buy raffle tickets for wall size photo mural

• Enjoy Ecuadorian cuisine: Seafood “Cevich” Shimp Cocktails

• BBQ “Carne en Palito” Grilled meat kebabs

Date: Friday, July 4, to Sunday, July 13, 2008.

Location: The Great Hall, 1087 Queen Street West

Time Daily: 4: 00 p.m. to 11: 00 p.m.

Bring you appetite and your love of photography.

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SITE Santa Fe

SITE Santa Fe Presents
Seventh International Biennial
Lucky Number Seven
June 22, 2008 - January 4, 2009

Extended Through
January 4, 2009

http://www.sitesantafe.org

Process, experimentation, and collaboration are the hallmarks of Lucky Number Seven, SITE Santa Fe’s Seventh International Biennial, opening on Sunday, June 22, 2008. Curated by Lance M. Fung, the exhibition features 25 artists creating 18 site-specific installations, all commissioned by SITE Santa Fe. These artists were nominated by 18 institutions from 16 different countries around the globe. The artists featured in this Biennial are all emerging practitioners, ranging in age from their twenties through their sixties.

The energy and creative activity that has transpired has altered the overall plan for the exhibition. Laura Heon, SITE Phillips Director announced today, “The preparations were so intense and the energy so contagious that we were all inspired to maximize the experience by extending the exhibition through January 4, 2009.”

All of the works for Lucky Number Seven are site-inspired commissions that will not exist as works of art, per se, beyond the exhibition, with the majority of the materials being recycled back into the community. This element emphasizes temporality and process, and provides the artists with the opportunity to push their practices into new directions. The advantage of such a framework is that it allows for experimentation and play, and is not dependent on the forces of the market.

Exhibition designers Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects responded to Fung’s initial idea of physically changing the perspective of the viewer. Williams and Tsien’s monolithic sculpture, or architectural intervention, comprises a series of ramps and mezzanines that intersect SITE’s interior space forming incongruous corridors and gallery spaces with and around which the artists have interacted.

The project is all about collaboration on the local level as well. Fung states, “A crucial aspect of Lucky Number Seven is its engagement with local people, and, we are pleased that a broad range of the city’s cultural institutions will partner with SITE.” In addition to the15 local partnering institutions, Lucky Number Seven has also engaged 33 student interns, and a team of almost 75 local volunteers.

Lucky Number Seven Artists
1. Martí Anson b. 1967 in Mataró, Spain; Lives/works in Barcelona

2. Erick Beltrán b. 1974 in Mexico City; Lives/works in Barcelona and Mexico City

3. Luchezar Boyadjiev b. 1957 in Sofia, Bulgaria; Lives/works in Sofia

4. Michal Budny b. 1976 in Leszno, Poland; Lives/works in Warsaw

5. Ricarda Denzer b. 1967 in Kirn, Germany; Lives/works in Vienna

6. Hiroshi Fuji b. 1960 in Kagoshima, Japan; Lives/works in Fukuoka

7. Fabien Giraud b. 1980 in France; Lives/works in Paris

8. Piero Golia b. 1974 in Naples, Italy; Lives/works in Los Angeles

9. Soun Hong b. 1959 in Seoul, Korea; Lives/works in Seoul

10. Scott Lyall b. 1964 in Toronto, Ontario; Lives/works in Toronto

11. Nick Mangan b. 1979 in Geelong, Victoria, Australia; Lives/works in Berlin

12. Eliza Naranjo Morse b. 1980 in Española, New Mexico; Lives/works in Santa Fe

13. Nora Naranjo Morse b. 1953 in Española, New Mexico; Lives/works in Española

14. Ahmet Öğüt b. 1981 in Diyarbakir, Turkey; Lives/works in Amsterdam

15. Shi Qing b. 1969 in Inner Mongolia, China; Lives/works in Beijing

16. Mandla Reuter b. 1975 in Nqutu, South Africa; Lives/works in Berlin

17. Nadine Robinson b. 1968 in London, England; Lives/works in New York City

18. Zbigniew Rogalski b. 1974 in Dąbrowa Białostocka; Lives/ works in Warsaw

19. Wael Shawky b. 1971 in Alexandria, Egypt; Lives/works in Alexandria

20. Raphaël Siboni b. 1981 in France; Lives/works in Paris

21. Rose B. Simpson b. 1983 in Santa Fe, New Mexico; Lives/works at Santa Clara Pueblo

22. Studio Azzurro Located in Milan, Italy

VISUALS AVAILABLE

Anne Wrinkle, Director of External Affairs
Tel. 505.989.1199 x 22; fax 989.1188
wrinkle@sitesantafe.org, http://www.sitesantafe.org

REDCAT

Haegue Yang, Three Kinds (2008) installation view, Life on Mars, 55th Carnegie International, Pittsburgh. Courtesy the artist and Carnegie Museum of Art. Photo: Tom Little.

HAEGUE YANG:
ASSYMETRIC EQUALITY
June 28 - August 24, 2008

Opening reception:
Friday, June 27, 6 - 9pm
Artist talk: 6:30pm

http://www.redcat.org

Haegue Yang’s practice is rooted in the permeable relationships between the past and the present in an attempt to broadly locate or conceptualize ideas of community, home and subjectivity. Through abstraction, Yang’s work occupies a position that inhabits both a present-ness and plurality, while resisting dogmatic formations of subjectivity—a process the artist describes as a “de-territorialization of one’s own understanding.” Her interest in abstraction is not rooted in Western modernist notions of objectivity or neutrality but rather stems from its boundless capacity to elicit emotional, sensorial and cognitive responses that are necessarily subjective. Somewhere between presence and memory lies the potential and potency for a narrative or subjective whole.

Working with non-traditional materials such as customized venetian blinds and sensory devices including lights, infrared heaters, scent emitters, and fans, Yang constructs complex and nuanced installations that collapse the space between the concrete and the fleeting. Yang’s recent works explore the real and metaphorical relationships between her material surroundings and emotional responses, attempting to give form and or meaning to experiences that exist beyond conventional order. Here, she explores the possibility of accessing experiences through her own perceived or constructed relationships to social and political determinants or historical precedent. To this end, her recent work has gravitated toward her thinking about historical figures, including the French novelist and filmmaker Marguerite Duras, whose work explored conditions of colonialism and reflected her commitment to the Résistence as well as the underground Korean revolutionary Kim San and the American jour
nalist Nym Wales, whose encounters with Kim under life-threatening circumstances led to the publication of his biography.

For her first solo exhibition in the U.S., the artist presents a newly commissioned, site-specific installation at REDCAT entitled Asymmetric Equality. The work continues the artist’s exploration of narrativity through abstraction and contemplates the possibility of arriving at some notion of equality through physical and sensorial displacement. As Doryun Chong observes in his catalogue text, Yang is interested in “a kind of ‘potentiality’ which requires an exterior to help what is already there, a kind of ‘dehors’ (‘outside’ in French)…a kind of subjectivity—an agent of suspicion, indignation, and recognition that can see that injustices are necessarily part of reality.” In this sense, her practice grows out of a responsibility she bears as an artist and social being and is an expression of freedom and autonomy achieved through criticality.

This exhibition is accompanied by a bilingual (English and German), 206-page, 4-color catalogue published in collaboration with Sala Rekalde in Bilbao, Spain. The publication includes an introduction by REDCAT acting gallery director and curator Clara Kim, text by German philosopher Marcus Steinweg, an essay by New Museum director and curator of education and public programs Eungie Joo and a dictionary/lexicon by Walker Art Center assistant curator Doryun Chong. The book is designed by Gail Swanlund, Katie Hanburger and Jon Sueda of stripe and will be available in July.

Born 1971 in Seoul, Yang received degrees at the Seoul National University and the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. She participated in Life on Mars, 55th Carnegie International, Pittsburgh; Brave New Worlds, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; 2006 São Paulo Bienal; the 2004 Busan Biennale; the 2004 Gwangju Biennale; Hérmes Korea Missulsang for Contemporary Korean Art, ArtSonje Center, Seoul; Manifesta 4, Frankfurt am Main. She has recently presented solo exhibitions at Portikus, Frankfrut am Main; Kunstverein Hamburg; Cubitt, London and BAK, Utrecht. Yang lives and works in
Berlin and Seoul.

This exhibition is made possible by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Korea Foundation, and Galerie Barbara Wien. Additional support provided by Ingo Kretzschmar and Ilene Kurtz-Kretzschmar.

Admission to the gallery is always free
Gallery hours: noon-6 pm or intermission, closed Mondays
Visit http://www.redcat.org or call +1.213.237.2800 for more information

REDCAT (Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater)
631 West 2nd Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012 USA

De Appel and PMMK

Marc Camille Chaimowicz
Study for Central Line, 2006
Photograph: Andy Stagg

Marc Camille Chaimowicz

” …In The Cherished
Company of Others… ”

A collaborative project between the artist and Alexis Vaillant

July 5 - September 7, 2008,
de Appel arts centre
http://www.dappel.nl

September 27 - December 15, 2008, PMMK
http://www.pmmk.be

Marc Camille Chaimowicz is a pioneer in mixing artistic installation and performance. In the 1970s, he distinguished himself with his playful and subtly seductive ‘environments’, immersive installations that can be read as a consciously messy and ambivalent reaction to the clean concepts of Conceptualist and post-Minimalist tendencies. With the complicity of the curator Alexis Vaillant, it has been decided to combine a broad range of works by Marc Camille Chaimowicz with notably numerous architectural models and artworks by a select group of international artists whom Marc Camille Chaimowicz feels empathy with. Conceived in the spirit of a playful inquiry and ‘flânerie’ - characteristic of the perception of the artist’s idiosyncratic dandyism, this ‘collective retrospective’ highlights the idea that an artistic production can function on a parallel level to its mental ‘backdrop’.

The exhibition will be shown in PMMK in Oostende (Belgium) in a mutated form.

With
- Anonymous
- Atelier
- Richard Artschwager
- Nairy Baghramian
- Joseph Beuys
- Tom Burr
- James Lee Byars
- Enrico David
- Emile Guy
- Michael Krebber
- Jason Meadows
- Clémence Meunier
- Jozef Peeters
- Loïc Raguénès
- Gerrit Thomas Rietveld
- Elsa Schiaparelli
- Lilly van der Stokker
- Amikam Toren

And featuring “Jean Cocteau” (2003-2008)

An anthology of writings by the artist is co-published on this occasion:
Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Forever What? (1972-2008), Alexis Vaillant (ed.), Sternberg Press, Berlin / Les presses du réel, Dijon / de Appel & PMMK, 2008.

Book available as of September 26, 2008. See http://www.sternberg-press.com or mail ednavanduyn@deappel.nl

For press inquiries or more information please contact:
Hiske Zomer (de Appel): Hzomer@deappel.nl + 31 (0) 20 6255651 or
Marianne Brusselle (PMMK): Marianne.Brusselle@west-vlaanderen.be T + 32 (0) 59 564591

Interactive objects in the permanent exhibition

The Deutsches Hygiene-Museum is neither a science centre nor a special museum with a fixed subject range but a forum for dialogue between science and society. In its variety of exhibitions and events it reflects the impact of science on society in the 21st century.

The museum’s task is to promote understanding of the sciences and to make the human being accessible as a biological, psychological, social and cultural network through interdisciplinary exhibitions. The practice of cross-disciplinary activity between the natural and cultural sciences is observable today throughout the science landscape and portrays the human being in new unusual perspectives and a variety of contexts.

MARVELING – LEARNING – TRYING OUT
The permanent exhibition revolves around a topic that is as obvious as it is demanding: the human being. The 1,300 displayed objects complement specially made media units and interactive displays to provide an informative and engaging museum experience. Addressing the vastly different needs of the visitors, this multifaceted approach to the topics treated in the exhibition has come to make the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum one of Europe’s most interesting museums of science.
The exhibition is conceived as an adventure into one’s own body, self, thoughts, and feelings. The range and juxtaposition of the objects achieve the ideal of any exhibition—they inspire the visitor’s imagination and elicit reflection. The architecture of their presentation does not rely on spectacular scenographic effects but rather builds on the strengths of classical museum aesthetics.

THE SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS
The special exhibitions are another focus of the museum’s work and have contributed considerably to the Dresden museum receiving national attention. The exhibitions come into being through close co-operation between curators and scientific project groups as well as designers, artists, engineers, set designers and exhibition architects. They deal with the most up-to-date scientific research as well as everyday culture and analyse socio-political problems or philosophical and historico-cultural themes, as for example: “Darwin and Darwinism” (1994), “The Pill. Of Desire and Of Love” (1996), “Old & Young. The Generation Adventure” (1997), “Gene Worlds. Workshop Man?” (1998), “The New Human Being. Obsessions of the 20th Century” (1999), “Cosmos in the Head. Brain and Thinking” (2000), “The (Im-)perfect Human Being. The Right to Imperfection” (2000), “Sex. Facts and Fantasies” (2002), “Man and beast. A paradoxical relationship” (2002), “The Ten Commandments” (2004) “PLAY. The
Exhibition” (2005), “Evolution. Tracing the Odyssey of Life” (2005/06), “Fortune, Luck, and happiness” (2008), “Weather, Climate, Man” (2008).

For further information check www.dhmd.de

Sternberg Press, Berlin &
Goethe-Institut New York

Cover by Surface, Berlin/Frankfurt am Main

Book Launch and Discussion
between Jörg Heiser and Brian Sholis

Jörg Heiser: All of a Sudden
Things that Matter in Contemporary Art

Wednesday, June 25, 2008
7 pm

Austrian Cultural Forum
11 East 52nd Street
New York, NY 10022
T: 212 319 5300

http://www.acfny.org
http://www.goethe.de/newyork
http://www.sternberg-press.com

Sternberg Press is pleased to announce All of a Sudden. Things that Matter in Contemporary Art by Jörg Heiser. The Goethe-Institut New York hosts as part of the art talk series “Show & Tell” the book launch and discussion between Jörg Heiser and Brian Sholis, critic for Artforum.

Since the mid-1990s, contemporary art has been booming like never before. There is more of everything— more artists, more collectors, more galleries, more art fairs, more museums, more biennials, more interest, more industry, more pop, more hype. … Some art professionals reach for the revolvers of cultural pessimism: Mass Stupidity Is Killing Great Art! Others (often the same people a short while later) defect with all the greater abandon to the alleged enemy. The entrenched battle between defenders of art’s autonomy and champions of its merging with entertainment culture continues. There is more of everything, with one exception: criteria with which the art of the moment can be understood, judged, praised and, if need be, damned—without getting bogged down in this eternal trench warfare.

Jörg Heiser provides a sharp summary of contemporary art since Marcel Duchamp. Using many artworks as example, the author shows that art is more than just a randomly chosen cultural field of activity in which to acquire a little specialist knowledge with which to show off. “When it’s good,” he claims, “art hits where it hurts, striking at the heart of an ossified status quo by which it itself was brought forth. Perhaps this is something that much important art since Modernism has in common with slapstick. Instead of just aiming to shock and outrage, it shows authority losing its grip. Instead of inflating itself, it deflates the pompous in the name of art.”

Jörg Heiser is co-editor of frieze magazine, writes for the national daily Süddeutsche Zeitung, and is a frequent contributor to art catalogues and publications. He curated the exhibitions “Romantic Conceptualism” (2007, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, BAWAG Foundation Vienna) and “Funky Lessons” (2004/2005, BüroFriedrich Berlin, BAWAG Foundation Vienna).

Brian Sholis is Artforum.com editor. He has written for Artforum, Parkett, and Afterall. He has contributed essays to publications accompanying exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, and the Moderna Museet, Stockholm.

For further information about the talk, please contact Annika Schoemann, Goethe-Institut New York, at schoemann@newyork.goethe.org

RSVP to +1.212.439.8691

For press inquiries and orders please contact mail@sternberg-press.com

Jörg Heiser: All of a Sudden
Things that Matter in Contemporary Art
Translated from the German by Nicholas Grindell
June 2008, English
15.5 x 21 cm, 304 pp., 129 color and 40 b/w ill., softcover
ISBN 978-1-933128-39-9