Posted: September 4th, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: Phantom Limbs | No Comments »
In August 2010 I received an invitation to join the organization Twin Towers Go Global as the first artist in residence for their Artists & Scholars Reinvent World Trade Program. Excited by the ambitious program of TTGG, I accepted the invitation on September 2nd, 2010. Conscious of the possible criticisms and objections of many people whose opinion I respect, I have am now issuing this first short public statement.
I am thrilled to be working with TTGG. Artists today cannot sit on the sidelines as decisions are being made about the fate of the world. If someone has decided that the Twin Towers of New York are to be duplicated in different cities around the world, why shouldn’t artists or architects get involved to make sure it gets done right? TTGG’s challenge to help develop plans for new WTC buildings in New Orleans and Kabul, for example, is formidable.
As I join a project that is so clearly larger than all of us, I will do my best to stay true to the principles I hold dear. These include the importance of international cooperation over violent confrontation, as well as the belief that art and aesthetics exist within, not outside, the most difficult ethical issues of our time. Is it possible to build a truly international memorial that honors the lives of those who died in New York, as well as those fallen in Kabul, Baghdad, and Darfur? Can we imagine a common language in art and architecture, which might express the often contradictory positions we inhabit? I believe we can, and for the next three years I am ready to do everything within my power to help Twin Towers Go Global realize that dream.
Posted: July 14th, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: Actions & Activism, Events - Pedro Lasch, Exhibitions-Pedro Lasch, Haiti | No Comments »
TELEGETO (PT 1)
Morpeth School, Portman Place (off Globe Road), London E2 OPX
An exhibition of video works by young people from the Grand Rue area of Port-
au-Prince, Haiti and sculptures made by pupils from Morpeth School under the
guidance of artists from Atis Rezistans, Haiti.
Curated by John Cussans
EXHIBITION July 16th - 20th
OPENING (with Pedro Lasch) Thursday, July 16th, 4pm - 8 pm
Opening times Thu. - Fri. 4 - 7 pm, Sat. 1- 6pm
To learn more about Portman Gallery and Morpeth School, visit:
Posted: July 2nd, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: Exhibitions-Pedro Lasch | No Comments »
My 9/11 and World Trade Center related project ‘Phantom Limbs’ is getting its first public viewing at the 2010 Goldsmiths MFA Exhibition. This installation consists of 8 finished paintings from the series, and the work is located in the Small Baths Building on Laurie Grove (see below)
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Posted: July 1st, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: Events - Pedro Lasch, Exhibitions-Pedro Lasch, Phantom Limbs | No Comments »
Pedro Lasch Phantom Limbs
A series of installations, paintings, and drawings commemorating September 11, 2001.
Budapest
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Pedro Lasch ‘Latino/a America’ map project on view at:
“An Atlas of Radical Cartography”
Greater New York
PS1
May 23-October 18
Opening May 23, 12-6pm
http://www.ps1.org
Opening Day Celebration
Sunday, May 23, 12:00–6:00 p.m.
MoMA PS1 and The Museum of Modern Art present the third iteration of the quinquennial exhibition Greater New York, which showcases the work of artists and collectives living and working in the New York metropolitan area. In addition to presenting recent works by some 68 artists, Greater New York includes an active on-site workshop in which participating artists are invited to experiment with new projects and ideas throughout the duration of the exhibition.
To learn more about ‘An Atlas of Radical Cartography” visit:
http://www.an-atlas.com/
To learn more about ‘Latino/a America’ visit:
http://www.latinoaamerica.com/
Posted: July 1st, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: Exhibitions-Recommended, Haiti | No Comments »
LEAH GORDON
(b. 1959 Ellesmere Port)
‘The Invisibles’
Monday 5 July - Saturday 10 September
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Leah Gordon (b.1959 Ellesmere Port) is a photographer, film-maker and curator who has an ongoing interest in and relationship with Haiti. She first visited Haiti in 1991 and was the official photographer for the 1994 Amnesty International Report on that country. She has exhibited widely, her images featuring in numerous public and private collections including that of the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Gordon has been involved in a range of projects as both visual artist and curator, including documenting experiences of homophobia in London, crossing-dressing in Vodou, links between the Slave Trade and the River Thames and exhibitions of Haitian art. Her photography book ‘Kanaval: Vodou, Politics and Revolution on the Streets of Haiti’ is published in June 2010.
The cover image to the Riflemaker exhibition The Invisibles: ‘Girl with Bird’, Cité Soleil, Haiti 1993, documents a territory - Cité de Soleil - classified by the UN as the most dangerous place on earth, though the image is a portrait of stillness and grace, taken during the military coup years of 1991-1994.
Gordon has recently returned to Haiti in the aftermath of the earthquake. Her upcoming exhibition and book ‘The Invisibles’ will include photographs sold to benefit victims of the disaster. In 2006 she commissioned the Grand Rue Sculptors from Haiti to make ‘Freedom Sculpture’, a permanent exhibit for the International Museum of Slavery in Liverpool. Continuing her relationship with the Grand Rue artists, Gordon organised and co-curated the Ghetto Biennale in December 2009. Gordon also teaches fact-based film at The University for Creative Arts, Surrey. She participated in the Riflemaker exhibition ‘Voo-doo’ in 2009
“I’m drawn to the boundaries between art, religion and anthropology. These borderlands have a historical, and often uncomfortable, relationship with photography. A suspicion that photography has observed and policed, but never taken part. Photography has rarely been embraced as a form of representation by religions. It is as if photography, with it’s indelible relationship to the material, could only serve to disprove the divine, Although when one reflects on its alchemical past it seems rooted in magical process.
Much of my studio photography is an exploration of this, often surreal, territory. My portraits in the studio are staged examinations of the spirit world; an anthropology of the invisibles. ‘Kanaval’ is a body of my work that has a more documentary approach. A record of people that still own and transmit their own folk history. It is a unsanitised, dirty history of the people played out on the streets”. Leah Gordon.
“People originated by magic in all countries of the world. No one lives of the flesh. Everyone lives of the spirit”: Andre Pierre, Haitian artist, quoted in ‘The Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou’, ed. Don Cosentino, UCLA Fowler Museum.
“Leah Gordon’s images seem to speak not only to the eye and mind, but somewhere deeper. They almost speak to the soul itself, to the long buried core of our human experience. As we peek into this powerful world, we see mankind turned inside out; the monster within worn proudly on the flesh, exposed, named and challenged. I think I will return over and over again to these images - they are a startling reminder of what lies beneath. Truly startling. Truly brilliant”. Emma Rice
Emma Rice is the Artistic Director of the Kneehigh Theatre where she has directed shows including ‘Brief Encounter’, ‘A Matter of Life and Death’, ‘Cymbeline’, ‘Tristan & Yseult’ and ‘The Red Shoes’.
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Posted: July 1st, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: Events - Pedro Lasch, Public Proposals, Publications | No Comments »
Issue #33-44 of Romanian art and theory magazine IDEA has just come out and it includes a full-color 20 page project related to the Naturalizations series (arhiva section), as well as a special poster and text related to the project ‘Evo in Istanbul’ (2009)
Lasch - 'Poster for a Presidential Visit' from 'Evo in Istanbul' (2009)
Posted: April 28th, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: Art, Story-Telling & the Five Senses / El Arte, El Cuento y los Cinco Sentidos, Events - Pedro Lasch, Exhibitions-Pedro Lasch | No Comments »
Purcell Room
DESCHOOLING SOCIETY
Conference
Thursday 29 April 2010 - Friday 30 April 2010
This two-day conference brings together international artists, curators and writers to discuss and debate the changing relationship between art and education. Please note that a ticket for 29 April includes entry to both days of this conference.
Deschooling Society takes its title from Ivan Illich’s seminal 1971 book, one of the most influential radical critiques of the education system in Western countries. Issues at the heart of that critique have been increasingly debated within the art world in recent years, and the subject of education has attracted renewed attention from artists, curators and collectives. Pedagogical models are currently being explored, re-imagined and deployed by practitioners from around the world in highly diverse projects comprising laboratories, discursive platforms, temporary schools, participatory workshops and libraries. Simultaneously, progressive globalisation has led to a revaluing of the collective knowledge and agency of local communities.
Speakers have been invited to present critical ideas on collective and participatory practice, pedagogical experiments and how such art can be understood and discussed. The conference is a collaborative event marking the start of a Hayward Gallery research project culminating in the transformation of the gallery space into an alternative art school during summer 2012. It also addresses the urgent issues that have arisen from the Centre for Possible Studies, part of an ongoing Serpentine Gallery project in the Edgware Road neighbourhood, and is the second part of the Serpentine’s collaboration with The Museum of Modern Art, New York, following the conference Transpedagogy - Contemporary Art and the Vehicles of Education at MoMA in May 2009.
Programme
Thursday 29 April
10am Greetings and Introduction by Ralph Rugoff and Sally Tallant
10.15am Keynote lecture by Christopher Robbins ‘Escape from Politics - The Challenge of Pedagogy and Democratic Politics in the De/schooled Society’
10.45am Response and Q&A moderated by Sally Tallant
11.15am Panel discussion - ‘From Discursive Practices to the Pedagogical Turn’, with Carmen Moersch and Irit Rogoff, moderated by Sally Tallant.
1pm Break
2pm Dialogues - ‘Insertions, Alterations, and Rearrangements within Existing Institutional Frameworks’, with Tania Bruguera, Harrell Fletcher and Nils Norman. Opening statement and moderation by Claire Bishop.
3.30pm Break
4pm Presentations - ‘Pedagogy of Place - Self-Organized Education’, featuring Artschool UK, London, Free University Warsaw (Janek Sowa), 16 Beaver, New York (Pedro Lasch), The Public School, Brussels (Sonia Dermience), Experimental Drawing Class, London (Terry Smith), introduced by Rafal Niemojewski.
5pm End
Friday 30 April
10am Greetings
10.15am Keynote lecture by Martha Rosler
10.45am Martha Rosler in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist
11.15am Panel discussion: Protest in Art School: Rituals of Power and Rebellion since the Sixties, with Dave Beech, Marion von Osten, Adrian Rifkin and Lisa Tickner, moderated by Cliff Lauson
1pm Break
2pm Dialogues - ‘Theatres of Education’, with Hannah Hurtzig, Suzanne Lacy and Pablo Helguera
3.30pm Break
4pm Presentations - ‘Pedagogy of Place - Local Models and Knowledges’, featuring Marcelo Expósito, Barcelona, Janna Graham, London, Jeanne van Heeswijk, Rotterdam, Pablo Helguera, New York, Gediminas Urbanos, Vilnus, introduced by Nicola Lees
5pm Summary by Paul O’Neill, closing statement by Ralph Rugoff, plenary session, questions from the audience
6pm End
Schedule subject to change
Podcasts from the conference will appear on the Hayward Gallery blog.
Posted: April 28th, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: Events-Recommended | No Comments »
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 21, 2010
Contact: Barclay McConnell
Artist Services Manager, Durham Arts Council
919.560.2787 | bmcconnell@durhamarts.org
www.durhamarts.org
Durham Arts Council and Durham Art Guild present 60 WRD/MIN ART CRITIC
Durham, NC – Art critic, Lori Waxman, guarantees brief, serious reviews to all visual artists on a first-come, first-served basis in a performance about art criticism.
For 3 days at the Durham Arts Council and the Durham Art Guild, at 120 Morris Street in downtown Durham, Chicago-based art critic, Lori Waxman, will receive artists in need of reviews as part of her project, the “60 wrd/min art critic.” Reviews, which are free of charge, will be scheduled and written in twenty-five minute increments only during these hours: Thursday, May 6, 12:30-3 pm & 4:30-7 pm; Friday, May 7, 1:30-4 pm & 5:30-8 pm; and Saturday, May 8, 11-1:30 pm & 3-5:30 pm.
Reviews will be signed, published and ready for pick-up within the time frame of the performance. Artist, artwork, critic, and review will all exist in the same space simultaneously, thereby helping to demystify the art review process. The reviews will be posted at the performance site and will remain on view at through May 14. In addition, the reviews will be published by the Independent Weekly (in print and online at www.indyweek.com) in the weeks following the performance.
Advance appointments can be made on a first-come, first-served basis as of April 22, 2010 by emailing critic@60wrdmin.org. Walk-in hours will be held Saturday, May 8, 1-1:30pm.
The 60 wrd/min art critic is many things: an exploration of short-form art writing, a work of performance art in and of itself, an experiment in role reversal between artist and critic, a democratic gesture and a circumvention of the art review process. At a time when newspaper and magazine art columns are disappearing, the “60 wrd/min art critic” aims to get a community talking about its own art.
Durham is among 10 U.S. cities included as destinations for the “60 wrd/min art critic.” Waxman has focused her project on vibrant regional arts communities from Portland, Oregon, to Austin, Texas to Queens, New York, whose artists may rarely have opportunities to receive nationally published art reviews.
Lori Waxman is a Chicago-based critic and art historian. She publishes regularly in the Chicago Tribune and Artforum, and has written catalogue essays for small and large art spaces, including Spertus Museum in Chicago; Spaces Gallery in Cleveland; INOVA in Milwaukee; and Dieu Donné Papermill in New York. She teaches art history at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
The 60 wrd/min art critic is a project of the Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program. More information on this national project can be found at www.60wrdmin.org.
Durham Arts Council
The Durham Arts Council is a private nonprofit dedicated to supporting the arts in Durham and the entire Triangle Region in North Carolina and has served the community since 1954. Each year DAC serves over 300,000 visitors and program participants, over 600 artists, and more than 60 arts organizations through classes, artist residencies, exhibits, festivals, grants programs, technical support, arts advocacy and information services. By supporting the Durham Arts Council, you help DAC fulfill its mission of promoting excellence in and access to the creation, experience and active support of the arts for all the people of our community. For more information call 919.560.ARTS or visit our website at www.durhamarts.org.
Durham Art Guild
Established in 1948, the Durham Art Guild is a non-profit, member-driven organization, committed to promotion and support of the arts and artists. Their mission is to stimulate interest in the visual arts by featuring diverse exhibits and developing innovative programming to enrich and develop awareness and appreciation of the significance of art and strengthen the arts community. The DAG operates the SunTrust Gallery in the heart of arts-friendly downtown Durham, featuring changing exhibitions year-round of the area’s most notable and talented artists. The SunTrust gallery is located in the Durham Arts Council Building, 120 Morris Street, Durham NC 27701.
Annual dues are only $50 for individual members and $10 for junior members and include portfolio reviews, peer review sessions, online gallery representation, invitations to all DAG events, and eligibility to apply for the DAG Studio Residency Program after one year (for adults only).
For more information regarding The Durham Art Guild contact Taj Forer at (919) 560-2713 or director@durhamartguild.org or visit: http://www.durhamartguild.org
The Durham Art Guild, Inc., is devoted to supporting artists and to developing awareness and appreciation of the visual arts, and is made possible by gifts to the Durham Arts Council’s Annual Arts Fund, and support from the North Carolina Arts Council, an agency of the Department of Cultural Resources, and the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art.
