QCMFA
* ALL EVENTS ARE TUESDAY UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED
[For SPQ: the Social Practice Queens website]
Sept 4. We finalize choice of MFA Show curator – see previous emails for their resumes
Joanna Sztencel presents on Berlin Biennial and exhibitions in Poland
Sept. 8 [Saturday] 1:00 pm – 6:00 pm, 2012: Corona’S Plaza – Community Design Workshop/Taller de diseño communitario #1 Location/Dirección: Immigrant Movement International | 108-59 Roosevelt Avenue | 111th St. Stop on 7 Train
More Info At: http://www.queensmuseum.org/10399/coronas-plaza-community-design-workshop-1-offsit
Sept. 11 Sean Starowitz – guest visitor works in a variety of social, political, and community engaged contexts. Gathering inspiration from everyday practices, Starowitz creates opportunities for alternative economies and exchanges, such as Wheels for Meals, BREAD! KC (http://breadkc.wordpress.com/), and The Burnt Ends Residency. He also explores curatorial endeavors such as The Speakeasy (www.thespeak-easy.org), which focuses on dialogue-driven art praxis in a socially engaging context, and Vagabond, Kansas City’s premiere pop-up restaurant. He has worked alongside renowned chefs such as Howard Hanna, Patrick Ryan, Alex Pope, and Nils Noren. He has also contributed to Proximity Magazine. Starowitz currently resides in Kansas City, Missouri as the artist-in-residence at the Farm To Market Bakery and is a 2010 graduate of the Interdisciplinary Arts program at the Kansas City Art Institute. Article about the Speakeasy: http://www.pitch.com/kansascity/speakeasy-la-esquina/Content?oid=2846618 Article about the BREAD! Project: http://www.artpractical.com/review/breaking_bread_bread_kc_as_a_model_for_community_sourced_arts_funding/
Sept. 12 [Wed] opening of Cooper Union show Ruptures: Forms of Public Address (Greg has work in the show via REPOhistory and REPOcommons, more about show is here:
http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/ruptures/
Sept 18 No Classes Scheduled
Sept 25th No Classes Scheduled [Greg presents in Graz for Truth is Concrete – http://www.truthisconcrete.org/
Sept 28 [Friday] Lucy Lippard special guest at Cooper Union at 4PM to talk about REPOhistory
October 4 – 19, MFA Group Exhibition: Alumni Weekend Reception: October 13 & 14, (Alumni Weekend)
OCTOBER 15th Deadline for new MFA applicants (changed from Sept. 15)
October 2 Lecture (5-7 PM with refreshments) by German conceptual artist J.D. Loeffelholz in Godwin-Ternbach Museum organized by Caroline Rupprecht Associate Professor of Comparative Literature.
Oct. 4: Our Next visiting speaker, Josh MacPhee opens a new exhibition tonight
RadioActivity! Anti-Nuclear Movements from Three Mile Island to Fukushima
October 4th-November 4th, 2012 – Opening Reception: October 4th, 7-10pm
October 6 [Saturday] Cooper Talk: “A riot is the language of the unheard”: an exercise in illegitimate speech Sat. Oct 6, Rose Auditorium, 4 – 6 pm
[ OCt 11 – 15 Greg is presenting in Vancouver -no classes missed- Institutions by Artists:The Festival: http://arcpost.ca/events/festival ]
October 9, Artist, curator and activist Josh MacPhee speaks with us about how artistic survivability. Josh’s work often revolves around themes of history, radical politics, and public space, but he has also published books and initiated a number of micro-institutions. His most recent books are Paper Politics: Socially Engaged Printmaking Today (PM Press, 2009) and Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now (AK Press, 2009, co-edited with Dara Greenwald). He also organizes the Celebrate People’s History Poster Series and is part of the public art group Spectresofliberty.com. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_MacPhee
A number of Queens College people will exhibit in this show:
RICH AND CULTIVATED A group exhibition in two parts
Curated by Sanders Watson (QCMFA)
- October 12-November 25, 2012
- Opening Reception, part 1: Friday, October 12, 6-8pm
Opening Reception, part 2: Friday, November 9, 6-8pm @ Sardine, 286 Stanhope Street, Brooklyn, NY 11237
Participating artists include: TJen P. Harris, and Daina Higgins, Todd Carignan, Michael Cline, Jacob Goble, (part 1); Ed Flanagan, Kurt Kauper, Matt Mahler, Nathania Rubin and Joel Stotts (part 2)
Oct 16 Amy Whitaker speaks with us about surviving as an artist today. Amy has an MBA from Yale and an MFA in painting from the Slade School of Fine Art at the University College London. She has worked at the Guggenheim, MoMA and the Tate. Since 2004, she has taught economic and financial theory to artists in a course she designed called Business School for Artists. The recent class at Trade School, an artist-run, barter-economy school, was featured in the New York Times City Room blog. A version of the course at Williams College, called Entrepreneurship as an Art Form, led to a third of the students starting companies. Amy is a member of the faculty at the Sotheby’s Institute and at the School of Visual Arts.
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Several students are involved in this event including Jose, Sol, Seth, and Barrie:
http://www.queensmuseum.org/
Tues. 11/20 “UNEARTH” Thea Lanzisero’s thesis exhibition, Klapper Hall @ 6PM
Tues 11/27 visit from curator Rocio Aranda Alvarado curator from el Museo del Barrio
MID-TERM CRITS:
1. Tuesday December 4th: Crits begin at 2:30 PM
2. Saturday December 8th: Crits continue at 12 NOON
*** DECEMBER 10 & 11 CURATOR LIZ PARK VISITS YOUR STUDIOS ***
Tuesday December 11th special guest speaker Jim Lee at 4:30
Jim Lee holds a BA from Hope College, Holland, MI and a MFA from University of Delaware, in Newark, DE, USA. He completed residencies in The Edward Albee Foundation, in Montauk, NY in 2008 and at Farpath Foundation, in Dijon, France, in 2010.Jim Lee’s solo exhibitions include: 2012 with Holy Fingers, at Galerie VidalCuglietta, in Brussels; 2010 Woodshedding, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York; and 2009 Blimp Lore, Galerie Markus Winter in Berlin, Germany among others.
Tuesday, December 18th meet at Prof. Arthur Cohen’s studio: 435 West Broadway at Prince Street ** CLICK FOR MAP Then walk to Marthe’s place for dinner~ 39 Walker St, 2R, bet. Church & Broadway
Pablo, Liz, Aaron, & Kristie at Arthur Cohen’s Studio, December 18, 2012
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SPRING 2013
College Art Association Annual Conference hotel room installation Feb 14 & 15 (Thanks Lauren Nickou for documentation more found here on QC Facebook Page
A hotel room group installation by Queens College MFA artists during the College Art Association conference. Room #_____ (to be announced on Second Floor Promenade of Hilton first day of exhibition)
College Art Association Annual Conference
Hilton Hotel New York
1335 Avenue of the Americas
6th Avenue at 54th Street New York, NY 10010
Opening: Thursday, February 14, 7-10pm
Friday, February 15, 12-7pm
Closing: February 15, Friday, 7-10pm
Entering a hotel room, you find yourself in a familiar arrangement: the bed, the television, the bathroom with travel-size toiletries. Its appearance is generic, but only because there is a systematized logic that determines what constitutes a neutral living space. At a hotel, you have no responsibility to the space; you are not expected to think about the labor and the mechanism behind the maintenance and the operations of the hotel. It is ideologically loaded in order to appear free of ideology.
For the MFA students at Queens College, Hotel Practice is an examination of the customary performance involved with inhabiting such a site of contradiction – a space for respite and escape, and potential depravity and unexpected convergences. Furthermore, organized in time for the CAA conference, where the field of art is actively charted through debates and discussions, the artists in Hotel Practice consider how to discursively situate their own work in relation to these continually constructed sites of art. Self-organized and -produced, Hotel Practice can be more accurately described as a demonstration of the artists’ practice, rather than as an exhibition. It invites you to a collective questioning of established methods of conducting oneself within a systematized field of social activities – whether that field be understood specifically as the hotel, or more broadly as the field of art.
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** Feb 19th we meet @ 3:30 at Dieter Roth show, Hauser & Wirth Gallery, 511 West 18th
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- March 10 – 16, MFA Thesis Exhibition: Joanna Sztencel
* Reception: Fri. March 15th?
- March 17 – 24, MFA Thesis Exhibition: Martha Keller
* Reception: Sunday March 18th
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Shared Spaces
In urban design, the term “shared space” refers to an area where demarcating features such as traffic signs, road markings and curbs are removed in order to heighten the awareness of drivers, cyclists and pedestrians of each other’s presence. By increasing the sense of uncertainty, those who enter a shared space tend to become more attentive to others. A shared space necessitates an ongoing negotiation.
The 2013 Queens College MFA exhibition takes its title from this idea that those who enter a shared space must acknowledge the presence of others with different practices, vehicles, speeds, and methods of working. This exhibition similarly recognizes and highlights the distinct bodies of work that each artist has developed over the course of their time at Queens College.
Working alongside one another, the artists have developed affinities and share mutual concerns. For instance, Sol Aramendi, Seth Aylmer, Barrie Cline, and Jose Serrano-McClain create a social space – a shared space of a different kind – through events, workshops, classes, and community outreach and organization. Another group of artists, Chris Esposito, Kristie Hirten, Kara Szemelynec, and Asia Sztencel explore elements of their urban environ or man-made structures in juxtaposition with the natural environment. Pablo Alvarez, Henry Kielmanowicz, Thea Lanzisero, and Liz Pasqualo are interested in picking up the material detritus of their urban fabric in order to provide commentary on socio-economic conditions or on the ecology, or to reflect on their individual connections to these materials. Yet another group of artists, A. Coffey, Christie Farriella, Marthe Keller, Lauren Nickou, and Amanda Shea explore a more intimate subjective relationship with the materials and the media in which they each work.
Within a shared space of interactions, there is always the risk of collision and rift. The exhibition acknowledges the limitations of shared spaces. The artists create work that may not sit comfortably beside one another. Nonetheless, they share a site of learning. In so doing, they must necessarily look around in order to navigate their way through many such shared spaces.
Special thanks to the office of the President of Queens College for their generous support.
QC MFA SHOW curated by Liz Park: March 21 to April 3, 2013
ONE ART SPACE, TRIBECA 23 Warren Street (Street Level TriBeCa)
Curator LIZ PARK was born in Seoul, Korea, today she is a Vancouver-based curator, interested in creating discursive spaces and generating forums to engage an audience with discussions of today’s political and social realities. She is a graduate of the Whitney Independent Studies Program, received an MA in Curatorial Studies at the University of British Columbia in 2007. In 2008-2009, she was Curatorial Resident at Western Front Media Arts in Vancouver through Canada Council for the Arts Assistance to Culturally Diverse Curators in Residencies. Liz will be curating the Queens College MFA Show, and writing about their work for a color catalog.
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** Spring Break, March 25 – April 2 **
- April 6 – 13, MFA Thesis Exhibition: Kara Szemelynec
* Reception: Sunday, April 8
A visit to the studio of Dana Schutz to confirm April 16th at 5:30p Gowanus Brooklyn, 105 14th street (between 2nd and 3rd avenue). Nearest subway stop is the 4th avenue/9th street stop on the F, G or R.
- April 14 – 20, MFA Thesis Exhibition: Henry Kielmanowicz
* Reception: Friday 19th
- April 21 – 27, MFA Thesis Exhibition: Liz Pasqualo
* Reception: Friday 26th
- April 29 – May 4, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Kristie Hirten
* Reception: Saturday May 4th
- May 5 – 11, MARTHE KELLER I The Coach with Six Insides I MFA Thesis Exhibition: MAY 6 – 11 I Artist Reception Tuesday May 7 / 5-9 pm I Queens College, CUNY I Klapper Hall 4th Floor Gallery I 65-30 Kissena Blvd, New York, NY 11367 I Gallery hours daily and by appointment: Phone 917 821 9704
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** FINAL CRITS **
TUESDAY MAY 21 STARTING AT 10AM
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Readings & Viewings:
[Most of the readings assigned to the informal social practice reading group are also posted here as pdf files: http://www.darkmatterarchives.net/?page_id=252 ]
1. Theodor Adorno, “Black as an Ideal” AdornoBlackIdeal
2. Theodor Adorno, “Commitment” AdornoCommitment
3. “The Public Sphere: An Encyclopedia Article” by Jürgen Habermas Habermass.Short
Additional Readings of note:
Pussy Riot: http://eng-pussy-riot.livejournal.com/4602.html Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALS92big4TY
David Riff on Pussy Riot http://www.chtodelat.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1023:david-riff–a-representation-which-is-divorced-from-the-consciousness-of-those-whom-it-represents-is-n
Interview with Claire Bishop http://www.bostonreview.net/BR37.5/claire_bishop_artificial_hells_participatory_art_s