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P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center presents WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, the first comprehensive, historical exhibition to examine the international foundations and legacy of feminist art.
The exhibition, curated by Connie Butler, spans the period of 1965 to 1980 and includes 120 artists and artist groups from the United States, Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. WACK! includes work by women who operated within the political structure of feminism as well as women who did not necessarily embrace feminism as part of their practice, but were impacted by the movement. Comprising work in a broad range of media—including painting, sculpture, photography, film, video, and performance art—the exhibition is organized around themes based on media, geography, formal concerns, collective aesthetic, and political impulses.
This exhibition will be displayed on the entire First and Second Floors, and in the Third Floor Main Gallery of P.S.1 from February 17, 2008 through May 12, 2008.
The event was recorded by Art Radio WPS1 at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center on February 17, 2008. The reunion featured Ilona Granet, Donna Hennes, Diane Torr, and Martha Wilson.
Remarks and remembrances by select colleagues, friends and family before an audience gathered to honor the memory of the great man and artist who died August 8, 2004. The program also includes recordings of the artist speaking. The thousand or so attendees came by invitation of Golub's wife, the painter Nancy Spero, and her sons Stephen, Philip and Paul Golub.
Leon Golub was born in Chicago in 1922 and died in New York on August 8, 2004. Widely known for his paintings and depictions of torture and political oppression, he also remained a man accessible to younger artists, and was considered by many to be the model of an activist artist.
This event was recorded on Sunday, April 17, 2005 at the Great Hall of Cooper Union in New York City. WPS1 thanks David Reynolds for making this event available to us.
Here is New York, the European view, as Ingela Lind visits the newly expanded Museum of Modern Art and compares notes on the re-installation of its collections with artist Marina Abramovic and P.S.1's Alanna Heiss. The conversation, which includes the seductions of fundamentalism, is as provocative as you might expect, with the added bonus of real insight.
Marina Abramovic is well known for her spirited work in performance and video, and her focus on the physical and psychological limits that a human being can endure. A recent three-channel video work, "Talk to Me," was included in the 2004 Whitney Biennial. Her video installation, "Balkan Baroque," won the International Award at the 1997 Venice Biennale. In 2002, she riveted New Yorkers with a twelve-day performance that restricted her to silence and a diet of water and allowed her almost no privacy but did not prevent her from communing with her audience in ways known best to the human spirit. She is represented by the Sean Kelly Gallery in New York.
A talk on the intersection of art and philosophy by Arthur C. Danto, Prof. Emeritus of Philosophy, Columbia University and art critic who curated
The Art of 9/11,
an exhibition at Apex Art in New York (Sept. 7-Oct. 15, 2005) featuring responses by artists to 9/11. The exhibition aims to show how art actually embodies grief and to reflect on how artists dealt with the attack. The artists: Audrey Flack, Leslie King-Hammond, Jeffrey Lohn, Mary Miss with Victoria Marshall and Elliott Maltby, Lucio Pozzi, Ursula Von Rydingsvard, Cindy Sherman, Barbara Westman, Robert Rahway Zakanitch.
I am not a curator, but I felt that such a show would itself be understood not as an ordinary art exhibition, but as what Wittgenstein calls an act of piety, and serve as an aspect of the question of what art is after all for, and how it, just as Hegel had said, serves, together with religion and philosophy, as a moment in what he called Absolute Spirit. -- Prof. Danto from the exhibition essay.
Performance art of the 70s was provocative and radical. Since then it has become recognized as a fundable, collectible commodity. How does the insertion of the museum into the equation affect the creation, experience and preservation of performance? Art historian and critic
RoseLee Goldberg moderates a panel of artist
Marina Abramovic, Cuban-born artist Tania Bruguera, philosopher, critic and curator Klaus Ottman, and curator Debra Singer, now Executive Director of The Kitchen. Among many highlights, Ottmann's extraordinary account of the life, death and work of James Lee Byars.
The panel was sponsored by Performa, a non-profit interdisciplinary arts
organization founded to commission and present new performance work in the
visual arts. Not For Sale is presented in conjunction with New York
University's Dept. of Art and Art Professions. Recorded 18 November 2004.
Plastic surgery has reached epidemic proportions in the U.S. and Suzanne Anker gathers a crew of insiders to examine some of the aesthetic and social issues raised by transforming the body through augmentations, reductions and cosmetic procedures that are rooted in the practice of artists from Warhol to Orlan and Sherman.
This episode examines religious references such as the relic, "incarnational consciousness" and immortality with regard to the genetic decoding of the "book of life" and art's magico-religious roots. The reknowned French artist Orlan discusses her Carnal Art Manifesto and her fight against the stereotype of a woman's body as a site of sacrifice and vulnerability. Raphael Cuir, art historian and J.P.Getty Scholar expands the current dialogue on the use of religious metaphor in art and science. Eleanor Heartney, art critic and writer talks about the reception of her book Postmodern Heretics: Catholic Imagination in Contemporary Art in both the religious and art communities.
C'est le murmure de l'eau qui chante: In these recordings, produced by Brigitte Cornand, the artist Louise Bourgeois sings 22 short melodies and children's songs. Then, in a remix by Frederic Sanchez, the material is transformed into an electronic fantasy.
Eclectic and unclassifiable mix of music new and old, from here and there, from Moon dog to Derek Bailey to John and Yoko. Mark Dagley is a painter and musician and producer with projects including legendary Boston punk-band The Girls, The Hi-Sheriffs of Blue, and Marianne Nowottny.
Playlist
Isa Genzken - "Tri-Star" Dusseltoo Records 7" 1979
Rudolph Gray & Rashid Ali - "Implosion 73" New Alliance 7" 1991
MoonDog - "Utsu" Mars Records 7" 1960's
Robert Petway - "Catfish Blues" RCA -Victor 7" 1965
Alastair Galbraith - Rivulets/Wheeler" Camera Obscura Records 7" 1997
Derek Bailey & Ben Watson - "No title" Rectangle 7" 1999
Conlon Nancarrow - "Study #5" Arch Records LP
U. Srinivas - "Marugelara" Oriental Records 1986
2 Foot Flame - "Peacock Coal" WFMU Records 1998
The Okmoniks - "Sorority Club Song" In-Fi Records 7" 2003
The Public Servants - "A Mistake" Edible Records 7" 1981
Third Border - "Jugband Blues" Living Records CD-R 2004
Florence Foster Jenkins - "Like a Bird" BMG CD 1992
Florence Foster Jenkins - "Bell Song" BMG CD 1992
David Garland - "Seem the Same" (Secular Prayer #5) Review Records 2004
Yoko Ono/ John Lennon - "Excerpt from Two Virgins" Apple Records 1968
Differences and Dialogues: World Views on the Feminist Movement listen |
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First broadcast March 10, 2008
The panel was recorded by Art Radio WPS1 at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center on February 16, 2008. With guests Margaret Harrison, Nil Yalter, Kirsten Justesen, Lisa Steele, Lorraine O'Grady, moderated by Jo Anna Isaak, and introduced by David Weinstein.
In September of 2002 the editors of Cabinet magazine sat down for an editorial review for an upcoming issue of the publication devoted to Real Estate and Property. During this conversation Jeffrey Kastner, Sina Najafi and Frances Richard discussed the idea of Gordon Matta-Clark's Fake Estates project and its relevance to the issue. What transpired from this conversation was a two-year research project which culminated in concurrent exhibitions entitled Odd Lots: Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clark's Fake Estates at White Columns (September - October, 2005), The Queens Museum of Art (September 11, 2005 - January 22, 2006), a series of artist tours and projects and a catalog documenting the project (Published by Cabinet and DAP).
On November 10, 2006 Material Culture host, Brett Littman, invited the
editorial/curatorial team of Kastner, Najafi and Richard along with Julia Mandle, Jane South, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, three artists who participated in the exhibitions, to make sense of this complicated project for the wps1.org listeners. What transpired is a personal and intimate look at the Odd Lots project from both curatorial and artistic viewpoints.
Listen to audio tours of three of the Fake Estates with these links:
Here are Mierle Laderman Ukeles comments on the La Flor segment:
I invited Vikko, the owner and creator of La Flor, an island of
Mexico deliciousness sprung right under the El in Queens, to
participate with me in creating QUEENS QOOKIES / SWEET SPLITS. I
asked him to come up with some kind of baked goods that have the
shape of ODD LOT #3. We talked a lot. I showed him pictures of #3.
We walked over to ODD LOT #3 together under the El, so noisy. We
looked at #3 and ended up in a long conversation about property,
possessions, about dreams and ambition; and then more philosophically
about having and losing. He talked about his dream, to leave baking
with his mother since childhood in his simple village in southern
Mexico to chase his dreams in the big city, and got here, and needing
a job, ended up back in the kitchen, baking. Only this time, he
created an oasis, and built a wonderful cafe, and now owns another
and perhaps more to come. All this, while we stood on a Queens
street, looking at a mysterious shape floating somewhere down a
driveway between buildings, then walking back to the cafe.
He had suggested making the shape of #3 in stencils with powder sugar on
brownies with Mexican chocolate. Seized with this idea, I and my two
assistants figured out the ratio of the whacky dimensions of #3 in
relation to standard cookie sheets sizes -- which is pretty
complicated, and then made many models and drawings and stencil
patterns using this shape now fit into the size of the cookie sheet.
When we returned to show it to him, he was so touched that we had run
with his idea so hard, that he said he'd bake for nothing! Nothing
doing, I said, we had to do this in a business-like way. They were
beautiful!
Presentations and discussion issuing from the panel organized at the Museum of Modern Art under the the topic of Body/Sexuality/Identity on Jan. 26, 2007 with:
Marina Abramovic, artist
Beatriz Colomina, Professor of Architecture and Director of Program in Media and Modernity, Princeton University
Geeta Kapur, critic and curator, New Delhi
Martha Rosler, artist
Moderator: Sally Berger, Assistant Curator, Dept. of Film, the Museum of Modern Art (2 hours)
Lynn Hershman-Leeson was interactive, virtual, digital, and totally techno-seduced when new media was really new. Host Michael Rush interviews this pioneer who is still operating at the experimental edges of film and interactive installation.
The event was recorded by Art Radio WPS1 at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center on February 16, 2008. I.U.D. is a musical performance by the artists Lizzie Bougatsos and Sadie Laska.
Joan Jonas is one of the most significant figures in contemporary art whose installations, films and performances have appeared in numerous galleries and museums around the globe, from the 1960s to the present. "Joan Jonas: Five Works", a widely acclaimed retrospective organized for the Queens Museum of Art by Valerie Smith in 2004, was Jonas's first major museum show in the U.S. She is currently a Professor of Visual Arts at MIT in Cambridge, MA and is represented by Galerie Yvon Lambert. Recorded on March, 2002.
The Joans held a co-interview on the Art Radio broadcast barge during the 2005 Venice Biennale. Joan Jonas is a pioneer of video/performance art. Her experiments and productions in the late 1960s and early 1970s were essential to the development of contemporary art in many genres--from performance and video to conceptual art and theater. Her most recent work continues to explore the relationship of new digital media to performance. Jonas has taught at Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 2000. Joan Simon is a writer, curator, editor, and arts administrator based in Paris, France, who has worked independently for museums, foundations and publishers in the United States and in Europe.
Historic and rare recordings of sculpture that makes sound by artists Jean Tinguely (1925-91), Harry Bertoia (1915-78), Horst Rickels (b. 1947) and Alan Lamb (b. 1944).
Playlist
Jean Tinguely -- Meta-Matics and other motorized scrap sculptures from the late 50s.
Harry Bertoia -- Sonambient, recorded in the artist's barn in Pennsylvania late 60s.
Horst Rickels -- from Mercury (235 Media CD) excerpt from the organ pipe construction played by the artist and Joop van Brakel, 1988.
The Swiss Institute-Contemporary Art (SI) presented a 24-Hour Incidental, a one-day program of simultaneous performance by ten artists representing several generations of performance art. Artists included were John Armleder, Peter Coffin, Jason Dodge, Annika Eriksson, Piero Golia, Carsten Höller, Karl Holmqvist, Koo Jeong-A, Christoph Keller and Yoko Ono. WPS1's Delphine Blue, on her Performa whirlwind tour, got a personal walk-through with 24--Hour Incidental curator Jordan Wolfson.
Performa 2007: You Didn't Have to Be There (Photography, Performance, and Contemporary Art) listen |
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First broadcast November 21, 2007
In this panel discussion artists and critics, including Marina Abramovic, Vanessa Beecroft, Babette Mangolte (moderated by: PERFORMA's RoseLee Goldberg) explore the significance of photography in the history of performance since the 1960s and the influence of performance on contemporary photography. Vera List Center's Carin Kuoni, Aperture's Michelle Dunn, and RoseLee Goldberg offer introductory remarks.
Aperture's "Confounding Expectations III: Photography in Context" lecture series is presented by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics and Parsons The New School for Design in collaboration with Aperture Foundation, with generous support from the ASMP Foundation, Milton & Sally Avery Arts Foundation, the Kettering Family Foundation and the Henry Nias Foundation. This, and Aperture's other artist lectures, are made possible, in part, by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs."
Recorded on November 14, 2007, at the New School University, New York City.
The event was recorded by Art Radio WPS1 at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center on February 24, 2008. Pink Bloque Revisited was an interactive workshop with re-united members of the radical Chicago street dance troupe, Pink Bloque. This workshop was presented by Natalie Chap, Dara Greenwald, Blithe Riley, and Rachel Caidor.
The event was recorded by Art Radio WPS1 at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center on February 24, 2008. The panel featured Marlene McCarty and John Lindell (Gran Fury), Joyce Kozloff (Artists Against the War), Doug Ashford (Group Material), and Eugenie Tsai (Godzilla). Moderated by Carey Lovelace.
Ready for a Louise Bourgeois rap? A leap into the mosh pit with Janine Antoni? Birdcalls from Louise Lawler? A toy piano riff from Barbara Ess? Laurie Anderson isn't the only female artist to rush the barrier between music and audio art! Here artist/curator Robin Kahn and host David Platzker amuse themselves with one-of-a-kind recordings by women artists who stop at nothing to get the sound they want.
Playlist
"O Superman (For Massenet)" Laurie Anderson Big Science (1982)
"My Companion" The Shaggs The Shaggs (1969)
"Favorite Sweater" Y Pants Y Pants (1980)
"Melodic Group Shapes" Daphne Oram Listen Move and Dance (1962)
"Nivea Cream Piece, 1962" Alison Knowles Tellus # 24 (1990)
"Birdcalls, 1972" Louise Lawler Tellus #5/6 (1984)
"Stand Up" Hannah Wilke Revolutions Per Minute (The Art Record) (1982)
"Long Gone" Kristin Oppenheim Happy New Ear (1992)
"C'est le murmure de l'eauquichante" Louise Bourgeois untitled (2002)
"Slave Sho' To Video A.K.A. Black But Beautiful" Tracie Morris Soundworks: Whitney Biennial 2002 (2002), 3:42
"Mosh Pit" Janine Gordon Soundworks: Whitney Biennial 2002 (2002)
"Operations" Dara Birnbuam Other Rooms, Other Voices : Audio Works by Artists (1998)
Jesus Christ Superstar Robin Kahn Robin Kahn Sings Jesus Christ Superstar (1991), EXCERPT
A belated celebration of the reopening of The Museum of Modern Art and its new building. Host David Platzker mixes pop and artists' audio.
Playlist
Autumn in New York / The Golden Kot Quartett / The Golden Kot Quartett (with Günter Frg, Albert Oehlen, Hubert Kiecol, Martin Kippenberger)
Something More Abstract (Bonus Track) / Yoko Ono / Plastic Ono Band
Bela Lugosi's Dead / Bauhaus / Bela
No No No No / New Museum / Bruce Nauman / The Unilever Series: Raw Materials
Secondary Modern / Elvis Costello & The Attractions / Get Happy !!
The Modern World / The Jam / Compact Snap
Show No Shame / Destroy All Monsters / Live In Tokyo & Osaka
(Art Byington, Mike Kelley, Cary Loren, Dave Muller, Jim Shaw)
(We Workers Do Not Understand) Modern Art / Camper Van Beethoven / Camper Vantiquities
Modern World / The Modern Lovers / The Modern Lovers
Tell Me a Story / Iggy Pop / Pop Music
Pop Scene / Blur / Modern Life Is Rubbish
Modern Man / Black Flag / Who's Got The 101/2?
Show And Tell / Lawrence Weiner, Ned Sublette / Monsters From The Deep
My Art / Le Tigre / Album: Feminist Sweepstakes
Art Star / Yeah Yeah Yeahs / Album: Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Be Careful What You Pay For, Yo! Bum Rush the Show / Blank & Raymond Pettibon / Album: Blank Meets Pettibon
In a Sentimental Mood / The Modern Jazz Quartet & Sonny Rollins / The Artistry of The Modern Jazz Quartet
A number of women have taken up the cause of rock without regard for traditional (i.e. smiling and submissive) female role models, and they are the focus of this confrontational survey, by artist Robin Kahn and host David Platzker, of the raunchy, sexy, otherworldly female voices in advanced underground rock.
Playlist
"Oh Bondage! Up Yours!" X-Ray Spex (1978)
"Oh Bondage Up Yours!" Free Kitten (1999)
"Double Dare Ya" Bikini Kill (1994)
"LT Tour Theme" Le Tigre (2001)
"Diet Pill" L7 (1992)
"Crying Shame" 7 Year Bitch (1996)
"Babelogue" Patti Smith (1988)
"Rock N Roll Nigger" Patti Smith (1988)
"Man-Size" PJ Harvey (1993)
"Stilleto'd Young Stars" Rebecca Moore (1997_-1999) (2001)
"Take Some Petrol, Darling" Sugarcubes (1988)
"(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" Cat Power (2000)
"(I Am Taking Out My Eurotrash) I Still Get Rocks Off" Blonde Redhead (1995)
"Why" Yoko Ono, Plastic Ono Band (1970)
Robin Kahn is a visual artist and curator who has organized a number of projects that integrate artists' work with public realm. She has produced several art anthologies, such as Time Capsule: A Concise Encyclopedia by Women Artists (Creative Time, 1995) and produced special events for the Guggenheim Museum and the Kitchen in New York, and at LACE in Los Angeles. Her curatorial accomplishments include a 1997 show of ephemeral works for the Leslie Tonkonow Gallery and the Bound &Unbound Fluxus Bookstore; "Market To Market" (2001) for the Rotunda Gallery in Brooklyn; and "Get Off!: Exploring the Pleasure Principle" a contemporary art show for New York's Museum of Sex in 2004. Her work as a visual artist has been included in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum and the National Museum of Women in the Arts.
Host David Platzker is the proprietor of Specific Object which presents artists' works (publications, ephemera, prints, multiples and other editions to literature and audio works, both online and at temporary locations. From 1998 through 2004 Platzker was Executive Director of Printed Matter, Inc. He is also the co-author, with Elizabeth Wyckoff, of "Hard Pressed: 600 Years of Prints and Process" (International Print Center New York & Hudson Hills Press, 2000); and with Richard H. Axsom the book and exhibition, "Printed Stuff: Prints, Posters, and Ephemera by Claes Oldenburg: A Catalogue Raisonn 1958-1996" (Madison Art Center & Hudson Hills Press, 1997). Platzker has also organized exhibitions of the works of John Baldessari, Marcel Duchamp, Donald Judd, Oldenburg, Dieter Roth, and Edward Ruscha in addition to those he curated for Printed Matter, with Angelblood, Larry Clark, Erin Cosgrove, Meg Cranston, General Idea, Jenny Holzer, Reverend Jen, Allan Kaprow, Yoko Ono, Ryan McGinness, Sonic Youth, Tom Sachs, David Tremlett, Richard Tuttle and the Guerrilla Girls.
In this substantive talk on art and politics with Michael Rush, the provocative, and proactive, Martha Rosler recalls her famed collages of the Vietnam War era as well as her recent series picturing the war in Iraq as only Rosler would dare. This month she has a solo exhibition at the Sprengel Museum in Hannover, Germany, which has awarded her the Forderpreise Fotografie, or the Spectrum International Prize for Photography, of the Foundation of Lower Saxony. Her works, which include such pieces as Bringing the War Home: House Beautiful (1967-1972), and the Semiotics of the Kitchen (1975 are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum and the Whitney Museum in New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among several others. Her most recent work was on view last month at the Gorney, Bravin & Lee Gallery in Chelsea. Her book of selected essays, Decoys and Disruptions: Selected Writings 1975-2001, was recently published by MIT press.
