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Lecture by Nina Katchadourian
Nina Katchadourian was born in Stanford, California and grew up spending every summer on a small island in the Finnish archipelago, where she still spends part of each year. Her work exists in a wide variety of media including photography, sculpture, video and sound. Her work has been exhibited domestically and internationally at places such as PS1/MoMA, the Serpentine Gallery, New Langton Arts, Artists Space, SculptureCenter, and the Palais de Tokyo. In January 2006 the Turku Art Museum in Turku, Finland featured a solo show of works made in Finland, and in June 2006 the Tang Museum in Saratoga Springs exhibited a 10-year survey of her work and published an accompanying monograph entitled “All Forms of Attraction.” The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego presented a solo show of recent video installation works in July 2008. Katchadourian is represented by Sara Meltzer gallery in New York and Catharine Clark gallery in San Francisco.
Lecture by Chris Taylor
Chris Taylor was born in Tehran, Iran and moved and lived in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Madrid Spain, Manila, Phillipines, Muscat, Oman, Mexico City, Mexico, Brussels, Belgium, Abidjan, Ivory Coast, and Tegucigalpa, Honduras all before he was twenty. His work is best characterized by exercising in social practice in an attempt to find a critical way of working that engages wider audiences and situations beyond just art institutions, as a method for the dissemination of ideas and as a political statement. From learning to blow glass upside down to reproducing a 16th century venetian goblet, who’s technique was lost for over five hundred years, and then planting it in a cabinet next to the original in the collections room of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, he exploits the friction generated within a material and process that is a product of convention, tradition and history. Chris has been awarded numerous awards, fellowships and grants from the National Endowment of The Arts, The Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, The New York Foundation on the Arts and Rhode Island School of Design. He has been artists in residence at the Glasmuseum Ebeltoft, Denmark, The Tacoma Museum of Glass Tacoma, WA., Kitengela Glass Nairobi, Kenya, Shandong University of Arts and Design Jinan City, Peoples Republic of China, Nagoya University of Art Nagoya, Japan, and The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. Chris has exhibited at some of the most prominent non-profit galleries including ArtSpace in New Haven, CT, Artists Space, Exit Art, New York, New York and will debut new work this spring in a solo exhibition at Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT.
Lecture by Mark Dion
Mark Dion was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts in 1961. He received a BFA (1986) and an honorary doctorate (2003) from the University of Hartford School of Art, Connecticut. Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. The job of the artist, he says, is to go against the grain of dominant culture, to challenge perception and convention. Appropriating archaeological and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, Dion creates works that question the distinctions between ‘objective’ (‘rational’) scientific methods and ‘subjective’ (‘irrational’) influences. The artist’s spectacular and often fantastical curiosity cabinets, modeled on Wunderkabinetts of the 16th Century, exalt atypical orderings of objects and specimens. By locating the roots of environmental politics and public policy in the construction of knowledge about nature, Mark Dion questions the authoritative role of the scientific voice in contemporary society. He has received numerous awards, including the ninth annual Larry Aldrich Foundation Award (2001). He has had major exhibitions at the Miami Art Museum (2006); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2004); Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut (2003); and Tate Gallery, London (1999). “Neukom Vivarium” (2006), a permanent outdoor installation and learning lab for the Olympic Sculpture Park, was commissioned by the Seattle Art Museum. Dion lives and works in Pennsylvania.
Lecture by Allison Smith
Allison Smith’s diverse artistic practice investigates the cultural phenomenon of historical reenactment and the role of craft in the construction of national identity. Smith was born in Manassas, Virginia in 1972. She received a BA in psychology from the New School for Social Research (1995), a BFA from Parsons School of Design (1995), and an MFA from the Yale University School of Art (1999). She participated in the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program (1999-2000). Smith has exhibited her work in numerous venues in the U.S. and abroad, including University of California, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, California (2007); Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (2007); Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, Massachusetts (2006); Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (2006); Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, New York (2006); Arario Gallery, Cheonan, South Korea (2006); P.S.1 MoMA Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York (2005); and Studio Voltaire, London, England (2005). Over the past decade, Smith has taught at several institutions including Columbia University, Parsons School of Design, New York University, Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, and the Institute for American Universities in Aix-en-Provence, France. In the fall of 2008, she joined the faculty at the California College of the Arts in Oakland and San Francisco. Smith has produced recent projects at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, and The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh.
February 25th Daniel Peltz
Bio
Lately, I’ve been making video installations, performances, and interventions that explore the socially mediating character of live-feed video. I’m trying to figure out what video is and what kinds of knowledge it can generate about the social world, not as an abstraction but as a force of very real transformation. I have increasingly little faith in abstract understandings, I am seeking embodied knowledge. My material is myself and the interactions I have with others in real time, the live-feed. I offer this material to video, as a gesture of good faith, that I might be worthy of the knowledge it contains. I’ve been thinking of these things I make as media machines in need of human performers. I don’t build them for anyone but myself. If you catch me claiming to, don’t believe me.
Daniel Peltz is a conceptual artist who creates works that combine installation, intervention and performance strategies. His most recent projects have been staged at the 2008 Democratic National Convention, a glass mill in Reijmyre, Sweden and in the capital city of Yaounde, Cameroon. Peltz was a 2007-08 Fulbright Scholar/Artist-in-Residence at the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies at Konstfack in Stockholm and in residence in the fall of 2008 at The School of Arts and Communication [K3] in Malmo as part of the International Artists Studio Program in Sweden [IASPIS]. When not escaping his home country, he lives happily in Pawtucket, Rhode Island where he is an Assistant Professor of Film/Animation/Video at the Rhode Island School of Design.
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