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Sigrid Hackenberg, Director of Dissertation Committees and Chair of Independent Studies for IDSVA, is guest editor of the publication POLIGRAFI. The new issue of Poligrafi on the topic of “bodily proximity” includes artwork by Bracha L. Ettinger and scholarly contributions by Bracha L. Ettinger, Gina Rae Foster, Julia Hölzl, Roula Haj-Ismail, Tadashi Ogawa, Wolfgang Schirmacher, Lenart kof, Stephen David Ross, Sigrid Hackenberg y Almansa, and Ann Mulhall. The double issue is available online at:
http://www.poligrafi.si/OnlineEditions
Check it out!
IDSVA is pleased to announce that Dr. Simonetta Moro has been appointed Director of IDSVA, as of May 1, 2012. We are especially excited about Dr. Moro’s longstanding interest in and commitment to the development of PhD programs for visual artists; for her part, Dr. Moro is equally excited about the special kind of PhD IDSVA offers to visual artists and creative thinkers.
Dr. Moro lives in Brooklyn, New York. She grew up in Italy, where she did a BFA in Painting at the Accademia delle Belle Arti in Bologna and studied at the International School of Graphic Art in Florence. After completing her MA in European Fine Art at the Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, UK, Dr. Moro studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Scuplture in Maine. She then went on to do her PhD in Studio and Theory at University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK.
After teaching drawing at the Cornell University-in-Rome Program, Dr. Moro took a faculty position at the Eugene Lang College at Parsons and the New School. She has been teaching theory and studio at Lang since 2003, where she also served as department chair.
In addition to curating important exhibitions here in the US and internationally, Dr. Moro has exhibited in an impressive number of solo and group shows worldwide. Her chapter for the book Mapping Cultures, edited by Les Roberts, is forthcoming from Palgrave. Dr. Moro is currently working on a mapping project in Venice and New York funded by the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation.
I want to thank faculty search committee members Margot Kelley and Kate Farrington (Cohort ’11) for expanding the faculty search to include consideration of a directorship candidacy, and special thanks to Interim Director Margot Kelley for serving as advisor in the selection process.
Welcome to IDSVA Simonetta!
Hi all—we are thrilled to announce that our fresh, re-designed site went live over the weekend! Be sure to check it out: www.idsva.org. Let us know what you think- we’d love to hear your feedback!
Dear IDSVA peers, friends, and colleagues:
The editorial board is pleased to announce the launch of Eye & Mind: The IDSVA Journal of Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Art Theory. This issue contains writings by current IDSVA students, showcasing scholarship performed as independent studies and dissertations. We are proud of the accomplishments of our fellow students and are grateful to share the work of these artist-philosophers. We hope you enjoy the breadth and creativity of the scholarship and writing as much as we do, and we look forward to seeing how the journal evolves and grows along with school.
The journal can be accessed at: http://www.idsva-eyeandmind.org
Best,
Emily Putnam, ABD – Cohort 08
Managing Editor, Eye & Mind
IDSVA 2012 Summer Residency Visiting Faculty Lectures
IDSVA is especially proud to announce scholars and philosophers participating in the 2012 IDSVA Summer Residency Visiting Faculty Lectures.
Howard Caygill-– Berlin. Howard Caygill is Professor of Cultural History, Paris 8. Professor Caygill is an internationally recognized scholar with a special interest in visual culture. His books include Walter Benjamin: The Colour of Experience, A Kant Dictionary, and Levinas and the Political. Professor Caygill will lecture on Kant, Hegel, and the shift from Neoclassicism to Romanticism.
Peggy Phelan—Spannocchia Castle, Tuscany. Peggy Phelan is the The Ann O’Day Maples Professor in the Arts at Stanford University, where she teaches Drama and English. Selected publications include: Unmarked: the Politics of Performance, Mourning Sex: Performing Public Memories, and the “Survey” essay for Art and Feminism.
Sylvère Lotringer—Paris. Sylvère Lotringer is Professor Emeritus of French literature and philosophy at Columbia University and Professor of Foreign Philosophy at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. Known for his work as general editor of Semiotext(e) and Foreign Agents, Professor Lotringer is a literary critic and cultural theorist.
Paul Armstrong— Brown University, Providence, RI. Paul Armstrong, former dean of Brown University, has designed a new methods course for third-year students, which he will be teaching at this summer’s Brown residency.
IDSVA is proud to announce that five IDSVA students are presenting panel papers at CAA and another is exhibiting—that’s 15% of our student body!
Be sure to visit IDSVA at Booth #335, Book & Trade Fair, L.A. Convention Center, Thursday-Saturday.
And don’t miss IDSVA’s information session and reception for prospective students and for faculty interested in serving as dissertation and independent studies directors: Friday, February 24, 5:30- 7:00 PM, The Westin Bonaventure Hotel, 404 South Figueroa Street: Beaudry A, lobby level of yellow tower. Light refreshments served.
IDSVA Student Panel Presentation & Exhibition Schedule:
Jennifer Hall
Momentum: Women/Art/Technology, Redefining Health through a Postcybernetic Aesthetic
Thursday, February 23, 2:30 –5:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 501ABC, Level 2 Los Angeles Convention Center
Conny Bogaard
Atomic Tourism: Roundtable discussion on Tourism and Culture
Thursday, February 23, 5:30-7:00 PM
USC, 3520 Trousdale Parkway, SOS 250
Kalia Brooks
Black Venus: They Called Her “Hottentot”
Friday, February 24, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 403A, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Leonie Bradbury
Curators in the Spotlight: Dealing with Controversy and the Unexpected in Developing and Presenting Recent Exhibitions
Friday, February 24, 12:30–2:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 409AB, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Michael Smith
Concerning the Spiritual in Art: Kandinsky’s Radical Work at 100
Friday, February 24, 2:30–5:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 408A, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Patricia Tinajero
Momentum, an exhibition for the 40th Anniversary of the CAA Women’s Caucus for Art
Opening reception Friday, February 24 6:00 -9:00 PM
Gallery 825
825 North La Cienega Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90069
Gregory Steel is one of 50 international video artists selected to participate in this awesome exhibition in Venice, opening on the 11th! Way to go Greg!
Ruoli Segreti e Ruoli Proibiti / Hidden & Forbidden Identities | Venice (Italy)
General Information:
In the prestigious spaces of Palazzo Albrizzi in Venice starts Ruoli Segreti e Ruoli Proibiti / Hidden & Forbidden Identities, an international videoart festival and photography exhibition which opens the doors on Saturday, February 11th at 17:30 with a musical interlude by Enzo Caroli and Simone Rocchi. Fifty-one video artists and twenty-eight photo artists from thirty different countries has been selected to be part of this project.
The event, organized by TheSeven and International ArtExpo, will be divided into three sections: a photography exhibition that reflects the concept of the Carnival in a pluralism conceptual view. A video art festival indoor that will be screened every day in the afternoon in different places of Venice. Outdoor screenings entitled Architetture Velate / Architecture in Disguise with the works of five artists that cover the substance of the buildings with a second calligraphy skin.
The selections has been based on the main concept of “Hidden & Forbidden Identities“ “Whoever might believe to understand a phenomenon without knowing its background, loses the opportunity to cope with an instructive manual about the sense or nonsense of masking. This is even more true in relation to an event whose psychological, religious and ethnographic implications represent a real source of studies and virtuosity of the soul and of the body. We should remember that in the myths of different world cultures, the tribes in Africa, various peoples in Asia, in North America, in Europe, the mask has a double matrix: it is connected with an archetype of the human soul, with aggression, and on the other hand it is correlated with the essential passage during an initial ritual of death and life. What has remained of these myths and of past archetypes in our every days’ disguise? Carnival means mask, Carnival means disguise, Carnival permits any kind of funny odd things. Whoever feels a sudden desire to change, himself or his environment, from any point of view, is mature for Carnival.” Elis Saint Juste Gluckstein, 2011
“Young Dakota Artists”, co-curated by Greg Blair & Matthew Wallace, is on view in South Dakota at the Isaac Lincoln gallery at Northern State University. The exhibit will be on view until March 2nd, and will then travel to the North Dakota Museum of Art.
see below for the curator’s statement.
Here, the eye learns to appreciate small variations, the possibilities inherent in emptiness.
It sees that the emptiness is full of small things, like grasshoppers in their samurai
armor clicking and jumping as you pass.
-Kathleen Norris
This exhibition developed over the last few years as a result of seeing artwork that held up to national standards by some of North and South Dakotas young artists.Young Dakota Artists is an attempt to bring some of these voices together in order to provide a snapshot of the vibrancy and diversity of the landscape occupied by some of these young creative people.
This gathering of some of the area’s most prolific artists is not an attempt to forge a common universal conception and interpretation of the Dakotas or cultural modernity. Rather, the hope is to reveal the profound and poetic energies circulating throughout the region, and to display their expression in the artwork of the Young Dakota Artists.
IDSVA student Jessica Doyle will be screening a video, “Kairos Interruptus”, this Saturday, February 4th at 8PM at Vaudeville Park in Brooklyn, NY. Films will be shown from 8-11:30 p.m.—if you’re in BK be sure to catch it! Details below:
Vaudville Park
26 Buschwick Ave.
Brooklyn NY 11211
Vaudeville Park’s video screening is marked by a heavy international sampling. With works submitted from Russia, Turkey, Canada, Italy, the United Kingdom, and bridging Dust, Rust, and Bible belts, February 4th’s screening is defined by works that promise then frustrate recognizable cinematic conventions.
Whether achieved by disjunctions between an audio narrative and accompanying imagery, dramatic buildups that devolve into experiments with time structures, or flesh fetishes short-circuited by all-too-real intimacy, the videos speak to that perfect, synchronous moment that we all know from cinema, where our expectations are rewarded in a timely “lossless” synthesis. That perfect moment, kairos, will be interrupted, there will be visual artifacts, tables to be cleared, chairs to stack, explanations to be made.
