Call for Participation: The Assignment Book

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
The Assignment Book - http://www.theassignmentbook.org/

Participate in the The Assignment Book blog!
The blog accompanies the exhibition of Luis Camnitzer's project The Assignment Book, currently shown in the Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries galleries of the New School (see info below).

Check out the assignments on the blog, post your responses, visit the show, follow us on Twitter:
Blog: http://www.theassignmentbook.org/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/_AssignmentBook

The Assignment Book
A project by LUIS CAMNITZER
Curated by Christiane Paul and Trebor Scholz
Digital Media Coordinator: Christine Zenyi Lu

Wednesday, September 21, through Sunday, October 16, 2011
Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center,
Parsons The New School for Design
66 Fifth Avenue at 13th Street, NY, NY

"In The Assignment Book I am trying to bridge the distance between artist and viewer, and start a dialogue and collective research instead of merely communicating by way of a monologue. I would like to share unresolved and sometimes ridiculous conundrums and questions that hopefully lead to critical inter- and multidisciplinary thinking, and unleash similar but collectively generated stimuli. Not unlike the blog
format, answers and suggestions should enter the exhibition space so
that the stage is shared with the visitors, leading to deinsitutionalized learning: Learning Without a School. In this I abandon the traditional declarative stance of the artist/teacher. Being accountable for how I deal with the assignments I become an unprotected artist/learner."
- Luis Camnitzer

The Assignment Book is organized as part of the Mobility Shifts International Future of Learning Summit (The New School, October 10-16,2011).

A Conversation with the Artist & Curator
Tuesday, October 11, 6:30-8:30 pm
Sponsored by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics
Wollman Hall
65 West 11th St, 5th Floor, NY, NY

Luis Camnitzer is an Uruguayan artist residing in the U.S. since 1964. He received a degree in sculpture from the Escuela Bellas Artes of the University of Uruguay, where he also studied at the School of Architecture. A professor emeritus of the State University of New York, he is the recipient of two Guggenheim Fellowships (1961 and 1982) and the Frank Jewett Mather Award, College Art Association (2011). His work has been exhibited in several international exhibitions, among them the Venice Biennale (1988 when he represented Uruguay with a one-person show), the Whitney Biennial (2000), and Documenta XI (2002). His work is in over thirty museum collections, among them the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate Modern, London; and the Museo de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba. He presently is the pedagogical advisor for the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection. Among his books are New Art of Cuba,
Conceptualism in Latin American Art: Didactics of Liberation
and On Art, Artists, Latin America and Other Utopias, all published by University of Texas Press. His work is represented
by Alexander Gray Associates in New York.