Contemporary Artists and Curators To Discuss Use of New Media and Sound
for New Directions in Performance
Not for Sale: New Media and Sound
A Panel Discussion Moderated by Art Historian and Critic RoseLee Goldberg
With panelists:
Christoph Cox, Philosopher and Critic
Ron Kuivila, Artist and Composer
Elizabeth LeCompte, Theater Director of the Wooster Group
Christian Marclay, Artist
Respondent: David Ross, President of Artist Pension Trust and independent curator
April 21, 2005 6:30 - 8 PM. Reception to follow
Einstein Auditorium, New York University
34 Stuyvesant Street, NYC
Between 3rd and 2nd Avenue at 9th Street
Free
Not for Sale: New Media and Sound will discuss how artists today use new media and sound to inform their works. What kind of a role does
integration of media and technology play in creating new forms of artistic production? How does innovation in technological tools impact the landscape of performance and visual arts history? A distinguished panel of artists, critics and curators will discuss the history of new media as it relates to research, development and presentation of visual arts performance.
As the third installment in the PERFORMA’s NOT FOR SALE series, NOT FOR
SALE: New Media and Sound will offer an in depth view into contemporary
developments in performance. In conjunction with New York University’s
Department of Art and Art Professions and Humanities Council, PERFORMA
presents NOT FOR SALE: New Media and Sound as a dynamic continuation of
the discussion on performance and its relationship to the museum, gallery, and collector, which has begun last April with “Not for Sale: Conserving and Collecting Ephemeral Artwork in the 21st Century.” Panelists Chrissie Iles, Robert Storr and Joan Jonas elaborated on the paradox of capturing radical and ephemeral ideas for historical record as well as a broader debate regarding how museums and galleries conserve this work. In November, “Not For Sale: Artists’ View” featured panelist Marina Abramovic, Tania Bruguera, Klaus Ottmann, and Debra Singer, who actively discussed the changing role of the modern museum as lively cultural center shaping artists’ ideas about performance.
ABOUT PERFORMA
PERFORMA is a non-profit organization dedicated to the research,
development and presentation of performance by visual artists from around the world. PERFORMA is committed to generating an exciting new
performance environment by establishing a dedicated biennial, building an exciting community of artists and audiences, and providing a basis for educational initiatives. PERFORMA is a sponsored project of the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA).
RoseLee Goldberg, Founding Director and Curator, is an art historian,
critic and curator who pioneered the study of performance art with her
seminal book Performance Art from Futurism to the Present. A former
curator at the Kitchen in New York, Ms. Goldberg, Associate Adjunct
Professor of Contemporary Art, has taught at New York University since
1987.
Department of Art and Art Professions, New York University, Steinhardt
School of Education, The Department of Art and Art Professions is
committed to the construction of new knowledge through the creation of art
and innovative academic research. The Department brings students,
practicing artists, educators, and art professionals together in a richly
interactive, multidisciplinary community that fosters imaginative
art-making and intellectual exchange.
ABOUT PANELISTS
Christoph Cox
Through his ongoing engagement with contemporary music, the visual arts, and philosophy, Christoph Cox has become a leading contributor to the development of a platform from which the relationship between sound and the visual arts can be assessed. Cox currently teaches philosophy and contemporary music at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA and frequently
contributes to several magazines and journals, including “Artforum,” and
“The Wire.” Cox is an editor at “Cabinet ” magazine and co-curator of
“Cabinet's sound art CD series. He is the author of “Nietzsche: Naturalism
and Interpretation ” (University of California, 1999) and co-editor of the
newly published “Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music ” (Continuum,
2004).
Christian Marclay
A New York based visual artist and composer, Marclay’s work explores the
juxtaposition between sound recording, photography, video and film. Born
in California and raised in Geneva (Switzerland), he studied sculpture at
the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston and at Cooper Union in New
York. As performer and sound artist Christian Marclay has been
experimenting, composing and performing with phonograph records and
turntables since 1979 to create his unique "theater of found sound." A
dadaist DJ and filmmaker his installations and video / film collages
display provocative musical and visual landscapes and have been included
in exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art New York, Venice
Biennale, Centre Pompidou Paris, Kunsthaus Zurich, San Francisco Museum of
Modern Art.
Ron Kuivila
Ron Kuivila is an artist and composer who pioneered the use of ultrasound
and sound sampling in live performance. More of his recent pieces have
explored compositional algorithms, speech synthesis and high voltage
phenomena. Kuivila has collaborated with composers, artists, and
choreographers including Anthony Braxton, Rudy Burckhardt, Nikolas
Collins, Merce Cunningham, Hugh Davies, Douglas Dunn, Susan Foster, and
Larry Johnson. He has performed and exhibited installations throughout the
U.S., Canada, and Europe. Kuivila is a Professor of Musicology at Wesleyan
University and has curated Rock's Role (After Ryoanji) at Art in General
in 2004- a group exhibition of sound works by artists responding to John
Cage's musical transliterations of the famed Japanese Zen rock garden,
Ryoanji.
Elizabeth LeCompte
As a founding member and acting theater director of the New York City
performance company The Wooster Group, Elizabeth LeCompte has been
identified as an important force in the development of the new theater for
the 21st Century. Through her careful use of audio, video, dialogue, and
set design, LeCompte has offered audiences deconstructed views of several
popular plays. For her work in directing, LeCompte has been the recipient
of several prestigious awards, including the Performing Arts Journal’s
MacArthur Award, the National Endowment for the Arts Distinguished Artists
Fellowship for Lifetime Achievement, and the Village Voice’s OBIE Award
for 15 years of sustained excellence.
David Ross
President of Artist Pension Trust, David A. Ross has more than 30 years
experience as an art museum professional and has served as director of the
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art,
and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. Noted for his work with
emerging artists and new media, Mr. Ross has been involved in the
organization and jurying process of major international exhibitions
including the Venice Biennale, Documenta and The Carnegie International.
For further information, please contact [email protected] or 212.
533. 5720.
Not for Sale: New Media and Sound- a panel discussion at NYU
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Type: discussion