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Friday, November 05, 2004
Artists Speak at Artists Space
Artists Space / Artists Speak at the Whitney Museum of American Art
Irving Sandler in conversation with Robert Longo, Matt Mullican, Elizabeth
Murray and Judy Pfaff.
Monday November 8, 2004
6:30-8:00 pm
Whitney Museum of American Art
945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street New York, NY 10021
Tickets to the lecture, followed by cocktails: $100.
Cocktail reception at Salon 94, 12 East 94th Street, NY 10021.
On view:
Shirana Shahbazi - Flowers, Fruits & Portraits
A limited number of tickets for the lecture only are available: $25/$15
students.
Proceeds to benefit Artists Space programs: tickets available at Artists
Space only. For information and tickets contact Artists Space:
212.226.3970 x 25
Since 1972, Artists Space has been one of New Yorks foremost venues for
the promotion and discovery of emerging artists and experimental work,
while also creating an arena for dialogue and exchange. In the 70s and 80s
the New York art world developed into an almost mythical success story,
still regarded with both disdain and admiration decades after the fact.
Artists Space became both a leader in this development and an alternative
to it, providing many artists with their first opportunity to present
work, and an environment of support and encouragement detached from market
constraints.
Irving Sandler, co-founder of Artists Space, talks with artists who were
involved with the gallery during those years and considers what defined
that period, what it meant to be an emerging artist, and what comparisons
can be made today.
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Thursday, November 04, 2004
Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival
The Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival
Save the dates…. November 11-14 and 20, 21
$8 Members; $9 Non-members
The 28th annual Mead Festival offers the best in international documentary
films, conversations, and roundtables. Themes this season include native
media from the Northwest Coast and the Southwest and a tribute to the
creator of cinema verit, Jean Rouch (1901-2004).
6 days of 40+ films from around the globe : Afghanistan, Argentina,
Australia, Brazil, Canada, Cuba, China, France, Germany, Haiti, India,
Peru, Russia, South Africa, Uzbekistan, the U.K., and the U.S.
Post-screening discussions with many of the directors.
Screenings take place in the Kaufmann and Linder Theaters, except for the
opening night film, A Touch of Greatness, which takes place in the LeFrak
theater on November 11. Full schedule.
Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival
American Museum of Natural History
Central Park West at 79th Street
New York, NY 10024
Tel:1-212-769-5305
Fax: 1-212-769-5329
Email: [email protected]
http://www.amnh.org/programs/mead
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Wednesday, November 03, 2004
Precarious Life: Post Election Thoughts
I bought this book when it came out and I'm reading it now–it is quite
simply the perfect antidote to the election and the most insightful text
regarding where we are right now that I've yet to read. (Sorry, I must
uphold my mandate as the Queen of Hyperbole):
from the preface:
"Dissent and debate depend upon the inclusion of those who maintain
critical views of state policy and civic culture remaining part of a
larger public discussion of the value of policies and politics. To charge
those who voice critical views with treason, terrorist-sympathizing,
anti-Semitism, moral relativism, postmodernism, juvenile behavior,
collaboration, anachronistic Leftism, is to seek to destroy the
credibitlity not of the views that are held, but of the persons who hold
them […] It is precisely because one does not want to lose one's status
as a viable speaking being that one does not say what one thinks. "
Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence
By Judith Butler
Verso, London/New York 2004
Here's a review from Flak Magazine:
excerpt:
Butler sees Sept. 11 as a missed opportunity to redefine ourselves as part
of a global, interconnected community. It was "a chance to start to
imagine a world in which violence might be minimized," in which the
shocking revelation of our own vulnerability might lead us to reflect on
the vulnerability of others, particularly those others who have suffered
at the hands of the US. That opportunity was not only passed up, but, for
the near future, altogether foreclosed. Instead, post-Sept. 11 American
society closed itself off by responding to violence with unbridled
unilateralism.
Consider one striking anecdote Butler uses to show how closed American
society has become: A Palestinian citizen of the United States submitted
to the San Francisco Chronicle obituaries for two Palestinian families
killed by Israeli gunfire. The Chronicle rejected them, however,
explaining that the newspaper did not wish to offend anyone. "What might
be 'offensive' about the public avowal of sorrow and loss," Butler asks,
"such that memorials would function as offensive speech?" The "offense,"
Butler suggests, in admitting civilian deaths is that we would be
humanizing them, recognizing their vulnerability. And in doing so, we
would be empathizing, that is, equating "them" with "us" and positing that
there is some minimal human vulnerability we indeed share […]
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Voting Disorder
Votevomit
[click for full image (Igor Knezevic)]
via BoingBoing:
Kerry concedes.
8:15am: Four more years of a nation led by criminals. I was making coffee
with one eye on CNN when the news broke, and I called my dad, a man who's
spent many years fighting for good things, sometimes at great personal
cost.
"Get over it," he said, "The way you feel now is exactly how I felt when
Nixon won a second term – crushed. I just couldn't believe America was
that stupid. But remember what happened to Nixon that term."
"Change comes from discontent," he said. "And right now, there's a lot of
discontent."
I finish pouring my coffee, and agree when my dad says what we're faced
with right now is considerably more frightening than Nixon. BB pal Jim
Graham IMs a few minutes later: "Yeah, and Karl Rove makes Lee Atwater
look like a choir boy."
Dan Gillmor sums up what the continuation of Bush's presidency means for
America.
[read the rest]
Wednesday, November 03, 2004 at 04:56 PM in Current Affairs | Permalink:
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Every Time You Vote Republican…
image: Meow
[thanks Z!]
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Sex, Lies, Codependence at PS122
Zoe Lister-Jones' Codependence is a Four-Letter Word opens tomorrow at
PS122:
via The Guide (NYTimes):
HOT FOR TEACHER
Zoe Lister-Jones opens "Codependence Is a Four-Letter Word," her one-woman
show, playing a graduate student who teaches sixth-graders in
Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, the proper use of sex toys. She first
introduces herself with a rap (with backup dancers, no less), in which she
explains that she received her "ill actor training at Tisch School of the
Arts." The 11 characters she plays are linked by, as the rap puts it, sex
and love "and why both are pathetic."
P.S. 122, 150 First Avenue, at Ninth Street, East Village; 8 p.m., today;
$10 and $15. (Through Nov. 7.) For reservations call 212-477-5288
(Complimentary tickets for press/industry)
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Crazy For Submission
greg.org also reports on the murder of Theo Van Gogh:
Dutch filmmaker and great grandson Theo Van Gogh was murdered on an
Amsterdam street today, ostensibly because of his short film, Submission.
[That's the title.] Since Submission was broadcast on the VPRO TV network
in August, Van Gogh and the film's writer, an "ex-Muslim" member of
parliament, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, had received numerous death threats and
accusations of blasphemy.
Seriously, what is up with these people? I can't believe anyone not
related to the filmmakers actually watches a short film, much less gets
mad enough to kill over one.
[There was that one time when MVRDV got death threats over their short
animated film, Pig City… And the guy who got them in that trouble, Pim
Fortuyn, did get assassinated himself…]
Of course, if you make a movie with verses from the Koran painted on nude
women's bodies, which are visible through a translucent chador, I guess
you might piss some of the wrong people off. So is it the offended
militant Muslims who are crazy, or the Dutch?
Watch several minutes of Van Gogh and Ali's film, Submission at VPRO […]
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Tuesday, November 02, 2004
Theo Van Gogh Shot, Killed
via BBC World News:
Gunman kills Dutch film director
Dutch film maker Theo van Gogh, who made a controversial film about
Islamic culture, has been stabbed and shot dead in Amsterdam, Dutch police
say.
Police arrested a man in a nearby park after an exchange of gunfire. The
man, aged 26, had joint Dutch and Moroccan nationality, they said.
Van Gogh, 47, had received death threats after his film Submission was
shown on Dutch TV.
It portrayed violence against women in Islamic societies.
The film was made with liberal Dutch politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali
refugee who fled an arranged marriage.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali has been under police protection since the film was aired.
She has also received death threats and has renounced the Islamic faith.
[…]
The film Submission told the story of a Muslim woman forced into an
arranged marriage who is abused by her husband and raped by her uncle. It
triggered an outcry from Dutch Muslims.
In one scene the film showed an actress in see-through garments with
Koranic script written on her body, which also bore whip marks.
The Netherlands is home to nearly one million Muslims or 5.5% of the
population.
One of the film maker's colleagues at the film production company said Van
Gogh had received death threats "but he never took them quite seriously".
"He was a controversial figure and a champion of free speech," he told
Reuters.
Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende said "it is unacceptable if
expressing your opinion would be the cause of this brutal murder". […]
Tuesday, November 02, 2004 at 07:21 PM in Film | Permalink:
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