Science,
Fiction and the Visual Arts (December 10-12)
Daneyal Mahmood Gallery is
pleased to present "Science, Fiction and Visual Art," a compact
three-day free public program of lively talks and presentations for members of
the public, students, emerging artists, critics and curators to coincide with
Justine Cooper's solo exhibition "Living in Sim," currently on view
at Daneyal Mahmood Gallery until 31 December 2009.
The
program is curated by Sara Raza (London based independent curator, writer and
co-editor ArtAsiaPacific Magazine) and will run from December 10-12.
Program
Schedule
Justine
Cooper Artist's Talk: 6:30-7:30
Open
to the Public
Justine
Cooper is best known for her intelligent and witty approach to investigating
the relationship between the visual arts, contemporary sciences, medicine and
public space and time. Her practice has probed the order and classification of
science and human interaction by exploring issues of medical consumerism,
social dispensing and dependency and the power dynamics that reside between
medical institutions and the public. On the occasion of her current
exhibition ÒLiving in Sim,Ó Cooper talks about her intriguing new exhibition
with Sara Raza.
Session
2: Friday, December 11, 2009 2:00-3:30 (Exhibition walk through and panel
discussion)
Science,
Fiction and the Visual Arts Study Day
Location:
Daneyal Mahmood Gallery
This
study day designed for university/college level students and emerging artists
explores the relationship between science, fiction and the visual arts,
starting with a welcome and walk through of the exhibition ÒLiving in Sim,Ó
with artist Justine Cooper. The afternoon will continue with a panel discussion
and Q&A exploring art and science crossovers, collaborations and
commissions in museums, public spaces initiated by artists, curators, magazines
and alternative art platforms. Speakers include, Justine Cooper, Kathy
Battista, Director, Contemporary Art, Sotheby's Institute of Art, New York, D.
Graham Burnett, Professor of History at Princeton University and Jonah
Brucker-Cohen, Artist, Researcher and Assistant Professor at NYU in a session
chaired by Sara Raza.
To
express interest in attending please email info@daneyalmahmood.com
with "study day" in the subject box.
Session
3: Saturday, December 12, 2009 2:30-3:30
Where
I Work: In the Studio With Justine Cooper
Location:
Offsite
In
a special joint event with ArtAsiaPacific Magazine (AAP) Australian artist
Justine Cooper opens the doors to her Brooklyn studio for a candid talk about
her practice over the last decade; and discusses the role of the artistÕs
studio as a laboratory for artistic production and spectacle with Eyebeam's
Executive Director Amanda McDonald Crowley.
This
event is strictly RSVP due to limited capacity so please email your interest in
attending to info@daneyalmahmood.com
with "studio visit" in the subject box.
Curator's
Bio
Sara
Raza is a London based independent curator, writer and co-editor for
ArtAsiaPacific Magazine. A former curator of public programmes at Tate Modern
(2006-08) she has programmed and chaired 100 events on contemporary art
practice with a focus on photography, performance and architecture. Previously,
she was the recipient of a curatorial award at the South London Gallery
(2004-05) where she pioneered the Gallery's public programme and assisted on
exhibitions by Steve McQueen, Henrik Plenge Jacobson and curated ShowCASe
Preview an exhibition of 17 leading British Artists from the collection of the
Contemporary Arts Society, which included works by Turner Prize nominee Mark
Titchner, Shezad Dawood, Maria Marshall and others. She has also worked as an
independent curator and associate editor at the Haus der Kultern der Welt,
Berlin on the South East Asian exhibition "Politics of Fun," and
Israeli/Palestinian new media festival "Dreams and Trauma" (2005).
Sara has published extensively and is an active member of Performance Studies
International (PSI) and has lectured, curated exhibitions and organised public
programmes internationally at ShContemporary, China, Bastakiya Art School,
Dubai, 2nd Bishkek International, Kyrgyzstan, ZKM, Germany, Brown University,
USA, and San Jose State University, USA, among others. Sara is a post-graduate
with a Masters in Art History and Theory (20th Century) from Goldsmiths
College, University of London and holds a BA (Hons) in English Literature and
History of Art also from Goldsmiths.
Participants' Bios Kathy Battista is Director of Contemporary Art at Sotheby?s Institute of Art, New York. Her doctoral research examined the work of feminist artists in 1970s London. She is coauthor of Art New York (ellipsis, 2000) and Recent Architecture in The Netherlands (ellipsis, 1998), as well as editor and author of Haluk Akakçe: Reincarnation (gallerist, 2009). Her essays have appeared in the following edited collections: Ladies and Gents: Public Toilets and Gender (Temple University Press, 2009); Arcade: Artists and Placemaking (Black Dog, 2006); Surface Tension: Supplement 1 (errant bodies, 2006) and Surface Tension: Problematics of Site (errant bodies, 2003); as well as many exhibition catalogues. Kathy is a regular contributor to the journals RES Art World and Art Monthly and is on the editorial board of Art & Architectural Journal. She has taught at Birkbeck College, Kings College, the London Consortium, the Ruskin School of Art (Oxford University), and Tate Modern. She founded the Interaction education and contextual events program for the public art agency Artangel and she was a Postdoctoral Fellow of The London Consortium at Tate Modern. Jonah Brucker-Cohen is an, artist, writer, and researcher. He received his PhD from Trinity College Dublin, has shown work at venues such as MOMA, SFMOMA, Ars Electronica, ISEA, has written for WIRED and other publications and teaches at New York University. D. Graham Burnett is a historian of science, and recently held the Christian Gauss Fund University Preceptorship. Professor Burnett graduated from Princeton in 1993 as the salutatorian and a recipient of the Pyne Prize. With the support of a Marshall Scholarship he completed a Ph.D. in the History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University (1997 [2001]), where he was a member of Trinity College. Burnett was awarded the 1999 Nebenzahl Prize in the History of Cartography, and he has been editorially involved with the History of Cartography Project. Before joining the Princeton faculty in 2001 he taught at Yale and was a Mellon Fellow in the Humanities at Columbia University (1997-1999) and an inaugural fellow in the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library (1999-2000). His interests include the history of natural history and the sciences of the earth and the sea from the 17th through the 20th centuries, including cartography, navigation, and hydrography. He recently became an editor at the Brooklyn-based art magazine Cabinet, and he serves on the editorial board of Lapham's Quarterly. Amanda McDonald Crowley is Executive Director at Eyebeam in New York www.eyebeam.org. She is a cultural worker, curator and facilitator who specialises in creating new media and contemporary art events and programs that encourage cross-disciplinary practice, collaboration and exchange. Amanda was executive producer for ISEA2004, the International Symposium for Electronic Arts 2004, held in Tallinn, Estonia and Helsinki, Finland, and on a cruiser ferry in the Baltic sea. She was Associate Director, Adelaide Festival 2002 and in this position was also Chair of the working group that curated the exhibition and symposium 'conVerge: where art and science meet'. From 1995 to 2000 she was Director of the Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT) where she made significant links with science and industry by developing a range of residencies for artists in settings such as science organizations, contemporary art spaces and virtual residencies online; developing cross-disciplinary masterclasses for artists and curators; as well as beginning to establish links with media artists and organizations in Asia. She previously worked with a range of arts organizations in Australia including the Australia Council for the Arts (the federal government's arts funding and advisory body), Arts Training Australia (conducting research for a multimedia education and training strategy), and Electronic Media Arts Australia (incorporating the Australian Video Festival). She has done residencies in Berlin, Germany (1994/5), Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada (2002) and at Sarai in Delhi, India (2002/3), regularly speaks at international conferences and festivals, occasionally writes for journals such as Artlink, RealTime, the Sarai Reader, and ArtAsiaPacific.