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Wendel White: Schools for the Colored ?>

Wendel White: Schools for the Colored

Wendel White
Schools for the Colored
Lipani Gallery, Fordham University
May 28 – October 25, 2016


Artist Talk with Wendel White
Monday, September 19, 11:30 am
SL24E, Visual Arts Complex, Fordham University

Mine, Yours, Ours
A Conversation on Segregation in America, Past and Present with
Rebecca Carroll, Deborah Willis, Marta Gutman, and Wendel White
followed by a reception for the exhibition
Monday, September 19, 6 pm
Franny’s Space, adjacent to the Visual Arts Complex, Fordham University

A Place Out of Time: The Bordentown School
Film Screening and Talk with Director David Davidson
Wednesday, September 21, 6 pm
SL24L, Visual Arts Complex, Fordham University

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Talk by Ricardo Miranda Zuñiga ?>

Talk by Ricardo Miranda Zuñiga

Monday May 2nd at 6:00 PM in room SL24H

Talk by Ricardo Miranda Zuñiga

Ricardo is a professor in the Masters of Fine Art in Integrated Media Arts program at Hunter College. Check out his website at www.ambriente.com. His work combines a DIY sensibility with new media and performance.

In conjunction with the exhibition “What This Journey Breeds”

June –September 2016 at the Ildiko Butler Gallery.

Artist Talk with Alan and Michael Fleming ?>

Artist Talk with Alan and Michael Fleming

Fordham University, Department of Theatre and Visual Arts is pleased to present an Artist Talk with Alan and Michael Fleming.

Alan and Michael Fleming are identical twin brothers who have been working together since 2005 creating collaborative performance, sculpture, and video work. Recent solo exhibitions include “Studio Audience” at Cindy Rucker gallery (NY) and “GAME ON” presented at threewalls (Chicago) and the Active Space (NY). Recent residencies include the AIM Program (Artist in the Marketplace) at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the International Artist Residency at the NARS Foundation (New York Art Residency & Studios), and the ACRE Residency (Artists’ Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions). The Flemings have performed at the New Museum in New York, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Chicago Cultural Center, the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow, and the Factory for Art and Design in Copenhagen. In 2008 their video series “At Rest: The Body in Architecture” won the “Performing” section at the Kinolewchyk Festival at the Idea Museum in Lviv, Ukraine. In 2006 they were awarded the “Group 4 Award” from the Foundry Art Centre for their video “Defining the Frame”.

The Fleming brothers received their MFA in Studio (2010) from the Performance Department at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago where they attended graduate school as a collaborative. They both received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree (2007) in Painting from The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Michael and Alan were awarded Trustee Merit Scholarships from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and share the award of “Most Outstanding Senior” in the painting department from The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 2009 Alan received the Professional Advancement Award in Dance from the School at Jacob’s Pillow and Michael received the Jacob K. Javits Fellowship from the U.S. Department of Education. Alan and Michael Fleming currently live in Brooklyn, NY.

The Artist Talk series is curated by Amie Cunat, Adjunct Faculty in Painting & Drawing.

11/13/2012 | 3pm | Lincoln Center ?>

11/13/2012 | 3pm | Lincoln Center

Please join us in McMahon Hall Lounge 109

Limited seating | please contact: abby@abbygoldstein.com

Sponsored by the Visual Arts, African and African American and Women’s Studies programs. Supported by a Faculty Mellon Challenge Grant

Nina Katchadourian Lecture ?>

Nina Katchadourian Lecture

Image caption: Pretzel Meteor from Seat Assignment, 2010 and ongoing

 

Nina Katchadourian Lecture
Tuesday, October 16, 2012, 6 PM
Fordham University Visual Arts Department
Lincoln Center Campus
113 West 60th Street at Columbus Avenue
New York, NY 10023
Room SL24H
Join artist and educator Nina Katchadourian for a presentation and discussion of her work, including her most recent project, Seat Assignment. Improvising with materials close at hand, Seat Assignment consists of photographs, video, and digital images all made while in flight using only a camera phone. The project began spontaneously on a flight in March 2010 and is ongoing. At present, over 2500 photographs and video, made on more than 70 different flights to date, constitute the raw material of the project.

Seat Assignment was exhibited for the first time in February 2011 at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery, a museum in the city of Dunedin on South Island in New Zealand. Since I had 22 hours of flight time from New York to get to the Dunedin I proposed to make the bulk of the work for the exhibition on the way there. In the exhibition, two of the three galleries focused on work made entirely en route. A third room contained works that functioned as a retrospective look on the first year of the project.

Click here for artist’s website

Biography: Nina Katchadourian was born in Stanford, California and grew up spending every summer on a small island in the Finnish archipelago, where she still spends part of each year. Her work exists in a wide variety of media including photography, sculpture, video and sound. Her work has been exhibited domestically and internationally at places such as PS1/MoMA, the Serpentine Gallery, New Langton Arts, Artists Space, SculptureCenter, and the Palais de Tokyo. In January 2006 the Turku Art Museum in Turku, Finland featured a solo show of works made in Finland, and in June 2006 the Tang Museum in Saratoga Springs exhibited a 10-year survey of her work and published an accompanying monograph entitled “All Forms of Attraction.” The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego presented a solo show of recent video installation works in July 2008. In February 2010 she was the artist in residence at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery in Dunedin, New Zealand, where she had a solo show entitled “Seat Assignment.” She is currently at work on a permanent public piece, commissioned by the GSA, for a border crossing station between the US and Canada. Katchadourian is represented by Catharine Clark gallery in San Francisco.

For further information please contact: Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock: apicellahit@fordham.edu

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Doug Dubois Photography Lecture

Doug DuBois
Book presentation and photography lecture
Thursday, October 13, 2011
6 PM
Fordham University Visual Arts Department
Lincoln Center Campus
113 West 60th Street at Columbus Avenue
New York, NY 10023
Room SL24H

Join photographer and educator Doug DuBois for a presentation and discussion of his most recent book Doug DuBois: All the Days and Nights published by the Aperture Foundation.

Doug DuBois began photographing his family in 1984, prior to his father’s near-fatal fall from a commuter train and his mother’s subsequent breakdown and hospitalizations. While these events set a narrative backdrop to his work, the emotional freight is carried by the details as described by the artist: “the pallor of my mother’s skin, the glare of my father’s gaze and the tactile communion between my sister and nephew constitute a complex and resonant picture of family ties.”

More than twenty years later, DuBois’s project has developed in remarkable ways. Doug DuBois: All the Days and Nights resonates with emotional immediacy, offering a potent examination of family relations, and what it means to subject personal relationships to the unblinking eye of the camera. Each photograph is rich with color, nuanced gestures and glances enveloping the viewer in a multivalent, emotionally tense world.

Links:
http://www.dougdubois.com

Biography:
DOUG DUBOIS (born in Dearborn, Michigan 1960) received his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; and Parco Gallery, Tokyo, among other venues, and can be found in the collections of major institutions, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Victoria and Albert Museum, London. In 2006, he received the John Gutman Photography Fellowship.

For further information please contact:
Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock: apicellahit@fordham.edu

Daniel Seiple Screening & Discussion ?>

Daniel Seiple Screening & Discussion

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Film screening and discussion: Rajikon (Radio Control), 2009/2011
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
6 PM
Fordham University Visual Arts Department
Lincoln Center Campus
113 West 60th Street at Columbus Avenue
New York, NY 10023
Room SL24H

Join artist and producer Daniel Seiple for a screening and discussion of his project Rajikon (Radio Control), 2009/2011, 30 minutes plus extra footage.

Project synopsis:
On December 5th in the Tone River, just up from where it meets the Kinu River in Moriya, Japan, the president of the Joso Flying Club, Ono-san, ordered his technical specialist, Sugiyama-san, to crash his radio controlled airplane into my fishing boat, per my request. I had spent the previous month filming and becoming acquainted with two RC clubs who had airfields along the river. The hobby club, which flew scale models including WWII aircrafts such as the Japanese Zero and U.S. B29, talked openly about the Kamikaze. One mentioned its absence from school history books. Another gave an eyewitness account of a plane-to-plane Kamikaze attack. The other group, the Joso Flying Club, was semi-professional and showed more interest in making history, rather than discussing it. When asked if he was interested in real airplanes, one pilot responded, “For me, airplanes are a thing to look at rather than fly.” The hobby club declined to perform the crash for safety reasons, but more likely, because they were not capable. The Joso Club agreed and 8 Japanese RC operators witnessed the attack.

Links:
Travelhome.org
Arcus Residency Moriya, Japan

Biography:
Daniel Seiple was born in 1973. Daniel Seiple has been working on projects which reconsider various “borders” in contemporary society. Mimicking, crossing, shifting, destroying or redrawing boundaries…. They include physical / geographical markers as well as social and psychological territories. Each project is realized for a specific site and situation by employing various strategies and mediums.

Images:
One production still taken during the filming of Rajikon (Radio Control); three frames from Rajikon (Radio Control), 2009/2011.

For further information please contact:
Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock apicellahit@fordham.edu

Matthew Bakkom Book Lecture ?>

Matthew Bakkom Book Lecture

Matthew Bakkom
Book Lecture: The New York City Museum of Complaint
Tuesday, February 8
11:30 AM
Fordham University Visual Arts Department
Lincoln Center Campus
113 West 60th Street at Columbus Avenue
New York, NY 10023
Room SL24H

Join artist and producer Matthew Bakkom for a discussion of the project The New York City Museum of Complaint. Initially presented as publicly distributed newsprint edition in 2006, this collection of letters sent to the mayor of the city of New York (between 1751 and 1972) has subsequently been manifest as a fine art publication, designed by Peter Miles and released by Steidl-Miles in 2009.

Selected from the municipal archives and presented chronologically, the letters address a range of issues from dead animals in the street to swindles, capitalism, and corruption. From civil rights, adventuresses, bad luck, and broken hearts to noise and other people. These are the communiqués of dissatisfaction over the course of a city’s evolution.

The strength of this collection lies in its striking ability to capture the spirit of the city as defined by its critics and crusaders. New York City has long been perceived as a place where personal expression flourishes. These civic documents are historical embodiments of the language, wit and energy that helped forge the City’s reputation. From the passionate defense of street musicians to dedicated battles with drycleaners, police officers, pushcart peddlers and hooligans, a chorus emerges that articulates the challenges and inherent absurdity of metropolitan life.

Links:
Steidl Edition
City Room Guest Blogger compendium
Newsprint Edition

Matthew Bakkom was born in 1968. Starting in the early 1990’s, working as a visual artist in North America and Europe, he has created projects and participated in exhibitions cities such as New York, Paris, Dublin, Philadelphia, Eindhoven and Minneapolis. The creative investigation of collections and archives often serves as the basis for his work.

Image:
Cover image from The New York City Museum of Complaint
Curated by Matthew Bakkom
Book design by Peter Miles Studio
304 pages, 217 colour plates
24.5 cm x 32 cm
Hardcover
Steidl Miles
ISBN: 978-3-86521-745-5
Publication date: August 2009

For further information please contact:
Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock apicellahit@fordham.edu

Bill Burke Photography Lecture ?>

Bill Burke Photography Lecture

Bill Burke

Photography Lecture
Wednesday, December 8
6 PM
Room SL24H
Bill will lecture on his latest book: Autrefois, Maison Privée, Powerhouse Books 2004, printed by Steidl

In Autrefois, Maison Privée—the title means “once a private house,” and refers to the prevalent reappropriation of once private houses for municipal and government use—Burke captures the dramatic history of Indochina, from the influence of French colonialism through the rise of communism and the devastating effects of the Vietnam War, to the repopulation of Cambodia after the fall of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge and the opening of the area to capitalism. Burke’s first entrée into the region occurred during the period of Soviet control, a period of recovery that allowed for the current explosion of capitalism, which has already begun to devastate an architectural heritage that had been well preserved in the deep freeze of socialism.

In this selection of pictures of architecture and portraits all made on Polaroid Positive/negative pack film between 1988 and 2000, Burke pays tribute to Eugene Atget and August Sander.

For more information please visit his website.

Additional contact:
Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock apicellahit@fordham.edu