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re-PRESENT: A Research Day
presented by the Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice and the Luggage Store Gallery
Saturday, December 10, 2011, 11 am–5:30 pm
The Luggage Store Gallery, 1007 Market Street, near 6th Street, San Francisco, CA
This one-day event concentrates on researching artistic practices that happen in the here and now and require both the presence of the artist and the engagement of the viewer/receiver to exist. The projects presented/discussed are by artists Lygia Clark (Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 1920–88), Liam Everett (New York, 1973), and Goldin+Senneby (Stockholm, collaboration since 2004).
This research is part of a California College of the Arts graduate Fall 2011 elective seminar organized by curator Ana Paula Cohen (in collaboration with graduate students Ebunolu Alugbin, Will Brown, Dane Jensen, Stephanie Kern, Peta Rake, and Ashley Stull). Focusing on the idea of presentation, the seminar poses the question: How can we access an art project or exhibition that only happens in one present moment and make it active in a new context? The seminar was informed by a close reading of the work of Brazilian artist Lygia Clark, as expressed mainly in her writings and the project Lygia Clark, do objeto ao acontecimento [from object to event], developed by Brazilian psychoanalyst and curator Suely Rolnik—a video archive of 66 interviews intending to activate the 26 years of corporeal experimentations of Lygia Clark (1963-88).
re-PRESENT: A Research Day will take shape through a series of screenings and presentations, followed by discussions. The program includes selected interviews from the Lygia Clark: from object to event archive; a lecture and discussion led by Stephanie Kern and Dane Jensen; the unauthorized presentation of the project Looking for Headless by Goldin+Senneby, introduced by Peta Rake, and the presentation of On the wall (the leaking) A Performance in 2 Acts by Liam Everett, in conversation with Ana Paula Cohen.
Snacks, coffee, and refreshments will be provided.
PROGRAM SCHEDULE:
11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.*
Screening of interviews from the Lygia Clark: from object to event archive. Video interviews with Guy Brett (critic and curator, London), David Medalla (artist, based in London), Yve-Alain Bois (art critic and historian, lecturer at the Advanced School of Historical Studies, Princeton), Caetano Veloso (musician, Brazil), Jards Macalé (musician and composer, Brazil), and Suely Rolnik.
*the interviews will also be available for viewing after the formal screening until the close of the event
12:30 p.m.
Break and refreshments
2:00 to 3:00 p.m.
Introduction to re-PRESENT: A Research Day by Ana Paula Cohen
Presentations by Stephanie Kern and Dane Jensen, departing from the Lygia Clark: from object to event archive
3:00 to 3:30 p.m.
Introduction to the Looking for Headless Project (Goldin+Senneby) by Peta Rake
3:30 p.m.
Coffee break
4:00 p.m.
On the wall (the leaking) A Performance in 2 Acts, film/performance by Liam Everett, in conversation with Ana Paula Cohen, followed by discussion
5:00 p.m.
Final discussion, response by Will Brown
This project was made possible with the support of The Luggage Store Gallery and the Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice at California College of the Arts. The participants would like to specially thank Laurie Lazer and Darryl Smith (Luggage Store Gallery), Leigh Markopoulos and Sue Ellen Stone (Curatorial Practice, CCA), Suely Rolnik, Simon Goldin, Jakob Senneby, Liam Everett, and Altman Siegel Gallery.
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