This Monday Night at 16 Beaver: 06.10.02

Reading Group 06.10.02 -- Curatorial Series -- Empire/State Discussion

Contents:
1. About this Monday
2. Short Intro abou Exhibition & Location
3. Suggested Readings
4. About Curatorial Series
 

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1. About this Monday
 
when: Monday at 7:00 pm
where: 16 beaver street.
See end of this mail for location details

This week, we invite whoever is interested to meet and discuss ideas
with some of the curators and artists
involved with the exhibition "Empire/State: Artists Engage
Globalization".

Yates Mckee, one of the curators of this exhibition, has forwarded some
readings that will give us some entry into the discussion (more info below).  The
readings are meant as a supplement and will be used to frame some subsequent Mondays this summer.
 
 

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2. Short Intro on & Location of Exhbition

An exhibition organized by the 2001-2002 Helena Rubinstein Curatorial
Fellows of the Whitney Indpendent Study Program: Kirstin Bulter,
Jennifer Farrell, Yates Mckee and Mercedes Vicente.

This group exhibition brings together contemporary artists whose works
examine the fantasies, anxieties, fissures and conflicts that haunt the
process of globalization. Through diverse projects in a range of media,
these artists address issues such as the status of national soveriegnty,
the international divison of labor and the impact of information networks on
political, economic and cultural life. These works seek to frame  “the
global” as an issue of public debate and artistic exploration.
Participating artists incude: François Bucher, Peter Fend, Emily Jacir, Laura Kurgan,
Mark Lombardi, Sergio Muñoz-Sarmiento, Josh On and Futurefarmers, Alex
Rivera, Martha Rosler, Allan Sekula, Wolfgang Staehle, David Thorne and Oliver
Ressler, Patricia Thornley, Fatimah Tuggar and Marisa Yiu.

The concept of globalization has fallen on hard times. For much of the
last decade, this term was attached in dominant accounts to an image of  of a
world harmoniously unified by free-markets, instantaneous telecommunication, and the end of deep ideological divides. Yet the turn of the century has
witnessed cracks in this utopian story along several lines. Recurrent
financial crises, massive anticorporate demonstrations, the events of
September 11 and the hardening of xenophobic nationalisms are only a few
of the most visible developments that have rendered what Bill Gates called
in the mid-1990's "frictionless capitalism" something of a distant memory.
This exhibition brings together a selection of artists who examine some
of the fantasies, anxieties, fissures and conflicts that haunt the present
world order. EMPIRE/STATE seeks to activate a space for public debate
at a moment when such spaces are increasingly circumscribed by corporate
power and national self-righteousness.]

Location/Details:

Exhibition runs May 24-July 14, Wednesdays through Sundays, 12-6 p.m.,
Art Gallery, CUNY Graduate Center (Art History)
located just above 34th street, on 5th Avenue
 
 

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3. Suggested Readings
 

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e-fax Note:

For this and future readings you will need to have a version
of the efax messenger on your computer.

You do not need to open an account but you will have to give
an e-mail address to get your free version for MAC or WIN.
just visit

http://www.efax.com/need/
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Hardt & Negri -- A short excerpt from 'Empire'
Fareed Zakaria -- The Return of History -- What September 11th Hath
Wrought
Neil Smith -- Scales of Terror -- The Manufacturing of Nationalism and
the War for U.S. Globalism
David Harvey -- Cracks in the Edifice of the Empire State

DOWNLOAD

for PC's with some sort of unzipping software (e.g., winzip):
http://www.16beavergroup.org/empirestate.zip

for MAC's with stuffit expander:
http://www.16beavergroup.org/empirestate.sit
 
 
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4. About the Curatorial Series

We have over the last few years invited a variety of artists, curators,
activists, writers, and thinkers to present and discuss their work/ideas.

In this series, we have attempted to give some framework to these ongoing
discussions by focusing on specific curatorial interventions and the ideas
that inform them.