MoMA Talks: Conversations

Part II of a series of talks by ten artists represented in MoMA PS1's Greater New York 2010 , (May 23–October 18), an exhibition of work by artists in the New York metropolitan area who engage in a wide range of art practices and mediums. In sessions consisting of short and dynamic presentations of twenty images, twenty-five seconds per image, loosely modeled on an informal Japanese presentation style, artists discuss their work, their creative process, and other issues in contemporary art. Presenting artists include David Brooks, Liz Magic Laser, Ryan McNamara, Amir Mogharabi, and A.L. Steiner. Moderated by Eva Respini, Associate Curator, Department of Photography, The Museum of Modern Art.

Part II of a series of talks by ten artists represented in MoMA PS1's Greater New York 2010 , (May 23–October 18), an exhibition of work by artists in the New York metropolitan area who engage in a wide range of art practices and mediums. In sessions consisting of short and dynamic presentations of twenty images, twenty-five seconds per image, loosely modeled on an informal Japanese presentation style, artists discuss their work, their creative process, and other issues in contemporary art. Presenting artists include David Brooks, Liz Magic Laser, Ryan McNamara, Amir Mogharabi, and A.L. Steiner. Moderated by Eva Respini, Associate Curator, Department of Photography, The Museum of Modern Art.

Part II of a series of talks by ten artists represented in MoMA PS1's Greater New York 2010 , (May 23–October 18), an exhibition of work by artists in the New York metropolitan area who engage in a wide range of art practices and mediums. In sessions consisting of short and dynamic presentations of twenty images, twenty-five seconds per image, loosely modeled on an informal Japanese presentation style, artists discuss their work, their creative process, and other issues in contemporary art. Presenting artists include David Brooks, Liz Magic Laser, Ryan McNamara, Amir Mogharabi, and A.L. Steiner. Moderated by Eva Respini, Associate Curator, Department of Photography, The Museum of Modern Art.

Monday, May 10, 2010 6:30 PM Artist Danh Vo invites artist Julie Ault to join him in a conversation about his practice and the contexts he explores in his work, as well as various points of connection between both artists' creative practices.

Monday, May 10, 2010 6:30 PM Artist Danh Vo invites artist Julie Ault to join him in a conversation about his practice and the contexts he explores in his work, as well as various points of connection between both artists' creative practices.

December 07, 2009, 6:00 PM Almost every year, MoMA’s Library Council publishes a specially printed artist’s book to explore the genre and to benefit the Library and Museum Archives. This year, as an alternative form of artist’s book, the Council has cast a hand-printed and mounted scroll by artist Yun-Fei Ji. The scroll addresses the damaging impact of China’s Three Gorges Dam, the construction of which has had devastating effects on the Chinese landscape and displaced over one million people living in that area near the Yangtze River. On the occasion of the publication, MoMA presents this program exploring the artistic, social, and cultural meanings of and responses to this site. Jonathan Spence, Sterling Professor of History Emeritus, Yale University, addresses the history of both the river and the scroll form, and how reading and visualization may be understood as an extended spatial experience. Wu Hung, Professor, Department of Art History, and Director, Center for the Art of East Asia, University of Chicago, presents a brief overview of the art, history, and politics of the river and considers the work of several contemporary artists, including Yun-Fei Ji, who have documented or interpreted the social, environmental, and historical loss associated with the dam. Finally, Sarah Suzuki, The Sue and Eugene Mercy, Jr., Assistant Curator of Prints and Illustrated Books, The Museum of Modern Art, and Yun-Fei Ji engage in a discussion about his collaborations with a long-established Chinese woodblock printer and maker of scrolls. View works mentioned by Wu Hung on Smart Museum’s website: http://smartmuseum.uchicago.edu/exhibitions/displacement/index.shtml.

December 07, 2009, 6:00 PM Almost every year, MoMA’s Library Council publishes a specially printed artist’s book to explore the genre and to benefit the Library and Museum Archives. This year, as an alternative form of artist’s book, the Council has cast a hand-printed and mounted scroll by artist Yun-Fei Ji. The scroll addresses the damaging impact of China’s Three Gorges Dam, the construction of which has had devastating effects on the Chinese landscape and displaced over one million people living in that area near the Yangtze River. On the occasion of the publication, MoMA presents this program exploring the artistic, social, and cultural meanings of and responses to this site. Jonathan Spence, Sterling Professor of History Emeritus, Yale University, addresses the history of both the river and the scroll form, and how reading and visualization may be understood as an extended spatial experience. Wu Hung, Professor, Department of Art History, and Director, Center for the Art of East Asia, University of Chicago, presents a brief overview of the art, history, and politics of the river and considers the work of several contemporary artists, including Yun-Fei Ji, who have documented or interpreted the social, environmental, and historical loss associated with the dam. Finally, Sarah Suzuki, The Sue and Eugene Mercy, Jr., Assistant Curator of Prints and Illustrated Books, The Museum of Modern Art, and Yun-Fei Ji engage in a discussion about his collaborations with a long-established Chinese woodblock printer and maker of scrolls. View works mentioned by Wu Hung on Smart Museum’s website: http://smartmuseum.uchicago.edu/exhibitions/displacement/index.shtml.

October 5, 2009, 6:30 P.M. Many artists include photography in their work, but they very often do so using a non-traditional approach. Dutch artist Jan Dibbets does not consider himself a photographer, although he has used the process extensively in his conceptually based work since the 1960s. James Welling, on the contrary, manipulates many of the technical elements of the medium, like light filters, and turns others, such as screens and gelatin, into the subjects of his work. Following an introduction by Anne Rorimer, independent scholar and curator, the artists discuss their varying approaches to conceptual art and photography with Christophe Cherix, Curator, Department of Prints and Illustrated Books, The Museum of Modern Art, and organizer of the exhibition In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960–1976.

October 5, 2009, 6:30 P.M. Many artists include photography in their work, but they very often do so using a non-traditional approach. Dutch artist Jan Dibbets does not consider himself a photographer, although he has used the process extensively in his conceptually based work since the 1960s. James Welling, on the contrary, manipulates many of the technical elements of the medium, like light filters, and turns others, such as screens and gelatin, into the subjects of his work. Following an introduction by Anne Rorimer, independent scholar and curator, the artists discuss their varying approaches to conceptual art and photography with Christophe Cherix, Curator, Department of Prints and Illustrated Books, The Museum of Modern Art, and organizer of the exhibition In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960–1976.

Thursday, February 11, 2010 12:30 PM Gabriel Orozco (Mexican, b. 1962) emerged at the beginning of the 1990s as one of the most intriguing and original artists of his generation—and one of the last to come of age in the twentieth century. He resists confinement to a single medium and deliberately blurs the boundaries between the art object and the everyday environment. This talk addresses the current MoMA exhibition and the artist’s merging of "art" and "reality.” Paulina Pobocha is a curatorial assistant in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at MoMA.

Thursday, February 11, 2010 12:30 PM Gabriel Orozco (Mexican, b. 1962) emerged at the beginning of the 1990s as one of the most intriguing and original artists of his generation—and one of the last to come of age in the twentieth century. He resists confinement to a single medium and deliberately blurs the boundaries between the art object and the everyday environment. This talk addresses the current MoMA exhibition and the artist’s merging of "art" and "reality.” Paulina Pobocha is a curatorial assistant in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at MoMA.

Tuesday, February 9, 2010 6:30 PM Mobile Matrix, one of Gabriel Orozco's most ambitious projects, involved the retrieval and transformation of a whale skeleton now on view at MoMA. Marco Bassols, Mexico City–based curator and exhibition designer; Molly Nesbit, Professor of Art History at Vassar College and a contributing editor of Artforum; join the artist in discussing this as well as other site-specific and sculpture works. The discussion is moderated by Pablo Helguera, Director, Adult and Academic Programs, Department of Education, The Museum of Modern Art.

Tuesday, February 9, 2010 6:30 PM Mobile Matrix, one of Gabriel Orozco's most ambitious projects, involved the retrieval and transformation of a whale skeleton now on view at MoMA. Marco Bassols, Mexico City–based curator and exhibition designer; Molly Nesbit, Professor of Art History at Vassar College and a contributing editor of Artforum; join the artist in discussing this as well as other site-specific and sculpture works. The discussion is moderated by Pablo Helguera, Director, Adult and Academic Programs, Department of Education, The Museum of Modern Art.

Tuesday, December 15, 2009 6:30 PM Briony Fer, Professor of History of Art, University College, London, and Ann Temkin, The Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture and organizer of the exhibition Gabriel Orozco engage the artist in a conversation about his practice and exhibition. Special thanks to the Mexican Cultural Institute and the Mexico Tourism Board of New York.

Tuesday, December 15, 2009 6:30 PM Briony Fer, Professor of History of Art, University College, London, and Ann Temkin, The Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture and organizer of the exhibition Gabriel Orozco engage the artist in a conversation about his practice and exhibition. Special thanks to the Mexican Cultural Institute and the Mexico Tourism Board of New York.