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Amnesic at Family Business
May 23, 2013 - May 31, 2013
Family Business Gallery - 520 West 21st Street, NYC
An exhibition curated by students from Bard High School Early College, Manhattan on view May 23-31 at Family Business. Opening reception on May 23rd from 6 to 8 PM, featuring music by the Jacobsons.
Past
2006
KILLER SHRIMPS
September 10, 2006
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema
By filmmaker Piero Golia, the film is presented as a final event in conjunction with the summer exhibition Uncertain States of America at the Center for Curatorial Studies.
INAUGURATION: HESSEL MUSEUM OF ART
November 12, 2006
Hessel Museum of Art
Inauguration of the Hessel Museum of Art with the exhibition Wrestle, curated by Tom Eccles and Trevor Smith. Ribbon-cutting at 12 noon followed by reception.
WITNESS TO HER ART: PANEL AND BOOK LAUNCH
November 12, 2006
Blithewood Manor
With editors Rhea Anastas and Michael Brenson, presentations by Michael Brenson, Faculty, CCS and Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College; Helen Molesworth, Chief Curator of Exhibitions, Wexner Center for the Arts.
WRESTLE
November 12, 2006
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center
Panel discussion with Tom Eccles, Trevor Smith ,Vasif Kortun, Ute Meta Bauer, and Molly Nesbit.
2007
CONVERSATION WITH WILFRIED DICKHOFF
March 26, 2007
CCS Bard
Wilfried Dickhoff is currently visiting professor in the art history department of Basel University.
CONVERSATION WITH MARIA LIND
April 16, 2007
CCS Bard
Maria Lind is currently director of the International Artist Studio Program in Stockholm.
TONY OURSLER
May 9, 2007
CCS Bard
Artist's Talk and Screening with Tony Oursler. Presented by the Bard College Film and Electronic Arts Program and the Center for Curatorial Studies.
ROBERT BRYN
May 19, 2007 - May 27, 2007
Hudson River, near Tivoli, NY
In conjunction "Come On Pilgrim: A 110-Mile Exhibition", curated by CCS graduate student Laura Mott.
JAMES WALSH
May 20, 2007
Trailside Museum, Cross River
Laura Mott will host a reception at the Trailside Nature Museum in Cross River for James Walsh's artist book accompanying his video work, also entitled The Strange Life of an Old Man Clad Entirely in Leather.
RAGNAR KJARTANSSON
May 22, 2007
CCS Seminar Room
Ragnar Kjartansson, an emerging artist from Iceland, will be introduced in conversation with the curator, Markús Thór Andrésson.
BROCK ENRIGHT: TOAST
November 2, 2007
508 W 25 St, New York City
Toast is A variety show based on the original Ed Sullivan show, 'Toast of the Town'.
BLACK, WHITE + GRAY: A PORTRAIT OF ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE AND SAM WAGSTAFF
December 17, 2007
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center
The documentary described by the New York Times as a “potent exercise in art-world mythography” about the “diabolical power couple who lived and died in a mad pursuit of aesthetic perfection and erotic sensation.”
2008
GREENROOM SCREENING
January 27, 2008
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema
Selected films by Chantal Akerman, a Belgian filmmaker based in Paris.
MAKING IT HAPPEN: WHW (WHAT, HOW & FOR WHOM)
January 28, 2008
CCS Bard Seminar Room 1
MAKING IT HAPPEN: ANTON VIDOKLE
February 5, 2008
CCS Bard Seminar Room 1
Everything You Always Wanted To Know About E-flux But Were Afraid To Ask
JOAN RETALLACK
February 6, 2008
CCS Bard Seminar Room 1
Retallack will read from her work and speak about experimental poetics and investigative procedures.
MICHAEL BEUTLER, ESRA ERSEN, AND KIRSTINE ROEPSTORFF
February 18, 2008
CCS Bard Seminar Room 1
Artists talk featuring the three artists who will participate in the CCS Galleries summer show 2008 entitled Personal Protocols and Other Preferences.
MAKING IT HAPPEN: TIRDAD ZOLGHADR
February 19, 2008
CCS Bard Seminar Room 1
Tirdad Zolghadr, will speak about his experience at the 2005 Sharjah Biennial, discussing among other things the politics of belonging and dilemmas of multiculturalism.
PANEL IN THE MUSEUM: COMMISSION AS ASSIGNMENT
May 11, 2008
Hessel Museum of Art
A panel of leading curators and scholars will discuss "commission as assignment" during the third and final re-opening of Second Thoughts.
GREENROOM FILM SCREENINGS AT THE NEW SCHOOL IN NYC
May 27, 2008
The New School, New York City
Two evenings of special screenings introduce The Greenroom, a large-scale exhibition exploring the “documentary turn” in recent contemporary art practice
SPATIAL PRACTICES WITH EYAL WEIZMAN AND TOM KEENAN: CONFLICTS AS SPACTIAL PRACTICES
September 17, 2008
SPATIAL PRACTICES lectures explore a variety of practices which take space and power as their starting point.
GREENROOM PANEL DISCUSSION: PROBLEMS WITH REALISM
September 28, 2008
Hessel Museum of Art
Panel Discussion with TJ Demos; Carles Guerra, Andrea Geyer and Hito Steyerl
GREENROOM PERFORMANCE
October 4, 2008
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema
A performative slide lecture by Andrea Geyer, an artist who lives and works in Freiburg and New York City.
SPATIAL PRACTICES LECTURE
October 7, 2008
CCS Bard Seminar Room 1
Spatial Practices Lecture with Apolonija Sustersic, an architect from Stockholm.
ARTIST TALK: OLAFUR ELIASSON
October 23, 2008
CCS Bard
Danish/Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson will speak about his The Parliament of Reality, a new, permanent outdoor installation sited near the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts.
OLAFUR ELIASSON
October 23, 2008
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema
Danish/Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson will speak about his The Parliament of Reality, a new, permanent outdoor installation sited near the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts.
GREENROON SCREENING
November 5, 2008
Hessel Museum of Art
Greenroom Screening: La Commune with Petra Bauer and Stefan Jonsson.
SPATIAL PRACTICES LECTURE
November 11, 2008
CCS Bard Seminar Room 1
Spatial Practices Lecture with Stealth (Ana Dzokic and Marc Neelen). Stealth is a practice that operates between Rotterdam and Belgrade and in crossovers fields of urban research, spatial intervention and cultural activism.
GREENROOM LECTURE
November 13, 2008
Hessel Museum of Art
A talk about documentary strategies, political representation and the role of the mass media.
GREENROOM LECTURE
November 19, 2008
Hessel Museum of Art
GREENROOM LECTURE
December 3, 2008
Hessel Museum of Art
The unacknowledged knowledge of the amateur by Marysia Lewandowska.
NIKOLAUS HIRSCH
December 3, 2008
CCS Bard
Lecture on exhibition architecture and design with Nikolaus Hirsch.
GREENROOM SCREENING AND TALK
December 6, 2008
Hessel Museum of Art
Greenroom Screening and Talk: Chew the Fat, 2008 by Rirkrit Tiravanija.
GREENROOM DISCUSSION
December 10, 2008 - October 10, 2008
Hessel Museum of Art
Greenroom Discussion: "Underserving Lebanon" with Walid Raad.
2009
NATHAN COLEY
January 29, 2009
Hessel Museum of Art
Nathan Coley's practice investigates how social values are registered in and developed by the built environment.
PABLO HELGUERA
February 4, 2009
CCS Bard Galleries
Pablo Helguera will give a card reading performance titled The Seven Bridges of Königsberg
PABLO HELGUERA
February 4, 2009
Preston Theater
New York-based visual artist Pablo Helguera’s work explores topics such as the sociology of art, the relationship between cultural communities and history, the role of art in politics, and the role of fact and fiction in communication.
AGNÈS VARDA'S LES DAGUERREOTYPES
February 10, 2009
Preston Theater
Les Daguerreotypes is the first screening in a three evening film program being held during the month of February.
SOME CASES UP FOR REVIEW
February 17, 2009
Preston Theater
A three evening film program being held during the month of February.
SOME CASES UP FOR REVIEW
February 23, 2009
Preston Theater
A three evening film program being held during the month of February.
MELANIE GILLIGAN: CRISIS IN THE CREDIT SYSTEM
March 4, 2009
Bertelsmann Center, Weis Theater
Crisis in the Credit System, a recent video work by London-based artist Melanie Gilligan, synthesizes years of research on the current financial crisis.
CURATING THE DOCUMENTARY
March 7, 2009
Hessel Museum of Art
The panel discussion will address the challenges curators face in curating the art documentary.
THE PERFORMANCE IS THE PERFORMANCE, THE DOCUMENT IS THE DOCUMENT: A CONVERSATION WITH CAROLA DERTNIG
March 9, 2009
Olin Hall, Room 102
In conjunction with her installation and performance, artist Carola Dertnig will speak with second-year graduate student curator Wendy Vogel.
NATO THOMPSON
March 11, 2009
Olin Hall, Room 102
Nato Thompson, is Chief Curator at Creative Time where he was worked since 2007.
HAPPY HOUR
March 18, 2009
Preston Theater
CCS Bard first-year graduate students will present the conversation, "Happy Hour."
YAEL BARTANA
March 30, 2009
Preston Theater
This screening program is curated by CCS Bard graduate students and presented in conjunction with Yael Bartana's residency at CCS Bard during the spring semester of 2009.
MANIFESTO!
April 13, 2009
Bertelsmann Center, Weis Theater
MANIFESTO! is a performance-reading by Bard undergraduates of 6-7 historic and contemporary political and art-based manifestoes.
W.A.G.E. TEACH-IN
April 14, 2009
CCS Bard Seminar Room 1
This teach-in extends from CCS Bard graduate student Katerina Llanes’ thesis project Sessions.
PILOT
April 28, 2009 - May 12, 2009
WXBC Bard Radio
Three two-hour radio programs thinking about 21st century strategies for the manifesto.
WYOMING EVENINGS: WHAT IS THE GOOD OF WORK? (1/4)
October 17, 2009
Goethe-Institut Wyoming Building 5 East 3rd Street NY, NY
BERND KRAUSS: ISLAND KEEPER
November 1, 2009 - November 21, 2009
Goethe-Institut Wyoming Building 5 East 3rd Street NY, NY
Exhibition by day and theater at night, “iSLAND kEEPER” stakes out new territory for artist Bernd Krauß.
KAZYS VARNELIS
November 17, 2009
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema
The Center for Curatorial Studies’ Graduate Program in collaboration with the Bard College Art History and Human Rights Programs invite you to a lecture by Kazys Varnelis.
WENDELIEN VAN OLDENBORGH: INSTRUCTION
November 18, 2009
Avery Art Center, Center for Film, Electronic Arts and Music
Instruction interrogates the agency of the individual in conditions of war.
WYOMING EVENINGS: WHAT IS THE GOOD OF WORK? (2/4)
December 5, 2009
Goethe-Institut Wyoming Building 5 East 3rd Street NY, NY
The series takes its starting point in the observation that today the artist—defined by creativity, unconventionality, and flexibility—appears to be the role model for contemporary workers.
EXPANDING & DESTROYING THE ARCHIVE WITH VIDEO WORKS BY PEGGY AHWESH
December 8, 2009
Avery Art Center, Center for Film, Electronic Arts and Music
Please join us for a screening of video and orphan films, followed by a conversation with filmmaker and Bard faculty member, Peggy Ahwesh.
IN THE REALM OF PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
December 14, 2009
Bertelsmann Campus Center
A round table discussion with the artist, Maria Lind, Laura Kuhn, Ann Butler, Danielle Riou, and Ana Paula Cohen
2010
WYOMING EVENINGS: WHAT IS THE GOOD OF WORK? (3/4)
January 30, 2010
Goethe-Institut Wyoming Building 5 East 3rd Street NY, NY
The series takes its starting point in the observation that today the artist—defined by creativity, unconventionality, and flexibility—appears to be the role model for contemporary workers. Wyoming Evenings is organized by the Goethe-Institut New York and the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, and curated by Maria Lind and Simon Critchley.
WYOMING EVENINGS: WHAT IS THE GOOD OF WORK? (4/4)
March 13, 2010
Goethe-Institut Wyoming Building 5 East 3rd Street NY, NY
The series takes its starting point in the observation that today the artist—defined by creativity, unconventionality, and flexibility—appears to be the role model for contemporary workers.
HOW TO BEGIN? ENVISIONING THE IMPACT OF GUGGENHEIM ABU DHABI
April 19, 2010
CCS Seminar Room
A publication and panel discussion Contributors: Regine Basha, Hassan Khan, Sohrab Mohebbi, Didem Özbek, and Sarah Rifky Curated by Ozge Ersoy
BEYOND THE WHITE CUBE - CCS BARD FAMILY FEUD
May 3, 2010
CCS Bard Audrey and Sydney Irmas Atrium
For Beyond The White Cube four curators associated with CCS Bard organize projects outside of the museum’s galleries in order to encourage endeavors that apply the curatorial beyond exhibition space-proper.
NEW PERSPECTIVES ON ART AND INSTITUTIONAL CRITIQUE: A SYMPOSIUM
May 20, 2010
Reem-Kayden Center 103
This one-day symposium examines the status and legacy of institutional critique.
MAKING USE OF FORMATS-SOME THOUGHTS ON PHILIPPE PARRENO'S ART IN THE 1990S
September 1, 2010
CCS Bard Galleries
Lecture by Jörn Schafaff, art historian who wrote his PhD on Parreno’s work
ZIDANE: A 21ST CENTURY PORTRAIT (2006)
September 3, 2010
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center
Free Screening of Philippe Parreno's film Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait (2006)
RIGHTS FOR A SHELL - AN IMAGINARY TRIAL
September 22, 2010
CCS Bard Galleries
The performance of an imaginary trial in which Annlee sues Philippe Parreno and Pierre Huyghe, demanding retroactive rights over all the uses of her image.
Speakers Series - ANTHONY HUBERMAN
September 29, 2010
CCS Bard Seminar Room 1
"I know That I Know Nothing" - Lecture by Anthony Huberman
Speakers Series: TIRDAD ZOLGHADR - TAIPEI BIENNIAL 2010: BEFORE AND AFTER
October 13, 2010
CCS Bard Seminar Room 1
Tirdad Zolghadr will discuss the international biennial he is curating this year in Taipei.
Speakers Series - CLAUDE WAMPLER
October 20, 2010
CCS Bard Seminar Room 1
Each semester the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College hosts a regular program of lectures by the foremost artists, curators, art historians, and critics of our day.
AN INTERVIEW WITH HANS ULRICH OBRIST
October 22, 2010
CCS Bard Library
Speakers Series - SILVIA KOLBOWSKI
October 27, 2010
CCS Bard Seminar Room 1
Each semester the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College hosts a regular program of lectures by the foremost artists, curators, art historians, and critics of our day, situating the school and museum's concerns within the larger context of contemporary art production and discourse.
Speakers Series - MASSIMILIANO GIONI
November 12, 2010
The New Museum, NYC
Massimiliano Gioni will discuss the international biennial he is curating this year in Gwangju.
ASHLEY HUNT - NOTES ON THE EMPTYING OF A CITY
November 16, 2010
CCS Bard Video Gallery
Based upon experiences in New Orleans during the months following Hurricane Katrina, the piece considers what it meant to be present in that time and space with a camera and microphone.
Speakers Series: MARION VON OSTEN - DISPLAYING THE ABSENT. TRANSCULTURAL MODERNISM
November 17, 2010
CCS Bard Seminar Room 1
Each semester the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College hosts a regular program of lectures by the foremost artists, curators, art historians, and critics of our day.
Speakers Series - MARIO GARCIA TORRES
November 30, 2010
CCS Bard Seminar Room 1
Each semester the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College hosts a regular program of lectures by the foremost artists, curators, art historians, and critics of our day.
LAST ADDRESS - A FILM BY IRA SACHS
December 1, 2010
CCS Bard Galleries
CCS Bard will mark 20 years of action and remembrance by participating in Day With(out) Art organized by Visual AIDS with a continuous screening of Last Address by Ira Sachs.
Speakers Series - WAYNE KOESTENBAUM
December 1, 2010
CCS Bard Seminar Room 1
Each semester the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College hosts a regular program of lectures by the foremost artists, curators, art historians, and critics of our day.
Speakers Series - MICHAEL PORTNOY IN DISCUSSION WITH TIRDAD ZOLGHADR
December 8, 2010
CCS Bard Seminar Room 1
Each semester the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College hosts a regular program of lectures by the foremost artists, curators, art historians, and critics of our day.
Speakers Series - CLAIRE BISHOP 'FORMER WEST: EXHIBITIONS AS SOCIAL SPACE IN THE 1990S'
December 15, 2010
CCS Bard Seminar Room 1
Each semester the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College hosts a regular program of lectures by the foremost artists, curators, art historians, and critics of our day.
2011
Speakers Series - A TALK BY MARIA HLAVAJOVA
February 15, 2011
CCS Seminar Room 1
Each semester the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College hosts a regular program of lectures by the foremost artists, curators, art historians, and critics of our day.
Speakers Series - ANTHONY HUBERMAN : ON THE ARTIST'S INSTITUTE
February 16, 2011
CCS Bard Seminar Room 1
Each semester the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College hosts a regular program of lectures by the foremost artists, curators, art historians, and critics of our day.
Speakers Series: DEBRA SINGER - THE VIEW FROM A VOLCANO: SELECTIONS FROM THE KITCHEN'S ARCHIVE
February 23, 2011
CCS Bard Seminar Room 1
Each semester the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College hosts a regular program of lectures by the foremost artists, curators, art historians, and critics of our day.
Speakers Series - DOUGLAS CRIMP : TWO CATALOGUE ESSAYS ON DANCE AND FILM
March 1, 2011
CCS Bard Seminar Room 1
Each semester the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College hosts a regular program of lectures by the foremost artists, curators, art historians, and critics of our day, situating the school and museum's concerns within the larger context of contemporary art production and discourse.
Speakers Series: BIK VAN DER POL - ARCHIVES
March 8, 2011
CCS Bard Seminar Room 1
Speakers Series - A CONVERSATION WITH STEFAN KALMÁR AND RICHARD BIRKETT
March 30, 2011
CCS Bard Seminar Room 1
Each semester the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College hosts a regular program of lectures by the foremost artists, curators, art historians, and critics of our day.
Speakers Series - LAUREN CORNELL : RE-THINKING NEW MEDIA ART20
April 5, 2011
CCS Bard Seminar Room 1
Lauren Cornell will give an overview of her work with Rhizome and the New Museum, focusing specifically on her most recent exhibition Free.
Speakers Series - SCOTT ROTHKOPF
April 11, 2011
CCS Bard Seminar Room 1
Whitney curator Scott Rothkopf will discuss the curatorial methodologies behind two current exhibitions, Glenn Ligon: AMERICA, the artist’s twenty-five-year retrospective, and Singular Visions, an experimental presentation of twelve works from museum’s permanent collection.
Speakers Series - CARSTEN SEIFFARTH
April 19, 2011
CCS Bard Seminar Room 1
Each semester the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College hosts a regular program of lectures by the foremost artists, curators, art historians, and critics of our day
Speakers Series - BARBARA CLAUSEN : ON CURATING PERFORMANCE
May 4, 2011
CCS Bard Seminar Room 1
Performance art´s recent and ongoing popularity, institutionalization, and historicization challenges the representational politics of the live and the mediated within the exhibition context, posing a range of questions for artists and curators alike.
Speakers Series - ANNE ELLEGOOD
May 11, 2011
CCS Bard Seminar Room 1
Each semester the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College hosts a regular program of lectures by the foremost artists, curators, art historians, and critics of our day, situating the school and museum's concerns within the larger context of contemporary art production and discourse.
Speakers Series - JENS HOFFMANN : AN AMERICAN TRILOGY
May 18, 2011
CCS Bard Seminar Room 1
Jens Hoffmann's presentation will revolve around a recent series of exhibition based on iconic American novels of which Huckleberry Finn (2010) was the final installment in a trilogy of displays that were looking at American history through the lens of literature.
EDIBLE SCULPTURE PARTY 5
July 23, 2011
CCS Bard
CCS Bard, Tim Davis and Lisa Sanditz invite you to the 5th Annual Edible Sculpture Party, hosted at CCS Bard for the first time this year.
Speakers Series: ANTONIS PITTAS - WOMEN ARE THE BOSSES HERE
September 12, 2011
CCS Bard Seminar Room 1
Antonis Pittas is an artist who mainly creates context-sensitive spatial installations, which are informed by architecture, art-historical references, the performative aspects of installation art, and its social dynamics.
Speakers Series: TOM KEENAN - MENGELE'S SKULL
September 19, 2011
CCS Bard Seminar Room 1
Thomas Keenan is Director of the Human Rights Project and Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Literature, Human Rights Program at Bard College.
Speakers Series - REGINE BASHA - FOUR DIGNITIES OF THE WARRIOR'S PATH OR HOW TO CURATE, UNCURATE, THEN CURATE AGAIN.
September 26, 2011
CCS Bard Seminar Room 1
This will be a presentation about the variable circumstances of independent curating.
Speakers Series - KRIST GRUIJTHUIJSEN - ON SELF-CONSUMPTION, 2011
October 3, 2011
CCS Bard Seminar Room 1
This talk will discuss the artistic and institutional self-absorption through self-mythologization, in which earlier and current (curatorial) projects of Gruijthuijsen are presented as an ongoing investigation of the subject.
Speakers Series - MALIK GAINES : FESTIVE TIME, THE BENEVOLENT LEGACIES OF OIL BARONS, & LOS ANGELES (1945 – FOREVER)
October 17, 2011
CCS Bard Seminar Room 1
Malik Gaines will discuss “Talks About Acts,” a series he and Alex Segade have coordinated at LA>
Speakers Series - SUHAIL MALIK - APE SAYS NO
October 24, 2011
CCS Seminar Room
SPEAKERS SERIES: ANTHONY HUBERMAN - THE LETTER T
November 7, 2011
CCS Bard Seminar Room 1
Anthony Huberman is a curator and writer based in New York.
Speakers Series: Helen Molesworth
November 14, 2011
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
Molesworth will discuss her upcoming exhibition This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s.
SPEAKERS SERIES: GERARD BYRNE - Images or Shadows
November 21, 2011
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
Byrne will talk about his recent survey show at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, which closed on Monday, Oct. 31.
SPEAKERS SERIES: Sarah Pierce - Murmurs and Legacies: thinking through the curatorial
November 28, 2011
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
In this evening's discussion Sarah Pierce will introduce some ideas that allow us to think about the curatorial -- not what the curatorial is or whose work the curatorial refers to -- but rather as a mode of being that functions at different levels of articulation, at different times and in different capacities throughout what might be called the staging of an exhibition.
Day With(out) Art, World AIDS Day
December 1, 2011
CCS Bard Library and Archives
CCS Bard observes the 22nd Day With(out) Art, taking place on World AIDS Day, December 1, 2011, by participating in the national, simultaneous, free screenings of Untitled, a film by Jim Hodges, Encke King, and Carlos Marques da Cruz.
SPEAKERS SERIES: CHARLES ESCHE - Historical Times: the capacities of an art museum and how it comes to terms with the world today
December 5, 2011
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
The talk will move from the meta to the micro, placing the activities of one northwest European museum in its particular historical context today.
2012
Speakers Series: Suhail Malik - The Ruling Elite Have Feelings Too
January 30, 2012
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
Each semester the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College hosts a regular program of lectures by the foremost artists, curators, art historians, and critics of our day, situating the school and museum's concerns within the larger context of contemporary art production and discourse.
Speakers Series : Work in Progress - Fionn Meade
February 6, 2012
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
Fionn Meade will talk about a current project, The Assistants, which looks at the transitive role of artworks as “assisting” figures, custodians of memory and producers of deviance, including work by Dieter Roth, Cathy Wilkes, Uri Aran, Rosemarie Trockel, Laure Prouvost, and Alexander Kluge, among others.
Speakers Series : Work in Progress - Jeannine Tang
February 13, 2012
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
Jeannine Tang will examine the range and reception of Martha Rosler’s photomontage series Bringing the War Home (1967-1972), with implications for how art history produces its objects of media, activism and art.
Speakers Series : Boris Groys - "On the Use of Theory by Art and Use of Art by Theory".
February 16, 2012
CCS Bard Galleries
To celebrate the closing of Antonis Pittas's exhibition RETROACTIVE, CCS Bard will present a talk by the esteemed Russian critic and theorist Boris Groys, organized by CCS Bard graduate students Olga Dekalo and Annie Larmon
Opening for The Virgins Show - Inaugural Exhibition At Family Business
February 16, 2012
Family Business Gallery - 520 West 21st Street, NYC
Opening exhibition for the non-profit experimental art space FAMILY BUSINESS which features a combination of artists unknown to the art world and well-known names.
Speakers Series : Work in Progress - Tirdad Zolghadr
February 20, 2012
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
Using a variety of examples, Zolghadr will address the notion of the "institution" as trope, political arena and moral horizon. Said examples will include his new novel, his exhibition proposal for the Hessel Museum 2013, the curatorial aftermath of the Taipei Biennial 2010, as well as the CCS Speakers Series itself, particularly Suhail Malik's October 2011 lecture "Ape Says No".
Speakers Series : Kelly Taxter, CCS '03 - Second Chances
February 27, 2012
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
“Second Chances” focuses on Matters of Fact, for which I was invited to re-evaluate and re-hang Too Much Joy, Re-visiting Works from the Pattern and Decoration Movement, an exhibition I initially presented in 2002 while a first year student at CCS Bard.
Speakers Series : Nayland Blake - Brains, Beards and the Verdict of History: Some Queerness from the Bay Area
March 5, 2012
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
Artist Nayland Blake speaks about his the short-lived zine Brains in the greater context of San Francisco's explosion of queer activism and culture in the early 1990's He will be bringing examples of related 'zines and images from his curatorial projects, including "In a Different Light".
Speakers Series : Greg Moynahan - "An Odd Thought Concerning a New Sort of Exhibition": Experience and Experiment in Early Modern Europe
March 12, 2012
How did the concept of scientific experiment first arise in the early modern period, and what was its relation to artistic experience? The history of science and the history of museums have put forth a variety of answers to this question, but this lecture will suggest that a key issue was the relatively late appearance of the problem of infinity. Using Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464) and Gottfried Leibniz (1646-1716) to frame this development, the discussion will conclude with an overview of Leibniz's phantasmorgic "Odd Thought" (1675). The piece describes a "museum of everything that could be imagined" and now reads like a strange carnival, but was apparently the first outline of Leibniz' plan for the Prussian Academy of Science.d Archives.
Speakers Series : Lia Gangitano - Dead Flowers
March 19, 2012
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
In an effort to understand a genealogy of influences reflective of the role of the non-commercial, non-institutional space, I often look to artists who seem to have inspired, or instigated, their existence. The 2010 exhibition Dead Flowers, based on the work of actor/director Timothy Carey and curated for Vox Populi, an artist collective in Philadelphia, is a manifestation of this inquiry, which grew out of an essay commissioned for the 2006 Whitney Biennial, Day for Night. The assignment was to address, in tandem, notions of the underground and the relevance of the alternative space.
Speakers Series : Lars Bang Larsen - Dexter Bang Sinister: Black and White Psychedelia
March 26, 2012
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
Lars Bang Larsen is an art historian, writer and curator. He has co-curated group exhibitions such as “Populism,” Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2005), “La insurrección invisible de un millón de mentes,” Sala Rekalde, Bilbao (2005), and “A History of Irritated Material,” Raven Row, London (2010). His books include The Model. A Model for a Qualitative Society, 1968 (2010) and Sture Johannesson (2002).
Speakers Series: Sylvere Lotringer - Theory in Art
March 28, 2012
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
This lecture will address the conditions of today’s art world in comparison with the New York art scene of the seventies and the place theory -- and Semiotext(e) -- has occupied in the metamorphosis of a small art community into a global trans-aesthetic art industry. Lotringer will conclude his talk with a call for a more autonomous art practice and organization – more horizontal than hierarchical and less geared toward the production of art commodities.
Speakers Series : Ingrid Schaffner - Unpacking “Deep Storage”
April 9, 2012
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
This talk will address the origins, organization, and propagation of “Deep Storage” in Schaffner’s work.
Speakers Series : Arlen Austin and Jason Boughton - "Artists' Talk: The Amorous Contestations of the Precarious Workers will be the Weapon of Victory."
April 16, 2012
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
Arlen Austin and Jason Boughton will give a brief overview of their collaborative practice with special focus on poultry housing, workplace organizing and manicure maintenance. The presentation will be accentuated by informative graphics and musical selections chosen more with tact and less with taste.
Toasting to the Revolution at Family Business
April 19, 2012
Family Business Gallery - 520 West 21st Street, NYC
“Toasting to the Revolution” at Family Business Gallery brings together six young Russian artists in a show curated by Daria Irincheeva on view from April 19, 2012 to April 28, 2012.
Speakers Series - Hal Foster : Critique in a post-critical age
April 23, 2012
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
This talk will take up the intellectual formation of Foster's generation of theorists & historians, the question of "the contemporary," & critique in a post-critical age.
Speakers Series - Ed Halter : Cinema as an Event
April 30, 2012
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
A lecture on curating film and video in a variety of contexts, including Halter’s work at Light Industry, previous programming for film festivals, and exhibitions for Tate Modern, MoMA PS1’s Greater New York, the 2012 Whitney Biennial and elsewhere.
Gaylen Gerber, John Henderson, DAS INSTITUT with Allison Katz at Family Business
May 2, 2012
Family Business Gallery - 520 West 21st Street, NYC
Family Business is pleased to present an exhibition with Gaylen Gerber, John Henderson, and DAS INSTITUT (Kerstin Brätsch and Adele Röder) with Allison Katz on view from May 2, 2012 to May 24, 2012.
The John Ashbery Poetry Series Presents: Rob Fitterman, Tim Davis, and Kim Rosenfield
May 3, 2012
CCS Bard Galleries
A Reading and Performance
Speakers Series - Peter Eleey : What's Wrong?
May 7, 2012
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
What are the ethical rules of contemporary curating, and how should we define them? When and how can they be broken?
Speakers Series : Jay Sanders
May 14, 2012
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
A conversation between Jay Sanders and Johanna Burton about the Whitney Biennial.
LAMEWAVVE - Closing for Gaylen Gerber, John Henderson, DAS INSTITUT, and Allison Katz at Family Business
May 24, 2012
Family Business Gallery - 520 West 21st Street, NYC
Join us at our lovely Family Business for an evening of super awesome punk fun with our special guest LAMEWAVVE. We will be dancing in the streets to honor the closing of our latest show with Gaylen Gerber, John Henderson, DAS INSTITUT and Allison Katz.
Casting Call by KATARZYNA KOZYRA at Family Business
May 31, 2012 - June 1, 2012
Family Business Gallery - 520 West 21st Street, NYC
The Polish Cultural Institute New York and Family Business Gallery are proud to present CASTING CALL – an interactive performance by one of Poland’s most celebrated contemporary artists, Katarzyna Kozyra at Family Business.
Straight Up at Family Business
June 4, 2012
Family Business Gallery - 520 West 21st Street, NYC
A project by Alice Conconi and Elena Tavecchia at Family Business.
Why New Forms? A Curatorial Conference
June 22, 2012 - June 23, 2012
June 22 and 23, 2012 Bertelsmann Campus Center, Bard College Organized by CCS Bard alumni/ae Dan Byers, The Richard Armstrong Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Carnegie Museum of Art, and Ruba Katrib, Curator, SculptureCenter
Megabodega at Family Business
June 26, 2012
Family Business Gallery - 520 West 21st Street, NYC
Megabodega is a show of 200+ zines, art books, and magazines for sale from around the world! Nightly book launches, readings, and parties! On view June 26 to July 6, 2012.
These Peanuts are Bullets at Family Business
July 10, 2012
Family Business Gallery - 520 West 21st Street, NYC
Family Business and LeDictateur present THESE PEANUTS ARE BULLETS July 10-14!
Artists Guarding Artists at Family Business
August 2, 2012
Family Business Gallery - 520 West 21st Street, NYC
Family Business is pleased to present, “Artists Guarding Artists”, a survey of works by artists employed as security guards at various New York City museums. On view August 2 through August 17, 2012.
iLike Market (and Market likes me) at Family Business
August 21, 2012
Family Business Gallery - 520 West 21st Street, NYC
From the 24th - 28th will be an OPEN CALL for artists and performers in the Family Business community to bring a ready-made piece to the gallery and make a sales pitch for your art.
Everyday Holidays : Lawn Sports Day
August 24, 2012
Bard College
Sometimes it's what's on the outside that counts. Celebrating the potential of outdoor sculpture and museum grounds through sport.
Industrial Evolution Kris Perry & Friends at Family Business
September 6, 2012
Family Business Gallery - 520 West 21st Street, NYC
Family Business presents Industrial Evolution Kris Perry & Friends. On view from September 6 till September 29, 2012.
Everyday Holidays : Tie-Dye Labor Day
September 7, 2012
Bard College
Retire your old work shirt, or restyle your current one. Bard's Buildings and Grounds Crew will never have looked so stylish. All are welcome to celebrate our world laborers. Visit the museum as your creation dries.
Speakers Series : Liam Gillick in Conversation with Tom Eccles
September 10, 2012
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
Artist Liam Gillick and Tom Eccles, Executive Director of CCS Bard, converse about Gillick's career and current exhibition, From 199A to 199B : Liam Gillick, on view at The Hessel Museum of Art.
Everyday Holidays : Personal Independence Day
September 12, 2012
Bard College
Everyday Holidays : Surrealist Circus Day
September 15, 2012
Bard College
Contemplate changing your major, or thinking of majoring in psychology....errr, English....or maybe biology? Don't worry, self-help never seemed so fun. Figure out where your strengths really lie with the circus.
Everyday Holidays : Appropriated Holiday Protest and Awareness Day
September 16, 2012
Bard College
Speakers Series - Brennan Gerard and Ryan Kelly : "Love, Minimalism and Other Impossibilities."
September 17, 2012
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
This talk will address Gerard and Kelly’s collaborative projects through the rubric of the legacy and politics of Minimalism--and those parts of human experience minimal art negates in order to function. Love and Minimalism are both impossible subjects to address in contemporary art and yet, they can't seem to get away from either. In a discussion of their recent projects and a reading of excerpts from current writing, they will address the body and its perishable materialities as the site for working through this antinomy.
Everyday Holidays : Hannah Arendt Day
September 19, 2012
Bard College
Remembering the activist, thinker, and writer whose work on the human condition raises important questions today.
Anti-Establishment Performance : Brennan Gerard & Ryan Kelly
September 19, 2012
CCS Bard Galleries
Two clocks—one cycling forward, the other in reverse—mark military and personal time. When their times momentarily coincide, two performers begin a movement score based on the ticking of a clock, fading in and out of memory while falling in and out of sync.
Everyday Holidays : Heinrich Bluecher Day
September 20, 2012
Bard College
Remembering the philosopher-poet who taught at Bard for 17 years while married to Hannah Arendt.
Everyday Holidays : Local Legends and Hairy Celebrities Day
September 21, 2012
Bard College
Hey, don't I know you...or, hey don't I know your dog? A day to celebrate social animals and social people.
Everyday Holidays : 18 and Under Day
September 23, 2012
Bard College
Take your parents to the museum day.
Speakers Series : Sven Augustijnen
September 25, 2012
Olin 102, Bard College
Sven Augustijnen will talk about his film Spectres, as well as the exhibtion and book.
Everyday Holidays : Folk Music Appreciation Day
September 29, 2012
Bard College
Between Woodie Guthrie and Bob Dylan there was ramlin' Jack. Share your talking blues.
Everyday Holidays : Riders Day
September 30, 2012
Motorcyclists, bicyclists, unicyclists...jock-eys, cowboys, dressage....visti us on your hogs, horses, and tractors...this holiday is for those that like to ride with the wind in their hair.
Speakers Series : Hito Steyerl - Recent Works
October 1, 2012
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
Steyerl will talk about recent projects.
Everyday Holidays : Have a Ball Day
October 4, 2012
Bard College
Can ball cultures really meet? Cross-dressing divas and athletic types unite.
Raspberry Cargo at Family Business
October 5, 2012
Family Business Gallery - 520 West 21st Street, NYC
Project opening with Duane Linklater & Will Heinrich
Everyday Holidays : Donald Tewksbury Day
October 10, 2012
Bard College
Remembering the Dean that put progressive into higher education.
Everyday Holidays : Lumberjacks, Bakers, Hair Cutters and Delinquents
October 12, 2012
Bard College
Celebrating the art of the perfect cut.
Raspberry Cargo at Family Business
October 12, 2012
Family Business Gallery - 520 West 21st Street, NYC
Musical performance, and reading with Layli Longsoldier
Everyday Holidays : Pick Your Battles Day
October 13, 2012
CCS Bard front lawn
Stop by the CCS Bard front lawn to take part in a good old fashioned round of tug-o-war.
Speakers Series : Sarah Pierce
October 15, 2012
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
Conference : Methods and Models: Experimental Education
October 18, 2012
Anti-Establishment Performance : Trajal Harrell
October 22, 2012
CCS Bard Galleries
Appropriating Jean Baudrillard’s 1996 “Le Complot de l’art” to their own ends, the artists contemplate the current state of performance—its place within the art world and the larger cultural economy.
Speakers Series : Trajal Harrell
October 22, 2012
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
Everyday Holidays : Nearing Extinction Day
October 24, 2012
Bard College
Moderated by Bard's Beekeeping Club (7pm).
Everyday Holidays : Vinyl Preservation Day
October 25, 2012
Bard College
Where Luddites embrace Luddites!
Raspberry Cargo at Family Business : Drive-In
October 26, 2012
Family Business Gallery - 520 West 21st Street, NYC
CCS Bard students present a reconfigured drive-in at Family Business. With works by Elizabeth Orr, Anton Ginzburg, Jason Mena, Dani Leventhal, Ragnheidur Getsdottir, Irina Arnaut, Boru O'Brien O'Connell, Jake Davidson.
Chelsea Sound Festival at Family Business
October 27, 2012
Family Business Gallery - 520 West 21st Street, NYC
Chelsea non-profit organizations Printed Matter, Eyebeam, Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), and Family Business announce the first edition of a new annual artists’ music festival: Chelsea Sound.
Everyday Holidays : Clothing Optional Day
October 28, 2012
Bard College
Think outside the box to get in. Shoes and shirt required.
Speakers Series : Work in Progress - Montserrat Albores Gleason
October 29, 2012
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
In this talk Montserrat Albores will do a chronological revision of some projects that constitute her curatorial practice. The talk will take as a starting point her thesis exhibition at the CCS and unravel to resent projects, in order to present each project in relation to others.
Everyday Holidays : Biodiesel and Wine Makers Day
November 1, 2012
Bard College
Sunflower seeds, grape seeds, chicken fat, beef fat, tallow and fish oil + biodiesel. Let's figure this thing out already.
Cleopatra's Family Jewels at Family Business
November 1, 2012
Family Business Gallery - 520 West 21st Street, NYC
From November 2nd-24th, Family Business presents the exhibition “Cleopatra’s Family Jewels."
Everyday Holidays : The Day of Undecided
November 4, 2012
Bard College
Still on the Fence? Come talk it out.
Speakers Series : Hendrik Folkerts
November 5, 2012
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
Everyday Holidays : The Day of Dance
November 11, 2012
Bard College
A day of dance in conjunction with the Dance Department, Bard College.
Speakers Series : Andrea Kroksnes
November 12, 2012
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
Everyday Holidays : The Week of Freud
November 14, 2012 - November 18, 2012
Bard College
A week to explore your self-object relationships and update Freud.
Everyday Holidays : Week of Freud - Anal Day
November 14, 2012
Bard College
Clean freaks, perfectionists and Bataillians unite!
Everyday Holidays : Week of Freud - Oral Day
November 15, 2012
Bard College
Let's talk over cigarettes.
Everyday Holidays : Week of Freud - Phallic Day
November 16, 2012
Bard College
The pleasures of rethinking Oedipus and penis envy.
Everyday Holidays : Week of Freud - Genital Day
November 18, 2012
Bard College
Contemplating our relationship to the opposite sex.
Speakers Series : Roger Berkowitz - Globalization and the Human Condition
November 19, 2012
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
Speakers Series : Gregg Bordowitz - Testing Some Beliefs
November 26, 2012
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
CCS Bard and Live Arts Bard present : Hello Hi There by Annie Dorsen
November 27, 2012
The Richard B. Fisher Center, Bard College
Everyday Holidays : Retire and Hire Day
December 2, 2012
Bard College
The Business Cycle. Retirees meet rising professionals.
Speakers Series : Gideon Lester
December 3, 2012
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
Speakers Series : Lars Bang Larsen
December 4, 2012
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
Everyday Holidays : The Day of Silence
December 6, 2012
Bard College
No talking allowed. It's just about looking.
Everyday Holidays : Church and Silence Day
December 9, 2012
Bard College
Bibles and cells. I'll show you mine, if you show me yours.
Speakers Series : Julia Bryan-Wilson
December 10, 2012
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
Don't Be A Ham!! Christmas Party at Family Business
December 12, 2012
Family Business Gallery - 520 West 21st Street, NYC
Ari Marcopoulos invites you to bring and hang any xerox from December 12th till January 12th at Family Business, for a NYC one month living exhibition!
Speakers Series : Maria Lind
December 17, 2012
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
Anti-Establishment Performance : Brennan Gerard & Ryan Kelly
December 19, 2012
CCS Bard Galleries
Two clocks—one cycling forward, the other in reverse—mark military and personal time. When their times momentarily coincide, two performers begin a movement score based on the ticking of a clock, fading in and out of memory while falling in and out of sync.
2013
BURN BABY BURN FAHRENHEIT 451 at Family Business
January 17, 2013
Family Business Gallery - 520 West 21st Street, NYC
“DON’T BE A HAM!!” show gets burnt, Christmas Tree drunk and Family Business bombed!
Lustlands at Family Business
January 24, 2013
Family Business Gallery - 520 West 21st Street, NYC
Artists Lakis and Aris Ionas -The Callas, Family member / curator Nadja Argyropoulou and a group of artists and art works are the fearless voyagers of the dematerialization / rematerialization project LUSTLANDS (a family noir under the sun: the N.Y. rematerialization). On view from January 24th to February 16, 2013.
Speakers Series : Suhail Malik
January 29, 2013
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
Is Contemporary Art’s Paradigm of Escape Inescapable?
Poison Dartz at Family Business
February 2, 2013
Family Business Gallery - 520 West 21st Street, NYC
Poison Dartz concert at Family Business or a bottle of whiskey on a cold NY night. In conjunction with the "Lustlands" exhibition.
Speakers Series : Nadja Millner-Larsen
February 4, 2013
This talk is about the anarchist anti-art group Black Mask, their collaborations with multimedia artist Aldo Tambellini’s expanded cinema environments, and the development of their radically anti-representational practice.
Speakers Series : Rebecca Stephany
February 11, 2013
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
The Callas - Closing Event for Lustlands / Family Business Birthday Party
February 16, 2013
Family Business Gallery - 520 West 21st Street, NYC
A Family Business Birthday Party! THE CALLAS featuring The Callasettes live.
Speakers Series : Roger Buergel
February 18, 2013
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
Speakers Series: Paul O'Neill
February 20, 2013
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
Cold Castle at Family Business
February 21, 2013
Family Business Gallery - 520 West 21st Street, NYC
A 24 hour, 17-day, small-scale life installation performance experience at Family Business Gallery. On view February 21- March 9, 2013.
Speakers Series : Glen Fogel
February 25, 2013
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
Playtime: a performative pedagogical symposium at Family Business
March 8, 2013
Family Business Gallery - 520 West 21st Street, NYC & Eyebeam Art + Technology Center - 540 West 21st Street, NYC
Speakers Series : Kristin Lucas - Versions
March 11, 2013
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
Speakers Series : The Artist Talks
March 18, 2013
Speakers Series : Saskia Bos
April 1, 2013
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
Speakers Series : Bettina Funcke
April 8, 2013
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
Speakers Series : Stuart Comer
April 15, 2013
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
Speakers Series : Bruce Hainley in conversation with Tirdad Zolghadr
April 22, 2013
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
Speakers Series: Dieter Roelstraete
April 29, 2013
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
Soy Isla - at Artists Space
May 2, 2013
Speakers Series: Kelly Nipper
May 6, 2013
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
Speakers Series: João Ribas
May 13, 2013
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
ART & EXHIBITIONS
The CCS Bard Galleries and Hessel Museum of Art are open
Wednesday - Sunday, from 1 - 5pm
