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Hello, The following event may be of interest to you: CCS Bard Speakers Series : Gregg Bordowitz Monday, November 26, 2012 Testing Some BeliefsThis presentation will consider the continuing relevance of poetry to visual art. Using the artist's own current writing and video work, we will consider the possibilities (and difficulties) of making art about AIDS at this historical juncture.Gregg Bordowitz is an artist and writer. For the past three years, Bordowitz turned his attention to performance. Testing Some Beliefs is an improvisational lecture that he delivered at Iceberg Projects (Chicago), Murray Guy (New York), Temple Gallery (Philadelphia), and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (Texas). He wrote and directed Sex Mitigating Death: On Discourse and Drives: A Meditative Poem, presented March 18th, 2011, at the Tate Modern, London. He also directed and wrote an opera titled The History of Sexuality Volume One By Michel Foucault: An Opera, which premiered October 1 and 2, 2010 at Tanzquartier Wien, Austria. His most recent book, “General Idea: Imagevirus,” was published by Afterall Books in 2010. A collection of his writings — titled “The AIDS Crisis Is Ridiculous and Other Writings 1986-2003” — was published by MIT Press in the fall of 2004. For this book, Bordowitz received the 2006 Frank Jewitt Mather Award from the College Art Association. In addition, he has received a Rockefeller Intercultural Arts Fellowship and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, among other grants and awards. His films, including “Fast Trip Long Drop” (1993), “A Cloud In Trousers” (1995), “The Suicide” (1996), and “Habit” (2001) have been widely shown in festivals, museums, movie theaters, and broadcast internationally. Professor Bordowitz teaches in the Film, Video, New Media, and Animation Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and he is on the faculty of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.About The Speakers Series: 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. Lectures are open to students and faculty, as well as to the general public, and will also be documented through video and/or audio recordings, which will reside in the CCS Bard Library and Archives. Location: CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1 Sponsor: Center for Curatorial Studies Contact: CCS Bard. E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 845-758-7598 Website: https://www.bard.edu/ccs If you would like to see more events please visit the following URL: http://www.bard.edu/news/events/