Chamber Music Marathon: Part I and II Friday at 7 PM to 11 PM Saturday at Noon to 5 PM
Marathon includes works by Bach, Bátok, Beethoven, Brahms, Donizetti, Ewald, Ibert, Piazzolla, Rossini, Rota, Schubert, Sperger, Tartaglia, Tchaikovsky, and premieres of Bard student compositions.
Friday, December 1, 2023 – Saturday, December 2, 2023
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Thirty-five Student and Faculty Chamber Ensembles perform throughout Friday evening beginning at 7 pm, and on Saturday afternoon beginning at noon.
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room Join us for the winter BardMakers Art + Craft Fair, featuring artists and creators from the student body, faculty, staff, and the local community. Shop for unique handmade items and support campus makers!Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
For more information, call 845-416-2938, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Athletic Center The Men's and Women's Basketball host RIT for their first Liberty League game of the season. The Women play at 5:30 pm and Men play at 7:30 pm. Come out and cheer! Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 650-305-6073, or e-mail [email protected].
Chamber Music Marathon: Part I and II Friday at 7 PM to 11 PM Saturday at Noon to 5 PM
Marathon includes works by Bach, Bátok, Beethoven, Brahms, Donizetti, Ewald, Ibert, Piazzolla, Rossini, Rota, Schubert, Sperger, Tartaglia, Tchaikovsky, and premieres of Bard student compositions.
Friday, December 1, 2023 – Saturday, December 2, 2023
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Thirty-five Student and Faculty Chamber Ensembles perform throughout Friday evening beginning at 7 pm, and on Saturday afternoon beginning at noon.
Stevenson Athletic Center The Men's and Women's Basketball host Ithaca for a Liberty League game. The Women's team plays at 2 pm and Men's team plays at 4 pm. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 650-305-6073, or e-mail [email protected].
Chapel of the Holy Innocents Roman Catholic Mass at Bard Chapel Sundays at noon
Mass will be celebrated every Sunday during the academic semesters at noon in the Bard Chapel with prayers for healing.
Confessions will be available before Mass, and following Mass all are invited to Breaking Open the Word (a time to share what we heard God saying to our hearts in scripture).
For info contact: (fr.) Jim+ [email protected]Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Bard Chinese Ensemble performs a festive concert for the year’s end spotlighting diverse Chinese instruments. The program includes a guzheng trio, three concertos for pipa, guanzi, and guqin, plus large-scale Chinese orchestral masterworks performed by a mixed ensemble of Eastern and Western instruments.
Our Annual Interfaith Service of Hope and Light in the Time of Darkness
Sunday, December 3, 2023 5–6 pm
Chapel of the Holy Innocents The Chaplains invite the Bard community to the annual Festival of Lights as we gather in candlelight to celebrate hope and light in the midst of troubling times and darkness. This service will feature prayers, meditations, and music to inspire us in the days ahead.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Bard-CEU Dual MA in Global Studies & International Relations Webinar
Informational Session on the one-year MA between Bard and Central European University with representatives from both programs.
Tuesday, December 5, 2023 9–10 am
Join us for an informational presentation and Q&A about the dual MA program between Bard MA in Global Studies and the CEU International Relations department.
Registration in advance is required. Contact [email protected] for any questions. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Olin Humanities, Room 307 Professor Ungvary will be speaking about the ancient Christian Saint St. Anthony and the birth of hegiography as a literary genre.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
“Working the Program”: Employment and Poverty Governance in Criminal Justice Treatment for Women
Levy Institute Research Program of Gender Equality and the Economy: A Speaker Series Featuring Allison McKim, Associate Professor of Sociology, Bard College
Wednesday, December 6, 2023 5–6 pm
Blithewood
The Gender Equality and the Economy Program of the Levy Economics Institute hosts a speaker series with practitioners and scholars across disciplines from around the globe to address the ever-relevant topic of “Gender Equality and the Economy.” Speakers will present their research and discuss differing approaches to economic analyses through a gender lens. The series highlights the importance of taking an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the implications of how gender and economic inequalities intersect in history, policy, and the everyday.
Join us for our third session with Allison McKim, Associate Professor of Sociology, Bard College, on Wednesday, December 6, from 5pm to 6pm in the Blithewood Conference Room, or on Zoom. Professor McKim's presentation will be followed by an open Q&A session with audience members—both those in person and on Zoom are welcome to ask questions.
Light refreshments will be served. Register to attend via Zoom here.
Abstract: Addiction treatment is central to criminal justice reform and increasingly important to policies aimed at poverty, child welfare, and social marginalization. Women are a particular focus of such policies. A larger portion of criminalized women face drug charges compared to men, and women are more likely to be investigated by child protection authorities and receive means-tested welfare benefits. This talk draws on ethnographic research in treatment programs specifically designed for women to examine how the rehabs understand and regulate women’s relationship to work, including both paid employment and unpaid care work in the family. I leverage a comparison between one rehab in the criminal justice system and one in the healthcare system to examine how race, class, and institutional context shape the gendered logics underlying their approaches to work. My research revealed that the carceral rehab de-emphasized the importance of paid work, even though both it and criminal justice authorities had work requirements. Moreover, it also discouraged gendered care work like mothering. Instead, the penal rehab demanded that women “work” on their selves. This was not the case at the healthcare rehab, which remained more supportive of and beholden to women’s ties with employers and families. The carceral rehab’s focus on changing selves rested on the idea that women’s disordered selves are the cause of their poverty, crime, drug use, and victimization. This resembles many other facets of social and penal policy that assume poor and racially marginalized groups need behavior modification rather than employment, education, or economic support.
Allison McKim is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Bard College where she specializes in gender, punishment and social control, criminology, deviance, drug policy, the welfare state, and ethnographic research methods. Her new book, Addicted to Rehab: Race, Gender, and Drugs in the Era of Mass Incarceration (Rutgers University Press), is an ethnographic comparison of two drug treatment programs for women, one in the criminal justice system and one outside of the penal state in the health care system. In them she found very different ways of defining and treating addiction. Professor McKim's book reveals that addiction treatment reinforces the race, gender, and class politics of mass incarceration. Her work has also appeared in the journals Gender & Society and Signs. At Bard since 2010.
To receive updates on this speaker series, please fill out this form, or visit the Speaker Series page which will be updated as new events in the series are scheduled.Sponsored by: Levy Economics Institute.
For more information, call 845-758-7714, or e-mail [email protected].
Men's and Women's Basketball vs. Union (White Out)
Wednesday, December 6, 2023 5:30 pm
Stevenson Athletic Center The Men's and Women's Basketball host Union for a Liberty League game. The Women's team plays at 5:30 pm and the Men's team plays at 7:30 pm. Come out and cheer! It is a white-out theme! Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 650-305-6073, or e-mail [email protected].
Stephen Whimple TŌN ’25, trombone, and Pei-Hsuan Shen, piano
Wednesday, December 6, 2023 7:30–9 pm
Olin Hall TŌN trombonist Stephen Whimple performs a recital with pianist Pei-Hsuan Shen.
Anthony Barfield: Soliloquy Clara Schumann: Sechs Lieder, Op. 13 David Faleris: A Liminal Space Johannes Brahms: Clarinet Sonata No. 2 in E-flat major, Op. 120, No. 2 For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023
Thursday, December 7, 2023 11 am – 5 pm
CCS Galleries Exhibition on view: December 7–17, 2023, CCS Bard Galleries Opening Reception: Thursday, December 7, 2023, 5:00–7:00
From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023 comprises three exhibitions curated in groups by the MA candidates of the Class of 2025. Works drawn from the Marieluise Hessel Collection make up each of these shows, which unfold side by side in the inner CCS Bard Galleries, converted this year into one unifying space.
The first show, titled [ ], brings together artworks that explore artistic responses to the notion of containment: the various limits that shape material and emotional states. Next, Kin to these tremors focuses on the precariousness of human life, asking how agency, resistance, and dignity might look when bodies undergo strain or sickness, decay or even death. Exploring the various methods of representation that artists employ to navigate ongoing histories of marginalization, Hold the Applause investigates the artistic strategy of staging—and considers its capacity to resist societal narratives built around power and visibility.
Featured artists include Vito Acconci, Diedrick Brackens, Martin Creed, Lucky DeBellevue, Donna Dennis, VALIE EXPORT, Samuel Fosso, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Vlatka Horvat, Maria Lassnig, Deana Lawson, An-My Lê, Rodney McMillian, Bruce Nauman, Sondra Perry, Adam Putnam, Robert Ryman, Lise Sarfati, Kiki Smith, Jo Spence, Salman Toor, Rosemarie Trockel, and Kara Walker.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023 – Opening Reception
Thursday, December 7, 2023 5–7 pm
CCS Galleries Exhibition on view: December 7–17, 2023, CCS Bard Galleries Opening Reception: Thursday, December 7, 2023, 5:00–7:00
From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023 comprises three exhibitions curated in groups by the MA candidates of the Class of 2025. Works drawn from the Marieluise Hessel Collection make up each of these shows, which unfold side by side in the inner CCS Bard Galleries, converted this year into one unifying space.
The first show, titled [ ], brings together artworks that explore artistic responses to the notion of containment: the various limits that shape material and emotional states. Next, Kin to these tremorsfocuses on the precariousness of human life, asking how agency, resistance, and dignity might look when bodies undergo strain or sickness, decay or even death. Exploring the various methods of representation that artists employ to navigate ongoing histories of marginalization, Hold the Applauseinvestigates the artistic strategy of staging—and considers its capacity to resist societal narratives built around power and visibility.
Featured artists include Vito Acconci, Diedrick Brackens, Martin Creed, Lucky DeBellevue, Donna Dennis, VALIE EXPORT, Samuel Fosso, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Vlatka Horvat, Maria Lassnig, Deana Lawson, An-My Lê, Rodney McMillian, Bruce Nauman, Sondra Perry, Adam Putnam, Robert Ryman, Lise Sarfati, Kiki Smith, Jo Spence, Salman Toor, Rosemarie Trockel, and Kara Walker. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Follow the Lieder: World Premieres of Ten New Songs
Songs by Bard Student Composers Performed by Graduate Vocal Arts Program Singers and Collaborative Piano Fellows
Thursday, December 7, 2023 7:30–9 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Ten new songs will receive their world premieres, performed by singers in the Graduate Vocal Arts Program and undergraduate vocal students in the college. As part of Follow the Lieder, a weekly seminar by faculty composer Missy Mazzoli, the Bard student composers worked with the singers to create songs specifically for their voices over the course of the semester. These new songs include settings of whaling ship logs, texts by Michelangelo and Virginia Woolf, poems by T.S. Eliot, and much more. Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music; Music Program.
From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023
Friday, December 8, 2023 11 am – 5 pm
CCS Galleries Exhibition on view: December 7–17, 2023, CCS Bard Galleries Opening Reception: Thursday, December 7, 2023, 5:00–7:00
From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023 comprises three exhibitions curated in groups by the MA candidates of the Class of 2025. Works drawn from the Marieluise Hessel Collection make up each of these shows, which unfold side by side in the inner CCS Bard Galleries, converted this year into one unifying space.
The first show, titled [ ], brings together artworks that explore artistic responses to the notion of containment: the various limits that shape material and emotional states. Next, Kin to these tremors focuses on the precariousness of human life, asking how agency, resistance, and dignity might look when bodies undergo strain or sickness, decay or even death. Exploring the various methods of representation that artists employ to navigate ongoing histories of marginalization, Hold the Applause investigates the artistic strategy of staging—and considers its capacity to resist societal narratives built around power and visibility.
Featured artists include Vito Acconci, Diedrick Brackens, Martin Creed, Lucky DeBellevue, Donna Dennis, VALIE EXPORT, Samuel Fosso, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Vlatka Horvat, Maria Lassnig, Deana Lawson, An-My Lê, Rodney McMillian, Bruce Nauman, Sondra Perry, Adam Putnam, Robert Ryman, Lise Sarfati, Kiki Smith, Jo Spence, Salman Toor, Rosemarie Trockel, and Kara Walker.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023
Saturday, December 9, 2023 11 am – 5 pm
CCS Galleries Exhibition on view: December 7–17, 2023, CCS Bard Galleries Opening Reception: Thursday, December 7, 2023, 5:00–7:00
From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023 comprises three exhibitions curated in groups by the MA candidates of the Class of 2025. Works drawn from the Marieluise Hessel Collection make up each of these shows, which unfold side by side in the inner CCS Bard Galleries, converted this year into one unifying space.
The first show, titled [ ], brings together artworks that explore artistic responses to the notion of containment: the various limits that shape material and emotional states. Next, Kin to these tremors focuses on the precariousness of human life, asking how agency, resistance, and dignity might look when bodies undergo strain or sickness, decay or even death. Exploring the various methods of representation that artists employ to navigate ongoing histories of marginalization, Hold the Applause investigates the artistic strategy of staging—and considers its capacity to resist societal narratives built around power and visibility.
Featured artists include Vito Acconci, Diedrick Brackens, Martin Creed, Lucky DeBellevue, Donna Dennis, VALIE EXPORT, Samuel Fosso, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Vlatka Horvat, Maria Lassnig, Deana Lawson, An-My Lê, Rodney McMillian, Bruce Nauman, Sondra Perry, Adam Putnam, Robert Ryman, Lise Sarfati, Kiki Smith, Jo Spence, Salman Toor, Rosemarie Trockel, and Kara Walker.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Athletic Center The Women's Basketball host Pratt Institute for a non-conference game at the Stevenson Athletic Center. Come out and cheer! Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 650-305-6073, or e-mail [email protected].
Men's Basketball vs. Russell Sage (Faculty & Staff Appreciation Day)
Saturday, December 9, 2023 4 pm
Stevenson Athletic Center The Men's Basketball hosts Russell Sage for a non-conference game at the Stevenson Athletic Center. The game will be celebrating Bard's Faculty and Staff Appreciation Day. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 650-305-6073, or e-mail [email protected].
Chapel of the Holy Innocents Roman Catholic Mass at Bard Chapel Sundays at noon
Mass will be celebrated every Sunday during the academic semesters at noon in the Bard Chapel with prayers for healing.
Confessions will be available before Mass, and following Mass all are invited to Breaking Open the Word (a time to share what we heard God saying to our hearts in scripture).
For info contact: (fr.) Jim+ [email protected]Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023
Sunday, December 10, 2023 11 am – 5 pm
CCS Galleries Exhibition on view: December 7–17, 2023, CCS Bard Galleries Opening Reception: Thursday, December 7, 2023, 5:00–7:00
From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023 comprises three exhibitions curated in groups by the MA candidates of the Class of 2025. Works drawn from the Marieluise Hessel Collection make up each of these shows, which unfold side by side in the inner CCS Bard Galleries, converted this year into one unifying space.
The first show, titled [ ], brings together artworks that explore artistic responses to the notion of containment: the various limits that shape material and emotional states. Next, Kin to these tremors focuses on the precariousness of human life, asking how agency, resistance, and dignity might look when bodies undergo strain or sickness, decay or even death. Exploring the various methods of representation that artists employ to navigate ongoing histories of marginalization, Hold the Applause investigates the artistic strategy of staging—and considers its capacity to resist societal narratives built around power and visibility.
Featured artists include Vito Acconci, Diedrick Brackens, Martin Creed, Lucky DeBellevue, Donna Dennis, VALIE EXPORT, Samuel Fosso, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Vlatka Horvat, Maria Lassnig, Deana Lawson, An-My Lê, Rodney McMillian, Bruce Nauman, Sondra Perry, Adam Putnam, Robert Ryman, Lise Sarfati, Kiki Smith, Jo Spence, Salman Toor, Rosemarie Trockel, and Kara Walker.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
CONVERSATION: On France, Niger, Uranium, and Nuclear Power
Filmmaker Idrissou Mora-Kpai and Historian Carina Ray in Conversation on France, Niger, Uranium, and Nuclear Power
Sunday, December 10, 2023 1 pm
ZOOM
Mora-Kpai’s extraordinary “Arlit: Deuxième Paris,” described as a “a case study in environmental racism set in a uranium mining town in the Sahara Desert of Niger” will serve as springboard for a timely discussion on the history of France-Niger relations, nuclear power, and everyday life in the former French colony. The coup d’état of 2023 invites reflection on the imbrications of past in present, touching on policy, economy, environment, public health, and politics from the perspective of lived experience in the mining town.
Carina E. Ray, A.M. and H.P. Bentley Chair in African History and Associate Professor of History, University of Michigan. Author, Crossing the Color Line: Race, Sex, and the Contested Politics of Colonialism in Ghana (Athens, OH, 2015); coeditor, Darfur and the Crisis of Governance in Sudan: A Critical Reader (Ithaca, 2019).
Idrissou Mora-Kpai, Guggenheim Fellow for Film & Video (2023), fellow at The Africa Institute, Sharjah, UAE. Assistant Professor, Department of Media Arts, Sciences and Studies, Ithaca College. Recent works include “America Street” (2020) and “Indochina – Traces of a Mother” (2011). See, https://idrimora.com/.
Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Center for Human Rights and the Arts; Dean of the College; French Studies Program; Historical Studies Program; Human Rights Program; Science, Technology, and Society Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
W15 Café (Waldstraße 15, 13 156 Berlin) A collaboration between Bard College Berlin and the National Sun Yat-Sen University under the aegis of the Open Society University Network, this one-day workshop brings together academics, activists, students, and a UN representative, to discuss the current state of cross-strait relations and the role of the discourse around human rights in it, from a variety of perspectives. The questions it will consider include the meaning of democracy and human rights in the region, the problem of “cultural security,” as well as the role of the UN in addressing global threats.
Workshop program: 9:15 - Welcome and introductions: Chiahao Hsu 9:30-11:00 - Brenda Vongova, United Nations: The Role of the UN in Addressing Global Threats (view a short preparatory reading for the talk here) Coffee/tea break 11:30-13:00 - Bin Xu, Emory University, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin: Authoritarianism, Sovereignty, and the Culture of Democracy in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan Lunch break 14:00-15:30 - Chiahao Hsu, National Sun Yat-Sen University: Human Rights with Chinese Characteristics 15:45-16:15 - Student presentations Coffee/tea break 16:30-18:00 - Martin Dimitrov, Tulane University: Universal Human Rights as a Threat to Chinese Cultural Security
18:00 - Concluding remarks: Ewa Atanassow
Participants: Bin Xu is Associate Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology at Emory University and currently a fellow at Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (2023-2024). His research interests are situated in the intersection between politics and culture, broadly defined, with a regional focus on East Asia, especially China, and with a global and comparative perspective. He is the author of The Politics of Compassion: The Sichuan Earthquake and Civic Engagement in China (Stanford University Press, 2017); Chairman Mao’s Children: Generation and the Politics of Memory in China (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021); and The Culture of Democracy: A Sociological Approach to Civil Society (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2022).
Brenda Vongova has been a United Nations international civil servant for over a decade. During this time, she has championed the UN values of peace, respect for human rights, and has been a vocal advocate for the universal ideals, principles and values enshrined in the UN Charter. Brenda Vongova currently serves in the Office of the United Nations Secretary-General, H.E. Mr. Antonio Guterres. Prior to this post, she served in the Office of the former United Nations Secretary-General, H.E. Mr. BAN Ki-moon. Her expertise in handling political briefing materials was honed during her previous service in the Office of the UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Mr. Jeffrey Feltman, who oversaw the UN’s diplomatic efforts to prevent and mitigate conflicts worldwide. Between 2008 and 2010, she served in the cabinets of several President of the United Nations General Assemblies.
Martin K. Dimitrov is Professor of Political Science at Tulane University. He is also an Associate at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard; Associate Editor for Asia of the journal Problems of Post-Communism; and Associate Editor for Social Science (China and Eurasia) of The Journal of Asian Studies. His books include Piracy and the State: The Politics of Intellectual Property Rights in China (Cambridge University Press, 2009); Why Communism Did Not Collapse: Understanding Authoritarian Regime Resilience in Asia and Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2013); The Politics of Socialist Consumption (Ciela Publishers, 2018); and Dictatorship and Information: Authoritarian Regime Resilience in Communist Europe and China (Oxford University Press, 2022).
Chiahao Hsu received his Ph.D. from National Sun Yat-Sen University (Poli. Sci.). He is currently serving as an Assistant Professor at Si-wan College, National Sun Yat-Sen University and the Deputy Director of Taiwan Education Center in the Philippines (under Ministry of Education, R.O.C.). His publications range widely from Tocqueville Studies (Political Theory), China Studies (Regional Studies), and Asia-Pacific Geopolitics (International Relations).
Ewa Atanassow is Professor of Politics at Bard College Berlin. Her teaching and research examine alternative conceptions of modernity, and the way key modern concepts—such as sovereignty, nationhood, democracy, globalization, post-coloniality—have been understood in different geo-political contexts. She is the author of Tocqueville's Dilemmas and Ours: Sovereignty, Nationalism, Globalization (Princeton University Press, 2022), and the co-editor of When the People Rule: Popular Sovereignty in Theory and Practice with Thomas Bartscherer and David Bateman (Cambridge University Press, 2023) among others.Sponsored by: Bard College Berlin; OSUN.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room Join us as students showcase their civic engagement projects and network with local community partners. You can also join in a community cookie decorating competition. Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
For more information, call 845-416-2938, or e-mail [email protected].
Mendelssohn's Magnificat & other works by siblings Fanny and Felix
Performed by:
Members of the Graduate Vocal Arts Program Bard Conservatory Instrumentalists Conservatory Piano Fellows Bard Chamber Singers and Symphonic Chorus
James Bagwell, conductor
Admission: Free
Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music; Bard Conservatory Graduate Conducting Program; Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program; Bard Conservatory Post-Graduate Piano Fellowship; Music Program.
From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023
Wednesday, December 13, 2023 11 am – 5 pm
CCS Galleries Exhibition on view: December 7–17, 2023, CCS Bard Galleries Opening Reception: Thursday, December 7, 2023, 5:00–7:00
From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023 comprises three exhibitions curated in groups by the MA candidates of the Class of 2025. Works drawn from the Marieluise Hessel Collection make up each of these shows, which unfold side by side in the inner CCS Bard Galleries, converted this year into one unifying space.
The first show, titled [ ], brings together artworks that explore artistic responses to the notion of containment: the various limits that shape material and emotional states. Next, Kin to these tremors focuses on the precariousness of human life, asking how agency, resistance, and dignity might look when bodies undergo strain or sickness, decay or even death. Exploring the various methods of representation that artists employ to navigate ongoing histories of marginalization, Hold the Applause investigates the artistic strategy of staging—and considers its capacity to resist societal narratives built around power and visibility.
Featured artists include Vito Acconci, Diedrick Brackens, Martin Creed, Lucky DeBellevue, Donna Dennis, VALIE EXPORT, Samuel Fosso, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Vlatka Horvat, Maria Lassnig, Deana Lawson, An-My Lê, Rodney McMillian, Bruce Nauman, Sondra Perry, Adam Putnam, Robert Ryman, Lise Sarfati, Kiki Smith, Jo Spence, Salman Toor, Rosemarie Trockel, and Kara Walker.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Olin Hall Program includes movements from the following:
Claude Debussy (1862-1918) Pour le Piano (1894-1901) Ivy Jiayun Chen, piano
Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915) Etudes, Opus 42 (1903) Juliette Benveniste, piano
Claude Debussy (1862-1918) Estampes (1903) Georgi Chikolov, piano
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) Sonatine (1903-1905) Juliette Benveniste, piano
Franz Schubert (1797-1828) Impromptus, D. 935, Op. 142 (1827) Tianxiang Ni, piano
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) Preludes and Fugues, Opus 35 (1832-1837) Francis Chung-Yang Huang, piano --intermission-- Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Piano Sonata No. 18 in E-flat Major, Opus 31, No. 3 Georgi Chikolov, piano
Piano Sonata No. 31 in A-flat Major, Opus 110 (1821) Tianxiang Ni, piano
Piano Trio No. 3 in C Minor, Opus 1, No. 3 Isabel Chin Garita, violin William Pilgrim, cello Francis Chung-Yang Huang, piano
_Free and open to the public._Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023
Thursday, December 14, 2023 11 am – 5 pm
CCS Galleries Exhibition on view: December 7–17, 2023, CCS Bard Galleries Opening Reception: Thursday, December 7, 2023, 5:00–7:00
From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023 comprises three exhibitions curated in groups by the MA candidates of the Class of 2025. Works drawn from the Marieluise Hessel Collection make up each of these shows, which unfold side by side in the inner CCS Bard Galleries, converted this year into one unifying space.
The first show, titled [ ], brings together artworks that explore artistic responses to the notion of containment: the various limits that shape material and emotional states. Next, Kin to these tremors focuses on the precariousness of human life, asking how agency, resistance, and dignity might look when bodies undergo strain or sickness, decay or even death. Exploring the various methods of representation that artists employ to navigate ongoing histories of marginalization, Hold the Applause investigates the artistic strategy of staging—and considers its capacity to resist societal narratives built around power and visibility.
Featured artists include Vito Acconci, Diedrick Brackens, Martin Creed, Lucky DeBellevue, Donna Dennis, VALIE EXPORT, Samuel Fosso, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Vlatka Horvat, Maria Lassnig, Deana Lawson, An-My Lê, Rodney McMillian, Bruce Nauman, Sondra Perry, Adam Putnam, Robert Ryman, Lise Sarfati, Kiki Smith, Jo Spence, Salman Toor, Rosemarie Trockel, and Kara Walker.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023
Friday, December 15, 2023 11 am – 5 pm
CCS Galleries Exhibition on view: December 7–17, 2023, CCS Bard Galleries Opening Reception: Thursday, December 7, 2023, 5:00–7:00
From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023 comprises three exhibitions curated in groups by the MA candidates of the Class of 2025. Works drawn from the Marieluise Hessel Collection make up each of these shows, which unfold side by side in the inner CCS Bard Galleries, converted this year into one unifying space.
The first show, titled [ ], brings together artworks that explore artistic responses to the notion of containment: the various limits that shape material and emotional states. Next, Kin to these tremors focuses on the precariousness of human life, asking how agency, resistance, and dignity might look when bodies undergo strain or sickness, decay or even death. Exploring the various methods of representation that artists employ to navigate ongoing histories of marginalization, Hold the Applause investigates the artistic strategy of staging—and considers its capacity to resist societal narratives built around power and visibility.
Featured artists include Vito Acconci, Diedrick Brackens, Martin Creed, Lucky DeBellevue, Donna Dennis, VALIE EXPORT, Samuel Fosso, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Vlatka Horvat, Maria Lassnig, Deana Lawson, An-My Lê, Rodney McMillian, Bruce Nauman, Sondra Perry, Adam Putnam, Robert Ryman, Lise Sarfati, Kiki Smith, Jo Spence, Salman Toor, Rosemarie Trockel, and Kara Walker.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room "Capoeira Angola is an Afro-Brazilian martial art and dance with a liberatory purpose and strong musical tradition at its core. In this introductory class to Capoeira Angola, we will go over the fundamentals of movement and music that define the art form. Alongside physical training, we will sing songs and play the musical instruments of Capoeira. In addition to being a dance and martial art, Capoeira Angola is also, and maybe most importantly, a "game." Come ready to play, in loose-fitting clothes that you feel comfortable moving in, and ready to enjoy yourself."
Taganyahu Swaby is a professor of Capoeira Angola and an eastern medicine practitioner. Tagan has practiced the artf orm for more than two decades. Originally from Jamaica, Tagan first began training Capoeira Angola in Bahia, Brazil, in 2000. He has trained extensively with masters including Mestre João Grande. Mestre Boca Do Rio, and Mestre Alberto “Chorão” Nunes. He received the title of Professor from his Master, Mestre Chorão, in 2018. Tagan founded the group Acupe Do Brooklyn (formerly Angoleiros Do Brooklyn) in 2010 and has created, directed, and participated in presentations for Brooklyn Museum, Bam Dance Africa, Odunde Festival in Philadelphia, and the Brooklyn African Street Festival. Originally trained as a visual artist, Tagan also explores and celebrates Capoeira Angola in his award-winning Portuguese-Language films Se Safando and Flavio, and Through Printmaking.Sponsored by: Dance Program.
Faculty Recital: Vitrine with Ryan MacEvoy McCullough, Piano
Recent works by Temkin, Messiaen, and Nicholas Vines
Friday, December 15, 2023 8–10 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space PROGRAM Dreamed Landscapes (2017-18) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Daniel Temkin (b. 1986) I. Starfield II. Glaciers crumbling, assembling III. Echoes of the Horizon
La Rousserolle Effarvatte, from Catalogue d’oiseaux (1956-58) . . . . . . . . . . . .Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) Midnight: Music of the Ponds, Frog Chorus, Bittern— 3am: Reed Warbler (grand solo), Solemnity of the Night, Frogs, Noises in the Swamp— 6am: Pink and Mauve Sunrise (over the lily pond), Blackbird/Red-backed Shrike, Redstart— 8am: Yellow Iris, Pheasant, Reed Bunting, Green Woodpecker, Starling, Great Tit, White Wagtail— Noon: Grasshopper Warbler— 5pm: Reed Warbler, Sedge Warbler, Foxglove, Great Reed Warbler, Coot, Waterlily, duet of Reed Warblers— 6pm: Yellow Iris, Grasshopper Warbler, Coot, Sky Lark, Frogs, Water Rail— 9pm: Red and Violet Sunset (over the iris pond), Bittern, Nightengale— Midnight: Solemnity of the Night, Nightengale, Bittern, Noises in the Swamp, Frogs— 3am: Reed Warbler (grand solo), Frog Chorus, Music of the Ponds, Bittern.
AntipodEntoMenagerie (2017-19) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Nicholas Vines (b. 1978) Vitrine 1 I. Neon Cuckoo II. Topless Cannibal Vitrine 2 III. Cherrynose IV. Gippsland Giant V. Mud Dauber Vitrine 3 VI. Milkweed VII. Macrotona VIII. Black Vine IX. Kimberley Longlegs Vitrine 4 X. Common Spittle XI. Boisduval’s Autumn Vitrine 5 XII. Harlequin
Free and open to the public.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023
Saturday, December 16, 2023 11 am – 5 pm
CCS Galleries Exhibition on view: December 7–17, 2023, CCS Bard Galleries Opening Reception: Thursday, December 7, 2023, 5:00–7:00
From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023 comprises three exhibitions curated in groups by the MA candidates of the Class of 2025. Works drawn from the Marieluise Hessel Collection make up each of these shows, which unfold side by side in the inner CCS Bard Galleries, converted this year into one unifying space.
The first show, titled [ ], brings together artworks that explore artistic responses to the notion of containment: the various limits that shape material and emotional states. Next, Kin to these tremors focuses on the precariousness of human life, asking how agency, resistance, and dignity might look when bodies undergo strain or sickness, decay or even death. Exploring the various methods of representation that artists employ to navigate ongoing histories of marginalization, Hold the Applause investigates the artistic strategy of staging—and considers its capacity to resist societal narratives built around power and visibility.
Featured artists include Vito Acconci, Diedrick Brackens, Martin Creed, Lucky DeBellevue, Donna Dennis, VALIE EXPORT, Samuel Fosso, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Vlatka Horvat, Maria Lassnig, Deana Lawson, An-My Lê, Rodney McMillian, Bruce Nauman, Sondra Perry, Adam Putnam, Robert Ryman, Lise Sarfati, Kiki Smith, Jo Spence, Salman Toor, Rosemarie Trockel, and Kara Walker.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Poulenc Party: Celebrating the Songs of Francis Poulenc
Saturday, December 16, 2023 2–4 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Voice, piano, and conducting students of the Music Program and Conservatory of Music will gather with conviviality to present a mélange of songs by Francis Poulenc.
Free and open to the public.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music; Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program; Music Program.
Chapel of the Holy Innocents Roman Catholic Mass at Bard Chapel Sundays at noon
Mass will be celebrated every Sunday during the academic semesters at noon in the Bard Chapel with prayers for healing.
Confessions will be available before Mass, and following Mass all are invited to Breaking Open the Word (a time to share what we heard God saying to our hearts in scripture).
For info contact: (fr.) Jim+ [email protected]Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023
Sunday, December 17, 2023 11 am – 5 pm
CCS Galleries Exhibition on view: December 7–17, 2023, CCS Bard Galleries Opening Reception: Thursday, December 7, 2023, 5:00–7:00
From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023 comprises three exhibitions curated in groups by the MA candidates of the Class of 2025. Works drawn from the Marieluise Hessel Collection make up each of these shows, which unfold side by side in the inner CCS Bard Galleries, converted this year into one unifying space.
The first show, titled [ ], brings together artworks that explore artistic responses to the notion of containment: the various limits that shape material and emotional states. Next, Kin to these tremors focuses on the precariousness of human life, asking how agency, resistance, and dignity might look when bodies undergo strain or sickness, decay or even death. Exploring the various methods of representation that artists employ to navigate ongoing histories of marginalization, Hold the Applause investigates the artistic strategy of staging—and considers its capacity to resist societal narratives built around power and visibility.
Featured artists include Vito Acconci, Diedrick Brackens, Martin Creed, Lucky DeBellevue, Donna Dennis, VALIE EXPORT, Samuel Fosso, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Vlatka Horvat, Maria Lassnig, Deana Lawson, An-My Lê, Rodney McMillian, Bruce Nauman, Sondra Perry, Adam Putnam, Robert Ryman, Lise Sarfati, Kiki Smith, Jo Spence, Salman Toor, Rosemarie Trockel, and Kara Walker.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Chamber Music Marathon: Part I and II Friday at 7 PM to 11 PM Saturday at Noon to 5 PM
Marathon includes works by Bach, Bátok, Beethoven, Brahms, Donizetti, Ewald, Ibert, Piazzolla, Rossini, Rota, Schubert, Sperger, Tartaglia, Tchaikovsky, and premieres of Bard student compositions.
Friday, December 1, 2023 – Saturday, December 2, 2023
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Thirty-five Student and Faculty Chamber Ensembles perform throughout Friday evening beginning at 7 pm, and on Saturday afternoon beginning at noon.
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room Join us for the winter BardMakers Art + Craft Fair, featuring artists and creators from the student body, faculty, staff, and the local community. Shop for unique handmade items and support campus makers!Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
For more information, call 845-416-2938, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Athletic Center The Men's and Women's Basketball host RIT for their first Liberty League game of the season. The Women play at 5:30 pm and Men play at 7:30 pm. Come out and cheer! Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 650-305-6073, or e-mail [email protected].
Chamber Music Marathon: Part I and II Friday at 7 PM to 11 PM Saturday at Noon to 5 PM
Marathon includes works by Bach, Bátok, Beethoven, Brahms, Donizetti, Ewald, Ibert, Piazzolla, Rossini, Rota, Schubert, Sperger, Tartaglia, Tchaikovsky, and premieres of Bard student compositions.
Friday, December 1, 2023 – Saturday, December 2, 2023
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Thirty-five Student and Faculty Chamber Ensembles perform throughout Friday evening beginning at 7 pm, and on Saturday afternoon beginning at noon.
Stevenson Athletic Center The Men's and Women's Basketball host Ithaca for a Liberty League game. The Women's team plays at 2 pm and Men's team plays at 4 pm. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 650-305-6073, or e-mail [email protected].
Chapel of the Holy Innocents Roman Catholic Mass at Bard Chapel Sundays at noon
Mass will be celebrated every Sunday during the academic semesters at noon in the Bard Chapel with prayers for healing.
Confessions will be available before Mass, and following Mass all are invited to Breaking Open the Word (a time to share what we heard God saying to our hearts in scripture).
For info contact: (fr.) Jim+ [email protected]Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Bard Chinese Ensemble performs a festive concert for the year’s end spotlighting diverse Chinese instruments. The program includes a guzheng trio, three concertos for pipa, guanzi, and guqin, plus large-scale Chinese orchestral masterworks performed by a mixed ensemble of Eastern and Western instruments.
Our Annual Interfaith Service of Hope and Light in the Time of Darkness
Sunday, December 3, 2023 5–6 pm
Chapel of the Holy Innocents The Chaplains invite the Bard community to the annual Festival of Lights as we gather in candlelight to celebrate hope and light in the midst of troubling times and darkness. This service will feature prayers, meditations, and music to inspire us in the days ahead.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Bard-CEU Dual MA in Global Studies & International Relations Webinar
Informational Session on the one-year MA between Bard and Central European University with representatives from both programs.
Tuesday, December 5, 2023 9–10 am
Join us for an informational presentation and Q&A about the dual MA program between Bard MA in Global Studies and the CEU International Relations department.
Registration in advance is required. Contact [email protected] for any questions. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Olin Humanities, Room 307 Professor Ungvary will be speaking about the ancient Christian Saint St. Anthony and the birth of hegiography as a literary genre.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
“Working the Program”: Employment and Poverty Governance in Criminal Justice Treatment for Women
Levy Institute Research Program of Gender Equality and the Economy: A Speaker Series Featuring Allison McKim, Associate Professor of Sociology, Bard College
Wednesday, December 6, 2023 5–6 pm
Blithewood
The Gender Equality and the Economy Program of the Levy Economics Institute hosts a speaker series with practitioners and scholars across disciplines from around the globe to address the ever-relevant topic of “Gender Equality and the Economy.” Speakers will present their research and discuss differing approaches to economic analyses through a gender lens. The series highlights the importance of taking an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the implications of how gender and economic inequalities intersect in history, policy, and the everyday.
Join us for our third session with Allison McKim, Associate Professor of Sociology, Bard College, on Wednesday, December 6, from 5pm to 6pm in the Blithewood Conference Room, or on Zoom. Professor McKim's presentation will be followed by an open Q&A session with audience members—both those in person and on Zoom are welcome to ask questions.
Light refreshments will be served. Register to attend via Zoom here.
Abstract: Addiction treatment is central to criminal justice reform and increasingly important to policies aimed at poverty, child welfare, and social marginalization. Women are a particular focus of such policies. A larger portion of criminalized women face drug charges compared to men, and women are more likely to be investigated by child protection authorities and receive means-tested welfare benefits. This talk draws on ethnographic research in treatment programs specifically designed for women to examine how the rehabs understand and regulate women’s relationship to work, including both paid employment and unpaid care work in the family. I leverage a comparison between one rehab in the criminal justice system and one in the healthcare system to examine how race, class, and institutional context shape the gendered logics underlying their approaches to work. My research revealed that the carceral rehab de-emphasized the importance of paid work, even though both it and criminal justice authorities had work requirements. Moreover, it also discouraged gendered care work like mothering. Instead, the penal rehab demanded that women “work” on their selves. This was not the case at the healthcare rehab, which remained more supportive of and beholden to women’s ties with employers and families. The carceral rehab’s focus on changing selves rested on the idea that women’s disordered selves are the cause of their poverty, crime, drug use, and victimization. This resembles many other facets of social and penal policy that assume poor and racially marginalized groups need behavior modification rather than employment, education, or economic support.
Allison McKim is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Bard College where she specializes in gender, punishment and social control, criminology, deviance, drug policy, the welfare state, and ethnographic research methods. Her new book, Addicted to Rehab: Race, Gender, and Drugs in the Era of Mass Incarceration (Rutgers University Press), is an ethnographic comparison of two drug treatment programs for women, one in the criminal justice system and one outside of the penal state in the health care system. In them she found very different ways of defining and treating addiction. Professor McKim's book reveals that addiction treatment reinforces the race, gender, and class politics of mass incarceration. Her work has also appeared in the journals Gender & Society and Signs. At Bard since 2010.
To receive updates on this speaker series, please fill out this form, or visit the Speaker Series page which will be updated as new events in the series are scheduled.Sponsored by: Levy Economics Institute.
For more information, call 845-758-7714, or e-mail [email protected].
Men's and Women's Basketball vs. Union (White Out)
Wednesday, December 6, 2023 5:30 pm
Stevenson Athletic Center The Men's and Women's Basketball host Union for a Liberty League game. The Women's team plays at 5:30 pm and the Men's team plays at 7:30 pm. Come out and cheer! It is a white-out theme! Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 650-305-6073, or e-mail [email protected].
Stephen Whimple TŌN ’25, trombone, and Pei-Hsuan Shen, piano
Wednesday, December 6, 2023 7:30–9 pm
Olin Hall TŌN trombonist Stephen Whimple performs a recital with pianist Pei-Hsuan Shen.
Anthony Barfield: Soliloquy Clara Schumann: Sechs Lieder, Op. 13 David Faleris: A Liminal Space Johannes Brahms: Clarinet Sonata No. 2 in E-flat major, Op. 120, No. 2 For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023
Thursday, December 7, 2023 11 am – 5 pm
CCS Galleries Exhibition on view: December 7–17, 2023, CCS Bard Galleries Opening Reception: Thursday, December 7, 2023, 5:00–7:00
From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023 comprises three exhibitions curated in groups by the MA candidates of the Class of 2025. Works drawn from the Marieluise Hessel Collection make up each of these shows, which unfold side by side in the inner CCS Bard Galleries, converted this year into one unifying space.
The first show, titled [ ], brings together artworks that explore artistic responses to the notion of containment: the various limits that shape material and emotional states. Next, Kin to these tremors focuses on the precariousness of human life, asking how agency, resistance, and dignity might look when bodies undergo strain or sickness, decay or even death. Exploring the various methods of representation that artists employ to navigate ongoing histories of marginalization, Hold the Applause investigates the artistic strategy of staging—and considers its capacity to resist societal narratives built around power and visibility.
Featured artists include Vito Acconci, Diedrick Brackens, Martin Creed, Lucky DeBellevue, Donna Dennis, VALIE EXPORT, Samuel Fosso, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Vlatka Horvat, Maria Lassnig, Deana Lawson, An-My Lê, Rodney McMillian, Bruce Nauman, Sondra Perry, Adam Putnam, Robert Ryman, Lise Sarfati, Kiki Smith, Jo Spence, Salman Toor, Rosemarie Trockel, and Kara Walker.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023 – Opening Reception
Thursday, December 7, 2023 5–7 pm
CCS Galleries Exhibition on view: December 7–17, 2023, CCS Bard Galleries Opening Reception: Thursday, December 7, 2023, 5:00–7:00
From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023 comprises three exhibitions curated in groups by the MA candidates of the Class of 2025. Works drawn from the Marieluise Hessel Collection make up each of these shows, which unfold side by side in the inner CCS Bard Galleries, converted this year into one unifying space.
The first show, titled [ ], brings together artworks that explore artistic responses to the notion of containment: the various limits that shape material and emotional states. Next, Kin to these tremorsfocuses on the precariousness of human life, asking how agency, resistance, and dignity might look when bodies undergo strain or sickness, decay or even death. Exploring the various methods of representation that artists employ to navigate ongoing histories of marginalization, Hold the Applauseinvestigates the artistic strategy of staging—and considers its capacity to resist societal narratives built around power and visibility.
Featured artists include Vito Acconci, Diedrick Brackens, Martin Creed, Lucky DeBellevue, Donna Dennis, VALIE EXPORT, Samuel Fosso, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Vlatka Horvat, Maria Lassnig, Deana Lawson, An-My Lê, Rodney McMillian, Bruce Nauman, Sondra Perry, Adam Putnam, Robert Ryman, Lise Sarfati, Kiki Smith, Jo Spence, Salman Toor, Rosemarie Trockel, and Kara Walker. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Follow the Lieder: World Premieres of Ten New Songs
Songs by Bard Student Composers Performed by Graduate Vocal Arts Program Singers and Collaborative Piano Fellows
Thursday, December 7, 2023 7:30–9 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Ten new songs will receive their world premieres, performed by singers in the Graduate Vocal Arts Program and undergraduate vocal students in the college. As part of Follow the Lieder, a weekly seminar by faculty composer Missy Mazzoli, the Bard student composers worked with the singers to create songs specifically for their voices over the course of the semester. These new songs include settings of whaling ship logs, texts by Michelangelo and Virginia Woolf, poems by T.S. Eliot, and much more. Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music; Music Program.
From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023
Friday, December 8, 2023 11 am – 5 pm
CCS Galleries Exhibition on view: December 7–17, 2023, CCS Bard Galleries Opening Reception: Thursday, December 7, 2023, 5:00–7:00
From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023 comprises three exhibitions curated in groups by the MA candidates of the Class of 2025. Works drawn from the Marieluise Hessel Collection make up each of these shows, which unfold side by side in the inner CCS Bard Galleries, converted this year into one unifying space.
The first show, titled [ ], brings together artworks that explore artistic responses to the notion of containment: the various limits that shape material and emotional states. Next, Kin to these tremors focuses on the precariousness of human life, asking how agency, resistance, and dignity might look when bodies undergo strain or sickness, decay or even death. Exploring the various methods of representation that artists employ to navigate ongoing histories of marginalization, Hold the Applause investigates the artistic strategy of staging—and considers its capacity to resist societal narratives built around power and visibility.
Featured artists include Vito Acconci, Diedrick Brackens, Martin Creed, Lucky DeBellevue, Donna Dennis, VALIE EXPORT, Samuel Fosso, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Vlatka Horvat, Maria Lassnig, Deana Lawson, An-My Lê, Rodney McMillian, Bruce Nauman, Sondra Perry, Adam Putnam, Robert Ryman, Lise Sarfati, Kiki Smith, Jo Spence, Salman Toor, Rosemarie Trockel, and Kara Walker.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023
Saturday, December 9, 2023 11 am – 5 pm
CCS Galleries Exhibition on view: December 7–17, 2023, CCS Bard Galleries Opening Reception: Thursday, December 7, 2023, 5:00–7:00
From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023 comprises three exhibitions curated in groups by the MA candidates of the Class of 2025. Works drawn from the Marieluise Hessel Collection make up each of these shows, which unfold side by side in the inner CCS Bard Galleries, converted this year into one unifying space.
The first show, titled [ ], brings together artworks that explore artistic responses to the notion of containment: the various limits that shape material and emotional states. Next, Kin to these tremors focuses on the precariousness of human life, asking how agency, resistance, and dignity might look when bodies undergo strain or sickness, decay or even death. Exploring the various methods of representation that artists employ to navigate ongoing histories of marginalization, Hold the Applause investigates the artistic strategy of staging—and considers its capacity to resist societal narratives built around power and visibility.
Featured artists include Vito Acconci, Diedrick Brackens, Martin Creed, Lucky DeBellevue, Donna Dennis, VALIE EXPORT, Samuel Fosso, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Vlatka Horvat, Maria Lassnig, Deana Lawson, An-My Lê, Rodney McMillian, Bruce Nauman, Sondra Perry, Adam Putnam, Robert Ryman, Lise Sarfati, Kiki Smith, Jo Spence, Salman Toor, Rosemarie Trockel, and Kara Walker.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Athletic Center The Women's Basketball host Pratt Institute for a non-conference game at the Stevenson Athletic Center. Come out and cheer! Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 650-305-6073, or e-mail [email protected].
Men's Basketball vs. Russell Sage (Faculty & Staff Appreciation Day)
Saturday, December 9, 2023 4 pm
Stevenson Athletic Center The Men's Basketball hosts Russell Sage for a non-conference game at the Stevenson Athletic Center. The game will be celebrating Bard's Faculty and Staff Appreciation Day. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 650-305-6073, or e-mail [email protected].
Chapel of the Holy Innocents Roman Catholic Mass at Bard Chapel Sundays at noon
Mass will be celebrated every Sunday during the academic semesters at noon in the Bard Chapel with prayers for healing.
Confessions will be available before Mass, and following Mass all are invited to Breaking Open the Word (a time to share what we heard God saying to our hearts in scripture).
For info contact: (fr.) Jim+ [email protected]Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023
Sunday, December 10, 2023 11 am – 5 pm
CCS Galleries Exhibition on view: December 7–17, 2023, CCS Bard Galleries Opening Reception: Thursday, December 7, 2023, 5:00–7:00
From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023 comprises three exhibitions curated in groups by the MA candidates of the Class of 2025. Works drawn from the Marieluise Hessel Collection make up each of these shows, which unfold side by side in the inner CCS Bard Galleries, converted this year into one unifying space.
The first show, titled [ ], brings together artworks that explore artistic responses to the notion of containment: the various limits that shape material and emotional states. Next, Kin to these tremors focuses on the precariousness of human life, asking how agency, resistance, and dignity might look when bodies undergo strain or sickness, decay or even death. Exploring the various methods of representation that artists employ to navigate ongoing histories of marginalization, Hold the Applause investigates the artistic strategy of staging—and considers its capacity to resist societal narratives built around power and visibility.
Featured artists include Vito Acconci, Diedrick Brackens, Martin Creed, Lucky DeBellevue, Donna Dennis, VALIE EXPORT, Samuel Fosso, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Vlatka Horvat, Maria Lassnig, Deana Lawson, An-My Lê, Rodney McMillian, Bruce Nauman, Sondra Perry, Adam Putnam, Robert Ryman, Lise Sarfati, Kiki Smith, Jo Spence, Salman Toor, Rosemarie Trockel, and Kara Walker.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
CONVERSATION: On France, Niger, Uranium, and Nuclear Power
Filmmaker Idrissou Mora-Kpai and Historian Carina Ray in Conversation on France, Niger, Uranium, and Nuclear Power
Sunday, December 10, 2023 1 pm
ZOOM
Mora-Kpai’s extraordinary “Arlit: Deuxième Paris,” described as a “a case study in environmental racism set in a uranium mining town in the Sahara Desert of Niger” will serve as springboard for a timely discussion on the history of France-Niger relations, nuclear power, and everyday life in the former French colony. The coup d’état of 2023 invites reflection on the imbrications of past in present, touching on policy, economy, environment, public health, and politics from the perspective of lived experience in the mining town.
Carina E. Ray, A.M. and H.P. Bentley Chair in African History and Associate Professor of History, University of Michigan. Author, Crossing the Color Line: Race, Sex, and the Contested Politics of Colonialism in Ghana (Athens, OH, 2015); coeditor, Darfur and the Crisis of Governance in Sudan: A Critical Reader (Ithaca, 2019).
Idrissou Mora-Kpai, Guggenheim Fellow for Film & Video (2023), fellow at The Africa Institute, Sharjah, UAE. Assistant Professor, Department of Media Arts, Sciences and Studies, Ithaca College. Recent works include “America Street” (2020) and “Indochina – Traces of a Mother” (2011). See, https://idrimora.com/.
Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Center for Human Rights and the Arts; Dean of the College; French Studies Program; Historical Studies Program; Human Rights Program; Science, Technology, and Society Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
W15 Café (Waldstraße 15, 13 156 Berlin) A collaboration between Bard College Berlin and the National Sun Yat-Sen University under the aegis of the Open Society University Network, this one-day workshop brings together academics, activists, students, and a UN representative, to discuss the current state of cross-strait relations and the role of the discourse around human rights in it, from a variety of perspectives. The questions it will consider include the meaning of democracy and human rights in the region, the problem of “cultural security,” as well as the role of the UN in addressing global threats.
Workshop program: 9:15 - Welcome and introductions: Chiahao Hsu 9:30-11:00 - Brenda Vongova, United Nations: The Role of the UN in Addressing Global Threats (view a short preparatory reading for the talk here) Coffee/tea break 11:30-13:00 - Bin Xu, Emory University, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin: Authoritarianism, Sovereignty, and the Culture of Democracy in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan Lunch break 14:00-15:30 - Chiahao Hsu, National Sun Yat-Sen University: Human Rights with Chinese Characteristics 15:45-16:15 - Student presentations Coffee/tea break 16:30-18:00 - Martin Dimitrov, Tulane University: Universal Human Rights as a Threat to Chinese Cultural Security
18:00 - Concluding remarks: Ewa Atanassow
Participants: Bin Xu is Associate Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology at Emory University and currently a fellow at Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (2023-2024). His research interests are situated in the intersection between politics and culture, broadly defined, with a regional focus on East Asia, especially China, and with a global and comparative perspective. He is the author of The Politics of Compassion: The Sichuan Earthquake and Civic Engagement in China (Stanford University Press, 2017); Chairman Mao’s Children: Generation and the Politics of Memory in China (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021); and The Culture of Democracy: A Sociological Approach to Civil Society (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2022).
Brenda Vongova has been a United Nations international civil servant for over a decade. During this time, she has championed the UN values of peace, respect for human rights, and has been a vocal advocate for the universal ideals, principles and values enshrined in the UN Charter. Brenda Vongova currently serves in the Office of the United Nations Secretary-General, H.E. Mr. Antonio Guterres. Prior to this post, she served in the Office of the former United Nations Secretary-General, H.E. Mr. BAN Ki-moon. Her expertise in handling political briefing materials was honed during her previous service in the Office of the UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Mr. Jeffrey Feltman, who oversaw the UN’s diplomatic efforts to prevent and mitigate conflicts worldwide. Between 2008 and 2010, she served in the cabinets of several President of the United Nations General Assemblies.
Martin K. Dimitrov is Professor of Political Science at Tulane University. He is also an Associate at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard; Associate Editor for Asia of the journal Problems of Post-Communism; and Associate Editor for Social Science (China and Eurasia) of The Journal of Asian Studies. His books include Piracy and the State: The Politics of Intellectual Property Rights in China (Cambridge University Press, 2009); Why Communism Did Not Collapse: Understanding Authoritarian Regime Resilience in Asia and Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2013); The Politics of Socialist Consumption (Ciela Publishers, 2018); and Dictatorship and Information: Authoritarian Regime Resilience in Communist Europe and China (Oxford University Press, 2022).
Chiahao Hsu received his Ph.D. from National Sun Yat-Sen University (Poli. Sci.). He is currently serving as an Assistant Professor at Si-wan College, National Sun Yat-Sen University and the Deputy Director of Taiwan Education Center in the Philippines (under Ministry of Education, R.O.C.). His publications range widely from Tocqueville Studies (Political Theory), China Studies (Regional Studies), and Asia-Pacific Geopolitics (International Relations).
Ewa Atanassow is Professor of Politics at Bard College Berlin. Her teaching and research examine alternative conceptions of modernity, and the way key modern concepts—such as sovereignty, nationhood, democracy, globalization, post-coloniality—have been understood in different geo-political contexts. She is the author of Tocqueville's Dilemmas and Ours: Sovereignty, Nationalism, Globalization (Princeton University Press, 2022), and the co-editor of When the People Rule: Popular Sovereignty in Theory and Practice with Thomas Bartscherer and David Bateman (Cambridge University Press, 2023) among others.Sponsored by: Bard College Berlin; OSUN.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room Join us as students showcase their civic engagement projects and network with local community partners. You can also join in a community cookie decorating competition. Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
For more information, call 845-416-2938, or e-mail [email protected].
Mendelssohn's Magnificat & other works by siblings Fanny and Felix
Performed by:
Members of the Graduate Vocal Arts Program Bard Conservatory Instrumentalists Conservatory Piano Fellows Bard Chamber Singers and Symphonic Chorus
James Bagwell, conductor
Admission: Free
Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music; Bard Conservatory Graduate Conducting Program; Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program; Bard Conservatory Post-Graduate Piano Fellowship; Music Program.
From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023
Wednesday, December 13, 2023 11 am – 5 pm
CCS Galleries Exhibition on view: December 7–17, 2023, CCS Bard Galleries Opening Reception: Thursday, December 7, 2023, 5:00–7:00
From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023 comprises three exhibitions curated in groups by the MA candidates of the Class of 2025. Works drawn from the Marieluise Hessel Collection make up each of these shows, which unfold side by side in the inner CCS Bard Galleries, converted this year into one unifying space.
The first show, titled [ ], brings together artworks that explore artistic responses to the notion of containment: the various limits that shape material and emotional states. Next, Kin to these tremors focuses on the precariousness of human life, asking how agency, resistance, and dignity might look when bodies undergo strain or sickness, decay or even death. Exploring the various methods of representation that artists employ to navigate ongoing histories of marginalization, Hold the Applause investigates the artistic strategy of staging—and considers its capacity to resist societal narratives built around power and visibility.
Featured artists include Vito Acconci, Diedrick Brackens, Martin Creed, Lucky DeBellevue, Donna Dennis, VALIE EXPORT, Samuel Fosso, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Vlatka Horvat, Maria Lassnig, Deana Lawson, An-My Lê, Rodney McMillian, Bruce Nauman, Sondra Perry, Adam Putnam, Robert Ryman, Lise Sarfati, Kiki Smith, Jo Spence, Salman Toor, Rosemarie Trockel, and Kara Walker.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Olin Hall Program includes movements from the following:
Claude Debussy (1862-1918) Pour le Piano (1894-1901) Ivy Jiayun Chen, piano
Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915) Etudes, Opus 42 (1903) Juliette Benveniste, piano
Claude Debussy (1862-1918) Estampes (1903) Georgi Chikolov, piano
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) Sonatine (1903-1905) Juliette Benveniste, piano
Franz Schubert (1797-1828) Impromptus, D. 935, Op. 142 (1827) Tianxiang Ni, piano
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) Preludes and Fugues, Opus 35 (1832-1837) Francis Chung-Yang Huang, piano --intermission-- Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Piano Sonata No. 18 in E-flat Major, Opus 31, No. 3 Georgi Chikolov, piano
Piano Sonata No. 31 in A-flat Major, Opus 110 (1821) Tianxiang Ni, piano
Piano Trio No. 3 in C Minor, Opus 1, No. 3 Isabel Chin Garita, violin William Pilgrim, cello Francis Chung-Yang Huang, piano
_Free and open to the public._Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023
Thursday, December 14, 2023 11 am – 5 pm
CCS Galleries Exhibition on view: December 7–17, 2023, CCS Bard Galleries Opening Reception: Thursday, December 7, 2023, 5:00–7:00
From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023 comprises three exhibitions curated in groups by the MA candidates of the Class of 2025. Works drawn from the Marieluise Hessel Collection make up each of these shows, which unfold side by side in the inner CCS Bard Galleries, converted this year into one unifying space.
The first show, titled [ ], brings together artworks that explore artistic responses to the notion of containment: the various limits that shape material and emotional states. Next, Kin to these tremors focuses on the precariousness of human life, asking how agency, resistance, and dignity might look when bodies undergo strain or sickness, decay or even death. Exploring the various methods of representation that artists employ to navigate ongoing histories of marginalization, Hold the Applause investigates the artistic strategy of staging—and considers its capacity to resist societal narratives built around power and visibility.
Featured artists include Vito Acconci, Diedrick Brackens, Martin Creed, Lucky DeBellevue, Donna Dennis, VALIE EXPORT, Samuel Fosso, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Vlatka Horvat, Maria Lassnig, Deana Lawson, An-My Lê, Rodney McMillian, Bruce Nauman, Sondra Perry, Adam Putnam, Robert Ryman, Lise Sarfati, Kiki Smith, Jo Spence, Salman Toor, Rosemarie Trockel, and Kara Walker.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023
Friday, December 15, 2023 11 am – 5 pm
CCS Galleries Exhibition on view: December 7–17, 2023, CCS Bard Galleries Opening Reception: Thursday, December 7, 2023, 5:00–7:00
From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023 comprises three exhibitions curated in groups by the MA candidates of the Class of 2025. Works drawn from the Marieluise Hessel Collection make up each of these shows, which unfold side by side in the inner CCS Bard Galleries, converted this year into one unifying space.
The first show, titled [ ], brings together artworks that explore artistic responses to the notion of containment: the various limits that shape material and emotional states. Next, Kin to these tremors focuses on the precariousness of human life, asking how agency, resistance, and dignity might look when bodies undergo strain or sickness, decay or even death. Exploring the various methods of representation that artists employ to navigate ongoing histories of marginalization, Hold the Applause investigates the artistic strategy of staging—and considers its capacity to resist societal narratives built around power and visibility.
Featured artists include Vito Acconci, Diedrick Brackens, Martin Creed, Lucky DeBellevue, Donna Dennis, VALIE EXPORT, Samuel Fosso, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Vlatka Horvat, Maria Lassnig, Deana Lawson, An-My Lê, Rodney McMillian, Bruce Nauman, Sondra Perry, Adam Putnam, Robert Ryman, Lise Sarfati, Kiki Smith, Jo Spence, Salman Toor, Rosemarie Trockel, and Kara Walker.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room "Capoeira Angola is an Afro-Brazilian martial art and dance with a liberatory purpose and strong musical tradition at its core. In this introductory class to Capoeira Angola, we will go over the fundamentals of movement and music that define the art form. Alongside physical training, we will sing songs and play the musical instruments of Capoeira. In addition to being a dance and martial art, Capoeira Angola is also, and maybe most importantly, a "game." Come ready to play, in loose-fitting clothes that you feel comfortable moving in, and ready to enjoy yourself."
Taganyahu Swaby is a professor of Capoeira Angola and an eastern medicine practitioner. Tagan has practiced the artf orm for more than two decades. Originally from Jamaica, Tagan first began training Capoeira Angola in Bahia, Brazil, in 2000. He has trained extensively with masters including Mestre João Grande. Mestre Boca Do Rio, and Mestre Alberto “Chorão” Nunes. He received the title of Professor from his Master, Mestre Chorão, in 2018. Tagan founded the group Acupe Do Brooklyn (formerly Angoleiros Do Brooklyn) in 2010 and has created, directed, and participated in presentations for Brooklyn Museum, Bam Dance Africa, Odunde Festival in Philadelphia, and the Brooklyn African Street Festival. Originally trained as a visual artist, Tagan also explores and celebrates Capoeira Angola in his award-winning Portuguese-Language films Se Safando and Flavio, and Through Printmaking.Sponsored by: Dance Program.
Faculty Recital: Vitrine with Ryan MacEvoy McCullough, Piano
Recent works by Temkin, Messiaen, and Nicholas Vines
Friday, December 15, 2023 8–10 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space PROGRAM Dreamed Landscapes (2017-18) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Daniel Temkin (b. 1986) I. Starfield II. Glaciers crumbling, assembling III. Echoes of the Horizon
La Rousserolle Effarvatte, from Catalogue d’oiseaux (1956-58) . . . . . . . . . . . .Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) Midnight: Music of the Ponds, Frog Chorus, Bittern— 3am: Reed Warbler (grand solo), Solemnity of the Night, Frogs, Noises in the Swamp— 6am: Pink and Mauve Sunrise (over the lily pond), Blackbird/Red-backed Shrike, Redstart— 8am: Yellow Iris, Pheasant, Reed Bunting, Green Woodpecker, Starling, Great Tit, White Wagtail— Noon: Grasshopper Warbler— 5pm: Reed Warbler, Sedge Warbler, Foxglove, Great Reed Warbler, Coot, Waterlily, duet of Reed Warblers— 6pm: Yellow Iris, Grasshopper Warbler, Coot, Sky Lark, Frogs, Water Rail— 9pm: Red and Violet Sunset (over the iris pond), Bittern, Nightengale— Midnight: Solemnity of the Night, Nightengale, Bittern, Noises in the Swamp, Frogs— 3am: Reed Warbler (grand solo), Frog Chorus, Music of the Ponds, Bittern.
AntipodEntoMenagerie (2017-19) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Nicholas Vines (b. 1978) Vitrine 1 I. Neon Cuckoo II. Topless Cannibal Vitrine 2 III. Cherrynose IV. Gippsland Giant V. Mud Dauber Vitrine 3 VI. Milkweed VII. Macrotona VIII. Black Vine IX. Kimberley Longlegs Vitrine 4 X. Common Spittle XI. Boisduval’s Autumn Vitrine 5 XII. Harlequin
Free and open to the public.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023
Saturday, December 16, 2023 11 am – 5 pm
CCS Galleries Exhibition on view: December 7–17, 2023, CCS Bard Galleries Opening Reception: Thursday, December 7, 2023, 5:00–7:00
From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023 comprises three exhibitions curated in groups by the MA candidates of the Class of 2025. Works drawn from the Marieluise Hessel Collection make up each of these shows, which unfold side by side in the inner CCS Bard Galleries, converted this year into one unifying space.
The first show, titled [ ], brings together artworks that explore artistic responses to the notion of containment: the various limits that shape material and emotional states. Next, Kin to these tremors focuses on the precariousness of human life, asking how agency, resistance, and dignity might look when bodies undergo strain or sickness, decay or even death. Exploring the various methods of representation that artists employ to navigate ongoing histories of marginalization, Hold the Applause investigates the artistic strategy of staging—and considers its capacity to resist societal narratives built around power and visibility.
Featured artists include Vito Acconci, Diedrick Brackens, Martin Creed, Lucky DeBellevue, Donna Dennis, VALIE EXPORT, Samuel Fosso, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Vlatka Horvat, Maria Lassnig, Deana Lawson, An-My Lê, Rodney McMillian, Bruce Nauman, Sondra Perry, Adam Putnam, Robert Ryman, Lise Sarfati, Kiki Smith, Jo Spence, Salman Toor, Rosemarie Trockel, and Kara Walker.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Poulenc Party: Celebrating the Songs of Francis Poulenc
Saturday, December 16, 2023 2–4 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Voice, piano, and conducting students of the Music Program and Conservatory of Music will gather with conviviality to present a mélange of songs by Francis Poulenc.
Free and open to the public.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music; Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program; Music Program.
Chapel of the Holy Innocents Roman Catholic Mass at Bard Chapel Sundays at noon
Mass will be celebrated every Sunday during the academic semesters at noon in the Bard Chapel with prayers for healing.
Confessions will be available before Mass, and following Mass all are invited to Breaking Open the Word (a time to share what we heard God saying to our hearts in scripture).
For info contact: (fr.) Jim+ [email protected]Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023
Sunday, December 17, 2023 11 am – 5 pm
CCS Galleries Exhibition on view: December 7–17, 2023, CCS Bard Galleries Opening Reception: Thursday, December 7, 2023, 5:00–7:00
From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023 comprises three exhibitions curated in groups by the MA candidates of the Class of 2025. Works drawn from the Marieluise Hessel Collection make up each of these shows, which unfold side by side in the inner CCS Bard Galleries, converted this year into one unifying space.
The first show, titled [ ], brings together artworks that explore artistic responses to the notion of containment: the various limits that shape material and emotional states. Next, Kin to these tremors focuses on the precariousness of human life, asking how agency, resistance, and dignity might look when bodies undergo strain or sickness, decay or even death. Exploring the various methods of representation that artists employ to navigate ongoing histories of marginalization, Hold the Applause investigates the artistic strategy of staging—and considers its capacity to resist societal narratives built around power and visibility.
Featured artists include Vito Acconci, Diedrick Brackens, Martin Creed, Lucky DeBellevue, Donna Dennis, VALIE EXPORT, Samuel Fosso, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Vlatka Horvat, Maria Lassnig, Deana Lawson, An-My Lê, Rodney McMillian, Bruce Nauman, Sondra Perry, Adam Putnam, Robert Ryman, Lise Sarfati, Kiki Smith, Jo Spence, Salman Toor, Rosemarie Trockel, and Kara Walker.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
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