Inaugural Thesis Exhibition of the MA in Human Rights & the Arts
Runs through Sunday, May 7, 2023
Bard campus, Tivoli, and Barrytown The MA Program at the OSUN Center for Human Rights & the Arts is pleased to announce its inaugural MA thesis exhibition. Titled Tracing Apparitions, the event will take place April 24 through May 7 across the Bard College campus as well as off-campus in Tivoli and Barrytown. The exhibition will feature installations, live performances, and written works by the graduating cohort produced as their capstone projects. The artistic and academic theses will take a variety of forms, making interventions at both the analytic and methodological levels of analysis. All thesis projects are based on original research by the students.
A detailed schedule is forthcoming, including locations, viewing hours, and performance reservations. For now, we are pleased to present the names and works of the MA in Human Rights and the Arts Class of 2023:
Ali Al-Adawi, Purity Is A Matter of An Effective Sewage System: Human Rights and Contemporary Art from Institution to Infrastructure Nour Annan, The Golden Age Is Out of Joint: Photography, Catastrophe, and the Politics of Nostalgia in Lebanon Oscar Gardea, Phantasy: Tezcatlipoca and The Ruins of the Mind [Anti-Ethnography versus Surrogate Dissidences] Adam Haj Yahia, Carnal Politics: Sex, Desire, and Anti-Colonial Deviance in Mandate Palestine Isabella Indolfi, Leave the Community Alone: The Ethics of Curating Contemporary Art in Villages Iris Luo, Weaving the Threads: Labor Protection of Maya Weavers in Guatemala Carol Motealegre Pinzon, Howls in the Mountains Majd Alrafie, Tasakko’ ( تَسَــــكُّعْ ): The Politics of Street Art Culture in Amman Garrett Sager, Breaking the Seal Hattie Wilder Karlstrom, “We’re with the Church”: Religion and Humanitarian Aid along the U.S.–Mexico BorderSponsored by: Bard Graduate Programs; Human Rights Program; Human Rights Project; OSUN; OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts.
Bitó Conservatory Building All Conservatory undergraduate students perform a recital in their third year as partial fulfillment of their bachelor of music requirements. Repertoire details are announced at each recital.
Inaugural Thesis Exhibition of the MA in Human Rights & the Arts
Runs through Sunday, May 7, 2023
Bard campus, Tivoli, and Barrytown The MA Program at the OSUN Center for Human Rights & the Arts is pleased to announce its inaugural MA thesis exhibition. Titled Tracing Apparitions, the event will take place April 24 through May 7 across the Bard College campus as well as off-campus in Tivoli and Barrytown. The exhibition will feature installations, live performances, and written works by the graduating cohort produced as their capstone projects. The artistic and academic theses will take a variety of forms, making interventions at both the analytic and methodological levels of analysis. All thesis projects are based on original research by the students.
A detailed schedule is forthcoming, including locations, viewing hours, and performance reservations. For now, we are pleased to present the names and works of the MA in Human Rights and the Arts Class of 2023:
Ali Al-Adawi, Purity Is A Matter of An Effective Sewage System: Human Rights and Contemporary Art from Institution to Infrastructure Nour Annan, The Golden Age Is Out of Joint: Photography, Catastrophe, and the Politics of Nostalgia in Lebanon Oscar Gardea, Phantasy: Tezcatlipoca and The Ruins of the Mind [Anti-Ethnography versus Surrogate Dissidences] Adam Haj Yahia, Carnal Politics: Sex, Desire, and Anti-Colonial Deviance in Mandate Palestine Isabella Indolfi, Leave the Community Alone: The Ethics of Curating Contemporary Art in Villages Iris Luo, Weaving the Threads: Labor Protection of Maya Weavers in Guatemala Carol Motealegre Pinzon, Howls in the Mountains Majd Alrafie, Tasakko’ ( تَسَــــكُّعْ ): The Politics of Street Art Culture in Amman Garrett Sager, Breaking the Seal Hattie Wilder Karlstrom, “We’re with the Church”: Religion and Humanitarian Aid along the U.S.–Mexico BorderSponsored by: Bard Graduate Programs; Human Rights Program; Human Rights Project; OSUN; OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts.
Field Station Are you curious about what goes on at the Ecology Field Station down on Tivoli South Bay? Do you want to learn about the natural history of the Hudson Valley? Interested in finding new ways to engage with the local environment? Need an excuse to get out and explore a lesser visited part of campus?
Just wander down Bay Road (or take the trail along the Saw Kill) to the Field Station during our open house. Drop by to tour the facilities, view selected specimens from the collections, and learn about our programs.
CCS Bard, Classroom 102 Each semester CCS Bard hosts a program of lectures by leading artists, curators, art historians, and critics, situating the school and museum’s concerns within the larger context of contemporary art production and discourse. Speakers are selected primarily by second-year graduate students and also by faculty and staff. All lectures will take place in Classroom 102 at CCS Bard, are free and open to the public, and are documented through audio recordings that reside in the CCS Bard Library & Archives.
More information on that talk, along with the full schedule and bios can be found below as well as on the events page of our website.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Inaugural Thesis Exhibition of the MA in Human Rights & the Arts
Runs through Sunday, May 7, 2023
Bard campus, Tivoli, and Barrytown The MA Program at the OSUN Center for Human Rights & the Arts is pleased to announce its inaugural MA thesis exhibition. Titled Tracing Apparitions, the event will take place April 24 through May 7 across the Bard College campus as well as off-campus in Tivoli and Barrytown. The exhibition will feature installations, live performances, and written works by the graduating cohort produced as their capstone projects. The artistic and academic theses will take a variety of forms, making interventions at both the analytic and methodological levels of analysis. All thesis projects are based on original research by the students.
A detailed schedule is forthcoming, including locations, viewing hours, and performance reservations. For now, we are pleased to present the names and works of the MA in Human Rights and the Arts Class of 2023:
Ali Al-Adawi, Purity Is A Matter of An Effective Sewage System: Human Rights and Contemporary Art from Institution to Infrastructure Nour Annan, The Golden Age Is Out of Joint: Photography, Catastrophe, and the Politics of Nostalgia in Lebanon Oscar Gardea, Phantasy: Tezcatlipoca and The Ruins of the Mind [Anti-Ethnography versus Surrogate Dissidences] Adam Haj Yahia, Carnal Politics: Sex, Desire, and Anti-Colonial Deviance in Mandate Palestine Isabella Indolfi, Leave the Community Alone: The Ethics of Curating Contemporary Art in Villages Iris Luo, Weaving the Threads: Labor Protection of Maya Weavers in Guatemala Carol Motealegre Pinzon, Howls in the Mountains Majd Alrafie, Tasakko’ ( تَسَــــكُّعْ ): The Politics of Street Art Culture in Amman Garrett Sager, Breaking the Seal Hattie Wilder Karlstrom, “We’re with the Church”: Religion and Humanitarian Aid along the U.S.–Mexico BorderSponsored by: Bard Graduate Programs; Human Rights Program; Human Rights Project; OSUN; OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts.
Right to Mother Panel: Nahee Kim, TZUSOO, and Hwayong
Wednesday, May 3, 2023 10 am – 12 pm
CCS Bard, Classroom 102 and Online Panel will be in person in Classroom 102, CCS Bard, and on zoom (register on Eventbrite here for Zoom link).
Artists Nahee Kim and TZUSOO will be joined by Hwayong, a member of a Seoul-based feminist activist group Femidangdang, in a conversation with curator Jiwon Geum. The talk will be centered on the two artists’ practices as a prism to think through the theories of the nation-state, reproductive labor, and posthuman, opening up toward the relationship between care work and art-making, and the social dimensions of art and activism.
Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Right to Mother curated by CCS Bard graduate student Jiwon Geum.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Rising and Sinking Again presents sixteen graduate exhibitions realized by the Class of 2023 master’s candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Distinct in theme and focus, these projects are the culmination of a year and a half of research in collaboration with artists, writers, scholars, and more. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
How to Think Together: The Social Life of the Mind
Wednesday, May 3, 2023 4 pm
Join us at HAC to meet and hear from Visiting Scholar Jana Bacevic
Thinking is usually conceived as a solitary activity. Yet, as Hannah Arendt recognized, we are never truly alone when we think: this is not only because all thinking happens in language, which is already social, but also because thinking – like other forms of human activity – relies on institutionally and socially mediated spaces and forms of interaction with others. These spaces of interaction, however, have become both increasingly fragmented – through the proliferation of digital platforms and massification of higher education – and increasingly contentious, reflected in conflicts around ‘free speech’, ‘culture wars’, and other forms of political polarization. Is there a way to think together that does not reproduce existing political divisions, even when it aspires to transcend them?
In this talk, Visiting Scholar Jana Bacevic explores thinking together as a way to conceive of ‘the life of the mind’ that does not require a separation of interiority from the space of appearance. Building on Arendt’s recognition of the tension between solitude and acting together, the talk discusses the possibility of seeing irreducible and potentially irreconcilable political plurality as a precondition, rather than an outcome or corollary, of the life of the mind. The concluding part addresses the political and ethical implications of this mode of thinking, including for contemporary discussions around academic freedom and freedom of speech.
Jana Bacevic is Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology at Durham University, UK, and contributing editor of The Philosopher, UK's longest-running public philosophy journal. Jana's work is in social and political theory and the politics of knowledge production; she has published extensively on the relationship between knowledge and social and political dynamics. Her current work is on non-reciprocity, including in contexts such as 'free speech wars', academic freedom, and public health.
Jana has a PhD in sociology (Cambridge, 2019) and a PhD in social anthropology (University of Belgrade, 2008). In the intervening period she was lecturer at the Central European University, Marie Curie Fellow at Aarhus University, and postdoctoral fellow at the University of Cambridge; she also worked as consultant and advisor for a range of governments and international organizations in the field of education policy and minority rights. More about Jana's work is available at www.janabacevic.net. Jana's project at Bard, provisionally entitled 'How to think together: the social life of the mind', addresses the challenges of thinking and knowing in politically plural collectivities vs. in solitude. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Inaugural Thesis Exhibition of the MA in Human Rights & the Arts
Runs through Sunday, May 7, 2023
Bard campus, Tivoli, and Barrytown The MA Program at the OSUN Center for Human Rights & the Arts is pleased to announce its inaugural MA thesis exhibition. Titled Tracing Apparitions, the event will take place April 24 through May 7 across the Bard College campus as well as off-campus in Tivoli and Barrytown. The exhibition will feature installations, live performances, and written works by the graduating cohort produced as their capstone projects. The artistic and academic theses will take a variety of forms, making interventions at both the analytic and methodological levels of analysis. All thesis projects are based on original research by the students.
A detailed schedule is forthcoming, including locations, viewing hours, and performance reservations. For now, we are pleased to present the names and works of the MA in Human Rights and the Arts Class of 2023:
Ali Al-Adawi, Purity Is A Matter of An Effective Sewage System: Human Rights and Contemporary Art from Institution to Infrastructure Nour Annan, The Golden Age Is Out of Joint: Photography, Catastrophe, and the Politics of Nostalgia in Lebanon Oscar Gardea, Phantasy: Tezcatlipoca and The Ruins of the Mind [Anti-Ethnography versus Surrogate Dissidences] Adam Haj Yahia, Carnal Politics: Sex, Desire, and Anti-Colonial Deviance in Mandate Palestine Isabella Indolfi, Leave the Community Alone: The Ethics of Curating Contemporary Art in Villages Iris Luo, Weaving the Threads: Labor Protection of Maya Weavers in Guatemala Carol Motealegre Pinzon, Howls in the Mountains Majd Alrafie, Tasakko’ ( تَسَــــكُّعْ ): The Politics of Street Art Culture in Amman Garrett Sager, Breaking the Seal Hattie Wilder Karlstrom, “We’re with the Church”: Religion and Humanitarian Aid along the U.S.–Mexico BorderSponsored by: Bard Graduate Programs; Human Rights Program; Human Rights Project; OSUN; OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Rising and Sinking Again presents sixteen graduate exhibitions realized by the Class of 2023 master’s candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Distinct in theme and focus, these projects are the culmination of a year and a half of research in collaboration with artists, writers, scholars, and more. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Memory of Birds is an interactive sound installation in trees in collaboration with a trauma therapist and migrating birds. The work explores political violence that literally and figuratively gets buried in contested lands. A guided somatic experience, Memory of Birds is a work that eats itself, designed to be forgotten.
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium On Thursday, May 4 at 5:30 pm in the László Z. Bitó ’60 Auditorium, Reem-Kayden Center (RKC), writers Zain Khalid and Kevin Holden will read from their work. Introduced by Bard faculty member Benjamin Hale, and followed by a Q&A, the reading is free and open to the public.
Zain Khalid’s writing has appeared in the New Yorker, n+1, the Believer, Astra Magazine, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, and elsewhere. His debut novel, Brother Alive (Grove Atlantic, 2022), is a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize for best first book in any genre, and was named a best book of 2022 by Library Journal and other outlets. He is also the fiction editor at The Drift.
Kevin Holden is a poet, critic, and translator. He is the author of seven books and chapbooks of poetry, including Pink Noise (Nightboat Books, 2023), Solar (Fence Books, 2016), which won the Fence Modern Poets Prize, and Birch (Ahsahta Press, 2015), which won the Ahsahta Chapbook Award. His translations of poetry from French, German, and Russian have also been published, and he has recently completed a translation of Jean Daive’s L’Énonciateur Des Extrêmes, forthcoming from Black Square Editions. He has taught as a visiting fellow at Bard College and is currently the writer-in-residence of Kirkland House at Harvard and a junior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows.
Benjamin Hale is the author of the novel The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore (Twelve, 2011) and the collection The Fat Artist and Other Stories (Simon & Schuster, 2016). He has received the Bard Fiction Prize, a Michener-Copernicus Award, and nominations for the Dylan Thomas Prize and the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award. His writing has appeared, among other places, in Conjunctions, Harper's Magazine, the Paris Review, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and has been anthologized in Best American Science and Nature Writing. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Carnegie Hall, Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage Leon Botstein unearths more rarely-heard masterpieces in this concert examining Eastern European music through the rise and fall of Soviet communism, from Szymanowski’s 1918 Songs of the Infatuated Muezzin to Russian composer Boris Tishchenko’s Fifth Symphony, and György Kurtág’s early-21st-century …concertante….
Leon Botsteinconductor
Karol Szymanowski Songs of the Infatuated Muezzin György Kurtág …concertante… Boris Tishchenko Symphony No. 5 For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Veterans of Foreign Wars • Red Hook Post 7765 • 30 Elizabeth Street, Red Hook, NY
Sharing cakes at funeral wakes is a practice common amongst the Lakȟóta people; often, these cakes have an image of the deceased imprinted in the frosting. Kite, an Oglála Lakȟóta performance artist and composer, explores this tradition in a performance in which she decorates funerary cakes made from local indigenous ingredients while speaking with friends, relatives, and elders about traditions, kin, land, and species they have lost. As we face death in the world, Kite hopes to turn towards protocols for mourning to process the death of beings, human and non-human. Cake and coffee will be served.
Inaugural Thesis Exhibition of the MA in Human Rights & the Arts
Runs through Sunday, May 7, 2023
Bard campus, Tivoli, and Barrytown The MA Program at the OSUN Center for Human Rights & the Arts is pleased to announce its inaugural MA thesis exhibition. Titled Tracing Apparitions, the event will take place April 24 through May 7 across the Bard College campus as well as off-campus in Tivoli and Barrytown. The exhibition will feature installations, live performances, and written works by the graduating cohort produced as their capstone projects. The artistic and academic theses will take a variety of forms, making interventions at both the analytic and methodological levels of analysis. All thesis projects are based on original research by the students.
A detailed schedule is forthcoming, including locations, viewing hours, and performance reservations. For now, we are pleased to present the names and works of the MA in Human Rights and the Arts Class of 2023:
Ali Al-Adawi, Purity Is A Matter of An Effective Sewage System: Human Rights and Contemporary Art from Institution to Infrastructure Nour Annan, The Golden Age Is Out of Joint: Photography, Catastrophe, and the Politics of Nostalgia in Lebanon Oscar Gardea, Phantasy: Tezcatlipoca and The Ruins of the Mind [Anti-Ethnography versus Surrogate Dissidences] Adam Haj Yahia, Carnal Politics: Sex, Desire, and Anti-Colonial Deviance in Mandate Palestine Isabella Indolfi, Leave the Community Alone: The Ethics of Curating Contemporary Art in Villages Iris Luo, Weaving the Threads: Labor Protection of Maya Weavers in Guatemala Carol Motealegre Pinzon, Howls in the Mountains Majd Alrafie, Tasakko’ ( تَسَــــكُّعْ ): The Politics of Street Art Culture in Amman Garrett Sager, Breaking the Seal Hattie Wilder Karlstrom, “We’re with the Church”: Religion and Humanitarian Aid along the U.S.–Mexico BorderSponsored by: Bard Graduate Programs; Human Rights Program; Human Rights Project; OSUN; OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Rising and Sinking Again presents sixteen graduate exhibitions realized by the Class of 2023 master’s candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Distinct in theme and focus, these projects are the culmination of a year and a half of research in collaboration with artists, writers, scholars, and more. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Architect, activist, and farmer Tara Rodríguez Besosa is creating an installation and resource center to introduce the public to OtraCosa, an off-grid DIY queer homestead in the rural, mountainous community of San Salvador, Puerto Rico. For the past year, Tara has been mapping and cataloging the species and food systems of OtraCosa, creating a decolonized, living manuscript of the different human and non-human exchanges that provide nourishment, healing, and life. Tara, inspired by the Drake Manuscript, is creating their own decolonized version of a living manuscript, handmade by them on the farm. Throughout the festival, Tara will guide audiences through the installation and its manuscript, inviting us to explore the principles and practices of OtraCosa and those who steward its land.
Online Event This conversation will mark the launch of Reshaping the Field: Arts of the African Diasporas on Display, edited by Dr. Nana Adusei-Poku, and proceeding from a conference that took place at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, in fall 2022. For this special event, Dr. Adusei-Poku will moderate a conversation with Margaret Winslow, who will speak on her recent exhibition Afro-American Images 1971: The Vision of Percy Ricks (2021-2022) at the Delaware Art Museum, and Elise Armani, Amy Kahng, and Gabriella Shypula, who will present their exhibition Revisiting 5+1 currently on view at the Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery at Stony Brook University.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Windows, Murk, and Magic Spells in Daniil Kharms: A Translation Workshop
Matvei Yankelevich, Lecturer in Translation and Book Arts, Columbia University
Friday, May 5, 2023 1–3 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 202 Matvei Yankelevich is a poet, translator, and editor whose publications include Some Worlds for Dr. Vogt (Black Square), Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms (Overlook), and, most recently, the chapbook Dead Winter (Fonograf). He is the editor of World Poetry Books, a nonprofit publisher of poetry in translation, and teaches translation and book arts at Columbia University's School of the Arts.
Yankelevich will illustrate translation strategies as they apply to the work of Daniil Kharms, iconoclastic writer of the early Soviet avant garde; participants of the workshop will join forces in the translation of a few short works by Kharms.
Proficiency in Russian is not required. We particularly encourage creative writers of all sorts to join their Russian-proficient peers in this rare opportunity to learn from a master of poetic translation. Sponsored by: Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Memory of Birds is an interactive sound installation in trees in collaboration with a trauma therapist and migrating birds. The work explores political violence that literally and figuratively gets buried in contested lands. A guided somatic experience, Memory of Birds is a work that eats itself, designed to be forgotten.
Memory of Birds is an interactive sound installation in trees in collaboration with a trauma therapist and migrating birds. The work explores political violence that literally and figuratively gets buried in contested lands. A guided somatic experience, Memory of Birds is a work that eats itself, designed to be forgotten.
Veterans of Foreign Wars • Red Hook Post 7765 • 30 Elizabeth Street, Red Hook, NY
Sharing cakes at funeral wakes is a practice common amongst the Lakȟóta people; often, these cakes have an image of the deceased imprinted in the frosting. Kite, an Oglála Lakȟóta performance artist and composer, explores this tradition in a performance in which she decorates funerary cakes made from local indigenous ingredients while speaking with friends, relatives, and elders about traditions, kin, land, and species they have lost. As we face death in the world, Kite hopes to turn towards protocols for mourning to process the death of beings, human and non-human. Cake and coffee will be served.
Veterans of Foreign Wars • Red Hook Post 7765 • 30 Elizabeth Street, Red Hook, NY
Sharing cakes at funeral wakes is a practice common amongst the Lakȟóta people; often, these cakes have an image of the deceased imprinted in the frosting. Kite, an Oglála Lakȟóta performance artist and composer, explores this tradition in a performance in which she decorates funerary cakes made from local indigenous ingredients while speaking with friends, relatives, and elders about traditions, kin, land, and species they have lost. As we face death in the world, Kite hopes to turn towards protocols for mourning to process the death of beings, human and non-human. Cake and coffee will be served.
Degree Recital: Finding Home with Montana Smith, soprano, and Bat-Erdene Batbileg, piano
Friday, May 5, 2023 7:30 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building Soprano Montana Smith is a young artist with a mission to cultivate community through song. Her repertoire within the classical genre spans from antiquity to the present day, with her focus in each context being on generous and inclusive communication.
COMMUNION: a ritual of nourishment and commemoration
Kenyon Adams
Friday, May 5, 2023 8–9 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Stage Right
In what ways does a meal distinctly allow commemoration and also provide nourishment? And where are the joy-working and life-sustaining spaces of the future?
COMMUNION: a ritual of nourishment and commemoration is a participatory “blues Eucharist” inspired by Kenyon Adams’ early experiences in the Black Protestant churches of his childhood in the Southeast region of the United States. In collaboration with chef and artist Omar Tate (featured in the Netflix series High on the Hog), food and culture writer Osayi Endolyn (The Rise: Black Cooks and the Soul of American Food: A Cookbook), and visual artist Ambrose Rhapsody Murray, Kenyon is creating an offering to the audience, with poems, prayers, movement, music, and food. The ritual applies the distinct paradox which imbues a Eucharistic meal: the partaking of which is simultaneously a commemoration of death as well as a claim of unity with that which cannot die or be diminished. COMMUNION seeks to construct new spaces and traditions of testimony and witness.
This work is part of the artist’s own reckoning with death in the pandemic and the ways it has disproportionately affected BIPOC communities, as well as the ongoing violence against black bodies within American society. COMMUNION is the second installment of a ritual trilogy, WATCHNIGHT: WE ARE ALMOST TO OUR DESTINATION. The first part, Prayers of the People, was presented by the Fisher Center in 2018 in collaboration with the Hannah Arendt Center.
The meeting place for COMMUNION will be the LUMA lobby. Will Call will be stationed there, and guests will be led to the performance space inside the theater.
Inaugural Thesis Exhibition of the MA in Human Rights & the Arts
Runs through Sunday, May 7, 2023
Bard campus, Tivoli, and Barrytown The MA Program at the OSUN Center for Human Rights & the Arts is pleased to announce its inaugural MA thesis exhibition. Titled Tracing Apparitions, the event will take place April 24 through May 7 across the Bard College campus as well as off-campus in Tivoli and Barrytown. The exhibition will feature installations, live performances, and written works by the graduating cohort produced as their capstone projects. The artistic and academic theses will take a variety of forms, making interventions at both the analytic and methodological levels of analysis. All thesis projects are based on original research by the students.
A detailed schedule is forthcoming, including locations, viewing hours, and performance reservations. For now, we are pleased to present the names and works of the MA in Human Rights and the Arts Class of 2023:
Ali Al-Adawi, Purity Is A Matter of An Effective Sewage System: Human Rights and Contemporary Art from Institution to Infrastructure Nour Annan, The Golden Age Is Out of Joint: Photography, Catastrophe, and the Politics of Nostalgia in Lebanon Oscar Gardea, Phantasy: Tezcatlipoca and The Ruins of the Mind [Anti-Ethnography versus Surrogate Dissidences] Adam Haj Yahia, Carnal Politics: Sex, Desire, and Anti-Colonial Deviance in Mandate Palestine Isabella Indolfi, Leave the Community Alone: The Ethics of Curating Contemporary Art in Villages Iris Luo, Weaving the Threads: Labor Protection of Maya Weavers in Guatemala Carol Motealegre Pinzon, Howls in the Mountains Majd Alrafie, Tasakko’ ( تَسَــــكُّعْ ): The Politics of Street Art Culture in Amman Garrett Sager, Breaking the Seal Hattie Wilder Karlstrom, “We’re with the Church”: Religion and Humanitarian Aid along the U.S.–Mexico BorderSponsored by: Bard Graduate Programs; Human Rights Program; Human Rights Project; OSUN; OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Rising and Sinking Again presents sixteen graduate exhibitions realized by the Class of 2023 master’s candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Distinct in theme and focus, these projects are the culmination of a year and a half of research in collaboration with artists, writers, scholars, and more. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Architect, activist, and farmer Tara Rodríguez Besosa is creating an installation and resource center to introduce the public to OtraCosa, an off-grid DIY queer homestead in the rural, mountainous community of San Salvador, Puerto Rico. For the past year, Tara has been mapping and cataloging the species and food systems of OtraCosa, creating a decolonized, living manuscript of the different human and non-human exchanges that provide nourishment, healing, and life. Tara, inspired by the Drake Manuscript, is creating their own decolonized version of a living manuscript, handmade by them on the farm. Throughout the festival, Tara will guide audiences through the installation and its manuscript, inviting us to explore the principles and practices of OtraCosa and those who steward its land.
Architect, activist, and farmer Tara Rodríguez Besosa is creating an installation and resource center to introduce the public to OtraCosa, an off-grid DIY queer homestead in the rural, mountainous community of San Salvador, Puerto Rico. For the past year, Tara has been mapping and cataloging the species and food systems of OtraCosa, creating a decolonized, living manuscript of the different human and non-human exchanges that provide nourishment, healing, and life. Tara, inspired by the Drake Manuscript, is creating their own decolonized version of a living manuscript, handmade by them on the farm. Throughout the festival, Tara will guide audiences through the installation and its manuscript, inviting us to explore the principles and practices of OtraCosa and those who steward its land.
Memory of Birds is an interactive sound installation in trees in collaboration with a trauma therapist and migrating birds. The work explores political violence that literally and figuratively gets buried in contested lands. A guided somatic experience, Memory of Birds is a work that eats itself, designed to be forgotten.
Memory of Birds is an interactive sound installation in trees in collaboration with a trauma therapist and migrating birds. The work explores political violence that literally and figuratively gets buried in contested lands. A guided somatic experience, Memory of Birds is a work that eats itself, designed to be forgotten.
Degree Recital: Alexander Levinson, cello, with pianists Pei-I Hsu and Hannah Park-Kaufmann, and violinist Yuchen Zhao
Works by Bach, Rachmaninoff, Golijov, and Piazzolla.
Saturday, May 6, 2023 4–5:30 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building Alexander Levinson, who studies with Peter Wiley, has been immersing his cello playing into many genres of music including classical, the Broadway musical, improvisatory klezmer and jazz, modern, and traditional Chinese. He will graduate in May 2023 with two degrees from Bard, a BA in cello performance, and a BS in computer science.
Veterans of Foreign Wars • Red Hook Post 7765 • 30 Elizabeth Street, Red Hook, NY
Sharing cakes at funeral wakes is a practice common amongst the Lakȟóta people; often, these cakes have an image of the deceased imprinted in the frosting. Kite, an Oglála Lakȟóta performance artist and composer, explores this tradition in a performance in which she decorates funerary cakes made from local indigenous ingredients while speaking with friends, relatives, and elders about traditions, kin, land, and species they have lost. As we face death in the world, Kite hopes to turn towards protocols for mourning to process the death of beings, human and non-human. Cake and coffee will be served.
Veterans of Foreign Wars • Red Hook Post 7765 • 30 Elizabeth Street, Red Hook, NY
Sharing cakes at funeral wakes is a practice common amongst the Lakȟóta people; often, these cakes have an image of the deceased imprinted in the frosting. Kite, an Oglála Lakȟóta performance artist and composer, explores this tradition in a performance in which she decorates funerary cakes made from local indigenous ingredients while speaking with friends, relatives, and elders about traditions, kin, land, and species they have lost. As we face death in the world, Kite hopes to turn towards protocols for mourning to process the death of beings, human and non-human. Cake and coffee will be served.
Degree Recital: All About Love with Zihao Liu, tenor and Diana Borshcheva, piano
Saturday, May 6, 2023 7 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building Chinese tenor Zihao Liu is an artist of exceptional vocal agility and communicative musicianship. Mr. Liu’s recent solo appearances include Lord Tolloller in Gilbert and Sulliavan’s Iolanthe, led by James Bagwell; tenor soloist in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with the Bard Conservatory Orchestra; the Schoolmaster in Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen, a production of the Graduate Vocal Arts Program at Bard Conservatory, directed by Doug Fitch; tenor soloist in Handel’s Messiah with The Orchestra Now, conducted by Leon Botstein; and the Nurse in Monteverdi’s opera L’incoronazione di Poppea at the Manhattan School of Music. In addition Mr. Liu has performed several solo recitals in the United States and China.
COMMUNION: a ritual of nourishment and commemoration
Kenyon Adams
Saturday, May 6, 2023 8–9 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Stage Right
In what ways does a meal distinctly allow commemoration and also provide nourishment? And where are the joy-working and life-sustaining spaces of the future?
COMMUNION: a ritual of nourishment and commemoration is a participatory “blues Eucharist” inspired by Kenyon Adams’ early experiences in the Black Protestant churches of his childhood in the Southeast region of the United States. In collaboration with chef and artist Omar Tate (featured in the Netflix series High on the Hog), food and culture writer Osayi Endolyn (The Rise: Black Cooks and the Soul of American Food: A Cookbook), and visual artist Ambrose Rhapsody Murray, Kenyon is creating an offering to the audience, with poems, prayers, movement, music, and food. The ritual applies the distinct paradox which imbues a Eucharistic meal: the partaking of which is simultaneously a commemoration of death as well as a claim of unity with that which cannot die or be diminished. COMMUNION seeks to construct new spaces and traditions of testimony and witness.
This work is part of the artist’s own reckoning with death in the pandemic and the ways it has disproportionately affected BIPOC communities, as well as the ongoing violence against black bodies within American society. COMMUNION is the second installment of a ritual trilogy, WATCHNIGHT: WE ARE ALMOST TO OUR DESTINATION. The first part, Prayers of the People, was presented by the Fisher Center in 2018 in collaboration with the Hannah Arendt Center.
The meeting place for COMMUNION will be the LUMA lobby. Will Call will be stationed there, and guests will be led to the performance space inside the theater.
COMMUNION: a ritual of nourishment and commemoration
Kenyon Adams
Saturday, May 6, 2023 8–9 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Stage Right
In what ways does a meal distinctly allow commemoration and also provide nourishment? And where are the joy-working and life-sustaining spaces of the future?
COMMUNION: a ritual of nourishment and commemoration is a participatory “blues Eucharist” inspired by Kenyon Adams’ early experiences in the Black Protestant churches of his childhood in the Southeast region of the United States. In collaboration with chef and artist Omar Tate (featured in the Netflix series High on the Hog), food and culture writer Osayi Endolyn (The Rise: Black Cooks and the Soul of American Food: A Cookbook), and visual artist Ambrose Rhapsody Murray, Kenyon is creating an offering to the audience, with poems, prayers, movement, music, and food. The ritual applies the distinct paradox which imbues a Eucharistic meal: the partaking of which is simultaneously a commemoration of death as well as a claim of unity with that which cannot die or be diminished. COMMUNION seeks to construct new spaces and traditions of testimony and witness.
This work is part of the artist’s own reckoning with death in the pandemic and the ways it has disproportionately affected BIPOC communities, as well as the ongoing violence against black bodies within American society. COMMUNION is the second installment of a ritual trilogy, WATCHNIGHT: WE ARE ALMOST TO OUR DESTINATION. The first part, Prayers of the People, was presented by the Fisher Center in 2018 in collaboration with the Hannah Arendt Center.
The meeting place for COMMUNION will be the LUMA lobby. Will Call will be stationed there, and guests will be led to the performance space inside the theater.
Inaugural Thesis Exhibition of the MA in Human Rights & the Arts
Runs through Sunday, May 7, 2023
Bard campus, Tivoli, and Barrytown The MA Program at the OSUN Center for Human Rights & the Arts is pleased to announce its inaugural MA thesis exhibition. Titled Tracing Apparitions, the event will take place April 24 through May 7 across the Bard College campus as well as off-campus in Tivoli and Barrytown. The exhibition will feature installations, live performances, and written works by the graduating cohort produced as their capstone projects. The artistic and academic theses will take a variety of forms, making interventions at both the analytic and methodological levels of analysis. All thesis projects are based on original research by the students.
A detailed schedule is forthcoming, including locations, viewing hours, and performance reservations. For now, we are pleased to present the names and works of the MA in Human Rights and the Arts Class of 2023:
Ali Al-Adawi, Purity Is A Matter of An Effective Sewage System: Human Rights and Contemporary Art from Institution to Infrastructure Nour Annan, The Golden Age Is Out of Joint: Photography, Catastrophe, and the Politics of Nostalgia in Lebanon Oscar Gardea, Phantasy: Tezcatlipoca and The Ruins of the Mind [Anti-Ethnography versus Surrogate Dissidences] Adam Haj Yahia, Carnal Politics: Sex, Desire, and Anti-Colonial Deviance in Mandate Palestine Isabella Indolfi, Leave the Community Alone: The Ethics of Curating Contemporary Art in Villages Iris Luo, Weaving the Threads: Labor Protection of Maya Weavers in Guatemala Carol Motealegre Pinzon, Howls in the Mountains Majd Alrafie, Tasakko’ ( تَسَــــكُّعْ ): The Politics of Street Art Culture in Amman Garrett Sager, Breaking the Seal Hattie Wilder Karlstrom, “We’re with the Church”: Religion and Humanitarian Aid along the U.S.–Mexico BorderSponsored by: Bard Graduate Programs; Human Rights Program; Human Rights Project; OSUN; OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Rising and Sinking Again presents sixteen graduate exhibitions realized by the Class of 2023 master’s candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Distinct in theme and focus, these projects are the culmination of a year and a half of research in collaboration with artists, writers, scholars, and more. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Architect, activist, and farmer Tara Rodríguez Besosa is creating an installation and resource center to introduce the public to OtraCosa, an off-grid DIY queer homestead in the rural, mountainous community of San Salvador, Puerto Rico. For the past year, Tara has been mapping and cataloging the species and food systems of OtraCosa, creating a decolonized, living manuscript of the different human and non-human exchanges that provide nourishment, healing, and life. Tara, inspired by the Drake Manuscript, is creating their own decolonized version of a living manuscript, handmade by them on the farm. Throughout the festival, Tara will guide audiences through the installation and its manuscript, inviting us to explore the principles and practices of OtraCosa and those who steward its land.
Architect, activist, and farmer Tara Rodríguez Besosa is creating an installation and resource center to introduce the public to OtraCosa, an off-grid DIY queer homestead in the rural, mountainous community of San Salvador, Puerto Rico. For the past year, Tara has been mapping and cataloging the species and food systems of OtraCosa, creating a decolonized, living manuscript of the different human and non-human exchanges that provide nourishment, healing, and life. Tara, inspired by the Drake Manuscript, is creating their own decolonized version of a living manuscript, handmade by them on the farm. Throughout the festival, Tara will guide audiences through the installation and its manuscript, inviting us to explore the principles and practices of OtraCosa and those who steward its land.
Memory of Birds is an interactive sound installation in trees in collaboration with a trauma therapist and migrating birds. The work explores political violence that literally and figuratively gets buried in contested lands. A guided somatic experience, Memory of Birds is a work that eats itself, designed to be forgotten.
Memory of Birds is an interactive sound installation in trees in collaboration with a trauma therapist and migrating birds. The work explores political violence that literally and figuratively gets buried in contested lands. A guided somatic experience, Memory of Birds is a work that eats itself, designed to be forgotten.
Veterans of Foreign Wars • Red Hook Post 7765 • 30 Elizabeth Street, Red Hook, NY
Sharing cakes at funeral wakes is a practice common amongst the Lakȟóta people; often, these cakes have an image of the deceased imprinted in the frosting. Kite, an Oglála Lakȟóta performance artist and composer, explores this tradition in a performance in which she decorates funerary cakes made from local indigenous ingredients while speaking with friends, relatives, and elders about traditions, kin, land, and species they have lost. As we face death in the world, Kite hopes to turn towards protocols for mourning to process the death of beings, human and non-human. Cake and coffee will be served.
Veterans of Foreign Wars • Red Hook Post 7765 • 30 Elizabeth Street, Red Hook, NY
Sharing cakes at funeral wakes is a practice common amongst the Lakȟóta people; often, these cakes have an image of the deceased imprinted in the frosting. Kite, an Oglála Lakȟóta performance artist and composer, explores this tradition in a performance in which she decorates funerary cakes made from local indigenous ingredients while speaking with friends, relatives, and elders about traditions, kin, land, and species they have lost. As we face death in the world, Kite hopes to turn towards protocols for mourning to process the death of beings, human and non-human. Cake and coffee will be served.
Degree Recital: How We Move Forward with Michael Alexander Aoun, bass-baritone and Viktória Sarkadi, piano
A graduate degree recital discussing how we live with and through difficulty—with themes of heritage, community, and identity.
Sunday, May 7, 2023 4 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building Including works by Pauline Oliveros, H. Leslie Adams, Francis Poulenc, Hugo Wolf, William Bolcom, the Rahbani Brothers, and the world premiere of a piece by John Paul Labno.
Michael Alexander Aoun is a Lebanese-American bass-baritone whose passion for interdisciplinary and collaborative art inspires their professional work. An all-or-nothing person, Michael views music as a means of exploring one’s whole self and creating something entirely unique. They feel strongly that their art reflect their personal values of authenticity and human connection.
COMMUNION: a ritual of nourishment and commemoration
Kenyon Adams
Sunday, May 7, 2023 4–5 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Stage Right
In what ways does a meal distinctly allow commemoration and also provide nourishment? And where are the joy-working and life-sustaining spaces of the future?
COMMUNION: a ritual of nourishment and commemoration is a participatory “blues Eucharist” inspired by Kenyon Adams’ early experiences in the Black Protestant churches of his childhood in the Southeast region of the United States. In collaboration with chef and artist Omar Tate (featured in the Netflix series High on the Hog), food and culture writer Osayi Endolyn (The Rise: Black Cooks and the Soul of American Food: A Cookbook), and visual artist Ambrose Rhapsody Murray, Kenyon is creating an offering to the audience, with poems, prayers, movement, music, and food. The ritual applies the distinct paradox which imbues a Eucharistic meal: the partaking of which is simultaneously a commemoration of death as well as a claim of unity with that which cannot die or be diminished. COMMUNION seeks to construct new spaces and traditions of testimony and witness.
This work is part of the artist’s own reckoning with death in the pandemic and the ways it has disproportionately affected BIPOC communities, as well as the ongoing violence against black bodies within American society. COMMUNION is the second installment of a ritual trilogy, WATCHNIGHT: WE ARE ALMOST TO OUR DESTINATION. The first part, Prayers of the People, was presented by the Fisher Center in 2018 in collaboration with the Hannah Arendt Center.
The meeting place for COMMUNION will be the LUMA lobby. Will Call will be stationed there, and guests will be led to the performance space inside the theater.
COMMUNION: a ritual of nourishment and commemoration
Kenyon Adams
Sunday, May 7, 2023 4–5 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Stage Right
In what ways does a meal distinctly allow commemoration and also provide nourishment? And where are the joy-working and life-sustaining spaces of the future?
COMMUNION: a ritual of nourishment and commemoration is a participatory “blues Eucharist” inspired by Kenyon Adams’ early experiences in the Black Protestant churches of his childhood in the Southeast region of the United States. In collaboration with chef and artist Omar Tate (featured in the Netflix series High on the Hog), food and culture writer Osayi Endolyn (The Rise: Black Cooks and the Soul of American Food: A Cookbook), and visual artist Ambrose Rhapsody Murray, Kenyon is creating an offering to the audience, with poems, prayers, movement, music, and food. The ritual applies the distinct paradox which imbues a Eucharistic meal: the partaking of which is simultaneously a commemoration of death as well as a claim of unity with that which cannot die or be diminished. COMMUNION seeks to construct new spaces and traditions of testimony and witness.
This work is part of the artist’s own reckoning with death in the pandemic and the ways it has disproportionately affected BIPOC communities, as well as the ongoing violence against black bodies within American society. COMMUNION is the second installment of a ritual trilogy, WATCHNIGHT: WE ARE ALMOST TO OUR DESTINATION. The first part, Prayers of the People, was presented by the Fisher Center in 2018 in collaboration with the Hannah Arendt Center.
The meeting place for COMMUNION will be the LUMA lobby. Will Call will be stationed there, and guests will be led to the performance space inside the theater.
The Consortium for Liberal Arts in Prison, in partnership with OSUN and Incarceration Nations Network, invites individuals at member institutions to the next event in the BPI Global Initiatives Virtual Lecture Series.
This lecture series is designed for a global community of practitioners in different higher education contexts in prisons and carceral spaces around the world.
Daniela Ronco joins for “Monitoring the safeguard of inmates’ rights: the role of a watchdog organization in the Italian context.”
Ronco is member of Antigone NGO and a researcher in sociology of law, deviance and social change at the Law Department of the University of Turin (Italy). Her research interests include prison ethnography, the safeguard of health in prison and the alternatives to imprisonment.
This session, like all in the series, will include simultaneous translations in English and Spanish.
Microfestival by First-Year MA Students in Human Rights & the Arts
Tuesday, May 9, 2023 10 am – 8 pm
Bard campus and Tivoli Alluvial is a microfestival of artwork created by the first year M.A. students in the Human Rights & the Arts program at Bard College. The microfestival takes place at various times and locations on campus and in Tivoli on Tuesday, May 9 and Friday, May 12, and includes multidisciplinary works, installations, performances, live art, interactive work, and film. These works in progress are part of the final submission for the Collaborations and Community-based Art course taught by Sabine El Chamaa.Sponsored by: Bard Graduate Programs; Human Rights Program; Human Rights Project; OSUN; OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Rising and Sinking Again presents sixteen graduate exhibitions realized by the Class of 2023 master’s candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Distinct in theme and focus, these projects are the culmination of a year and a half of research in collaboration with artists, writers, scholars, and more. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Rising and Sinking Again presents sixteen graduate exhibitions realized by the Class of 2023 master’s candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Distinct in theme and focus, these projects are the culmination of a year and a half of research in collaboration with artists, writers, scholars, and more. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Choreographed by rising artists in the Bard dance program, this concert of Senior Projects represents the culmination of four years of intensive choreographic inquiry and research. Their concepts have been realized with the support of a professional staff of designers.
Choreography by Itzel Herrera Garcia Antonia Salathé
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Rising and Sinking Again presents sixteen graduate exhibitions realized by the Class of 2023 master’s candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Distinct in theme and focus, these projects are the culmination of a year and a half of research in collaboration with artists, writers, scholars, and more. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Microfestival by First-Year MA Students in Human Rights & the Arts
Friday, May 12, 2023 12–8 pm
Bard campus and Tivoli Alluvial is a microfestival of artwork created by the first year M.A. students in the Human Rights & the Arts program at Bard College. The microfestival takes place at various times and locations on campus and in Tivoli on Tuesday, May 9 and Friday, May 12, and includes multidisciplinary works, installations, performances, live art, interactive work, and film. These works in progress are part of the final submission for the Collaborations and Community-based Art course taught by Sabine El Chamaa.Sponsored by: Bard Graduate Programs; Human Rights Program; Human Rights Project; OSUN; OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts.
Choreographed by rising artists in the Bard dance program, this concert of Senior Projects represents the culmination of four years of intensive choreographic inquiry and research. Their concepts have been realized with the support of a professional staff of designers.
Choreography by Itzel Herrera Garcia Antonia Salathé
Choreographed by rising artists in the Bard dance program, this concert of Senior Projects represents the culmination of four years of intensive choreographic inquiry and research. Their concepts have been realized with the support of a professional staff of designers.
Choreography by Itzel Herrera Garcia Antonia Salathé
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Rising and Sinking Again presents sixteen graduate exhibitions realized by the Class of 2023 master’s candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Distinct in theme and focus, these projects are the culmination of a year and a half of research in collaboration with artists, writers, scholars, and more. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Choreographed by rising artists in the Bard dance program, this concert of Senior Projects represents the culmination of four years of intensive choreographic inquiry and research. Their concepts have been realized with the support of a professional staff of designers.
Choreography by Itzel Herrera Garcia Antonia Salathé
Choreographed by rising artists in the Bard dance program, this concert of Senior Projects represents the culmination of four years of intensive choreographic inquiry and research. Their concepts have been realized with the support of a professional staff of designers.
Choreography by Itzel Herrera Garcia Antonia Salathé
As part of the thesis exhibition No Jokes Allowed, Ikechukwu Ufomadu, Alex Forrest, and Alex Tatarsky examine humorlessness and uncanny comedy as a tactic in conversation with artworks from the Marieluise Hessel Collection. The performances—which take place every other Saturday through April and May—allow each performer half an hour to respond to the displayed artworks, which similarly refuse the joke format.
Comedian Ikechukwu Ufomadu takes familiar communication and teases out its unease, combining everyday cadences with nonsensical language. His cheerful deadpan style prioritizes believability over joke-telling.
Stand-up Alex Forrest’s performance Star Wars constructs a character who insists on a worldview to deconstruct their sense of self. The performance includes interventions throughout the museum space.
In Spirit Channel Surfing, clown and artist Alex Tatarsky hosts a Q&A with the displayed artworks in an exploration of material, mime, mimesis, and objecthood.
Presented in conjunction with the exhibition No Jokes Allowed curated by CCS Bard graduate student Olivia Rodrigues.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Choreographed by rising artists in the Bard dance program, this concert of Senior Projects represents the culmination of four years of intensive choreographic inquiry and research. Their concepts have been realized with the support of a professional staff of designers.
Choreography by Itzel Herrera Garcia Antonia Salathé
“I have two goals in my heart: I don’t just want to establish a musical idea…. I want to develop a cross-cultural idea that brings nature and classical music, ancient and modern, together.”—Tan Dun
Dean of the Bard College Conservatory of Music and UNESCO Global Goodwill Ambassador, Tan Dun, has made an indelible mark on the world’s music scene with a repertoire that spans the boundaries of classical music, multimedia performance, and Eastern and Western traditions. His compositions often feature water as a musical instrument.
In this program, he conducts five works by Czech, French, Romanian, Japanese, and British composers who were inspired by the sounds of oceans, rivers, and flowing waters.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Rising and Sinking Again presents sixteen graduate exhibitions realized by the Class of 2023 master’s candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Distinct in theme and focus, these projects are the culmination of a year and a half of research in collaboration with artists, writers, scholars, and more. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
The annual spring concert of the Bard Chinese Ensemble will be a special occasion in 2023, celebrating five years of the US-China Music Institute and the graduation of the first class of Chinese instrument majors in the Bard Conservatory. The concert program will feature a number of chamber works for mixed Chinese and Western instruments, plus a new selection of traditional pieces especially arranged by Ensemble Director Chen Tao.
Free and open to the public. A reception will follow the concert in the lobby of Olin Hall.
Symphony Space in New York City TŌN wraps up its eighth season of free concerts with a performance at Symphony Space. Resident Conductor Zachary Schwartzman leads the orchestra in a program that includes Messiaen’s sentimental and spiritual song cycle Poèmes pour Mi, and Dukas’ ever-popular symphonic poem The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.
Zachary Schwartzmanconductor Katherine Lerner Lee VAP ’23soprano
Paul DukasThe Sorcerer’s Apprentice Olivier MessiaenPoèmes pour Mi Henri Dutilleux Symphony No. 1 For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
The Lafayette Trail New Marker Dedication Ceremony
Join us at Montgomery Place!
Monday, May 15, 2023 2 pm
Montgomery Place Estate The Lafayette Trail, Inc., is pleased to announce the upcoming dedication of a new Lafayette Trail historic marker in Red Hook, New York, on Monday, May 15, 2023, at 2 pm.
The marker dedication ceremony will occur at Montgomery Place. Attendees can park their vehicles in the parking lot of the Montgomery Place Visitors Center located at 55 Montgomery Place, Red Hook, NY 12571.
Montgomery Place is now the property of Bard College. We are very grateful to the leadership of Bard College for its keen interest in interpreting the connection of Montgomery Place to General Lafayette via the Frenchman's visit to Janet Livingston Montgomery on September 19, 1824.
The site of the unveiling is located within walking distance of the visitors' center. Bard College will provide a few golf carts for individuals who may need special accommodations to get to the marker site.
The event will include formal remarks from all the stakeholders involved in the preparation of the marker, the actual unveiling, as well as photo opportunities. The ceremony is expected to last 45 minutes.
A reception will take place near the site of the unveiling, following the conclusion of the ceremony. Afterward, attendees are invited to walk the grounds of Montgomery Place. The mansion is not open to the public at this time.
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium On Monday, May 8th at 5pm and Monday, May 15th at 5:30pm, please join the Written Arts Program for two nights of senior readings! Written Arts seniors will be reading excerpts from their recently completed senior projects in fiction, poetry, narrative nonfiction, and hybrid forms, with introductory and closing remarks from Written Arts faculty. This event will be held in person in the László Z. Bitó ’60 Auditorium, Reem-Kayden Center (RKC). All are welcome!
May 8th Readers Soledad Aguilar-Colon Rayelle Cato Kc Chiucarello Mina Dahl Rasheeda Graham Erica Infanger Giacomo Milia Marxe Orbach Maddie Parker Beritt Perdue Bernard Pollara Jess Berkun Faye Thompson Max Trosman
May 15th Readers Dash Charlesworth Zoe Collea Andrei Dumitriu Heather Garufi MarQuel Horton Sarah Hudes Harmony Johnson Wicker Sophia Lawder-Gill Meadow Palmer Sarame Sahgal Tamar Mayer DeAngelis Ava Schwartz Melissa Sidley Lily Taggart Sylvie Winkler Tallulah WoitachSponsored by: Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Arts songs about flowers in English and German by Beach, Brahms, Burleigh, Alma Mahler, Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn, Price, Quilter, Clara and Robert Schumann, Schubert, Smyth, Strauss, Vaughan-Williams and Wolf.Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Rising and Sinking Again presents sixteen graduate exhibitions realized by the Class of 2023 master’s candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Distinct in theme and focus, these projects are the culmination of a year and a half of research in collaboration with artists, writers, scholars, and more. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
From Spain To The Americas, A Journey through the Spanish Language
Wednesday, May 17, 2023 1 pm
Olin Hall Come join us on this musical journey across time and space through the Spanish language. A program that travels from the early days of Spain as a nation in the 15th century to the music of the Americas featuring 15 composers from eight different countries, all united by the same language and presented by the wonderful singers and pianists of Bard’s Vocal Arts Program.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Rising and Sinking Again presents sixteen graduate exhibitions realized by the Class of 2023 master’s candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Distinct in theme and focus, these projects are the culmination of a year and a half of research in collaboration with artists, writers, scholars, and more. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Rising and Sinking Again presents sixteen graduate exhibitions realized by the Class of 2023 master’s candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Distinct in theme and focus, these projects are the culmination of a year and a half of research in collaboration with artists, writers, scholars, and more. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium Please join us on Friday, May 19 at 3:30 pm in RKC 103 for the presentation of the latest issue of Sui Generis, Bard’s student-run journal dedicated to literary translation. Please come to celebrate the hard work of the journal’s editorial board and the many translators who contributed to a robust and diverse issue of the journal. In addition to readings of work in many languages and in English translation, there will be light refreshments. All are welcome!Sponsored by: The Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Bitó Conservatory Building All Conservatory undergraduate students perform a recital in their third year as partial fulfillment of their bachelor of music requirements. Repertoire details are announced at each recital.
Baroque Masterpieces: Pergolesi Stabat Mater and Bach Orchestral Suite No. 3
Friday, May 19, 2023 8:30–10 pm
Olin Hall Students of the Conservatory, Graduate Vocal Arts, and Conducting Programs will perform two masterpieces of the baroque era: Pergolesi's Stabat Mater, featuring soprano Sarah Nalty and alto Montana Smith, and Bach's Orchestral Suite No. 3.Sponsored by: Bard Conservatory Graduate Conducting Program.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Rising and Sinking Again presents sixteen graduate exhibitions realized by the Class of 2023 master’s candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Distinct in theme and focus, these projects are the culmination of a year and a half of research in collaboration with artists, writers, scholars, and more. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
NYC (Barnard Milstein Center for Learning) Citizens' assemblies have addessed complex policy issues around the worldand have even become permanent in Paris, Oregon and Belgium. This 10 Credit CTLE (Continuing Teacher and Leader Education) course presented with Democracy Without Elections introduces secondary teachers to the expanding use of lottery (sortition) to bring diverse groups of citizens together to form policy recommendations.
Dimitri Courant is a Postdoctoral Research Associate and Fung Global Fellow at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS), at Princeton University.
He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Lausanne and the University Paris 8. He is a democracy visiting fellow at the Ash Center, at Harvard Kennedy School. He holds two master’s degrees, in political science from Sciences Po Rennes, and in social sciences from the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences.
Degree Recital: Felix Johnson, horn, with Bat-Erdene Batbileg, piano
Saturday, May 20, 2023 3 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building Felix Johnson is a horn player at the Bard Conservatory from New York studying under the instruction of Barbara Jöstlein Currie, Hugo Valverde, and Julia Pilant. He is also a philosophy major with a particular interest in 20th-century political theory. His senior project, Decentralized Perfectionism: a Critique of Contractarianism and Bureaucracy through the Inspiration of Nietzsche, received the William E. Lensing Prize and was nominated for the Irma Brandeis Award. As a horn player, Felix has been a member of the Empire State Youth Orchestra and participant in various summer festivals including Domaine Forget in Saint-Irénée, Quebec and the Curtis Summerfest in Philadelphia, PA.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Rising and Sinking Again presents sixteen graduate exhibitions realized by the Class of 2023 master’s candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Distinct in theme and focus, these projects are the culmination of a year and a half of research in collaboration with artists, writers, scholars, and more. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
NYC (Barnard Milstein Center for Learning) Citizens' assemblies have addessed complex policy issues around the worldand have even become permanent in Paris, Oregon and Belgium. This 10 Credit CTLE (Continuing Teacher and Leader Education) course presented with Democracy Without Elections introduces secondary teachers to the expanding use of lottery (sortition) to bring diverse groups of citizens together to form policy recommendations.
Dimitri Courant is a Postdoctoral Research Associate and Fung Global Fellow at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS), at Princeton University.
He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Lausanne and the University Paris 8. He is a democracy visiting fellow at the Ash Center, at Harvard Kennedy School. He holds two master’s degrees, in political science from Sciences Po Rennes, and in social sciences from the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences.
Percussion Studio Concert: A New Generation of Percussion Music
21st Century Works by Robyn Jacob, Alexis Lamb, Missy Mazzoli, Emmanuel Sejourne, and Shodekeh Talifero
Sunday, May 21, 2023 7–9 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Percussionists perform contemporary compositions on marimba, vibraphone, drums, and a wide variety of other instruments.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Bertelsmann Campus Center After a fifteen-year-long hiatus, Bard's student-run campus newspaper is back and better than ever! Pick up a limited edition copy of the newly revived Bard Observer at the Campus Center or from a roaming Observer representative near you. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Bertelsmann Campus Center After a fifteen-year-long hiatus, Bard's student-run campus newspaper is back and better than ever! Pick up a limited edition copy of the newly revived Bard Observer at the Campus Center or from a roaming Observer representative near you. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Rising and Sinking Again presents sixteen graduate exhibitions realized by the Class of 2023 master’s candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Distinct in theme and focus, these projects are the culmination of a year and a half of research in collaboration with artists, writers, scholars, and more. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Bertelsmann Campus Center After a fifteen-year-long hiatus, Bard's student-run campus newspaper is back and better than ever! Pick up a limited edition copy of the newly revived Bard Observer at the Campus Center or from a roaming Observer representative near you. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
We look forward to you joining us for our annual End of Semester/Member's Social at the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College! Membership helps make it possible for the Hannah Arendt Center to create a thriving community for bold and risky humanities thinking about our political world. We invite ALL members and their guests to join us at the center in-person on May 24th, for an appreciation event. We will begin with a Meet & Greet at 5:30pm, followed by a campus tour of the Hannah Arendt gravesite and a pop-up exhibition at the Hannah Arendt Archive at the Stevenson's Library. We will end at the center for drinks, food, and conversation. Stop by to learn about our new programs, meet staff & faculty members, and snag some sweet treats and membership swag.
Schedule:
5:30 pm - Meet and Greet at HAC (light refreshments): 6:00 pm - Visit HA gravesite 6:30 pm - Visit HA archive and pop-up exhibition
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm - Dinner, Drinks, and Discussion at HAC
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Rising and Sinking Again presents sixteen graduate exhibitions realized by the Class of 2023 master’s candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Distinct in theme and focus, these projects are the culmination of a year and a half of research in collaboration with artists, writers, scholars, and more. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Bertelsmann Campus Center After a fifteen-year-long hiatus, Bard's student-run campus newspaper is back and better than ever! Pick up a limited edition copy of the newly revived Bard Observer at the Campus Center or from a roaming Observer representative near you. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Rising and Sinking Again presents sixteen graduate exhibitions realized by the Class of 2023 master’s candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Distinct in theme and focus, these projects are the culmination of a year and a half of research in collaboration with artists, writers, scholars, and more. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Reunion 2023 will celebrate classes ending in 3 and 8, but all classes are invited back to campus for the festivities.
Reunite with friends in Annandale for the biggest celebration of the year! Attend the Bard College Awards Ceremony, reunion dinners, Blithewood BBQ, dancing, fireworks, and much more!
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater This inspiring annual event celebrates the exceptional achievements of Bard alumni/ae and friends of the College; outstanding faculty and staff who are retiring are recognized with the Bardian Award. Join fellow Bard alumni/ae, faculty, and staff for cocktails and hors d’oeuvres on the Sosnoff Theater patio, followed by the Bard College Awards ceremony, hosted by Bard College President Leon Botstein and KC Serota ’04, president of the Bard College Alumni/ae Association Board of Governors. The event is free, but advance registration is required.
5 pm Cocktail Reception Sosnoff patio, Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts
6:30 pm Bard College Awards Ceremony (livestream begins at 6:30 pm) Sosnoff Theater, Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Rising and Sinking Again presents sixteen graduate exhibitions realized by the Class of 2023 master’s candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Distinct in theme and focus, these projects are the culmination of a year and a half of research in collaboration with artists, writers, scholars, and more. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Reunion 2023 will celebrate classes ending in 3 and 8, but all classes are invited back to campus for the festivities.
Reunite with friends in Annandale for the biggest celebration of the year! Attend the Bard College Awards Ceremony, reunion dinners, Blithewood BBQ, dancing, fireworks, and much more!
Bard College Campus Bard College will hold its 163rd commencement on Saturday, May 27, 2023. Bard President Leon Botstein will confer 384 undergraduate degrees on the Class of 2023 and 182 graduate degrees. The Commencement address will be given by U.S. Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock, of Georgia.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Rising and Sinking Again presents sixteen graduate exhibitions realized by the Class of 2023 master’s candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Distinct in theme and focus, these projects are the culmination of a year and a half of research in collaboration with artists, writers, scholars, and more. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Reunion 2023 will celebrate classes ending in 3 and 8, but all classes are invited back to campus for the festivities.
Reunite with friends in Annandale for the biggest celebration of the year! Attend the Bard College Awards Ceremony, reunion dinners, Blithewood BBQ, dancing, fireworks, and much more!
Chapel of the Holy Innocents This is an Anglican service, hosted by our Anglican chaplain, Mary Grace Williams. The president of the College will read the names of all those alumni/ae, friends, and colleagues who have died since the Bard Commencement in 2021.
Inaugural Thesis Exhibition of the MA in Human Rights & the Arts
Runs through Sunday, May 7, 2023
Bard campus, Tivoli, and Barrytown The MA Program at the OSUN Center for Human Rights & the Arts is pleased to announce its inaugural MA thesis exhibition. Titled Tracing Apparitions, the event will take place April 24 through May 7 across the Bard College campus as well as off-campus in Tivoli and Barrytown. The exhibition will feature installations, live performances, and written works by the graduating cohort produced as their capstone projects. The artistic and academic theses will take a variety of forms, making interventions at both the analytic and methodological levels of analysis. All thesis projects are based on original research by the students.
A detailed schedule is forthcoming, including locations, viewing hours, and performance reservations. For now, we are pleased to present the names and works of the MA in Human Rights and the Arts Class of 2023:
Ali Al-Adawi, Purity Is A Matter of An Effective Sewage System: Human Rights and Contemporary Art from Institution to Infrastructure Nour Annan, The Golden Age Is Out of Joint: Photography, Catastrophe, and the Politics of Nostalgia in Lebanon Oscar Gardea, Phantasy: Tezcatlipoca and The Ruins of the Mind [Anti-Ethnography versus Surrogate Dissidences] Adam Haj Yahia, Carnal Politics: Sex, Desire, and Anti-Colonial Deviance in Mandate Palestine Isabella Indolfi, Leave the Community Alone: The Ethics of Curating Contemporary Art in Villages Iris Luo, Weaving the Threads: Labor Protection of Maya Weavers in Guatemala Carol Motealegre Pinzon, Howls in the Mountains Majd Alrafie, Tasakko’ ( تَسَــــكُّعْ ): The Politics of Street Art Culture in Amman Garrett Sager, Breaking the Seal Hattie Wilder Karlstrom, “We’re with the Church”: Religion and Humanitarian Aid along the U.S.–Mexico BorderSponsored by: Bard Graduate Programs; Human Rights Program; Human Rights Project; OSUN; OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts.
Bitó Conservatory Building All Conservatory undergraduate students perform a recital in their third year as partial fulfillment of their bachelor of music requirements. Repertoire details are announced at each recital.
Field Station Are you curious about what goes on at the Ecology Field Station down on Tivoli South Bay? Do you want to learn about the natural history of the Hudson Valley? Interested in finding new ways to engage with the local environment? Need an excuse to get out and explore a lesser visited part of campus?
Just wander down Bay Road (or take the trail along the Saw Kill) to the Field Station during our open house. Drop by to tour the facilities, view selected specimens from the collections, and learn about our programs.
CCS Bard, Classroom 102 Each semester CCS Bard hosts a program of lectures by leading artists, curators, art historians, and critics, situating the school and museum’s concerns within the larger context of contemporary art production and discourse. Speakers are selected primarily by second-year graduate students and also by faculty and staff. All lectures will take place in Classroom 102 at CCS Bard, are free and open to the public, and are documented through audio recordings that reside in the CCS Bard Library & Archives.
More information on that talk, along with the full schedule and bios can be found below as well as on the events page of our website.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Right to Mother Panel: Nahee Kim, TZUSOO, and Hwayong
Wednesday, May 3, 2023 10 am – 12 pm
CCS Bard, Classroom 102 and Online Panel will be in person in Classroom 102, CCS Bard, and on zoom (register on Eventbrite here for Zoom link).
Artists Nahee Kim and TZUSOO will be joined by Hwayong, a member of a Seoul-based feminist activist group Femidangdang, in a conversation with curator Jiwon Geum. The talk will be centered on the two artists’ practices as a prism to think through the theories of the nation-state, reproductive labor, and posthuman, opening up toward the relationship between care work and art-making, and the social dimensions of art and activism.
Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Right to Mother curated by CCS Bard graduate student Jiwon Geum.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Rising and Sinking Again presents sixteen graduate exhibitions realized by the Class of 2023 master’s candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Distinct in theme and focus, these projects are the culmination of a year and a half of research in collaboration with artists, writers, scholars, and more. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
How to Think Together: The Social Life of the Mind
Wednesday, May 3, 2023 4 pm
Join us at HAC to meet and hear from Visiting Scholar Jana Bacevic
Thinking is usually conceived as a solitary activity. Yet, as Hannah Arendt recognized, we are never truly alone when we think: this is not only because all thinking happens in language, which is already social, but also because thinking – like other forms of human activity – relies on institutionally and socially mediated spaces and forms of interaction with others. These spaces of interaction, however, have become both increasingly fragmented – through the proliferation of digital platforms and massification of higher education – and increasingly contentious, reflected in conflicts around ‘free speech’, ‘culture wars’, and other forms of political polarization. Is there a way to think together that does not reproduce existing political divisions, even when it aspires to transcend them?
In this talk, Visiting Scholar Jana Bacevic explores thinking together as a way to conceive of ‘the life of the mind’ that does not require a separation of interiority from the space of appearance. Building on Arendt’s recognition of the tension between solitude and acting together, the talk discusses the possibility of seeing irreducible and potentially irreconcilable political plurality as a precondition, rather than an outcome or corollary, of the life of the mind. The concluding part addresses the political and ethical implications of this mode of thinking, including for contemporary discussions around academic freedom and freedom of speech.
Jana Bacevic is Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology at Durham University, UK, and contributing editor of The Philosopher, UK's longest-running public philosophy journal. Jana's work is in social and political theory and the politics of knowledge production; she has published extensively on the relationship between knowledge and social and political dynamics. Her current work is on non-reciprocity, including in contexts such as 'free speech wars', academic freedom, and public health.
Jana has a PhD in sociology (Cambridge, 2019) and a PhD in social anthropology (University of Belgrade, 2008). In the intervening period she was lecturer at the Central European University, Marie Curie Fellow at Aarhus University, and postdoctoral fellow at the University of Cambridge; she also worked as consultant and advisor for a range of governments and international organizations in the field of education policy and minority rights. More about Jana's work is available at www.janabacevic.net. Jana's project at Bard, provisionally entitled 'How to think together: the social life of the mind', addresses the challenges of thinking and knowing in politically plural collectivities vs. in solitude. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Rising and Sinking Again presents sixteen graduate exhibitions realized by the Class of 2023 master’s candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Distinct in theme and focus, these projects are the culmination of a year and a half of research in collaboration with artists, writers, scholars, and more. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Memory of Birds is an interactive sound installation in trees in collaboration with a trauma therapist and migrating birds. The work explores political violence that literally and figuratively gets buried in contested lands. A guided somatic experience, Memory of Birds is a work that eats itself, designed to be forgotten.
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium On Thursday, May 4 at 5:30 pm in the László Z. Bitó ’60 Auditorium, Reem-Kayden Center (RKC), writers Zain Khalid and Kevin Holden will read from their work. Introduced by Bard faculty member Benjamin Hale, and followed by a Q&A, the reading is free and open to the public.
Zain Khalid’s writing has appeared in the New Yorker, n+1, the Believer, Astra Magazine, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, and elsewhere. His debut novel, Brother Alive (Grove Atlantic, 2022), is a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize for best first book in any genre, and was named a best book of 2022 by Library Journal and other outlets. He is also the fiction editor at The Drift.
Kevin Holden is a poet, critic, and translator. He is the author of seven books and chapbooks of poetry, including Pink Noise (Nightboat Books, 2023), Solar (Fence Books, 2016), which won the Fence Modern Poets Prize, and Birch (Ahsahta Press, 2015), which won the Ahsahta Chapbook Award. His translations of poetry from French, German, and Russian have also been published, and he has recently completed a translation of Jean Daive’s L’Énonciateur Des Extrêmes, forthcoming from Black Square Editions. He has taught as a visiting fellow at Bard College and is currently the writer-in-residence of Kirkland House at Harvard and a junior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows.
Benjamin Hale is the author of the novel The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore (Twelve, 2011) and the collection The Fat Artist and Other Stories (Simon & Schuster, 2016). He has received the Bard Fiction Prize, a Michener-Copernicus Award, and nominations for the Dylan Thomas Prize and the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award. His writing has appeared, among other places, in Conjunctions, Harper's Magazine, the Paris Review, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and has been anthologized in Best American Science and Nature Writing. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Carnegie Hall, Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage Leon Botstein unearths more rarely-heard masterpieces in this concert examining Eastern European music through the rise and fall of Soviet communism, from Szymanowski’s 1918 Songs of the Infatuated Muezzin to Russian composer Boris Tishchenko’s Fifth Symphony, and György Kurtág’s early-21st-century …concertante….
Leon Botsteinconductor
Karol Szymanowski Songs of the Infatuated Muezzin György Kurtág …concertante… Boris Tishchenko Symphony No. 5 For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Veterans of Foreign Wars • Red Hook Post 7765 • 30 Elizabeth Street, Red Hook, NY
Sharing cakes at funeral wakes is a practice common amongst the Lakȟóta people; often, these cakes have an image of the deceased imprinted in the frosting. Kite, an Oglála Lakȟóta performance artist and composer, explores this tradition in a performance in which she decorates funerary cakes made from local indigenous ingredients while speaking with friends, relatives, and elders about traditions, kin, land, and species they have lost. As we face death in the world, Kite hopes to turn towards protocols for mourning to process the death of beings, human and non-human. Cake and coffee will be served.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Rising and Sinking Again presents sixteen graduate exhibitions realized by the Class of 2023 master’s candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Distinct in theme and focus, these projects are the culmination of a year and a half of research in collaboration with artists, writers, scholars, and more. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Architect, activist, and farmer Tara Rodríguez Besosa is creating an installation and resource center to introduce the public to OtraCosa, an off-grid DIY queer homestead in the rural, mountainous community of San Salvador, Puerto Rico. For the past year, Tara has been mapping and cataloging the species and food systems of OtraCosa, creating a decolonized, living manuscript of the different human and non-human exchanges that provide nourishment, healing, and life. Tara, inspired by the Drake Manuscript, is creating their own decolonized version of a living manuscript, handmade by them on the farm. Throughout the festival, Tara will guide audiences through the installation and its manuscript, inviting us to explore the principles and practices of OtraCosa and those who steward its land.
Online Event This conversation will mark the launch of Reshaping the Field: Arts of the African Diasporas on Display, edited by Dr. Nana Adusei-Poku, and proceeding from a conference that took place at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, in fall 2022. For this special event, Dr. Adusei-Poku will moderate a conversation with Margaret Winslow, who will speak on her recent exhibition Afro-American Images 1971: The Vision of Percy Ricks (2021-2022) at the Delaware Art Museum, and Elise Armani, Amy Kahng, and Gabriella Shypula, who will present their exhibition Revisiting 5+1 currently on view at the Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery at Stony Brook University.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Windows, Murk, and Magic Spells in Daniil Kharms: A Translation Workshop
Matvei Yankelevich, Lecturer in Translation and Book Arts, Columbia University
Friday, May 5, 2023 1–3 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 202 Matvei Yankelevich is a poet, translator, and editor whose publications include Some Worlds for Dr. Vogt (Black Square), Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms (Overlook), and, most recently, the chapbook Dead Winter (Fonograf). He is the editor of World Poetry Books, a nonprofit publisher of poetry in translation, and teaches translation and book arts at Columbia University's School of the Arts.
Yankelevich will illustrate translation strategies as they apply to the work of Daniil Kharms, iconoclastic writer of the early Soviet avant garde; participants of the workshop will join forces in the translation of a few short works by Kharms.
Proficiency in Russian is not required. We particularly encourage creative writers of all sorts to join their Russian-proficient peers in this rare opportunity to learn from a master of poetic translation. Sponsored by: Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Memory of Birds is an interactive sound installation in trees in collaboration with a trauma therapist and migrating birds. The work explores political violence that literally and figuratively gets buried in contested lands. A guided somatic experience, Memory of Birds is a work that eats itself, designed to be forgotten.
Memory of Birds is an interactive sound installation in trees in collaboration with a trauma therapist and migrating birds. The work explores political violence that literally and figuratively gets buried in contested lands. A guided somatic experience, Memory of Birds is a work that eats itself, designed to be forgotten.
Veterans of Foreign Wars • Red Hook Post 7765 • 30 Elizabeth Street, Red Hook, NY
Sharing cakes at funeral wakes is a practice common amongst the Lakȟóta people; often, these cakes have an image of the deceased imprinted in the frosting. Kite, an Oglála Lakȟóta performance artist and composer, explores this tradition in a performance in which she decorates funerary cakes made from local indigenous ingredients while speaking with friends, relatives, and elders about traditions, kin, land, and species they have lost. As we face death in the world, Kite hopes to turn towards protocols for mourning to process the death of beings, human and non-human. Cake and coffee will be served.
Veterans of Foreign Wars • Red Hook Post 7765 • 30 Elizabeth Street, Red Hook, NY
Sharing cakes at funeral wakes is a practice common amongst the Lakȟóta people; often, these cakes have an image of the deceased imprinted in the frosting. Kite, an Oglála Lakȟóta performance artist and composer, explores this tradition in a performance in which she decorates funerary cakes made from local indigenous ingredients while speaking with friends, relatives, and elders about traditions, kin, land, and species they have lost. As we face death in the world, Kite hopes to turn towards protocols for mourning to process the death of beings, human and non-human. Cake and coffee will be served.
Degree Recital: Finding Home with Montana Smith, soprano, and Bat-Erdene Batbileg, piano
Friday, May 5, 2023 7:30 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building Soprano Montana Smith is a young artist with a mission to cultivate community through song. Her repertoire within the classical genre spans from antiquity to the present day, with her focus in each context being on generous and inclusive communication.
COMMUNION: a ritual of nourishment and commemoration
Kenyon Adams
Friday, May 5, 2023 8–9 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Stage Right
In what ways does a meal distinctly allow commemoration and also provide nourishment? And where are the joy-working and life-sustaining spaces of the future?
COMMUNION: a ritual of nourishment and commemoration is a participatory “blues Eucharist” inspired by Kenyon Adams’ early experiences in the Black Protestant churches of his childhood in the Southeast region of the United States. In collaboration with chef and artist Omar Tate (featured in the Netflix series High on the Hog), food and culture writer Osayi Endolyn (The Rise: Black Cooks and the Soul of American Food: A Cookbook), and visual artist Ambrose Rhapsody Murray, Kenyon is creating an offering to the audience, with poems, prayers, movement, music, and food. The ritual applies the distinct paradox which imbues a Eucharistic meal: the partaking of which is simultaneously a commemoration of death as well as a claim of unity with that which cannot die or be diminished. COMMUNION seeks to construct new spaces and traditions of testimony and witness.
This work is part of the artist’s own reckoning with death in the pandemic and the ways it has disproportionately affected BIPOC communities, as well as the ongoing violence against black bodies within American society. COMMUNION is the second installment of a ritual trilogy, WATCHNIGHT: WE ARE ALMOST TO OUR DESTINATION. The first part, Prayers of the People, was presented by the Fisher Center in 2018 in collaboration with the Hannah Arendt Center.
The meeting place for COMMUNION will be the LUMA lobby. Will Call will be stationed there, and guests will be led to the performance space inside the theater.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Rising and Sinking Again presents sixteen graduate exhibitions realized by the Class of 2023 master’s candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Distinct in theme and focus, these projects are the culmination of a year and a half of research in collaboration with artists, writers, scholars, and more. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Architect, activist, and farmer Tara Rodríguez Besosa is creating an installation and resource center to introduce the public to OtraCosa, an off-grid DIY queer homestead in the rural, mountainous community of San Salvador, Puerto Rico. For the past year, Tara has been mapping and cataloging the species and food systems of OtraCosa, creating a decolonized, living manuscript of the different human and non-human exchanges that provide nourishment, healing, and life. Tara, inspired by the Drake Manuscript, is creating their own decolonized version of a living manuscript, handmade by them on the farm. Throughout the festival, Tara will guide audiences through the installation and its manuscript, inviting us to explore the principles and practices of OtraCosa and those who steward its land.
Architect, activist, and farmer Tara Rodríguez Besosa is creating an installation and resource center to introduce the public to OtraCosa, an off-grid DIY queer homestead in the rural, mountainous community of San Salvador, Puerto Rico. For the past year, Tara has been mapping and cataloging the species and food systems of OtraCosa, creating a decolonized, living manuscript of the different human and non-human exchanges that provide nourishment, healing, and life. Tara, inspired by the Drake Manuscript, is creating their own decolonized version of a living manuscript, handmade by them on the farm. Throughout the festival, Tara will guide audiences through the installation and its manuscript, inviting us to explore the principles and practices of OtraCosa and those who steward its land.
Memory of Birds is an interactive sound installation in trees in collaboration with a trauma therapist and migrating birds. The work explores political violence that literally and figuratively gets buried in contested lands. A guided somatic experience, Memory of Birds is a work that eats itself, designed to be forgotten.
Memory of Birds is an interactive sound installation in trees in collaboration with a trauma therapist and migrating birds. The work explores political violence that literally and figuratively gets buried in contested lands. A guided somatic experience, Memory of Birds is a work that eats itself, designed to be forgotten.
Degree Recital: Alexander Levinson, cello, with pianists Pei-I Hsu and Hannah Park-Kaufmann, and violinist Yuchen Zhao
Works by Bach, Rachmaninoff, Golijov, and Piazzolla.
Saturday, May 6, 2023 4–5:30 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building Alexander Levinson, who studies with Peter Wiley, has been immersing his cello playing into many genres of music including classical, the Broadway musical, improvisatory klezmer and jazz, modern, and traditional Chinese. He will graduate in May 2023 with two degrees from Bard, a BA in cello performance, and a BS in computer science.
Veterans of Foreign Wars • Red Hook Post 7765 • 30 Elizabeth Street, Red Hook, NY
Sharing cakes at funeral wakes is a practice common amongst the Lakȟóta people; often, these cakes have an image of the deceased imprinted in the frosting. Kite, an Oglála Lakȟóta performance artist and composer, explores this tradition in a performance in which she decorates funerary cakes made from local indigenous ingredients while speaking with friends, relatives, and elders about traditions, kin, land, and species they have lost. As we face death in the world, Kite hopes to turn towards protocols for mourning to process the death of beings, human and non-human. Cake and coffee will be served.
Veterans of Foreign Wars • Red Hook Post 7765 • 30 Elizabeth Street, Red Hook, NY
Sharing cakes at funeral wakes is a practice common amongst the Lakȟóta people; often, these cakes have an image of the deceased imprinted in the frosting. Kite, an Oglála Lakȟóta performance artist and composer, explores this tradition in a performance in which she decorates funerary cakes made from local indigenous ingredients while speaking with friends, relatives, and elders about traditions, kin, land, and species they have lost. As we face death in the world, Kite hopes to turn towards protocols for mourning to process the death of beings, human and non-human. Cake and coffee will be served.
Degree Recital: All About Love with Zihao Liu, tenor and Diana Borshcheva, piano
Saturday, May 6, 2023 7 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building Chinese tenor Zihao Liu is an artist of exceptional vocal agility and communicative musicianship. Mr. Liu’s recent solo appearances include Lord Tolloller in Gilbert and Sulliavan’s Iolanthe, led by James Bagwell; tenor soloist in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with the Bard Conservatory Orchestra; the Schoolmaster in Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen, a production of the Graduate Vocal Arts Program at Bard Conservatory, directed by Doug Fitch; tenor soloist in Handel’s Messiah with The Orchestra Now, conducted by Leon Botstein; and the Nurse in Monteverdi’s opera L’incoronazione di Poppea at the Manhattan School of Music. In addition Mr. Liu has performed several solo recitals in the United States and China.
COMMUNION: a ritual of nourishment and commemoration
Kenyon Adams
Saturday, May 6, 2023 8–9 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Stage Right
In what ways does a meal distinctly allow commemoration and also provide nourishment? And where are the joy-working and life-sustaining spaces of the future?
COMMUNION: a ritual of nourishment and commemoration is a participatory “blues Eucharist” inspired by Kenyon Adams’ early experiences in the Black Protestant churches of his childhood in the Southeast region of the United States. In collaboration with chef and artist Omar Tate (featured in the Netflix series High on the Hog), food and culture writer Osayi Endolyn (The Rise: Black Cooks and the Soul of American Food: A Cookbook), and visual artist Ambrose Rhapsody Murray, Kenyon is creating an offering to the audience, with poems, prayers, movement, music, and food. The ritual applies the distinct paradox which imbues a Eucharistic meal: the partaking of which is simultaneously a commemoration of death as well as a claim of unity with that which cannot die or be diminished. COMMUNION seeks to construct new spaces and traditions of testimony and witness.
This work is part of the artist’s own reckoning with death in the pandemic and the ways it has disproportionately affected BIPOC communities, as well as the ongoing violence against black bodies within American society. COMMUNION is the second installment of a ritual trilogy, WATCHNIGHT: WE ARE ALMOST TO OUR DESTINATION. The first part, Prayers of the People, was presented by the Fisher Center in 2018 in collaboration with the Hannah Arendt Center.
The meeting place for COMMUNION will be the LUMA lobby. Will Call will be stationed there, and guests will be led to the performance space inside the theater.
COMMUNION: a ritual of nourishment and commemoration
Kenyon Adams
Saturday, May 6, 2023 8–9 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Stage Right
In what ways does a meal distinctly allow commemoration and also provide nourishment? And where are the joy-working and life-sustaining spaces of the future?
COMMUNION: a ritual of nourishment and commemoration is a participatory “blues Eucharist” inspired by Kenyon Adams’ early experiences in the Black Protestant churches of his childhood in the Southeast region of the United States. In collaboration with chef and artist Omar Tate (featured in the Netflix series High on the Hog), food and culture writer Osayi Endolyn (The Rise: Black Cooks and the Soul of American Food: A Cookbook), and visual artist Ambrose Rhapsody Murray, Kenyon is creating an offering to the audience, with poems, prayers, movement, music, and food. The ritual applies the distinct paradox which imbues a Eucharistic meal: the partaking of which is simultaneously a commemoration of death as well as a claim of unity with that which cannot die or be diminished. COMMUNION seeks to construct new spaces and traditions of testimony and witness.
This work is part of the artist’s own reckoning with death in the pandemic and the ways it has disproportionately affected BIPOC communities, as well as the ongoing violence against black bodies within American society. COMMUNION is the second installment of a ritual trilogy, WATCHNIGHT: WE ARE ALMOST TO OUR DESTINATION. The first part, Prayers of the People, was presented by the Fisher Center in 2018 in collaboration with the Hannah Arendt Center.
The meeting place for COMMUNION will be the LUMA lobby. Will Call will be stationed there, and guests will be led to the performance space inside the theater.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Rising and Sinking Again presents sixteen graduate exhibitions realized by the Class of 2023 master’s candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Distinct in theme and focus, these projects are the culmination of a year and a half of research in collaboration with artists, writers, scholars, and more. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Architect, activist, and farmer Tara Rodríguez Besosa is creating an installation and resource center to introduce the public to OtraCosa, an off-grid DIY queer homestead in the rural, mountainous community of San Salvador, Puerto Rico. For the past year, Tara has been mapping and cataloging the species and food systems of OtraCosa, creating a decolonized, living manuscript of the different human and non-human exchanges that provide nourishment, healing, and life. Tara, inspired by the Drake Manuscript, is creating their own decolonized version of a living manuscript, handmade by them on the farm. Throughout the festival, Tara will guide audiences through the installation and its manuscript, inviting us to explore the principles and practices of OtraCosa and those who steward its land.
Architect, activist, and farmer Tara Rodríguez Besosa is creating an installation and resource center to introduce the public to OtraCosa, an off-grid DIY queer homestead in the rural, mountainous community of San Salvador, Puerto Rico. For the past year, Tara has been mapping and cataloging the species and food systems of OtraCosa, creating a decolonized, living manuscript of the different human and non-human exchanges that provide nourishment, healing, and life. Tara, inspired by the Drake Manuscript, is creating their own decolonized version of a living manuscript, handmade by them on the farm. Throughout the festival, Tara will guide audiences through the installation and its manuscript, inviting us to explore the principles and practices of OtraCosa and those who steward its land.
Memory of Birds is an interactive sound installation in trees in collaboration with a trauma therapist and migrating birds. The work explores political violence that literally and figuratively gets buried in contested lands. A guided somatic experience, Memory of Birds is a work that eats itself, designed to be forgotten.
Memory of Birds is an interactive sound installation in trees in collaboration with a trauma therapist and migrating birds. The work explores political violence that literally and figuratively gets buried in contested lands. A guided somatic experience, Memory of Birds is a work that eats itself, designed to be forgotten.
Veterans of Foreign Wars • Red Hook Post 7765 • 30 Elizabeth Street, Red Hook, NY
Sharing cakes at funeral wakes is a practice common amongst the Lakȟóta people; often, these cakes have an image of the deceased imprinted in the frosting. Kite, an Oglála Lakȟóta performance artist and composer, explores this tradition in a performance in which she decorates funerary cakes made from local indigenous ingredients while speaking with friends, relatives, and elders about traditions, kin, land, and species they have lost. As we face death in the world, Kite hopes to turn towards protocols for mourning to process the death of beings, human and non-human. Cake and coffee will be served.
Veterans of Foreign Wars • Red Hook Post 7765 • 30 Elizabeth Street, Red Hook, NY
Sharing cakes at funeral wakes is a practice common amongst the Lakȟóta people; often, these cakes have an image of the deceased imprinted in the frosting. Kite, an Oglála Lakȟóta performance artist and composer, explores this tradition in a performance in which she decorates funerary cakes made from local indigenous ingredients while speaking with friends, relatives, and elders about traditions, kin, land, and species they have lost. As we face death in the world, Kite hopes to turn towards protocols for mourning to process the death of beings, human and non-human. Cake and coffee will be served.
Degree Recital: How We Move Forward with Michael Alexander Aoun, bass-baritone and Viktória Sarkadi, piano
A graduate degree recital discussing how we live with and through difficulty—with themes of heritage, community, and identity.
Sunday, May 7, 2023 4 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building Including works by Pauline Oliveros, H. Leslie Adams, Francis Poulenc, Hugo Wolf, William Bolcom, the Rahbani Brothers, and the world premiere of a piece by John Paul Labno.
Michael Alexander Aoun is a Lebanese-American bass-baritone whose passion for interdisciplinary and collaborative art inspires their professional work. An all-or-nothing person, Michael views music as a means of exploring one’s whole self and creating something entirely unique. They feel strongly that their art reflect their personal values of authenticity and human connection.
COMMUNION: a ritual of nourishment and commemoration
Kenyon Adams
Sunday, May 7, 2023 4–5 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Stage Right
In what ways does a meal distinctly allow commemoration and also provide nourishment? And where are the joy-working and life-sustaining spaces of the future?
COMMUNION: a ritual of nourishment and commemoration is a participatory “blues Eucharist” inspired by Kenyon Adams’ early experiences in the Black Protestant churches of his childhood in the Southeast region of the United States. In collaboration with chef and artist Omar Tate (featured in the Netflix series High on the Hog), food and culture writer Osayi Endolyn (The Rise: Black Cooks and the Soul of American Food: A Cookbook), and visual artist Ambrose Rhapsody Murray, Kenyon is creating an offering to the audience, with poems, prayers, movement, music, and food. The ritual applies the distinct paradox which imbues a Eucharistic meal: the partaking of which is simultaneously a commemoration of death as well as a claim of unity with that which cannot die or be diminished. COMMUNION seeks to construct new spaces and traditions of testimony and witness.
This work is part of the artist’s own reckoning with death in the pandemic and the ways it has disproportionately affected BIPOC communities, as well as the ongoing violence against black bodies within American society. COMMUNION is the second installment of a ritual trilogy, WATCHNIGHT: WE ARE ALMOST TO OUR DESTINATION. The first part, Prayers of the People, was presented by the Fisher Center in 2018 in collaboration with the Hannah Arendt Center.
The meeting place for COMMUNION will be the LUMA lobby. Will Call will be stationed there, and guests will be led to the performance space inside the theater.
COMMUNION: a ritual of nourishment and commemoration
Kenyon Adams
Sunday, May 7, 2023 4–5 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Stage Right
In what ways does a meal distinctly allow commemoration and also provide nourishment? And where are the joy-working and life-sustaining spaces of the future?
COMMUNION: a ritual of nourishment and commemoration is a participatory “blues Eucharist” inspired by Kenyon Adams’ early experiences in the Black Protestant churches of his childhood in the Southeast region of the United States. In collaboration with chef and artist Omar Tate (featured in the Netflix series High on the Hog), food and culture writer Osayi Endolyn (The Rise: Black Cooks and the Soul of American Food: A Cookbook), and visual artist Ambrose Rhapsody Murray, Kenyon is creating an offering to the audience, with poems, prayers, movement, music, and food. The ritual applies the distinct paradox which imbues a Eucharistic meal: the partaking of which is simultaneously a commemoration of death as well as a claim of unity with that which cannot die or be diminished. COMMUNION seeks to construct new spaces and traditions of testimony and witness.
This work is part of the artist’s own reckoning with death in the pandemic and the ways it has disproportionately affected BIPOC communities, as well as the ongoing violence against black bodies within American society. COMMUNION is the second installment of a ritual trilogy, WATCHNIGHT: WE ARE ALMOST TO OUR DESTINATION. The first part, Prayers of the People, was presented by the Fisher Center in 2018 in collaboration with the Hannah Arendt Center.
The meeting place for COMMUNION will be the LUMA lobby. Will Call will be stationed there, and guests will be led to the performance space inside the theater.
The Consortium for Liberal Arts in Prison, in partnership with OSUN and Incarceration Nations Network, invites individuals at member institutions to the next event in the BPI Global Initiatives Virtual Lecture Series.
This lecture series is designed for a global community of practitioners in different higher education contexts in prisons and carceral spaces around the world.
Daniela Ronco joins for “Monitoring the safeguard of inmates’ rights: the role of a watchdog organization in the Italian context.”
Ronco is member of Antigone NGO and a researcher in sociology of law, deviance and social change at the Law Department of the University of Turin (Italy). Her research interests include prison ethnography, the safeguard of health in prison and the alternatives to imprisonment.
This session, like all in the series, will include simultaneous translations in English and Spanish.
Microfestival by First-Year MA Students in Human Rights & the Arts
Tuesday, May 9, 2023 10 am – 8 pm
Bard campus and Tivoli Alluvial is a microfestival of artwork created by the first year M.A. students in the Human Rights & the Arts program at Bard College. The microfestival takes place at various times and locations on campus and in Tivoli on Tuesday, May 9 and Friday, May 12, and includes multidisciplinary works, installations, performances, live art, interactive work, and film. These works in progress are part of the final submission for the Collaborations and Community-based Art course taught by Sabine El Chamaa.Sponsored by: Bard Graduate Programs; Human Rights Program; Human Rights Project; OSUN; OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Rising and Sinking Again presents sixteen graduate exhibitions realized by the Class of 2023 master’s candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Distinct in theme and focus, these projects are the culmination of a year and a half of research in collaboration with artists, writers, scholars, and more. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Rising and Sinking Again presents sixteen graduate exhibitions realized by the Class of 2023 master’s candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Distinct in theme and focus, these projects are the culmination of a year and a half of research in collaboration with artists, writers, scholars, and more. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Choreographed by rising artists in the Bard dance program, this concert of Senior Projects represents the culmination of four years of intensive choreographic inquiry and research. Their concepts have been realized with the support of a professional staff of designers.
Choreography by Itzel Herrera Garcia Antonia Salathé
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Rising and Sinking Again presents sixteen graduate exhibitions realized by the Class of 2023 master’s candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Distinct in theme and focus, these projects are the culmination of a year and a half of research in collaboration with artists, writers, scholars, and more. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Microfestival by First-Year MA Students in Human Rights & the Arts
Friday, May 12, 2023 12–8 pm
Bard campus and Tivoli Alluvial is a microfestival of artwork created by the first year M.A. students in the Human Rights & the Arts program at Bard College. The microfestival takes place at various times and locations on campus and in Tivoli on Tuesday, May 9 and Friday, May 12, and includes multidisciplinary works, installations, performances, live art, interactive work, and film. These works in progress are part of the final submission for the Collaborations and Community-based Art course taught by Sabine El Chamaa.Sponsored by: Bard Graduate Programs; Human Rights Program; Human Rights Project; OSUN; OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts.
Choreographed by rising artists in the Bard dance program, this concert of Senior Projects represents the culmination of four years of intensive choreographic inquiry and research. Their concepts have been realized with the support of a professional staff of designers.
Choreography by Itzel Herrera Garcia Antonia Salathé
Choreographed by rising artists in the Bard dance program, this concert of Senior Projects represents the culmination of four years of intensive choreographic inquiry and research. Their concepts have been realized with the support of a professional staff of designers.
Choreography by Itzel Herrera Garcia Antonia Salathé
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Rising and Sinking Again presents sixteen graduate exhibitions realized by the Class of 2023 master’s candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Distinct in theme and focus, these projects are the culmination of a year and a half of research in collaboration with artists, writers, scholars, and more. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Choreographed by rising artists in the Bard dance program, this concert of Senior Projects represents the culmination of four years of intensive choreographic inquiry and research. Their concepts have been realized with the support of a professional staff of designers.
Choreography by Itzel Herrera Garcia Antonia Salathé
Choreographed by rising artists in the Bard dance program, this concert of Senior Projects represents the culmination of four years of intensive choreographic inquiry and research. Their concepts have been realized with the support of a professional staff of designers.
Choreography by Itzel Herrera Garcia Antonia Salathé
As part of the thesis exhibition No Jokes Allowed, Ikechukwu Ufomadu, Alex Forrest, and Alex Tatarsky examine humorlessness and uncanny comedy as a tactic in conversation with artworks from the Marieluise Hessel Collection. The performances—which take place every other Saturday through April and May—allow each performer half an hour to respond to the displayed artworks, which similarly refuse the joke format.
Comedian Ikechukwu Ufomadu takes familiar communication and teases out its unease, combining everyday cadences with nonsensical language. His cheerful deadpan style prioritizes believability over joke-telling.
Stand-up Alex Forrest’s performance Star Wars constructs a character who insists on a worldview to deconstruct their sense of self. The performance includes interventions throughout the museum space.
In Spirit Channel Surfing, clown and artist Alex Tatarsky hosts a Q&A with the displayed artworks in an exploration of material, mime, mimesis, and objecthood.
Presented in conjunction with the exhibition No Jokes Allowed curated by CCS Bard graduate student Olivia Rodrigues.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Choreographed by rising artists in the Bard dance program, this concert of Senior Projects represents the culmination of four years of intensive choreographic inquiry and research. Their concepts have been realized with the support of a professional staff of designers.
Choreography by Itzel Herrera Garcia Antonia Salathé
“I have two goals in my heart: I don’t just want to establish a musical idea…. I want to develop a cross-cultural idea that brings nature and classical music, ancient and modern, together.”—Tan Dun
Dean of the Bard College Conservatory of Music and UNESCO Global Goodwill Ambassador, Tan Dun, has made an indelible mark on the world’s music scene with a repertoire that spans the boundaries of classical music, multimedia performance, and Eastern and Western traditions. His compositions often feature water as a musical instrument.
In this program, he conducts five works by Czech, French, Romanian, Japanese, and British composers who were inspired by the sounds of oceans, rivers, and flowing waters.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Rising and Sinking Again presents sixteen graduate exhibitions realized by the Class of 2023 master’s candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Distinct in theme and focus, these projects are the culmination of a year and a half of research in collaboration with artists, writers, scholars, and more. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
The annual spring concert of the Bard Chinese Ensemble will be a special occasion in 2023, celebrating five years of the US-China Music Institute and the graduation of the first class of Chinese instrument majors in the Bard Conservatory. The concert program will feature a number of chamber works for mixed Chinese and Western instruments, plus a new selection of traditional pieces especially arranged by Ensemble Director Chen Tao.
Free and open to the public. A reception will follow the concert in the lobby of Olin Hall.
Symphony Space in New York City TŌN wraps up its eighth season of free concerts with a performance at Symphony Space. Resident Conductor Zachary Schwartzman leads the orchestra in a program that includes Messiaen’s sentimental and spiritual song cycle Poèmes pour Mi, and Dukas’ ever-popular symphonic poem The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.
Zachary Schwartzmanconductor Katherine Lerner Lee VAP ’23soprano
Paul DukasThe Sorcerer’s Apprentice Olivier MessiaenPoèmes pour Mi Henri Dutilleux Symphony No. 1 For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
The Lafayette Trail New Marker Dedication Ceremony
Join us at Montgomery Place!
Monday, May 15, 2023 2 pm
Montgomery Place Estate The Lafayette Trail, Inc., is pleased to announce the upcoming dedication of a new Lafayette Trail historic marker in Red Hook, New York, on Monday, May 15, 2023, at 2 pm.
The marker dedication ceremony will occur at Montgomery Place. Attendees can park their vehicles in the parking lot of the Montgomery Place Visitors Center located at 55 Montgomery Place, Red Hook, NY 12571.
Montgomery Place is now the property of Bard College. We are very grateful to the leadership of Bard College for its keen interest in interpreting the connection of Montgomery Place to General Lafayette via the Frenchman's visit to Janet Livingston Montgomery on September 19, 1824.
The site of the unveiling is located within walking distance of the visitors' center. Bard College will provide a few golf carts for individuals who may need special accommodations to get to the marker site.
The event will include formal remarks from all the stakeholders involved in the preparation of the marker, the actual unveiling, as well as photo opportunities. The ceremony is expected to last 45 minutes.
A reception will take place near the site of the unveiling, following the conclusion of the ceremony. Afterward, attendees are invited to walk the grounds of Montgomery Place. The mansion is not open to the public at this time.
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium On Monday, May 8th at 5pm and Monday, May 15th at 5:30pm, please join the Written Arts Program for two nights of senior readings! Written Arts seniors will be reading excerpts from their recently completed senior projects in fiction, poetry, narrative nonfiction, and hybrid forms, with introductory and closing remarks from Written Arts faculty. This event will be held in person in the László Z. Bitó ’60 Auditorium, Reem-Kayden Center (RKC). All are welcome!
May 8th Readers Soledad Aguilar-Colon Rayelle Cato Kc Chiucarello Mina Dahl Rasheeda Graham Erica Infanger Giacomo Milia Marxe Orbach Maddie Parker Beritt Perdue Bernard Pollara Jess Berkun Faye Thompson Max Trosman
May 15th Readers Dash Charlesworth Zoe Collea Andrei Dumitriu Heather Garufi MarQuel Horton Sarah Hudes Harmony Johnson Wicker Sophia Lawder-Gill Meadow Palmer Sarame Sahgal Tamar Mayer DeAngelis Ava Schwartz Melissa Sidley Lily Taggart Sylvie Winkler Tallulah WoitachSponsored by: Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Arts songs about flowers in English and German by Beach, Brahms, Burleigh, Alma Mahler, Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn, Price, Quilter, Clara and Robert Schumann, Schubert, Smyth, Strauss, Vaughan-Williams and Wolf.Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Rising and Sinking Again presents sixteen graduate exhibitions realized by the Class of 2023 master’s candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Distinct in theme and focus, these projects are the culmination of a year and a half of research in collaboration with artists, writers, scholars, and more. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
From Spain To The Americas, A Journey through the Spanish Language
Wednesday, May 17, 2023 1 pm
Olin Hall Come join us on this musical journey across time and space through the Spanish language. A program that travels from the early days of Spain as a nation in the 15th century to the music of the Americas featuring 15 composers from eight different countries, all united by the same language and presented by the wonderful singers and pianists of Bard’s Vocal Arts Program.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Rising and Sinking Again presents sixteen graduate exhibitions realized by the Class of 2023 master’s candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Distinct in theme and focus, these projects are the culmination of a year and a half of research in collaboration with artists, writers, scholars, and more. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Rising and Sinking Again presents sixteen graduate exhibitions realized by the Class of 2023 master’s candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Distinct in theme and focus, these projects are the culmination of a year and a half of research in collaboration with artists, writers, scholars, and more. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium Please join us on Friday, May 19 at 3:30 pm in RKC 103 for the presentation of the latest issue of Sui Generis, Bard’s student-run journal dedicated to literary translation. Please come to celebrate the hard work of the journal’s editorial board and the many translators who contributed to a robust and diverse issue of the journal. In addition to readings of work in many languages and in English translation, there will be light refreshments. All are welcome!Sponsored by: The Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Bitó Conservatory Building All Conservatory undergraduate students perform a recital in their third year as partial fulfillment of their bachelor of music requirements. Repertoire details are announced at each recital.
Baroque Masterpieces: Pergolesi Stabat Mater and Bach Orchestral Suite No. 3
Friday, May 19, 2023 8:30–10 pm
Olin Hall Students of the Conservatory, Graduate Vocal Arts, and Conducting Programs will perform two masterpieces of the baroque era: Pergolesi's Stabat Mater, featuring soprano Sarah Nalty and alto Montana Smith, and Bach's Orchestral Suite No. 3.Sponsored by: Bard Conservatory Graduate Conducting Program.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Rising and Sinking Again presents sixteen graduate exhibitions realized by the Class of 2023 master’s candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Distinct in theme and focus, these projects are the culmination of a year and a half of research in collaboration with artists, writers, scholars, and more. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
NYC (Barnard Milstein Center for Learning) Citizens' assemblies have addessed complex policy issues around the worldand have even become permanent in Paris, Oregon and Belgium. This 10 Credit CTLE (Continuing Teacher and Leader Education) course presented with Democracy Without Elections introduces secondary teachers to the expanding use of lottery (sortition) to bring diverse groups of citizens together to form policy recommendations.
Dimitri Courant is a Postdoctoral Research Associate and Fung Global Fellow at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS), at Princeton University.
He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Lausanne and the University Paris 8. He is a democracy visiting fellow at the Ash Center, at Harvard Kennedy School. He holds two master’s degrees, in political science from Sciences Po Rennes, and in social sciences from the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences.
Degree Recital: Felix Johnson, horn, with Bat-Erdene Batbileg, piano
Saturday, May 20, 2023 3 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building Felix Johnson is a horn player at the Bard Conservatory from New York studying under the instruction of Barbara Jöstlein Currie, Hugo Valverde, and Julia Pilant. He is also a philosophy major with a particular interest in 20th-century political theory. His senior project, Decentralized Perfectionism: a Critique of Contractarianism and Bureaucracy through the Inspiration of Nietzsche, received the William E. Lensing Prize and was nominated for the Irma Brandeis Award. As a horn player, Felix has been a member of the Empire State Youth Orchestra and participant in various summer festivals including Domaine Forget in Saint-Irénée, Quebec and the Curtis Summerfest in Philadelphia, PA.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Rising and Sinking Again presents sixteen graduate exhibitions realized by the Class of 2023 master’s candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Distinct in theme and focus, these projects are the culmination of a year and a half of research in collaboration with artists, writers, scholars, and more. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
NYC (Barnard Milstein Center for Learning) Citizens' assemblies have addessed complex policy issues around the worldand have even become permanent in Paris, Oregon and Belgium. This 10 Credit CTLE (Continuing Teacher and Leader Education) course presented with Democracy Without Elections introduces secondary teachers to the expanding use of lottery (sortition) to bring diverse groups of citizens together to form policy recommendations.
Dimitri Courant is a Postdoctoral Research Associate and Fung Global Fellow at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS), at Princeton University.
He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Lausanne and the University Paris 8. He is a democracy visiting fellow at the Ash Center, at Harvard Kennedy School. He holds two master’s degrees, in political science from Sciences Po Rennes, and in social sciences from the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences.
Percussion Studio Concert: A New Generation of Percussion Music
21st Century Works by Robyn Jacob, Alexis Lamb, Missy Mazzoli, Emmanuel Sejourne, and Shodekeh Talifero
Sunday, May 21, 2023 7–9 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Percussionists perform contemporary compositions on marimba, vibraphone, drums, and a wide variety of other instruments.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Bertelsmann Campus Center After a fifteen-year-long hiatus, Bard's student-run campus newspaper is back and better than ever! Pick up a limited edition copy of the newly revived Bard Observer at the Campus Center or from a roaming Observer representative near you. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Bertelsmann Campus Center After a fifteen-year-long hiatus, Bard's student-run campus newspaper is back and better than ever! Pick up a limited edition copy of the newly revived Bard Observer at the Campus Center or from a roaming Observer representative near you. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Rising and Sinking Again presents sixteen graduate exhibitions realized by the Class of 2023 master’s candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Distinct in theme and focus, these projects are the culmination of a year and a half of research in collaboration with artists, writers, scholars, and more. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Bertelsmann Campus Center After a fifteen-year-long hiatus, Bard's student-run campus newspaper is back and better than ever! Pick up a limited edition copy of the newly revived Bard Observer at the Campus Center or from a roaming Observer representative near you. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
We look forward to you joining us for our annual End of Semester/Member's Social at the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College! Membership helps make it possible for the Hannah Arendt Center to create a thriving community for bold and risky humanities thinking about our political world. We invite ALL members and their guests to join us at the center in-person on May 24th, for an appreciation event. We will begin with a Meet & Greet at 5:30pm, followed by a campus tour of the Hannah Arendt gravesite and a pop-up exhibition at the Hannah Arendt Archive at the Stevenson's Library. We will end at the center for drinks, food, and conversation. Stop by to learn about our new programs, meet staff & faculty members, and snag some sweet treats and membership swag.
Schedule:
5:30 pm - Meet and Greet at HAC (light refreshments): 6:00 pm - Visit HA gravesite 6:30 pm - Visit HA archive and pop-up exhibition
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm - Dinner, Drinks, and Discussion at HAC
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Rising and Sinking Again presents sixteen graduate exhibitions realized by the Class of 2023 master’s candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Distinct in theme and focus, these projects are the culmination of a year and a half of research in collaboration with artists, writers, scholars, and more. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Bertelsmann Campus Center After a fifteen-year-long hiatus, Bard's student-run campus newspaper is back and better than ever! Pick up a limited edition copy of the newly revived Bard Observer at the Campus Center or from a roaming Observer representative near you. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Rising and Sinking Again presents sixteen graduate exhibitions realized by the Class of 2023 master’s candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Distinct in theme and focus, these projects are the culmination of a year and a half of research in collaboration with artists, writers, scholars, and more. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Reunion 2023 will celebrate classes ending in 3 and 8, but all classes are invited back to campus for the festivities.
Reunite with friends in Annandale for the biggest celebration of the year! Attend the Bard College Awards Ceremony, reunion dinners, Blithewood BBQ, dancing, fireworks, and much more!
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater This inspiring annual event celebrates the exceptional achievements of Bard alumni/ae and friends of the College; outstanding faculty and staff who are retiring are recognized with the Bardian Award. Join fellow Bard alumni/ae, faculty, and staff for cocktails and hors d’oeuvres on the Sosnoff Theater patio, followed by the Bard College Awards ceremony, hosted by Bard College President Leon Botstein and KC Serota ’04, president of the Bard College Alumni/ae Association Board of Governors. The event is free, but advance registration is required.
5 pm Cocktail Reception Sosnoff patio, Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts
6:30 pm Bard College Awards Ceremony (livestream begins at 6:30 pm) Sosnoff Theater, Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Rising and Sinking Again presents sixteen graduate exhibitions realized by the Class of 2023 master’s candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Distinct in theme and focus, these projects are the culmination of a year and a half of research in collaboration with artists, writers, scholars, and more. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Reunion 2023 will celebrate classes ending in 3 and 8, but all classes are invited back to campus for the festivities.
Reunite with friends in Annandale for the biggest celebration of the year! Attend the Bard College Awards Ceremony, reunion dinners, Blithewood BBQ, dancing, fireworks, and much more!
Bard College Campus Bard College will hold its 163rd commencement on Saturday, May 27, 2023. Bard President Leon Botstein will confer 384 undergraduate degrees on the Class of 2023 and 182 graduate degrees. The Commencement address will be given by U.S. Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock, of Georgia.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Rising and Sinking Again presents sixteen graduate exhibitions realized by the Class of 2023 master’s candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Distinct in theme and focus, these projects are the culmination of a year and a half of research in collaboration with artists, writers, scholars, and more. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Reunion 2023 will celebrate classes ending in 3 and 8, but all classes are invited back to campus for the festivities.
Reunite with friends in Annandale for the biggest celebration of the year! Attend the Bard College Awards Ceremony, reunion dinners, Blithewood BBQ, dancing, fireworks, and much more!
Chapel of the Holy Innocents This is an Anglican service, hosted by our Anglican chaplain, Mary Grace Williams. The president of the College will read the names of all those alumni/ae, friends, and colleagues who have died since the Bard Commencement in 2021.
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