ArtAsiaPacific is once again sponsoring a set of free talks at the Rubin Museum of Art called Artists on Art. One of the artists in our curated exhibition at Dam, Stuhtrager in October, Jaishri Abichandani, is giving the talk on September 29th.
There is no charge to attend, or to visit the galleries of the museum on Friday nights. In addition to Artists on Art there are theater programs at 7 p.m., Cabaret Cinema at 9:30 p.m. and either a DJ or live music in the K2 Lounge (which has nice drinks).
We saw Hiroshi Sunairi and DJ Spooky during the set earlier in the year. Highly recommended.
SCHEDULE
Friday, September 15th, 2006: Sheela Gowda,7:30p.m. Admission is free. Blurring the line between fine art and craft, Sheela Gowda questions the role of female subjectivity in the volatile mix of religion, nationalism, and violence in contemporary Indian society. Her work is currently on exhibit at Bose Pacia Gallery, New York.
Friday, September 22nd, 2006: Shen Wei, 7:30p.m. Admission is free. Marking the premiere of his new work, Re-, at the Joyce Theater (Sept 26 through Oct 1), Chelsea, choreographer Shen Wei leads a tour of the galleries.
Friday, September 29, 2006: Jaishri Abichandani, 7.30p.m. Multimedia artist and curator whose work explores schisms between sexuality, gender and representation. Jaishri is currently included in the group show Believe at Rush Arts Gallery, New York, and is co-curating the Queens International 2006 at the Queens Museum of Art, opening October 1.
Friday, October 6, 2006:Charwei Tsai, 7.30p.m. Addresses the dialectics of purity and perversion, emptiness and exploitation by meticulously copying out Buddhist mantras on unconventional surfaces such as tofu and plants. Recent exhibitions include the Hydra School Project in Greece and the inaugural Singapore Biennale, through November 12.
Friday, October 13, 2006: Derrick Adams, 7.30p.m. Brooklyn-based performance and mixed-media artist whose works revisit childhood innocence through costumes, play and subliminal erotic and ritualistic undertones. Recent exhibitions include Marvelli Gallery, New York, and Performa05 in 2005 and Momenta Art, New York, in 2006.
Friday, October 20, 2006: Susan Kleinberg, 7.30p.m. Multimedia artist who has presented installations at the Venice Biennale in 1995 and 2001. Susan will discuss her work Fear Not (2001), for which she interviewed figures ranging from Bill Clinton to Gore Vidal about courage, in relation to the Buddhist hand gesture fear not.
Friday, October 27, 2006: David Abir, 7:30p.m. Composer and multimedia artist whose collaborators include Alfredo Jaar and Shirin Neshat. David is currently developing a sound installation recreating the anatomical structure of the human ear. It will premiere at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Connecticut, in 2007.
EVENT DETAILS: Rubin Museum of Art - 250 W 17 St / 6th and 7th Avenues / 212.620.5000.
