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Joshua Citarella – [DIAP] MFA artist talk
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The talk is free and open to the public.
image credit: Joshua Citarella Choose Your Future, 2020, C-prints, Dibond, 65-3/4" x 57-5/8"
12/05/2019 Miguel Gutierrez – Artist Talk
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Please join us for a lecture by the artist Miguel Gutierrez
Location: Shepard Hall, Room 408
The DIAP MFA Studio
Time 1:30PM – 2:30PM
The presentation is free and open to the public.
Miguel Gutierrez lives in Brooklyn, NY. He creates dance-based performances, music and poetry that focus on desire, identity and the search for meaning. He is a 2016 Doris Duke Artist. His work has been presented in venues such as Centre National de Danse, Centre Pompidou, ImPulsTanz, Fringe Arts, Walker Art Center, TBA/PICA, MCA Chicago, New York Live Arts, Live Arts Bard, and the 2014 Whitney Biennial. He has received support from Creative Capital, MAP, National Dance Project, and Jerome Foundation and has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, United States Artists, New York Foundation for the Arts, Tides Foundation as well as a Foundation for Contemporary Art award and four NY Dance and Performance Bessies. He recently premiered This Bridge Called My Ass, a group performance that bends tropes of Latinidad to articulate new relationships to identity and form. It was presented by The Chocolate Factory as part of American Realness 2019. He currently performs a music project called SADONNA, where he turns Madonna’s upbeat songs into sad anthems. He runs LANDING, an educational initiative at Gibney, and his book When You Rise Up is available from 53rd State Press. www.miguelgutierrez.org
11/07 – OlaRonke Akinmowo: The Free Black Women’s Library (TFBWL)
Please join us for a lecture by the artist OlaRonke Akinmowo and her work with The Free Black Women’s Library (TFBWL).
Location: Shepard Hall, Room 408
The DIAP MFA Studio
Time 12:30PM – 1:45PM
The presentation is free and open to the public.
OlaRonke Akinmowo is the artist, scholar, and librarian behind the Free Black Women’s Library (TFBWL), a mobile and interactive installation committed to sharing literature by Black women authors across genres, and cultivating new conversations about accessibility, representation, and bibliophilia.
An extensive interview with OlaRonke Akinmowo, which provides some background on her work, has appeared in Hyperallergic.
04/03 Beatrice Glow – visiting artist
Please join us for a lecture by the artist Beatrice Glow who will speak about her work and practice on April 3rd 2019
Location: Shepard Hall, Room 408
The DIAP MFA Studio
Time 5:00PM – 6:00PM
BEATRICE GLOW is an interdisciplinary artist and multisensory storyteller whose work highlights human interconnectivity while amplifying stories lying in the shadows of colonialism, migration and inequality. Her practice comprises of sculptural installations, participatory performances and lectures, olfactory art, experiential technology collaborations and trilingual publishing.
She is currently a 2018-19 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow, 2018-19 Smack Mellon Studio Program Artist and 2017-18 ZERO1 American Art Incubator lead artist to Ecuador in partnership with US Department of State’s Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs. She has been named 2016-17 Artist-in-Residence at the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at New York University, Honolulu Biennial 2017 artist, Wave Hill Van Lier Visual Art Fellow, Joan Mitchell Foundation Emerging Artist Finalist, Hemispheric Institute Council Member, Franklin Furnace Fund grantee and US Fulbright Scholar. Solo exhibitions include “Beatrice Glow: Spice Routes/Roots,” at the Duke House with NYU Institute of Fine Arts (2017); “Aromérica Parfumeur” with Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Chile; “Lenapeway” and “The Wayfinding Project” at New York University; “Rhunhattan” at Wave Hill; and “Floating Library” — a pop-up, mobile device-free public space aboard the historic Lilac Museum Steamship —on the Hudson River.
03/14 Christopher K Ho Lecture
Please join us for a lunchtime lecture by the artist Christopher K Ho who will speak about his work and practice on March 14th
Location: Shepard Hall, Room 408
The DIAP MFA Studio
Time 12:30PM – 1:30PM
Christopher K Ho’s work ‘Aloha to the World at the Don Ho Terrace’ was installed at the Bronx Museum of the Arts from October 2018 until January 6th 2019 and his latest work, “ Dear John” a large carpet installation was on view at BAM, Brooklyn from Feb 8—Feb 24, 2019.
Christopher K. Ho (b. Hong Kong, 1974) is a conceptual artist, writer and curator based in New York, Hong Kong, and Telluride, Colorado, whose practice includes object-making, organizing, writing, and teaching. His multi-component projects address privilege, community, and capital, and draw equally from learned material about, and lived encounters with, power and otherness in an unevenly de-colonialized, increasingly networked world. He has exhibited at Storm King Art Center, the Queens Museum, Cranbrook Art Museum, Para Site, MASS MoCA, and Socrates Sculpture Park, among other venues. He was included in the Incheon Biennial, the Chinese Biennial Beijing, and the Busan Biennial, and is currently working on a solo project for the Brooklyn Academy of Music. He received his BFA and BS from Cornell University and his MPhil from Columbia University.
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