Talks

PABLO HELGUERA

PABLO HELGUERA

LECTURE INTRODUCTION Artist Pablo Helguera provides an introduction to his work while discussing emerging art practices that involve social interaction, research, and pedagogy. ABOUT PABLO HELGUERA Pablo... 

Hal Foster

Hal Foster

This lecture concerns a different position within Modernist practice, neither vanguard nor resistant, which proceeds by way of a mimetic exacerbation of the worst conditions in contemporary society. ABOUT... 

Is the Future Green? The Biopolitics of Sustainability in Contemporary Art and Design

Is the Future Green? The Biopolitics of Sustainability in Contemporary Art and Design

Taking the recent hi-profile cultural activities surrounding Al Gore’s climate change campaign as the point of entry, this talk will address how the increasingly prominent trope of sustainability... 

Douglas Crimp: Action Around the Edges

Douglas Crimp: Action Around the Edges

A lecture drawn from Cripm’s memoir in progress of New York City in the 1970s. This portion deals with the de-industrializing city as a space of experimentation for artists and gay men, with a particular... 

Myths of the West: Photographers, Filmmakers, and Writers

Myths of the West: Photographers, Filmmakers, and Writers

In conjunction with Into the Sunset at the MoMA, which examines how photography has pictured the idea of the American West from 1850 to the present, this panel features photographers, a filmmaker, and... 

Olafur Eliasson on Individuality and Collectivity

Olafur Eliasson on Individuality and Collectivity

A short TED video from February of this year, in which artist Olafur Eliasson speaks to the need of creating projects that underline individuality as well as collectivity.  ...

Andrea Fraser “From the Critique of Institutions to an Institution of Critique”

Andrea Fraser “From the Critique of Institutions to an Institution of Critique”

Andrea Fraser talks about “institutional critique,” an approach to art making that emerged out of conceptual art in the late 1960s and has been associated with the work of Hans Haacke, Daniel... 

John Baldessari on Art at the Venice Biennale

John Baldessari on Art at the Venice Biennale

A Conversation with John Baldessari, Daniel Birnbaum, and Steven Henry Madoff Daniel Birnbaum, curator of the 53rd Venice Biennale, and Steven Henry Madoff talk to John Baldessari about his art, life,... 

Lane Relyea: Bricoluer as Entreprenuer.

Lane Relyea: Bricoluer as Entreprenuer.

A consideration of the New Museum’s show “Unmonumental” and the model of the “21st century object” it proposes, a well-networked piece of sculpture too internally diverse... 

Teddy Cruz: 60 Linear Miles of Trans-Border Conflict

Teddy Cruz: 60 Linear Miles of Trans-Border Conflict

The international border between the US and Mexico at the San Diego / Tijuana checkpoint is the most trafficked in the world. Approximately sixty million people cross annually, moving untold amounts of...