Wednesday, February 25, 7pm
Kaleidoscope Room with Jonah Freeman
Jonah Freeman will give a slide lecture about the history and experience of The San San International, the mega-convention that overtakes the southern province of The San San metroplex every May. The basis of the lecture derives from journalist Elizabeth Stone's description of the event found in her seminal text In The Kaleidoscope Room. Freeman attended the convention two years in a row in an attempt to expand upon Stone's new journalistic investigations. The talk will be both an account of the trends, customs and rituals he witnessed as well as an exploration of the evolution of the exhibition and its host city.
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Friday, February 27, 7pm
Hypnotic Show with Marcos Lutyens
Marcos Lutyens' interactive Hypnotic Show draws on commissioned artist scripts and the mind of the participant. The event acts as a temporary social structure that engages creative cognitive acts through the shared practices of art and hypnosis. The goal of the session is to install a new exhibition in the audience's memory.
RSVP REQUIRED: rsvp@artistsspace.org
For more information: www.artistsspace.org/HypnoticShow.pdf
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William Blake. The Man Who Taught Blake Painting in his Dreams. circa 1825 |
SoHo Night: Thursday, March 5, 7pm
Spending* in 2008: The Top 100 Sexual Performances in the Art World
with Michael Portnoy & Vita Zaman
In 2008, Michael Portnoy and Vita Zaman embarked on a one year research performance into the libidinal economy of the art world. Anticipating the convulsions of the art market, they chose to embrace and penetrate the minds and bodies of the 100 most powerful specimens in the industry. Time, money and semen were spent in order to create a pornographic archive of the struggle between investment and waste. Their highly sensitive diaries are published as a very limited edition anthology, publicly revealed and partially enacted at Artists Space. * {dag}b. Obs. slang. An orgasm; an ejaculation. Cf. SPEND v.1 15c.
1856 W. WHITMAN Leaves of Grass 242 The babes I beget upon you are to beget babes in their turn, I shall demand perfect men and women out of my love-spendings.
1879-80 Pearl (1970) 15 She came again in another luscious flood of spendings.
For further inquiries, please write to: spendingin2008@gmail.com
This performance may not be suitable for children.
SoHo Night: an evening of special programming and extended hours by the not-for-profit visual arts institutions located in SoHo. apexart, Art in General, Artists Space, Dia Art Foundation, The Drawing Center, ecoartspace, Harvestworks, and the Swiss Institute.
Click here to download a map and complete program of events.
In conjunction with
PAPER EXHIBITION
Curated by Raimundas Malasauskas
on view through March 7, 2009
For more information: www.artistsspace.org/index.php/site/exhibitions_permalink/paper_exhibition/
Paper Exhibition is generously supported, in part, by the American Center Foundation, Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York, the Cultural Service of the French Embassy, and the Office for Contemporary Art Norway.
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