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“We All Hung Out” is a panel discussion with David Diao, Mary Heilmann, and Billy Sullivan, moderated by Ethan Swan, editor of the New Museum publication Bowery Artist Tribute.

“Living in Chatham Square, on the Bowery…where we all hung out, was the beginning of my having a sense that community was an important part of the work. Before, my model for being an artist was this sort of lone-person up in a garret, where you work all alone all day and then you go out to a bar and just get drunk and get in a fight and then sleep all morning and get back into it. That changed in those years.”
—Mary Heilmann, quoted in Bowery Artist Tribute, 2010

Lured by cheap rents and vast lofts, artists began populating the Bowery in the late 1950s. By 1965, there were over one hundred painters living along the Bowery, among them Cy Twombly, Robert Indiana, Al Loving, and Elizabeth Murray. While the lofts themselves remained the primary attraction, with each new artist’s arrival, a second draw emerged: a growing artistic community. This unplanned, creative network impacted hundreds of artists, accelerating the exchange of ideas, generating systems for sharing resources, and staving off the isolation and self-doubt of a studio practice. In conjunction with Lower East Side History Month, this panel discussion invites three painters who have lived and worked on the Bowery to reflect on this creative community and the effect it’s had on their individual practices.

David Diao (b. 1943) is a painter whose work has often been described as “Conceptual Abstraction.” Grounded in monochrome fields and flat, geometric forms, Diao’s works look critically at personal, political, and art historical narratives. In 2014, the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut, presented “David Diao: Front to Back,” a midcareer retrospective exhibition, and the Whitney Museum of American Art included his work in its biennial.

Mary Heilmann (b. 1940) is one of the preeminent artists of her generation—a pioneering painter whose work injects abstraction with elements from popular culture and craft traditions. A “painter’s painter,” Heilmann is known for a straightforward, seemingly loose and casual approach that belies a witty dialogue with art historical preconceptions. Her museum retrospective “To Be Someone,” organized by the Orange County Museum of Art, toured the US from 2007 to 2009 and traveled to the New Museum in 2008.

The paintings, drawings, and photographs of Billy Sullivan (b. 1946) are tribes to the beauty of fleeting moments. Each portrait acts as a document of time, freezing such natural acts as eating, reading, or resting. In 2007, Guild Hall Museum in East Hampton, New York, mounted Sullivan’s first one-person museum survey, and his work was shown in the 2006 Whitney Biennial.

Margot Norton, Assistant Curator, discusses Kjartansson's newly orchestrated performance and video piece entitled Take Me Here by the Dishwasher: Memorial for a Marriage (2011/2014), in which ten musicians play a live composition for the duration of the exhibition.

"Ragnar Kjartansson: Me, My Mother, My Father, and I" is on view on the Fourth Floor from May 7--June 29, 2014.

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Video by Ayano Elson/New Museum

Presentation at the New Museum as part of “New Museum Seminars: (Temporary) Collections of VOICES”

On Friday June 6, 2014 the inaugural group of participants of New Museum Seminars: (Temporary) Collections of Ideas hosted an evening of discussions, interactive exercises, performances, and lectures coming out of the group’s investigations into the R&D VOICE Season thematic. The Seminars gather multidisciplinary thinkers together on a weekly basis at the New Museum to discuss pressing concerns related to art and the expanded art context over a twelve-week period. Seminar participants invited four artists and writers—Daphne A. Brooks, Chris Mann, Robert Sember, and Christine Sun Kim (whose practices have been fundamental to the concepts explored during the semester)—to present new works or ideas in progress. The evening event marked the culmination of the Seminars and opened to a wider public forum.

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Panel discussion on the anxieties of surveillance, hosted by Deep Lab cyberfeminist research collective and NEW INC, with panelists Simone Browne, Biella Coleman, Jade E. Davis, and Karen Levy, moderated by Kate Crawford

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Jonathas de AndradeRosanne Haggerty
Yto Barrada
Micah White
Jonathan Bowles (moderator)


The age of network culture offers new, powerful tools for individual and collective expression, and in response, the act of protest is rapidly evolving; individuals, groups, and entire communities once conveniently invisible to decision-makers are self-organizing to make their voices heard. From Cairo to Istanbul and from Barcelona to São Paulo, the sight of public squares inundated by a sea of protesters has become one of the key images of our time. At the same time, an increasing number of people—the poor, the homeless, the elderly, the mentally ill, and undocumented immigrants, to name just a few groups—are disappearing from sight. How do the disenfranchised find representation in the city today? Is there a cartography to guide those who have wandered or been driven from the center? This panel will analyze the social and political crises triggered by new technologies, the shifts in the balance of power within society they are bringing about, and the role of art in defining a new paradigm of social justice.

Jonathas de Andrade
Artist
Jonathas de Andrade lives and works in Recife, Brazil, and creates art that investigates cultural phenomena that are in danger of vanishing. He has participated in the 12th Lyon Biennial (2013), the 2nd New Museum Triennial (2012), the 12th Istanbul Biennial (2011), the 29th São Paulo Biennial (2010), and the 7th Mercosul Biennial (2009). In 2012, he received a special jury prize for the Future Generation Art Prize Exhibition at the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, Kyiv, Ukraine.

Rosanne Haggerty
President, Community Solutions
A recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, Rosanne Haggerty is President and CEO of Community Solutions, a non-profit organization working to strengthen communities and end homelessness. In 1990, she founded Common Ground Community and reopened the legendary Times Square Hotel as a place for homeless and low-income residents, thereby reducing homelessness by 87 percent in the twenty-block vicinity surrounding it. In 2012, Haggerty was awarded the Jane Jacobs Medal for New Ideas and Activism.

Yto Barrada
Artist
Yto Barrada was born in Paris and grew up in Tangier, Morocco. She studied history and political science at the Sorbonne and photography at the International Center for Photography. Her work moves across photography, film, publications, and installation, and engages with the specific situation of Tangier as a transitory locale. She is the cofounder of the Cinémathèque de Tanger and a member of the Beirut-based Arab Image Foundation. Barrada’s work was recently featured in the exhibition “Here and Elsewhere” at the New Museum.

Micah White
Co-creator, Occupy Wall Street, former Editor, Adbusters magazine, and Founder, Boutique Activist Consultancy
Driven by the belief that social change movements like Occupy are too focused on urban environments, Micah White moved to Nehalem, Oregon. He sees rural towns as “clean slate[s] for building social change,” where inhabitants are still recovering from the economic and environmental impacts of the capitalist system that Occupy fought against. His new for-profit firm, Boutique Activist Consultancy, specializes in “impossible campaigns.” White argues that to be a full-time activist, you must have an income.

Jonathan Bowles (moderator)
Executive Director, Center for an Urban Future
Since 2002, Jonathan Bowles has been Executive Director of the Center for an Urban Future, a Manhattan-based think tank dedicated to independent research about key policy issues facing New York City and other cities. Under Bowles’s direction, the Center authored an acclaimed study about the significant impact immigrant entrepreneurs are having on cities’ economies, a study about New York City’s innovation economy, as well as a report about how to retain and grow New York City’s middle class.

Who do artists think they are? How do they command belief in their work? What myths do they enliven and reject? In the summer of 2009, Sarah Thornton began investigating these questions, which eventually became the driving force of her new book, 33 Artists in 3 Acts (WW Norton, 2014). At once ambitious and entertaining, its nonfiction narratives go behind the scenes with a superb cast of living artists—from global superstars to unheralded teachers—to humanize and demystify contemporary art. Massimiliano Gioni, Artistic Director of the New Museum, is one of three curators featured in its pages because he has presented himself as Maurizio Cattelan—one of the book’s nine recurring artists. During this session, Thornton and Gioni, along with artists Andrea Fraser and Laurie Simmons will discuss the characters, plot, and themes of 33 Artists in 3 Acts.

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Constantina Zavitsanos’s residency “THIS COULD BE US” includes a series of research-driven programs organized around speculative concepts of planning, contingency, and care. Not only is care one of the primary sources of surplus value within capitalism, as feminists have argued, it is also critical to social organization.


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