WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART INDEPENDENT STUDY PROGRAM SPECIAL EVENTS 2008-2009

- STUDIO PROGRAM EXHIBITION, Art in General, May 9–17, 2009
- CRITICAL STUDIES PROGRAM SYMPOSIUM, Whitney Museum of American Art, Wednesday, May 20, 2009
- CURATORIAL PROGRAM EXHIBITION, The Kitchen, May 22–June 13, 2009

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STUDIO PROGRAM EXHIBITION
May 9–17, 2009

Kasper Akhøj, Natalia Almada, David Baumflek, Nanna Debois Buhl, Heather Hart, Emma Hedditch, Bani Khoshnoudi, Liz Magic Laser, Liz Linden, Ilya Lipkin, Mores McWreath, Meredith Nickie, Anna Ostoya, Hong-An Truong

Opening Reception:
Saturday, May 9 6–8 pm

An Evening of Screenings and Performances:
Friday, May 15 6–9pm

The exhibition and all events take place at Art in General, 79 Walker Street, 6th floor, New York, NY 10013
Gallery hours: Monday–Sunday 12–6 pm
Admission is free

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CRITICAL STUDIES PROGRAM SYMPOSIUM
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
7–11 pm

Session I 7–9 pm

Jennifer Kennedy: Appearing Bored: Spectatorship and Subjectivity in the Films of Guy Debord
Tom Williams: Claes Oldenburg between The Street and The Store
Jordan Troeller: Against Abstraction: Zoe Leonard's Analogue

Discussant: Thomas Crow, Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University

Session II 9:30–11 pm

Chad Elias: How to Do Things with Words in Public Space: On Sharon Hayes’s “Respeakings”
Julia Moritz: Institutional Critique in Spaces of Conflict
Karl Lydén: The Art of Documentary Narratives

Discussant: Michael Eng, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, John Carroll University

The symposium takes place at Whitney Museum of American Art, Lower Gallery, 945 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10021
Admission is free; seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis.

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CURATORIAL PROGRAM EXHIBITION
May 22–June 13, 2009

Time Out of Joint:
Recall and Evocation in Recent Art

Curated by:
Luigi Fassi
Lucy Gallun
Roya Rastegar
Jakob Schillinger

With works by: Johanna Billing, Kajsa Dahlberg, Maryam Jafri, Yael Bartana, Katerina Seda,
Tellervo & Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen, Keren Cytter, Ronnie Bass, Jennifer Phang, Kader Attia, Kevin Willmott and Fikret Atay

Opening Reception:
Friday, May 22, 5–8 pm

Special Event:
A Day of Film Screenings
June 1, 2009
Please contact The Kitchen for information

Gallery talks:
Saturdays 2 pm

The exhibition and all events take place at The Kitchen, 512 West 19th Street, New York, NY 10011
Gallery hours: Tuesday to Friday, 12–6 pm, Saturday, 11–6 pm