Commencement
Friday, September 7th
9PM
ARTIST TALKS AND PANEL DISCUSSIONS
Saturday, September 8th
12:00PM – 9:00PM
Curators in Bushwick: citydrift and the New Model
3:00PM – 5:00PM
Galleries in Bushwick: citydrift and the New Model
5:30PM – 7:00PM
ARTIST TALKS AND PANEL DISCUSSIONS
Sunday, September 9th
12:00PM – 9:00PM
Bushwick Means Business: Mapping the Business
Genome of Bushwick
1:00-3:00 PM
The East Village DIY Legacy in Bushwick
3:00-5:00 PM
Critics, Writers, & Bloggers in Bushwick: citydrift and
the New Model
5:30-7:00 PM
Artist Talks/Performances
Informal discussions with drifters will take place simultaneously at The Bogart Salon and Momenta Art. Please check specific dates, location, talks and times below.
Sept 8th 2012, 12– 3 PM
56 Bogart St., Bushwick, Morgan Stop L train
Location 1: The Bogart Salon
PANEL 1, 12 – 12:30 PM
Curator Koan Baysa’s Drift with Fred Fred Fleisher, Matt Callinan, Marguerite Day, Eric Lopresti, Brian Halloran, Daniel Rothbart, Noah Fuller, Lisa Inman, Gabriela Galvan
PANEL 2, 12:30 -1 PM
Poets drift with Jason Koo, Melissa Broder, Sophia Le Fraga, Debora Kuan. Zohra Saed and Modesto Flako Jiminez (from Meenakshi Thirukode’s “Curator as Enabler” drift)
PANEL 3, 1 – 1:30 PM
Drifters Max Bushman and Jesse Brugger
PANEL 4 1:30 – 2 PM
The Hart Island Project Drift with Stefan Eins, Lisa Kahane, Pamela Matsuda-Dunn (with Leonora Loeb, Larry Dunn, Andy Monk), The Glass Bees (with Chris Williams + Jason Das), and Melinda Hunt
ARTIST TALK, 2 – 2:30 PM
Molly Stevens:Seeing Freedom: In this visual lecture, artist Molly Stevens will look at freedom in art as symbol, as protest and as ideal; as body, as choice and as no choice – as nothing left to lose.
Location 2: Momenta Art
PANEL 1, 12 – 12:30 PM
Curators Lexi Hoffman and Justine McCullough. Curator Eri Takane and her drift team including artists Akira Ikezoe, Ai Sugiura, Meguru Yamaguchi, James Jack, Shinji Murakami, Shingo Francis and Taro Masushio
PANEL 2, 12:30 -1 PM
Artist Laura Napier. Artist Claudia Chaseling and her drift team Hon Chen, Ruth Walter, Emma Ber, Michele England, Kristina Sinadinovska, Ashleigh Riley, Madeleine Searl, Mei-Lynn Wilkinson, Chelsea Kaloginnidis, Jacob Potter, Erica Wrigley, Melissa Rouen, Jerome Davidson
PANEL 3, 1 – 1:30 PM
Artists Lisa Levy, Kiku Tanaka, Sean Alday and Michael Kronenberg
PANEL 4 1:30 – 2 PM
Curator Bonnie Rychlak’s drift team including artists Laurence Haggert, Jennie Nichols, Michael McKeown, Brian Gaman
PERFORMANCE, 7:30 PM.
The Hart Island Project: Wish You Were Here – Performance + Residue by Pamela Matsuda-Dunn, Leonora Loeb, Larry Dunn, Andy Monk
Sept 9th 2012, 12– 1 PM
56 Bogart St., Bushwick, Morgan Stop L train
Location 1: The Bogart Salon
PANEL 1, 12 – 1 PM
Art Time Capsule: Bushwick 2012
Please Join the “Surrogates” ( Matthew Lange, Tilton Widrow, Alex Chipkin, Becky Chipkin, Ben Godward) on Sunday, September 9th at 12pm at Bogart Salon to discuss the data collected for the Art Time Capsule: Bushwick project.
Location 2: Momenta Art
PANEL 1, 12 – 1 PM
Artist Moira Williams, Artist Kiran Chandra (from Meenakshi Thirukode’s “Curator as Enabler” drift), Artists Erik Moskowitz and Amanda Trager
PANEL DISCUSSIONS
Date: Sept 8th 2012
Timings: 3-5 PM
Location: The Bogart Salon
Topic: Curators in Bushwick: citydrift and The New Model
Description: A discussion between curators in Bushwick about citydrift, its core ideas, and their implications on new models of curatorial practice. What can letting go of pre-conceived notions afford curators in Bushwick?
Panelists:
Bonnie Rychlak
Independent Curator
Bonnie Rychlak is an artist, independent curator and writer. For many years, she worked as the curator for the Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, where she began her association to the institution in 1980 as an assistant to the sculptor, Isamu Noguchi. As an authority on Noguchi and his vast body of work, she has written numerous essays and curated critically recognized exhibitions at The Noguchi Museum and other institutions worldwide. As an independent curator, she continues to lecture on Noguchi’s work. Rychlak artwork has been seen in both solo and group exhibitions in New York City and Los Angeles since 1985. Her next exhibition will be in December 2012 for the outdoor sculpture park at Sculpture Key West. Among her awards and acknowledgements, she has received an N.E.A., a Rockefeller Foundation residency at the Bellagio Study and Conference Center, and a Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome. Recently Rychlak curated Diversities of Sculpture/Derivations from Nature, a group exhibition of scultures at the LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton, New York; Black and White and Re(a)d All Over for Bogart Salon in Bushwick, Brooklyn; and On Display In Orange County: Modern and Contemporary Sculpture at a pop-up gallery in South Coast Plaza, Costa Mesa California. Among the numerous exhibitions she has curated for The Noguchi Museum are Courage of Imagination: California; Full Figure and Portraiture, 1926–1941;Design: Isamu Noguchi and Isamu Kenmochi; Noguchi and Graham: Selections from the Dance;Noguchi: The Bollingen Journey, Photographs and Drawings 1949–1956; and Zen No Zen: Aspects of Noguchi’s Sculptural Vision, (2002). Currently she is writing a book on Henry T. Segerstrom and his cultural legacy in Orange County, California, and teaching at Pratt Institute.
Melinda Hunt and Stefan Ins
Co-Curators, Hart Island Project
Melinda Hunt is director of the Hart Island Project, and a visual artist whose works include drawing, video, photography, installation, and public art. She graduated from Reed College in 1981. She received a M.F.A. in sculpture 1985 from the Yale University and a M.Sc. in Digital Imaging & Design in 2007 from New York University. She founded the Hart Island Project in 1991. She published a book, Hart Island in collaboration with Joel Sternfeld in 1998. Her film Hart Island: An American Cemetery co-produced with the Banff New Media Institute was released in 2006. Awards include Connecticut Commission on the Arts (1987), New York State Council on the Arts (1995, 2000, 2012) and Canada Council for the Arts (2008, 2009).
Meenakshi Thirukode
Independent Curator
Meenakshi Thirukode is a writer, artist and Independent curator, who moved from India to America in 2006, and is currently based in New York. She has contributed to several publications including The Hindu Newspaper, Whitewall Magazine, artconcerns.com, Art Asia Pacific, Art India, Art and Deal Magazine, Art Journal, ArtMap Magazine, Of Note Magazine and Grassroots Literature Blog. Since 2008 she has been curating independent curatorial projects in the United States and India. Currently she also works as a curatorial consultant for ArtStar.com, involved in developing their South Asian and Middle Eastern portfolio.Thirukode is a member of AICA (International Association of Art Critics), IKT (International Association of Contemporary Art Curators) and served on the board of the South Asian Womens Creative Collective and continues to serve on the board of the Christies Alumni Society Board. Thirukode graduated with Honors in the Masters Program at Christies Education, New York with a focus on the History of the Art Market, Connoisseurship and Art Criticism. She is the co-founder of a non-profit public art project that looks to bring socially engaged art into abandoned urban spaces called Project For Empty Space. Currently she is working on a transmedia film based project, Isha: A Tell-All Tale.
Angela Washko
Independent Curator
Angela Washko is simultaneously an independent curator devoted to mobilizing communities and a visual artist creating actions, interventions, videos, installations, and performances (sometimes inside video games). For Washko, curating is an extension of her visual art practice – she is sensitive to the activities of critical communities, and facilitates the presentation of them to larger audiences. She is excited to have been named the Curator of the Conflux Festival in October 2012.
Most recently Washko has been busy creating arenas for safe dialogue about feminism inside the massively multiplayer (and massively misogynistic) role-playing game World of Warcraft. She has just founded The Council on Gender Sensitivity and Behavioral Awareness In World of Warcraft – earning her the Terminal Award and Grant, an upcoming fellowship and residency at HIAP in Helsinki Finland, and a solo exhibition at Austin Peay State University. She is the Assistant Director of Habitable Spaces in Sequin Texas, and a long-term artist-in-residence at Flux Factory in Queens. Washko has recently curated Deconstructing the Habit, and HABIT: A Video Festival at Spattered Columns in SoHo as well as Collaborative Means at The Congress of Collectives, Why Participate? at Flux Factory, and the series Expert Oddities at venues in NYC and Troy, NY. Her projects have been written about by Hyperallergic, Rhizome, the New York Times, ANIMAL NY and more.
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Date: Sept 8th 2012
Timings: 5:30 – 7 PM
Location: The Bogart Salon
Title: Galleries in Bushwick: citydrift and The New Model
Description: A discussion between gallerists in Bushwick about citydrift, its core ideas, and their implications on new models for art exhibition. What can letting go of pre-conceived notions afford gallerists in Bushwick?
Panelists:
Julian Jimerez Howard
Sunset Surf Club
Robert Walden
Robert Henry Contemporary
Larry Greenberg
Studio 10
Nyssa Frank
The Living Gallery
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Date: Sept 9th 2012
Timings: 1-3 PM
Location: The Bogart Salon
Title: Bushwick Means Business: Mapping Bushwick’s Economic Genome
Description: A discussion about new business practices in Bushwick. What are the characteristics that make Bushwick a stimulating place for new business? How can a better understanding of Bushwick’s economic genome help businesses survive, grow, and connect with each other?
Panelists: (A few more panelists are to be confirmed. More details of this panel will be available shortly.)
Thomas Burr Dodd
Brooklyn Fire Proof
James Panero
WSJ
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Date: Sept 9th 2012
Timings: 3 – 5 PM
Location: The Bogart Salon
Title: The East Village DIY Legacy in Bushwick
Description:
A discussion with members of the former DIY LES community and current pioneering figures of the contemporary art world in NYC. The panel will address the impetus for opening up galleries in the 1980’s East Village, the lessons learned, and its commonalities with what’s happening in Bushwick. Is the current development a recurring ‘trend’ or ‘scene,’ or is it something entirely different?
Panelists:
Magdalena Sawon
Founder/Director, Postmasters Gallery
Oliver Wasow
Artist, Founder Cash Newwhere
Wendy Olsoff
Founder, P.P.O.W. Gallery
Stephanie Theodore
Theodore Art
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Date: Sept 9th 2012
Timings: 5:30- 7 PM
Location: The Bogart Salon
Title: Critics, Writers, Bloggers in Bushwick: the New Wave
Description:
A discussion with art writers about new forms of art writing and its concerns with models of culture and art production.
Panelists:
Katarina Hybenova
Bushwick Daily
Katarina Hybenova is a writer, photographer and the founding editor of BushwickDaily.com. She was born and raised in Slovakia, have studied in the Czech Republic, Belgium and New York. She lives in Ridgewood, NY.
Eric J Henderson
HuffPost
Charles Kessler
Left Bank Art Blog
I’ve had a varied career. I started off in the Graduate School of Business at UCLA then transferred to the Art History Department where I wrote my MA thesis on Clyfford Still. I taught Art History for several years at various colleges in Los Angeles, and I also wrote art criticism (mainly for Art in America) and curated exhibitions. During this time I started painting, ending up making art full-time for more than forty years.
In 1982 My wife and I moved to Jersey City where I started a studio tour, and co-founded The Cathedral Arts Festival and an artist organization called Pro Arts. In addition, for twelve years I worked as a citizen-activist to convert an historic warehouse district in Downtown Jersey City into an arts and entertainment district – the Powerhouse Arts District (PAD). I’m pleased to say that except for the heartbreak of the PAD, they have all taken on lives of their own and are still going strong. Currently I’m focusing on the blog LeftBankArtBlog.com which is giving me a lot of joy.
Martha Schwendener
New York Times
Martha Schwendener is currently an art critic for The New York Times and The Village Voice. Her criticism has been published in Artforum, Bookforum, Art in America, The New Yorker, Art Papers, Artforum.com, New Art Examiner, CAA.reviews, Time Out New York, Flash Art, Afterimage, and other publications. She studied art history at Columbia University and has an M.A. in fiction from the University of Texas at Austin. She has taught at Hunter College, the School of Visual Arts, FIT, the University of Texas at Austin, Rhode Island Island School of Design, Pratt, and New York University. She is currently a Ph.D candidate at the City University of New York, Graduate Center.
Sean Alday
Bushwick Daily