ISCP Talk
August 27, 2019, 6:30–8pm

Sandra Erbacher on Bureaucratic Systems

For this public program in conjunction with the current ISCP exhibition Paperwork: Administrative Practice in Contemporary Art, artist Sandra Erbacher will speak about The Return of History, her newly-commissioned work in the exhibition, as well as her long-term interest in the open office plan’s relation to disciplinary power. Erbacher’s presentation will be followed by a conversation with the exhibition’s curator Kari Conte.

The Return of History foregrounds a group of executive office desks produced in the 1970s and 1980s by the German company Ensslen, which were given names such as Euroform, Euroboss and Euroflex, conveying optimism for the European project of a bygone era. This series of three large-format photographs questions Europe’s hegemonic ideology and interrogates the idea of truth in the context of corporate and government administrations. It also considers how archives are embedded in bureaucratic systems, organized according to bureaucratic principles, and serve institutions.

Sandra Erbacher is a German artist living and working in New Jersey and New York. She earned her MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2014) and her BFA from Camberwell College of Art, London (2009). She also holds a BA and MA in Sociology from Goldsmiths College, University of London. Erbacher has exhibited nationally and internationally, at Spring/Break Art Show, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center; Chazen Museum of Art, Madison; Parisian Laundry, Montreal; Space, Portland; Umbrella Gallery, Leeds; and Five Years, London. Her work is included in the Fidelity Investments Corporate Art Collection and numerous other private collections. Her work in Paperwork: Administrative Practice in Contemporary Art is supported by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant.

This program is supported, in part, by Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant; Greenwich Collection Ltd.; Hartfield Foundation; National Endowment for the Arts; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF); and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

6:30–8pm

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Sandra Erbacher, The Return of History, 2019, digital C-prints. Installation view in Paperwork: Administrative Practice in Contemporary Art. Photo by Martin Parsekian

Current and Upcoming Events & Exhibitions

Somewhere Inside: ISCP and the Studio

Through January 20

Exhibition

Sujin Lim: The Land, Dark and Muddy

Through February 7

Exhibition

ISCP Talk
August 6, 2019, 6:30–8pm

Artists at Work: Kristina Melbø Valvik and Mohammed Faraj Al-Suwaidi

Kristina Melbø Valvik will speak about the role of curators and their relationships with artists, starting with an introduction to the Norwegian avant-garde movement, Gruppe 66 and Baktruppen. Valvik will also introduce her curatorial practice, in which she pays special attention to selecting spaces based on audience experience.

Mohammed Faraj Al-Suwaidi will discuss his experience as an artist in Doha, Qatar, and his recent work presented there. Among Al-Suwaidi’s areas of interest are change and development in relation to time.

This program is supported, in part, by Fire Station – Qatar Museums; Hartfield Foundation; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; OCA – Office for Contemporary Art Norway; and Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF).

6:30–8pm

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Participating Residents

Kristina Melbø Valvik

Mohammed Faraj Al-Suwaidi

Mohammed Faraj Al-Suwaidi, Time & Development, 2019. Photo courtesy of the artist

Kristina in front of a Norwegian glacier, 1999. Photograph by Bjørn-Kåre Valvik. Photo courtesy of the curator

Current and Upcoming Events & Exhibitions

Somewhere Inside: ISCP and the Studio

Through January 20

Exhibition

Sujin Lim: The Land, Dark and Muddy

Through February 7

Exhibition

ISCP Talk
July 30, 2019, 6:30–8pm

Artists at Work: Oleksiy Radynski and Younes Baba-Ali

Oleksiy Radynski will give a short introduction to his film Landslide (2016-18), followed by a screening of this 28-minute work. Landslide is a film that depicts a community of artists who try to build a new society in the cracks and pores of a collapsing social system. The film unfolds in central Kyiv, in a space that has been reclaimed from the city by forces of nature. As a result of a series of landslides, the area portrayed—Petrivska Street— became untenable and was subsequently occupied by outcasts and outsiders of all kinds. It also became a meeting spot for counterculture activists and the artistic underground. A secret graffiti team, a group of DIY artists and an avant-garde queer theater troupe that fled the war in Luhansk all struggle in Radynski’s film to create a place where they can coexist.

Younes Baba-Ali will screen fragments of recorded performances and video works defined by a process of experimentation in public space and beyond. In these works, he traces routes and patterns of migration and reveals systems of knowledge and meaning—particularly in relation to global culture and economics—through recurrent strategies such as the assisted readymade and the use of sound. He will present works including Vu’Cumpra (2016), Without Negotiation (2018), Caroussa Sonore (2012), Etre et ne pas avoir (2014) and Untitled (Megaphones) (2014), among others.

This program is supported, in part, by Dennis Elliott Founder’s Fund; Hartfield Foundation; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF); Tauck Ritzau Innovative Philanthropy; and Ukrainian Institute.

6:30–8pm

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