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April 19, 2016, 6:30-8pm

Eva Kot’átková in conversation with Kari Conte

Artist Eva Kot’átková will discuss her ISCP solo exhibition ERROR with curator Kari Conte. Kot’átková will also speak about her recently published monograph Pictorial Atlas of a Girl Who Cut a Library into Pieces, which reflects her obsession with reshaping and hijacking pre-existing photographic images.

ERROR, on view at ISCP through April 19th, focuses on relationships between human bodies and the oppressive institutional structures that sometimes surround them, in a new video and series of collages and sculptures. Kot’átková is interested in the stories or cases of individuals who–for various reasons−are unable to integrate themselves into social structures. They become secluded, isolated, and handicapped by their circumstances, or develop alternative means to communicate, often through objects, props and devices. Others build parallel identities to escape from reality into a constructed world. In such a world, people become subordinate to their own invented rules, and apply different communication patterns and new hierarchies to their everyday life.

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Eva Koťátková, Error, 2015-2016, 25 collages on paper (detail), Ranging in size from: 16 5/8 x 11 ¾ inches to 9 ½ x 6 ¾ inches (42 x 30 cm to 24 x 17 cm). Courtesy of the artist; Meyer Riegger, Berlin/Karlsruhe; and hunt kastner, Prague

Current and Upcoming Events & Exhibitions

Sujin Lim: The Land, Dark and Muddy

Through February 7

Exhibition

Somewhere Inside: ISCP and the Studio

Through March 7

Exhibition

ISCP Talk
April 12, 2016, 6:30-8pm

Book launch: Stefanos Tsivopoulos - Archive Crisis, Shaking up the Shelves of History

Archive Crisis is a visual essay in a book form by artist Stefanos Tsivopoulos based on a series of previously unpublished images from Greek (media) archives. Tsivopoulos (ISCP alum, 2011) will be joined by Hilde de Bruijn (Editor, Archive Crisis and Curator, Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amsterdam) and Lanfranco Aceti (Associate Professor of Practice and Director of Arts Administration, Boston University) to discuss this book, published by by Jap Sam Books, and supported by the Mondriaan Fund.

Tsivopoulos collected and appropriated material for Archive Crisis after extensive research in both private and public media archives that lasted over a period of seven years. The book explores the mechanisms of visual culture in a mediated democracy, and their effect on the production of collective memory. The book’s fascinating visual material is intrinsically linked to a broader European and global context, such as the Cold War, Greek-United Sates relations, and the more recent economic crisis. Tsivopoulos is interested in these documents as visual by-products of tumultuous political times, marked by, among other things, nationalist propaganda, crypto-colonialism and terrorism. He reintroduces them as the remainders of an unsettling past and a present in crisis.

The book includes commissioned essays by Dimitris Antoniou (Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, Columbia University, New York), Hilde de Bruijn (Curator, Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amsterdam) and Alfredo Cramerotti (Director, MOSTYN, Wales), providing academic reflection to link these historical images to a broader contemporary context.

Stefanos Tsivopoulos is a Greek artist and filmmaker. His poetic and often allegoric works are driven by a strong interest in the sociopolitical and economic aspects that determine the world we live in. His films are presented in both art museums and film festivals around the world. In 2013, he represented Greece in the 55th Venice Biennial with the work History Zero.

This program is supported, in part, by New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

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Stefanos Tsivopoulos

Stefanos Tsivopoulos, Archive Crisis, Shaking up the Shelves of History, a visual essay on media images from the recent political past of Greece

Current and Upcoming Events & Exhibitions

Sujin Lim: The Land, Dark and Muddy

Through February 7

Exhibition

Somewhere Inside: ISCP and the Studio

Through March 7

Exhibition

ISCP Talk
March 29, 2016, 6:30-8pm

Salon: Francesca Grilli and Calori & Maillard

Francesca Grilli’s installations and performances focus on the intensity of intimate stories. These works are supported by sound elements, which Grilli considers the most effective means of communicating directly with the individual and collective unconscious. Her most recent project explores the relationship between two islands: Ellis Island and Lampedusa. She will present the starting point of this project during her presentation.

Calori & Maillard work with sculpture and performance. They will present their work L’oiseau de Feu, a ballet for tower cranes (2014-15) and their ongoing project Fashion Show, a series of wearable sculptures inspired by highrise buildings in Frankfurt, New York and Shanghai.

These artist residencies are made possible by the sponsorship of Farnesina Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale – Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, The Italian Cultural Institute of New York, and The Italian Academy at Columbia University.

This program is supported, in part, by New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

6:30-8pm

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