ISCP Talk
November 19–November 19, 2019

Joshua Liebowitz, Rahel Aima, and Patrick Jaojoco on the Representation of Mass Violence

In conjunction with ISCP’s current exhibition Ungrounded—a group show featuring the seven artists in residence in ISCP’s Ground Floor Program—Ground Floor resident Joshua Liebowitz will present segments from The Killing of America (1981), a film directed by Leonard Schrader and Sheldon Renan, documenting gun violence in the United States. Following this, Liebowitz will moderate a discussion between Rahel Aima and Patrick Jaojoco on the representation of mass violence.

Given the evolving role of the artist parallel to the complexities of current events, and that the film has to a large extent been overlooked, the discussion will focus on The Killing of America as a springboard for thinking about the relationship between images and violence in the United States.

Joshua Liebowitz pursues research-based practices and works across diverse media. In his work, he addresses the absurdity of the human condition. Liebowitz’s most recent solo exhibition was on view at this year’s SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York. His work has been presented at CAFA Art Museum, Beijing; NARS Foundation, Pioneer Works, and St. Mark’s Church, all New York. Liebowitz’s projects have been written about in a variety of publications and media, including ARTnews, The Atlantic, Gothamist, and Art F City.

Rahel Aima is a freelance writer, editor and critic from Dubai currently based in Brooklyn. She is Special Projects editor at New Inquiry, a contributing editor at Momus and was formerly the founding EIC of THE STATE. She is a 2018 recipient of the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant, and is currently at work on a book of exhibition fiction.

Patrick Jaojoco is a Brooklyn-based curator, organizer, and writer interested in how creative practices can aid in public understandings of long-term ecological, economic, and political histories. He currently works as Director of Programs at FABnyc, and is independently organizing the Decolonial Mapping Toolkit, an online map and series of public programs that reframe and seek to undo legacies of colonialism in public space. Patrick is a 2019–2020 member of NEW INC, received an MA in Curatorial Practice from the School of Visual Arts and BA in English Literature and Environmental Studies from New York University, and has held curatorial and communications roles at Storefront for Art and Architecture, Art in General, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and the Invisible Dog Art Center.

This program is supported by Alice and Lawrence Weiner; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; New York City Council District 34; The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation; New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; Hartfield Foundation; and Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF).

6:30 - 8 PM

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Joshua Liebowitz

Joshua Liebowitz, PROOF BURDENS – No 1, 2019, video still. Courtesy of the artist

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

Open Studios
November 15–November 16, 2019

2019 Fall Open Studios

Opening Reception: Friday, November 15, 6–9pm
Guest speaker: Lia Gangitano at 7:30pm
Open Hours: Saturday, November 16, 1–7pm

The International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) Fall Open Studios is a two-day exhibition of international contemporary art presented by the 37 artists and curators from 25 countries currently in residence. Lia Gangitano, founder of PARTICIPANT INC, whose pioneering work has had a significant impact on the arts in New York City, will make remarks at 7:30pm on November 15.

Twice a year only, ISCP offers the public access to private artists’ and curators’ studios to view artwork and share one-on-one conversations. Celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, ISCP invites the public to engage in dialogue around contemporary art with arts professionals from across the globe. Concentrated in a three-story postindustrial loft building on the edge of Bushwick, ISCP supports the creative advancement of residents, with a robust program of individual workspaces and professional benefits.

At 8pm, Anton Kats has invited ILYICH to perform Seagull and Hawk, call signs of the cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova and Valery Bykovsky, in his studio. The performance draws on a semifictional case study of the first radio transmission in orbit, between the Vostok 5 and Vostok 6 spaceships in 1963.

Sonia Leimer: Via San Gennaro, the first solo exhibition in New York by ISCP alumna Sonia Leimer, will be on view. Sonia Leimer: Via San Gennaro is winner of the 4th edition of Italian Council (2018), a competition conceived by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Art and Architecture and Urban Peripheries (DGAAP) – a department of the Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities, to promote Italian contemporary art in the world. The newly-commissioned works in the exhibition address the spatial politics of the Manhattan neighborhood known as Little Italy, vis-à-vis migration and economic and cultural transformation.

In addition, Ungrounded, a group exhibition featuring the work of the seven artists in residence in ISCP’s Ground Floor Program, will be presented during Open Studios. The exhibition considers—from many vantage points—today’s political, social, and ecological urgencies.

Open Studios participating artists and curators: Alya Al Khalifa (Qatar), Tim Bruniges (Australia), Danilo Correale (United States/Italy), Simone Couto (United States/Brazil), Furen Dai (United States/China), Annabel Daou (United States/ Lebanon), Charlotte Eifler (Germany), David Escalona (Spain), Mariajosé Fernández-Plenge (United States/Peru/Germany), Hannah Fitz (Ireland/Germany), Jude Griebel (United States/Canada), Chloé Grondeau (Canada/France), Yasmina Haddad (Austria/Lebanon), Duy Hoàng (United States/Vietnam), Honkasalo-Niemi-Virtanen (Finland), Anton Kats (Germany/Ukraine), Volkan Kızıltunç (Turkey), Joshua Liebowitz (United States), Fritjof Mangerich (Germany), Maria Meinild (Denmark/Sweden), Alison Nguyen (United States), Helene Nymann (Denmark), Habby Osk (Iceland), Sarah Pichlkostner (Austria), Laura Põld (Estonia), Jasmine Reimer (Canada/Germany), Walter Scott (Canada), Lou Sheppard (Canada), Sille Storihle (Norway), Esther Tielemans (The Netherlands), Allard van Hoorn (The Netherlands), Paky Vlassopoulou (Greece), Sara Wallgren (Sweden), Enlai Wang (China) and Chunhua Zhang (China).

ISCP thanks the following residency sponsors: Alfred Kordelin Foundation; Anonymous; Arts Council of Ireland; ARTWORKS; Australia Council for the Arts; BKA – Bundeskanzleramt Österreich Kunst und Kultur / Arts and Culture Division of the Federal Chancellery of Austria; Canada Council for the Arts; Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec; Danish Arts Foundation; Estonian Contemporary Art Development Center; Finnish Cultural Institute in New York; Fire Station – Qatar Museums; IASPIS – The Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s International Programme for Visual Artists; Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation; KdFS Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen; Mondriaan Fund; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; New York City Council District 34; Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur and Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung; 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; SAHA Association; Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Berlin; Sobey Art Awards, National Gallery of Canada; Temple Bar Gallery + Studios Dublin; Toby Devan Lewis Donor Advised Fund of the Jewish Federation of Cleveland; The Artists’ Salaries, The Icelandic Centre for Research; The Dr. K. David G. Edwards & Margery Edwards Charitable Giving Fund; The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc.; Wang Shikuo Foundation, Today Art Museum; and Alice and Lawrence Weiner.

This program is supported, in part, by Austrian Cultural Forum New York: ACFNY; BKA – Bundeskanzleramt Österreich Kunst und Kultur; Consulate General of Brazil in New York;Consulate General of Canada in New York; Consulate General of Denmark in New York; Consulate General of Estonia in New York; Consulate General of Finland in New York; Consulate General of Sweden in New York; Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany in New York; Galerie Nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder; Google; Grimm Artisanal Ales; Hartfield Foundation; Italian Council (Directorate-General for Contemporary Art and Architecture and Urban Peripheries, Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities); Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation; Lagunitas Brewing Company; Materials for the Arts; New York City Council District 34; 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; Royal Norwegian Consulate General in New York; Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF); The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation; and The State of Qatar.

In addition to the many individuals who support ISCP, the members of Director’s Circle are also thanked for their largesse: Anne Altchek, Tansa Ekşioğlu, Samar Maziad, and Laurie Sprayregen.

Opening Reception: Nov 15, 2019, 6–9pm

Open Hours: 1–7pm

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David Escalona, Injection, 2019, glass. Courtesy of the artist

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
November 5, 2019, 6:30–8pm

Artists at Work: Fritjof Mangerich and Helene Nymann

Fritjof Mangerich will speak about his sonic interventions Neuroschuppen and eine andere Stimme and how they are connected to his ongoing research on the psychology of architecture and the physicality of perception. With this in mind, he will speak about the work of John Hejduk, Kiyonori Kikutake and others who have attempted to reconnect architecture with the human body in light of metabolic and mental conditions.

Helene Nymann will present her artistic research and practice addressing the notion of embodied knowledge—contextual and experimental forms of receiving and transmitting ideas. Nymann will show her most recent video works that question our relation to memory in the digital age, and introduce the audience to systems of remembrance in search of future imaginings.

This program is supported, in part, by Danish Arts Foundation; 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; Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur and Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung; and Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF).

6:30–8pm

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