ISCP Talk
December 11, 2012

Salon: Lauri Astala and Nuria Montiel

Lauri Astala will present documentation of his participatory video installations. He will discuss the sense of space and social encounter that accompanies the threshold between virtual and real space when the spectator is made an active protagonist. He will also introduce a new work in progress – a project filmed at the ISCP with nine New York-based dancers.

Nuria Montiel will discuss her most recent work All Voices / Mobile Printing Press, which explores the relationship between graphic and social struggles. This work looks at how people generate information and how it circulates through language in the context of protest.

Participating Residents

Exhibition
November 28, 2012–January 5, 2013

If You Want it You Can Get it For the Rest of Your Life. (Truth is What Works.)

If you want it you can get it for the rest of your life. (Truth is what works.), curated by ISCP resident Erlend Hammer, presents a selection of works from artists that have a “studio-based practice”- there is little film, video or performance and the works all represent a kind of artistic knowledge that develops intuitively over time, and to some extent is willfully incommunicable. Artists: Matthew Antezzo, Bosko Blagojevic, Paolo Chiasera with Øystein Aasan, Ane Graff, Mai Hofstad Gunnes, Knut Henrik Henriksen, Ann Cathrin November Høibo, Kristian Skylstad, Eve K. Tremblay, Lars Monrad Vaage, and Arja Wiik-Hansen.

The exhibition space becomes Hammer’s studio in the sense that he experiments with various constellations of artists in a continuous attempt to put together exhibitions that freely generate ideas that are not preconceptions about the individual artists’ works. Meaning is discovered rather than constructed.

Since September, a concrete sculpture in the shape of a chair by artist Matthew Antezzo has been installed in Hammer’s studio space at ISCP. Intended by the artist as a challenge that the curator should spend most of his time outside the studio exploring New York City, the work now enters into a conversation with other works including Knut Henrik Henriksen’s wall-based, wooden sculpture, Lars Monrad Vaage’s series of abstract paintings that simultaneously attempt to be portraits and to grasp the completeness of reality, and Paolo Chiasera’s highly elaborate and conceptual paintings in which the artist curates canvas-based exhibitions based on the work of other artists. In Mai Hofstad Gunnes’ 16mm film Bike and Bolex, the artist explores the idea of multiple perspectives and subjectivities as seen through the lenses of five women who film each other with Bolex cameras while bicycling.

ISCP thanks the following contributors for their generous support: The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Brooklyn Arts Council, The Greenwich Collection, National Endowment for the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, OCA: Office for Contemporary Art Norway and Royal Norwegian Consulate General.

 

Opening Reception: Nov 28, 2012

ISCP Talk
November 27, 2012

Brooklyn Commons: Josiah McElheny and Camille Henrot

Brooklyn Commons, a new discussion series beginning this fall at ISCP, presents intellectual and artistic pairings between the established Brooklyn-based artist community and ISCP residents. This series puts artists in conversation who have not shared a dialogue in the past and focuses on the vibrant and diverse cultural practitioners living and working in Brooklyn, both long-term and short-term.

Josiah McElheny and Camille Henrot will discuss historical narratives and conceptual gestures that can be generated through craft making and objects. McElheny’s highly detailed and finely made glass objects often reflect cultural meaning and memory, taking the form of “historical fiction”—which he offers to the viewer to believe or not. Henrot’s impure, hybrid objects cast doubt upon the linear and partitioned transcription of Western history and highlight its borrowings and grey areas. In her series of sculptures Endangered Species, Henrot has created objects inspired by African art by using pieces from car engines, these slender silhouettes with zoomorphic allure make reference to the migration of symbols as well as to the economic circulation of objects.

Josiah McElheny is an artist best known for his handmade glass objects combined with photographs, text, and museological displays. Whether recreating miraculous glass objects pictured in Renaissance paintings or modernized versions of non-extant glassware from documentary photographs, McElheny’s work takes the object, idea, and social nexus of glass as its subject. McElheny’s work has been exhibited internationally including MoMA in New York, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, White Cube in London, and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid. In 2006, he was a recipient of the MacArthur Fellows Program.

Camille Henrot is a French artist based in Paris and in New York. Her work has been exhibited in France at the Centre Pompidou, Paris Museum of Modern Art, Palais de Tokyo, Jeu de Paume, Cartier Foundation, Louis Vuitton CulturalSpace, and Foundation Maeght, and abroad at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Sculpture Center in New York, Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, Center for Contemporary Images in Geneva, Hara Museum in Tokyo and OiFuturo Cultural Center in Rio de Janeiro. Her films have been shown at Views from the avant-garde in the New York Film Festival, Quinzaine des Réalisateurs in the Cannes Festival, International Festival of Rotterdam, RIDM of Montreal and the Festival Hors Pistes of the Centre Pompidou in Paris. In 2010, Camille Henrot was nominated for the Prix Marcel Duchamp, and in 2013 she will be a recipient of the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship in Washington DC.

Brooklyn Commons is organized by Kari Conte, ISCP Director of Programs and Exhibitions.