Cohabitating is a program organized in collaboration by ISCP artists-in-residence Bita Razavi and Danilo Correale and students from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). The program aims to momentarily extend Razavi’s and Correale’s artistic practices beyond the confinement of their studios through the activation of two different works. Each of these works encourages the audience to participate and move across different locations within ISCP’s three-story building. Bita Ravazi’s work-in-progress Coloring Book for Concerned Adults (2017) is a coloring activity that engages with social and political data to process current events. The activity of coloring has a calming effect on the absorption of the intense infographic information presented. Danilo Correale’s video No More Sleep No More (2014–15) is a series of conversations with various experts on the topic of sleep, investigating wakefulness as a never-ending production model of postmodernity. These bodily activities of coloring and meditation will function as methods to temporarily disassociate viewers from harsh presentations of current social and political events, while reflecting on different states of consciousness, in action or at rest.

Event Schedule
6:30pm–6:45pm: Program Introduction, 2nd Floor Lounge
6:45pm–8:15pm: Coloring Book For Concerned Adults, engaged coloring activity led by Bita Razavi, 3rd Floor Kitchen Area
3:30pm–8:15pm: No More Sleep No More, Danilo Correale, video screening on a ©Casper mattress, Room 306
8:15pm: Closing Remarks, 2nd Floor Lounge

This event is free and open to the public.

Artist Biographies:
Danilo Correale is an Italian artist who currently lives and works between New York and Naples. He is the founder of the think tank and label Decelerationist Reader and has contributed to several publications in the field of critical theory including Shifter, No Order and South as a State of Mind. His most recent publications include The Game – A three sided football match, FeC, Fabriano, 2014 and No More Sleep No More, Archive Books, Berlin, 2015. His work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions including the 16th Art Quadriennale, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, 2016; Tales of Exhaustion, La Loge, Brussels, 2016; Pigs, Artium Museum, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, 2016; Ennesima, La Trienniale de Milano, 2016; Kiev Biennial, 2015; The Museum for Modern and Contemporary Art of Bolzano (Museion), 2015; Museum of Contemporary Art Donnaregina, Naples, 2014; Steirischer Herbst Festival, Graz, 2013; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, 2012; Manifesta 8, Murcia, Spain, 2010; Moscow Biennial, 2010; and Istanbul Biennial, 2009.

Bita Razavi is an artist born in Iran who lives and works between Helsinki and Metsakivi, Estonia. She graduated with a BA in Music from Tehran Art University and obtained a Master’s degree in Fine Art from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki. She has exhibited her work at Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art; 1st Trondheim Biennale, Finland; Finnish Museum of Photography; XV Biennale de la Méditerranée, Thessaloniki; Helsinki Photography Biennale; Design Museum, Helsinki; Videobrasil; SESC Pompeia; Cité international des Arts, Paris; Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen; Göteborg International Biennal for Contemporary Art; and National Art Museum of Ukraine.

Curator Biographies:
Marta Cacciavillani is an Italian curator and writer based in New York. She holds a BA in Art Criticism and Curation from Central Saint Martins, London. Recent curated projects include, The Written Language of Reality, featuring works by Yto Barrada, Basim Magdy, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Akram Zaatari, and Carta Blanca: Gabriel Orozco, both at the Hessel Museum of Art, 2017; and the collectively curated event series We Are the Margins, P!, New York, 2016. She is currently an MA candidate at CCS Bard.

Stephanie E. Goodalle is a New York based curator. Stephanie received her B.A in Art History from Spelman College in Atlanta in 2014 and is completing her MA in Curatorial Studies at CCS Bard. Goodalle’s exhibition Other Articulations of the Real featuring Torkwase Dyson, Cameron Rowland, Shawn Theodore, and Sable Elyse Smith is now on view at the Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, 2017.

Lian Ladia is a curator from Manila, Philippines. She is the co-founder of the Southeast Asian platform Plantingrice.com with Sidd Perez, a curatorial collaborative focused on repotentializing spaces, and recovery and rehistoricization in Southeast Asian contemporary art histories, with a emphasis on Manila. In 2015, she attended the De Appel Curatorial Programme in Amsterdam. She is currently completing her graduate studies at CCS Bard.

This event is organized by Marta Cacciavillani, Stephanie Goodalle and Lian Ladia from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College in collaboration with Danilo Correale and Bita Razavi, artists in residence at ISCP. This is part of a collaboration between ISCP and CCS Bard that is now in its second year.

This program is made possible, in part, by New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

AKI INOMATA will speak about her past projects with living things and her current work on the growth lines of shellfish. She creates her artworks through collaborations with living creatures including dogs, parakeets and bagworms. Through them, she explores topics related to identity and questions the status quo.

Srinivas Aditya Mopidevi will present his ongoing curatorial project that problematizes the idea of truth involving three different artists and art collectives. Discussing their use of conventional formats of mediation such as the archive, the science of forensics, the format of academic conferences, interviews and talks, Mopidevi will also explore notions of truth and objectivity in the context of “post-truth.”