ISCP Talk
February 2, 2017, 6:30–8pm

Fran Ilich and Juliana Cope in conversation

Artist Fran Ilich will speak about his current public project Aridoamérica: Winter Plan, within the larger context of his practice. Commissioned by ISCP, Aridoamérica is currently on view at El Museo de Los Sures. Ilich will converse with project curator Juliana Cope, followed by Q&A and reception.

Fran Ilich (born 1975 in Tijuana, Mexico) is a media artist, essayist and novelist based in New York City. He has participated in ARCO, Madrid; Berlinale Talent Campus; Documenta 12, Kassel; Transmediale, Berlin; How Latitudes Become Forms, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis and the Festival Mundial de la Digna Rabia, Mexico City.

El Museo de Los Sures was born from a partnership between Southside United with Cornell University and Churches United for Fair Housing to preserve the history of the neighborhood’s residents.

This project is the eighth collaboration between Los Sures and ISCP. It is made possible in part, by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo; the New York State Legislature; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito and Antonio Reynoso, Council Member, 34th District; and The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation.

Location: El Museo de Los Sures, 120 South 1st Street, Brooklyn, NY 11249

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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ISCP residents and alumni with artist Fran Ilich at El Museo de Los Sures, Aridoamérica: Winter Plan, 2017

Video documentation of the conversation

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
January 24, 2017, 6:30–8pm

Lecture by Shimabuku and exhibition catalog launch

In conjunction with ISCP’s exhibition The Animal Mirror, Japanese artist Shimabuku will discuss his recent work. Shimabuku has explored the role of communication, memory, and travel in the construction of both animal and human consciousness. His work often involves encounters with live animals. From 1990 to 2013 he made a series of works involving octopuses, including a film documenting his tour of famous sites in Tokyo with a live octopus. For his work in The Animal Mirror, he produced an exhibition for a group of Japanese macaque monkeys in Kyoto.

Shimabuku’s recent solo exhibitions include Exchange a mobile phone for a stone tool at Wilkinson Gallery, London (2015) and When Sky was Sea at Vancouver Contemporary Art Gallery (2014). His work is represented in the collections of the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Kunsthalle Bern; and the National Museum of Art, Osaka, among others.

After the lecture, ISCP will launch the exhibition catalog, Aqueous Earth & The Animal Mirror, which combines documentation, images, and supporting texts from two recent exhibitions at ISCP: Aqueous Earth (October 21, 2015 – January 22, 2016) and The Animal Mirror (November 2, 2016 – January 27, 2017). The catalog includes contributions by Kari Conte, Jacques Derrida, Simone Forti, Dylan Gauthier, Terike Haapoja, and Timothy Morton.

Bringing together a diverse group of international artists, this pair of exhibitions engages recent challenges to anthropocentric perspectives—the looming ecological crises of the Anthropocene in Aqueous Earth and our increasing understanding of the complexity of non-human animals in The Animal Mirror—to explore art’s centrality in understanding and negotiating these shifts and their effects on human culture and society.

This event is generously supported by The Japan Foundation, New York.

Aqueous Earth & The Animal Mirror is supported, in part, by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Greenwich Collection Ltd. ,The Japan Foundation, New York, Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen e. V., New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, the New York State Legislature, and New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

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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Shimabuku, Then I decided to give a tour of Tokyo to the octopus from Akashi, 2000, Performance and single channel video, 6 min. 56 sec

Video documentation of the lecture (Part I of II)

Video documentation of the lecture (Part II of II)

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
January 17, 2017, 6:30–8pm

Salon: Olaniyi R. Akindiya and Claire Paterson

Olaniyi R. Akindiya (a.k.a. Akirash) is researching worldwide immigration during his ISCP residency. He will speak about this research as well as two recent works: a mixed media installation and performance presented at the last Dak’Art Biennial and a video about the time he spent in Western Australia at the end of 2016. In his practice, Akirash explores both the personal and the universal by investigating invisible systems of power that govern everyday existence. He utilizes a multitude of techniques and materials, including repurposed objects, with which he creates mixed media paintings, sculptures, installations, video works, photographs, sound pieces, and performances.

Claire Paterson will speak about the collaborative project she has undertaken while at ISCP. During her time in New York, she has worked with models and other artists to explore ideas related to the theatrical language embedded in totems and gestures. In her work, Paterson often hosts experimental photo sessions, where models are provided with a collection of various costumes, sculpture, and installation elements to construct stories.

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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Participating Residents

Claire Paterson

Olaniyi Rasheed Akindiya

Olaniyi R. Akindiya, Disguise! They left me naked, 2016, Still from performance

Claire Paterson, Spark (Past, Present, Future), 2016, Photographic documentation from a 2 hour performative collaboration with figure model Zeke Jolson