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

Somewhere Inside: ISCP and the Studio

Through January 20

Exhibition

Sujin Lim: The Land, Dark and Muddy

Through February 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

Current and Upcoming Events & Exhibitions

Somewhere Inside: ISCP and the Studio

Through January 20

Exhibition

Sujin Lim: The Land, Dark and Muddy

Through February 7

Exhibition

ISCP Talk
January 10, 2017, 6:30–8pm

Marcus Coates and Una Chaudhuri in conversation

In conjunction with ISCP’s exhibition The Animal Mirror, London-based artist Marcus Coates will present his work for the first time in New York City. Coates’s films and performances employ animal vocalizations and ritualistic public interventions to provide new functional languages for situations where conventional strategies of understanding and rationalization fail. His presentation will be followed by a conversation with Una Chaudhuri, New York University Professor of English and Drama.

Marcus Coates’s recent exhibitions include Workplace Gallery, London, 2016; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 2015; Handwerkskammer, Berlin, 2015; and Manchester Museum of Science and Industry, 2014, among others. In 2013 he was shortlisted for the Trafalgar Square 4th Plinth. In 2008 he was the recipient of a Paul Hamyln Award and in 2009 he won the Daiwa Art Prize. Recent publications include The Trip, Serpentine Gallery, Koenig Books, 2011; UR…A Practical Guide to Unconscious Reasoning, Book Works, London, 2014; and Marcus Coates, Kunsthalle Zurich/Milton Keynes Gallery, Koenig Books, 2016.

Una Chaudhuri is Collegiate Professor and Professor of English and Drama at New York University. She is the author of No Man’s Stage: A Semiotic Study of Jean Genet’s Plays and Staging Place: The Geography of Modern Drama, as well as numerous articles on drama theory and theatre history in such journals as Modern Drama, Theatre Journal, and Theatre. She was guest editor of a special issue of Yale Theater on “Theater and Ecology” and a special issue on Animals and Performance, for TDR: The Journal of Performance Studies (2007). Recent publications include Animal Acts: Performing Species Today, co-edited with Holly Hughes, and Ecocide: Research Theatre and Climate Change, co-authored with Shonni Enelow. With director Fritz Ertl, she has developed a number of theatre pieces using a process they call “Research Theatre,” and she has worked collaboratively with the artist Marina Zurkow, most recently in a multi-platform project entitled “Dear Climate.”

This event is free and open to the public.

This program is supported, in part, by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Greenwich Collection Ltd, 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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Marcus Coates, still from Human Report, 2008, digital video, HD, 1920 x 1080 16:9, 8 min. 47 sec. Broadcast at 8:26pm on May 23, 2008, Channel 9 TV Galápagos, Ecuador. Produced by Galápagos Conservation Trust, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Galapagos Artists’ Residency Program and Channel 9 TV Galápagos. Courtesy of the artist. Photo by Elke Hartmann