ISCP Talk
September 3, 2019, 6:30–8pm

New Jerusalem: Objections, a performance intervention by Hakim Bishara, Tali Keren and Lana Tatour

This event centers on the video work, New Jerusalem, created by Israeli artist Tali Keren and currently featured in the ISCP exhibition, Paperwork: Administrative Practice in Contemporary Art. Keren, speaking via Skype, will be joined by Palestinian writer and artist Hakim Bishara and Palestinian scholar Dr. Lana Tatour who will respond, resist, and speak about the systems of power addressed in New Jerusalem, and in particular about the way these systems impact the lives of Palestinians.

New Jerusalem was both a musical performance and subsequent video installation. The performance took place in Jerusalem’s City Hall, during the City Council Assembly in 2015. The work examines Jerusalem’s twenty-first century municipal plan which was never legally validated, yet serves as binding policy. Keren commissioned a cantor to sing ideologically-charged clauses of the plan, focussing on the occupied Palestinian Territories known as East Jerusalem. These territories, which Palestinians consider to be their capital, were annexed by Israel in 1967. While this discussion is geo-specific, it resonates with the spread of nationalism and ethno-supremacy across the globe.

Hakim Bishara is a writer, artist, and curator based in Brooklyn, New York. He is a staff writer at the online art magazine Hyperallergic and co-director of Soloway Gallery in Brooklyn.

Tali Keren is a media artist whose work investigates the formation of ideology, violence, and political identity. Keren has exhibited work at Eyebeam, New York City; Goethe-Institut New York; and Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, among others. Keren was a resident at ISCP in 2019.

Lana Tatour is a scholar whose research focuses on indigenous resistance to settler colonialism. She is the recipient of the Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Postdoctoral Award, given by the Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia University. She completed a Ph.D. in Politics at the University of Warwick in 2017.

This program is supported, in part, by Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant; Greenwich Collection Ltd.; Hartfield Foundation; National Endowment for the Arts; 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; Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF); and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

6:30–8pm

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Tali Keren

Tali Keren, New Jerusalem, 2014-15, video still from multi-channel video installation and performance at Jerusalem City Hall, 25 min. Courtesy of the artist

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
August 27, 2019, 6:30–8pm

Sandra Erbacher on Bureaucratic Systems

For this public program in conjunction with the current ISCP exhibition Paperwork: Administrative Practice in Contemporary Art, artist Sandra Erbacher will speak about The Return of History, her newly-commissioned work in the exhibition, as well as her long-term interest in the open office plan’s relation to disciplinary power. Erbacher’s presentation will be followed by a conversation with the exhibition’s curator Kari Conte.

The Return of History foregrounds a group of executive office desks produced in the 1970s and 1980s by the German company Ensslen, which were given names such as Euroform, Euroboss and Euroflex, conveying optimism for the European project of a bygone era. This series of three large-format photographs questions Europe’s hegemonic ideology and interrogates the idea of truth in the context of corporate and government administrations. It also considers how archives are embedded in bureaucratic systems, organized according to bureaucratic principles, and serve institutions.

Sandra Erbacher is a German artist living and working in New Jersey and New York. She earned her MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2014) and her BFA from Camberwell College of Art, London (2009). She also holds a BA and MA in Sociology from Goldsmiths College, University of London. Erbacher has exhibited nationally and internationally, at Spring/Break Art Show, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center; Chazen Museum of Art, Madison; Parisian Laundry, Montreal; Space, Portland; Umbrella Gallery, Leeds; and Five Years, London. Her work is included in the Fidelity Investments Corporate Art Collection and numerous other private collections. Her work in Paperwork: Administrative Practice in Contemporary Art is supported by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant.

6:30–8pm

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Sandra Erbacher, The Return of History, 2019, digital C-prints. Installation view in Paperwork: Administrative Practice in Contemporary Art. Photo by Martin Parsekian

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
August 6, 2019, 6:30–8pm

Artists at Work: Kristina Melbø Valvik and Mohammed Faraj Al-Suwaidi

Kristina Melbø Valvik will speak about the role of curators and their relationships with artists, starting with an introduction to the Norwegian avant-garde movement, Gruppe 66 and Baktruppen. Valvik will also introduce her curatorial practice, in which she pays special attention to selecting spaces based on audience experience.

Mohammed Faraj Al-Suwaidi will discuss his experience as an artist in Doha, Qatar, and his recent work presented there. Among Al-Suwaidi’s areas of interest are change and development in relation to time.

This program is supported, in part, by Fire Station – Qatar Museums; 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; OCA – Office for Contemporary Art Norway; and Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF).

6:30–8pm

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