AIANY Global Dialogues: PLEASE TOUCH - The Programming of Public Art
Friday, Mar 14, 20146:14 AMEDT
| Center for Architecture, 536 La Guardia Place New York, NY
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Rsvp through http://cfa.aiany.org/index.php?section=calendar&evtid=6937 WHEN: Thursday, March 13th - 6:30pm to 8:00pm WHERE: At the Center for Architecture, 536 La Guardia Place, New York WHAT: PLEASE TOUCH - The Programming of Public Art How much of the identity of a city is portrayed by and is experienced through the social behavior and usage of civic space? And what role does public art play in shaping it? What becomes of the ‘un-programed space’ in the era of interactive public art? What informs policy makers’ choices with regards to the design and programming of ‘open space’ in the cities of the world. How do public art installations, both permanent and temporary, become landmarks for a city - with touristic and economic benefits? WHO: Speakers and moderator Moderator : Brooke Kamin Rapaport – Senior Curator for the Madison Square Park Conservancy Brooke Kamin Rapaport is the Martin Friedman Senior Curator at Madison Square Park Conservancy in New York. She is responsible for Mad. Sq. Art’s commissioned, outdoor sculpture exhibitions by living artists. She has worked as a museum curator, independent curator and art writer. As guest curator at The Jewish Museum in New York, she organized Houdini: Art and Magic (2010) and The Sculpture of Louise Nevelson: Constructing a Legend, a 2007 survey exhibition that traveled to The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young. A catalogue published by Yale University Press accompanied the Nevelson exhibition and was voted the best Art and Photography book of 2007 by Amazon.com. The volume also won the New York State Historical Association’s Henry Allen Moe Prize for Catalogues of Distinction in the Arts in 2009. Ms. Rapaport was the assistant curator (1989 to 1993) and associate curator (1993 to 2002) of contemporary art at the Brooklyn Museum. She has been on staff at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Jamaica Arts Center in Queens, New York. She is a contributing editor and frequent writer for Sculpture magazine. In addition to her work as a juror and moderator on issues surrounding contemporary art, Ms. Rapaport has lectured at Amherst College, The Jewish Museum, Storm King Art Center, the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, the San Diego Museum of Art, the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco and the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art in Wisconsin. She serves on the Board of Directors of Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City. She is a member of the American Association of Museums, ArtTable the College Art Association, and the Association of Art Museum Curators. Speakers: David Van der Leer – Executive director at the Van Alen Institute David van der Leer is an urban thinker and activator, and the Executive Director of Van Alen Institute in New York City. He specializes in the contemporary urban condition and creates programs that address urban issues through dialogue, research, and experiential installations. Van der Leer was previously Associate Curator, Architecture and Urban Studies and Curator, BMW Guggenheim Lab at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. BMW Guggenheim Lab is a mobile urban laboratory traveling to major cities worldwide including New York, Berlin, and Mumbai. In addition, Van der Leer curated stillspotting nyc, a two-year multidisciplinary project that took the museum programming out into the streets of the five boroughs to find special moments of stillness. At the Guggenheim, Van der Leer first worked on the exhibitions Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward and Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum. In 2012, he was co-curator for the American Pavilion of the Venice Architecture Biennale, and for the 2011 Shenzhen Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture, he curated an exhibition on new towns. Vishaan Chakrabarti –Principal, SHoP Architects and Director at CURE, Columbia University Vishaan Chakrabarti is a partner at SHoP Architects leading major architecture and urban development efforts worldwide. Simultaneously, Vishaan is Holliday Professor and the director of the Center for Urban Real Estate at Columbia University. His recent book, A Country of Cities: A Manifesto for an Urban America (Metropolis Books, 2013), argues that a more urban United States would result in a more prosperous, sustainable, joyous, and socially mobile nation. Vito Acconci – Acconci Studio Vito Acconci’s design and architecture comes from backgrounds of writing & art. His poems in the late 60’s treated language as matter and the page as a field to travel over; his performances in the early 70’s helped shift art from object to interaction; later in the 70’s, his installations turned museums and galleries into interactions between spaces and people; in the early 80’s, his architectural-units were meant to be transformed by users. By the late 80’s his work crossed over and he formed Acconci Studio, a design firm that mixes poetry and geometry, computer-scripting and sentence-structure, narrative and biology, chemistry and social-science. Built in the last decade are, in Graz, a person-made island where the theater, a bowl, twists to become a playground on its way to becoming a dome, a restaurant; in Tokyo, a clothing store as soft as clothing; in Coney Island an elevated subway-station façade that waves and bulges to make views and seats; in Toronto, a building-complex fence that twists and rises up the building to make wind-screens, and splits to make public-places. Being built now, in Indianapolis, is an interactive tunnel through a building where pedestrians and cyclists activate sensors that set off lights ‘that swarm around them like fireflies’. about Global Dialogues ‘s (dis)covered Identities The AIA NY Global dialogues’ 2014 theme: (dis)covered Identities, aims to explore ways by which cultures, cities, and voices define or refine their identity through a global exchange of ideas and conversations covering multiple topics, perspectives and trends of our time. Organizers: Global Dialogues chairs: Dan Gallagher AIA and Hana Kassem AIA, LEEP AP
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