He is Artist In Residence at The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics at NYU, has been invited to speak about art and
collective cultural production by Harvard, Yale, Columbia, NYU, Parsons, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Arts and Labor working group of Occupy Wall Street, and been interviewed about art in public spaces by publications including The New York Times, Frieze, Artforum, and Bomb.
After one year in the space they shut down operations, and from 1981 until they ceased activities in 1996, Group Material constituted a flexible membership of three to five artists who organized projects in the public sphere — function as a medium for
collective cultural production and public address.
Not exact matches
A public garden and
cultural center located in the Bronx, Wave Hill's spring show acknowledges the continued need for activism and
cultural production that builds bonds across lines of identity and difference, informing and empowering individual and
collective memory.
Starting with the premise that memory is political, her projects examine structures of time, memory, and the
production of knowledge by engaging with archival materials, individual and
collective narratives, and histories that span
cultural and national borders.
The attention toward the
collective's activities and ethos is particularly representative to understand a new era of art
production in which Colab could serve as a model of decentralization, pluralism, and autonomy, both in the
cultural field and in society at large.
Her scholarly and
cultural work seeks to assert a radically political analysis of modern and contemporary art and to foster the remembrance and visioning of
cultural spaces that merge a commitment to artistic and
cultural production with sociopolitical justice and
collective liberation.
In 2004 Angelika Richter was appointed director of the 6th Werkleitz Biennale, entitled «Common Property / Allgemeingut», which explored issues of
cultural property, knowledge
production,
collective artistic practice and interventions in the public and media realm.
Hồng - Ân Trương's interdisciplinary projects using video, sound, photography, and performance examine structures of time, memory, and the
production of knowledge by engaging with archival materials, individual and
collective narratives, and histories that span
cultural and national borders.
The project — conceived in collaboration with Kuwaiti architect and artist Aziz Al Qatami, founder of the architecture firm Atelier Aziz Al Qatami and member of the artist
collective GCC, who was commissioned to create the Grand Opening Reception exhibition design — questions the role of «artistic positions in contemporary institutional marketing and the eventisation of
cultural production in the form of local identity creation».
Bringing a poetic yet critical sensibility to the international stage, her work revolves around subjects such as the global economy, commerce and transportation often based on the classic gesture of the ready - made that is uncovering how
collective memory and sociopolitical imperatives can define
cultural production.»
These presentations of contemporary works and archival materials are staged as itinerant encounters of transnational thinking,
cultural production and institution - making that reveal contexts and desires for
collective understanding and intimate connections.