WINTER RESIDENCY 2019 NEW YORK
THE EXPANDED BODY
JANUARY 7 - 11, 2019
The Transart Institute 2019 winter residency will think, discuss and practice the artist as an expanded body. From the corporeality of our practices, to the bodies of knowledge we encounter and produce through our research, to the private and public space we engage with our work, the expanded body asks us to stretch ourselves outwards to think, act and reflect collaboratively.Our group of MFA artists each have a relationship to this theme. They are by turns, expanding their bodies through dance or performance practices, extending the body through materials or technology, exploring the spaces between bodies via portraiture and experimenting with expanded bodies of knowledge. In each of these practices, Transart’s artists are exploring forms for expanding their various bodies, outwards into the world; connecting and exchanging, co-constructing new spaces and publics where their practices can be in vital and critical relation to the world.
PROGRAM SCHEDULE
VENUE INFORMATION
REVIEWERS
WORKSHOPS
EVENTS
RESIDENCY NOTES
PROGRAM SCHEDULE
KEY
OPT (OPTIONAL BUT REQUIRED UPON SIGN UP)
SUNDAY JANUARY 6TH
LOCATION: VARIOUS
6:30pm - Group Dinner + Opening Meeting (Bar Laika, Brooklyn)
MONDAY JANUARY 7TH
LOCATION: ART IN GENERAL
9am - 10am Movement Session with Kate Hilliard (OPT)
10:30am - 1:30pm Workshop
“One speaking mouth, with many ears, and half as many writing hands” with The Center for Experimental Lectures
1:30pm - 2:30pm - Lunch break (installation time if needed + tech check)
2:45pm - 3:15pm - Guest reviewers mini-artist talk* - Vanessa Anspaugh & Dejan Lukic
3:20pm - 5:40pm - Presentations - Kate Hilliard, Sheila Lynch, Syowia Kyambi
5:45 - 6:15pm - Summer residency meeting (MFA)
TUESDAY JANUARY 8TH
LOCATION: ART IN GENERAL
9am - 10am Movement Session with Kate Hilliard (OPT)
10am - 11am Install time + tech check
11am - 11:30am - Guest reviewers mini-artist talk* - Jeff Thompson + Dafna Naphtali
11:30am - 1pm - Presentations - Rudi Cossovich, Flavia Bertorello
1pm - 2pm - Lunch break (installation time if needed + tech check)
2pm - 2:30pm - Guest reviewers mini-artist talk* - Virgil Wong + Isin Olon
2:30pm - 4:50pm - Presentations - Winston Mascarenhas, Iris Karayan, Polly Snaith
4:50 - 5:20 Break (installation time if needed + tech check)
5:30pm - 6pm - Guest reviewers mini-artist talk* - Elia Alba + David Antonio Cruz
6pm - 8:15pm - Presentations - Sarah Jane Eaton, Peter Lopez, Irene Mamiye
WEDNESDAY JANUARY 9TH
EXPANDING THE BODY - LISTENING AND COLLABORATION
LOCATION: VARIOUS
10am - 12pm - Guggenheim Museum self-guided tour of Hilma Af Klint show
12pm - 1:30pm - Lunch break
12pm - 1pm - Graduate Dialogues meeting (MFA2)
2pm - 3:30pm - Walkie Talkie Dream Garden Soundwalk, guided by Dafna Naphtali
4pm - 5:30pm - Studio visits at The International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP)
1040 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211
THURSDAY JANUARY 10TH
EXPANDING THE BODY - PUBLISHING AND WRITING PRACTICES
LOCATION: VARIOUS
10am - 11am - Visit to MoMA Library
11am - 1pm - MoMA galleries*
1pm - 2pm - Lunch break
3:30pm - 6:30pm - Workshop ‘The Body I Call Home” with Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo
Meeting Location: Jefferson Market Library | 425 6th Ave, New York, NY 10011
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Market_Library
Arrive by 3:25pm
FRIDAY JANUARY 11TH
LOCATION: VARIOUS
9:30am - Collegium Meeting
(La Pain Quotidian SoHo - 100 Grand St, New York, NY 10013)
11am - 4pm - Jean Marie Gallery Crawl
Drawing Center guided tour In SoHo
35 Wooster St, New York, NY 10013
Printed Matter guided tour & artist book browsing
231 11th Ave, New York, NY 10001
MOMA PS1* in Long Island City (lunch & galleries)
22-25 Jackson Ave, Long Island City, NY 11101
5pm - Closing Meeting at Bia
23-10 Jackson Ave, Long Island City, NY 11101
*Students responsible for entrance fees. Student discount available.
VENUE: ART IN GENERAL RESIDENCY STUDIO 20 JAY STREET, SUITE M10 EBROOKLYN, NY 11201
Art in General Residency Studio is a nonprofit organization that assists artists with the production and presentation of new work. It changes in response to the needs of artists and informs and engages the public about their work.
Art in General Residency Studio was founded in 1981 by two artists, Martin Weinstein and Teresa Liszka, in the General Hardware building as a space for artists to inspire, meet, and exhibit. A pioneering force since the 1980s, it has grown into a New York institution unlike any other in the city, supporting thousands of local and international artists through deep personal connections and direct funding.
REVIEWERS
Elia Alba was born in Brooklyn, New York. She received her Bachelor of Arts from Hunter College in 1994 and completed the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in 2001. She has exhibited throughout the United States and abroad. Those include The Rhode Island School of Design Museum; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; The Science Museum, London; ITAU Cultural Institute, Sao Paolo; National Museum of Art, Reina Sofía, Madrid and the 10th Havana Biennial. She is a recipient of numerous awards and residencies for example, Studio Museum in Harlem Artist-in Residence Program in 1999; New York Foundation for the Arts Grant, Photography 2008; Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant, 2002 and Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant 2002 and 2008. Her work is in the collection of the Smithsonian Museum of Art, El Museo del Barrio, Lowe Art Museum to name a few. For the past 6 years, she has been working on a project titled “The Supper Club. The project brings together artists, scholars and performers of diasporic cultures, through photography, food and dialogue to examine race and culture in the United States. A book on The Supper Club, produced by The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation and published by Hirmer is scheduled for November 2018.
Vanessa Anspaugh - I am a dance artist who works through visual, somatic, and conceptual languages in an effort to facilitate emotional, political, and relational dance works. My particular process methodology hinges on a belief that what is going on inside of the room reflects also what is going on outside of the room, in the culture at large. In my processes driven work, I continue to work collaboratively with performers in order to discover how their interests and concerns can be in dialogue with my own interests exploring the complex power relations embedded in a variety of relationships. From the personal, institutional and sociopolitical, I aim to work through questions around control, collaboration, authorship, domination and surrender.
https://www.vanessaanspaugh.com/
David Antonio Cruz is a multidisciplinary artist and a Professor of the Practice in Painting and Drawing at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. Cruz fuses painting and performance to explore the visibility and intersectionality of brown, black, and queer bodies. Cruz received a BFA in painting from Pratt Institute and an MFA from Yale University. He attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and completed the AIM Program at the Bronx Museum. Recent residencies include the LMCC Workspace Residency, Project For Empty Space’s Social Impact Residency, and BRICworkspace. Cruz’s work has been included in notable group exhibitions at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, El Museo del Barrio, BRIC, Performa 13, and the Bronx Museum of Art. His fellowships and awards include the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant, the Franklin Furnace Fund Award, the Urban Artist Initiative Award, the Queer Mentorship Fellowship, and the Neubauer Faculty Fellowship at Tufts University. Recent press includes The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, WhiteHot Magazine, W Magazine, Bomb Magazine, and El Centro Journal.
http://www.cruzantoniodavid.com/
Dejan Lukic (PhD) is a scholar and writer, and received his PhD in anthropology from Columbia University. His work revolves around the inescapable convergence of art and politics, while taking seriously stylistic forms of writing around and about this convergence. He has published two books (one on the aesthetics of terrorism and the other as a collection of thought-images), as well as numerous essays on art and philosophy. He is currently writing two manuscripts: a) “The Charismatic Image” (on the nature of charisma) and b) “Sickness Unto Life” (on delirium of literature as a form of health). Dejan is a faculty member in the Art Writing department at the School of Visual Arts in New York City and teaches online courses for the Node Center for Curatorial Studies in Berlin and for the Global Center for Advanced Studies in Ireland. He runs an art & ecology Summer school—Step Not Beyond—on the Adriatic island of Cres and co-directs the culinary-philosophical troupe Vitalist Cuisine.
http://www.stepnotbeyond.com/ and http://www.vitalistcuisine.com/
Jeff Thompson is an artist, educator, curator and programmer. He is Assistant Professor and Program Director in Visual Art and Technology at Stevens Institute of Technology.
Dafna Naphtali is a electronic-musician/performer/singer/composer from an eclectic musical background (jazz, classical, rock and near-eastern music). Since the mid-90’s she composes/performs experimental, interactive electro-acoustic music using her custom Max/MSP programming for live sound processing of her voice and other instruments, and also interprets the work of Cage, Stockhausen and contemporary composers. With her large variety of projects with well regarded musicians in the US, Europe and India, she has received awards from NYFA, NYSCA, Franklin Furnace, American Composers Forum, Foundation for Contemporary Arts and American Music Center, and recorded several CDs, including “What is it Like to be a Bat?” a digital punk trio with Kitty Brazelton (on Tzadik). Dafna teaches at New York University and Brooklyn College, Harvestworks and privately.
Isin Önol has been working as an independent curator predominantly in Austria and Turkey since 2009. Before that, she leaded the Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art as its director and curator in Istanbul for three years. (2006-2009) She is an enthusiast producer of exhibition projects, talks, and other art-related events as well a researcher working in the field of contemporary art, cultural studies, and art education.
Virgil Wong is the Cofounder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Medical Avatar LLC, a mobile health company that generates personalized 3-D anatomical bodies to visualize health information in the past, present, and future. As a researcher in medical cognition and intelligent technologies at Columbia University, he is studying how time travel simulations of patients’ bodies can increase engagement, motivate disease prevention, improve chronic disease management, optimize patient physician communication, reduce misdiagnoses, and decrease hospital readmission rates.
As a visual artist working with concepts in medicine and technology, Professor Wong has exhibited interactive installations, films, paintings, drawings, and prints in galleries and museums around the world – including the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Taipei, Taiwan; and Deitch Projects in New York City. He produced and co-directed Murmur, a cardiovascular dreamscape film that premiered at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival. In the previous year, he received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for an art and medicine exhibition called Corporeal Landscape.
EVENTS
Photo : Hedvig Ersman, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.
HILMA AF KLINT TOUR
Guggenheim
1 hour self-guided tour. Each student will choose one work to present to the group.
SOUNDWALK
Dafna Naphtali’s “Walkie Talkie Dream Garden”
Walkie Talkie Dream Garden Soundwalk, guided by Dafna Naphtali
Walkie Talkie Dream Garden is an interactive soundwalk for the Williamsburg waterfront, developed by sound artist and composer Dafna Naphtali.
Walk, run, ride or listen on the passing ferry to experience the sounds of the Williamsburg Brooklyn waterfront, and hear historical and imagined soundscapes, juxtaposed with vocal pieces to recreate the former Bushwick Creek, trainyards from Williamsburg’s industrial past, and playground equipment whimsically transformed into percussion, and a giant marimba.
Walkie Talkie Dream Garden‘s Williamsburg/Brooklyn walk will encompasses the Williamsburg waterfront, from the former Domino Sugar factory to Bushwick inlet, from Kent Avenue extending into the East River, to be experienced from the piers and passing ferries, with large structures that become oversized virtual instruments so participants can shape their own musical experience as they walk, run, or ride.
Eyebeam stands out from its neighbors in Chelsea. (photo by Steve Lambert, via Wikimedia)
EYEBEAM
Eyebeam is an organisation for art & technology. Welcome Wednesday is a space for current and former Eyebeam artists to share new ideas, works in progress, host conversations, and experiment with different formats. Printed Matter is the world’s leading non-profit organisation dedicated to the dissemination, understanding and appreciation of artists’ books.
Photo: Printed Matter
PRINTED MATTER
Printed Matter is the world’s leading non-profit organisation dedicated to the dissemination, understanding and appreciation of artists’ books.
THE DRAWING CENTER
The Drawing Center presents an exhibition that focuses on three young artists who explore diverse identities through portraiture and who do so almost exclusively through the medium of drawing.
DREAM HOUSE
Dream House is a sound and light environment
WORKSHOPS
ONE SPEAKING MOUTH, WITH MANY EARS, AND HALF AS MANY WRITING HANDS
Joseph Lubitz and Gordon Hall
The Center for Experimental Lectures
Starting the lecture from zero.
The lecture is a work, not a report on the work you do elsewhere.
Be prepared to present a 5 min “lecture” of your own creation or appropriation--not a talk about your practice, but a practice in the form of the talk.
How do you want to speak and in what voice?
What kind of language do you want to use?
Where are you physically in relation to the audience?
Is it you that is presenting? Are you collaborating with anyone?
Are they images or other media included? What is the size / scale /duration and proximity to you?
What software or other interfaces will you use?
What is the role of these images to what is being said? Is it illustrative? Dialogical? Some other relation?
Are there objects involved?
Are you sitting / standing / moving around?
How are you engaging or not engaging with the space you are in?
What are you doing with your body?
…and so on…
The Center for Experimental Lectures is an artist’s project based in New York that engages with the public lecture as form. The Center for Experimental Lectures commissions new lecture performances, focusing on not only the content and format of each unique lecture but also the possibilities of the lecture as a creative platform.
The Center for Experimental Lectures was started in 2011 by Gordon Hall, and since then has commissioned 35 new lecture performances at a variety of venues including Alderman Exhibitions (Chicago), Recess (NYC), MoMA PS1 (NYC), The Shandaken Project (Shandaken, NY), The Shandaken Project at Storm King (New Windsor, NY), Interstate Projects (Brooklyn, NY), Brooklyn Academy of Music, and at the Whitney Museum of American Art presenting Seminars with Artists in conjunction with the 2014 Whitney Biennial. Starting in 2016 Joseph Lubitz joined Gordon Hall as an organizing collaborator at the CEL.
Participants travel by foot to several locations within the area of 14th Street in Manhattan while paying close attention to their bodies in relationship to street life, indoor spaces, crowds, as well as some of the specific bodies that they may come across with. Walking and writing are the main tools to be deployed during this workshop, hence combining movement with pause. During each stop on the route, the group will devote time to engage in what I refer to in my own work as writing as performance. This is a creative effort that envisions writing as an embodied process and reading as an invitation to enact the text. Some of the bodily concepts to be experienced include expansion, contraction, porosity, bilocation and invisibility. With the exception of the final group share of the writings, most of this workshop will observe silence.
Dress in layers, wear comfortable shoes, bottle some liquid to hydrate your system, and bring notepads of your choice and a variety of analog writing devices (pencils and pens). No cells or computers of any kind please. No photographic, film or audio documentation.
The Body I Call Home © 2018 Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo
Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo treads an elusive path that manifests itself performatively or through experi¬ences where the quotidian and art overlap. He has exhibited and performed extensively in the U.S. as well as internationally. Residencies attended include P.S. 1/MoMA, Yaddo, The Center for Book Arts, and the MacDowell Colony. Estévez Raful Espejo Holds an MFA from Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, where he studied with Coco Fusco; and an MA from Union Theological Seminary. He has received mentorship in art in everyday life from Linda Mary Montano, a historic figure in the performance art field. Montano and Estévez Raful Espejo have also collaborated on several performances. Publications include Pleased to Meet You, Life as Mate¬rial for Art and Vice Versa (editor), One Person at a Time, The P Word, and For Art’s Sake. He is the founding director of The Mangú Museum (pronounced man-goo) and The Interior Beauty Salon. He was born in Santiago de los Treinta Caballeros, Dominican Republic, and in 2011 was baptized as a Bronxite: a citizen of the Bronx.
RESIDENCY NOTES
ORIENTATION
Students
Instructors
Guests
PRESENTATION NOTESYou will present from your own computer. Make sure you have the appropriate HDMI adaptor for your computer to connect to the projector. Also make sure you have a back-up thumbdrive with your presentation loaded and check it on someone else’s computer.
Mandatory TECH CHECK 30 min. in advance of session.
ATTENDANCE
You must sign up to attend this optional residency by 9/15/19.
No late sign-up possible for returning students, there are no exceptions out of fairness to all.
You are automatically on leave for winter/spring semester if you do not attend a residency you sign up for.
You are expected to attend the full residency if you sign up for it.
You are required to attend any optional event you sign up for.
FORMS
Participation in Winter Residency 2019 sign up (deadline 9/15/18)
Advance request to arrive late or leave early form (expires 9/15, approval required)
Explanation of missed residency requirement (illness or emergency)
Invoice form
LOCATIONS
VENUE: Art in General Residency Studio
20 Jay Street Suite M10E
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)
11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan (ever at 18 West 54th Street)
https://www.moma.org/research-and-learning/archives/
International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP)
1040 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211
https://iscp-nyc.org