Whitney Museum of American Art: Events: Whitney Independent Study Program

Screening of Ashley Hunt’s _Corrections_

Whitney Museum of American Art

with Introduction by Nathan Schneider
Tues, June 18, 2013 6 PM
The Kitchen, 512 W 19th Street
Categories: Whitney Independent Study Program , Film & Video Screenings, Free Events

Ashley Hunt 
Corrections, 2001 
59 minutes

In his ongoing interdisciplinary project The Corrections Documentary Project, artist and filmmaker Ashley Hunt investigates the institution of the prison: how it helps to structure and preserve racial and economic divisions within society. In Corrections (2001), Hunt specifically looks at the privatization of the prison system, exposing the conflict between for-profit corporations focused on pleasing investors and the communities which must deal with the consequences of high incarceration rates. Probing further to explore links between political campaign strategies and the increasing penalties for nonviolent crimes, Hunt uncovers a complex system of desires and incentives that lie behind the growth of the American prison system. In the process, incarceration emerges as a means of maintaining the status quo in times of social change. At times darkly humorous and devastatingly pointed, Hunt reminds us of the ulterior motives that warp the rule of law to impinge upon freedom in the name of order, and the dangers of turning a blind eye to the consequences.

With an introduction by Nathan Schneider, an editor of Waging Nonviolence. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The American Prospect, Seed, Religion Dispatches, and elsewhere.

This program is free of charge and open to the public; seats will be available on a first-come, first-served basis.

This event is organized in conjunction with Maintenance Required on view at The Kitchen. Please note this event does not take place at the Museum. Please consult individual calendar listings for details.

Headless at Regus Goldin+Senneby

Whitney Museum of American Art

Mon, June 10, 2013 3:30 PM
Regus Offices, 14 Wall Street, 20th floor
Categories: Whitney Independent Study Program , Film & Video Screenings, Free Events, Performances

As part of the exhibition Maintenance Required, a performance and video screening of the documentary Looking for Headless (2010) by the filmmakers Kate Cooper and Richard John Jones will take place at Regus Offices on Wall Street.

The film, commissioned by the artists Goldin+Senneby, attempts to track down the offshore company Headless Ltd. through interviews with academics, private investigators, fictionalized characters, and company representatives. As the search proceeds, a complex web of obfuscation unfolds in parallel to the layers of bureaucracy that shroud the opaque world of international finance and its instruments.

June 4, 3:30 pm
June 10, 3:30 pm

Space is limited. Reservations required; please register at maintenance.required.2013@gmail.com.

This event in organized in conjunction with Maintenance Required. Please note that the event does not take place at the Museum. Please consult individual calendar listings for details. All events are free and open to the public.

Headless at Regus Goldin+Senneby

Whitney Museum of American Art

Tues, June 4, 2013 3:30 PM
Regus Offices, 14 Wall Street, 20th floor
Categories: Whitney Independent Study Program , Film & Video Screenings, Free Events, Performances

June 4, 3:30 pm
June 10, 3:30 pm

Space is limited. Reservations required; please register at maintenance.required.2013@gmail.com.

_Seth_ by Yve Laris Cohen

Whitney Museum of American Art

Sat, June 1, 2013 8 PM
The Kitchen, 512 W 19th Street
Categories: Whitney Independent Study Program , Free Events, Performances

Yve Laris Cohen
Seth, 2013

In a new site-specific performance, Yve Laris Cohen meditates on the unused and unseen spaces of The Kitchen, responding to the history of the institution, the neighborhood, and the medium of performance. Exploring duration, perception, and the limits of human movement, Laris Cohen considers how maintenance, as well as the lack thereof, reveals our predilections and desires.

This program is free of charge and open to the public. Space for the event is extremely limited. Reservations required; please register at maintenance.required.2013@gmail.com.

Opening Reception: Whitney Independent Study Studio Program Exhibition

Whitney Museum of American Art

Fri, May 31, 2013 5–8 PM
{TEMP}, 57 Walker Street
Categories: Whitney Independent Study Program , Free Events

The studio exhibition presents work made by participants in the 2013 Whitney Independent Study Studio Program: Ben Thorp Brown, João Enxuto, Ryan Garrett, Cassandra Guan, Adelita Husni-Bey, Caroline Key, Per-Oskar Leu, Erica Love, Sean Micka, Dawit L. Petros, Michael Poetschko, Monica Rodriguez, Jessica Vaughn, and Constantina Zavitsanos.

The exhibition remains on view from May 31–June 16 at {TEMP}, 57 Walker Street (between Broadway and Church). Gallery hours are Wednesday–Sunday, 12–6 pm. Admission is free.

Opening Reception: Maintenance Required

Whitney Museum of American Art

Thurs, May 30, 2013 5–8 PM
The Kitchen, 512 W 19th Street
Categories: Whitney Independent Study Program , Free Events

Please join us for the free opening reception of Maintenance Required, curated by the Whitney Independent Study Program’s 2013 Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellows Nina Horisaki-Christens, Andrea Neustein, Victoria Rogers, and Jason Waite.

This event is free of charge and open to the public.

Critical Studies Program Symposium: _Critical Perspectives on Visual Culture_

Whitney Museum of American Art

Wed, May 29, 2013 7–11:30 PM
Kaufmann Astoria Studios Film and Video Gallery, Second Floor
Categories: Whitney Independent Study Program , Lectures, Talks, Readings, Free Events

The 2012 Critical Studies Symposium, Critical Perspectives on Visual Culture, is an evening-long program, in which each of the six participants from the Whitney Independent Study Critical Studies Program present a short paper on their current research. Two discussants respond to these papers.

Session I: 7–9 pm

Rizvana Bradley
The Aesthetics of Fabrication and Reproduction in the Art of Thornton Dial

Angelique Szymanek
Impossible Witnessing and Public Fantasy in the Work of Ana Mendieta

Charlotte Ickes
Isaac Julien’s Baltimore and the Spectacle of the Other ’70s

Discussant: Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Professor of History of Art, Director, Graduate Studies for Film and Visual Studies, Harvard University

Session II: 9:30–11:30 pm

Alison Dean
The Mediation of Immediacy in the Work of Rineke Dijkstra and Nan Goldin

Aline Guillermet
This is not a face: The return to portraiture in the 1960s

Geoffrey Wildanger
A Function for the Studio?

Discussant: Alex Alberro, Virginia Bloedel Wright Professor of Art History, Columbia University

Admission is free. Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis.