Issue No. 226: AA Bronson Lecture on October 10, 2012

AA Bronson and Nicolaus Chaffin, Ashes to Ashes, 2012, performance view.

The MFA in Visual Studies presents AA Bronson

Applications for the MFA in Visual Studies are now being accepted for
Fall 2013 and are due February 1, 2013. To learn more, go to pnca.edu/graduate/vs.

AA Bronson Lecture: October 10, 6:30pm

Swigert Commons
1241 NW Johnson Ave
Free and open to the public

www.pnca.edu

AA Bronson visits Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) to kick off the MFA in Visual Studies 2012–13 Graduate Visiting Lecture Series. Bronson is the first of a series of renowned artists who come to campus to engage with students and the community through lectures, conversations, group critiques, workshops, and studio visits. These visiting artists contribute to, challenge, and expand the academic and artistic discourse of the MFA in Visual Studies program.

Bronson's visit builds on previous connections with the MFA in Visual Studies program. With Chair Arnold J. Kemp, students visited with Bronson at Printed Matter in NYC in 2009. In 2011, PNCA's Feldman Gallery + Project Space hosted the exhibition curated by Bronson, Learn to Read Art: A History of Printed Matter.

Read more about AA Bronson and his views on creative practice on UNTITLED, PNCA's online magazine.


About the MFA in Visual Studies
PNCA's MFA in Visual Studies is a multidisciplinary, mentor-based program that encourages independent inquiry and supports critical approaches to the production of visual art. The flexible structure and generalist nature of the program allow students to pursue a single discipline, such as painting, or a combined practice that bridges multiple disciplines and media, including but not limited to: animation, communication design, illustration, installation, painting, photography, printmaking, sequential arts, sculpture, sound, performance, and video. As a complement to intensive one-on-one faculty mentorships, students benefit from contact with a rich network of instructors, critical thinkers, writers, and curators in the Portland area, as well as exposure to a dynamic roster of acclaimed visiting artists and designers. Seminars, lectures, exhibition opportunities, and national and international travel, add to a rigorous and investigative educational experience where experienced makers refine and expand their creative practices.

MFA+MA Programs
Portland, Oregon
PNCA offers five master's programs that prepare students for a life of creative practice: the Master of Fine Arts in Applied Craft and Design (offered jointly with Oregon College of Art and Craft), the Master of Fine Arts in Collaborative Design, the Master of Arts in Critical Theory and Creative Research, the Master of Fine Arts in Visual Studies, and the Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts in Visual Studies.

About AA Bronson
AA Bronson formed General Idea with Felix Partz and Jorge Zontal in 1969. The trio lived and worked together for 25 years, undertaking more than 100 exhibitions and public art projects. They were known for their magazine, FILE (1972–1989), their production of low-cost multiples, and their early involvement in punk, queer theory, and AIDS activism. In 1974, General Idea founded Art Metropole, a distribution center and archive in Toronto for artists' books, audio, video, and multiples. Bronson's solo work focuses on death, grieving, and healing. He founded the Institute for Art, Religion, and Social Justice at Union Theological Seminary in New York City.

- Arts & Education

Issue No. 182: "Institutions by Artists" International Conference (Vancouver)

Fillip & PAARC
Institutions by Artists

October 12–14, 2012
Vancouver, Canada

Conference registration now open at arcpost.ca

Fillip and PAARC are pleased to present Institutions by Artists, an international conference that aims to evaluate the performance and promise of contemporary artist-run centres and initiatives. The three day event will include over 50 speakers from 19 countries.

At the Convention a world congress of artists, curators, critics, and academics will deliberate, explore, and advance the common interests of artist-run centres, collectives, and cultures, creating a catalyst for new as well as divergent assessments and perspectives on artist-run cultures today. Using experimental formats, performative frameworks, and participatory vehicles, the three day series of events is designed to challenge and generate new thinking about artist-run culture globally, examining their urban and rural, fixed and mobile, local and virtual dimensions among others. Inspired by the many artists wrestling creatively with building, using, shaping, and deploying institutions by artists, we will explore economies of exchange and knowledge; institutional time and space; material and virtual intimacies among other critical interrogations.

Throughout the Institutions by Artists week, Vancouver artist-run centres will present special projects that link to the themes of the Convention. From internet art pioneers, to grassroots cinema collectives, to media pirates and institutional revisionists, this week-long series of events and activities will invite the public to meet visiting artists, and to examine the many phenomena impacting and defining artist-run culture globally. Experimental tactics include re-enactments of key histories from the annals of artist-run culture, radical forms of distribution, the re-purposing of data and systems for new outcomes, as well as DIY models of education in an in-depth exploration of the innovation, critical thinking, and irreverent spirit of artist-run initiatives.

Speakers:
Mounira al Solh, Chumpon & Chantawipa Apisuk, "Walter Benjamin", Matei Bejenaru, Anne Bertrand, Vincent Bonin, AA Bronson, Tania Bruguera, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Brad Butler & Karen Mirza, Jennifer Cane, Fulvia Carnevale & James Thornhill, Biljana Ciric, Christopher Cozier, Tim Dallet & Adam Kelly, Jeff Derksen, Sean Dockray, Chris Fitzpatrick, Dirk Fleischmann, Andrea Francke, Corinn Gerber, Bastien Gilbert, Sam Gould, Louise Hervé & Chloé Maillet, Candice Hopkins, Jakob Jakobsen, Virginija Januškeviciute, Marie-Josée Jean, Ola Khalidi & Diala Khasawinh, Deirdre Logue & Allyson Mitchell, Jaleh Mansoor, Gabriel Menotti, Jonathan Middleton, Gabi Ngcobo, John O'Brian, Isabelle Pauwels, Matthew Post, Peta Rake, Al Razutis, Patricia Reed, Scott Rogers and Justin Patterson, Gregory Sholette, Hito Steyerl, Pelin Tan, Claire Tancons, Slavs and Tatars, Anton Vidokle, Eva Weinmayr, Pauline J. Yao.

Issue No. 124: Artists' Book Fair & Conference. NYC.

Image Courtesy of Paul Mpagi Sepuya.
Printed Matter, Inc.

Contemporary Artists' Books Conference
The NY Art Book Fair

September 30–October 1, 2011

www.nyartbookfair.com/conference

MoMA PS1
22-25 Jackson Avenue at 46th Avenue
Long Island City, NY

The Contemporary Artists' Books Conference is a dynamic, two-day event focused on emerging practices and debates within art-book culture. For the first time, the Conference will be free and open to the public.

Six ninety-minute panel sessions will be held, covering such topics as the state of artists’ books criticism, new pedagogical approaches and audiences, artists’ books in Latin America, and samizdat as a model for radical distribution. This year's keynote speaker is artist Tauba Auerbach, who will discuss artists' books as a central part of her practice, including her recent oversized pop-up books.

The regular sessions will be followed on Friday, September 30, by an hour-long pecha kucha, or lightning round, in which invited guests will each present for five minutes, discussing one or more artists' books, zines, or multiples; and on Saturday, October 1, by a reception and book launch for Adventures (see below), the new publication that benefits the conference.

The Conference is organized by the CABC Committee, a national group of art library professionals (listed below). Funding for the Conference is supported by generous donations from David Teiger and from Philip Aarons and Shelley Fox Aarons.

In conjunction with the Conference:

Adventures, a new publication to benefit the Conference

Bringing together language-based artworks, poetry, and image-text dialogues, Adventures will pay homage to assembling practices developed by mid-twentieth century artists’ periodicals. Adventures is edited by David Senior and will include contributions from Alejandro Cesarco, Eve Fowler, Dora Garcia, William E. Jones, MPA, Carl Pope, Scott Reeder, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, among many others. Artist and designer Aaron Flint Jamison coordinated production of the edition at YU, Portland, OR. Sales will support the Contemporary Artists’ Books Conference, which for the first time will offer free admission to all visitors. For more information, call (212) 925-0325 or write shannon@printedmatter.org.

Loose Leaf: Publications as Assemblage, related exhibtion

Semina, the art and literary journal published by artist Wallace Berman from 1955–1964, will be proudly featured alongside a number of other assembled magazines from the 1960–70s as part of “Loose Leaf.” This special exhibition will examine an era during which the composition of printed matter was performed, transmitted, and scrambled, generating new possibilities for published artworks. “Loose Leaf” is organized by David Senior, Museum of Modern Art Library.

CABC COMMITTEE:
Kate Adler
AA Bronson, NY Art Book Fair
Stephen Bury, Frick Art Reference Library
Matthew Carson, International Center for Photography Library
Deirdre Donohue, International Center for Photography Library
Ryan Evans, Museum of Modern Art Library
Ryan Haley, New York Public Library
Milan Hughston, Museum of Modern Art Library
Deirdre Lawrence, Brooklyn Museum Library
James Mitchell
Rachael Morrison, Museum of Modern Art Library
Faith Pleasanton
Sara Rubinow, Pratt Institute
Lori Salmon, Museum of Modern Art Library
David Senior, Museum of Modern Art Library
Jennifer Tobias, Museum of Modern Art Library
Tony White, Indiana University Library

About the NY Art Book Fair

Printed Matter, Inc. presents the sixth annual NY Art Book Fair, from September 30 to October 2, 2011, at MoMA PS1, Long Island City, Queens. A preview will be held on the evening of Thursday, September 29th. Free and open to the public, and featuring more than 200 exhibitors, the NY Art Book Fair is the world's premier event for artists’ books, contemporary art catalogs and monographs, art periodicals, and artist zines. Exhibitors include international presses, booksellers, antiquarian dealers, artists and independent publishers from twenty-one countries.

Hours

Preview: Thursday, September 29, 6 pm–9 pm
Friday, September 30, 11 am–7 pm
Saturday, October 1, 11 am–7 pm
Sunday, October 2, 11 am–7 pm

Printed Matter, Inc.

Printed Matter, Inc. is an independent 501(c)3 non-profit organization founded in 1976 by artists and art workers with the mission to foster the appreciation, dissemination, and understanding of artists’ books and other artists’ publications.

Support

Printed Matter, Inc. has received support, in part, through grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, The Morris B. and Edith S. Cartin Family Foundation, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, The ERSTE Foundation, Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund, The Gesso Foundation, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, the Schoenstadt Family Foundation, Shapco Printing, Inc., the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and individuals worldwide.

www.nyartbookfair.com
www.printedmatter.org

Issue No. 32: Responses to the Smithsonian's Censoring of Wojnarowicz

(The underlined and colored text below are links. Please click on them.) 

The National Portrait Gallery's description of Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture.

If you don't know the backstory, here it is.

This photograph by AA Bronson is part of the Hide/Seek Exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery in the Smithsonian Institute. 

AA Bronson, Felix.

“I made this photograph of Felix a few hours after his death. He is arranged to receive visitors, and his favorite objects are gathered about him: his television remote control, his tape-recorder, and his cigarettes. Felix suffered from extreme wasting, and at the time of his death his eyes could not be closed: there was not enough flesh left on the bone.”

AA Bronson

Felix died of AIDS on June 5, 1994

Bronson wants to pull it from the show.

The Warhol Foundation threatens to pull $375,000 of funding if the Wojnarowicz video is not restored.