NOWs: Art + Landscape STL at Granite City Art and Design District

16 March - 06 April 2019 / Nows

Art + Landscape STL

short-term laboratory

Granite City, Illinois, USA

Art + Landscape STL is an intensive, short-term laboratory for St. Louis-based artists and designers working at the intersection of art and landscape.

Emerging from an ongoing series of private discussions and excursions, the project is anchored by a public exhibition, Art + Landscape STL, installed throughout G-CADD’s campus and unfolding through five weekends of programs on-site—performances, talks, walks, and more.

Participants: Michael Allen, Betsy Brandt, Christopher Carl, Jennifer Colten, Sage Dawson, Eric Ellingsen, Meghan Grubb, Derek Hoeferlin, Shabez Jamal, Gavin Kroeber, Yowshien Kuo, Aaron Owens, Tim Portlock, Jenny Price, Katherine Simóne Reynolds, Allana Ross, Micah Stanek, Rory Thibault, Westhaven Ensemble, and Rachel Youn. The project is organized by Gavin Kroeber.

The exhibition will be open select days from Sunday 10 March to Saturday 6 April as follows:

Sunday 10 March

5-8pm Special Event: Mississippi. An Anthropocene River

Presented in partnership with HKW (Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin) and the Max Planck Institute (Berlin) as part of their wider initiative Mississippi. An Anthropocene River.

5pm Exhibition opens

6pm Public Dialogue: Confluences with HKW and Art + Landscape STL

7pm How Not What: Power, Time & Landscape | Performance by Michael Allen

*HKW will additionally be organizing an 11am public program, Anthropocene. Archaeology of the Present at Cahokia Mounds World Heritage Site.

Saturday 16 March

6-10pm Opening Celebration + STNDRD reception

7pm Public Dialogue: Curating the Landscape with Gavin Kroeber, Michael Behle, Jessi Cerutti, Kristin Fleischmann Brewer, Charis Norell, Dana Turkovic

Ambient Performances by Betsy Brandt

Saturday 23 March

1-5pm

1pm Public Dialogue: Locating the Human. Contemporary Landscape as Eco Art with Ila Sheren

2pm Poetry Readings curated by Ted Mathys

With Eric Ellingsen, Jacqui Germain, David Alejandro Hernandez, Devin Johnston, Dana Levin, Aditi Machado, Ted Mathys

3pm Scaping Habitus | Workshop with Esther & Beth Neff (MARSH)

4pm Public Dialogue: Art + Landscape Roundtable

Ambient Performances by Betsy Brandt

Thursday 28 March

6-7:30 pm Special Off-Site Event: Cocktails & Conversation at Laumeier Sculpture Park

6pm Conversation with Art + Landscape STL participating artists Christopher Carl, Sage Dawson, Meghan Grubb, Yowshien Kuo, and Allana Ross

Saturday 30 March

1-5 pm

1pm Public Dialogue: Landscapes of Belonging

2pm the heartland landscape in the time of Rulers | Performance by Eric Ellingsen

3pm NNN Cook “Coordinates Checker (Traverse)” 2019 | Sound Performances

4pm Public Dialogue: Art + Landscape Roundtable

Saturday 6 April, Closing Day

1-5 pm

1pm Explorative Walk with Chris Carl & Jennifer Colten

2pm Performances:

The Homestead Project by Jenny Price
How Not What: Power, Time & Landscape by Michael Allen
Approaching Landscape City by Westhaven Ensemble

3pm Public Dialogue: Art + Landscape Closing Roundtable

Ambient Performances by Betsy Brandt

Art + Landscape STL Team:
Curatorial Assistant and Project Coordinator: Amela Parcic
AV Installations lead: Aaron Owens
Outdoor Installations lead: Allana Ross
Interns: Marshall Karchunas, Dongzhe Tao
Acknowledgements: Kranzberg Arts Foundation, Simiya Sudduth

Special Thanks to Mississippi. An Anthropocene River, a project by Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin, and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG), Berlin, in collaboration with numerous international partners, funded by the German Federal Foreign Office as part of the initiative #WunderbarTogether as well as by the Max Planck Society.

NOWs: These New Puritans and Hans-Henning Korb at the ICA London

21 March 2019 / Nows ⟶

These New Puritans and Hans-Henning Korb at the ICA LondonConcert and performance These New Puritans premiere new work from their forthcoming album Inside the Rose alongside performance, music and installation by artists Soojin Chang, Freya Don and Graham Sutton. Performing inside a specially-designed installation by textile artist Freya Don, the band present new music that couples powerful, progressive melodies with strings and brutal electronics. Their performance is preceded by State of Possession, a live interactive presentation by Soojin Chang created to be experienced one-on-one with the artist, and a DJ set from producer Graham Sutton (of band Bark Psychosis and drum and bass project Boymerang). The evening will also include the debut of recent These New Puritans video projects made in collaboration with photographer Harley Weir, filmmaker Daniel Askill and artist Hans-Henning Korb. Founded by twin brothers Jack and George Barnett, These New Puritans are an English experimental music group whose music is not easily categorised. Their fourth album Inside the Rose will be released 22 March 2019. Daniel Askill is a critically-acclaimed Australian filmmaker and long-time collaborator of These New Puritans. His unique sensibility spans a diverse body of work, which includes music videos, films, stage, commercials, photography and video installations. Askill’s recent projects include Take Flight (2015), a virtual reality film for The New York Times featuring Michael Fassbender, Benicio del Toro and Charlize Theron. Soojin Chang’s artistic practice is led by an inquiry into political and individual trauma, particularly the way these are internalised and inherited in the body schema. Her performance and video works are driven by examinations into the agency and fertility of both humans and nonhumans. Her work seeks to deconstruct systems of oppression and power in order to rethink ecological destruction. She uses appropriation to challenge authorship and renegotiate representations, survival mechanisms, and immigration patterns of colonised cultures and diasporas. Selected exhibitions include MoMA PS1, New York; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow; Microscope Gallery, New York; La Capela, Paris; and the Art/Life Institute, New York. Freya Don is a London-based artist known for her dramatic, painterly use of textiles and collaborations with Harley Weir. Freya previously worked with the Barnett brothers on their music video for the single Inside the Rose and the subsequent album artwork. Hans-Henning Korb is an artist based in Berlin. His practice combines sculpture, installation and performance, and often involves music, film, computer animation, virtual worlds, plants, and organic processes. Korb has exhibited internationally in venues including Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2017); Empty Gallery, Hong Kong (2016); Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin (2014); and Photo LA, Los Angeles (2012). Graham Sutton is an English musician, songwriter, composer and record producer. He is best known for his role as the leader and key figure of seminal post-rock band Bark Psychosis, as well as his work as a producer for alternative rock bands since the late 1990s. Harley Weir is London-born photographer and director known for creating intimate images and films in her personal, editorial and commercial work. Harley had her first solo exhibition in 2017 at Foam, Amsterdam, where her work is now in the permanent collection. She is a regular exhibitor at Photo London and Paris Photo. Her second solo exhibition Homes opened at the Brighton Biennial in September 2018. With thanks to Media Partner Another Man Tickets available here These New Puritans and Hans-Henning Korb at the ICA LondonConcert and performance These New Puritans premiere new work from their forthcoming album Inside the Rose alongside performance, music and installation by artists Soojin Chang, Freya Don and Graham Sutton. Performing inside a specially-designed installation by textile artist Freya Don, the band present new music that couples powerful, progressive melodies with strings and brutal electronics. Their performance is preceded by State of Possession, a live interactive presentation by Soojin Chang created to be experienced one-on-one with the artist, and a DJ set from producer Graham Sutton (of band Bark Psychosis and drum and bass project Boymerang). The evening will also include the debut of recent These New Puritans video projects made in collaboration with photographer Harley Weir, filmmaker Daniel Askill and artist Hans-Henning Korb. Founded by twin brothers Jack and George Barnett, These New Puritans are an English experimental music group whose music is not easily categorised. Their fourth album Inside the Rose will be released 22 March 2019. Daniel Askill is a critically-acclaimed Australian filmmaker and long-time collaborator of These New Puritans. His unique sensibility spans a diverse body of work, which includes music videos, films, stage, commercials, photography and video installations. Askill’s recent projects include Take Flight (2015), a virtual reality film for The New York Times featuring Michael Fassbender, Benicio del Toro and Charlize Theron. Soojin Chang’s artistic practice is led by an inquiry into political and individual trauma, particularly the way these are internalised and inherited in the body schema. Her performance and video works are driven by examinations into the agency and fertility of both humans and nonhumans. Her work seeks to deconstruct systems of oppression and power in order to rethink ecological destruction. She uses appropriation to challenge authorship and renegotiate representations, survival mechanisms, and immigration patterns of colonised cultures and diasporas. Selected exhibitions include MoMA PS1, New York; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow; Microscope Gallery, New York; La Capela, Paris; and the Art/Life Institute, New York. Freya Don is a London-based artist known for her dramatic, painterly use of textiles and collaborations with Harley Weir. Freya previously worked with the Barnett brothers on their music video for the single Inside the Rose and the subsequent album artwork. Hans-Henning Korb is an artist based in Berlin. His practice combines sculpture, installation and performance, and often involves music, film, computer animation, virtual worlds, plants, and organic processes. Korb has exhibited internationally in venues including Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2017); Empty Gallery, Hong Kong (2016); Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin (2014); and Photo LA, Los Angeles (2012). Graham Sutton is an English musician, songwriter, composer and record producer. He is best known for his role as the leader and key figure of seminal post-rock band Bark Psychosis, as well as his work as a producer for alternative rock bands since the late 1990s. Harley Weir is London-born photographer and director known for creating intimate images and films in her personal, editorial and commercial work. Harley had her first solo exhibition in 2017 at Foam, Amsterdam, where her work is now in the permanent collection. She is a regular exhibitor at Photo London and Paris Photo. Her second solo exhibition Homes opened at the Brighton Biennial in September 2018. With thanks to Media Partner Another Man Tickets available here

NOWs: The Seven Lamps of The Art Museum

09 March - 26 May 2019 / Nows ⟶

30th Anniversary Exhibition: The Seven Lamps of The Art MuseumThings That the Museum Protects, and Things That Protect the Museum 1-1 Hijiyama koen Minami-ku Hiroshima-city Japan 732-0815 The Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art was opened in 1989 as the first public museum in Japan specializing in contemporary art. Commemorating the facility’s 30th anniversary, this exhibition focuses primarily on the trajectory of the museum’s activities and the architecture that has served as a foundation for them. Drawing on the collection, which has been amassed over the years, and documents related to the museum’s various programs along with some new works by participating artists and other materials, the exhibition will unfold throughout the entire facility. Based on a series of keywords such as viewer, architecture, place, conservation, history, deviation, and in-between, the exhibition looks back at these aspects and sets out to reexamine the museum’s appropriate role and various factors that support its activities. Installation by Yuichiro Tamura: Re-Search: Exploration and Deviation? Relying both on history and context, and imaginative leaps, the artist Yuichiro Tamura examines the background of places and things as he spins a fanciful story composed of various elements. These efforts will come to fruition in an installation work based on Tamura’s research of the museum’s architecture and the era in which the facility opened, and his own bold associations. Section6. Referential Image by Yuichiro Tamura 1. The Viewer: Expressions Rooted in Participation Needless to say, the museum could not survive without visitors. In this section, adorning the beginning of the exhibition, we present a group of works that are realized through visitors’ influence and participation, seemingly exemplifying the special features of the museum as a place. 2. Storage and Symbols: Museum Architecture and Outdoor Sculpture The Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art is in itself a work of architecture designed by Kisho Kurokawa, and the sculpture on permanent display combines with various design elements within the building to create a place for storing and viewing art. In this section, we examine the facility’s architectural appeal while showcasing the design of the furniture and sign system, and the sculptural works that are integrated into the architecture. 3. Here: Hiroshima and HIROSHIMA The museum is inseparably linked to the place where it was built. Moreover, in order to emphasize the fact that Hiroshima is an atomic-bombed city, its name is often written in the katakana syllabary (in English, we have used all caps to convey the same meaning). At the museum, both Hiroshima and HIROSHIMA are important themes in our work. 4. Leaving Something Behind: The Current State of Restoration and Conservation One of the museum’s most important functions is to collect and preserve artworks and documents. To achieve this, one of our primary tasks is to save works of contemporary art, which often make use of non-traditional materials and methods, and which are based on completely different concepts. 5. Accumulation: Recording Museum Activities through Documents and Related Works ? Art Direction by Mata Mata While striving for continuity and accumulating data, the museum considers different approaches and directions according to each project. By combining related works and documents charting the museum’s course from the preparatory stage to the present, the locally-based design unit Mata Mata will oversee the art direction for this retrospective. 6. Re-Search: Exploration and Deviation ? A New Installation by Yuichiro Tamura Relying both on history and context, and imaginative leaps, the artist Yuichiro Tamura examines the background of places and things as he spins a fanciful story composed of various elements. These efforts will come to fruition in an installation work based on Tamura’s research of the museum’s architecture and the era in which the facility opened, and his own bold associations. 7. In-Between, Openings, Etc.: Works That Make Use of Gaps in the Museum In events such as the Open Call for Art Project Ideas, in which the public is invited to submit new practical plans for places in the museum that are not used for normal exhibitions, many artists have created displays by reinterpreting spaces in a creative manner. Perhaps these efforts indicate that certain expressions that cannot be conveyed using the traditional museum framework. Exhibition Flyer 30th Anniversary Exhibition: The Seven Lamps of The Art MuseumThings That the Museum Protects, and Things That Protect the Museum 1-1 Hijiyama koen Minami-ku Hiroshima-city Japan 732-0815 The Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art was opened in 1989 as the first public museum in Japan specializing in contemporary art. Commemorating the facility’s 30th anniversary, this exhibition focuses primarily on the trajectory of the museum’s activities and the architecture that has served as a foundation for them. Drawing on the collection, which has been amassed over the years, and documents related to the museum’s various programs along with some new works by participating artists and other materials, the exhibition will unfold throughout the entire facility. Based on a series of keywords such as viewer, architecture, place, conservation, history, deviation, and in-between, the exhibition looks back at these aspects and sets out to reexamine the museum’s appropriate role and various factors that support its activities. Installation by Yuichiro Tamura: Re-Search: Exploration and Deviation? Relying both on history and context, and imaginative leaps, the artist Yuichiro Tamura examines the background of places and things as he spins a fanciful story composed of various elements. These efforts will come to fruition in an installation work based on Tamura’s research of the museum’s architecture and the era in which the facility opened, and his own bold associations. Section6. Referential Image by Yuichiro Tamura 1. The Viewer: Expressions Rooted in Participation Needless to say, the museum could not survive without visitors. In this section, adorning the beginning of the exhibition, we present a group of works that are realized through visitors’ influence and participation, seemingly exemplifying the special features of the museum as a place. 2. Storage and Symbols: Museum Architecture and Outdoor Sculpture The Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art is in itself a work of architecture designed by Kisho Kurokawa, and the sculpture on permanent display combines with various design elements within the building to create a place for storing and viewing art. In this section, we examine the facility’s architectural appeal while showcasing the design of the furniture and sign system, and the sculptural works that are integrated into the architecture. 3. Here: Hiroshima and HIROSHIMA The museum is inseparably linked to the place where it was built. Moreover, in order to emphasize the fact that Hiroshima is an atomic-bombed city, its name is often written in the katakana syllabary (in English, we have used all caps to convey the same meaning). At the museum, both Hiroshima and HIROSHIMA are important themes in our work. 4. Leaving Something Behind: The Current State of Restoration and Conservation One of the museum’s most important functions is to collect and preserve artworks and documents. To achieve this, one of our primary tasks is to save works of contemporary art, which often make use of non-traditional materials and methods, and which are based on completely different concepts. 5. Accumulation: Recording Museum Activities through Documents and Related Works ? Art Direction by Mata Mata While striving for continuity and accumulating data, the museum considers different approaches and directions according to each project. By combining related works and documents charting the museum’s course from the preparatory stage to the present, the locally-based design unit Mata Mata will oversee the art direction for this retrospective. 6. Re-Search: Exploration and Deviation ? A New Installation by Yuichiro Tamura Relying both on history and context, and imaginative leaps, the artist Yuichiro Tamura examines the background of places and things as he spins a fanciful story composed of various elements. These efforts will come to fruition in an installation work based on Tamura’s research of the museum’s architecture and the era in which the facility opened, and his own bold associations. 7. In-Between, Openings, Etc.: Works That Make Use of Gaps in the Museum In events such as the Open Call for Art Project Ideas, in which the public is invited to submit new practical plans for places in the museum that are not used for normal exhibitions, many artists have created displays by reinterpreting spaces in a creative manner. Perhaps these efforts indicate that certain expressions that cannot be conveyed using the traditional museum framework.

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