THE ARMORY SHOW / VOLTA NY OPEN FORUM 2010
The Armory Show and VOLTA NY presents OPEN FORUM, an eclectic series of conversations and panels featuring top figures in the art world. Curated by Stamatina Gregory.
THURSDAY, MARCH 4
In Conversation: Susan Collis and Brett Littman
Open Forum presents a conversation between Drawing Center director Brett Littman and 2010 Armory Show artist Susan Collis, whose work involves the meticulous re-creation of everyday objects with unlikely materials.
Time: 2:00 - 3:00 PMLocation: The Armory Show, Open Forum Lounge, Pier 92
In Conversation: Maria Jose Arjona and Jovana Stokić
Open Forum presents a conversation between Location One performance curator Jovana Stokic and VOLTA NY artist, Maria José Arjona, whose performance art focuses on the critical potential of the body in time. Arjona is currently scheduled to perform at The Museum of Modern Art in the retrospective Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present (March 14 to May 31, 2010)
Time: 3:00 - 4:00 PMLocation: Volta NY, Club 7W Talks Lounge, 7th Floor
Emergence of a New World: Collecting Contemporary Art from the Middle East
Contemporary art from the Middle East is a vibrant and ever-expanding field in which issues of context, access, and translation are continually re-negotiated. Art Middle East presents a discussion with several artists, curators, and dealers that engage with these issues in representing the field to an international audience. With Diana Al-Hadid, Kamrooz Aram, Thaddeus Ropac (Galerie Thaeddeus Ropac, Paris), and Andreé Sfeir-Semler (Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Beirut and Hamburg). Moderated by New York Times Art Critic Benjamin Genocchio.
Time: 4:00 - 5:00 PMLocation: The Armory Show, Open Forum Lounge, Pier 92
FRIDAY, MARCH 5
The World is Not Enough: The Future of Biennials
Curators of major biennial events discuss the future role of expansive, international surveys of contemporary art in today’s fluctuating political and economic landscape. With Dan Cameron (Curator, Prospect New Orleans), Gary Carrion-Murayari (Senior Curatorial Assistant, Whitney Museum of American Art; Co-curator, 2010 Whitney Biennial), Elizabeth Sussman (Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art; Co-curator, 1993 Whitney Biennial), Christiane Paul (Adjunct Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art; Artistic Director, Third Quadrilateral Biennial 2009, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka), and Trevor Smith (Curator of Contemporary Art, Peabody Essex Museum; Co-curator, Singapore Biennale 2011). Moderated by Katy Siegel (Associate Professor of Art History and Criticism, Hunter College; contributing editor, Artforum).
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PMLocation: The Armory Show, Open Forum Lounge, Pier 92
Online, Offline, Flatline: Art Publishing Now
Art writers and publishers discuss producing their work in a fluctuating economic and digital landscape, confronting the unsettling question as to whether paper is indeed a dying medium. With Paul Laster (Editor, Artkrush), Peter Nesbett and Shelly Bancroft (former co-publishers, Art on Paper), Mark Rappolt (Editor, ArtReview) Moderated by David Shapiro (Editor-in-Chief, Museo Magazine).
Time: 3:00 - 4:00 PMLocation: Volta NY, Club 7W Talks Lounge, 7th Floor
From Outside In: The Socioeconomics of Contemporary Art
Critics, journalists and art market analysts discuss their individual approaches to decoding the exceptional social and economic landscape of the art world. WWhat are the challenges involved in reporting on an unregulated market? What kinds of economic indices work – and which don’t – in analyzing this market? What forms of study or reporting – anthropology? Sociology? The “New New” journalism? – are most effective in covering the art world and making sense of its byways? With Marion Maneker (Art Market Monitor), Sergey Skaterschikov (Skate’s Art Market Research), Sarah Thornton (author, Seven Days in the Art World, (W.W. Norton, 2008), Judd Tully (Editor at Large, Art + Auction), and Edward Winkleman (Winkleman Gallery, NY). Moderated by Sarah Douglas (Senior Correspondent, Art+Auction and Modern Painters magazines).
Time: 4:00 - 5:00 PMLocation: The Armory Show, Open Forum Lounge, Pier 92
SATURDAY, MARCH 6
The Upside to the Downside: Young Collectors in the Global Market
The Association of Professional Art Advisors (APAA) presents a panel moderated by Art Market Views’ Lindsay Pollock about opportunities for new collectors in today’s international art market. With Joshua Adler (Adler Development), Jen Bekman (Jen Bekman Gallery, NY); Sharon Coplan Hurowitz (Coplan Hurowitz Art Advisory), and Thomas Solomon (Thomas Solomon Gallery, LA).
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PMLocation: : The Armory Show, Open Forum Lounge, Pier 92
Armory Focus: Berlin
Berlin-based gallerists, artists, and collectors discuss the city as an emerging center for contemporary art. With Themistocles Michos, Giti Nourbaksch (Galerie Giti Nourbaksch, Berlin), Cay Sophie Rabinowitz (Hauser + Wirth, NY), and Simon Dybbroe Møller.
Time: 2:00 - 3:00 PMLocation: The Armory Show, Open Forum Lounge, Pier 92
Post-what?
Post-modern, post-conceptual, post-ironic, post-black, post-9-11, post-post…? Is contemporary art an endless cycle of post-isms? Moderators Sarah Douglas (Senior Correspondent, Art+Auction and Modern Painters) and Joao Ribas (Curator, MIT List Visual Arts Center) gather a group of artists, critics, and curators to discuss the current post-what? state of contemporary art. With Svetlana Boym, Kate Fowle (Executive Director, iCI), Dushko Petrovich, Ingrid Schaffner (Senior Curator, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania), and Alexandre Singh.
Time: 4:00 - 5:00 PMLocation: The Armory Show, Open Forum Lounge, Pier 92
Ask Los Artistas
A panel consisting of several contemporary artists from Latin America and a single critic moderator, this presentation will be structured along the lines of a newspaper Advice Column, with questions being asked anonymously by the audience members, several preselected “guests” and the artists themselves. With Jota Castro, Alexandre Arrechea, Dario Escobar and Carlos Motta. Moderated by Christian Viveros-Fauné.
Time: 5:00 - 6:00 PMLocation: Volta NY, Club 7W Talks Lounge, 7th Floor
SUNDAY, MARCH 7
Framing Art in the 21st Century
In the dual wakes of digitization and economic shifts, the music and publishing industries have been grappling with issues of production and distribution. Faced with the same questions, how might visual art will be disseminated, sold, and exhibited in the coming decades? How will arts organizations be challenged to find alternative, less conventional ways to reach new publics? With Holly Block (Director, Bronx Museum for the Arts), Amy Cappellazzo (Int’l Co-Head of Postwar and Contemporary Art, Christie’s), Shamim Momin (founder, LAND), Sara Reisman (Director, Percent for Art), Dan Cameron (Curator, Prospect New Orleans), Nato Thompson (Chief Curator, Creative Time), and Manon Slome (founder and curator, No Longer Empty). Moderated by Lindsay Pollock.
Time: 3:00 - 4:00 PMLocation: Volta NY, Club 7W Talks Lounge, 7th Floor
Please note that all lineups are subject to change.