As seen on the first floor of Green Hall: Colours on the Beach,
a poster for the Karel Martens Workshop and Lecture, by Jo Kim, Graphic Design ’18
Welcome to the first issue of the new Yale School of Art newsletter. To you, our current faculty and students, esteemed alumni, and greater community, we send word of what's up in New Haven, and ask that you might keep us updated in kind. Come visit.
Fall 2017 in Brief
Fred Moten, Naeem Mohaiemen, and Walid Raad will join as visiting critics to the first year course Diving Into the Wreck: Re-enacting Critical Practice taught by Dean and Professor Marta Kuzma. Bruce Hainley is teaching a workshop in late October. In GRAPHIC DESIGN, Karel Martens is back for his 20th year (and will give a public talk in the Atrium on Sept 15 at 7PM), Linda van Deursen is in from Amsterdam, and the Paul Rand Lectures will continue with Nientara Anderson from Yale's School of Medicine. A.L. Steiner has been appointed the 2018 Presidential Visiting Fellow in Fine Arts in PHOTOGRAPHY, Hilton Als and Michelle Kuo will be Visiting Artists, and Shirin Neshat, Laurie Simmons, James Welling, Sara VanDerBeek, and Roni Horn will join the critique panel. Corey McCorkle is teaching a course titled Spectacular Grammar: Landscape as Cinema. In PAINTING and PRINTMAKING, Alexander Valentine was appointed Lecturer, Sanya Kantarovsky and Richard Hawkins are joining the ranks as critics, Byron Kim is teaching a class titled What is Color?, and Professor Robert Storr will return to teach a course titled Defining Our Terms. Michael Joo and Jenn Joy have been appointed full-time faculty in SCULPTURE, where Carol Bove, Leigh Ledare, Jennie C. Jones, Ariana Reines, and Leslie Dick will serve as critics, and Mika Rottenberg and Jonathan Pylypchuk will join as Visiting Artists.
Autumn at Yale School of Art:
112 days (more or less) in New Haven…
All lectures take place at E.I.K., 32 Edgewood Avenue, New Haven, CT
and are free and open to the public.
Monday, September 25 at 7PM
1971: A Year in the Life of Color
A Conversation with Darby English
Darby English, author of such important books as How to See A Work of Art in Total Darkness (MIT Press, 2007), engages in a discussion on the topic of his most recent book 1971: A Year in the Life of Color (University of Chicago Press, 2016), with Mark Gibson, Yale School of Art’s Assistant Dean for Student Relations. English’s book explores the role that a political movement can play in an artistic movement, specifically speaking to the Civil Rights movement of the 1960’s and how that influenced the “Black Art Aesthetic” of the 1970’s. Discussion will also explore the role that abstraction plays in describing the Black Experience, and what roles institutions play in curating the “Black Art Aesthetic.”
Darby English is the Carl Darling Buck Professor of Art History at the University of Chicago and Consulting Curator at MoMA. Full information >>
Monday, October 2 at 7PM
Crisis as Form
Peter Osborne
Author of Anywhere or Not at All: Philosophy of Contemporary Art (Verso, 2013) and director of the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy in London, Peter Osborne approaches how the field of contemporary art since the 1960s has been characterized by both the attempted dissolution and the reflective expansion of the concept of artistic form. According to Osborne, “recently, in the wake of the revisionist historiography of the exhibitions of that time, the motif of something ‘becoming form’ has been revived and applied in new critical contexts. What, if anything, delimits this expansion of the concept of artistic form? Might it be extended all the way to the crisis-ridden form of historical present? How today might we conceive crisis as form?”
Peter Osborne is Professor of Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University London. Full information >>
Wednesday October 11 at 7PM
I Even Spotted One Woman Wearing a Hat
Ariella Azoulay Author of Civil Imagination: The Political Ontology of Photography (Verso, 2012) and The Civil Contract of Photography (MIT Press, 2008), Ariella Azoulay focuses her research on how history is told through visual mediums — photographs, film, drawings, and other visual elements — and how these provide a level of detail and context not provided solely by the written word. In her lecture at the Yale School of Art, Azoulay will use the 1950s text A Woman in Berlin as a point of departure for tracing the visual record of a massive rape that took place at the end of World War II, creating a key to read certain photographs previously overlooked as related to rape.
Ariella Azoulay is Professor of Modern Culture and Media and Comparative Literature at Brown University. Full information >>
Tuesday, November 7th at 5:30PM
The Optics of The Racial Imaginary
Claudia Rankine
Poet, author, essayist and playwright, Claudia Rankine addresses The Racial Imaginary Institute (TRII), which she co-founded in 2016 to seek to change the way we imagine race in the U.S. and internationally by lifting up and connecting the work of artists, writers, knowledge-producers, and activists with audiences seeking thoughtful, innovative conversations and experiences. Rankine will consider how issues of white dominance are expressed through the visual arts by looking at artists such as Alexandra Bell, Nona Faustine, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Hew Locke, and others. (Photo credit: John Lucas)
Claudia Rankine is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and the Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry at Yale University. Full information >>
Thursday, November 9 at 7PM
Public (Re) Assembly
Shannon Jackson
Author of Social Works: Performing Art, Supporting Publics (Routledge, 2011), Shannon Jackson speaks about what it means to assemble in public in our present moment — and to assemble public sector systems. Is there a relation between the public appearance of the former and the systematic operations of the latter? Assembly recalls theories of democracy and freedom as well as modern and contemporary art movements of assemblage. It also invokes industrial (and post-industrial) processes of production, arrangement, service, and labor. Can the re-imagining of Public Re-Assembly help us to re-imagine how social practice is performed?
Shannon Jackson is Hadidi Professor and/or Affiliated Faculty in the departments Rhetoric; Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies; Art Practice; History of Art; and New Media at UC-Berkeley, where she is also Associate Vice Chancellor for the Arts + Design. Full information >>
Hayden Distinguished Fellows
This year, the Yale School of Art will welcome four Hayden Distinguished Fellows to campus. This new fellowship will bring globally recognized leaders in art and the academy to Yale to work with students as teachers, mentors, and critics. Carol Bove, Richard Hawkins, Peter Osborne, and Hito Steyerl will give public lectures, teach classes, and participate in studio visits and critiques. This fellowship was generously made possible by the Hayden Fund for Art and Ideas.
Carol Bove, Artist Carol Bove (born 1971, Geneva) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. In her work, Bove brings together an array of found and made objects, ideas and collected materials, research and crushed steel "to conjure a kind of affective tangle that disrupts any singular, historical narrative" as art historian Johanna Burton put it. Her sculptures, assemblages, paintings and prints are represented in permanent collections around the world including The Museum of Modern Art, NYC; Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain, Dunkerque, France; The Aishti Foundation, Beirut and The Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC. Recent solo exhibitions include Polka Dots, David Zwirner, New York; Carol Bove / Carlo Scarpa, Henry Moore Institute, England (in collaboration with Museion, Bolzano, Italy and Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium); The Plastic Unit, David Zwirner London; Caterpillar, High Line, NYC and The Equinox, The Museum of Modern Art, NYC. Her work has been featured in prominent group exhibitions including dOCUMENTA (13) in 2012; The 54th Venice Biennale in 2011; The 2008 Whitney Biennial and Greater New York 2005 at P.S.1. Contemporary Art Center. She co-represented Switzerland in the 57th International Art Exhibition at the Venice Biennale.
Richard Hawkins, Artist Richard Hawkins' diverse and ever-evolving practice has explored the intense pleasure of looking and the rethinking of representation. His paintings, sculpture, and collage are born from a deeply curious process of research and a promiscuous relationship to subject and media alike. Hawkins received his B.F.A. from the University of Texas Austin in 1984 and his M.F.A. from Cal Arts in 1988. Recent solo exhibitions include Greene Naftali, New York; Richard Telles, Los Angeles and Jenny's, Los Angeles (all 2016); Tate Liverpool, Liverpool (2014); Le Consortium, Dijon, France (2013); The Art Institute of Chicago which traveled to the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2010). His work is in the permanent collections of MOCA Los Angeles; Whitney Museum of American Art; and Museum of Modern Art, New York. Hawkins was the 2012 Fellow in the Visual Arts at the American Academy, Berlin.
Peter Osborne, Art Theorist and Critic A renowned scholar in aesthetics and contemporary art practice, Peter Osborne is Professor of Modern European Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP), Kingston University London. He has contributed to a range of international journals and to the catalogues of major art institutions. In 2011, he was co-curator of the Norwegian Representation at the 54th Venice Biennale. In 2014, he was the keynote speaker at the 2nd World Biennial Forum, Sao Paulo, Making Biennials in Contemporary Times. He has recently held Visiting International Chairs in the Philosophy Department at the University of Paris 8 (2012 & 2014) and in ‘Philosophy in the Context of Art’ at the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm (2015). His books include The Politics of Time: Modernity and Avant-Garde (1995; 2011), Philosophy in Cultural Theory (2000), Conceptual Art (2002), Marx (2005), El arte mas alla de la estetica: ensayos filosoficos sobre el arte contemporaneo (2010), Anywhere or Not at All: Philosophy of Contemporary Art (2013) and The Postconceptual Condition (forthcoming from Verso in late 2017). He received a BSc in Philosophy and Economics from the University of Bristol in 1979, and a MA and a DPhil in Philosophy from the University of Sussex in 1980 and 1989.
Hito Steyerl, Filmmaker and Writer Hito Steyerl (b. 1966) lives and works in Berlin. Steyerl’s prolific filmmaking and writing occupies a highly discursive position between the fields of art, philosophy and politics, constituting a deep exploration of late capitalism’s social, cultural and financial imaginaries. Her films and lectures have increasingly addressed the presentational context of art, while her writing has circulated widely through publication in both academic and art journals, often online. Steyerl has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2016); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia (2015); ICA, London, UK; Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Germany (2014); Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2013); the Art Institute of Chicago; E-flux, New York (2012); Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK (2010); Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (2009); and Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2008). Group exhibitions include the German Pavilion, 56th Venice Biennal, Venice, Italy; CAC Vilnius, Vilnius, Lithuania (2015); Cut to Swipe, Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Darknet, Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Switzerland; Bienal de la Imagen en Movimento, Goethe- Institut Buenos Aires, Argentina (2014); The Way of the Shovel: Art as Archeology, MCA Chicago; Nine Artists, Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis; Bergen Triennial, Bergen, Norway; Venice Biennale (2013); Taipei Biennial; Gwangju Biennial (2010); documenta 12, Kassel (2007) and Manifesta 5, San Sebastian (2004). (Photo by Trevor Paglen.)
Tuesday, November 7th at 5:30PM
Thursday, November 9 at 7PM
