Autumn at Yale School of Art:
112 Days (more or less) in New Haven
See the full program of lectures and events here
All lectures take place at E.I.K., 32 Edgewood Avenue, New Haven, CT and are free and open to the public.
De-Pixellation
An Artist Talk by Thomas Hirschhorn
October 25 at 7PM
Thomas Hirschhorn addresses his decision “to see and look at the world as it is, and to insist in doing so.” Hirschhorn notes: “I believe blurring or masking and furthermore censorship or self-censorship, is a growing and insidious issue, also in the social media today. I don’t accept that, under the claim of ‘protecting’ - protecting me, protecting the other - the world is pixelated in my place. I want, I can, I need and I must use my own eyes to see everything in our world, as act of emancipation. ‘De-pixelation’ is the term I use to manifest that pixelating no longer makes sense. Pixels, blurring, masking, and censorship in general, can no longer hold back or conceal fake-news, facts, opinions or comments. Fake-news, facts, opinions, comments entirely take part in the 'Post-Truth'. We have definitely entered the post-truth world. Pixelation stands for the form of agreement in this post-truth world. I want to insist heavily on what makes me work in a kind of urgency and necessity: The world has to be ‘de-pixelated’.”
An acclaimed visual artist and writer, Thomas Hirschhorn has had his work shown in numerous museums, galleries and exhibitions. His most recent book, Gramsci Monument, was published in 2015 by Dia and Koenig Books.
WOODSLIPPERCOUNTERCLATTER
A Performance by Susan Howe and David Grubbs
November 15 at 7PM
This is the 4th collaboration from poet Susan Howe and musician/composer David Grubbs. Veering away from the stuttering, profoundly fragmented seance of their Frolic Architecture (2011), Howe and Grubbs present a sound work that germinates from text collages and other material published in Howe's recent collection Debths (New Directions, 2017). This performance work was created while the material (Tom Tit Tot, Childe Roland, Paul Thek, W.B.Yeats, Isabella Stewart Gardner, etc.) in Debths was being arranged and combines Howe's reading with the resonant sounds and represented spaces of Grubbs's piano playing and field recordings made in Boston's Gardner Museum.
Poet and writer Susan Howe received the 2017 Robert Frost award for distinguished lifetime achievement in American poetry. Howe has also had her word collages exhibited at the Yale Union in Portland, Oregon, and in the 2014 Whitney Biennial.
David Grubbs is Professor of Music at Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center, CUNY. He is the author of Records Ruin the Landscape: John Cage, the Sixties, and Sound Recording and the forthcoming Now that the audience is assembled (both titles on Duke University Press).
What We Mean When We Ask Permission
An Artist Talk by Naeem Mohaiemen
November 27 at 7PM
Since 2006, Naeem Mohaiemen has explored defeated utopias in an ongoing project -- The Young Man Was, a history of the 1970s revolutionary left. As part of this, in Two Meetings and a Funeral (2017), a critically acclaimed three-channel film recently premiered in Documenta 14 in Kassel, Mohaiemen emphasizes the left in state power, and henceforth, to its eventual failure through misrecognition. In this artist talk at YSoA, Mohaiemen poses what different stories may have come out if the form were autobiography. In his conversations with Dutch journalist Peter Custers, the protagonist of Last Man in Dhaka Central (2015), “unrequited love” surfaces as a metaphor for the 1970s left as a movement that attempted to, unsuccessfully, revive itself in later years.
Writer and Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology at Columbia University researching left histories outside state patronage, Naeem Mohaiemen combines films, installations, and essays to research failed left utopias and incomplete decolonizations–framed by Third World Internationalism and World Socialism.
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Previously announced events in the series:
The Optics of The Racial Imaginary
Claudia Rankine
November 7 at 5:30PM
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Public (Re) Assembly
Shannon Jackson
November 9 at 7PM
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Two Yale School of Art Alumni Named 2017 MacArthur Fellows
The School of Art is pleased to share that two of our alumni, Njideka Akunyili Crosby ’11 and Dawoud Bey ’93 have each been awarded a 2017 MacArthur ‘Genius’ Grant. The grant awards an unrestricted fellowship to talented individuals who have shown extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction.
 Dawoud Bey ’93, photo courtesy of the MacArthur Foundation.
 Njideka Akunyili Crosby ’11, photo courtesy of the MacArthur Foundation.
Njideka Akunyili Crosby ’11
Njideka Akunyili Crosby is a figurative painter whose large-scale works express the hybridity characteristic of transnational experience through choices of subject matter, materials, and techniques. Born and raised in Nigeria but living now in the United States, Akunyili Crosby layers paint, fabric, and photographic source imagery that she transfers or collages onto her surfaces.
Dawoud Bey ’93
Dawoud Bey is a photographer and educator whose portraits of people, many from marginalized communities, compel viewers to consider the reality of the subjects' own social presence and histories. Through his expansive approach to photography—which includes deep engagement with his subjects and museum-based projects—Bey is making institutional spaces more accessible to the communities in which they are situated.
More about each fellow and additional photos are available at the MacArthur Foundation website.
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Other Upcoming Events: 
Publishing Camp: Queering Dissemination
Saturday, November 4, 2017
1-8 p.m.
On Saturday, November 4, graduate students at the Yale School of Art will invite the broader academic community and beyond to discuss how we might engage with publishing as a queer act. The event will consider “publishing” in broad terms and take cues from contemporary radical forms of engagement with publics and counter-publics. This is an experiment in cross-pollination and an opportunity to collectively generate actionable ways forward. The Publishing Camp will host a hands-on workshop, a lecture/panel with visiting artists, and exhibit work by graduate students in the Schools of Art, Drama, Music, and Architecture.
Schedule of events for Queering Dissemination forthcoming.
Free and open to the public.
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SchoolofArtAlumni@yale.edu
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