Hito Steyerl: An Artist Talk
Monday, January 28 at 6PM
E.I.K., 32 Edgewood Ave., New Haven
 Image by Dho Yee Chung, Graphic Design MFA '19.
Hito Steyerl is a returning Hayden Distinguished Fellow at the Yale School of Art and a Professor in Experimental Film and Video at the Berlin University of the Arts. On January 28th, Steyerl will present her most recent work and its connections to a number of projects affiliated with cooperations undertaken between the Yale School of Art and other departments, professional schools, and organizations throughout Yale University. This includes an upcoming project at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City that opens on June 20, 2019. Entitled Drill, the project features performances by the Yale Precision Marching Band—one of twelve “scatter-style” marching bands in the country. Notorious for its irreverent humor and often controversial stunts, the “scatter-style” differentiates YPMB from conventional university marching bands by rarely marching and instead moving randomly between various formations during performances. Since their founding in 1917, YPMB has featured formations that often serve as social commentary and reactions to current events.
As a returning visiting Professor, Steyerl will also address the cryptocurrency workshop realized in Fall 2018 at the Yale School of Art in collaboration with the Yale School of Management, in which students studied blockchains, developed unique cryptocurrencies, and engaged in larger issues around social contract theory and trust. This workshop is among others realized throughout the 2018-19 academic year as an extension of studies in Critical Practice at the Yale School of Art.
The evening with Hito Steyerl is open to the public and will last approximately two hours. Doors will open at 5:30 PM. Seating is limited and available on a first come, first serve basis; there are no advance reservations. We urge those interested to arrive early to be assured seating.
The Hayden Distinguished Fellowship at the Yale School of Art has been made possible by the Hayden Fund for Art and Ideas, intended to bring internationally renowned artists and cultural producers to the Yale School of Art. Former Hayden Distinguished Fellows include artist Carol Bove, artist Richard Hawkins, and philosopher, art theorist, and critic Peter Osborne. More information >> |
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MFA Thesis Spring Exhibition Schedule
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Members of the public and the Yale community are invited to visit the MFA thesis exhibitions of current students, scheduled to be on view in Green Hall Gallery at the Yale School of Art during the following dates:
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Painting/Printmaking Group #1
Painting/Printmaking Group #2
Sculpture Group #1
Sculpture Group #2
Undergraduate Senior Project
Photography
Graphic Design
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February 1-8
Reception February 2, 6-8PM
February 15-22
Reception February 16, 6-8PM
March 8-15
Reception March 8, 6-8PM
March 29 - April 6
Reception April 5, 6-8PM
April 13-20
Reception April 19, 5:30-7:30PM
April 25 - May 4
Reception TBA
May 10-22
Reception TBA
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Yale Prison Education Initiative Teaching Fellowship Enters Second Year
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As an integral component within the Art and Social Justice Initiative, Yale School of Art partnered with the Yale Prison Education Initiative at Dwight Hall in 2018 to create an annual summer art program for incarcerated students at the Manson Youth Institution in Cheshire, CT, with courses and extra-curricular workshops developed and led by recent MFA graduates. The inaugural fellowships were awarded to five graduates to support instruction in two summer courses and two extracurricular workshops.
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This summer the program begins its second year, with upcoming courses such as Visual Thinking, Basic Drawing, and Painting Basics taught by MFA '19 graduates. Students interested in applying for the fellowship are invited to attend an information session on Tuesday, January 29 at 12:30pm at E.I.K., 32 Edgewood Avenue. Applications are due by February 25, 2019. More information >>
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Spring 2019 Course Offerings
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The School will again be running several interdisciplinary, time-based media courses this Spring, with Michel Auder's Video Screening Seminar (951b), Barbara London's Video and Beyond (908b), as well as Digital Animation (925b, cross listed as 285b in Yale College), taught by Federico Solmi for 2019 following the fall departure of Johannes De Young, Director of CCAM.
Adding to these offerings will be A.L. Steiner's new graduate seminar, Irregular Shaped Tools (915b) as Steiner joins the Interdisciplinary/Film/Video faculty in a new full-time appointment. Very recently added courses are:
Sculpture:
676b Weird Things: of time and shadow, taught by Jenn Joy
Weird Things tunes into the speculative potential of theory as so many experiments with temporality and shadow. Diving into the psychic waters of Sigmund Freud and André Green, we explore the viscera of sensation, associative logics, and residues of affect alongside the phenomenological explication of perception and entanglement. How might these concepts of horizon, stillness, or shadow animate a material practice, conjuring what Denise Ferreira da Silva names a “poethics”? Speculative thinking offers a cognitive existential architecture trespassing between intuition and fabrication, writing, sculpture and performance. Each seminar will include a constellation of readings, conversation, somatic experiments looking to the work of Giorgio Agamben and Gayatri Spivak on gesture and timing, Henri Bergson and Gilles Deleuze on duration, Avery Gordon and Jacques Derrida on ghosts, Peter Sloterdijk on foam and bubbles, David Eng and Kaja Silverman on grief, as a few places to begin.
Interdisciplinary & Critical Practice:
915b Irregular Shaped Tools taught by A.L. Steiner
Arts practitioners engage in processes of production, which are often shared amongst communities + filtered through public and private institutions and financial markets. When production fuses with public context, audience and site-specificity play a role in defining, establishing, extending and reacting to sociocultural dialogue. We will focus on the established, interstitial, transactional and transitional relationships that comprise the theater of praxis. This class will explore contemporary strategies of artistic practices and methodologies by which cultural producers present, provocate and proposition. We will explore concept, process, intent and implication of machine/screen/tools in the formulations of objects and performance, and seek the boundaries of contemporary art in examining the constructs of objectification and inter-subjecivity.
916b Research Methods and Practices taught by Ayham Ghraowi
Beginning with the Bauhaus, the course examines historical models of experiments in art education and the production by artists considered to have a research-based practice. Asking how a research-based practice is differentiated from academic research, the course also investigates institutional models of alternative graduate education that have arisen to respond to the prevalence of this production. In addition to the seminar, students are asked to consider how a unique research methodology can be developed and incorporated into their study and practice.
912b The Sensitive Machine (Workshop) taught by Sarah Oppenheimer and Joseph Zinter
This four-day interdisciplinary workshop in collaboration with the Center for Engineering Innovation and Design (CEID) will run again this Spring, exploring the homology between human and mechanized gesture. To be considered for the workshop, submit an application here by Sunday, January 27, 2019.
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For the latest news and events happening at the Yale School of Art—and for affiliated events of interest throughout Yale University—visit or subscribe to the Yale Arts Calendar.
Visiting artist lectures, all-school events, and new exhibitions are posted and updated regularly. More information >>
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Alumni!
Let's be in touch.
Send updates and news, and say hello:
SchoolofArtAlumni@yale.edu
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