February 6–March 8, 2014
The James Gallery
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue between
34th and 35th Streets
New York, NY 10016
Hours: Tuesday–Thursday noon–7pm, Friday–Saturday noon–6pm
centerforthehumanities.org/james-gallery
Curators: Katherine Carl, Valerie Tevere, Siona Wilson
Sexing Sound: Aural Archives and Feminist Scores will bring together a selection of audio, flyers, scores, documentation of performances, and ‘zines of women’s sound work in the last two decades with historical references extending back to the 1960s. Intended not as a survey, but rather an animated peek at materials from archives including ABC No Rio, Her Noise in London, the Fales Library at New York University, Franklin Furnace, the Museum of Modern Art Archives, and the Interference Archive. The exhibition will include an installation by Marina Rosenfeld and materials on Johanna Fateman, Kathleen Hanna, Alison Knowles, Annea Lockwood, and many others, as well as performances by artists Emma Hedditch and Ginger Brooks Takahashi.
Cosponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Seminar on Images and Information and the PhD Program in Art History.
Exhibition Programming
All events are free, open to the public and first-come, first-serve. Events are in the James Gallery, an ADA fully accessible exhibition space, unless otherwise noted.
Wednesday, February 12, 7pm
Curator’s Perspective: Remco de Blaaij
Remco de Blaaij, Center for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, Scotland; Maria del Carmen Carrion, Independent Curators International.
Cosponsored by Independent Curators International.
Wednesday, February 19, 6:30pm
Screening and Conversation
New Film, Dark Matter: Innovations in Yugoslav Cinema in the Late 1960s
Katherine Carl, The James Gallery and The Center for the Humanities, The Graduate Center, CUNY; Nadia Perucic, Art History, The Graduate Center, CUNY.
Cosponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Seminar on Images and Information.
Friday, February 21, 10am–6pm
Conference
Sexing Sound: Music Cultures, Audio Practices, and Contemporary Art
Martin E. Segal Theatre
Regine Basha, independent curator; Mark Beasley, curator, Performa; Anya Bernstein, Anthropology, Harvard University; Maria Chavez, sound artist and curator; Cathy Lane, Sound Arts, University of the Arts, London; Annea Lockwood, composer, Emerita, Vassar College; Barbara London, curator; Ellie Hisama, Music, Columbia University; Peter Hitchcock, English, The Graduate Center, CUNY; Kristin Norderval, composer and performer; Anne Hilde Neset, nyMusikk, Oslo; Xaviera Simmons, artist; Valerie Tevere, Media Culture at the College of Staten Island, CUNY; Siona Wilson, Art History, The Graduate Center, and Performing and Creative Arts, College of Staten Island, CUNY.
See website for symposium details.
Cosponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Seminar on Images and Information, Office for Contemporary Art Norway, the PhD Program in Art History, and The School of Humanities, College of Staten Island, CUNY.
Friday, February 21, 6pm
Reception and Performance
J.D. Samson, artist.
Tuesday, February 25, 6pm
Exhibition Tour
Andrew Cappetta, Art History, The Graduate Center, CUNY; Meredith Mowder, Art History, The Graduate Center, CUNY.
Wednesday, February 26, 4pm
Exhibition Tour
María Edurne Zuazu, Music, The Graduate Center, CUNY.
Thursday, March 6, 6:30pm
Performance
Emma Hedditch, artist; Ginger Brooks Takahashi, artist.
The Amie and Tony James Gallery joins the Center for the Humanities’ mission to create dialogue across disciplines. Located in midtown Manhattan at the nexus of the academy, contemporary art, and the city, the James Gallery brings a range of pertinent discourses into the exhibition space through a number of innovative formats. While some exhibitions remain on view for extended contemplation, other activities, such as performances, workshops, reading groups, roundtable discussions, salons, and screenings have a short duration. As a space for interdisciplinary artistic and discursive activities, the gallery works with scholars, students, artists and the public to explore working methods that may lie outside usual disciplinary practices.
The Center for Humanities at the Graduate Center, CUNY, was founded in 1993 as a forum for people who take ideas seriously inside and outside the academy.
For more information, contact Jennifer Wilkinson
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