Creative Time: 3 openings and events in NYC this week
Charles de Meaux: You Should be the Next Astronaut
The 59th Minute: Video Art on the Astrovision Screen by Panasonic
Tuesday, November 14 Through December 31 on the last minute of every hour.
Times Square
Friday, November 17, 5-7 PM Who Cares Book Launch with the artists, featuring performances and tastings
The NY Art Book Fair
Saturday, November 18, 5:30-6:30 PM The Art of Disarmament: Paul Chan in conversation with Kathy Kelly
Creative Time Live from the New York Public Library
Operating under the guise of a cinematic trailer, You Should be the Next Astronaut is the first in a series of short films by Charles de Meaux that revisit the principal cinema genres and play with the conventional movie previews role as a prophecy, a promissory note, and a stoker of audience expectation. Working with the notion that trailers are more ubiquitous than feature-length films, de Meauxs series, created in collaboration with artist and curator Agnieszka Kurant, engages the current condition of cultural consumption, in which products are increasingly consumed before they are encountered.
This is a project of Anna Sanders Films that de Meaux founded with Pierre Huyghe and Philippe Parreno.
The Art of Disarmament: Paul Chan in conversation with Kathy Kelly
Creative Time launches a new series of artists’ talks, performances and events with the New York Public Library
Saturday, November 18, 5:30-6:30 PM
NYPL, 5th Avenue @ 42nd Street, South Court Auditorium
Tickets: www.smarttix.com or (212) 868-4444
New York artist and activist Paul Chan spent a month in Iraq with Kathy Kelly and the Nobel Peace Prize-nominated organization Voices in the Wilderness immediately prior to the start of the war. He speaks with her about their work, her recent visits to the Middle East, and the poetics of nonviolence. This program is presented with The New York Public Library and The Atlantic Monthly’s Day of Ideas.
Podcast will be available on www.creativetime.org
Who Cares Book Launch Party
The NY Art Book Fair
Friday, November 17, 5-7 PM
548 West 22nd Street. Free
Join Creative Time for the launch party of Who Cares with the artists and writers from the book. The event will also feature a cartoon concert by graphic novelist Seth Tobocman and band; an audio work by artist and curator Mark Tribe, and Iraqi food tasting prepared by artist Michael Rakowitz (whos storefront project Return is extended through Nov 21.)
Who Cares brought together 37 artists, curators, and scholars for 3 intimate dinners to discuss art and social action today. The book features conversations with: Doug Ashford, Julie Ault, Gregg Bordowitz, Tania Bruguera, Paul Chan, Mel Chin, Dean Daderko, Peter Eleey, Coco Fusco, Chitra Ganesh, Deborah Grant, Hans Haacke, K8 Hardy, Sharon Hayes, Emily Jacir, Ronak Kapadia, Byron Kim, Steve Kurtz, Julian LaVerdiere, Lucy Lippard, Marlene McCarty, John Menick, Helen Molesworth, Anne Pasternak, Heather Peterson, Paul Pfeiffer, Patricia C. Phillips, Michael Rakowitz, Ben Rodriguez-Cubeñas, Martha Rosler, Ralph Rugoff, Amy Sillman, Allison Smith, Kiki Smith, David Levi Strauss, Nato Thompson, and The Yes Men.
Books will be available at the event, and are now online at www.creativetime.org/store and in bookstores worldwide (distributed by D.A.P.)
For more information about The NY Art Book Fair, presented by Printed Matter, visit: www.nyartbookfair.com
Upcoming Creative Time Winter Projects: Ugo Rondinone, Doug Aitken, Eve Sussman
For more information visit www.creativetime.org
