Identify! or Studies on the Political Subject

Identify! or Studies on the Political Subject - a one day exhibition
Saturday, October 23, 2004
12 – 6pm; reception with informal conversations: 4 – 6pm

The Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School
66 West 12th Street
New York City
212.229.2436

www.newschool.edu/vlc.

Works by
Yael Bartana (Netherlands/Israel)
Sabine Bitter/Helmut Weber (Vancouver/Vienna)
Matthew Buckingham (Berlin/New York)
Andrea Geyer (New York)
Sharon Hayes (New York)
Ashley Hunt (Los Angeles)
Lana Lin (New York)
neuroTransmitter (New York)
Jesal Kapadia (New York)
Katya Sander (Copenhagen)
Klaus Weber (Berlin)
Florian Wust (Berlin/Rotterdam)

“Identify! or Studies on the Political Subject” is a one-day exhibition of projected images and sound – slides, videos, 16mm film, and FM radio – that investigates the relationship between individuals and the state. In a political environment with systems of inclusion and exclusion (on the level of community, government as well as history) that have been polemically simplified and emotionally charged, these works engage the political subject in its complex and multilayered existences, as discourse, as experience, as claim, as trace, as action and non-action.

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The Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School explores the role of the arts in developing a civic culture of tolerance and pluralism in the United States. In public lectures and symposia, through research activities, publications, and programs associated with the University’s art collection, a wide array of visual and performance artists, scholars, curators, and political leaders come together to investigate the intersection of art and politics.

Established in 1992 by a generous grant from the late Vera List, a Life Trustee of New
School University, the Vera List Center embodies the legacy of The New School’s historic involvement with the avant-garde in the arts. During the year 2004-05, the Center’s programming includes an interdisciplinary exploration of the theme of “homeland.”

For further information, please call 212.229.2436; for a current listing of programs, please visit www.nsu.newschool.edu/vlc/