Events
26 October 2017, 6-8pm
Opening Reception, Welcome to Camp America Exhibition
On view through 22 December.
Steven Kasher Gallery, 515 W. 26th St., New York, NY 10001
Ongoing Exhibitions:
In Providence, Rhode Island through 17 October
Welcome to Camp America Exhibition, Carriage House Gallery.
John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities & Cultural Heritage, Brown University
Nightingale Brown House, 357 Benefit Street (rear entrance off Williams Street Driveway), Providence, RI 02138
In NYC through 26 October
Bending the Frame, a group exhibition of artists and documentarians using alternative strategies for social change.
Featuring work by Debi Cornwall, Tim Hetherington, Jan Hoek, Chris Jordan, Jennifer Karady, Gideon Mendel, Taryn Simon & Aaron Schwartz, Hank Willis Thomas, Chris Johnson, Bayeté Ross Smith, Kamal Sinclair, Sumeja Tulic, and Dysturb.
Curated by Fred Ritchin. Gulf & Western Gallery, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, 721 Broadway lobby, New York, NY 10003
Upcoming Events:
5 October 2017, 6pm
Panelist, Bending the Frame: Where Do We Go From Here?
Moderated by Fred Ritchin, with Jennifer Karady, Bayeté Ross Smith, Celia A. Shapiro, and Benjamin Petit.
How can we as artists, documentarians, and activists use visual imagery in alternative ways so as to have an impact on a society that is increasingly submerged by—and immune to—imagery of all kinds? This panel discussion, in conjunction with the exhibition "Bending the Frame" at the Gulf & Western Gallery of the Tisch School of the Arts, will provide a platform for individuals working on critical social issues to explain their strategies as image-makers, and the ways in which they have managed, in an era of "fake news" and "alternative truths," to make a difference in the lives of people.
NYU Tisch School of the Arts, 721 Broadway, 6th Floor Performance Studies Studio, New York, NY 10003
16 October 2017, 6-8:30pm
Symposium panelist, What Does it Mean to Make Art at Guantánamo?
Haaren Hall Room 630, John Jay College, City University of New York (CUNY)
524 West 59th Street, New York, NY, 10019
19 October 2017, 6:30pm
Panel discussion & book signing
Cohosted by the Center for Constitutional Rights with support from the David Rockefeller Fund
Busboys & Poets, 2021 14th St. NW (at V St.), Washington, D.C. 20009
28 October 2017, 2:30-4pm, with reception to follow
Interdisciplinary panel discussion on Guantánamo Bay, art, and social justice
Cohosted by the Center for Constitutional Rights with support from the David Rockefeller Fund
Steven Kasher Gallery, 515 W. 26th St., New York, NY 10001
Selected Recent Events
14 March 2017
Panelist, "Saying War, Building Peace."
Side event in parallel with the 34th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, hosted by the
Wallonia-Brussels general Delegation in Geneva (Mission of Belgium), the International Film Festival & Forum on Human Rights (FIFDH) in Geneva, the Mundaneum, and the Henri La Fontaine Foundation.
Palais des Nations, United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland.
19 March 2017
Discussion (in French) with investigative poet Frank Smith following a reading of his work, Guantánamo (Seuil 2010).
Moderated by curator Barbara Polla, co-hosted by Centre de la Photographie Genève (CPG) & FIFDH
CPG Auditorium, Geneva, Switzerland.
22 April 2017
Presentation, “Welcome to Camp America: Toward a New Documentary Form.”
Open Engagement 2017: JUSTICE. Chicago.
*Open Engagement (OE) is an annual, three-day, artist-led conference dedicated to expanding the dialogue around and creating a site of care for the field of socially engaged art. The conference highlights the work of transdisciplinary artists, activists, students, scholars, community members, and organizations working within the complex social issues and struggles of our time.
22 July 2017
Opening Reception, Something Fierce, featuring eight women artists in the Lannan Foundation's collection whose work exemplifies an element of ferocity, whether it be expressed in the subject, process or intent.
With works by Christine Corday, Sharon Core, Debi Cornwall, Roni Horn, Munson Hunt, An-My Lê, Sarah Pickering, and Victoria Sambunaris. Curated by Christie Davis.
Lannan Foundation Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
15 September 2017
Symposium panelist, Guantánamo Going Forward: What's Next for Current and Former Detainees?
With releasee memoirist Mohamedou Ould Slahi and attorney J. Wells Dixon of the Center for Constitutional Rights.
Brown University, Providence, RI