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Downtown Dialogue
Collectives at Work
Thursday, February 12, 2004; 7–9pm
One Wall Street Court, 142 Pearl Street, 2nd Floor
Collectives at Work explores questions that surround
temporary projects created by artistic collectives and how the concept of artistic fertilization continues within the work of partnering institutions or communities. Concurrent with LMCC’s In the Face of Others exhibition organized by NURTUREart, panelists will examine the impact of their itinerant projects on the community; the long-term contributions to institutions, spaces, and the field beyond temporary interventions; and the advantages and disadvantages of non-profit models that utilize collective organizational structures.
Panelists include Ayreen Anastas, 16 Beaver Group; Patrick Meagher, NURTUREart; Prerana Reddy, South Asian Women's Creative Collective ; and Greg Sholette, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago & Public Edge. The discussion will be moderated by LMCC staff; Erin Donnelly, Associate Director of Programs and Narisara Vanichanan, Associate Director of Community Arts and Planning.
Ayreen Anastas was born in Bethlehem Palestine and
relocated to Germany in 1989 for a DAAD scholarship. She
studied architecture in Berlin till 1996 and has lived in New
York since 1997. She is currently teaching in the Architecture
Department at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and is involved with
activities related to the Sixteenbeaver group
(www.16beavergroup.org). In addition to SDUK, her most
recent projects have ranged from solo works (audio or video
based) like “m* of Bethlehem” to collaborations with the Artist
Rene Gabri (Artistalk, RadioActive, United We Stand).
Patrick Meagher studied conceptual art, sculpture, and site
work at Carnegie Mellon University; photography and painting
at Kunstakademie Dusseldorf; and Landscape Architecture at
Harvard Graduate School of Design. His broader body of work
currently consists of digital photo based art, machine-cut
sculpture in EPS Styrofoam, and freehand drawings on paper.
Meagher exhibits internationally and has works in the
collections of Museo Castello di Rivoli, TATE Modern,
Mannesmann Steel GMBH, the US Government and the
National Endowment for the Arts.
Prerana Reddy is a filmmaker and film festival organizer with
the New York African Film Festival and 3rd i NY, which
organizes monthly South Asian diaspora film/video and music
events in New York City. For the past three years she also sat
on the board of the South Asian Women's Creative Collective
and has been on the organizing collective of Youth Solidarity
Summer which holds an annual conference for young activists
of South Asian descent and develops anti-oppression
workshops for South Asian youth.
Gregory Sholette is an artist, writer, activist and founding
member of Political Art Documentation/Distribution (PAD/D)
and of REPOhistory. His current projects include co-editing the
book Collectivism After Modernism for University of Minnesota
Press with Blake Stimson; developing the catalog
Interventionists: Art in the Social Sphere with curator Nato
Thompson for MASS MoCA,(opening in spring of 2004); and
co-developing a web project entitled Dark Mater with Trebor
Scholz, Brian Holmes, Orkan Telhan and Tom Leonhardt. He is
currently the Batza Family Chair of Art and Art History at
Colgate University, New York and is also a board member of
the College Art Association and Public Edge.
In the Face of Others is made possible in part with public
funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs
and the Electronic Media and Film Program of the New York
State Council on the Arts, a state agency. LMCC is grateful to
American Express for its generous support of our audience
development initiatives.
Image Credit: Debor Ben Goldman, Alter Ego, 2000
Proud participant of Cool New York .
One Wall Street Court is located at the nexus of Beaver Street,
Pearl Street and Wall Street in the heart of lower Manhattan’s
financial district. The building entrance is on Pearl Street across
from the Mercantile Grill.
For a map to LMCC’s office click here
Subway & Bus Directions
2/3/4/5 to Wall Street
J/M/Z to Broad Street
N/R to Rector Street
M6 to Broadway and Wall Street
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