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Book Launch: The Second World Congress of Free Artists

Oct 22, 2013
6:30–8 pm

New York, NY, USA
ICI Curatorial Hub

401 Broadway, Suite 1620
New York, NY 10013

Camel Collective (Anthony Graves, Carla Herrera-Prats, and Lasse Lau) will launch its book The Second World Congress of Free Artists, published in conjunction with Aarhus Kunsthal, Denmark. The Second World Congress of Free Artists is a loose collection of scripts representing a number of ventures on the topics of artistic pedagogy, alternative forms of education, and teaching art under the new conditions presented by neoliberal universities and colleges. The scenes in the book were written by contributing authors and dramatized through an intensive editorial process, resulting in an experimental and critical look at the educational turn in artistic practice. The evening will consist of a series of performative readings.

Contributors to The Second World Congress of Free Artists:
Camel Collective (DK/US/MX)
Mirene Arsanios (LB)
UKK (DK)
The YES! Association (SE)
Benj Gerdes and Jenn Hayashida (US/SE)
Colin Lang (US)
Ditte Lyngkaer Pedersen (DK)
Sande Cohen (US/TH)
Zachary Cahill (US)
Eduardo Abaroa (MX)
Javier Toscano (MX)
Ashley Hunt (US)
Johannes Raether (DE)
Temporary Institute For Witchpower (DE)
Michael Ashkin (US)
Andrea Creutz with Sebastien Berthier & Shirin Sabahi (SE)
Anthony Davies, Nils Norman, and Howard Slater (UK)
Carlos Motta (CO/US)
Sean Dockray (Public School) (US)
Mónica Castillo (MX)
Rum46 (DK)
Mary Walling Blackburn (Anhoek School) (US)
Dario Azzellini and Oliver Ressler (AT/IT)
C. Krydz Ikwuemesi (NG)
Miklos Erhardt (HU)
J. Morgan Puett
Eva Diaz (US)
Sam Gould/Red76 (US)
Flo Maak (DE)

The event is free and open to the public. Please RSVP to rsvp@curatorsintl.org with CAMEL COLLECTIVE in the subject field.

Presenters
Camel Collective

Camel Collective is the name under which Anthony Graves, Carla Herrera-Prats, and Lasse Lau have worked since 2005.

Carla Herrera-Prats

Through archival research Carla Herrera-Prats' work comments on the cultural and economic transactions that flow, often invisibly, in the context of a transnational world.

Anthony Graves

Anthony Graves works in a collective, research-based practice using painting, printed matter, performance, and text to stage the collisions and intersections of aesthetics and social processes.

Lasse Lau
Lasse Lau (b. 1974) is a visual artist and filmmaker based in New York and Copenhagen.

Credits 

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with City Council, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.