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In the Canyon, Revise the Canon

Apr 2, 2015
6:30–8 pm

New York, NY, USA
ICI

401 Broadway, Suite 1620
New York, NY 10013


In honor of her new publication, In the Canyon, Revise the Canon: Utopian Knowledge, Radical Pedagogy and Artist-run Community Art Spaces in Southern California (les presses du réel, 2015), philosopher Géraldine Gourbe joins writer and independent curator Flora Katz and ICI’s Director of Exhibitions Alaina Claire Feldman to discuss Gourbe's research and to propose a framework for which we can continue to use feminism as a tool to engage with art and culture at large.

"Believing is not to have one's hand on something so much as to be effected by what’s not there."
– Michel de Certeau

Before the onset of the social and cultural backlash that was brought on by the Reagan administration in the early eighties, Southern California was ripe territory for the genesis and development of emancipation movements for and by African Americans, Chicanos, pacifists, Marxists, feminists and homosexuals.

Starting in the late sixties, these revolutionary waves particularly influenced practices such as performance art, video, installation and collaboration, which led to the construction of alternatives like artist-run spaces, non-profit spaces and artist-run community art spaces.

In Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, and San Diego, collaborative public action was constructed around utopian knowledge, which was then redirected towards universities and art schools that favored the emergence of radical pedagogies.

These other manners of experimental thinking, doing and teaching permitted artists to deconstruct certain canons that were inherited from European tradition and art history, and provoked a reexamination of “the American way of life.”


Edited by Géraldine Gourbe. Texts by Mark Allen, Juliette Bellocq, Vera Brunner-Sung, Nancy Buchanan, Carol Cheh, Matthew Coolidge, Jill Dawsey, François Esquivié, Rita Gonzales, Géraldine Gourbe, Robby Herbst, Walter Hopps, Robert Irwin, Chris Kraus, Leslie Labowitz, Suzanne Lacy, Fred Lonidier, Pauline Oliveros, Elana Mann, Emily Mast, Senga Nengudi, Janet Sarbanes, Annette Weisser, Joshua Young, Andrea Zittel.


This event is free and open to the public. To attend, please RSVP to rsvp@curatorsintl.org with CANON in the subject line.

Presenter
Géraldine Gourbe

Géraldine Gourbe is a Professor of Art Theory at Ecole Supérieure d'Art Annecy Agglomeration (2010-2014), was a lecturer at Sciences Po (Institut d'Etudes Politiques) in Paris, and is a visiting professor at the University of Metz.

Alaina Claire Feldman

Alaina Claire Feldman is the Director and Curator of Mishkin Gallery at Baruch College, City University of New York (CUNY) where she has organized solo and group exhibitions, performances, readings and film screenings.


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.