ARTspace is a conference within the conference, tailored to the needs and interests of practicing artists but open to all conference attendees. It includes a session space, set theater style, and a lounge for video programming and other events.
All ARTspace sessions are included in the chronological listing of Sessions.
Unless otherwise noted, all ARTspace events are held in Murray Hill Suite, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York.
Wednesday, February 14
Morning coffee, tea, and juice
7:30–9:00 AM
Video Programming All Day: Parsons, The New School of Design: Selections 2005
9:00 AM–5:00 PM
Artists’ Residencies/Worldwide Opportunities
9:30 AM–NOON
Chairs: Elizabeth Conner; Caitlin Strokosch, Alliance of Artists Communities
A panel composed of one artist and three residency program staff will give an overview of available residencies, with an emphasis on new opportunities and international residencies. Metropolitan New York residencies will also be highlighted.
Out of the Frame: Creativity and Change
12:30–2:00 PM
Chair: Amy V. Grimm
Working from the Perimeter
Willie Ray Parish, University of Texas at El Paso
Between Collage and Chaos
Hana Hillerova, University of Texas at Austin
Hillbilly Happiness: The Barnstormers' Pilgrimage Down South
David J. Brown, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art
From the Big Picture to the Small Object
Kate Bonansinga, University of Texas at El Paso
Beautiful Losers
Christian Strike, Atelier Noir, Iconoclast Editions
Visual Power: An Exhibition of Native American Artists/Scholars
A Project by the US Department of State Art and Culture Programs
2:30–5:00 PM
Chairs: Duane Slick, Rhode Island School of Design; Phoebe Farris, Purdue University
Fostering Diversity of American Cultural Diplomacy Abroad
Evangeline J. Montgomery, Office of Citizen Exchanges, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
Title to be Announced
Gail Trembley, Evergreen State University
International Relations via Our Shared Solstice Sun over This World and the Fifty-Foot Outdoor Circular Denver Sculpture Wheel
Edgar Heap of Birds, University of Oklahoma
Devotional Art for the Feminine Divine
Nadema Agard, Red Earth Studio Consulting/Productions
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15
Morning coffee, tea, and juice
7:30–9:00 AM
Video Programming: Potter-Belmar Labs, Leslie Raymond and Jason Jay Stevens, 3 & 3 Selections, 2004–6
7:30 AM–NOON
Painting and Plurality: Schisms, -Isms, and the Difficulty of Definition
9:30 AM–NOON
Chairs: Brian Bishop, University of Alabama; Lance Winn, University of Delaware
High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting, 1967–75
Katy Siegel, Hunter College
Invisible -Ism
Robert Mertens, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater
Luc Tuymans and the Use Value of Irony
George Anastasias Magalios, independent artist
Discussant: Barry Schwabsky, critic and poet
Video Programming: Diane Lander Mason, Curator of Films All Dressed in White Work: Emerging Definitions of Marriage, 2006
NOON–5:00 PM
Does the Art World have a Political Bias?
12:30–2:00 PM
Chairs: elin o'hara slavick, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Thomas Kleese, University of Wisconsin, Richland
Hegemony Cricket: The Voice of One Crying in the Wilderness
Thomas Kleese, University of Wisconsin, Richland
Separating the Sheep from the Goats; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Art World
James Panero, The New Criterion
Discussant: Martha Rosler, Rutgers University
“Difficult” Content in the Public Realm
2:30–5:00 PM
Chairs: Elizabeth Conner; Janet Kaplan, Moore College of Art and Design
Discussants: Catherine de Zegher
Norie Sato, artist, Seattle
Other participants to be announced.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16
Morning coffee, tea, and juice.
7:30–9:00 AM
Video Programming: Michelle Monseau Excerpts: Puff, Hum, and Long Road, 2005–6
7:30 AM–NOON
Reversal: Artists Talk about Art History
9:30 AM–NOON
Chair: Reva Wolf, State University of New York, New Paltz
Reading Art History: A New York Story
Peter Halley, Yale University
Inevitable Liminality: Oscillations of Sense in the Historical
George Quasha, Station Hill Press
Why Some People Make Art and Others Write about It
Faith Ringgold, University of California, San Diego
Video Programming: Willie Varela, His Burning World, 2002–3
NOON–5:00 PM
Contemporary African Art: Moving Forward, Looking Back. Investigating the Currency of Contemporary African Art
12:30–2:00 PM
Chair: Odili Donald Odita, Tyler School of Art
Discussants: Isolde Brielmaier, Rotunda Gallery and Vassar College
Olu Oguibe, University of Connecticut, Storrs
Barbara Pollack, artist, independent critic, and curator
Claude Simard, Jack Shainman Gallery
Carol Thompson, High Museum of Art
Annual Artists Interviews
2:30–5:00 PM
Hans Haacke and Betye Saar will be interviewed.
Refreshments will be served after the event.
Arts Exchange
6:00–8:00 PM
East Ballroom Foyer, Third Floor, Hilton New York
Cash Bar
Arts exchange is an open portfolio session where CAA artist-members are offered tables to show drawings, prints, photographs, small paintings, and works on laptops. The session is open to the public and free of charge. Sale of works is not permitted.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17
Morning coffee, tea, and juice.
7:30–9:00 AM
Video Programming: Artpix Diverse Dialogue. Selections, 2003
9:00 AM–5:00 PM
Safety Hazards for the Artists and the Art Institution
9:30 AM–NOON
Chair: Duane Slick, Rhode Island School of Design
Art and the Agencies: OSHA, EPA, CPSC, and More
Monona Rossol, Arts, Crafts and Theater Safety
The "Art" of Federal Environmental Enforcement
Carl F. Plossl, US Environmental Protection Agency: Region II
Speaking of the Artist Lecture
12:30–2:00 PM
Chair: Patricia Phillips, State University of New York, New Paltz
Ephemeral Art and the Tyranny of Preservation
2:30–5:00 PM
Chair: Allyson Purpura, George Washington University
Liminality, Memory and the Ephemeral
Michele Brody, artist
From Ruin to Rise: The Contradictions of Gordon Matta-Clark's Building Fragments
Ellen Moody, Pomona College
Acquisition, Alteration, and Ambivalence: The Preservation of the Noah Purifoy Sculpture Park
Linda Lui, independent scholar
Very Large Collections and Ephemeral Art: The Joseph Selle Collection of Street Vendor Photography
Andrew Eskind, Visual Studies Workshop; David Mount, Visual Studies Workshop