Events - September 2008

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Thursday, September 4, 2008 | 7:30 PM

Ben Wittner: Arabesque (2008)

Part of Museum as Hub
 
Discussions

Graphic designer Ben Wittner presents graphic design from the Arab world and Persia. The graphic design studio eps51— which consists of Wittner and Sascha Thoma—transferred their headquarters to Cairo, Egypt from 200... more

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Friday, September 5, 2008 | 7:30 PM

The Scale of Intervention

Part of New Silent
 
New Media

Co-organized by Conflux
Moderated by Wooster Collective, with CutUp Collective, Leon Reid IV (of Darius + Downey), Betsey Biggs, RoadsworthCo-organized by Conflux, an annual festival dedicated to pyschogeography, and mo... more

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Saturday, September 6, 2008 | 10:00 AM

Target First Saturdays for Families: Landscapes for the Future

Part of Target First Saturdays for Families
 
Family Programs

10 a.m. - 12 p.m.The state of our planet is constantly changing. Explore how artists in the exhibition “After Nature” respond to, question, and create work that invites us to think about landscapes of the future. Par... more

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Saturday, September 6, 2008 | 4:00 PM

Screening: El Bondera, followed by discussion and Q&A with director Sherif Sadek and Museum as Hub Fellow Ayman Ramadan

Part of Museum as Hub
 
Discussions, Film/Video

El Bondera, a work in progress, takes the lives and livelihood of Cairo’s taxi drivers as its inspiration. Director Sherif Sadek has always been interested in taxi drivers, who interact with the full spectrum of societ... more

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Thursday, September 11, 2008 | 7:30 PM

Night School Public Seminar 7: Paul Chan: Waiting for Godot in New Orleans: An Illustrated Lecture

Part of Night School, Museum as Hub
 
Discussions

In November 2007, Paul Chan collaborated with the Classical Theatre of Harlem and Creative Time to stage five free site-specific performances of Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot in two New Orleans neighborhoods th... more

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Friday, September 12, 2008 | 7:30 PM

Night School Public Seminar 7: Paul Chan: A Poet for President: Eileen Myles and Her Run for the White House

Part of Night School, Museum as Hub
 
Discussions

In September 1991, legendary New York poet Eileen Myles launched her write-in Presidential campaign, running against George Bush Sr. She writes, “[The President] functions as a grand employer who has a complaint box. E... more

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Saturday, September 13, 2008 | 2:00 PM

Exhibition Walk-Through with Altoids Award Winner Michael Stickrod

Part of Exhibition Related
 
Discussions, Film/Video

Michael Stickrod addresses the psychology of human ties by cutting to the center of his familial circle. He uses scanned photographs and found audio to create nearly abstract sequences embedded between incising confessio... more

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Saturday, September 13, 2008 | 3:00 PM

Night School Public Seminar 7: Paul Chan: The Sade I Know: Screening and Lecture

Part of Night School, Museum as Hub
 
Discussions

Pornographer, philosopher, and revolutionary, the Marquis De Sade remains an indispensable figure in the history of post-Enlightenment Western thought. His books Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom, and the notorious The ...... more

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Thursday, September 18, 2008 | 7:30 PM

Get Weird: The Present

Part of Get Weird
 
Music/Performance

The Present is a new musical project featuring acclaimed New York musician and producer Rusty Santos, known for his work on Panda Bear's Person Pitch, Born Ruffians' Red Yellow & Blue,and Animal Collective's Sung Ton...... more

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Thursday, September 18, 2008 | 7:30 PM

Screening: Iraqis in Egypt: Time is Running Out, followed by Q&A with director Joshua van Praag and Museum as Hub Fellow Ayman Ramadan

Part of Exhibition Related, Museum as Hub
 
Film/Video

Iraqis in Egypt: Time is Running Out is a short documentary film that follows the lives of five Iraqi families who are now living in exile in Cairo. They recall the disturbing events that forced them to flee their homes ... more

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Saturday, September 20, 2008 | 3:00 PM

New York: Past, Present, and Possible Future

Part of Exhibition Related
 
Discussions

This panel will engage New York’s landscape at three distinct moments in history. Eric W. Sanderson, leader of the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Mannahatta Project, will discuss Manhattan island in 1609; Matthew Co... more

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Thursday, September 25, 2008 | 7:30 PM

Night School Public Seminar 8: Rirkrit Tiravanija introduces the land with a screening of Phillippe Parreno’s Boy from Mars

Part of Museum as Hub, Night School
 
Discussions

Initiated in 1998, the land is the merging of ideas by different artists to cultivate a place of and for social engagement. The land is located near the village of Sanpatong, twenty minutes from the center of the provinc... more

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Friday, September 26, 2008 | 7:30 PM

Night School Public Seminar 8: Nikolaus Hirsch, Neil Logan, Molly Nesbit, and Rirkrit Tiravanija

Part of Night School, Museum as Hub
 
Discussions

Rirkrit Tiravanija, Nikolaus Hirsch, Neil Logan, and Molly Nesbit discuss self-organization, alternative living, architecture, and utopia.Following the discussion, all are welcome to stay for a live-stream Web broadcast ... more

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Saturday, September 27, 2008 | 3:00 PM

Night School Public Seminar 8: Rirkrit Tiravanija

Part of Night School, Museum as Hub
 
Discussions

Night School is an artist's project by Anton Vidokle in the form of a temporary school. A yearlong program of monthly seminars and workshops, Night School draws upon a group of local and international artists, writers, a... more

Exhibitions - September 2008

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July 10, 2008 - September 21, 2008

Museum as Hub: Antikhana

Presented by Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cairo, Egypt

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July 17, 2008 - October 5, 2008

After Nature

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June 25, 2008 - October 12, 2008

2008 Altoids Award

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September 25, 2008 - January 11, 2009

Museum as Hub: Six Degrees

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December 1, 2007 - July 19, 2009

Jeffrey Inaba

Donor Hall