Night School: A project by Anton Vidokle
January 2008 - February 2009

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 hosted at the New Museum and in its environs, Night School draws upon a group of local and international artists, writers, and theorists to conceptualize and conduct the program. The project at the New Museum, which launched in January 2008, consisted of twelve seminars:

Boris Groys: After the Red Square (January 31-February 2, 2008)

Martha Rosler: Art and Social Life, The Case of Video Art (February 28-March 2, 2008)

Liam Gillick: Three Short Texts on the Necessity of Creating an Economy of Equivalence (March 27-29, 2008)

Maria Lind, Tirdad Zolghadr, Carey Young, and others: Contemporary Models of Agency (April 24-26, 2008)

Okwui Enwezor: The Politics of Spectacle (May 29-31, 2008)

Hu Fang and Zhan Wei, with Xu Tan: Space within space within space / Things to do while you're alive / Keywords School (June 19-21, 2008)

Paul Chan: Waiting for Godot in New Orleans / A Poet for President (with Eileen Myles) / The Sade I Know (September 11-13, 2008)

Rirkrit Tiravanija: the land (September 25-27, 2008)

Natascha Sadr Haghighian with Thomas Keenan and Avery Gordon: Sleepwalking in a dialectical picture puzzle (October 23-25, 2008)

Walid Raad and Jalal Toufic: The Withdrawal of Tradition Past a Surpassing Disaster (December 4-6, 2008)

Raqs Media Collective: The Pupil Dilates in Darkness (January 15-17, 2009)

Jan Verwoert: Why are conceptual artists painting again? Because they think it's a good idea (February 27-March 1, 2009)

The New Museum's new seminar series, Propositions, begins September 25-26, 2009.

Banner image:
Benji Okuda instructing a life drawing class, an adult night school group at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Heart Mountain, Wyoming.
Courtesy of the National Archives, Records of the War Relocation Authority, 1941-1947