Fri, Sep 26, 2008
7:30 PM

New Museum theater (directions)

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 of the presidential debate.

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, and theorists to conceptualize and conduct the program. This month’s seminar is conceived by Rikrit Tiravanija.

*This event is free but tickets are required. Tickets can be reserved online or at the Museum prior to the seminar's start.

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This discussion is made possible by the Charlotte and Bill Ford Artist Talks Fund.

Museum as Hub is made possible by the Third Millennium Foundation.

Seeds of Tolerance

With additional generous support from Metlife Foundation

Additional support is provided by the Asian Cultural Council, National Endowment for the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and the New York State Council on the Arts.

Endowment support is provided by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Skadden, Arps Education Programs Fund, and the William Randolph Hearst Endowed Fund for Education Programs at the New Museum.

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Rirkrit Tiravanija

Rirkrit Tiravanija was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1961, and is based today in New York, Berlin, and Thailand. Tiravanija's installations and actions provide platforms for artistic, public, and private activities—effectively blurring the boundaries that customarily separate them. His projects invite the public to enter into and literally engage with his work; in fact, the active participation of the viewer is necessary for the work to be fully realized. Tiravanija has exhibited widely including solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio; Portikus, Frankfurt; Secession, Vienna; Galerie für Zeitgenossische Kunst, Leipzig; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Chiang Mai University Art Museum, Thailand; and the Guggenheim Museum, New York. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris/ARC, and the Serpentine Gallery, London co-organized a retrospective of Tiravanija's work in 2004–05. Notable group exhibitions featuring Tiravanija's work include the Venice Biennial (1993, 1999, 2003); the Carnegie International (1995); the Whitney Biennial (1995); Manifesta 1 (1996); Skulptur Projekte, Münster (1997); the Berlin Biennial (1998); the Istanbul Biennial (2001); and Shenzhen International Public Art Exhibition (2003). He will participate in “theanyspacewhatever” at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, opening in October 2008.
 
For the 50th International Venice Biennial (2003), Tiravanija co-curated “Utopia Station” with Molly Nesbitt and Hans Ulrich Obrist. Since 1998, Tiravanija has also been working on The Land, an ongoing, collaborative, environmental reclamation project in Thailand. He has been awarded numerous international honors and awards, including a Gordon Matta Clark Foundation Award, a National Endowment for the Arts/Visual Arts, the Hugo Boss Prize, and the Silpathorn Award presented annually by the Office of Contemporary Art and Culture, Ministry of Culture of Thailand.

Tiravanija is Associate Professor of Professional Practice, Faculty of the Arts, at Columbia University, New York.