Thu, Oct 23, 2008 | 7:30 PM

New Museum theater (directions)

Night School Public Seminar 9: Sleepwalking in a dialectical picture puzzle Natascha Sadr Haghighian with Thomas Keenan and Avery Gordon

Part of Night School, Museum as Hub
 
Discussions

Day 1
40 minutes between the boards
An introduction by Natascha Sadr Haghighian

A series of blackboards are installed in the auditorium. Objects sketched in chalk on the boards serve as coordinates for a forty-minute theoretical walk-through. The drawings function as links to theory, personal experiences, and questions that arise from problems with representational formats. The walk-through operates in between those coordinates, reflecting on defacement, renaming, and other possible and impossible ways of confronting representations one can't get rid of: representations that, through their apparitional features, block the access to situations, to negotiation and to change.

Day 2
40 minutes between the shelves, Part 1
A conversation with Thomas Keenan

Day 3
40 minutes between the shelves, Part 2
A conversation with Avery Gordon

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 Natascha Sadr Haghighian.

*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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Night School is part of the Museum as Hub, which 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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Natascha Sadr Haghighian

Natascha Sadr Haghighian works in the fields of video, performance, computer, and sound, and is primarily concerned with the sociopolitical implications of constructions of vision from a central perspective and with abstract events within the structure of industrial society, as well as with the strategies and returning circulations that become apparent in them.

Instead of a CV, Natascha Sadr Haghighian started bioswop.net, an Internet platform for CV-exchange where artists and other cultural practitioners can borrow and lend CVs for various purposes. The aim is to have more and more people exchanging their CVs for representational purposes.  For more information go to bioswop.net