Sat, Oct 25, 2008 | 3:00 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 3
40 minutes between the shelves, Part 2
A conversation with Avery Gordon

The corridors of a nearby store serve as the matrix for a conversation on subjugated knowledges and how research is related to one's ability to act. The apparitional state of some realities that have no lobby in the politics of representation are taken into consideration as a force of urgency and change.
Natascha Sadr Haghighian and Avery Gordon navigate through a selection of the store’s objects and functions, which serve as coordinates for the conversation, while a video image of the store’s interior is broadcast in the auditorium.

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

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

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 with Museum admission, but tickets are required. Tickets can be reserved online or at the Museum prior to the seminar's start.

Sponsors TOP

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.

Profiles TOP

Avery Gordon

Avery Gordon is a Professor of Sociology and Law and Society at the University of California, Santa Barbara and Visiting Faculty at the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths College, University of London.  She is the author of Keeping Good Time: Reflections on Knowledge, Power and People, Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination, and the editor of Mapping Multiculturalism and Body Politics, among other works.  Her most recent articles on imprisonment and the War on Terror were published in Race & Class and Le Monde Diplomatique.  Her current writing aims to comparatively understand the nature of captivity and confinement today, its means of dispossession, and what's required to abolish it.  Since 1997, she has co-hosted No Alibis, a weekly public affairs radio program on KCSB 91.9 FM, Santa Barbara.


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