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INTERVENTIONS

STRUCTURES WITHIN AN INTERVENTION

INTERVENTIONS
MAY 18 2010 - JUNE 18 2010





May 18th: Opening Night: Intervention 1: Town Hall Meeting (Curatorial Collaborators): 6:30 - 8:30 pm.

Note:

An investigatory survey where Town Hall Meeting (Dina Shaulov and Christopher Stiegler) will have a set of questions to ask guests, artists and other art professionals that are out and about that evening.  THM will be referencing the writings of Jacques Ranciere, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Edward Said, Vinyak Chaturvedi, and others, all with the aim of linking their ideologies with the activities of artists functioning in todays art world. This Intervention will take place in an area that statistics have shown, is the most frequented during an opening despite its seeming air of distance at other hours from the visitor – The Reception Desk.




May 20th: Intervention 2: Ad Hoc Vox (Collaborators): 6 - 8 pm, 7 pm Reading.


Note: 

Ad Hoc Vox's Colleen Asper and Jennifer Dudley will translate an excerpt from a Western literary classic, William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying.  Rather than translating this text into another language, Asper and Dudley will transform it from within the tradition of the English language.  Dudley will translate the modern text into Old English and Asper will translate the text using a model taken from Saint Augustine's description of how God might apprehend language.

Intervention reception starts 6 pm. Colleen Asper and Jennifer Dudley will do a reading starting 7 pm.

Performance: Swati Khurana and her Grandmother will perform "Lesson 1" where they will knit an embroidery piece together. The performance will start a few hours prior to the reception and continue into the evening.





May 25th: Intervention 3:  Shifter (Individual): 12 - 8:30 pm


Note: 

Shifter (Sreshta Rit Premnath) proposes the following Intervention

Between Dog and Wolf:

The intervention (or interruption) will take place for periods of about an hour, interspersed throughout the duration of the show at the discretion of the curator. Using darkness and a one hour lecture by Trin T Minh-ha as primary source material,  Shifter directs us towards questions regarding the migrant-self, boundaries and multiplicity in order to imagine, as Minh-ha puts it, "an image and a color whose depiction would require a different kind of hearing, a different kind of listening."

This intervention invokes the time of twilight, described in French as "entre chien et le loup."  This time of murky visuality when people disappear and ghosts awake, is also a time of transformation, a time of becoming. As individuals who confront and engage the problems of identification, how do we proceed with clarity, yet maintaining criticality in regard to how we identify ourselves. Indeed, (how) can the tropes of otherness be strategically employed to untangle the knots that shape it?




June 1st - 3rd: Intervention 4: Greshams Ghost (Individual)


Note:

Greshams Ghost (Ajay Kurian) has not disclosed details of the Intervention. The curator waits and continues to follow up on occasion.


June 15th -18th: Intervention 5: Parlour (Curatorial Collaborators): Reception June 15th 6:30 - 8:30 pm


Note:

Parlour (Leslie Rosa-Stumpf and Ciara Gilmartin) has proposed an Intervention that will re-curate the exhibition in an attempt to bring the participating artists’ practices into a broader contemporary dialogue—not one tied to a definitive cultural milieu.  New artists will be invited to be part of the conversation.


 

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