Antek walczak biography of christopher
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In September, , an art collective called Bernadette Corporation exhibited “The Complete Poem” at Greene Naftali, a commercial galleri in Chelsea. The show comprised 38 quasi-fashion photographs by David Vasiljevic, and a page epic poem by Eileen Myles called “A Billion and Change.” The pages were displayed under Plexiglas on thirteen long, slim, wooden tables and were offered individually for sale. Bernadette Corporation’s principal members at the time were Bernadette Van-Huy, Jim Fletcher, John Kelsey, and Antek Walczak.
In the second essay of Where Art Belongs, novelist, publisher and art critic Chris Kraus writes, “Audaciously, Bernadette Corporation insisted on treating the plus pages of &#;A Billion and Change&#; as original artwork. No press copies, no posting online, no Xeroxed handouts. As John Kelsey recalls, ‘Some of our most politically correct friends were outraged that we weren’t passing the poem out for free or putting it online’ … ‘One thing we knew,’ Antek Walczak
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STUART SHERMAN
Screening + Discussion
Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI)
West 22nd Street, 5th Floor
New York, NY
Tuesday, December 8, , pm
EAI presented a special evening devoted to the work of Stuart Sherman, featuring a conversation between playwright and director Richard Foreman and artist Paul Chan, moderated by Jay Sanders. The discussion was preceded by a short screening program surveying Sherman's work in film, video, audio, and performance, introduced by Andrew Lampert of Anthology Film Archives.
VITAL SIGNALS
Japanese + American Video Art from the s and '70s
Co-presented by EAI and JAPAN SOCIETY
As part of PERFOMA 09
Japan Society
East 47th Street
New York, NY
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Saturday, November 14,
Open Television: pm
The Language of Technology: pm
Artist Discussion: pm
Body Acts: pm
Vital Signals, a program of early video art from America and Japan, highlighted the parallel developments in the
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How We Move
SCREENINGSalt Beyoğlu
Organized by Guest Researcher Nathan Lee
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What is an institution? We often speak of the institution as a physical place, such as the museum, university, or hospital. In another sense, the word designates different types of organizations, varying in scale and degree of centralization: the military, the media. Law is an institution, as is language, cinema, psychoanalysis. An institution can be founded as a conscious act (the Latin word institutus means “to set up”) or evolve as a spontaneous growth – sometimes healthy, sometimes cancerous. Institutions are shelters and battlegrounds, engines of progress and strongholds of orthodoxy, zones of production and objects of critique.
However concrete or abstract, the idea of the institution is a means to circumscribe the forces that shape and order society. As such, they have been