Representation and its Discontents ( 24 Hour Exhibition), May 15th 2013
1. Jerome Waag introduces “Clams a la Hiquily” 2. screening of Starring Sigmund Freud. 3. Christopher Fraga and John Menick in conversation 4. Gallery entrance and Pedro Reyes’ Los Mutantes (background)
This is the story of Meta-the-Difference-Between-the-Two-Font-4-D. Its predecessor, called ‘MetaFont’, was designed in 1979 by professor Donald Knuth. His software let users generate unlimited numbers of fonts by controlling a limited set of parameters. MtDBtTF4d is used at the KADIST logotype, and is in the KADIST collection.
Artist Simon Starling will be speaking at the Oakland, California campus of CCA Monday, January 28th at 7pm.
Check out this video with Barry McGee and Renny Pritikin at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive!
In the mediation process, a trained professional acts as a neutral third party to try and help two or more parties to solve a dispute. The mediator’s job is to listen objectively, to suggest solutions, prevent acrimony and create a context for constructive negotiation until a binding agreement can be achieved. Mediation can be used to address a broad range of problems including domestic conflicts, professional, community and family issues.
The mediators who have agreed to participate in this project are trained professional mediators working in the Bay Area. With the assistance of Community Boards, San Francisco’s non-profit community resolution center, Kadist Art Foundation will also arrange free follow-up appointments with mediators for any participants whose dispute takes more than one session to resolve.
For further info please email conflictmanagementkadist@gmail.com
Conflict Management (Karlsruhe) as installed in Stephansplatz, Karlsruhe (2005) as part of the exhibition ‘Critical Societies’, at the Badischer Kunstverein. Photo: Thorsten Hallscheidt
Artist to Create Temporary “Peace Zone” in Downtown San Francisco
Carey Young - Conflict Management
May 12th 2012, 10am – 6pm
Hallidie Plaza, San Francisco (junction of Powell and Market Streets)
Internationally acclaimed artist Carey Young will offer free professional mediation service for any two or more parties who have a dispute – personal or professional – to resolve.
“Conflict Management” is presented by Kadist Art Foundation in San Francisco as part of the exhibition “Living as Form (The Nomadic Version).” It will give the public the chance to use free mediation services while also participating in an artwork that explores conflict resolution and places a powerful corporate tool in the hands of individuals. This is the first time “Conflict Management” has been staged in the U.S.
In the mediation process, a trained professional acts as a neutral third party to try and help two or more parties to solve a dispute. The mediator’s job is to listen objectively, to suggest solutions, prevent acrimony and create a context for constructive negotiation until a binding agreement can be achieved. Mediation can be used to address a broad range of problems including domestic conflicts, professional, community and family issues.
The project is open to anyone who wishes to resolve a conflict for free, without the financial and emotional strain litigation can entail. Interested people should come to Hallidie Plaza, along with the party (or parties) with whom they are in dispute. The mediators who have agreed to participate in this project are trained professional mediators working in the Bay Area. With the assistance of Community Boards, San Francisco’s non-profit community resolution center, Kadist Art Foundation will also arrange free follow-up appointments with mediators for any participants whose dispute takes more than one session to resolve.
London-based artist Carey Young makes artworks in a wide range of media including participative performance, photography and video. Her works examine a world of increasing corporate and legal power and have been exhibited at leading museums such as Tate Britain (London), Walker Art Center (Minneapolis) and the New Museum (New York). She said “On a symbolic level, this project acts as a ‘peace zone’ that is gone all too soon. There is something not only utopian but also poetic in offering a fleeting vision of peace – it will hopefully give a vision of ‘what could be’ before disappearing again, like a mirage in the desert.” She continues, “The fact it is staged in a marketplace reminds us of the increasing commercialization of every aspect of human life.”
ABOUT CAREY YOUNG: Carey Young is a British-American artist based in London, England. Her works often explore the collapsing categories between culture, commerce and the legal field, and have often featured training processes and tools from the worlds of business and law. Young has exhibited at many prominent galleries including MoMA PS1 (New York, the New Museum (New York), Paula Cooper Gallery, (New York), the Whitechapel Gallery (London) and Tate Britain (London). Her work will be included in the upcoming San Francisco exhibition “Stage Presence: Theatricality in Art and Media,” opening July 7 at SFMOMA. More info at www.careyyoung.com
“On one level I started by saying that this is kind of an art project because that helped me dupe myself into deeply investing. Because I know how to deeply invest in my studio practice. I know how to work sleepless nights to do a thing for my art practice; I don’t know how to do that for the real world.”
Theaster Gates interviewed on “Dorchester Project,” a community-driven process of place making and neighborhood transformation, in a new video produced by Kadist.
Screening in “Living as Form (The Nomadic Version)”:
Wednesday 5/2/2012 noon-7pm
Saturday 5/5/2012 noon-5pm
Wednesday 5/9/2012 noon-7pm
Saturday 5/12/2012 noon-5pm
For “The Roof is on Fire” (1994), two hundred and twenty high school students in Oakland sat in parked cars on a rooftop garage and talked to each other about violence, sex, gender, family, and race for an afternoon. Organized by Suzanne Lacy, Chris Johnson, and TEAM (a group of teens, educators, artists, and media workers), the event was designed as a positive media spectacle and continues to be widely discussed and exhibited as a seminal work of new genre public art. The local KRON news team produced a documentary about the event, which will be screened at Kadist as part of the exhibition “Living as Form (The Nomadic Version)” from April 21-28.
On the afternoon of the 21st, Chris Johnson will join us to talk about “The Roof is on Fire” and his more recent collaboration with Hank Willis Thomas, “Question Bridge: Black Males,” on view at the Oakland Museum of California through July 8.
http://questionbridge.com/
Johnson will be joined in conversation by artist and educator Amanda Eicher. Eicher, in turn, will bring a group of teens from Richmond, California who will respond to their experiences with both “The Roof is on Fire” and “Question Bridge.” http://metapuentes.wordpress.com/metapuentes-an-art-and-community-partnership/
Discussion will begin at 3pm on April 21st.
Screenings of “The Roof is on Fire” documentary:
April 21st at 12, 1, and 2pm
April 25th at 12, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6pm
April 28th at 12, 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5pm
After working with shepherds’ communities in the Spanish Pyranees to establish A Shepards School (2004), among other cooperative endeavors, Fernando García-Dory became aware of the existence of national and continental networks of mobile pastoralists. In 2007 the artist organized a world gathering of nomadic and transhumant pastoralists, which brought together three hundred representatives from forty-four different countries in Segovia, Spain in 2007. In twenty-five different languages, participants from the peaks of the Hindu Kush, the Sahel, the Andes and the Mongolian steppes, the wetlands of Tamil Nadu and the deserts of Jordan had the opportunity to speak of their similar issues, joys, and journeys. As a result of this gathering, the movement established a global organization, the World Alliance of Mobile Indigenous Pastoralists (WAMIP), currently registered in Switzerland, which joins together grassroots organizations, tribes and pastoralist communities from around the world.
http://www.fernandogarciadory.com/index.php?/projects/world-gathering-of-nomadic-peoples/
Fernando García-Dory talks about “A World Gathering of Nomadic Peoples” (2005-2007) in a video interview produced by Kadist Art Foundation for Living as Form (The Nomadic Version).
Video will be on view:
April 7, 12-5pm
April 11, 12-7pm
April 14, 12-5pm
April 18, 12-7pm
The video showing at Kadist SF tonight was originally shown as part of the 29th São Paulo Biennial. In this Art in America essay on the show, Kristen Chappa discusses Dora García’s video:
“The Spanish artist addresses revolutionary reforms in psychiatry that grew out of the political foment of the late 1960s, and alternative treatment programs practiced today. The piece is structured around three meetings: with the Psychiatric Hospital of Trieste’s theater company Accademia della Follia (Academy of Madness), comprised of both patients and healthcare workers; Rio de Janeiro’s Freaked on the Scene Theater of the Oppressed; and activist Carmen Roll, former member of the German Socialist Patients’ Collective (SPC).”
Read the rest of the essay here.
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