Here come the projects

Here are some of the events, discussions and performances that #class plans to host at Winkleman Gallery between Feb 21 and March 20, 2010.

We have over 40 events in some stage of development already. There will be a few different things going on every day the show is open! A full schedule will be publicly posted once we have it hammered out. For now, a preview. We’ll keep posting as more events become confirmed. If you haven’t sent us a proposal yet, there’s still time!

Painter and writer Mira Schor will read her 1990 essay “On Failure and Anonymity” and lead a discussion on how these conditions might play a positive role in making art.

Hyperallergic has prepared $ECRET$ OF THE NEW YORK ART WORLD, which invites visitors to reveal who in the city’s art industry owes them money. Will the pyramid scheme that is the art world collapse when the secrets come out? Hyperallergic hopes so.

An Xiao will present “Photoglam,” during which she and her glamorous entourage will be photographing attendees during the opening and posting them on the Facebook event page. The photos with the top number of ‘likes’ will be publicly posted.

Magda Sawon of Postmasters Gallery will host “Ask the Art Dealer,” vowing to truthfully answer any and every question posed to her. We’re starting to collect questions now, if you post one in the comments here it will get asked!

Free Gift Wrapping! Anyone who buys an artwork during the run of the show can have it gift-wrapped by Zoë Sheehan Saldaña in handmade brown paper and twine.

Artists MTAA will demonstrate “Autotrace,” a completely automatic, software-generated appropriation and shape creation system.

Rebecca Goyette will present “Market U,” an art critique as experiential theatre. The Ringmaster of Market University will review the live examples of artwork of selected recent graduates of of various NYC MFA Programs including Market U. A panel of judges, internationally recognized art critics, gallery owners and artists who work for Market U will be the jury… or will you?

Sarah Smizz will give away free posters featuring her “Maps of the Art System.”

Nic Rad will present “The Celebritist Manifesto,” a stirring defense of celebrity culture as the boldest creative expression of a democratic society, in which it will become abundantly clear that James Franco is the most significant artist of the decade, if not all time.

Man Bartlett will be presenting “24h #class action,” a marathon group intervention involving systematically blowing up hundreds of skinny balloons and popping them, without creating or harming any cute little puppies.

Dr. Lisa Levy, S.P. (Self-Proclaimed) will present “Investigating Personal Obstacles to Creativity and Creative Productivity,” a workshop using the tools of psychoanalysis to begin to identify how personal history and emotions subvert and misdirect our actions to make creative work so we can realize our full potential as artists.

Yevgeniy Fiks will present a slide-lecture titled “Communist Modern Artists and the Art Market,” showing how many of the the most highly valued art of the 20th century was produced by artists who considered themselves communists (Picasso, Leger, Kahlo, Rivera and more).

The Art Blahg will present “Art Wake,” a funeral ritual for contemporary art.

Carolina Miranda will lead participants in “Art Yoga by C-Mon,” incorporating newly invented poses to aid artists in the contortions necessary to advance their practice and career.

1 thought on “Here come the projects”

  1. Just wanted to send a quick note asking if you were aware of the hatred and animus that your listing, Art Blahg has put into the local art scene here in Philly. I use an anonymous email because of the level of fear created here by this cyber-bully that you seem to be,if not promoting, then supporting and encouraging. If he doesn’t like you, then he slanders you and insults you. If you care about the projects that you support and their impact on all in the arts community, please take a few minutes to read the Citypaper article (http://citypaper.net/articles/2010/01/21/artblahg) AND the series of comments on the mirror site created in answer to artblahg’s vitriol (http://theartblahg.blogspot.com/). I send this because your name has been touted by artblahg as one of his supporters.

    Thanks for taking the time to read this.

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