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DiVA @ WHITE BOX
March 22-30, 2008
WHITE BOX SPEAKS presents Louise Blouin Media and VideoArtWorld
From March 22 - 30, DiVA and WHITE BOX co-organize an exciting forum of leading video arts professionals and scholars. The forum, as part of WHITE BOX SPEAKS, presents collectors, artists, gallerists, curators, critics and other professionals in the field who will provide audiences with their insight on a medium still considered 'outsider' while at the same time steadily gaining critical attention.
WHITE BOX SPEAKS focuses on topics relevant to the origins of video art, opening up a dynamic dialogue on collecting, curating, exhibiting, and the challenges video has been facing throughout its history. Conversations start at 10:30am every day and continue until 3pm, followed by special digital art and video screenings organized by VideoArtWorld.
Louise Blouin Media Digital Art, investigations of Media and Maker: curates a series of daily lectures/discussions that address the challenges and opportunities for artists working in digital art and video, profiling international artists, curators, writers, editors and gallerists.
Free hand-outs are available at WHITE BOX front reception, providing the public with further details regarding the entire WHITE BOX SPEAKS program and participants.
For additional information visit: www.divafair.com, www.videoartworld.com and www.louiseblouinmedia.com
Saturday, March 22nd:
4pm - 8pm VIP COCKTAIL
VIP Card required
Produced by DiVA Fair & WHITE BOX
VideoArtWorld SCREENING PREMIERE
Premiere of the 4 series of special screenings
Organized by Blanca de la Torre
Program 1: Corporal Landscapes
Curated by Blanca de la Torre
Program 2: Out of the Box
Curated by Heide Hatry & Elga Wimmer
Program 3: Arrivals and Departures
Curated by Micaela Giovannotti
Program 4: A snake on a tree
Curated by Marco Antonini
Tuesday, March 25th:
12pm – 3pm: WHITE BOX SPEAKS
Curated by VideoArtWorld:
Next stop Seoul: The Media Biennale
Moderator: Raul Zamudio, co-curator of the 2008 Seoul International Media Biennale
3pm – 8pm: VideoArtWorld Screening:
Presentation of the 4 series of special screenings
Organized by Blanca de la Torre
Corporal Landscapes / Out of the Box
Arrivals and Departures / A snake on a tree
Wednesday, March 26th:
10:30am - 12pm WHITE BOX SPEAKS
Curated by Louise Blouin Media:
Online/Offline Social Networking Sites
Moderator: Don Porcella
12pm – 3pm: WHITE BOX SPEAKS
curated by VideoArtWorld:
Parallel Cities, Media Friction: Helsinki-Vilnius/Lisbon-Madrid/Athens-Istanbul
Moderator: Juan Puntes
3pm – 8pm: WHITE BOX SPEAKS
Neo-Metaphysical Video
Lecture by Robert C. Morgan
Thursday, March 27th:
10:30am - 12pm WHITE BOX SPEAKS
Curated by Louise Blouin Media:
FINAL CUT: Time, Space and Visual Narratives in Digital Technology
Moderator: Peter Duhon
12pm – 3pm: WHITE BOX SPEAKS
Curated by VideoArtWorld:
Video Avant-Garde: Early Experiences
Moderator: Thyrza Goodeve
3pm – 8pm: VideoArtWorld Screening:
Program 1: Corporal Landscapes
Curated by Blanca de la Torre
8pm - 10pm VideoArtWorld Special Program:
Presentation of the exhibition Addictive TV
Followed by Cocktails
Evening of Thursday, March 27th:
7pm - 10pm 26 AFTER DARK
26th Street Evening Viewing & Block Party
Produced by DiVA Fair & WHITE BOX
Friday, March 28th:
10:30am - 12pm WHITE BOX SPEAKS
Curated by Louise Blouin Media:
FINAL CUT: Uses of Video in Contemporary Art
Moderator: Don Porcella
12pm – 3pm: WHITE BOX SPEAKS
Curated by VideoArtWorld:
Video Art Market: Collecting the Intangible Heritage
Moderator: Macu Moran
3pm – 8pm: VideoArtWorld Screening:
Program 2: Out of the Box
Curated by Heide Hatry & Elga Wimmer
Saturday, March 29th:
10:30am - 12pm WHITE BOX SPEAKS
Curated by Louise Blouin Media:
Working Practice (Part I)
Organized by Modern Painters
12pm – 3pm: WHITE BOX SPEAKS
Russia & Its Global Grip- The Americas: Post Soviet Video-Media Art
Moderator: Juan Puntes
3pm – 8pm: VideoArtWorld Screening:
Program 3: Arrivals and Departures
Curated by Micaela Giovannotti
Sunday, March 30th:
10:30am - 12pm WHITE BOX SPEAKS
Curated by Louise Blouin Media:
Working Practice (Part II)
Organized by Modern Painters
12pm – 3pm: WHITE BOX SPEAKS
Curated by VideoArtWorld:
Curating Time-based art: The Fourth Dimension
Moderator: Blanca de la Torre
3pm – 8pm: VideoArtWorld Screening:
Program 4: A snake on a tree
Curated by Marco Antonini
DiVA NYC 2008
A Documentary of the Controversial AsylumNYC Project
Tuesday, November 6, 2007, 7pm
White Box presents the world premier of A Documentation of AsylumNYC, a White Box- Franklin Furnace collaboration presented at White Box from April 24-29, 2006 . The video documentary is based on footage from the 2006 project AsylumNYC, in which Wooloo Productions selected and ‘detained’ 10 non-U.S. artists at White Box. All were required to demonstrate to create a project that best proved their ‘extraordinary contributions in the arts’ in order for one of the ‘detainees’ to attain O-I US Immigration Visa status - extended for a 3-year period.
After five days detention, artist Dusanka Komnenic from Serbia and Montenegro was awarded free legal services to obtain a 3-year 0-1 U.S. artist’s visa. One year later - in August 2007 - Dusanka Komnenic was approved a visa.
At 7 PM on November 6th, 2007 , A Documentation of AsylumNYC will be screened at the very place the project took place: White Box. The screening is free and will be followed by a discussion with Wooloo Productions, www.wooloo.org other participating artists and the public.
In conjunction with WOOLOO PRODUCTIONS -- ASYLUM NYC
Towards an Aesthetics of Transgression
Reception and Performance, 8:00 pm
BLOOD DEER – By C. Ryder Cooley
Panel Discussion with Martin Durazo, Artist, Los Angeles; Claudia Huiza, Educator, Activist, Radio-Show Host, Los Angeles; Andrzej Jachimczyk, Sociologist, European Graduate School, Switzerland;Roberto Visani, Artist and John Jay College Professor, NY; Kiki Seror, Artist, California / New York.
Moderated by Raúl Zamudio, Independent Curator - Critic, N.Y.
August 9, 2007 6:30 - 8pm
In conjunction with Theater of Cruelty
L’eau De Vie
Un Film De Jean Luc Godard
Friday, May 18, 2007 8pm
White Box together with The Bruce High Quality Foundation
Shot on location in Miami , Florida during the 2005 Art Basel tradeshow, L’eau De Vie is the story of one woman (Aurora Pellizzi) and an international art fair. A bellicose actor (Karim El-Tanamli), hot on the trail of a painting he has never seen, brings his arm-candy girlfriend Aurora along for a weekend trip to Art Basel Miami. While the actor and a bumbling art consultant (Nelson Figallo) pursue the elusive painting “L’eau De Vie”, Aurora meets a homegrown revolutionary (Tonatiuh Pellizzi) determined to provoke a local uprising against the flood of cultural tourists. Aurora also meets a disenchanted French artist (Jeanne Detallante) showing at the fair in the midst of an existential crisis over her own relationship to the art world. Caught in the middle of this maelstom, Aurora erupts in violence. Meanwhile, camera-wielding Native American Terrorists battle literary and filmic allusions against a tropical skyline filled with hurricane rubble and condominium development, art tourism and home-grown radicality. A period piece set somewhere between May 68 and Contemporary gentrified Miami, and shot entirely on sound-synched black and white super 8, this fake-scathing Marxist critique mocks the contemporary commercial art world and the notion of artistic revolution at the same time. B&W Super-8, 74 mins, 2006 | Screenplay and Direction by The Bruce High Quality Foundation.
Produced by Tom Healy, Vito Schnabel, Jan and John Leary and The Bruce High Quality Foundation.
Starring: Aurora Pellizzi, Tonatiuh Pellizzi, Jeanne Detallante, Karim El-Tanamli. With Nelson Figallo, Lola Montes, Sascha Braunig, Danielle Frazier, Dave Karlin, Fiyel Levent, Nick Gaetano
Crew SethCameron - Music Rhys Davies-Gaetano - Special FX James Leary -
Edit Jaime Rocklage - Stunts
The Obesity of Art
Panel Discussion with Silvere Lotringer, Johanna Burton, Fia Backstrom.
Moderated by Eldon Garnet
With Tune-In, an intervention performance by Janet Bellotto
February 20, 2007, 6:30pm
In conjunction with Impulse Archaeology
White Box Speaks: Contemporary Mexican Art in the
Global Art World
Panelists: Ray Abeyta, Carlo McCormick, Jorge Rojas, Raul Zamudio
Moderated by Carla Stellweg
Feb. 1, 2007, 6:30pm
In conjunction with Nuevo Arte: Collección Tequila Don Julio
Screening of Robert Greenwald’s Iraq for Sale
Discussion led by Larry Litt
November 2, 2006
In conjunction with What War?
Nobody Gets to Be a Cowboy Forever
Panel Discussion with Jim Kitses, Rebecca Solnit, Anders Stephanson
Moderated by Daphne Beal
October 18, 2006, 6:30pm
In conjunction with The Searchers
Self/Cell
A multi-media reading by Olivia E. Sears, author of Self/Cell. This
event featured a screening of images by Aline Mare with original sound
by Craig Bicknell. Self/Cell echoes Lewis Thomas’s classic
collection of essays, Lives of a Cell, and calls for a new ecology in
which we no longer think of selves and cells as separate and distinct.
May 30, 2006
The Center for Broken Thought, The New Weapon, presented on April 15, 2006 as a space of creative unrest, built on The Center’s mission. Founded in September 2005 as a joint project of two Columbia University affiliates to address the need for a venue where academic thought and action can run side by side, they produce new hybrid forms from the cross disciplines of writing, film, visual arts. At White Box they presented “The New Weapon”, executed by Dean Lukic and Jason Mohaghegh, accompanied by percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani. The artists combined ideas associated with violence and desire and the chaos related to experiences of ecstasy and warfare. This one-evening special program attracted over one hundred visitors and was concluded with an informal conversation between the public and presenters.
Zbigniev Libera
Panel Discussion featuring Polish Artist Zbigniev Libera with Eleanor
Heartney and Raul Zamudio
January 28, 2006
Posthumous Choreographies & Other Optical Labyrinths, June 2 – July 2, 2005 a two-part exhibition at White Box and its affiliate The Annex, showcased 24 artists from the region of Castilla & Leon in Spain that was accompanied by a two-volume bilingual catalogue and three individual artists’ monographs. Combined with this ambitious project White Box an off-site White Box Speaks program at the Instituto Cervantes in New York, in which five of the exhibiting artists and two critics, Eleanor Heartney and Raul Zamudio exchanged ideas regarding the double peripheries versus the central art world as perceived to be New York Ciy. The project, including White Box Speaks was curated and organized by Fernando Castro Flórez.
War of the Worlds?
Panel Discussion Art & Community in a Changing Chelsea
Panelists from the local community along with Tim Rollins
In conjuction with War of the Worlds: Tim Rollins + K.O.S.
November 22, 2003
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