Iman Issa is an artist and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna . Solo and group exhibitions include Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, MoMA, New York, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 21er Haus, Vienna, MACBA, Barcelona, the Perez Art Museum, Miami, the Whitney Biennial 2019, the 12th Sharjah biennial, the 8th Berlin Biennial, MuHKA, Antwerp, Tensta Konsthall, Spånga, New Museum, New York, and KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin. Books include Book of Facts: A Proposition (2017), Common Elements (2015) and Thirty-three Stories about Reasonable Characters in Familiar Places (2011). She has been named a 2017 DAAD artist in residence, and is a recipient of the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise (2017), the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award (2015), HNF-MACBA Award (2012), and the Abraaj Group Art Prize (2013).
Issa uses a variety of forms and strategies to investigate the political and personal associations of history, language and the object. She creates ambiguous, poetic displays through the juxtaposition of text and object. Heritage Studies, the artist’s most recent series, draws its name from a field of academic and applied inquiry that relates to the understanding and use of history. Rather than proposing a stable reading of history, Heritage Studies examine dynamic sets of relationships — between cultures, sites, and artifacts — to articulate their relevance today. They are neither formal abstractions, nor “pared-down citations of reality,“ but attempts to communicate the act of perceiving the original objects and the relevance that they might hold for the present. “What do these new elements share with their sources if it is not the material, color, appearance, or shape?“ Issa asks “...they share a speech act. They are addressing or saying something similar to each other, and it is perhaps through doing that that they become the same.“
DATES & LOCATIONS,
Friday, January 13, 6:00pmat BLOCK MUSEUM
40 ARTS CIRCLE DRIVE
EVANSTON, IL 60208
Visiting Artist Talk: Jefferson Pinder
As part of our fall VA series, ATP is delighted to welcome Jefferson Pinder.
Pinder’s work provokes commentary about race and struggle. Focusing primarily with neon, found objects, and video, Pinder investigates identity through the most dynamic circumstances and materials. From uncanny video portraits associated with popular music to durational work that puts the black body in motion, his work examines physical conditioning that reveals an emotional response. His work has been featured in numerous group and solo shows including exhibitions at The Studio Museum in Harlem, the Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut, Showroom Mama in Rotterdam, Netherlands, The Phillips Collection, and the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC. Pinder’s work was featured in the 2016 Shanghai Biennale, and at the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture. In 2016, he was awarded a United States Artist’s Joyce Fellowship Award in the field of performance and was a 2017 John S. Guggenheim Fellowship. This past summer Jefferson was a 2022 Smithsonian Artist Residency Fellow and created video work at the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
DATES & LOCATIONS,
Thursday, November 10, 4:00pmat FORUM ROOM
KRESGE HALL 1515
1880 CAMPUS DRIVE
CHICAGO, IL 60208
Joan La Barbara Residency: Composition Colloquium
The location of this event has moved from RCMA LL-121 to the Regenstein Master Class Room.
Composer, performer, sound artist, and actor Joan La Barbara is known for developing a unique vocabulary of experimental and extended vocal techniques, influencing generations of composers and singers. Her numerous commissions include compositions for multiple voices, chamber ensembles, orchestra, and interactive technology as well as scores for dance, video, and film productions. Her work has been presented at the Brisbane Biennial, Festival d’Automne à Paris, Warsaw Autumn, and MaerzMusik Berlin. Currently on the Mannes School of Music faculty, La Barbara has premiered compositions written for her by Philip Glass and Robert Wilson, Morton Feldman, Steve Reich, John Cage, and Alvin Lucier.
Tickets are not required for this event.
Read more about events associated with Joan's residency here.
DATES & LOCATIONS,
Tuesday, October 25, 5:00pmat REGENSTEIN MASTER CLASSROOM
60 ARTS CIRCLE DRIVE
EVANSTON, IL 60208
Visiting Artist Talk: Walid Raad
Join artist Walid Raad as he reflects on his work and practice, and draws some tangential connections to Fall exhibition Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s–1980s, with introductory remarks from Hannah Feldman, Northwestern Associate Professor of Art History. In his installations, performances, and videos, Raad’s works engage how violence affects bodies, minds, cities, and art.
About the Artist:
Walid Raad (b. 1967, Chbaniyeh, Lebanon) works across installation, performance, video, and photography to explore how historical events of physical and psychological violence affect bodies, minds, culture, and narrative. He is well-known for The Atlas Group, a 14-year project about the contemporary history of Lebanon. Raad’s work has been shown in numerous international exhibitions including Documenta 11 and 13, the 14th Istanbul Biennial, the first Vienna Biennale, the Whitney Biennial (2000 and 2002), and the 50th Venice Biennale. He has had one-person exhibitions at the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid; Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; and Carré d’Art, Nîmes. His 2015 survey exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, traveled to the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston and Museo Jumex in Mexico City. His work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Kunsthaus Zürich; and the Centre Pompidou, Paris, among others.
FREE AND OPEN TO ALL
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This program is co-sponsored by the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities. The Block Museum of Art also acknowledges support from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.
DATES & LOCATIONS,
Wednesday, October 26, 6:00pmat BLOCK MUSEUM
40 ARTS CIRCLE DRIVE
EVANSTON, IL 60208
Visiting Artist Talk: Dushko Petrovich
The Department of Art Theory and Practice is pleased to welcome Dushko Petrovich for a public presentation this fall.
Dushko Petrovich Córdova works primarily in distributed media as a writer, editor, and publisher. He is a co-founder of Paper Monument, which has published numerous critically-acclaimed and bestselling books, including Draw It with Your Eyes Closed: The Art of the Art Assignment; Social Medium: Artists Writing 2000-2015; and Best! Letters from Asian Americans in the Arts. Under his personal imprint, DME, Petrovich has edited and published Adjunct Commuter Weekly and The Daily Gentrifier, with editions for New York/Los Angeles; Columbus, Ohio; and Philadelphia.
Petrovich’s work has been shown in exhibitions throughout the US and Europe, including at the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Rachel Uffner Gallery in New York, Gallery 400 in Chicago, Charlottenborg Museum in Copenhagen, and Zacheta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw. He has also written about art and visual culture for numerous publications including n+1, Bookforum, Art in America, ArtNews and the Boston Globe.
Petrovich taught at Yale University, Boston University, and Rhode Island School of Design before moving to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where he is chair of the New Arts Journalism department. He serves on the board of the n+1 Foundation, which he chaired from 2013-2015, and he was Director of Communications and Publications for the 2022 edition FRONT Triennial in Cleveland, Ohio. He is currently working on a series of paintings based on his screengrabs folder from 2020.
DATES & LOCATIONS,
Tuesday, October 11, 5:00pmat FORUM ROOM
KRESGE HALL ROOM 1550
1800 CAMPUS DRIVE
EVANSTON, IL 60208
