May 9 – June 9 2012
Cross-time Stories: Global Subjectivities After 1989 is an exhibition focusing on the individual memories of a young generation of artists born in the late 1970s and the early 1980s in a geography extending from the former East Europe to China. The tensions of the Cold War era in the ‘80s and the critical breaking point of 1989 and its aftermath provide the background as a recent history that still needs to be told extensively. These minor witnesses, coming of age in today’s Neo-liberal environment, have just started to speak and expound their memories of this past, in ways that blend with different regimes, heroes, mayhem and today’s consumer culture. Their interests often conflict with the official narratives. Hence, each artist develops his/her own model for telling his/her “story”, which cannot be completely theorized in existing frameworks yet can be illuminated. By juxtaposing these works together, this project attempts to formulate a larger hypothesis, which draws on a number of recent theoretical discussions and artistic practices and tries to explore them from a new angle. Rather than illustrating any given theory, it endeavors to create a kind of laboratory for the series of questions this hypothesis opens up, allowing viewers to continue them in turn. The dichotomies of memory and post-memory, and of documentary and fiction, and the ways they figure in attempts to talk about social change or trauma or the question of contemporaneity, are among the key debates with which the hypothesis is concerned, and which are refracted in various ways in the work of these artists.
Opening on May 8th at the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, the exhibition is curated by Ceren Erdem and includes works by Atfal Ahdath, Cevdet Erek, Cao Fei, Alexandra Lerman, Alban Muja, Ahmet Ogut, Sophia Tabatadze, Rayyane Tabet, Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor, Sun Xun, Andro Wekua, Alicia Karska & Aleksandra Went.
For more information please click here
360 degrees view of the show
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MAY 4th, 2012
MANAMI OKAZAKI’s profile in Columbia University’s 5×12 :
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April 29 – May 20, 2012
Columbia University School of the Arts
Visual Arts Program and
the Fisher Landau Center for Art
Invite you to the 2012 MFA Thesis Exhibition
curated by Fionn Meade
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/arts/mfathesis2012/
Korakrit Arunanondchai, Julia Benjamin, Sebastian Black, Robin Cameron, Nathan Catlin, Lea Cetera, Caitlin Cherry, Lisa Cobbe, Jeremy Couillard, Ernst Fischer, Ben Hall, Kristina Lee, Alexandra Lerman, Molly Lowe, R. Lyon, Irini Miga, Susan Morelock, Claudio Nolasco, Bea Parsons, Jordan Rathus, Corey Riddell, Sandy Smith, Maria Stabio, Ian Warren, Matthew Watson, and James Yakimicki.
April 29 – May 20, 2012
Opening Reception: Sunday, April 29, 2-5 pm
Fisher Landau Center for Art
38-27 30th Street, Long Island City, New York
http://www.flcart.org/onview/
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January 11th, 2012
A new piece Reading Lenin with Corporations made by YEVGENIY FIKS, OLGA KOPENKINA, ALEXANDRA LERMAN is in a show It’s The Political Economy, Stupid at the Austrian Cultural Forum New York (January 24–April 22, 2012).
The project, Reading Lenin with Corporations, started as a reading seminar with corporate employees that took place in 2008 at Gallery P.S. 122 in NYC. The seminar brought together artists, writers, and businessmen to discuss the intersections of contemporary politics, economics and Lenin’s theory (particularly Lenin’s book, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism, 1916) in relation to the collapse of the global financial market. This film was made in the fall and winter of 2011 and consists of readings of Lenin’s book with Wall Street businessmen and economists, echoing the context of the OWS movement.
It’s The Political Economy, Stupid
January 24–April 22, 2012
Austrian Cultural Forum New York
11 East 52nd Street
New York, NY 10022
Opening: January 23, 6–8 PM
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December 24th, 2011
Domenick Ammirati around D17 Reoccupy in New York
Artforum
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December 16th, 2011
Parade of Protests at Strategies for Public Occupation
Storefront for Art and Architecture
97 Kenmare Street
New York, NY 10012
Friday December 16, 2011 – Thursday December 22, 2011
FRIDAY December 16. Opening. 7pm. Manifesto Series 08. Occupy
7 PM - 9 PM: Exhibition Opening
A series of Manifestos, performances and calls for action will be delivered at the opening reception showcasing a diverse array of voices and practices that address the question of Public Occupation from multiple varied viewpoints. Presenters include: Caroline Smith | Erin Ota, Aniket Shahane|Christopher Yost, Alexandra Lerman, Chat Travieso, Peter Macapia, Arsenio Garcia | Przemek Godycki, and Benedict Clouette in a call for Action; Mitch McEwen presenting an Architect’s Statement in Support of the Occupy Movement; and Michael Sorkin.
SATURDAY December 17. Urban Action. 12pm-6pm
Throughout the day visitors will be informed and directed to the different spaces in the city that are developing ideas in relation to the Occupy movement or engage with some of the actions happening within and around the gallery space. Performances at the gallery include:
Parade of Protests: Visitors will be able to participate in an individual performance by grasping some of the signs created by Alexandra Lerman and performing an individual action around the neighborhood.
TUESDAY December 20: Mediums: Images, Newspapers, Blogs,... 12pm-6pm
On this day, the exhibition will showcase projections, posters and protester signs, and Storefront will host conversations and workshops about how different mediums and design strategies have been used as messages to communicate different strategies of protest. Events and perfromances include a conversation between Keller Easterling and Benedict Clouette, signs by Alexandra Lerman, films by Gearoid Dolan and interactive multi-media and film installations and discussion with Ken Farmer.
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Presentation at Symposium Perpetual Peace Project
at The Centre for the Humanities at Utrecht University
By Alexandra Lerman and Laura Hanna
October 13, 2011.
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Neither a Lie Nor a Confession at Court Square
September 18th to October 30th
Court Square
21-44 45th Avenue, #2
Long Island City, NY
Court Square is pleased to present ‘Neither a Lie Nor a Confession,’ a group exhibition featuring the work of Maria Antelman, Deb Karpman, Alexandra Lerman and Slavs and Tatars. The exhibition traces four discrete investigations into personal and national myth construction. Across these varied inquiries into history, politics and place, ‘Neither a Lie Nor a Confession’ reflects on conceptions of landscape or homeland and the dystopic and traumatic byproducts of historical conquest. It brings to bear the romantic heroicization of events and figures of times past, and considers how myth acquires life through image.
The exhibition will run from September 18 – October 30, 2011, with an opening reception to be held on Sunday, September 18 from 5 – 8 p.m.
For more information, please visit www.ctsq.info
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”Between Frames” at Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery
as part of the First-Year MFA Show
Columbia University School of the Arts
Visual Arts Program
Curated by Anna Craycroft (‘04SOA)
April 9–16, 2011
Wednesday–Saturday, 1–5 pm
Opening reception: Friday, April 8, 6–8 pm
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Nomadic Practice at The Cooper Union Alumni Film Festival .
Screening on February 25th, 2011 at 7PM
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October 20, 2010
Perpetual Peace Project is in The Last Newspaper exhibition at the New Museum# on view through 1/09/11 Third, Fourth, and Fifth Floors.
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August 10, 2010
Join me for the screening of m work at
Broadway2Battery: The Country Girl Movie Nights on the Elevated Acre: Classic New York Features Paired with Independent Shorts
Location: The Elevated Acre at 55 Water Street map
Dates: August 12, 2010 – 8:00pm
I will be showing A Man is Not a Piece of Fruit!, Situation II. Wall Street, Her Family and Other Animals, excerpt from Postcards From Central Asia and a new work in progress Objektophilia.
My work will be followed by an Oscar winning classic feature The Country Girl (1954) starring Grace Kelly, William Holden and Bing Crosby.
The event is free. If you want to come early to pick your spot there will be a band playing from 6:30 to 7:30.
For more info visit River to River Festival site.
Look forward to seeing you!
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Cross-time Stories: Global Subjectivities After 1989 is an exhibition focusing on the individual memories of a young generation of artists born in the late 1970s and the early 1980s in a geography extending from the former East Europe to China. The tensions of the Cold War era in the ‘80s and the critical breaking point of 1989 and its aftermath provide the background as a recent history that still needs to be told extensively. These minor witnesses, coming of age in today’s Neo-liberal environment, have just started to speak and expound their memories of this past, in ways that blend with different regimes, heroes, mayhem and today’s consumer culture. Their interests often conflict with the official narratives. Hence, each artist develops his/her own model for telling his/her “story”, which cannot be completely theorized in existing frameworks yet can be illuminated. By juxtaposing these works together, this project attempts to formulate a larger hypothesis, which draws on a number of recent theoretical discussions and artistic practices and tries to explore them from a new angle. Rather than illustrating any given theory, it endeavors to create a kind of laboratory for the series of questions this hypothesis opens up, allowing viewers to continue them in turn. The dichotomies of memory and post-memory, and of documentary and fiction, and the ways they figure in attempts to talk about social change or trauma or the question of contemporaneity, are among the key debates with which the hypothesis is concerned, and which are refracted in various ways in the work of these artists.
Opening on May 8th at the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, the exhibition is curated by Ceren Erdem and includes works by Atfal Ahdath, Cevdet Erek, Cao Fei, Alexandra Lerman, Alban Muja, Ahmet Ogut, Sophia Tabatadze, Rayyane Tabet, Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor, Sun Xun, Andro Wekua, Alicia Karska & Aleksandra Went.
For more information please click here
360 degrees view of the show
...................................................................................................................
MAY 4th, 2012
MANAMI OKAZAKI’s profile in Columbia University’s 5×12 :
...................................................................................................................
April 29 – May 20, 2012
Columbia University School of the Arts
Visual Arts Program and
the Fisher Landau Center for Art
Invite you to the 2012 MFA Thesis Exhibition
curated by Fionn Meade
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/arts/mfathesis2012/
Korakrit Arunanondchai, Julia Benjamin, Sebastian Black, Robin Cameron, Nathan Catlin, Lea Cetera, Caitlin Cherry, Lisa Cobbe, Jeremy Couillard, Ernst Fischer, Ben Hall, Kristina Lee, Alexandra Lerman, Molly Lowe, R. Lyon, Irini Miga, Susan Morelock, Claudio Nolasco, Bea Parsons, Jordan Rathus, Corey Riddell, Sandy Smith, Maria Stabio, Ian Warren, Matthew Watson, and James Yakimicki.
April 29 – May 20, 2012
Opening Reception: Sunday, April 29, 2-5 pm
Fisher Landau Center for Art
38-27 30th Street, Long Island City, New York
http://www.flcart.org/onview/
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January 11th, 2012
A new piece Reading Lenin with Corporations made by YEVGENIY FIKS, OLGA KOPENKINA, ALEXANDRA LERMAN is in a show It’s The Political Economy, Stupid at the Austrian Cultural Forum New York (January 24–April 22, 2012).
The project, Reading Lenin with Corporations, started as a reading seminar with corporate employees that took place in 2008 at Gallery P.S. 122 in NYC. The seminar brought together artists, writers, and businessmen to discuss the intersections of contemporary politics, economics and Lenin’s theory (particularly Lenin’s book, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism, 1916) in relation to the collapse of the global financial market. This film was made in the fall and winter of 2011 and consists of readings of Lenin’s book with Wall Street businessmen and economists, echoing the context of the OWS movement.
It’s The Political Economy, Stupid
January 24–April 22, 2012
Austrian Cultural Forum New York
11 East 52nd Street
New York, NY 10022
Opening: January 23, 6–8 PM
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December 24th, 2011
Domenick Ammirati around D17 Reoccupy in New York
Artforum
...................................................................................................................
December 16th, 2011
Parade of Protests at Strategies for Public Occupation
Storefront for Art and Architecture
97 Kenmare Street
New York, NY 10012
Friday December 16, 2011 – Thursday December 22, 2011
FRIDAY December 16. Opening. 7pm. Manifesto Series 08. Occupy
7 PM - 9 PM: Exhibition Opening
A series of Manifestos, performances and calls for action will be delivered at the opening reception showcasing a diverse array of voices and practices that address the question of Public Occupation from multiple varied viewpoints. Presenters include: Caroline Smith | Erin Ota, Aniket Shahane|Christopher Yost, Alexandra Lerman, Chat Travieso, Peter Macapia, Arsenio Garcia | Przemek Godycki, and Benedict Clouette in a call for Action; Mitch McEwen presenting an Architect’s Statement in Support of the Occupy Movement; and Michael Sorkin.
SATURDAY December 17. Urban Action. 12pm-6pm
Throughout the day visitors will be informed and directed to the different spaces in the city that are developing ideas in relation to the Occupy movement or engage with some of the actions happening within and around the gallery space. Performances at the gallery include:
Parade of Protests: Visitors will be able to participate in an individual performance by grasping some of the signs created by Alexandra Lerman and performing an individual action around the neighborhood.
TUESDAY December 20: Mediums: Images, Newspapers, Blogs,... 12pm-6pm
On this day, the exhibition will showcase projections, posters and protester signs, and Storefront will host conversations and workshops about how different mediums and design strategies have been used as messages to communicate different strategies of protest. Events and perfromances include a conversation between Keller Easterling and Benedict Clouette, signs by Alexandra Lerman, films by Gearoid Dolan and interactive multi-media and film installations and discussion with Ken Farmer.
...................................................................................................................
Presentation at Symposium Perpetual Peace Project
at The Centre for the Humanities at Utrecht University
By Alexandra Lerman and Laura Hanna
October 13, 2011.
...................................................................................................................
Neither a Lie Nor a Confession at Court Square
September 18th to October 30th
Court Square
21-44 45th Avenue, #2
Long Island City, NY
Court Square is pleased to present ‘Neither a Lie Nor a Confession,’ a group exhibition featuring the work of Maria Antelman, Deb Karpman, Alexandra Lerman and Slavs and Tatars. The exhibition traces four discrete investigations into personal and national myth construction. Across these varied inquiries into history, politics and place, ‘Neither a Lie Nor a Confession’ reflects on conceptions of landscape or homeland and the dystopic and traumatic byproducts of historical conquest. It brings to bear the romantic heroicization of events and figures of times past, and considers how myth acquires life through image.
The exhibition will run from September 18 – October 30, 2011, with an opening reception to be held on Sunday, September 18 from 5 – 8 p.m.
For more information, please visit www.ctsq.info
...................................................................................................................
”Between Frames” at Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery
as part of the First-Year MFA Show
Columbia University School of the Arts
Visual Arts Program
Curated by Anna Craycroft (‘04SOA)
April 9–16, 2011
Wednesday–Saturday, 1–5 pm
Opening reception: Friday, April 8, 6–8 pm
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Nomadic Practice at The Cooper Union Alumni Film Festival .
Screening on February 25th, 2011 at 7PM
...................................................................................................................
October 20, 2010
Perpetual Peace Project is in The Last Newspaper exhibition at the New Museum# on view through 1/09/11 Third, Fourth, and Fifth Floors.
...................................................................................................................
August 10, 2010
Join me for the screening of m work at
Broadway2Battery: The Country Girl Movie Nights on the Elevated Acre: Classic New York Features Paired with Independent Shorts
Location: The Elevated Acre at 55 Water Street map
Dates: August 12, 2010 – 8:00pm
I will be showing A Man is Not a Piece of Fruit!, Situation II. Wall Street, Her Family and Other Animals, excerpt from Postcards From Central Asia and a new work in progress Objektophilia.
My work will be followed by an Oscar winning classic feature The Country Girl (1954) starring Grace Kelly, William Holden and Bing Crosby.
The event is free. If you want to come early to pick your spot there will be a band playing from 6:30 to 7:30.
For more info visit River to River Festival site.
Look forward to seeing you!
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