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Found Art (LES): Unmonumental 129

Found Art (LES): Unmonumental 129, originally uploaded by Joy Garnett (archive).

Found Art (LES): Unmonumental 128

Found Art (LES): Unmonumental 128, originally uploaded by Joy Garnett (archive).

Tea Symposium @ Forever & Today, Inc.

via email:

Forever & Today, Inc.

141 Division Street
New York, NY 10002

info@foreverandtoday.org
www.foreverandtoday.org

Forever & Today hosts Tea Symposium in Honor of Future Historical Importance
Presented by The Division Museum of Ceramics and Glassware
Tea served by Barbara Choit, Founder/Director
Saturday, February 28, 2009, 12-6 pm

The Division Museum of Ceramics and Glassware
is pleased to present Tea Symposium in Honor of Future Historical Importance.

Please join us for a cup of tea at Forever & Today this Saturday, February 28, and allow us to make you a permanent member of the Friends and Founders of the Division Museum.

At the Tea Symposium, visitors to the event will not only have the opportunity to facilitate the Museum's expansion of its collection but will have the chance to become part of the history of the 21st Century, preserved by the Museum.

All guests will be encouraged, upon finishing their tea, to smash their cups; the fragments will then be collected and entered into the Museum's registry, along with any debris that will contribute the rich history of our times.

The Museum acquires all of its ceramic and glass items from a group of benefactors officially known as the Friends and Founders of the Division Museum of Ceramics and Glassware. While their collecting interests vary immensely in terms of subject matter, specialization, and enthusiasm, each individual possesses a large enough group of ceramic and glass items to be considered a collection worthy of archiving. These items have been de-accessioned from their former owners because they are cracked, chipped, or shattered.

We gratefully rely on the benevolence of The Friends and Founders, who generously engage in the act of fragmenting their own consummated collections to forward the Museum's pursuit of completeness.

ABOUT THE DIVISION MUSEUM OF CERAMICS AND GLASSWARE

The Division Museum of Ceramics and Glassware is the only private institution in New York City dedicated to the future historical importance of 21st Century ceramics and glassware. Founded in 2004 by distinguished ceramics collector Barbara Choit, the Museum exclusively collects damaged ceramic and glass items, primarily everyday items of food preparation and consumption.

It is the mission of the Museum to preserve these artifacts in their current condition. Within the fields of both historical archaeology and anthropology the study of ceramic fragments have come to define the activities and values of lost cultures. We preserve these contemporary artifacts as fragments in the service of future historical import. The impact of the Museum will extend to its benefactors, who in building the Museum’s collection, succeed in establishing the Museum as an institution in which they founded.

ABOUT FOREVER & TODAY, INC.

Forever & Today, Inc., is a new, non-profit-oriented initiative that is a sponsored organization of the New York Foundation for the Arts. Currently inhabiting a 100 square foot storefront on the cusp between New York’s Lower East Side and Chinatown, Forever & Today is a mere thumbprint on the ever-expanding demographic of contemporary art that offers a unique set of circumstances for artists to create new work and engage the public.

Directors Ingrid Chu and Savannah Gorton formed a curatorial partnership in 2008 to found Forever & Today, Inc. As an organization with no fixed identity and a playful sensibility, projects may take the form of exhibitions, site-specific installations, publications, editions, and public programs, focusing on a collaboration with a single artist.

Now Out: CULTURAL POLITICS Volume 5, Issue 1, March 2008

 

Nancy Spero, Maypole/Take No Prisoners, Italian Pavilion, 52nd Venice Biennale, 2007. Courtesy of Galerie Lelong, New York.

Dear friends and colleagues:

I am happy to announce the publication of CULTURAL POLITICS Volume 5, Issue 1, March 2008. The journal, published by Berg (Oxford, UK), is available for purchase at the College Art Association Book & Trade Fair, Los Angeles, CA, Feb 25-28, 2009.

I am particularly pleased to point you to these two projects by contemporary artists:

After Livy/Mosul Journal by Graham Allen/Steve Mumford

and

Maypole/Take No Prisoners by Nancy Spero and Debbie Frizzell

Please feel free to circulate...

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Steve Mumford, from Mosul Journal, 2008. Courtesy of the artist and Postmasters Gallery, New York.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

“WikiNation: On Peace and Conflict in the Middle East” Gary Hall on Chantal Mouffe, radical democratic politics, digital media, and hyperpolitical interventions

Iran and the Boomeranging Cartoon Wars: Can Public Spheres at Risk Ally with Public Spheres Yet To be Achieved? Michael M. J. Fischer looks at the Danish-Iranian cartoon controversy by way of new and old media’s transnational circuitry

After Livy/Mosul Journal Graham Allen/Steve Mumford combine forces through Allen’s cycle of poems, Trasimene, and Mumford’s vivid drawings from his sixth trip to Iraq with the US and Iraqi armies

Consigning Badiou to the Past: the Encyclopaedia and Philosophy’s Gendered Thought of the Endless Archive Sas Mays considers Badiou’s antipathy toward the capitalist status quo, the denigration of the encyclopaedia and the phonocentric idealism of Western philosophy

Towards an Ontology of Fetishes: An Interview with Alphonso Lingis John Armitage in conversation with American continental philosopher Alphonso Lingis on Lingis’ The First Person Singular and contemporary continental philosophy    

Maypole/Take No Prisoners Nancy Spero and Debbie Frizzell offer a meditation on Spero’s studio practices, a visual feast of Spero’s disturbing paintings, and contribution to the Venice Biennale of 2007

Book Reviews

Power Under and Overdetermined Jeremy Valentine on Mark Gibson’s Culture and Power: A History of Cultural Studies

How Does Film Matter? Michael H Goldhaber reviews Jonathan Beller’s The Cinematic Mode of Production: Attention Economy and the Society of the Spectacle

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About Cultural Politics

“Cultural Politics is a welcome and innovative addition.  In an academic universe already well populated with journals, it is carving out its own unique place—broad and a bit quirky.  It likes to leap between the theoretical and the concrete, so that it is never boring and often filled with illuminating glimpses into the intellectual and cultural worlds.” Lawrence Grossberg, University of North Carolina, USA.

Edited by

John Armitage, Northumbria University, UK 
Ryan Bishop, National University of Singapore, Singapore 
Douglas Kellner, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

Cultural Politics is an international, refereed journal that explores the global character and effects of contemporary culture and politics. It analyzes how cultural identities, agencies and actors, political issues and conflicts, and global media are linked, characterized, examined and resolved. In doing so, the journal explores precisely what is cultural about politics and what is political about culture. It investigates the marginalized and outer regions of this complex and interdisciplinary subject area.

Each issue publishes artwork by selected artists reflecting contemporary cultural and political issues.

Websites: http://www.bergpublishers.com/Journals/CulturalPolitics/tabid/520/Default.aspx

http://culturalpolitics.org

WANT TO SUBMIT AN ARTICLE OR BOOK REVIEW?

1) Manuscript Submissions

Should you have an article you would like to submit, please write to the editors.

Dr John Armitage
Co-editor, Cultural Politics
Media & Communication
Room 323
Lipman Building
School of Arts & Social Sciences
Northumbria University
Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST
UK

Tel: +44 (0)191 227 4971
Fax: +44 (0)191 227 4558
Email: j.armitage@unn.ac.uk

And

Dr Ryan Bishop
Co-Editor, Cultural Politics
Associate Professor of English
The National University of Singapore
Department of English
AS5, Arts Link
Singapore 117570

Tel. + 65-6874 6633
Fax: + 65-6773 2981
Email: ellrb@nus.edu.sg

 

2) Book Reviews

Please contact Mark Featherstone for consideration for review in Cultural Politics.

Dr Mark Featherstone
Book Reviews Editor
Cultural Politics
Sociology
CESSW, Keele University
Keele ST5 5BG
Staffordshire
UK

Email: spa37@keele.ac.uk

New Work @ PULSE New York, March 5 - 8, 2009

Joy Garnett: River (1), oil/canvas 2008

Please stop by to visit Winkleman Gallery at Booth F-02 at the PULSE New York Art Fair, March 5-8, 2009 at Pier 40 (Houston and West Side Highway).

They will be featuring drawings and paintings from my new series on the China Yangtse Three Gorges Dam Project, as well as new work by Ivin Ballen, Yevgeniy Fiks, and Eve Sussman and the Rufus Corporation. They also have the new Compound Editions multiple by Andy Yoder and a Special Installation by Jennifer Dalton.