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Found Art (LES): Unmonumental 240

Found Art (LES): Unmonumental 240, originally uploaded by Joy Garnett (archive).

Found Art (Soho): Unmonumental 239

Found Art (Soho): Unmonumental 239, originally uploaded by Joy Garnett (archive).

'Reflective Reflexion' opens Friday June 18 @ Curatorial Research Lab (Winkleman Gallery)

 

I am pleased to announce "Reflective Reflexion", a project room exhibition I have organized of works by Corban Walker and Carrie Yamaoka. This is the first time that work by these two artists have been shown together. "Reflective Reflexion" is the third installment at the Curatorial Research Lab, situated in the project room at Winkleman Gallery in Chelsea, NYC. Conceived to allow independent curators to experiment with juxtapositions of artworks or try out ideas for larger projects, the Curatorial Research Lab is organized independently of the regular Winkleman Gallery programming.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Reflective Reflexion: Corban Walker + Carrie Yamaoka

organized by Joy Garnett

Date: June 18 - July 30, 2010

Opening reception: June 18, 6-8pm

re·flec·tive - 1. deeply or seriously thoughtful; 2. capable of physically reflecting light or sound; 3. "a reflective surface"; 4. devoted to matters of the mind.

re·flex·ion - 1. the act of reflecting or the state of being reflected; 2. something reflected or the image so produced, as by a mirror; 3. careful or long consideration or thought; expression without words..."tears are an expression of grief"; "the pulse is a reflection of the heart's condition".

The works of Corban Walker and Carrie Yamaoka embody a rejuvenation and continued dialogue with Minimalism that is propelled by an engagement with new materials and technologies. Yamaoka and Walker each beautifully extend the post-Minimalist moment broached and developed by their predecessor Felix Gonzalez-Torres. The works of all three artists, subtly infused as they are with social and political ideas and desires, nevertheless express something very personal that is beyond ideology, tempered by a profoundly rigorous formal continuity. The challenges presented by the sexuality of Gonzalez-Torres and Yamaoka, the Asian American identity of Yamaoka, and by Walker’s physical stature, each comprise an emotional complexity that lends a very real gravity to their works. And yet, the more difficult, chaotic and thorny issues are encrypted in clean, clear materials that are reflective, reflexive, formally exquisite and ultimately seductive.

Images + Artist Bios

 
Where:
Curatorial Research Lab
@ Winkleman Gallery
621 West 27th Street
New York, NY 10001
t: 212.643.3152
e: [email protected]
http://crl.winkleman.com/
http://winkleman.com

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In the main gallery:

Yevgeniy Fiks: "Ayn Rand in Illustrations" - Info

Opening reception: Friday, June 18, 6-8pm

New Issue: CULTURAL POLITICS, Volume 6:2, July 2010

Yevgeniy Fiks: Song of Russia #27, 2005, oil on canvas. Courtesy of Winkleman Gallery, New York [LINK]

IN PRINT

Special Issue on the French philosopher of technology and political activist Bernard Stiegler, guest edited by Patrick Crogan.

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Cultural Politics - Volume 6, Issue 2, July 2010 Official site

Art - http://culturalpolitics.org

Journal subscriptions

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Articles

Bernard Stiegler: Philosophy, Technics, And Activism
Patrick Crogan on the principal theoretical coordinates of Stiegler’s philosophy of technology and its relevance for critical explorations between culture and the political.

Knowledge, Care, and Trans-Individuation: An Interview with Bernard Stiegler
Patrick Crogan probes the cultural and political dimensions of Bernard Stiegler’s enterprise, including his conceptualization of contemporary social and cultural, political and environmental crises.

Telecracy Against Democracy
Bernard Stiegler critically reflects on what he terms ‘telecracy’ or the ruination of democracy and citizenship by the short-circuiting of the normal mechanisms of politics by way of television and the wider televisual program industries.

Technology and Politics: A Response to Bernard Stiegler
Richard Beardsworth considers Stiegler’s contribution to contemporary critical theory as a singular understanding of technology indebted to the Marxist analysis of capitalism and Freudian libidinal economy.

Song of Russia [LINK to full content]
Yevgeniy Fiks' ‘Song of Russia’, is a series of paintings based on imagery borrowed from what Stiegler calls the ‘program industries’ or, in this case, three sympathetic Hollywood films about Russia that were produced at the behest of President Franklin D Roosevelt between 1943 and 1944, inclusive of North Star, Song of Russia, and Mission to Moscow.

Bernard Stiegler and the Time of Technics
Ian James examines Stiegler’s thinking about technics as developed in his Technics and Time trilogy, his relationship to Francis Fukuyama’s ideas on technology, history, and progress, as well to a number of other contemporary critical theorists such as Paul Virilio.

The Limits of Human Progress: A Critical Study
Gilbert Simondon looks at human progress and production, language and religion in relation to technical progress after the Renaissance. Are people agents or subjects of development or both and what are the implications for the industrial system?

What New Humanism Today?
Jean-Hugues Barthelemy argues for a reading of humanism and Enlightenment that strips them of their scientistic and Eurocentric implications and makes the values of both available for contemporary appropriation by way of Simondon, Marx, and Heidegger.

Kant Avec Ferry: Some Thoughts on Bernard Stiegler’s Prendre Soin: I. De La Jeunesse et des Generations
Chris Turner on Stiegler’s understanding of the import of the neoliberal turn, the barbarism of the market, and the psychopower of the program industries as individuals are targeted merely as consumers. 

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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.

Found Art (Tribeca): Unmonumental 238

Found Art (Tribeca): Unmonumental 238, originally uploaded by Joy Garnett (archive).