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Exile in Princeville: Canal Zone Panel at Printed Matter - full audio

 

Iron Chef meets Canal Zone at Printed Matter. Photo Courtesy Brent Burkett (aka @HeartAsArena)

 

Apparently, our recent panel discussion from last Saturday at Printed Matter has legs. Organized by Greg Allen with Chris Habib, and me... and a lively audience.... we tried to focus on Richard Prince's contested Canal Zone series itself, instead of becoming hopelessly embroiled in another hyper-emotional discussion about copyright. Good idea from Greg, who felt it high time we take a serious look at the actual paintings, which where coldly ignored by the very court that banished them.

I made a recording which can now be freely streamed, downloaded and redistributed via Archive.org:

 

Printed Matter held a panel over the weekend about Prince v. Cariou, [sic!] the ongoing legal battle about Richard Prince’s “Canal Zone” with Joy Garnett, Greg Allen, and Chris Habib. It’s archived online, and well worth a listen! [Internet Archive]

~ Rozalia Jovanovic 9/24 9:04am, Morning Links, The Flâneur Edition, GalleristNY

 

Thanks GalleristNY!

Our talk also seems to have caught the attention of Richard Prince (not least because Prince is a passionate bibliophile and an exhibitor in the upcoming New York Art Book Fair, as is Printed Matter):

(To be read from the bottom up)

 

More from greg.org:

 

September 24, 2012

The Secret Ingredient Turned Out To Be Infringiness

Well that cat's out of the bag.

Joy Garnett posted audio from the Richard Prince Canal Zone discussion she, Chris Habib and I had Saturday night at Printed Matter. It's available for streaming or download at the Internet Archive. OR for remixing, autotuning, and stop-action animating, whatever you want, since artpanelsjustwanttobefree it's public domain.

It clocks in at almost an hour and a half, and who knows what you'll find in there. I was too high on life and drunk on power--I was running the projector, too-- to really remember what was said. Though I do remember something about megayachts, Perry Mason vs Law & Order; and wishing you were Rasta and/or punk. So really, something for everyone.

Many thanks to Chris and Joy, to Keith and Max and the PM Crew, and especially to the awesome and engaged audience. We'll do it again for either the damages hearing or the Supreme Court phase.

Cariou v. Prince Meets Iron Chef, Discussion & Crit at Printed Matter, NYC [archive.org]
Joy Garnett's flickr photoset clearly reveals I have no veto power over her photos of me [flickr]

 

What more can I say? Oh yeah: Rasta La Vista baybe!

 

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Left: Warhol's 'Race Riots' ca. 1969; Right: Damián Ortega: 'Controller of the Universe' (2007). Found tools and wire. 112 3/16 x 159 7/16 x 179 1/8 in. (285 x 405 x 455 cm). Via

 

Hat tip to @NancyHightower:

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Selected Job Openings:

 

September 25th, 2012 at 2:32PM

The English, History, and Religion departments of Kalamazoo College announce a new, cross-disciplinary appointment in Pre-Modern Culture. All of the positions dealing with literature, religion, and history in the West before 1800 have now been rolled into a single position, allowing these three departments to expand their offerings in European and American history and literature since 1995. The person hired to this position will be responsible for covering all events of cultural significance in the West from 600 CE to 1800 CE. Teaching load is 3-2, but the candidate may offer additional courses if s/he feels that such are necessary. Candidate should have secondary interests in sub-colonial literature post-1995. Publications in modern Japanese architecture a plus.

September 25th, 2012 at 12:57PM

Carleton College is hiring an Assistant Professor in Modernism. Our program emphasizes a low student-faculty ratio and we are proud of the large number of our majors who design innovative independent studies. Faculty teach a 2-2 course load in order to allow for plenty of student contact time and to develop a cutting-edge curriculum. Candidates must provide evidence of excellence in teaching and a commitment to a liberal arts education. Tenure and promotion decisions will be based entirely on scholarly publications and research output.

September 25th, 2012 at 9:02AM

Rutgers University’s French Department is now accepting applications for a position in 17th and/or 18th and/or 19th and/or 20th with a strong preference for a period that students give a shit about. Successful candidates will confirm our elusive yet steadfast commitment to interdisciplinarity, as well as be excited about participating in our cross-cultural transnational community of scholars. Work on globalization, intercultural communication, gender, translation, the French Revolution, and Jacques Rancière a must. Teaching load is 4 elementary French classes per semester, two of which will be on-line.

September 24th, 2012 at 4:00PM

College of Wooster, in rural Ohio, has an opening for an assistant professor. We will only consider applications from ivy-league Ph.D.s who will contribute to our elite aura (which is all we have going for us anyway) and who will leave within three years. Teaching load is 5/5. Preference given to those with no teaching experience whatsoever. We are especially interested in candidates who held research fellowships and didn’t have to even TA while they were in graduate school. Research productivity in new hires is discouraged as anti-collegial and will count against you for tenure.

September 24th, 2012 at 8:47AM

Alfred University, a private university in New York, is pleased to announce several vacancies or impending-vacancies in our English department as a result of multiple retirements and (fingers crossed!) negative tenure decisions. Accordingly, we invite applicants in STEM fields to replace at least two of these vacancies and to serve our university’s new Schools of Medicine and Engineering. Salary commensurate with combined 9 salaries of exiting/terminated faculty in English by 2014.

Additional vacancies expected in Philosophy and Romance Languages may also allow for administrative hires in Public Relations, Faculty Management, and Enrollment Science as well.

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Iron Chef meets Cariou v Prince @ Printed Matter this Saturday: Let The Battle Begin!

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UPDATE: Here the audio of the discussion (about 1-1/2 hours!) on the Internet Archive!

Please join me, Greg Allen and Chris Habib at Printed Matter this coming Saturday evening (tomorrow, 9/22), from 6-7:30PM. It should be insane. Or it will make you insane.

Location
Printed Matter, Inc.
195 10th Avenue
New York, NY 10011 USA

via greg.org:

The ongoing Cariou v. Prince trial has presented a high-stakes platform for debating copyright, appropriation, fair-use and artists' rights. One thing that's been oddly missing from the discussion, though, is the art itself.

Printed Matter will host a raucous crit of Richard Prince's little-seen but much-contested Canal Zone paintings, culminating in an open-forum, Iron Chef-style evaluation of each artwork in terms of content, aesthetics, and infringiness.

The Ocean Club, 2007

Using bootleg copies of Prince's banned exhibition catalogue and excerpts from the artist's own sworn deposition testimony which were never entered into evidence in court, panelists Joy Garnett, Greg Allen, and Chris Habib will take a closer, critical look at Prince's paintings and practice in an art historical context. 

Joy Garnett is an artist and writer in Brooklyn, NY. She is also the founder of the blog NEWsgrist (where spin is art).

Greg Allen has been writing about the creative process at greg.org: the making of, since 2001. He published Canal Zone Richard Prince YES RASTA: Selected Court Documents from Cariou v. Prince et al. in 2011.

Chris Habib is an artist and the curator of HELP/LESS, which runs through Sept. 29th at Printed Matter.

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