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MOCA Art Trips (NYC Summer!)
MOCA Members and Patrons Tour NYC!
MOCA Shaker Steven Bander, Lizzi Gorfaine of MoMA PS1, and artist Clifford Owens.
COLOR, TEXTURE, FUN AND SILINESS by Bernardo Ortiz, Leadership Circle member. Photos by Bernardo Ortiz.
Color, texture, fun and silliness...all checked. All this stimuli was part of the latest MOCA A La Carte experience in New York City. Our journey started upon joining a group of fellow MOCA Leadership Circle and Shakers members at the Gagosian Gallery with an illustrious conversation with director Bob Monk who highlighted his personal experiences with Cy Twombly. Bob Monk concluded the tour by showing the group a piece that is unbelievably special. A limited edition book by Ed Ruscha titled On The Road. This book includes hand-mounted photographs curated by Ed Ruscha. The rush we shared while the pages were flipping was indescribable. This book will be on view at MOCA as part of Ed Ruscha's exhibition of paintings and works on paper based on Jack Kerouac's classic novel of the same title On The Road. Ruscha's On The Road has a limited print run of 300 copies. Your search for that special gift is over!
We later went to lunch at "The Untitled" at the Whitney. This gave us the opportunity to catch up with old friends and meet other members of the group from the Leadership Circle and MOCA Shakers, both New Yorkers and fellow Miamians, while we devoured our tasty lunch options. We then gathered in front of the vast industrial elevator doors inside the museum. When those giant elevator doors opened to the 4th floor Cory Archangel exhibit, I was speechless. Giant projections of video games ranging from Atari to Playstation displayed in a progression of graphics attempting to play the game of bowling. At first, I identified with the piece because I grew up playing the same kind of video games but then I noticed something unusual. No matter how many times the players threw the bowling ball, they always failed. Cory Arcangel achieves this goal by hacking into the video games to ensure failure is guaranteed. As Andrea H. Scott from The New Yorker says "Arcangel finds an abject beauty in the way that modern technology is doomed to obsolescence."
New Methods Blog: Session V
New Methods Blog: Session IV
Session 4: How Long is the Dance? Thinking about Sustainability.
Moderator: Anders Smenbye
Panelists: Helmut Batista, Tony Evanko, Roberto Jacoby, Sally Mizrachi, Amilcar Packer, Raquel Schwartz
New Methods Blog: Session III
Session 3: Operating in the Real and Imagined Latin American Contemporary Art Context
Moderator: Rina Carvajal
Panelists: Eduardo Abaroa, Pablo Helguera, Raquel Schwartz, Roberto Valcárcel, Judi Werthein
New Methods Blog: Session II
Session 2: Friends & Acquaintances: Who is this for?
Moderator: Gean Moreno
Panelists: Stefan Benchoam, Michy Marxuach/Tony Cruz, Sally Mizarachi, Yoshua Okón, Emiliano Valdés
New Methods Blog
Session 1: Introduction to New Methods & Participating Organizations
Introduction by associate curator Ruba Katrib: Organizing this symposium was a means of pursuing interests started in Chicago with her participation in the creation of the Three Walls Residency Program; institutions like this highlight the importance of bringing artists and communities in conversations and debates. While they may not produce discrete, tangible results, they become a nexus for new ways of thinking, producing and engaging the world through art.
Latest Research for New Methods: Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico
It’s been a busy last couple of months of travel in preparation for the New Methods symposium. In December, I went to Brazil and Argentina to continue my research. I was able to catch the last week of the 29th Sao Paulo Biennale and met with Helmut Batista from Capacete in Rio de Janeiro. We discussed the residency program that he has been successfully operating since 1998. The program enables international artists to spend time in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro and commissions artworks, publishes books, and organizes engaging public discussions. Capacete has had an impressive history and is looking towards its future, a topic that will be discussed during the symposium.