A&L is thrilled to spread the word about a series of three lecture-performances that starts this week.
Programmed by the Center for Experimental Lectures (CEL), the series will feature new work by Pablo Helguera (May 7), Naama Tsabar (May 12), and Carissa Rodriguez (May 19).
CEL was started in 2011 by artist Gordon Hall, a 2019-2020 RISD Provost Fellow in the Sculpture Department, and has since commissioned 40 new lecture-performances at venues including Recess, MoMA PS1, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Artists Space, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
These three new pieces are site-specific to the internet, using a variety of online presentation platforms, and have been developed throughout the spring with RISD students in Hall’s course "Talking Is Dancing: Lecture-Performance As Form."
Pablo Helguera: Thursday May 7, 5 pm
Pablo Helguera Zoom link: https://risd.zoom.us/j/6715673877
Naama Tsabar: Tuesday May 12, 5 pm
Carissa Rodriguez: Tuesday May 19, 5 pm
All times Eastern Standard Time.
Pablo Helguera (b. 1971, Mexico City) is a visual artist living in New York City. His work involves performance, drawing, installation, theater and other literary strategies. He is often considered a pioneering figure in the field of socially engaged art. His work has been featured at many international biennials including Manifesta, Havana and Liverpool Biennial, and Performa. He has received the Guggenheim and Creative Capital Fellowships as well as the first International Award of Participatory Art in Bologna, Italy. Recent projects include a two-person exhibition with artist Suzanne Lacy at the UC Santa Barbara Museum and the 8th Floor in NYC and a mid-career survey of his work at the Jumex Museum in Mexico City. He is the author of many books including Education for Socially Engaged Art (2011) and The Parable Conference (2014).
Naama Tsabar (b. 1982, Israel) lives and works in New York City. She received her MFA from Columbia University in 2010. Solo exhibitions and performances of Tsabar have been presented at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York), Museum of Art and Design (New York), The High Line Art (New York), Nasher Museum (Durham, NC), Kunsthuas Baselland (Switzerland), Palais De Tokyo (Paris), Prospect New Orleans,
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, The Herziliya Museum for Contemporary Art in Israel, MARTE-C (El Salvador), CCA Tel Aviv (Israel), Faena Buenos Aires, Frieze Projects New York, Kasmin Gallery (New York), Paramo Gallery (Guadalajara), Dvir Gallery (Israel), Spinello Projects (Miami) Shulamit Nazarian (Los Angeles). Tsabar’s work has been featured in publications including ArtForum, Art In America, ArtReview, ARTnews, The New York Times, New York Magazine, Frieze, Bomb Magazine, Art Asia Pacific, Wire, and Whitewall, among others.
Carissa Rodriguez (b. 1970, US) lives and works in New York City. Solo exhibitions include the Art Institute of Chicago (2020); the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2019); MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge (2018); SculptureCenter, New York (2018); CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco (2016); Front Desk Apparatus, New York (2013); Karma International, Zürich (2012); House of Gaga, Mexico City (2010); New Jersey, Basel (2009). Rodriguez participated in the Whitney Biennial of 2014 and 2019. She received a BA in Literature from Eugene Lang College at the New School, New York in 1994, and attended the Whitney Independent Study Program in 2001. She was a core member of Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York from 2004 to 2015. She is currently Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Art, Film and Visual Studies at Harvard University.