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Visiting Artists and Scholars since 1992

Conflux Festival

The art & technology festival for the creative exploration of urban public space.
September 17-20


Information: http://confluxfestival.org



The lineup of presenters included the Yes Men, Reverend Billy, Marc Horowitz, Sal Randolph, Eve Mosher, Natalie Jeremijenko, Faculty, Steve Lambert and many others. Curated by David Darts, Faculty, and hosted by the Department of Art and Art Professions. Conflux was supported by a Steinhardt Challenge Grant and a Humanities Initiative Grant-in-Aid.

Shrines & Masquerades Live!

An extraordinary evening of performance art inspired by the African traditions of shrines and masquerades, as well as the negotiation of identity in cosmopolitan America. A provocative collection of visual thoughts, ritual battles, reverse striptease, ablution, and song.

With performances by:
Crystal Curtis - RULE OR RUIN
Todd Gray - AKWIDAA:KUMASI
George AFEDZI Hughes - INDIFFERENTIA
M. Lamar - THE LYNCHING TREE
Narcissister - I’M EVERY WOMAN

S & M Live! was staged in conjunction with the exhibition, "S & M: Shrines and Masquerades in Cosmopolitan Times," curated by Lyle Ashton Harris, Chris Bogia, and Nancy Barton - on view at NYU's 80 Washington Square East Galleries Fall '08.

CEOs in the Arts Series

CEO in the Arts Series presents leading arts executives twice yearly in an interview format. The conversations explore the strategies, challenges, and goals of some of the city’s most important arts venues. Organized by the Council on Arts Management Programs (CAMP), a faculty group in the NYU Steinhardt School of Education that represents the fields of Music Business, Performing Arts Administration, and Visual Arts Administration.

Fall 2005: Paul Kellogg (City Opera) with Timothy J. McClimon (Second Stage Theater)

Spring 2006: Glenn Lowry (MoMA) with Ned Rifkin (Smithsonian)

Spring 2007: Debbie Harry (Blondie) with Tamara Conniff (Billboard Magazine)

Fall 2007: Peter Gelb (Metropolitan Opera) with Andre Bishop (Lincoln Center Theater)

Spring 2009: Emily K. Rafferty (Metropolitan Museum of Art) with Karen Brooks Hopkins (Brooklyn Academy of Music)

2006-2007 Visiting Artists and Scholars

Olaf Breuning
Diana Cooper
Feri Daftari
E.V. Day
Dan Graham
Scott Hug
Chrissie Iles
Christian Jankowski
Mckendree Key
Josiah McElheny
Shamim Momin
Wangechi Mutu
Samuel Olou
TJ Wilcox

2005-2006 Visiting Artists and Scholars

Barnaby Furnas
Dan Cameron
Kiki Smith
Daniel Bozhov
Mary Ceruti
Rachel Greene
Matthew Higgs
Scott Hug
James Fuentes
NYU/ Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) Residents: Scott Hug, Martha Colburn, and Jessica Watson. More info...

Also in 2005-2006...

Where Art and Life Collide:
RON ATHEY
FRANKO B
VAGINAL DAVIS
April 28 through May 5, 2006, Ron Athey, Franko B, and Vaginal Davis came to New York and the Department of Art & Art Professions for a series of premiere performances, lectures and events focusing on the unique way in which the work of all three artists challenges the separation between art and life.

In modern societies, the power of private experience is often filtered through the norms of social convention and the repression of difference. Ron Athey, Franko B, and Vaginal Davis challenge these constraints, sharing a commitment to artistic practices which transcend the boundaries of career, or marketplace and move into the space of life, or “who they are.” All three artists consider themselves marginalized for reasons ranging from race, to class, to sexuality, and have subsequently used their involvement in subcultural movements to develop and propel their work. As an integral part of their performance work, Ron Athey, Franko B, and Vaginal Davis all subject themselves to physical, cultural, and psychological challenges as a means to transform the conditions of the present, thus their work is able to function simultaneously as exorcism and an opportunity for healing.

Not for Sale IV: Writing on Performance and New Media, a panel discussion
Margo Jefferson
Cay Sophie Rabinowitz
John Rockwell
Katy Siegel
Catherine Wood
RoseLee Goldberg

Storefront/Forefront (view gallery)
Storefront/Forefront filled an unrenovated commercial storefront with works by over a hundred undergraduate and graduate students in NYU Steinhardt's Department of Art and Art Professions.

The exhibition, designed by studio art faculty Carol Bove, Jesse Bransford, David Rimanelli, Keith Mayerson, Sue DeBeer, Nancy Barton, Chuck Agro, Gerry Pryor, Hiroshi Sunairi and Mark Johnson referenced the legacy and the vibrant history of the East Village art scene of the 1980's which brought installations by a host of East Village artists into warehouses and storefronts, becoming a worldwide symbol of art which moves beyond galleries and museums and into the streets.

Video, paintings, performances, sculptures and photographs filled thousands of square feet, fusing high art with community art in a reconsideration of the relationship between expression and commerce.