THE INTERZINE

Join us this evening at 7:00pm for Nicoline van Harskamp’s Expressive Power Series Part 1: Max Bonner on the Phenomenology of Speech, a New Silent Series event. This new performance builds upon an expansive body of work focused on politics and langua…

Dutch artist Nicoline van Harskamp will present the US premiere of Expressive Power Series Part 1: Max Bonner on the Phenomenology of Speech (2010), a new performance that builds upon an expansive body of work focused on politics and language. This ambitious, hour-long theatrical piece centers on an Interpersonal Dynamics consultant named Max Bonner and members of his audience, including a human rights activist, an academic, and a dogmatic anarchist, whom he attempts to convince of popular psychological models for social persuasion that are used variously by the Pentagon, corporations, and NGOs worldwide. The evolving discussion demonstrates, in the artist’s words “the impossibility of political consensus by way of verbal interaction”—a situation that is here framed productively, with generative meaning to be found in points of dissonance, paradox, and negotiation.

Friday, June 18, 7pm
at the New Museum, New York, NY
$10 Members/ $12 General Public
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This event is part of Rhizome’s New Silent Series at the New Museum.

Mark Essen, Jetpack Basketball, 2009

There’s still time to place your bid in Rhizome’s silent auction. All proceeds will go towards Rhizome’s programs – commissions, exhibitions, publications, events, resources and more. Mark Essen’s multi-player PC game Jetpack Basketball [above] is for sale, along with other original works by Kerstin Bratsch, Paul Chan, Brody Condon, Mark Essen, Amy Granat, Steven Lambert, Julie Mehretu, Emily Roysdon, Michael Smith, AIDS-3D, and Eteam.

Come out and celebrate another great year of Rhizome with dancing, reveling, and perusing of artworks and unusual art merchandise developed especially to benefit Rhizome. This year, the Benefit is not ticketed (that’s right, free!), but we ask that you RSVP for yourself, and guests.

There will also be a silent auction, with original works by Kerstin Bratsch, Paul Chan,
Brody Condon, Mark Essen, Amy Granat, Steven Lambert, Julie Mehretu,
Emily Roysdon, Michael Smith, AIDS-3D, and Eteam. Online bidding will be up on the benefit site soon – so stay tuned!

Rhizome will be participating in this year’s No Soul For Sale: A Festival of Independents at the Tate Modern. From May 14-16th, more than 70 independent arts organizations from all over the world will present films, performances, exhibitions, and more within the Turbine Hall. If you live in London or happen to be there during that weekend, please drop by and say hello.

For the festival, Rhizome has teamed up with artist David Horvitz to present “Mail Nothing to the Tate Modern. This project invites anyone to track and mail empty packages to the Tate Modern, where they will be displayed unopened in the Rhizome space. The website for Mail Nothing to the Tate Modern will display the movement of all these packages, creating a “mental picture of the vast global infrastructure of shipping.” Visit the website Mail Nothing to the Tate Modern for instructions about participating in this exhibition — all packages must be received by May 10th or 11th.

Our one day conference on Saturday, Seven on Seven, was packed with provocative
ideas, projects and conversation, thanks to the 14 participating
artists and technologists! We snapped some shots of the initial working groups, presentations, and more. Thank you so much again to everyone involved and our sponsors. (Note: We will post video from the event soon!)

Ayah Bdeir at Eyebeam [Photo: Nick Hasty]


Kristin Lucas and Andrew Kortina at Parsons the New School for Design [Photo: Nick Hasty]

Monica Narula at the New Museum [Photo: Nick Hasty]


Opening Remarks by Rhizome’s Board Chairman Peter Rojas [Photo: Nick Hasty]

Introductions by Rhizome’s Executive Director, Lauren Cornell [Photo: Nick Hasty]

Presentation by Marc Andre Robinson and Hilary Mason [Photo: Nick Hasty]


Hilary Mason [Photo: Nick Hasty]


Presentation by Evan Roth and Matt Mullenweg [Photo: Nick Hasty]


Presentation by Evan Roth and Matt Mullenweg [Photo: Nick Hasty]

Seven on Seven Audience [Photo: Nick Hasty]

Presentation by Tauba Auerbach and Ayah Bdeir [Photo: Nick Hasty]

Presentation by Tauba Auerbach and Ayah Bdeir [Photo: Nick Hasty]

Presentation by Kristin Lucas and Andrew Kortina [Photo: Nick Hasty]


Presentation by David Karp and Ryan Trecartin [Photo: Nick Hasty]

Ryan Trecartin [Photo: Nick Hasty]

Presentation by Monica Narula and Joshua Schachter [Photo: Nick Hasty]

Joshua Schachter [Photo: Nick Hasty]

Presentation by Aaron Koblin and Jeff Hammerbacher [Photo: Nick Hasty]

Presentation by Aaron Koblin and Jeff Hammerbacher [Photo: Nick Hasty]

Join us for our upcoming event Seven on Seven on April 17. Seven on Seven will pair seven artists with seven technologists in teams of two, and challenge them to develop something new — be it an application, social media, artwork, product, or whatever they imagine. The seven teams will unveil their ideas at a one-day event at the New Museum.

Seven on Seven participants: (Top to Bottom, Left to Right) Marc Andre Robinson, Ryan Trecartin, Matt Mullenweg, Tauba Auerbach, Monica Narula, Kristin Lucas, Aaron Koblin, Hilary Mason, David Karp, Evan Roth, Ayah Bdeir, Joshua Schachter, Andrew Kortina, Jeff Hammerbacher

Seven on Seven details, itinerary and tickets at: http://www.rhizome.org/sevenonseven

Note: Proceeds from Seven on Seven will support ongoing and upcoming initiatives, including our commissions, editorial and the upcoming re-launch of our archive.

The Office for Parafictional Research has been established to study the implications of a body of work by artist duo Goldin+Senneby known as Headless. For the past three years, the Stockholm-based collaborators have been investigating an offshore company called Headless Ltd as part of a larger inquiry into strategies of absence, invisibility, and withdrawal. Their project, also called Headless, has emerged in a number of formats thus far, including lectures and readings, a series of newspaper interventions, an author’s personal journal, a suite of etchings, a number of critical essays, a scattering of stage-like tableaux, a documentary film, and—most importantly—a serial novel-in-progress. But Goldin+Senneby’s own position in this remains elusive, as they outsource all representations of their work to independent practitioners and dispatch spokespeople on their behalf for public events.

One such event is The Headless Conference, which shares little of the heady cloak-and-dagger suspense found in the fictional texts that the project spawns. The conference will take the form of an academic symposium on issues pertinent to the discourse surrounding Goldin+Senneby’s work. Up for discussion are topics as diverse as the economic theories of George Bataille and the nature of virtual spaces built by offshore finance networks. Participants are to include Angus Cameron, lecturer in human geography at the University of Leicester and Goldin+Senneby’s chosen emissary; Brian Droitcour, Rhizome staff writer; Keller Easterling, associate professor at the Yale School of Architecture; Ginny Kollak, director of the Office for Parafictional Research and second-year graduate student at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College; and Allan Stoekl, professor of French at Penn State University.

The Headless Conference
Friday, March 19, 2010
7:00 pm
New Museum Theater
235 Bowery, New York
$6 Members/ $8 General Public
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The Headless Conference is co-organized by Brian Droitcour and Ginny Kollak as part of Rhizome’s New Silent Series at the New Museum, and is supported in part by the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College.

Join us at the New Museum next Friday, February 19th, at 7pm for the New Silent Series event Triple Canopy: The Medium Was Tedium.

Triple Canopy is an online magazine that explores how the Web informs the experience of reading literature and viewing artworks. The publication’s development has been inspired in part by a critical engagement with the legacy of Aspen magazine (1965-71). Artists and writers contributed projects to Aspen in the form of easily distributable media such as flip books, flexi-disc records, and paper sculpture. These projects coincided with a broader contemporaneous phenomenon: artworks intended to appear exclusively in magazines. The New Silent event, The Medium Was Tedium, examines how this move from the exhibition space to the printed page has been subsequently repeated by artists in relation to other media, such as television programming and the Internet. Triple Canopy’s editors will discuss practices that traverse mediums and the media with artists Mel Bochner, Daniel Bozhkov, and Erin Shirreff.

Friday, February 19, 7pm
at the New Museum, New York, NY
$6 Members/ $8 General Public
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