I'VE GOT SOMETHING IN MY EYE

Sun. Jun. 15, 2008 – Sun. Sep. 7, 2008
Liesbeth Bik and Jos van der Pol have worked collectively since 1995 as Bik Van der Pol. Their work engages with revitalization of memory in the present and with questions of knowledge and history, thus creating the necessary potential for a dialogue and an ever reforming discourse through which they develop an understanding of situations that surround us. The circulation of knowledge and re-use of existing and left-over spaces, forms and situations are important strategic tools in their work. Much of their work may also be described as context-sensitive and constructively critical: that is, they examine a particular context and question the functions of art, including those of art institutions. For this project, Bik Van der Pol will explore the Hessel Collection in depth, ultimately selecting works for an exhibition they will curate in the Hessel Museum. The goal is to both critically explore the boundaries and possibilities of the Collection as a whole, but also to use the exhibition-making process as an opportunity for people to meet and exchange thoughts and ideas. [ more... ]
Location: CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art
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Lisi Raskin: Mobile Observation (Transmitting and Receiving) Station

Tue. Apr. 15, 2008 – Sun. Sep. 7, 2008
Mobile Observation (Transmitting and Receiving) Station is a new project by Lisi Raskin commissioned by the Center for Curatorial Studies as part of it's first artist-in-residence program. On April 14, 2008, Raskin departed CCS Bard in a converted cargo van for a month-long journey across the American west to visit sites of nuclear testing and development. From this mobile observation station, art works and ephemera will be mailed back to headquarters at the Center for Curatorial Studies, where they will be processed and displayed by CCS Bard graduate students in a post office/receiving station constructed specifically for the project. Installation on view daily April 15 - September 7, 2008. [ more... ]
Location: CCS Bard Audrey and Sydney Irmas Atrium
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PERSONAL PROTOCOLS AND OTHER PREFERENCES: AN EXHIBITION WITH WORKS BY MICHAEL BEUTLER, ESRA ERSEN AND KIRSTINE ROEPSTORFF

Sat. Jun. 14, 2008 – Sun. Sep. 7, 2008
This exhibition brings together work by three artists, Michael Beutler, Esra Ersen, and Kirstine Roepstorff, who engage intensively with situations marked by the reality of a particular time and place, filtering them through distinct choices of methods and materials. There is a crafty aspect to the work which takes do-it-yourself techniques seriously as a way of questioning standard, whether it is man-made machines, videos filmed with a hand-held camera or textile-like collages. Although the physical outcomes are radically different they all strictly follow their own personal protocols of production. [ more... ]
Location: CCS Galleries
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Bernd Krauss: I am Yours

Tue. Sep. 2, 2008 – Fri. Dec. 19, 2008
I am Yours is a new project by Bernd Krauss, the fall 2008 artist-in-residence at the Center for Curatorial Studies. The centerpiece of the project is a quaint wooden shed situated on the grounds of the Center on the Bard College campus. Built by the Amish and purchased locally in nearby Germantown, this type of shed is conventionally used to store gardening tools. In the context of Krauss' residency, however, the shed will be transformed into a studio, a curatorial space, and has the potential to gain other new and unexpected functions. [ more... ]
Location: CCS Bard
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The Greenroom: Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art

Sat. Sep. 27, 2008 – Sun. Feb. 1, 2009
The Greenroom: Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art is the inaugural event of a long-term research project on ”the documentary”. The research project aims at investigating the heritage of documentary practices in contemporary art, in relation to the history of film, documentary photography and television as well as to video art. It also aims at situating these contemporary documentary practices within current cultural production and at exploring their role within mainstream media and activism. The research project is a collaboration between CCS Bard and the artist and theoretician Hito Steyerl. The research project will run for approximately three years, starting in March 2008. The Greenroom will take place 27 September 2008-1 February 2009 in the CCS Galleries and in the Hessel Museum, inaugurated in Fall 2006. [ more... ]
Location: CCS Galleries and Hessel Museum of Art
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