And Other Essays

Saturday, June 27, 2009 - Sunday, December 20, 2009
And Other Essays expands Rachel Harrison’s exploration of exhibition-making by inviting a number of colleagues from different generations--Nayland Blake, Tomm Burr, Harry Dodge, Alix Lambert, Allen Ruppersberg, and Andrea Zittel--to select and rehang the center’s contemporary art collection. Like Harrison’s work itself, this multifaceted project suggests there is no one, true methodology for looking at art or one uniform principle to curating an exhibition. The exhibition will present over 160 works by more than 88 artists.

Location:	CCS Bard Hessel Museum
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Rachel Harrison: Consider the Lobster

Saturday, June 27, 2009 - Sunday, December 20, 2009
The first major survey of New York-based artist Rachel Harrison.Titled Consider the Lobster, after an essay by the late David Foster Wallace, the survey encompasses over ten years of large-scale installations by Harrison, all of which have been reconfigured for the CCS Bard galleries. In addition to the survey, we have also invited six artists, including Nayland Blake, Tom Burr, Harry Dodge, Alix Lambert, Allen Ruppersberg, and Andrea Zittel, to collaborate with her to re-install works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection. Consider the Lobster will be on view at the Whitechapel Gallery in London from April 27 through June 20, 2010.

Location:	CCS Bard Galleries
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Anna Ostoya: Marginalia

Tuesday, October 20, 2009 - Saturday, December 5, 2009
Anna Ostoya raises important questions about who has access to information and for whom is it legible or useful. The installation is a site-specific abstract collage made of printed and photocopied papers taken from various bulletin boards located on Bard’s campus that references the transparency of information within an institution of higher education. This can be perceived as pure abstraction without reference to the real world while simultaneously touching upon political aspects of minimal and conceptual art practices.

Location:	CCS Bard Bulletin Board, Bertelsmann Campus Center
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Rod Dickinson in collaboration with Steve Rushton: Who, What, Where, When, Why and How

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 - Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Who, What, Where… investigates the historical role of the government press briefing in the materialization of certain political realities. The work presents the footage and the script of a televisual press briefing on the subject of war, delivered by a presidential and a military figure in a meticulously constructed press conference environment. The script is composed solely of fragments of press statements of the past thirty years, showing how language and media are used for the governing of public consent.  Opening reception: Wednesday, November 18th, 6:15 p.m.

Location:	Hoffman Library Reading Room, Stevenson Library
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