Past Lectures & Events 2007

LAUREL REUTER AND LAWRENCE WESCHLER: A CONVERSATION
Friday, October 12, 2007, 7 pm
Viernes, 12 de octubre del 2007, 7 pm

Lensic Theater, 211 W. San Francisco Street, Santa Fe
505.988.1234 / www.lensic.com
Ticket Prices: $10 general admission; $5 students, seniors, and DCP members
www.thedisappearedsantafe.org

Portrait of Weschler by David Hockney

THE DISAPPEARED COLLABORATIVE PROJECT PRESENTS chief curator and founding director of the North Dakota Museum of Art Laurel Reuter in dialogue with Lawrence Weschler, essayist in The Disappeared catalogue and long-time writer for The New Yorker. Weschler’s 1987-89 series on Brazil and Uruguay first introduced the subject of the disappeared to many in the United States. His books on political reportage include The Passion of Poland and A Miracle, A Universe: Settling Accounts with Torturers. His most recent work is Everything that Rises: A Book of Convergences. Weschler, awarded a Lannan Award for Nonfiction in 1999, is currently director of the New York Institute for Humanities at New York University.

In this conversation, Reuter, curator of Los Desaparecidos/The Disappeared, and Weschler will discuss the artistic, social, and political significance of the artists and works in DCP exhibitions and events. As Reuter writes in her catalogue essay: Art born of the need to tell. When Identity, a collaborative installation by thirteen Argentinean artists, opened in Buenos Aires, three people discovered their long-hidden identities. They have been taken at birth from those who opposed the government and adopted into military families. Through such art these artists fight amnesia in their own countries as a stay against such atrocities happening again.

Contemporary Art In Context
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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 6 PM
La Biennale di Venezia
Presenter: Katia Zavistovski

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 6 PM
São Paolo & Istanbul Biennials
Presenter: Liza Statton

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 6 PM
The Whitney Biennial
Presenter: Joanne Lefrak

The 2008 Biennial

LECTURE BY 2008 BIENNIAL CURATOR LANCE FUNG

TUESDAY, AUGUST 28, 6 PM

In his appointment as the curator for SITE’s 2008 Biennial, Fung wants more than just another big group exhibition. He states, “I want to redefine the paradigm of a biennial through collaboration, to offer an alternative and new approach, one in keeping with the history of SITE’s own biennials. I want to find other like-minded organizations that share the same energy, enthusiasm, and commitment to mission as SITE does. Through collaborating with the right match of global partner organizations-some perhaps well-known for idiosyncratic, specialized, or strong programming, others more radical or grass-roots-oriented doing great work-it is my goal to raise awareness of SITE’s own strengths, to showcase the distinctive flavor of each collaborator, to inspire learning, and to bring people together to foster a broad sea-change in visual arts presentation.”

Formerly the director of Holly Solomon Gallery, as well as having his own gallery in New York, Fung has worked with a number of leading artists of the Fluxus, Minimal, and Conceptual movements, including Nam June Paik, Sol LeWitt, and Robert Barry, among others. As an independent curator, Fung has created a number of important exhibitions in this country and abroad: Crossing Parallels, at the SSamzie Space in Seoul, Korea; Going Home, at the Edward Hopper Historical Museum in Nyack, New York; and Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clark, at the Venice Architectural Biennale in 2002. He was the curator of The Snow Show: Lapland 2003–2004; The Snow Show Preview at UNESCO’s Palazzo Zorzi, Venice Biennale 2003; and The Snow Show at Torino Winter Olympics 2006. Currently, Fung is curating the first international large-scale exhibition of public installations in Beijing, China, in conjunction with the 2008 Summer Olympic Games.

Bill Hearne's Roadhouse Revue

IN CONCERT AT SITE SANTA FE

FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 5 – 7 PM

Bill Hearne's Roadhouse Revue delivers retro country/honky-tonk classics!

Hearne has been performing for 36 years from Nashville to LA keeping boots scootin' everywhere in between. Along with his wife Bonnie for most of those years, he made quite an impression on country peers Lyle Lovett, Jim Rooney, Nanci Griffith, Iris Dement, Jerry Jeff Walker & Michael Martin Murphy.

Bill & Bonnie are folk legends at events like Texas's Kerrville Folk Festival. Bill's retro country trio and his honky-tonk quartet have been steadily blazing up the southwest circuit, becoming mainstays in Texas, New Mexico and Southern Colorado.

“Bill and Bonnie are a great credit to all hardworking musicians. Their love of a good song, and the straight-ahead way they play it makes me, as a songwriter, feel really good. If I want to hear a song done the right way, I look to a Bill and Bonnie arrangement. I'm proud to have called them my friends for over 20 years."
- Jerry Jeff Walker

Free admission

My Life in Art

ADAM LINDEMANN
WITH
LAURA STEWARD HEON

TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 6 PM

The last of three conversations with well-known collectors features Adam Lindemann.

Born in New York City, Adam Lindemann grew up in an art collecting family. He began his own collection with African and Oceanic art and eventually focused on contemporary art, specifically work created in the last ten years. An active collector, he has canvassed the world’s art exhibitions, art fairs, galleries and private collections, following the art marketboom of the last several years. A radio entrepreneur, his company, Mega Communications, has pioneered Latin radio in several U.S. markets as well as producing Latin music events. In partnership with designer Marc Newson, he is relaunching IKEPOD, a manufacturer of Swiss timepieces. He is the author of Collecting Contemporary (Taschen Books, 2006), a book offering an insider's view into approaching, buying, and selling contemporary art, with collectors, dealers, consultants, and auction house experts weighing in with pertinent anecdotes, advice, and observations for the newly inspired or merely curious.

Laura Heon is director/curator of SITE Santa Fe.

Co-sponsored by Century Bank

My Life in Art

JOANN & GIFFORD PHILLIPS
WITH
JOCK REYNOLDS

TUESDAY, JULY 31, 6 PM

The second conversation with well-known collectors features Joann & Gifford Phillips.

Joann Phillips, born in Portland, Oregon, and a graduate of University of California, is a collector, arts patron, and the Honorary Chairman of the Board of Directors of SITE Santa Fe, having served as Co-Chairman from 1995–1999. Active in the arts community in Los Angeles, and then New York, Phillips was a member of the Contemporary Art Council of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (president from 1970-72), and Founding Chairman of the Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art (1974-76). She is a member of the International Council of the Museum of Modern Art, and served as its Chairman from 1986-1991. She is a trustee of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum and a former member of the Fine Arts Committee of the Museum of New Mexico in Santa Fe. Her husband Gifford Phillips was born in Washington, DC and graduated from Yale College. He was the Founding Chairman of the Contemporary Art Council at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art from 1961–1964, and a trustee and President of the Pasadena Art Museum from 1970-1974. He has been a trustee of both the Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, and The Museum of Modern Art, New York, since 1960. From 1950–67, he was also the publisher of Frontier Magazine, as well the associate publisher of The Nation magazine in 1967. Together, the Phillips have been collecting art since 1953.

Jock Reynolds, The Henry J. Heinz II Director of the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, since September 1998, was formerly the Director of the Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts. He was also a co-founder of the artists' space 80 Langton Street, now New Langton Arts, San Francisco's premier alternative artists' space.

My Life in Art

AGNES GUND
WITH
KATHRYN WALKER

TUESDAY, JULY 24, 6 PM

The first of three conversations with well-known collectors features Agnes Gund.

Agnes Gund is President Emerita of The Museum of Modern Art and Chairman of its International Council. Ms. Gund joined the MoMA Board in 1976 and served as its President from 1991 until 2002. She is currently Chairman of the Mayor’s Cultural Affairs Advisory Commission of the City of New York. Ms. Gund is the Founder and a Trustee of Studio in a School Association. A philanthropist and collector of Post-War art, she serves on the boards of numerous arts organizations. She is an Honorary Trustee of The Cleveland Museum of Art, Independent Curators International, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, and also a civic leader who is a staunch supporter of education, women’s issues, and environmental concerns, among other causes. She earned a B.A. in History from Connecticut College and her M.A. in Art History from Harvard University. Ms. Gund lives in New York City with her husband, Daniel Shapiro.

Kathryn Walker is an Emmy Award-winning actress and director. Her productions of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey played to sold-out audiences last summer at the Lensic Theater. These productions were part of an on-going series of new translations of Greek works which she has directed at The 92nd Street Y in New York City for seven years. Her photographs and other work have been shown at James Kelly Contemporary and Dwight Hackett Projects as well as other galleries. She is currently completing a novel to be published by Knopf in 2008. She lives most of the year in Tesuque, New Mexico.

Co-sponsored by Zane Bennett Gallery

Art on the Global Stage

A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION

SATURDAY, JULY 14, 2 PM

As part of the Gala Benefit festivities, SITE is pleased to present Art on the Global Stage, a lively, informal talk that offers an insider's perspective on diverse issues ranging from the shifting function of the biennial, to the increased influence
of international art fairs and its effects on the production of art today. SITE's honored Biennial curators and distinguished artists will engage in a roundtable discussion about the opportunities and challenges that they face as art and exhibition-makers in the wake of the globalized art market and the everexpanding
biennial circuit.

The James A. Little Theater at The New Mexico School for the Deaf. 1060 Cerrillos Road, Santa Fe

Wild West Film Fest

SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 11 AM – 5 PM

Come in and experience a different kind of heat at SITE’s Wild West Film Fest. Watch one or more of the following classics which have created the iconic visual vocabulary of the “West” and set the stage for Hans Schabus’ re-interpretation at SITE. Schabus’ short film Western (2002) will screen prior to each film.


THE WILD BUNCH at 11 AM
(d. Sam Peckinpah, 1969) William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan
Violent and shocking at the time of its release, a group of aging outlaws in pre-World War I West realizes that they must abandon their old way of life. It is an explosive American classic about the last of the legendary lawless breed that lived to kill and killed to live.

"A towering achievement! A riveting, brilliant work of art."
- Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE


THE SEARCHERS at 2 PM
(d. John Ford, 1956) John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter

An excellent example of the Western genre with John Ford's vigorous touch, The Searchers features John Wayne as a driven man relentlessly searching for his niece who was kidnapped by Indians.

"The best Western ever made."
- BOX OFFICE MAGAZINE


SITE Santa Fe presents at CCA
FORTY GUNS at 8 PM
(d. Samuel Fuller, 1957) Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan
In celebration of the Hans Schabus exhibition Deserted Conquest, SITE presents this lean, mean, noir-inflected classic. Barbara Stanwyck, as a tough-as-nails ranch boss, rules an Arizona town thanks to her small army of henchmen.

"Fuller's most ludicrously passionate, faux-muscular, putting-the-whip-back-into pistol-whip pulp western."
- Michael Atkinson, VILLAGE VOICE

Forty Guns is showing at Center for Contemporary Arts Cinematheque, 1050 Old Pecos Trail. Tickets:
$8.50 (general), $7.50 (students, seniors and members), $7 (student and senior members)

The Work of Hans Schabus

A LECTURE BY LAURA HEON

TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 6 PM

It is rare that a contemporary art museum’s service door becomes the sole point of entry into an exhibition. For the Viennese conceptualist Hans Schabus, however,devising unexpected detours for people is common practice. The artist has a penchant for blocking entrances and passages in art venues: in Astronaut (komme gleich) [Astronaut (be right back)] (2003) at Vienna Secession, Schabus barricaded the entry to the main exhibition with a brick wall; a year later, in Das Rendezvousproblem (The Rendezvous Problem) at the Kunsthaus Bregenz, he barred the museum’s front door, forcing people to enter via a service ramp. In fact, disrupting, reconfiguring, and erecting space anew is essential to Schabus’ work, and since 2000, he has produced site-specific installations that rely upon the physical and psychological effects of spatial displacement to demythologize cultural symbols.

As the artist selected to represent Austria at the 2005 Venice Biennale with his project Das letzte Land (The Last Land) (2005), Hans Schabus has created various projects that address the theme of the role of the artist in space and, vicariously, the role of the viewer as travelers into the realms of their conscious and subconscious. In her lecture, Laura Heon will examine Schabus’ major installation works executed over the last several years to provide a context and framework for his new commissioned installation at SITE Santa Fe entitled Deserted Conquest. As in past projects, Schabus plans to transform the entire building into a complex and convoluted architectonic and mental path of discovery in search of the self.

Co-sponsored by Box Gallery

Tuesday, May 8, 6 pm
Philosophy of Time Travel
LECTURE BY CHRISTINE Y. KIM
ASSOCIATE CURATOR, STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM

Kim will speak about her current project, Philosophy of Time Travel, a collaborative site-specific exhibition including artists Edgar Arceneaux, Vincent Johnson,
Olga Koumoundouros, Rodney McMillan, and Matthew Sloly, to be presented at The Studio Museum in Harlem from April 11 – July 1, 2007.

As associate curator at The Studio Museum in Harlem, Kim manages the Artistsin- Residence program. She organized the first museum exhibitions of then emerging artists Julie Mehretu, Mark Bradford, Wangechi Mutu and Kehinde Wiley at the Studio Museum. Kim has curated group exhibitions such as Black Belt (2003) and Frequency (2005), and solo shows such as Edgar Arceneaux: Drawings of Removal (2004), Meschac Gaba: Tresses (2005), and Nadine Robinson: alles grau (2006). The California native received her BA from Connecticut College in 1993 and MA from NYU in 1998.

Co-sponsored by Bellas Artes

Contemporary Art In Context
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TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 6 PM
High & Low: Modern Art and Popular Culture
Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1990
Presenter: Joanne Lefrak

TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 6 PM
SENSATION: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection
The Brooklyn Museum, 1999
Presenter: Katia Zavistovski

TUESDAY, MAY 1, 6 PM
010101: Art in Technological Times
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2001
Presenter: Laura Heon

TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 6 PM
Inverted Utopias: Avant-Garde Art in Latin America
Museum of Fine Arts Houston, 2004
Presenter: Liza Statton

Tuesday, March 27, 6 pm
Natural, Human, Perfect:
Stone Sculpture in the Digital Age
ARTIST TALK BY BARRY X BALL

Exhibiting artist Barry X Ball will speak about the evolution of his artistic practice, with particular emphasis on his innovative and complex sculptural fabrication process. Along with process, he will address his choice of unique materials and portrait subjects. Using extensive photographs of the creation and fabrication of his sculptures, Ball will juxtapose them with images of finished pieces, both those in the SITE show and earlier works. A question and answer period will follow.

Co-sponsored by LewAllen Contemporary

Tuesday, March 13, 6 pm
Are We Still Relevant?
The Role of The Art Space in 2007
LECTURE BY SILVIA KARMAN CUBINA
DIRECTOR, THE MOORE SPACE, MIAMI

Art spaces were first created in the United States mainly by artists in the 1960s to break out of the mold of the institution. How and why has this type of institution changed? What is the role of the art space in 2007? Who is calling the programmatic shots? Who takes the risks?

As director of The Moore Space, Cubiñá has organized exhibitions with artists including Jonathan Monk, Hernan Bas, Jim Lambie, Patty Chang, Joan Jonas,Yang Fudong and Steve Mumford, as well as numerous group exhibitions. Previously, she held the position of adjunct curator at inova, the Institute of Visual Arts, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; as well as positions at The Mexican Museum in San Francisco and the Cuban Museum of Art in Miami. Independently, Cubiñá has worked on exhibitions such as Javier Cambre’s project for the 2002 Biennial Exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art; Pepón Osorio: Door to Door, a collaboration between four museums in San Juan; and Arte del Nuevo Medio: Doce Propuestas Electrónicas at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico. In 1997, Cubiñá was the Puerto Rico commissioner to the Bienal de São Paolo. In 2006, she served as a panelist for the Guggenheim Museum’s Hugo Boss Award and received the Etant Donnés Curatorial Residency. She is a finalist for the Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Excellence.

Co-sponsored by Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art

CANCELLED
We regret that Christine Macel’s lecture on February 27 has been cancelled due to illness.

Tuesday, February 27, 6 pm
The Medium of The Exhibition:
Contemporary Issues
LECTURE BY CHRISTINE MACEL
CHIEF CURATOR, DEPARTMENT OF PROSPECTIVE AND CONTEMPORARY CREATION, MUSEE NATIONAL D"ART MODERNE, CENTRE GEORGES POMPIDOU

Macel’s lecture will address the question of the exhibition as a medium and the recent issues that have arisen in the curatorial field as a result of the powerful role that international biennials and art fairs play in today’s art world. Macel will also share some of her own experiences.

Macel has curated the retrospectives of Raymond Hains, Nan Goldin, and Sophie Calle, among others. She curated the group show Dionysiac at the Centre Pompidou, including Maurizio Cattelan, Paul McCarthy, Jason Rhoades, and Thomas Hirschhorn. Currently, she is curating Airs de Paris, an extensive examination of the visual arts, design, and architecture in the evolution of the contemporary city and urban life, scheduled to open at the Pompidou in April 2007.

Together with Eric Duyckaerts, she will organize the Belgian Pavilion of the 2007 Venice Biennale. As an art critic, Macel has had reviews published in Flash Art, Art Presse, and Cahiers du MNAM, edited several catalogues, and contributed essays for books on Koo Jeong A., Jeppe Hein, Xavier Veilhan, Pawel Althamer, Kendell Geers, Malachi Farrell, and Erwin Wurm, among others. She has also taught contemporary art at L’ecole du Louvre in Paris.

Co-sponsored by Tano Capital LLC

Thursday, February 22, 7 pm
A Contemporary Encounter
LECTURE BY LAURA HEON ON BARRY X BALL

Join us for an intimate reception and talk by Laura Heon, SITE’s Director/Curator, who will speak about the work of Barry X Ball on view at SITE. Enjoy hors d’oeuvres and wine as Heon shares her insights on Ball’s process, which melds 21st-century and ancient sculpture technology. Following the lecture, SITE educators will be available for informal tours of the exhibition.

In collaboration with the Santa Fe Gallery Association’s annual fundraising event ARTfeast, benefiting art programs in the public schools. Hors d’oeuvres generously provided by The Railyard Restaurant and Saloon. Wine generously provided by Gaugy Gallery.

Underwritten by Collector’s Guide

Tickets are $25 and are available at the Lensic Box Office, 505.988.1234 or www.ticketssantafe.com.

As this event is a benefit for ARTsmart, discounted or complimentary SITE Member tickets are not available.

Monday, February 19, 6 pm
Warhol's Minion: Jews and Genius
LECTURE BY THOMAS SOKOLOWSKI
DIRECTOR, THE ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM, PITTSBURGH

In the early 1980s, Andy Warhol did a series entitled Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century. He considered Jews to be geniuses because of their extraordinary influence on the world in various realms. Drawn from all aspects of culture such as science, education, and the arts, his selected subjects include Sarah Bernhardt, Louis Brandeis, Martin Buber, Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, George Gershwin, Franz Kafka, the Marx Brothers, Golda Meir, and Gertrude Stein. Sokolowski will discuss the series and look back on historical models of similar portraiture—both religious and secular—and share insights on the significance of this work with other series in Warhol’s oeuvre, such as Socialites, Reigning Queens, and Endangered Species, among others.

Sponsored by Larry Goldstone, this talk is one of a series of quality events in the arts marking the 10th anniversary of the Chabad Jewish Center of Santa Fe.

$10 for adults, $5 for Chabad members, students, seniors, and SITE members at Friend, Family, and STUDIO levels. Free with advance reservation for members at the Supporter level and above.

WWW.CHABADSANTAFE.COM

Friday, February 16, 6 pm
See Me, Hear Me:
An Exclusive Evening with Donald J Pliner
A SPECIAL EVENT HOSTED BY GOLER FINE IMPORTED SHOES TO BENEFIT SITE SANTA FE

Come spend an evening with celebrated designer Donald J Pliner as he presents his Spring 2007 Footwear Collection. Please join us for a delightful evening of food from La Boca, spirits from La Casa Sena, music by Le Chat Lunatique, and an exclusive runway show presented by Donald J Pliner. All proceeds will benefit SITE Santa Fe’s education programs in the public schools. In addition, Goler is generously donating 5% of all sales of Pliner shoes in its store on Saturday, February 17.

Donald J Pliner is an internationally acclaimed shoe designer from Chicago, whose signature style is classic with a twist. His designs, produced both in Italy and Spain, fuse fashion and comfort, and are inspired by elements from the world over as well as from different moments in fashion history.

PRICE: $100 PER PERSON
$75 TAX DEDUCTIBLE

For tickets, call Goler Fine Imported Shoes at 982.0924

Tuesday, February 13, 6 pm
STEPHEN BUSH

Enjoying a well-established reputation in Australia, painter Stephen Bush has become renowned for his intriguing landscapes that depict an array of disparate subjects, including potatoes, elephants, farm machinery, and rubbish bins, to name but a few. In his recent landscape paintings, dubbed his Cabin series, the artist extends his surreal world into an exploration of the unconscious. Fascinated by images of the alpine vista and mountain locations, Bush incorporates images of these anonymous, remote locales into works that he considers to be metaphorical expressions for life's quest for personal or cultural fulfillment. Bush will engage in an informal conversation about his work with Liza Statton, SITE Santa Fe’s 2006-2008 Thaw Curatorial Fellow.

Co-sponsored by TAI Gallery

Friday, January 5, 7:30 pm
MOLLY STURGES/CHRIS JONAS
Composition in situ
commissioned by SITE Santa Fe

Molly Sturges and Chris Jonas (co-leaders of the ensemble BING and co-founders of LittleGlobe Productions) create a wide range of contemporary musical and intermedia performance projects. This commissioned performance will be a site-specific immersive composition created in response to the Sixth International Biennial exhibition, Still Points of the Turning World. The piece will be composed of acoustic, electronic, and voice sounds, as well as found sounds from the exhibition and the auditory properties of the museum building itself. The live installation “soundtrack” will include both static and roving components. The audience will be invited to join musician-led sonic tours through the exhibition as part of the performance.

LittleGlobe Productions, a Santa Fe-based production house founded by Molly Sturges and Chris Jonas, develops and produces innovative contemporary creative projects, community collaboration performance projects (Contexta) and arts advocacy efforts. Their soundtrack work as LittleGlobe Productions and BING includes live scores for silent films, live music for circuses, film scores, and sound installations. Most recently, LittleGlobe co-produced and wrote soundtracks for the second annual Santa Fe Live Music Silent Film Festival at the Lensic in May 2006.

www.littleglobeproductions.org

Co-sponsored by EVO Gallery