February 07, 2016 at BHQFU in Brooklyn.
TEN ARGUMENTS at BHQFU
Anna Craycroft + David Levi Strauss
AESTHETICS + IDEOLOGY
Free + Open to the Public
This Sunday, please join us for the third session of Ten Arguments. This lecture-style class is open to all and is a great way for newcomers to get a sampling of the diverse visiting artist roster that BHQFU facilitates every semester, and to experience rigorous conversations on a variety of topics germane to contemporary art practices and critical sociocultural perspectives. Each week, we’ve invited two AMAZING guests and worked with each duo to develop a combinatory topic around which both of them will deliver individual “arguments” back-to-back. On February 7th, artist Anna Craycroft and poet and cultural critic David Levi Strauss will present their individual perspectives on the relationship between AESTHETICS + IDEOLOGY. After, they will engage in a lively discussion with the audience. At the end of the discussions, BHQFU invites you to stick around for a casual social hour where students, faculty, and visiting artists can continue conversations and get to know one another better in a less formal setting.
Ten Arguments will be documented thoroughly for those who cannot attend a particular session, and will eventually be turned into a publication in support of BHQFU.
ANNA CRAYCROFT
Anna Craycroft’s exhibitions explore how we use culture to define individuality. Craycroft’s solo shows have been held at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art Portland, Oregon, the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin Texas, Tracy Williams Ltd in NYC, Le Case del Arte in Milan Italy. She has collaborated on performances and installations with numerous artists including Ohad Meromi, Ian Cooper, Felicia Ballos and Alex Waterman. Within some her solo exhibitions, Craycroft has organized event series, inviting artists such as Jill Magid, Pablo Bronstein, Tara Matiek, Jessica Dickenson, and Lisi Raskin to share their work. Craycroft has also had two person shows at Sandroni Rey in Los Angeles and upcoming at Redcat Gallery in Los Angeles. She participated in notable group exhibitions such as PS1’sGreater New York in 2005, Public Holiday Project’s Bunch Alliance and Dissolve at Cincinatti’s Contemporary Arts Center and in Champs Elysees at Palais de Tokyo Paris, France. She has been commissioned to make public sculpture for Socrates Sculpture Park NYC, Lower Manhattan Cultural Center NYC, Art in General NYC and Den Haag Sculptuur, the Hague Netherlands. Craycroft received her MFA from Columbia University School of Arts in 2004. Craycroft is represented by Tracy Williams Ltd Gallery in New York.
DAVID LEVI STRAUSS
David Levi Strauss is a writer and critic in New York. He is the author of From Head to Hand: Art & the Manual (Oxford University Press, 2010), Between the Eyes: Essays on Photography and Politics, with an introduction by John Berger (Aperture 2003), and Between Dog & Wolf: Essays on Art and Politics (Autonomedia 1999). Between the Eyes has been released in an Italian edition by Postmedia, and a new edition of Between Dog & Wolf, with a prolegomenon by Hakim Bey, appeared in 2010. Strauss was a Guggenheim fellow in 2003-4 and received the Infinity Award for Writing from the International Center of Photography in 2007. He was on the faculty of the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College from 2000-2005, and is now Chair of the graduate program in Art Writing at the School of Visual Arts in New York.
ABOUT BHQFU:
BHQFU is New York City’s freest art school and community space offering a full curricula of critique courses,studio residencies, and special events. The educational programming is enriched by a rigorous exhibition series at the university gallery launched in 2015, FUG. BHQFU was founded in 2009 by The Bruce High Quality Foundation, it represents an alternative educational model that treats artistic knowledge as distinct from professional practices, as a knowledge born from conversations between artists and the histories they make together. BHQFU is a 501(c)3 organisation and is completely free for all students.
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