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Photos & Video
Video: ”The Aesthetics of the Contract and the Contract of Aesthetics”
Daniel McClean, a curator/lawyer, discusses legal contracts from two perspectives: how Post-Conceptual artists use the medium of the contract to create artworks, and how lawyers create contracts and the role that aesthetics might play in their construction and interpretation. The Association of the Bar of the City of New York is housed in an elegant historic landmark seated on “Clubhouse Row.”
March 10, 2010permalink
Photos: NYC Bar Association
March 8, 2010permalink
Video: ”Rethinking America’s Drug Policy”
John Donohue III, Leighton Homer Surbeck Professor of Law, Yale Law School and an economist/lawyer, takes up a vexing yet pragmatic question: are the gains reaped by decriminalizing illicit drug laws worth the cost of potentially increasing drug addiction at-large? This lecture took place in the New York City Council Chambers at City Hall, a room in which they have considered various legislations, including drug regulations.
March 4, 2010permalink
Photos: Access Restricted 2010, New York City Council Chamber
February 25, 2010permalink
Video: The Shining Mantis at LMCC: Timelapse
The Shining Mantis, a Brooklyn-based artist pair, consists of former Workspace residents Ernest Concepción and Mike Estabrook. Last Thursday, we invited them to our office to create a work that became Pandarok: The Birth of Kangis Khan, a 10 foot by 7 foot chalk drawing on a wall adjacent to our conference room. They arrived at 11AM and worked until about 7:30PM, during which we snapped a picture every 30 seconds.
Here's the creation of Pandarok: The Birth of Kangis Khan in 34 seconds.
January 19, 2010permalink
Video: LentSpace Timelapse
LMCC LentSpace is a free outdoor cultural space open to the public, made possible by the loan of a Trinity Real Estate development site. A model for citywide land use, this temporary project creates an “in the meantime” activity for a vacant site awaiting future development.
LMCC LentSpace occupies a city block bounded by Canal, Varick, Grand, and Sullivan Streets in Lower Manhattan.
During construction, we snapped a photo every 30 seconds from 10 stories up. After hours of editing, this is the end result.
October 28, 2009permalink
Photos: LentSpace Slideshow
October 15, 2009permalink
Photos: gabrielle lansner & company: Turning Heads, Frocks in Flight
gabrielle lansner & company’s Turning Heads, Frocks in Flight is an exuberant dance inspired by “Dresses of Transformation,” a series of colorful and fanciful dresses by artist Caterina Bertolotto. Turning Heads is a celebration of freedom and personal transformation, performed by women of many cultural backgrounds to reflect the diversity of New York City. Created in collaboration with the company, the dance reflects elements of each woman’s personal experience and features new music by composer Nancy Magarill.
August 5, 2009permalink
Photos: Nicholas Leichter Dance: A Space Funk Invasion
Nicholas Leichter Dance and Monstah Black bring the energy, sweat, swagger, history and future of funk music, culture, fashion, and dance to The Seaport’s historic cobblestone district. A Space Funk Invasion will be performed for bystanders and patrons of four outdoor bars that form the perimeter of the area, promising a free side of funk for the burgers and beer. Performed to music by Daft Punk, The Time, and Monstah Black.
July 23, 2009permalink
Photos: Jonah Bokaer & Judith Sanchez Ruiz: Untitled Corner
Untitled Corner is a site-specific collaboration examining memory loss, pattern recognition, and perceptual faculties as they apply to the human body in public space. In collaboration with visual artist Daniel Arsham, Jonah Bokaer, and Judith Sanchez Ruiz’s piece employs site-responsive architecture, objects, lighting, and other media to create the illusion of an expanded space.
