March 4 - 8 /12pm - 8pm Daily
Presented
by The SCOPE Foundation
Lincoln Center at Damrosch
Park
The curation of fair locations,
programs, galleries, and special projects is the cornerstone
of SCOPE Art Fair. Each nuance at every fair is carefully
selected to bring its guests and galleries a highly
concentrated experience during their time at the fairs. Our
NY09 Cinema Program, presented by The SCOPE Foundation, is
evidence of that curation. Artist and Co-Director, Lilah
Freedland, says, "We are proud to present a film program that
resonates with the "here and now" from the low-fi camp of
Kuchar to the stark reality of life in the middle east".
The program itself will give its audience a chance to get
down and dirty with the presenters of these films and immerse
themselves in a day of culture - and everyday is different so
it is always fresh and new.
In addition, live musical performances will be introduced
into the fair this year. From the sitar to tuba, these artists
will be as varied as you can get under one roof.
The
schedule of films, musical performances and panel discussions
are below. Also visit
scope-art.com for more
details.
Credits from left to right, top to
bottom:
State of the Union, Bryan Boyce,
2001
G.I. Joe PSAs, Eric Fensler, 2003
NYC Ya Basta: An
Army of Dreamers, Not An Alternative, 2007
Operation
Atropos, Coco Fusco, 2006, image courtesy of The Video Data
Bank, www.vdb.org
Terms of Service: When We Pretend, We're
in Control, Benj Gerdes, 2005
Summer Rain, Francisca Caporali and Brandon Jourdan,
2007
Musical
Performances
Thursday, March 4 - Sunday, March 8
Cinema
Program
Day 1 Thursday
On the Contrary:
Recent Artist Videos from the Middle
East
Curated by Mary Billyou and Meredith Drum.
Once when a
stranger inquired of Samuel Beckett if he was an Englishman,
he replied, "On the contrary." Championing individuals who
stand in opposition to government spokespersons who purport to
speak for all of us, as citizens, when justifying war, this
program presents a wide range of cinema projects that share a
rebellious and subjective resistance to imperial domination in
the Middle East.
Program
1
12pm-2pm
Iraq
Featuring
works by Paul Chan; Mary Patten; Benj Gerdes and Jennifer
Hayashida; Sabine Gruffat; Caroline Koebel; Harun Farocki;
Jenny Perlin; and The Yes Men.
Program
2
2pm-4pm
Atropos
Featuring
works by Coco Fusco; Jeanne Finley and John Muse; Francisca
Caporali and Brandon Jourdan; Mary Billyou and Annelisse Fifi;
John Smith; Sabine Gruffat; and Gabriel Fowler.
Program 3
4pm-6pm
Upside
Down Worlds
Featuring works by Ruti Sela and
Maayan Amir; Dara Greenwald; NYC Ya Basta; Walid Ra'ad; Susan
Youssef; Martha Rosler; Eric Fensler; Bryan Boyce; Martha
Colburn; and Norman Cowie.
Panel Discussion
6pm-8pm
Shifting Alliances
A round
table discussion moderated by Mary Billyou and Meredith Drum
with Martha Rosler, Benj Gerdes, Chen Tamir, Judy Ditner,
Caroline Koebel, Maayan Amir and Ruti Sela.
For a complete list of videos, with descriptions, and
biographies of panelists, please visit:
Day 2 Friday
THE RUSSIANS ARE
HERE !
Organized by the National Center for Contemporary Art,
Winzavod Contemporary Art Center Moscow, IFAC-Arts and
Perpetual Art Machine
Program
1
12pm-2pm
Walking a Fine Line -
Parables of the Sublime and the Subversive in Russian Video
Art
Curated by Ksenia Fedorova and Alisa
Prudnikova.
The program showcases recent Russian video art
which reflects complex and controversial attitudes that
attempt to navigate the sublime, while at the same time
negotiating the positive and negative effects of global
capitalism and the Western artworld. The artists are pursuing
various strategies, ranging from mystification to irony and
radical activism, and invite the viewer to draw their own
conclusions.
Artists include: Leonid Tishkov, Vladimir
Logutov, Yury Vasiliev, Dmitry Bulnygin, ESCAPE Program, PG
Group, Georgy Ostretsov, The Factory of Found Clothes, Blue
Noses, Blue Soup, Vladlena Gromova, Alexey Buldakov, Veronika
Rudyeva-Ryazantseva, Provmyza Group, Victor Alimpiev,
Alexandra Mitlyanskaya, and Bombily Ar Group
Program 2
2pm-3pm
Retrospective of Russian
experimental Cinema
Curatorial team: Andrey
Silvestrov (CineFamtom), Anya Seizova and Christina
Steinbrecher (Winzavod)
CINE FANTOM and Winzavod present a
retrospective of Russian experimental (Parallel) Cinema 1980s
- present. CINE FANTOM is a Moscow based film club established
in 1995.
Artists include: Vera Wolf, Aleinikov Brothers,
Andrey Golovin, Larisa Bocharova, Alexander Doulerain, Jamey
Bradsharow, Olga Stolpovskaya and Shota Gamisonia
www.cinefantom.ru
Program 33pm-4pm
A
Stranger in a Strange LandCurated by Lee Wells.
In a quest to better understand the rapidly changing state
of 21st century Russian, Wells presents a cross-section of
video by artists that he developed a personal connection with
before and during his NCCA residency during the fall of
2008.
Artists include: AES+F Group, Yuliya Lanina, Den
Marino, Kirill Preobrazhenskiy, Masha Sha, Julia Milner, Where
the Dogs Run Group.
www.leewells.org
Panel
Discussion
4pm-6pm
A open discussion on
Contemporary Russian Video and New Media
Alisa
Prudnikova, Anya Zaytseva, Christina Steinbrecher, Anna
Frants, Juan Puntez, and Leah Stuhltrager. Moderated by Lee
Wells
This program was made possible by the generous
support by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation,
National Center for Contemporary Arts Ekaterinburg branch,
Winzavod Contemporary Art Center, CINE FANTOM, International
Fine Arts Consortium and the Scope Foundation.
Staff
Picks
6pm-8pm
The SCOPE Staff curates
their favorite films.
Day 3 Saturday
Monkey Town
Presents
Program 1
12pm-4pm
Regeneration Hex-You Are Your Own
Screen
Curated by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge
Rare
films exploring the cut-up revelational process, including
works byWilliam S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Breyer P-Orridge,
Kenneth Anger, Sam Zimmerman and Derek Jarman.
Program 2
4pm-6pm
You Can
Rebuild You
Curated by Sam Zimmerman Assorted
investigations into the future of the body: remodeled,
reimagined, realized.
Includes biofeedback analysis by the
Metasynergistics Evaluative Media Experience.
Program 3
6pm-8pm
George
Kuchar's Videographic Violations Sinema
Show
Curated by John Pollard & ADA
Gallery.
Film program & artist talk by Legendary
filmmaker George Kuchar with special guests includes a Premier
& his cult classics!
Day 4 Sunday
Lo-Fi Lo-Fi + Street
Hi
Program 1
12pm-2pm
George
Kuchar's Videographic Violations Sinema
Show
Curated by John Pollard & ADA
Gallery
Film program & artist talk by Legendary
filmmaker George Kuchar with special guests includes a Premier
& his cult classics !
Program 2
2pm-4pm
Private Property, Public Ideas: Street Art in
Transition
Curated by Jonathan
LeVine
BOMB IT
BOMB
IT is the explosive documentary from award-winning
director Jon Reiss investigating the most subversive and
controversial art form currently shaping international youth
culture: graffiti.
Panel Discussion
4pm-6pm
Moderated by Carlo McCormick
Confirmed
Panelists:
Pedro Alonzo, Independent
Curator
Ron English, Artist
Steve Powers (aka ESPO),
Artist
Jon Reiss, Producer/Director Bomb It
Marc and
Sara Schiller, Wooster Collective
Photograph of GENESIS BREYER P-ORRIDGE by PEROU
copyright 2008.
Used with kind permission
For more information, Exhibitor list, images and
information, please visit
SCOPE-ART.COM
