Taipei Biennial: Post Nature at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum
Nov
17
to Mar 10

Taipei Biennial: Post Nature at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum

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Curated by Mali Wu and Francesco Manacorda, the Taipei Biennial 2018 officially announces its title: Post-Nature—A Museum as an Ecosystem. Taking this title as their starting point, the curators will approach the ever-changing nature of an ecosystem and how this is reflected in artistic and institutional practice. This exhibition will investigate how systemic theory can inform art making and allow for reflections about our environment, underlining the reciprocal dependency which every system relies upon to survive.

Post-Nature—A Museum as an Ecosystem combines the notion of ecosystemic survival and the structure of interdependency in its very form. Here, the museum and the city that surrounds it are recognised as interlocking structures. The exhibition will explore, illustrate and investigate the different modes of connectivity and reciprocal dependency that keep a system alive. In this biennial, all artistic, theoretical, social and political elements will contribute to an overarching view of how an ecosystem is generated, and how it regenerates, through collaboration among parts and adaptation to change.”

For more information visit the Taipei Fine Arts Museum and the Biennial Foundation

Sussman is exhibiting "(Selected) History of the Spacetime Continuum as well as photographic prints from the Oldest Living Things in the World.  

 

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Future Knowledge: Exhibition at Modern Art Oxford
Sep
22
to Oct 28

Future Knowledge: Exhibition at Modern Art Oxford

From a prototype domestic wallpaper which is designed to reveal itself in response to internal air pollution, to a large sculptural ‘lung’ made from a pioneering organic building material, Future Knowledge is a thought-provoking new exhibition that will explore the role of visual culture in raising awareness about climate change.

Building upon the ambition of last year’s inaugural edition of Future Knowledge (20 May – 25 June 2017), over five weeks Modern Art Oxford will be transformed into a public studio – a space where questions are asked, ideas are shared, and future possibilities imagined. Bringing together artworks, prototypes and projects by artists, designers and thinkers from a wide range of different disciplines, this unique exhibition will showcase a fascinating and diverse range of creative responses to environmental concerns. In particular, it will ask: how can artistic inquiry and creative ecological design generate new perspectives on climate change?

Climate change has already had a measurable impact on the environment, which scientists agree has most likely been caused by human activity since the mid-twentieth century. There has been a significant global temperature increase in recent years, causing warming oceans, melting ice sheets and increasingly frequent extreme weather events. Future Knowledge will acknowledge these facts and help raise further awareness of environmental concerns, but it will also celebrate the possibility that creativity and ingenuity in current and future generations can bring about a positive change.

Future Knowledge is part of the nationwide project, Season for Change, which invites artists and arts organisations from across the country to explore climate change through creative presentation.

 

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Future Knowledge: Panel Discussion at Modern Art Oxford
Sep
21
5:00 PM17:00

Future Knowledge: Panel Discussion at Modern Art Oxford

Celebrating the opening of our new exhibition, Future Knowledge, this artists’ panel discussion will explore what role arts and culture can play in changing perspectives and bringing climate change awareness to a wider audience.

This special event, which takes place on the evening of the exhibition’s opening, will feature artists Tania Kovats, Eline McGeorge and Rachel Sussman.

Attendees are encouraged to stay after the panel discussion to celebrate the exhibition’s opening night, which features a ticketed performance by dancer and choreographer, Eve Mutso.

Read more and book tickets for our Future Knowledge Preview Party here.

Read more about Future Knowledge here.

Purchase tickets here.

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All the Time in the World: Keynote at WSU
Sep
7
3:00 PM15:00

All the Time in the World: Keynote at WSU

Friday, September 7, join us once more for All the Time in the World, a presentation by keynote speaker Rachel Sussman, an American contemporary artist and photographer who traveled the world to photograph continuously living organisms 2000 years or older in her compilation: The Oldest Living Things in the World. A reception will be held in the Community Arts Buildingfrom 3:00-4:00 p.m. followed by the presentation from 4:00-5:30 p.m. in the Community Arts Auditorium.   

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Akron Art Museum
Oct
7
to Jan 21

Akron Art Museum

Alchemy brings together a group of international artists whose work incorporates gold (or another metal disguised as gold). In each case, this precious material not only brings a sense of luxury to the work, but also ushers in connotations of the historic and cultural value various societies have placed on this rare element. As glamorous and sought after as gold may be, it’s capable of suggesting complicated politics and potent symbolism. The works in Alchemy embrace both dark and light readings of this glittering metal.

Artists for Alchemy are an international group at the forefront of contemporary practice. Teresa Margolles, whose gilded fragment of a building destroyed in a catastrophic earthquake comments on commemoration and monuments of grief. Zarina constructs minimalist shapes in gold leaf, referencing architecture and contemplative spirituality. Danh Vo gilds cardboard refuse, reimagining a simple box as wall sculpture, with marks of use as well as golden reminders of Mexican history. Luis Gispert combines gold chains and glittering stone into sparkling abstractions, referencing the decadence of rock n roll culture as well as post-war abstract painting. Lalla Essaydi uses glittering bullet casings to create garments and backdrops that refer to Islamic visual culture, which she then works into large-scale staged photographs. Rachel Sussman will create a site-specific work for the AAM’s presentation of Alchemy, filling a crack in the floor with gold and resin in homage to the Japanese tradition of “Kintsukuroi,” in which ceramics are repaired with gold. Related photographs by Sussman will also be in the exhibition.

The full list of artists participating is as follows: James Lee Byars, Los Carpinteros, Dorothy Cross, Olga de Amaral, Lalla Essaydi, Don and Era Farnsworth, Luis Gispert, Laurent Grasso, Charles Lindsay, Teresa Margolles, Rachel Sussman, Hank Willis Thomas, Danh Vo, Shinji Turner-Yamamoto, Zarina

Alchemy is organized by Curator Laura Burkhalter.

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SEATTLE: FUTURE ISMS
Mar
2
to Apr 15

SEATTLE: FUTURE ISMS

FUTURE ISMS: an exhibition at Glass Box Gallery in Seattle.  

Glassbox Gallery is proud to present Future Isms, an exhibition of photography and video work curated by Jon Feinstein. Art, literature, and pop culture have a legacy of positing sci-fi fantasies of the world to come, which often contain parallels to the uncertainties of the current social and political climate. This exhibition approaches these present day premonitions with a similarly precarious gaze. Some artists offer optimistic, utopian angles, others look at the present-future with a dystopian pessimism, and many offer a blurry hybrid. With work that ranges from eerily lit portraits to animated gifs and analog collage, the exhibition hinges on its curatorial ambiguity. 

See Rachel's work: "Opportunity Rover Tracks #1113-1500, NASA JPL Mars Yard"

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DES MOINES: Alchemy: Transformations in Gold
Feb
11
to May 5

DES MOINES: Alchemy: Transformations in Gold

Alchemy brings together a group of international artists whose work incorporates gold (or another metal disguised as gold). In each case, this precious material not only brings a sense of luxury to the work, but also ushers in connotations of the historic and cultural value various societies have placed on this rare element. As glamorous and sought after as gold may be, it’s capable of suggesting complicated politics and potent symbolism. The works in Alchemy embrace both dark and light readings of this glittering metal.

Artists for Alchemy are an international group at the forefront of contemporary practice. Teresa Margolles, whose gilded fragment of a building destroyed in a catastrophic earthquake comments on commemoration and monuments of grief. Zarina constructs minimalist shapes in gold leaf, referencing architecture and contemplative spirituality. Danh Vo gilds cardboard refuse, reimagining a simple box as wall sculpture, with marks of use as well as golden reminders of Mexican history. Luis Gispert combines gold chains and glittering stone into sparkling abstractions, referencing the decadence of rock n roll culture as well as post-war abstract painting. Lalla Essaydi uses glittering bullet casings to create garments and backdrops that refer to Islamic visual culture, which she then works into large-scale staged photographs. Rachel Sussman will create a site-specific work for the Art Center’s presentation of Alchemy, filling a crack in the floor with gold and resin in homage to the Japanese tradition of “Kintsukuroi,” in which ceramics are repaired with gold. Related photographs by Sussman will also be in the exhibition.

The full list of artists participating is as follows: James Lee Byars, Los Carpinteros, Dorothy Cross, Olga de Amaral, Lalla Essaydi, Don and Era Farnsworth, Luis Gispert, Laurent Grasso, Charles Lindsay, Teresa Margolles, Rachel Sussman, Hank Willis Thomas, Danh Vo, Shinji Turner-Yamamoto, Zarina

Alchemy is organized by Curator Laura Burkhalter.

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Des moines: Artist Lecture
Feb
2
6:30 PM18:30

Des moines: Artist Lecture

Join Rachel at the Des Moines Art Center:

“Creative churn: the practice of following compelling threads, unsure of where they might lead” is the term Rachel Sussman applies to her art making approach. Join Sussman for a talk that traverses a few of her fascinating projects—from a decade-long endeavor of photographing 2000-year-old organisms, to a collaborative handwritten timeline of the universe starting before the Big Bang and spanning to 100 billion years into the future.

Her project featured in Alchemy: Transformations in Gold is a site-specific work that taps into the Japanese tradition of Kintsukuroi, in which ceramics are repaired with gold. Join us to learn which element of the Art Center will be repaired with gold!

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NEW MUSEUM LOS GATOS: COSMIC MICROWAVE MANDALA
Oct
27
to Mar 5

NEW MUSEUM LOS GATOS: COSMIC MICROWAVE MANDALA

JOIN US SUNDAY, MARCH 5TH FROM 2P-3P FOR THE CEREMONIAL DESTRUCTION OF "COSMIC MICROWAVE MANDALA" AT THE NEW MUSEUM LOS GATOS. 

Bring a vessel to collect some sand, and you can take home part of the birth of the universe! 

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This group exhibition features artists from the SETI Artist in Residence (AIR) program, including Danny Bazo, George Bolster, Charles Lindsay, Marko Peljhan, Rachel Sussman, Martin Wilner and Karl Yerkes. Making Contact marks the first SETI AIR group exhibition.

The work in Making Contact expands upon the SETI Institute’s mission to explore, understand and explain the origin, nature and prevalence of life in the universe. The exhibiting artists bring fresh perspectives to help navigate difficult concepts and help build bridges to broaden awareness of the science carried out at the SETI Institute. Additionally, many of the works have never been exhibited to the public.  “We’re excited to bring together the art, science and ideas of this unique international program and share it with our community,” says Marianne McGrath, NUMU art curator.

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TEMPLE UNIVSERSITY: VISUALIZING SUSTAINABILITY
Sep
27
6:00 PM18:00

TEMPLE UNIVSERSITY: VISUALIZING SUSTAINABILITY

RACHEL SUSSMAN

    TEMPLE CONTEMPORARY

    Tuesday, September 27, 2016 // 6:00 pm

    Temple Contemporary // Tyler School of Art // 2001 N. 13th Street //Philadelphia, PA 19122

    Destiny Palmer // 2157779138

    Sussman is currently developing new installation work deepening her explorations of personal and cosmic time, the universe, nature, philosophy, and beauty. She spent a decade developing the critically acclaimed project “The Oldest Living Things in the World,” for which she researches, works with biologists, and travels all over the world to photograph continuously living organisms 2000 years old and older. Sussman's art practice really came into focus, however, after a serendipitous moment during a trip to Japan. Days away from deciding to fly home early, she found herself on a remote Japanese island, photographing a 7,000-year-old tree. About a year later, Sussman launched the Oldest Living Things in the World project, a series that has since taken her all over the world to photograph everything from 3,000-year-old lichen to a 9,550-year-old spruce to an 80,000-year-old colony of aspen trees. Rachel will be coming to talk about her work and her ongoing projects.

    "This series is co-curated by Temple Contemporary, Temple University’s Office of Sustainability, and Temple University Libraries, along with faculty and graduate students from the Tyler School of Art, the College of Liberal Arts, and the Center for the Cinematic and Performing Arts."

    Support for this series provided by the Department of Planning and Community Design in Tyler School of Art’s Division of Architecture and Environmental Design, the Office of Institutional Diversity, Equity, Advocacy and Leadership, the General Education Program, Philadelphia Parks and Recreation, the Philadelphia Orchard Project, the Jewish Farm School, the Feinstein Center for American Jewish History, the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, TreePhilly, Village of Arts and Humanities, Asociación de Puertorriqueños en Marcha, the Photography Program at Tyler School of Art, the New Kensington Community Development Corporation, The Humane League, Philadelphia Zoo, and Audubon Society.

    This event is made possible by the General Activities Fund (GAF)

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    GETXO PHOTO: TIME
    Jun
    26
    5:00 PM17:00

    GETXO PHOTO: TIME

    GETXOPHOTO is a festival dedicated to photography  that takes place in Getxo (Basque Country) and supports the exploration of formats, stands and unconventional exhibition spaces to show the different images. This is a thematic festival that every three years works together  with a different curator who understands the photography as a tool of knowledge, communication, and of course artistic enjoyment.

    Rachel will be exhibiting a selection of images from The Oldest Living Things in the World.

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    NYC: The Earth is Worth Saving @ El Barrio’s Artspace PS109
    Apr
    24
    5:00 PM17:00

    NYC: The Earth is Worth Saving @ El Barrio’s Artspace PS109

    In conjunction with an exhibition titled While You Are Sleeping featuring artists Gayil Nalls,  Daria Dorosh and Jose Marinez, at El Barrio’s Artspace PS109 in East Harlem on April 22 – May 1The Earth is Worth Saving is the first of two public events aiming to provoke an exchange of ideas about how we can navigate the future of work and the planet. In an effort to re-culture two important issues, we are bringing together artists, scientists, technologists, intellectuals, experts and activists in two round table dialogues on topics of the environment, and labor, to provide unique fundamental information and practical recommendations for issues both problematic and dire that we face today.

    Details TBA

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    LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES: ALOUD
    Feb
    17
    7:15 PM19:15

    LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES: ALOUD

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    Deep Time: Ancient Lives and Modern Eyes

    RACHEL SUSSMAN & URSULA K. HEISE IN CONVERSATION

    Artist Rachel Sussman has traveled around the world to photograph organisms—trees, lichens, bacteria—that are 2,000 or more years old. Confronting lives that extend so much longer than human lifespans challenges us to rethink the context of our human communities and the more-than-human environments into which we are embedded. What does it mean to take a picture of a 4,000-year-old tree at a fraction of a second? How has human intervention in nature given rise to a new geological age? Sussman, a LACMA Lab Artist and author of the New York Times bestseller, The Oldest Living Things in the World, and Ursula K. Heise, a professor in the Department of English and the Institute of Environment and Sustainability at UCLA, will discuss these questions of nature, technology, and our understanding of time to the backdrop of Sussman’s stunning images.

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    NMWA, Jackson Hole: Artist Talk
    Jun
    23
    7:00 PM19:00

    NMWA, Jackson Hole: Artist Talk

    TUE, JUNE 23, 7:00PM - 8:30PM

    Experience new exhibitions In Dubious Battle and Oldest Living Things in the World in a different light!

    Chit-chat with Shelley Reed and Rachel Sussman about their exhibitions, their similarities and differences, as well as where their art is located in a larger, present-day conversation about humanity's relationship with nature.

    Free • Limited seating, reserve your ticket online.

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    DC: National Museum of Women in the Arts "Women to Watch 2015"
    Jun
    5
    to Sep 13

    DC: National Museum of Women in the Arts "Women to Watch 2015"

    Organic Matters—Women to Watch 2015

    Depictions of nature can illuminate themes of sexuality, gender politics, the abject, and the sublime. In the fourth installment of the NMWA’s Women to Watch exhibition series, contemporary artists use imagery and materials taken from the natural world. The works on view recontextualize images of plants and animals and redefine the relationships between women, nature, and art. Calling to mind entrenched associations of women with nature, the exhibition opens a dialogue about these traditional views. Women to Watch is an exhibition series featuring emerging and underrepresented women artists held every two to three years developed in conjunction with the museum’s national and international outreach committees.

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    GEORGE EASTMAN HOUSE: IN THE GARDEN
    May
    9
    to Sep 6

    GEORGE EASTMAN HOUSE: IN THE GARDEN

    In the Garden

    Since its invention in the nineteenth century, photography has been used to document plant life and humans’ relationship to nature. Early photographic processes required vast amounts of light during exposure, and subjects were often posed in gardens flooded with sunlight. Both scientists and artists have recorded the beauty of plant structures, watching fiddlehead ferns unfurl and observing flowers as they bloom and decay. For amateur photographers, a photograph could capture a prizewinning flower or the image of a loved one among the splendor of the garden.

    George Eastman House holds a unique collection of photographs that explore uses of gardens and how humans cultivate the landscapes that surround them. From famous locations such as Versailles to the simplest home vegetable garden, from worlds imagined by artists to food production recorded by journalists, the subjects in this exhibition broaden our understanding of photography and how it has been used to record the cultivated landscape.

    Spanning the history of photography and photographic processes (daguerreotype to inkjet prints), more than 75 photographers will be represented, including Anna Atkins, Hippolyte Bayard, Southworth & Hawes, Eugene Atget, Edward Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Imogen Cunningham, Edward Weston, Lee Friedlander, Stephen Shore, Emmet Gowin, Robert Mapplethorpe, Barbara Norfleet, Mark Klett, Ablardo Morell, Andrew Buurman, Tanya Marcuse, Sharon Core, Ori Gersht, Rachel Sussman, and Brad Temkin.

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    HARVARD UNIVERSITY ARNOLD ARBORETUM DIRECTOR'S LECTURE SERIES
    Mar
    2
    6:00 PM18:00

    HARVARD UNIVERSITY ARNOLD ARBORETUM DIRECTOR'S LECTURE SERIES

    Each year, Director William (Ned) Friedman and the Arnold Arboretum present the Director’s Lecture Series, featuring nationally recognized experts addressing an array of topics related to Earth’s biodiversity and evolutionary history, the environment, conservation biology, and key social issues associated with current science. 

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    Abu Dhabi: Imagine Science Film Festvial
    Feb
    21
    7:00 PM19:00

    Abu Dhabi: Imagine Science Film Festvial

    Rachel, a member of the Image Science Film Festival New York City Jury, is traveling to Abu Dhabi to take part in the closing night program. A selection of her Oldest Living Things images will also be on view.

    More details to follow.

    http://imaginesciencefilms.org/events/closing-night-shorts-and-panel-where-land-meets-water/

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    LA: LACMA lecture lecture on "The Poetics of Space"
    Dec
    12
    6:00 PM18:00

    LA: LACMA lecture lecture on "The Poetics of Space"

    Join artist and Art + Technology Lab grant recipient Rachel Sussman for a talk exploring deep time and deep space. Reporting on her investigation of the limits of human perception in the realms of astronomy, astrophysics, and particle physics, Sussman shares her insights, setbacks, revelations, and ideas in progress generated through conversations with cosmologists at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, engineers at SpaceX, and particle physicists at CERN (home to the Large Hadron Collider).

    Sussman is a photographer and transdisciplinary artist whose work, including the project The Oldest Living Things in the World, is often inspired by discussions and collaborations with scientists. Sussman discusses what she calls “creative churn”—the practice of following compelling threads, unsure of where they might lead. For the past several months, she has been supported by a LACMA Art + Technology Lab grant in a research phase to inform future work, and will be talking publicly about new directions in her practice for the first time.

    LACMA, Art + Technology Lab, Art of the Americas Building
    Free and open to the public; reservations required
    Tickets: 323 857-6010 or reserve online
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