NYC: Upcoming Events at EFA Project Space
Goldin + Senneby Documentary Screening
Image courtesy of Goldin + Senneby
Friday, February 1, 3:30pm
At Regus Meeting Room, 112 West 34 St, 17th Floor
PLEASE NOTE: The February 15 Goldin + Senneby event at 3:30pm is fully booked.
Tour of the Complete Works of Henry Darger
Image courtesy of The American Folk Art Museum
Thursday, February 7, 4:00pm
At American Folk Art Museum Archive in Brooklyn, NY
This tour highlights the complete works of the Henry Darger collection at the American Folk Art Museum in New York.
Space for this event is limited. Please email projectspace@efanyc.org for more information. This event is organized in conjunction with The Book Lovers.
A Reading Party!
Tuesday, February 12, 6:30pm
At EFA Project Space, 323 West 39 St, 2nd Floor
Books are nice to look at, but they are meant to be read! Please join us in uncovering some of the treasures in The Book Lovers artist novel collection from M HKA (Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp, Belgium) at EFA Project Space. Michelle Levy hosts an evening of reading, spontaneous interpretation, and plain old fun. Guests will get a quick tour of the show, then you will each be given your pick from the library on view. In addition to the novel you choose, you will have access to the database to gain more background on the artist/author and discover how the novel relates to his/her larger body of work.
After an hour of reading silently… together, we will regroup (with some snacks and drinks) and collectively share and discuss what we have discovered, each reader playing emissary for the book you have read. The goal is to leave with a deeper understanding of the artist novel library, the many ways the fiction novel format may be co-opted by artists, and perhaps a few new books to add to your reading list.
The artist novel collection includes books by Carl Andre, Keren Cytter, Salvador Dalí, Tim Etchells, Liam Gillick, Pablo Helguera, Stewart Home, Joseph Kosuth, Yayoi Kusama, Jana Leo, Mai-Thu Perret, Tom McCarthy, Richard Prince, Andy Warhol… to a total of around 140 titles.
Please email projectspace@efanyc.org to RSVP for this event. If you are unable to attend, but interested in participating, please let us know, we will have more than one!
Public Talk about Theresa Hak Kyung Cha with Woo Jung Cho
Photo credit: Trip Callaghan
Thursday, February 21, 6:30pm
At EFA Project Space, 323 West 39 St, 2nd Floor
Woo Jung Cho is the director of The Dream of the Audience, a film aboutTheresa Hak Kyung Cha, the NYC- based artist and author of the novel Dictée who met a tragic early death. Some clips of the film will be shown.This event is organized in conjunction with The Book Lovers.
The Book Lovers
January 25 – March 9, 2013
Artists: Tim Etchells, Tom Gidley, Goldin+Senneby, Jill Magid, Roee Rosen, Lindsay Seers, Alexandre Singh, Julia Weist
Curated by: David Maroto and Joanna Zielińska
Through an onsite collection of 140 novels written by artists and an installation of artworks in varied media that each link to select novels by their same artists, the curators of The Book Lovers invite us to think about literature as a tool for creating expanded narratives in the visual arts. The artist novels collection is also on view at M HKA (Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp, Belgium -from 6th December 2012 to 21st April 2013) and it has been acquired by the museum to be included in its collection.
