[Sarai Newsletter] Film Screening: New York Conversations with Anton Vidokle

[The Sarai Programme]

/*New York Conversations*/ *with Anton Vidokle*

*Date: 31st January, 2012
Time: 3 P.M
Venue: Sarai-CSDS, Seminar Room, 29, Rajpur Road, Civil Lines, Delhi-110054
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Do join us for a film screening with Anton Vidokle at 3 P.M , Tuesday, 
31st January, followed by tea and conversations.

/New York Conversations/ is a text film. Shot in a Chinatown storefront 
converted for this occasion into an improvised kitchen/restaurant, the 
film documents three days of public conversations between artists, 
critics, curators, and a free floating public. The talks, lunches, and 
dinners were organized by Rirkrit Tiravanija, Nico Dockx, and Anton 
Vidokle in response to an invitation by Brussels-based art journal /A 
Prior/ to be the subject of their new issue. Instead of commissioning 
essays or producing artwork to be printed in the journal, the artists 
decided to rethink the structure by which an art publication is produced 
and to attempt to do this discursively in a public setting.

The film is a subjective record of these conversations, which explored 
various topics ranging from questions concerning precarious and 
immaterial labor in the field of art, possibilities for non-alienated 
life and working conditions, the feasibility of artistic freedom, and 
possible means of reclaiming dignity in the work of art criticism, to 
more immediate questions concerning whether what was actually taking 
place throughout the course of the event was in fact an artwork. In the 
tradition of underground cinema, essay films, and experimental 
language-based films from the conceptual era, New York Conversations 
insists upon a certain degree of participation from the audience---by 
way of critical reading.

With: Francisca Benitez, Nico Dockx, Daniel Faust, Media Farzin, Liam 
Gillick, Egon Hanfstingl, Jörg Heiser, Steven Kaplan, Shama Khana, 
Anders Kreuger, Miwon Kwon, Valerie Mannaerts, Sis Matthé, Hadley Nunes, 
Saul Ostrow, Marti Peran, Simon Rees, Els Roelandt, Dieter Roelstraete, 
Martha Rosler, Joe Scanlan, Maxwel Stephen, Monika Szewczyk, Rirkrit 
Tiravanija, Jan Verwoert, Anton Vidokle, Lawrence Weiner, Andrea Wiarda, 
Louwrien Wijers and others.
/
Anton Vidokle is a Russian artist, curator, and writer. In 1999, he 
founded e-flux, a paid contemporary art newswire and critical journal.

/All are welcome!/*


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