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VOICE: NaturallySpeaking

“The more you speak COMMA the better it learns to listen PERIOD” The following VOICE contribution, NaturallySpeaking (2013–14) by artist and writer Tyler Coburn, takes the form of an experimental… Read more

09/17/14
by Tyler Coburn
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VOICE
R&D Season
Tyler Coburn

VOICE: A Series of Speculations

The R&D VOICE Season launched in spring 2014 and has since presented a number of speculations around this thematic across the Education Department’s multiple platforms, including exhibitions, performances,… Read more

Whose Terms? A Glossary for Social Practice: OUTCOME

Emily Baierl contributes to our collective glossary-building with an entry on OUTCOME, the final of seven successive posts on terms associated with social practice, initiated via an open call. It is… Read more

Whose Terms? A Glossary for Social Practice: RESPONSIBILITY

Artist Jenny Perlin and curator Nova Benway contribute to our collective glossary-building with an entry on RESPONSIBILITY, the sixth of seven successive posts on terms associated with social practice,… Read more

Whose Terms? A Glossary for Social Practice: PARTICIPATION

Andrea Liu contributes to our collective glossary-building with an entry on PARTICIPATION, the fifth of seven successive posts on terms associated with social practice, initiated via an open call. The… Read more

Whose Terms? A Glossary for Social Practice: RESEARCH

Hakan Topal contributes to our collective glossary-building with an entry on RESEARCH, the fourth of seven successive posts on terms associated with social practice, initiated via an open call. A reference… Read more

Whose Terms? A Glossary for Social Practice: TRUST

Emily Zimmerman contributes to our collective glossary-building with an entry on TRUST, the third of seven successive posts on terms associated with social practice, initiated via an open call. Socially… Read more

Whose Terms? A Glossary for Social Practice: ENGAGEMENT

Megan Heuer contributes to our collective glossary-building with an entry on ENGAGEMENT, the second of seven successive posts on terms associated with social practice, initiated via an open call. The… Read more

Whose Terms? A Glossary for Social Practice: CONSCIOUSNESS

Wendy Vogel contributes to our collective glossary-building with an entry on CONSCIOUSNESS, the first of seven successive posts on terms associated with social practice, initiated via an open call. “Whose… Read more

Whose Terms? A Glossary for Social Practice: Part 2/2

“Whose Terms?” was conceived as a dual-form project the Department of Education and Public Engagement started in late Spring to look at some of the conditions, agendas, and priorities that operate… Read more

SHOP TALK: Archiving Performance: the Museum’s Methodologies with a canary torsi

As residents of last fall’s R&D Season “Performance Archiving Performance” (“PAP”), a canary torsi—a group led by Yanira Castro whose work is anchored in performance—completed the archive… Read more

07/31/14
by Travis Chamberlain, Associate Curator of Performance and Manager of Public Programs, Tara Hart, Digital Archivist, Yanira Castro, a canary torsi, Director and Choreographer, Kathy Couch, a canary torsi, Installation Designer
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a canary torsi
Travis Chamberlain
Tara Hart
Archives
Digital Archive
Shop Talk-Archiving Performance
Shop Talk
R&D Season

VOICE: Vocal Folds: Some Articulated Research on Voice

Kaegan Sparks is the Education Department’s R&D spring 2014 Season Fellow. Here she follows several lines of inquiry in researching the season thematic of VOICE, each thread delineating a distinct negotiation… Read more

06/24/14
by Kaegan Sparks, R&D spring 2014 Season Fellow
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VOICE
R&D Season
R&D Season Fellow
Kaegan Sparks

A Roundup of Performance >< Archive Initiatives

Last fall, at the New Museum’s “Performance Archiving Performance” (PAP) Artists Talk, Jennifer Monson, director, choreographer, and performer, declared that documentation wasn’t the same… Read more

05/29/14
by Paisid Aramphongphan

SHOP TALK: Archiving Performance: Terms of Submission with a canary torsi

As residents of last fall’s R&D Season “Performance Archiving Performance,” a canary torsi—a group led by Yanira Castro whose work is anchored in performance—completed the archive of their project… Read more

05/21/14
by Travis Chamberlain, Associate Curator of Performance and Manager of Public Programs, Tara Hart, Digital Archivist, Yanira Castro, a canary torsi, Director and Choreographer, Kathy Couch, a canary torsi, Installation Designer
TAGS
a canary torsi
Travis Chamberlain
Tara Hart
Archives
Digital Archive
R&D Season
Shop Talk-Archiving Performance

Whose Terms? A Glossary for Social Practice Part 1/2

Lately, in the Department of Education, we’ve been considering how various indexes, particularly the glossary form, might be used to get specific about subjects that warrant further critical attention.… Read more

04/22/14
by Six Degrees Editor
TAGS
collaboration
social practice
glossary
Whose Terms?

SHOP TALK: Archiving Performance

INTRODUCING THE NEW SERIES SHOP TALK SHOP TALK is a new series on Six Degrees that examines institutional practices within art organizations through critical dialogues initiated by Six Degrees editors.… Read more

The Neoliberal Institution of Culture and the Critique of Culturalization

Written in 2007 by Prelom kolektiv [Break collective] members Dušan Grlja and Jelena Vesić, “The Neoliberal Institution of Culture and the Critique of Culturalization” offers insight into the politicized… Read more

04/11/14
by Dušan Grlja and Jelena Vesić, members of Prelom kolektiv, Introduction by Taraneh Fazeli, Six Degrees Editor
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Prelom kolektiv
Museum as Hub
Tranzit

The Back Room in conversation with Media Farzin

Six Degrees, as an editorial platform that feeds into and out of New Museum programming by functioning as a space for expanded dialogue, research, and reflection, will be inviting different artistic, curatorial,… Read more

Whose Terms? A Glossary for Social Practice

In preparation for a public program dedicated to the subject, the New Museum is examining the terms that have regularly (and in some cases, more speculatively) come to be associated with social practice… Read more

03/28/14
by Six Degrees Editor
TAGS
collaboration
social practice
glossary

Chapter 3: From Reports on the Construction of a Spaceship

From January 22 until April 13, 2014, tranzit, a network of autonomous but interconnected organizations based in Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia, has been occupying the New… Read more

03/24/14
by Vít Havránek, Director of tranzit in Prague, translation by John Comer
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Tranzit
Report on the Construction of a Spaceship Module
Museum as Hub

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