Cunard Cruise Lines building
[OCA, NYC]
25 Broadway
New York, 10004
NY, USA
[OCA, NYC] is an experimental platform launched by The Office for Contemporary Art Norway in Oslo in an aim to initiate projects, host seminars, talks, and screenings with an effort to draw from the resources and network already available in New York City. In supplement to the existing residencies overseen by OCA in Manhattan, [OCA, NYC] attempts to provide a less formal context for exchange and presentation with shorter term networking and research possibilities for Norwegian professionals while also initiating OCA programming, discursive panels and platforms of discussion.
Physically lodged within the accompanying office of the architecture firm of Snøhetta in the historical Cunard Cruise Lines building (and the former Police Museum), [OCA, NYC] legitimately squats space to act as an alternative and innovative international venue for contemporary art, culture and discourse. The office/workshop is located on the 2nd Floor of 25 Broadway, adjacent to Battery Park.
Critic, curator and academic Ina Blom joins New York based artist Gardar Eide Einarsson in a public discussion about mediated imagery and the semiotics of subculture.
Norwegian filmmaker and artist Lene Berg premieres the video, The Man in the Background, and launches her publication, Gentlemen an Arseholes, two parts of one project about art and propaganda during the Cold War. Berg's project focuses on the cultural journal Encounter that had been founded and distributed in 1953 as one of the undertakings of the Congress of Cultural Freedom (1957–1967). Berg's approach calls into question what is defined as a "liberal conspiracy" and what is otherwise deemed a successful state sponsored cultural effort carried out by a power intelligence agency.
Recent Goldsmith graduate and independent curator Hanne Mugaas joins computer artist, performer, and curator Cory Arcangel in audio-visual compilation that retells the history of art from 1950 through present day using nearly entirely information drawn from the internet. The screening and presentation will highlight the incomplete nature of user-generated information found on the internet. Arcangel and Mugaas will edit existing images, video, sound, and information to weave an altogether alternative history of modern art. A "directors' commentary" will accompany the performance.
Further in late Spring, artist and academic Tone Hansen presents alternative organization forms and projections of mega-museum; and New York based artist Corey McCorkle speaks about and presents Tower of Shadows, a 16 mm film produced as part of his OCA off-site residency in India in December 2006. The film is a meditation on Le Corbusier's Chandigarh as an incontestable Utopian poster-city of the 20th century.
For more information on this and other programmes, please contact: info@oca.no or go to www.oca.no.
The Office for Contemporary Art Norway is a private foundation and was founded by The Norwegian Ministry of Culture and Church Affairs and The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Fall 2001. The main aim of the Office for Contemporary Art Norway is to develop collaborations in contemporary art between Norway and the international art scene. The Office for Contemporary Art Norway aims to become a profiled contributor to the discourses of contemporary art.
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