Center for Experimental Lectures
The Center for Experimental Lectures is an artist's project that provides a platform to engage with the public lecture as a format. The Center for Experimental Lectures commissions new lecture performances with hopes of providing occasions to focus on not only the content and format of each unique lecture but also the possibilities of the lecture as a creative platform.
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Anthony Elms, Edie Fake and Andy Roche Alderman Exhibitions—350 N. Ogden Ave, 4th fl, Chicago, IL Saturday December 17, 2011 7pm The Center for Experimental Lectures is pleased to announce its inaugural event with presentations by Anthony Elms, Edie Fake, and Andy Roche. Hosted by Alderman Exhibitions, the program will feature three new lecture/performances by these creative producers followed by an open discussion. Anthony Elms’ lecture, entitled I want to lick this animal skin that falls, well cut, from your round shoulder, explores fragments of a reconnection between fashion and art, manifesting the possibility that “winter whites are a myth, and that’s a good ... -
Math Bass and Travis Boyer Hosted by The Shandaken Project Shandaken, NY Sunday September 2, 2012 7pm The Center for Experimental Lectures invites you to join us upstate over Labor Day weekend for a special out-of- town presentation of new lecture-performances by Math Bass and Travis Boyer hosted by The Shandaken Project. Guests are welcome any time in the afternoon and to stay on after the lectures into the night or overnight for eating, drinking, and camping. New York Based artist Travis Boyer will present a slide lecture that connects Russian painting and Tex-Mex cocktail culture entitled “Any Three Ingredients Makes a ... -
Edie Fake, Jamillah James, Alexis Blair Penney Hosted by MoMA PS1 22-25 Jackson Ave, Long Island City, NY Sunday November 18, 2012 2pm The Center for Experimental Lectures is thrilled to present lectures by Edie Fake, Jamillah James, and Alexis Blair Penney, hosted by MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, New York as part of the museum’s Sunday Sessions program. Artist Edie Fake’s lecture The Sexual Life of Patterns explores the concept of “the weave” in relation to textiles, gender, and the trans body. Extending the logic of intuitive herbalism, magic, and tarot into textile decoration, ornamentation, and repetitive pattern, Fake’s lecture will explore the physical ... -
Recess Presents Christine Sun Kim in conjunction with the Center for Experimental Lectures Feedback: (4-6 of 6) Seeing Voice The Seven-Tone Color Spectrum Recess in Soho 41 Grand Street, New York, NY 10013 March 15th: 7-9 pm March 16: 3-8 pm On March 15 & 16, Christine Sun Kim, in collaboration with the Center for Experimental Lectures, will initiate a conversation led by seven presenters, all of whom will give a lecture without using audible voice. This is the final event in Feedback, Sun Kim’s six-part Session at Recess. Throughout Feedback, Sun Kim, deaf since birth, has performed auditory investigations that initiate a slippage of audio into visual. Using non-vocal methods of ... -
Sophia Cleary, Chris Domenick, Alhena Katsof Hosted by The Shandaken Project Shandaken, NY Saturday August 31, 2013 7pm The Center for Experimental Lectures invites you to join us upstate for our annual Labor Day weekend event at The Shandaken Project for new lecture-performances by Sophia Cleary, Chris Domenick, and Alhena Katsof. Guests are welcome any time in the afternoon and to stay on after the lectures into the night or overnight for eating, drinking, and camping. Alhena’s presentation, provisionally titled “The Garden Is Overgrown”, will explore gardens and woodlands as an enchanted, darkly mnemonic device. Burials of various kinds and the occasional zebra crossing take ... -
Christoph Cox and Sergei Tcherepnin Recess—41 Grand St, New York Tuesday January 7th, 2014 7pm The Center for Experimental Lectures will welcome 2014 at Recess with the presentation of two new lectures by Christoph Cox and Sergei Tcherepnin. Christoph Cox is a philosopher, curator, and theorist of contemporary art and music. Titled Matter (In Several Phases), his lecture will be an experiment in art historical research and philosophical thinking, exploring the resonances between materialist philosophy and artistic practices since the late 1960s. Eschewing the lecturer’s original voice and comprised solely of media, Cox’s lecture will offer a flow of sounds, images, and texts by artists ... -
From 1969 to 2004, the Whitney’s Seminars with Artists program offered notable American artists the opportunity to discuss their practices informally with an intimate and diverse audience. This spring, the Whitney Education Department is pleased to collaborate with the Center for Experimental Lectures to re-launch and re-imagine this historic series by inviting Biennial artists to present public lectures that creatively explore the research and concepts underpinning their work. Wednesday, March 19, 2014 6:30 pm This evening, Biennial artist Zoe Leonard invites visitors to take part in a viewing in her installation on the fourth floor. This lecture will engage Leonard’s interest in the ... -
Lizzie Feidelson and Katherine Hubbard Hosted by The Shandaken Project Shandaken, NY Saturday August 30, 2014 The Center for Experimental Lectures invites you to join us upstate for our third annual Labor Day weekend event hosted by the Shandaken Project, for new lecture-performances by Lizzie Feidelson and Katherine Hubbard. The Shandaken Project will also present a selection of new video work by Chloé Rosetti, made while in residence this year. Guests are welcome any time in the afternoon and to stay on after the lectures into the night or overnight for eating, drinking, and camping. Lizzie Feidelson will present an untitled lecture on the social ... -
Chelsea Knight and Martine Syms Hosted by The Shandaken Project and Storm King Art Center New Windsor, NY Sunday September 6th, 2015, 3pm-evening The Center for Experimental Lectures invites you to join us sixty minutes north of New York City for our fourth annual Labor Day weekend event hosted by the Shandaken Project, for new lecture-performances by Chelsea Knight and Martine Syms. The day’s program will begin at Storm King Art Center at 3pm, and continue into the evening on the contiguous campus of The Shandaken Project at Storm King. Chelsea Knight will present an experimental walking tour of Storm King beginning at the Visitor ... -
Andrianna Campbell, Taraneh Fazeli, Sb Fuller, Sara Magenheimer, and Em Rooney Center for Experimental LecturesThe Center for Experimental Lectures presents Andrianna Campbell, Taraneh Fazeli, Sb Fuller, Sara Magenheimer, and Em Rooney Hosted by The Shandaken Project at Storm King New Windsor, NY Sunday September 4th, 2016, 3pm-evening Andrianna Campbell begins the day at 3pm at Storm King Art Center. Campbell, who was a resident of The Shandaken Project at Storm King earlier this summer, will offer a guided tour of speculative artworks by over 20 contemporary artists. In her many years of making inquiries about contemporary cultural production, Campbell has formed significant relationships with the artists invited to participate in this experimental narrative. Campbell will present the speculative ... -
Tuesday, December 19th, 7pm Wendy’s Subway Reading Room at BAM Next Wave Festival Featuring Danielle Dean, Millie Kapp and Noah Furman Danielle Dean is an interdisciplinary artist whose works use fiction and the aesthetics of advertisement to engage and historicize the media and cultural processes that colonize the mind and body. Drawing on her multinational background—born to a Nigerian father and an English mother in Alabama, and brought up in a suburb of London—her work explores technology, architecture, marketing techniques, and the media as tools of subjection and oppression. Dean received her MFA from California Institute of the Arts and attended the Whitney ... -
Devin Kenny and Jason Hirata Hosted by Interstate Projects 66 Knickerbocker Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11237 Sunday June 11th, 2017, 7 pm The Center for Experimental Lectures invites you to Interstate Projects for our first event of 2017, a presentation of two new lecture-performances by Devin Kenny and Jason Hirata. Devin Kenny’s work for the Center for Experimental Lectures extrapolates a critical understanding of network aesthetics and network culture as intrinsic to the Black experience. His lecture focuses on Black/American culture before and after telecommunication technologies in connection with legacies of the African diaspora. Keywords : Henry Box Brown, Juneteenth, quilt codes, graffiti, Black Twitter, analog ... -
ARTISTS SPACE Center for Experimental Lectures: Amalle Dublon and Aria Dean February 2, 2020, 6pm Amalle Dublon and Aria Dean present new work for the Center for Experimental Lectures, an artist’s project based in New York that engages with the public lecture as form. Amalle Dublon will play and discuss Mariah Carey’s song “Honey,” relating it to concerns of dependency, growth and decay, and culinary sound. In Aria Dean’s lecture, To the Ringdown, two become one, bound by a third. As a part of a series of lectures co-commissioned by Montez Press Radio, their lectures will be broadcast live from Artists Space and ... -
The Center for Experimental Lectures, in collaboration with the Rhode Island School of Design Department of Sculpture, The RISD Museum, and RISD’s Center for Arts & Language presents three new lecture-performances by Carissa Rodriguez, Naama Tsabar, and Pablo Helguera. These three pieces are site-specific to the internet, using a variety of online presentation platforms and presented remotely on three separate dates throughout the month May. This series is the RISD Sculpture Department’s Visiting Artist Program, and has been developed throughout the spring with RISD students in the course “Talking Is Dancing: Lecture-Performance As Form,” written and taught by CEL founder Gordon ... -
Julia Scher “Filzengraben Boulevard” November 29, 2020 at Drei, Cologne and Kunsthaus Glarus “Charles Sloan”: Julia Scher “Julia”: Elisa R. Linn Host (“The Center”): Joseph Lubitz Online survey conceived by Elisa R. Linn and Joseph Lubitz. Designed by Chiara Sbolci. Concept and zoom chat text by Elisa R. Linn. Note: All participants were required to complete an online survey prior to attending this event, which took place on the application “Zoom.” The survey can be viewed at: filzengrabenblvd.getaccess.experimentallectures.org The introduction for the event, as well as a series of messages from “Julia,” occurred via the chat function of Zoom. The text of the chat is reproduced in its ... -
Kamron Hazel and Nat Marcus Haus Wien am Kempelenpark, Vienna, Austria September 3, 2021, 4:30 pm The Center for Experimental Lectures invites you to Haus Wien on September 3rd at 4:30 pm for presentations of new work by Kamron Hazel and Nat Marcus. But of course, waxing over metronomic riddims, field recordings, and a syncopated ghetto blaster, Kamron will be giving a mistranslation of his elders’ wisdom, a lecture against having new experiences. By means of two turntables, a set of poems, citations and samples, Nat Marcus will give a lecture on the home that house music provides for her. This program will be live ...
