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Jill Magid in Conversation with Nicholas Fox Weber

Tuesday, March 9, 2021, 12 pm
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Event DetailsTuesday, March 9, 2021, 12 pm Live on Zoom Copresented by Dia Art Foundation and the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation RSVP and receive a Zoom link here. The artist Jill Magid will be in conversation with Nicholas Fox Weber, writer and director of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, about her current exhibition at Dia Bridgehampton. The display features the series Homage CMYK (2019): eleven screenprints on linen that take two unlicensed works by Josef Albers as the departure point for a prismatic investigation of authorship. Jill Magid was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, in 1973. She is an artist, writer, and filmmaker. Solo presentations of her work have been held at, among others, the Berkeley Art Museum; Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo in Mexico City; San Francisco Art Institute; Security and Intelligence Agency of the Netherlands; Tate Modern in London; and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. She has participated in Manifesta as well as the Bucharest, Gothenburg, Incheon, Liverpool, Oslo, Performa, Singapore, and Ural Biennials. She is the author of four novellas and her documentary, The Proposal, premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival. Magid is an associate faculty member in the Art, Design, and the Public Domain program at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and an adjunct teacher at Cooper Union in New York. In December 2019, Magid delivered a performative lecture on Belgian filmmaker and writer, Chantal Akerman as part of Dia Art Foundation’s Artists on Artists lecture series. Magid lives in Brooklyn and Amagansett, New York. Nicholas Fox Weber is a cultural historian and author and has been the executive director of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation for the past four decades. He has written extensively on the Alberses, and recently completed the visual biography Anni & Josef Albers: Equal and Unequal (2020). He is currently writing a new biography of the artist Piet Mondrian. Fox Weber also spearheads Le Korsa, a nonprofit organization he founded in 2005 to assist with medical care and education in Senegal.

Gallery Talks

Gallery Talks: Michael Heizer

Thursday, March 11, 2021, 12 pm
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Event DetailsThursday, March 11, 2021, 12–12:30 pmLive on Zoom RSVP and receive a Zoom link here. Join Dia educators on Thursdays at 12 pm for engaging conversations around one artist’s practice or work on view at Dia Beacon. On March 11, Dia educators will discuss the work of artist Michael Heizer.

Education Program

Recreational Meeting: Screens with Robin Deacon

Friday, March 12, 2021, 3 pm
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Recreational Meetings

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Event Details Friday, March 12, 2021, 3–4:15 pmLive on Zoom Hosted live on Zoom, each session is free and open to the public. Space is limited, and reservations are required. Register for individual or multiple sessions in the Recreational Meetings series here. Session Description Recreational Meeting: Screens with Robin Deacon Developed in collaboration with artist Robin Deacon, this session will explore the screen as notion, surface, and frame for play and performance. Program Description Fridays, February 5–March 12, 2021, 3–4:15 pm Facilitated by artist and educator Stephen Kwok in collaboration with a series of guest artists, these workshops invite participants to reimagine digital platforms and the social formats through experimental and experiential exercises. These sessions explore how distance may enable, rather than limit, engagement with our surroundings, ourselves, and each other. Stephen Kwok makes experimental events that incorporate sculpture, live performance, digital media, and text. He holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA in business administration from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He was an artist-in-residence at Delfina Foundation’s Performance as Process program in London. Kwok has exhibited at Seoul Museum of Art; Surplus Space, Wuhan; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn; Julius Caesar Gallery, Chicago; Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans; and Lawndale Art Center, Houston. Robin Deacon is a British artist, writer, filmmaker, and educator. His work explores questions of identity, memory, absence, and fiction through a constant reconfiguration of his role as an artist. His research encompasses histories of video recording and outmoded media formats, as well as the practice and ethics of performance reenactment. Deacon’s work has been presented throughout Europe, the United States, and Asia. He is a professor of performance at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Poetry Reading

Tribute to Norma Cole

Tuesday, March 16, 2021, 6 pm
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Readings in Contemporary Poetry

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Event Details Tuesday, March 16, 2021, 6 pm Live on Zoom RSVP and receive a Zoom link here. Dia is pleased to announce the upcoming events in its Readings in Contemporary Poetry series. This season, instead of pairing two poets for an evening, curator Vincent Katz has chosen a format that pays tribute to five exemplary poets. For each event, a small group of readers will pay homage to one of the featured poets, followed by a reading by that poet. The featured poet for this event is Norma Cole. The tribute readers for this event will be Kazim Ali, Brenda Hillman, Maya Phillips, and Cedar Sigo. Norma Cole was born in Toronto in 1945. She is a poet, painter, and translator. Her most recent books of poetry include Fate News (2018), Win These Posters and Other Unrelated Prizes Inside (2012), Where Shadows Will: Selected Poems, 1988–2008 (2009), and Spinoza in Her Youth (2002). Cole has also published the volumes To be at Music: Essays & Talks (2010) and Actualities (2015), a collaboration with painter Marina Adams. Her translations from French include Danielle Collobert’s It Then (1989) and Jean Daive’s A Woman with Several Lives (2009). Additionally, Cole edited and translated Crosscut Universe: Writing on Writing from France (2000). Cole has received awards from the Creative Work Fund, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Fund for Poetry, Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation, and Gertrude Stein Awards for Innovative Poetry. She has taught at, among others, the University of San Francisco; Saint Mary’s College in Moraga, California; and San Francisco State University. Cole was also a regents’ lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley.

Gallery Talks

Gallery Talks: Charles Gaines

Thursday, March 18, 2021, 12 pm
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Event DetailsThursday, March 18, 2021, 12–12:30 pmLive on Zoom RSVP and receive a Zoom link here. Join Dia educators on Thursdays at 12 pm for engaging conversations around one artist’s practice or work on view at Dia Beacon. On March 18, Dia educators will discuss the work of artist Charles Gaines.

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Gallery Talks: Michelle Stuart

Thursday, March 25, 2021, 12 pm
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Event DetailsThursday, March 25, 2021, 12–12:30 pmLive on Zoom RSVP and receive a Zoom link here. Join Dia educators on Thursdays at 12 pm for engaging conversations around one artist’s practice or work on view at Dia Beacon. On March 25, Dia educators will discuss the work of artist Michelle Stuart.

Mario Merz, <em>Is space bent or straight?</em>, 1973. Collezione Merz, Turin. Installation view, Dia Beacon, Riggio Galleries, Beacon, New York, 2020. © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/SIAE, Rome. Photo: Bill Jacobson Studio, New York, courtesy Dia Art Foundation, New York

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A Conversation on Mario and Marisa Merz with Teresa Kittler and Matilde Guidelli-Guidi

Thursday, March 25, 2021, 6 pm
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Event DetailsThursday, March 25, 2021, 6 pm Live on Zoom RSVP and receive a Zoom link here. Copresented by Dia Art Foundation and Magazzino Italian Art. This conversation with Teresa Kittler, 2020–21 scholar-in-residence at Magazzino Italian Art in Cold Spring, New York, and Dia’s associate curator Matilde Guidelli-Guidi, will focus on the performative azioni (actions) of Mario and Marisa Merz. Supported by archival material and original research, the discussion will shed light on a lesser-known aspect of the artists’ practice and reflect upon how to situate their actions in a broader history of performance. Teresa Kittler is the 2020–21 scholar-in-residence at Magazzino Italian Art, Cold Spring, New York, and a lecturer in modern and contemporary art at University of York, England. She received her PhD at University College London in 2014. Kittler’s research focuses on artistic practices from 1945 to the present day, with a special interest in Italian postwar art and the work of artists Marisa Merz and Carla Accardi. Her most recent essays include “Marisa Merz: Actions, Interactions, and Performative Sculpture,” in Entrare nell’opera (2019) and “Reimagining the Family Album: Carla Lonzi’s Autoritratto (1969),” in Feminism and Art in Postwar Italy: The Legacy of Carla Lonzi (2020). Her current book project, Habitats: Art and the Environment Italy, 1945–1975, examines artistic practice in Italy through the lens of habitat in the three decades following World War II. Matilde Guidelli-Guidi is Dia’s associate curator. She recently organized Mario Merz’s exhibition at Dia Beacon, which opened for long-term view on November 20, 2020.

Special Event

Hudson Valley Free Day

Sunday, March 28, 2021, 10 am–4 pm
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Hudson Valley residents receive free admission to Dia Beacon on the last Sunday of each month. The Hudson Valley encompasses the following counties: Albany, Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Orange, Putnam, Rensselaer, Rockland, Saratoga, Schenectady, Sullivan, Ulster, Washington, and Westchester. Please contact 845 231 0811 or tickets@diaart.org to reserve tickets. Hudson Valley Free Days at Dia Beacon are made possible by Kiki McMillan, Charlie Pohlad, and the Pohlad family.

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