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October 17 to November 16, 2021

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Remix Ready Mix Live

November 3, 2021, 6 pm
Dia Chelsea

Event Details Wednesday, November 3, 2021, 6 pm Dia Chelsea 537 West 22nd Street New York, New York Free. Register for the event here. To celebrate the digital release of Remix Ready Mix—extractions from the score of Lucy Raven’s film Ready Mix (2021)—composer Deantoni Parks will perform a live soundtrack within the exhibition. Deantoni Parks was born in Newnan, Georgia, in 1977. He is a founding member of the band KUDU and cofounder (with Nicci Kasper) of the duo We Are Dark Angels. He has also collaborated with John Cale and performed with the bands Mars Volta and Bosnian Rainbows. His acclaimed solo album Technoself was released in 2015. He has also taught at the Stanford Jazz Workshop in California and Berklee College of Music in Boston. Lucy Raven was born in Tucson, Arizona, in 1977. She received a BFA in studio art and a BA in art history from the University of Arizona, Tucson, in 2000, and an MFA from Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, in 2008. Her work has been exhibited in solo presentations at the Nevada Museum of Art, Reno (2010); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2012); Portikus, Frankfurt (2014); Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (2014); VOX centre de l’image contemporaine, Montreal (2015); Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio (2016); and Serpentine Galleries, London (2016–17). Select group shows include those at Mass MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts (2008–09); Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus (2010); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2013); and Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2018–19). Additionally, Raven’s work was included in the 2012 Whitney Biennial, New York; 2016 Montreal Biennial; and 2018 Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh. With Vic Brooks and Evan Calder Williams, she is a founding member of 13BC, a moving-image research and production collective. Raven teaches at the Cooper Union School of Art in New York.

Rethinking German Minimalism Symposium

November 12, 2021, 12:30 pm
Dia Chelsea

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Event DetailsFriday, November 12, 2021, 12:30–2:30 pm, Dia Chelsea and Dia Online Dia Chelsea 537 West 22nd Street New York, New York Register for the in-person event here Register for the online event here. On the occasion of Dia Beacon’s simultaneous presentation of works by Imi Knoebel, Charlotte Posenenske, and Franz Erhard Walther, this two-hour event brings together a new generation of artists and scholars to reconsider the classification of “German Minimalism,” a term that has been used to describe artistic practices that emerged in West Germany in the mid-1960s. Reflecting conceptual engagement—and sometimes direct contact—with Minimalist art from the United States, Knoebel, Posenenske, Walther, and many of their peers employed industrial materials and processes, a reduced geometric vocabulary, the serial repetition of forms, and an emphasis on embodied relationships to sculpture. However, the work of these German artists can also be distinguished in various ways from US Minimalism, which has traditionally been understood through the abstract theoretical discourse of phenomenology. Expanding beyond simple morphological comparison, this symposium considers defining features of Knoebel, Posenenske, and Walther’s practices that depart from United States models. A panel of art historians and practicing artists will discuss an alternative historical view on German art of the 1960s and a new understanding of its relevance to artistic practices today. Speakers include Gordon Hall, Hanna B. Hölling, Colin Lang, Gregor Quack, Michael Sanchez, and Sung Tieu, with moderator Ian Wallace, 2020–21 Andrew M. Mellon Curatorial Fellow at Dia Art Foundation. Participants Gordon Hall is an artist based in New York. Hall has exhibited and performed at, among others, Art in General, Brooklyn Museum, Movement Research, Socrates Sculpture Park, Drawing Center, and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Hanna B. Hölling is associate professor of the history of art at University College London and research professor at Bern University of the Arts, Switzerland. Her research, publications, and teaching focus mainly on the philosophy and theory of conservation and art and material culture since the 1960s. Colin Lang is an art historian, critic, and editor living in Berlin. He received his PhD in art history from Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut in 2010. Gregor Quack is an art critic, curator, and PhD candidate at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. His dissertation in progress focuses on the work of Franz Erhard Walther. Michael Sanchez is an art historian living in New York. He received his PhD in art history from Columbia University, New York in 2016. Sung Tieu is an artist based in Berlin. Her work has been exhibited at international venues including Haus Der Kunst, Munich, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, and Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, and is currently on view at Kunstmuseum Bonn. Ian Wallace is a writer, curator, and art historian based in New York. He received his PhD in 2021 from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where his dissertation addressed the institutional “rediscovery” of Charlotte Posenenske. Wallace was the 2020–21 Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellow at Dia Art Foundation. Schedule 12:30–12:40 pm Welcome and introductory remarks Ian Wallace 12:40–12:50 pm Gregor Quack 12:50–1 pm Hanna B. Hölling 1–1:10 pm Gordon Hall 1:10–1:20 pm Colin Lang 1:20–1:30 pm Break 1:30–1:40 pm Michael Sanchez 1:40–1:50 pm Sung Tieu 1:50–2:30 pm Discussion and Q&A Moderated by Ian Wallace

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