The Artist's Institute

03/27/2019

Final week of Marina Rosenfeld at the Artist's Institute. Up through March 30.

10/04/2018

This season at the Artist’s Institute, we’re writing and talking. Ten writers are coming to give workshops, seminars, and talks, especially with visual artists in mind. Percival Everett, Dan Fox, Mary Gaitskill, Rivka Galchen, Wayne Koestenbaum, Ben Lerner, Fred Moten, and Maggie Nelson are all coming. Hollis Frampton is coming (sort of). Sasha Frere-Jones is leading a writing workshop for Hunter graduate students you can follow online. Morgan Bassichis is in residence, preparing for performances at the Kitchen and Abrons Arts Center with a baby grand piano we hauled in just for them, though we’ve got some ideas for it too. Sign up for a workshop, come to a talk—read and write with us this fall!

This season at the Artist’s Institute, we’re writing and talking. Ten writers are coming to give workshops, seminars, and talks, especially with visual artists in mind. Percival Everett, Dan Fox, Mary Gaitskill, Rivka Galchen, Wayne Koestenbaum, Ben Lerner, Fred Moten, and Maggie Nelson are all ...

05/24/2018

Our season with Madeline Hollander, Sean Raspet, and Sam Lewitt closes tomorrow. For the final exhibition, Raspet has created three new molecules with Shenping Zheng and Jing Wu, and Hollander presents scores from her work New Max, performed earlier this year. Open today and tomorrow, 12–6pm.

03/24/2018

Today! 2-6pm
Final performance of Madeline Hollander's "New Max"

03/10/2018

Madeline Hollander's "New Max" will be performed today, 2–6pm, and every Saturday through March 24.

Thornton Dial’s history-fueled paintings; Danielle Orchard’s female nudes; Michel Parmentier’s trademark stripes; and Madeline Hollander’s temperature-controlled choreography.

02/23/2018

Wednesday night's talk by Keller Easterling on Medium Design is now available online

This spring, the Artist’s Institute’s program brings us closer to the surprising, unstable, and powerful capacities of matter. In the physical sciences and economics, we sometimes call this kind of work energetics―the study of the way that energy flows through a system. For the art field, an e...

02/21/2018

Tonight, 7pm, Keller Easterling speaks at the Artist's Institute about Medium Design.

“Medium thinking inverts the typical focus on object over field, and may also invert some habitual approaches to problem solving, aesthetics and politics. Like those media theorists who are returning to elemental understandings of media as surrounding environments of air, water, or earth, medium design treats space itself as an information system and a broad, inclusive mixing chamber for many social, political, technical networks. Infrastructural systems or spatial matrices may be ‘good to think with’ because they can’t be assessed with declarations and don't respond to right answers. Even at a moment of digital ubiquity, space is an under-exploited medium of innovation and governance.

“Medium design is managing the potentials and relationships between objects—the activity or disposition immanent in their organization. It benefits from a curiosity about spatial wiring or reagents in spatial mixtures. The approach is less like designing an object and more like having your hands on the faders and toggles of organization.”

Keller Easterling is an architect, urbanist, writer, and professor of architecture at Yale School of Architecture. Her most recent book, Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space, examines global infrastructure networks as a medium of polity.