2012 Panels + Special Projects

2012 PANEL DISCUSSIONS:

Performance Art: IMPACT
FRIDAY, October 5th: 2pm
@ Capitol Skyline Hotel - Room 1
Moderator: Lisa Gold, Executive Director, Washington Project for the Arts.
Panelists: Claire Breukel (Contemporary Art curator and Writer), Adam Budak (curator of Contemporary Art, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden), Sarah Newman (curator of contemporary art, The Corcoran Gallery of Art), Jefferson Pinder (performance artist).

Art Funding: NOW
SATURDAY, October 6th: 2pm
@ Capitol Skyline Hotel - Room 1
Moderator: Dorothy Kosinski, Director, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC. Panelists Robert Lynch, President and CEO of Americans for the Arts; Jamie Bennett, Chief of Staff, National Endowment for the Arts; Lionell Thomas, Executive Director, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.


2012 SPECIAL PROJECTS:

ESL MUSIC:
FRIDAY, October 5th + SATURDAY, October 6th:7pm-11pm.
@ Capitol Skyline Hotel - Pool Deck
Presenting the emerging music stage.

BLINK MEDIA ART:
OCTOBER 4 -7th: 12pm-11pm
@ Capitol Skyline Hotel - Video lounge Room 4 _____________________________________
Presenting 5 video artists in rotation:
> Ali Cherri (1976, Lebanon) - Pipe Dreams 2011, 6:06
> Johanna Reich (1977, Germany) - On Fire, 2012, 3:20
> Ana Esteve Reig (1977, Madrid) - Encierro, 2010, 5:47
> Adnan Softic (1975 Bosnia Herzegowina /Germany) - Ground Control, 2009, 6:00
> Elizabeth Wurst (1985 Peru / Germany) - You and me Every day, 2011, Videoperformance, HDV, 7:45
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Blink Video is a professional website for the research of video art, performance and multimedia installations. The web platform connects galleries worldwide and makes it possible to present new media artists online.


INDUSTRY GALLERY:
OCTOBER 4 -7th: 12pm-11pm
@ Capitol Skyline Hotel - Video Lounge/Room 4 / Pool deck.
Presenting Danish designer Mathias Bengtsson's Spun Benches.
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Fabricated out of carbon fiber, these flexible, lightweight seating units are the intersection of design and technology. Bengtsson was named one of Architectural Digest's 2012 Design Innovators. Industry Gallery, Washington, DC, is the only gallery in the US devoted exclusively to 21st Century design.




PAST PANELS:

Creative Voices
September 14, 2011 at 6pm
@ The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC.

Emerging Art / Emerging Practices
September 23 at 2pm
@ Capitol Skyline Hotel – Room 1
Moderator: Claire Breukel (Contemporary Art Curator and Writer)
Panelists: Matthew Higgs (Director/Chief Curator, White Columns), Kristen Hileman (Curator, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD), JJ McCracken (Artist), and Walter Robinson (Editor, Artnet Magazine)

Collecting for the Future
September 24 at 2pm
@ Capitol Skyline Hotel– Room 1
Moderator: Karen Sommer Shalett (editor-in-chief, DC Magazine)
Panelists: Ann Garfinkle (Art Attorney, Whiteford, Taylor and Preston LLP), Dorothy Kosinski (Director, The Phillips Collection), Tony Podesta (Collector) & Mera Rubell (Collector)

Current Directions in Video Art
@ Capitol Skyline – Room 1
Moderator: Todd Smith, (Director, Tampa Museum of Art);
Panelists: Anita Beckers (Galerie Anita Beckers), Janet Biggs (Artist), Jonathan Monaghan (Artist), and Manuel de Santeren (Collector)

2012 Performance schedule

2012 PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE:

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4
> Chajana denHarder - Singularity
The artist explores the desire to connect/return to a singular point where there is no separation.
time: 2 hours
Pool, 7pm

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5
> Andrew Wodzianski - Self Portrait as Ishmael
36 hour endurance performance replicating the survival of Herman Melville's protagonist in Moby Dick. Floating on a casket-turned-life buoy, the artist/Ishmael is left to silently contemplate the folly of man until his rescue.
time: 36 hours
Pool, 5am

> Ian McDermott - A Brief Demonstration of Interference Theory
The musical/sound performance will take place at four sculptures located on the ground level of the fair.
time: 30 minutes
Performance Area/Room 1, 12pm

> Holly Bass - Come Clean
A ritualized performance in which strangers are invited to wash the artist’s hair and engage in structured dialogue. By allowing others to wash her hair, the artist evokes the relationship between mother and child, as well as ideas of culture,
identity, privacy, pleasure, renewal and surrender.
time: 45 minutes
Room 1, 3:30 pm

> David B. Smith - Collaborative Karaoke
Doom Trumpet, a blindfolded one-man band with multiple personalities, will invite audience members to sing - karaoke-style - to his new album with him.
time: 45 minutes
Performance Area/Room 1, 5:30pm

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6
> Holly Bass - Come Clean
A ritualized performance in which strangers are invited to wash the artist’s hair and engage in structured dialogue. By allowing others to wash her hair, the artist evokes the relationship between mother and child, as well as ideas of culture,
identity, privacy, pleasure, renewal and surrender.
time: 45 minutes
Room 1, 1 pm

> Ian McDermott - A Brief Demonstration of Interference Theory
The musical/sound performance will take place at four sculptures located on the ground level of the fair.
time: 30 minutes
Performance Area/Room 1, 4pm

> Andrew Wodzianski - Self Portrait as Ishmael
Endurance performance replicating the survival of Herman Melville's protagonist in Moby Dick.
time: culmination of 36 hour performance
Pool, 5pm

> Chajana denHarder - Singularity
The artist explores the desire to connect/return to a singular point where there is no separation.
time: 2 hours
Pool, 5pm

> Sheldon Scott - Down in the Valley
Related to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” – this spoken word performance confronts the idea of Civil Rights as a continuum, not a destination, championed by a new minority in each subsequent incarnation.
time: 1 hour
Performance Area/Room 1, 5:30 pm

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 7
> J.J. McCracken - The Huntress
The artist constructs a portrait of a woman punished for voicing political opinion in the Capitol Hill neighborhood less than two centuries ago. Through details
mined from DC history, a character sketch emerges through performative gesture.
time: 1hour
Performance Area/Room 1, 1 pm

> Chuckwuma Agubokwu - The Portrait of the Artist as a Greek Myth
A relational, mixed-media performance consisting of an artist talk and Q & A focusing on the artistexhibition at the fair last year. The work explores concepts of failure and rebirth.
Performance Area/Room 1, 3pm

DAILY, throughout the FAIR:
> Mandy Cano Villalobos - Voces
This is a performative installation commemorating the femicide victims of Juarez, Mexico. In this ongoing project, the artist embroiders the names of individual women into old shirts as a ritual of homage and mourning. While murders continue in Ciudad Juarez, Cano continues to sew.
Pool deck, 12pm, various times

> Katie Kehoe - Mary Ellen Likes Free Magazines
Mary Ellen is a transient character, originally from Canada and has taken to flipping through free magazines to get a sense of the places she travels to. At the (e)merge Art Fair, she flips through free magazines collected in DC, reacting to the content while performing for a live and online audience.
Pool deck, 12pm, various times

podcasts

(e)merge panel discussion: Collecting Emerging Art, hosted by Conner Contemporary Art, Saturday, July 9, 2011

(e)merge panel discussion 3 presented by Flashpoint Gallery + (e)merge art fair, Saturday April 16, 2011

(e)merge panel discussion 2 presented by Hamiltonian Gallery + Conner Contemporary Art, Saturday, October 2, 2010

(e)merge panel discussion 1 presented by Conner Contemporary Art, Saturday, July 31, 2010