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Cabinet Events
CURRENT AND FORTHCOMING
(Click here for directions to Cabinet event space and to see current events in calendar format)
Key to the City, a project by Paul Ramirez Jonas (Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn; Thursday, June 3–Monday, September 6, 2010). This summer, Cabinet is participating in Paul Ramirez Jonas's Key to the City project, presented by Creative Time.
"Speed Reading" (London) (Tate Britain Auditorium, London; TO BE RESCHEDULED). An hour-long relay race of sorts, this sweat-filled event features 20–25 writers and artists who will take turns reading texts on the notion of speed while jogging/running/ambling on two treadmills positioned side-by-side.
SELECT PAST EVENTS
Cabinet Book Sale! (corner of Union and Nevins streets, Brooklyn; Sunday, July 18, 2010, 12–3 pm). Books from the collections of Cabinet, as well as our neighbors Proteus Gowanus, the Morbid Anatomy Library, and the Reanimation Library, will be sold at a discount. It'll be a hot day and a hot sale!
Centenary of the Light Club of Batavia (Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn; Thursday, July 1, 2010, 7–10 pm). To celebrate the one-hundredth anniversary of the inauguration of the Light Club of Batavia, the subject of Josiah McElheny's new book recently published by University of Chicago Press, McElheny and Cabinet are hosting a party. The point of departure for McElheny's book is The Light Club of Batavia, Paul Scheerbart's 1912 story about the formation of a club dedicated to building a spa for bathing—not in water, but in light—at the bottom of an abandoned mineshaft.
Book Talk and Release Party: Acoustic Territories: Sound Culture and Everyday Life, with Brandon LaBelle (Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn; Friday, June 11, 2010, 7–9 pm). From underground environments to the home, Brandon LaBelle's new book Acoustic Territories (Continuum Books) traces the cultural and social movements of auditory life. The book continues the author’s interest in sonic culture and extends his earlier work, Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art, elaborating on the dynamics of sonic materiality and experience. In celebration of its release, the author will present a performative reading aiming for the dynamics of sound culture and acts of listening.
Screening and Discussion: The Battle of Chile, with Dr. Oscar Soto (Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn; Wednesday, June 9, 2010, 7–9 pm). On September 11, 1973, the socialist government of Chilean president Salvador Allende was overthrown in a military coup. The young filmmaker Patricio Guzmán had already shot footage for a documentary on the Allende years, right up to the day of the coup. He smuggled the material out of the country to produce his epic three-part documentary The Battle of Chile. This event focuses on the documentary's second part, "The Coup d'État," which culminates in the assault on the presidential palace on September 11. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Allende's physician, Oscar Soto, who was inside the palace on that day.
Intern Initiative: "postTV : LIVE" (Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn; Tuesday, May 25, 2010, 6:30–11 pm). postTV is a new platform for exhibiting and producing experimental video and performance. Both a website and live-event series, postTV provides artists with the opportunity and resources to participate and share their innovations. The inaugural postTV : LIVE event, hosted at Cabinet, will debut new live performances that have come to fruition through collaboration with the postTV production crew.
Cabinet Soccer Club vs Beşiktaş Football Club (Red Hook Ball Fields, Field #3, corner of Bay St. and Columbia St., Brooklyn; Saturday, May 22, 2010, 5–7 pm). Please join us for a soccer match (of sorts) between clubs from two sister cities united in friendship: Brooklyn's own Cabinet Soccer Club vs. Beşiktaş Football Club, league champions of Turkey.
Bunk Bed Conversation: "On Friendship, Intimacy, Tact, and Turtles," with Svetlana Boym & Leland de la Durantaye (Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn; Friday, May 21, 2010, 7–9 pm). From the top and bottom bunks, respectively, Leland de la Durantaye and Svetlana Boym will consider different modes of friendship and intimacy. Jars of anchovy paste may be shared. This is the third installment in a series of bunk bed conversations at Cabinet, exploring the public potential of this most private, archaic, and companionable of American scenes.
Screening: The Future of Food, with Daniel J. Kevles (Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn; Thursday, May 20, 2010, 7–9 pm). According to the Center for Food Safety, by the middle of the last decade some 85% of the soy grown in the US is genetically engineered. The Monsanto Corporation alone holds more than 600 plant biotech patent and has brought more than 150 suits against farmers in an attempt to protect them. The legal, environmental, and consumer issues that result from the genetic modification and patenting of food is the subject of Deborah Koons Garcia's documentary The Future of Food. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Yale University historian of science Daniel J. Kevles, whose recent work has explored the history of the engineering and ownership of living matter.
Screening and Discussion: "Military Dreams and the Deep Sea Mind," with D. Graham Burnett and Laurel Braitman (Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn; Saturday, May 15, 6–8 pm). The United States Navy has for half a century trained dolphins for military uses, and it continues to maintain a considerable number of marine mammals for various underwater roles. What relationship did this work have to the emerging counter-cultural preoccupation with these same animals as avatars of peace, love, and rainbows? Join Burnett and Braitman for a screening of some vintage Navy propaganda films from the early 1960s and a discussion of this strange story of human-animal relations.
"Insectomedia" (Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn; Friday, May 7, 7–9 pm). So many insects! So different from each other and from us. So prosaic and so exotic. So tiny and so huge. So social and so solitary. So expressive and so enigmatic. So generative and so opaque. So seductive yet so unsettling. An evening of insects, with film, readings, sound, images, projections, and cocktails.
Benefit Cocktail Party (The Italian Academy, 1161 Amsterdam Avenue, New York; Saturday, May 1, 2010, 8–11 pm). Featuring Master of Ceremonies Jonathan Ames; bingo with artworks by Spencer Finch and Terry Winters as prizes; a performance by Dorit Chrysler on her splendid theremin; open bar with the “Cabinet” cocktail; and more.
Intern Initiative: "Materia" (Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn; April 21–24, 2010). "Materia" is exhibition of ten projects created by collaborative pairs of artists and health professionals. Created specifically for this exhibition, each collaborative piece is an investigation into materiality, drawing on the unique combination of each pair’s professional and creative practices. There will be a reception on Friday, April 23, 6–8 pm, and a special performance on Saturday, April 24, 3 pm.
Exhibition: "An Ordinall of Alchimy," a project from Mildred's Lane organized by Mark Dion and Robert Williams (Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn; Tuesday, March 30–Saturday, April 17, 2010). This exhibition was assembled under the constraint that everything installed in the gallery must have been acquired on Ebay for a total of less than $999. Dion, Williams, and their students at Mildred’s Lane used the constraint as an opportunity to explore the theme of alchemical transformation. A panel discussion and opening reception will take place on Saturday, March 27, from 6 to 9 pm.
Bunk Bed Conversation: "Memory Is Your Own Museum," with Albert Mobilio & Geoffrey O'Brien (Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn; Friday, April 16, 2010, 7–9 pm). From the top and bottom bunks, Geoffrey O’Brien and Albert Mobilio will reflect on the intricate relations between memory, nostalgia, and our need for a usable past. This is the second installment in a series of bunk bed conversations at Cabinet, exploring the public potential of this most private, archaic, and companionable of American scenes.
Book Talk and Release Party: Cartographies of Time, by Daniel Rosenberg and Anthony Grafton (Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn; Thursday, April 15, 2010, 7–9 pm). What does history look like? How do you draw time? Cartographies of Time (Princeton Architectural Press, April 2010) explores the history of the question since the beginning of the print era, tracing the surprising course of invention and critique that produced the now-ubiquitous format of the timeline. Join the authors for an illustrated stroll through graphic history and celebrate this month’s release of Cartographies of Time with very old food and drink.
Screening: Vsevolod Pudovkin's Mechanics of the Brain, with Michael Hagner (Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn; Sunday, April 11, 2010, 7–9 pm). Vsevolod Pudovkin started his career in 1926 with The Mechanics of the Brain, a popular film on Pavlov's reflexology. Pudovkin’s film practice drew on the technical possibilities of his apparatus, the artistic methods of the originally literary concept of factography, and the psycho-physiological knowledge he was supposed to document. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Michael Hagner, historian of science at the ETH Zürich.
Silent Mixer (Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn; Saturday, April 10, 2010, 8–11 pm). Be quiet and come to “Silent Mixer,” a two-part event that provides a chance to engage in voluble party conversation without speaking, and to be silenced by sonic wonders. An experiment in vibrant silence, “Silent Mixer” will celebrate the publication of George Prochnik's new book, In Pursuit of Silence: Listening for Meaning in a World of Noise, and artist Wendy Jacob's performative sculpture, Waves and Signs, a vibrating platform for the experience of tactile sound.
Bunk Bed Conversation: "The Poetics of Sleep," with Jeff Dolven & Wayne Koestenbaum
(Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn; March 25, 2010, 7–9 pm). From
the top and bottom bunks, respectively, Jeff Dolven and Wayne
Koestenbaum will consider the ancient friendship between sleep and
poetry, touching on such topics as embowerment, somnambulism, styles of
sleeping, crepuscular consciousness, no-doz, and drowsy syrups.
The first in a series of bunk bed conversations at Cabinet, exploring
the public potential of this most private, archaic, and companionable
of American scenes.
Intern Initiative: "Postcards from Gowanus" (Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn; March 17–19, 2010). This exhibition and performance explores a multitude of approaches to mapping the immediate vicinity surrounding Cabinet’s gallery space in Gowanus. These approaches include audio recordings, performances, literary experiments, collages, photographic series, and experimental video documentaries. Live performances and a closing reception will take place on Friday, March 19, from 6–9 pm.
Workshop: "Not Knots," featuring Sabrina Gschwandtner, Philip Ording, and Inoli Murphy (Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn; March 6, 2010, 2–4 pm). This mini-fair is a hands-on exploration of knots, knitting, and string figures. Visitors can view short math films that explore the geometry surrounding knots (including the well-known short Not Knot), engage in an informal discussion of knot theory, receive consultation on stalled handcraft projects, and see a demonstration of the ancient art of string figures.
Talk: Jane Taylor on "Being Led by the Nose: William Kentridge's Metropolitan Opera Project" (Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn; March 4, 2010, 7–9 pm). Jane Taylor, William Kentridge's long-time collaborator, will examine the past four years of the artist's preparations for his current production of Shostakovich's 1930 opera The Nose and will suggest that the distinctive combination of folly and intention in the opera is sympathetic to Kentridge's own purposes as an artist working in South Africa during an era of momentous upheaval and transformation.
Screening: Shahr-e Gheseh (Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn; February 26, 2010, 7–9 pm). Bidoun and Cabinet co-present a screening of the film version of Bijan Mofid's lauded 1967 avant-garde play Shahr-e Gheseh (City of Tales), an allegorical fable in which the fate of a visiting elephant strangely echoes the fate of Iran under the modernity espoused by its rulers in the twentieth century. The program (both the film and following discussion) will be in Farsi; the film has no subtitles.
Exhibition: Jaime Davidovich, "The Live! Show" (Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn; January 22–February 13, 2010). “The Live! Show,” an exhibition by New York-based artist Jaime Davidovich, features episodes from the artist's cable TV show of the same name, alongside archival material, printed matter, and original photographs documenting the TV program's run between 1979 and 1984.
Performance/Talk: "Taking to Our Beds: On Hypochondria," with Simon Critchley, Brian Dillon, and Peter Dunn
(Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn; February 10, 2010, 7–9 pm).
This performance/talk will feature Brian Dillon in conversation about
culture and hypochondria while sharing a sickbed and hot-water bottle
with philosopher Simon Critchley. The invalids will be attended by
psychoanalyst Peter Dunn.
Panel: "The Art of Hypochondria," with D. Graham Burnett, Brian Dillon, and Marina van Zuylen (The Kitchen, 512 W 19th Street, New York; February 9, 2010, 7–9 pm). In his new book The Hypochondriacs: Nine Tormented Lives, Brian Dillon explores the lives of nine eminent malingerers and the fear of illness that drove them to withdraw from the world. Science historian D. Graham Burnett (Princeton University) and literary historian Marina van Zuylen (Bard College) will join Dillon in a discussion of this most elusive of conditions.
Performance: "Rope-a-dope"
(Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn; January 29, 2010, 7–9 pm).
"Rope-a-dope: To Win a Losing War" is a knockout performance that
revisits the events around the infamous "Rumble in the Jungle" boxing
match, which paired the charismatic Muhammad Ali and the reigning world
champion George Foreman in Kinshasa, Zaire, on October 30, 1974.
Featuring grueling and intense performances by
Brooklyn-based artists A. K. Burns and Kenya (Robinson).
"Darcy Lange: Work Studies in Schools" (Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn; December 4, 2009–January 16, 2010). This exhibition draws from a series of videos by New Zealand artist Darcy Lange (1946–2005) which examine the processes of teaching and learning. In 1976, Lange videotaped a number of classrooms at three schools in the English city of Birmingham, carefully choosing institutions that would represent different social classes.
"The Bubble" (Canadian Centre for Architecture, 1920 rue Baile, Montréal; November 26, 2009–January 17, 2010). This exhibition considers the bubble, a wonder of surface tension. In its architectural interpretation, the bubble can be understood as a feat of engineering or as a metaphor for an enclosed hermetic environment. As such, the bubble emerges as either a powerful symbol of the future or becomes synonymous with the condition of isolation.
"Tracking Transience: The Orwell Project," with Hasan Elahi
(Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn; January 13, 2010, 7–9 pm). As
part of ArteEast's "Across Histories: Segregated Spaces" lecture
series, artist Elahi will present on "Tracking Transience,"
a public self-tracking system he created in response to having been
intensively investigated in 2002 by the FBI based on an erroneous tip.
Panel:
"Art Education: A Study," with Bruce High Quality Foundation
University, Colin Lang, Robert Linsley, Mira Schor, and Howard Singerman
(Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn; January 10, 2010, 7–9 pm).
Organized by Ad Hoc Vox, "Art Education: A Study" is a panel discussion
on the relationship between art and pedagogy. The panelists will
examine the history of art education and its institutions in light of
current debates about the MFA and the professionalization of the arts,
as well as by considering alternatives offered to us by non-traditional
methods of education, the history of the academy, and models for the
future of art school.
"The Art of Teaching," with Jeff Dolven, Simon Critchley, and Kelly Baum (Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn; January 7, 2010, 7–9 pm). In conjunction with the ongoing exhibition "Darcy Lange: Work Studies in Schools," Jeff Dolven, Simon Critchley, and Kelly Baum will discuss the relationship between pedagogy and art by showing segments of Lange's videos.
"Ordinary Lives": a talk by Rania Matar with ArteEast (Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn; December 16, 2009, 7–9 pm). As part of ArteEast's "Across Histories: Segregated Spaces" lecture series, photographer Matar will present on her first book Ordinary Lives, which contains work pertaining to war, the spread of the veil, Palestinian refugee camps, and Christian life in the Middle East.
Uqbar Foundation (Mariana Castillo Deball and Irene Kopelman): "Zeno Reminder" (Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn; November 13–22, 2009). As part of Performa 09, sculpture-structures inspired by Futurist artist Fortunato Depero will serve as a setting for an array of objects—including sculptures, drawings, and paintings—that pose the question: “What would the style of a creative automaton be?"
Reading: "Summer Maneuvers" by Reinaldo Laddaga (Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn; November 20, 2009, 7–9 pm). As part of Uqbar Foundation's exhibition "Zeno Reminder," Reinaldo Laddaga, associate professor of romance languages at the University of Pennsylvania, will read from "Summer Maneuvers," his libretto for a forthcoming musical theater piece made in collaboration with the composer Claudio Baroni and the artist Fabian Marcaccio.
"Picturing Objectivity": a panel discussion with Peter Galison, Sabine Kastner, Terry Winters, and D. Graham Burnett
(The Kitchen, 512 W 19th Street, New York; November 24, 2009, 7 pm). Galison, Kastner, and
Winters will talk about the historical and analytical place of
objectivity and subjectivity in the making of images. More
specifically, the discussion will focus on the history and current
practices of pictorial representation in the sciences, addressing ways
in which such representational changes have influenced and been
influenced by surrounding artistic practices.
"Segregated Space: On Progress"; a talk by Murtaza Vali with ArteEast (Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn; November 18, 2009, 7–9 pm). Vali will discuss
Mumbai-based CAMP’s "Wharfage" (2009), a public art project presented
at the recent ninth Sharjah Biennial that examined current
trade—conducted exclusively by wooden dhows—between Sharjah’s old port
and contemporary Somalia.
"Speed Reading" (New York) (Definitions Gym, 19 Union Square West at 15th Street, New York; November 14, 2009, 6–8 pm). A 90-minute relay race of sorts, this sweat-filled event features 20–25 writers and artists who will take turns reading texts on the notion of speed while jogging/running/ambling on three treadmills positioned side-by-side.
"Animal Madness": a talk by Laurel Braitman
(Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn; November 4, 2009, 7–9 pm).
Historian and anthropologist of science Braitman will speak about her
efforts to understand mental illness in
gorillas, dolphins, dogs, cats, parrots, and elephants, and what this
means about being human.
"Looking": an evening with Rebecca Baron & Douglas Goodwin, CA Conrad, Wayne Koestenbaum, Eileen Myles, and Maggie Nelson (Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn; November 1, 2009, 7 pm). This evening brings together four writers and two filmmakers whose work investigates the nature of perception and articulation.
Artist talk with ArteEast: Naeem Mohaiemen (Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn; October 27, 2009, 7 pm). Mohaiemen will be discussing his project "My Mobile Weighs a Ton," a series of mobile phone photos images taken in aftermath of the August 2008 anti-army riots that exploded on university campuses in Bangladesh.
David Levine: "Hopeful"
(Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn; October 3–24, 2009). The exhibition "Hopeful"
explores headshots—photographs of actors looking for work rather than
publicity portraits of stars—both as genre and as material artifact.
Julia Mandle: "Fabrication of Blindness" (Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn; September 19–27, 2009). A stirring memorial to, and protest of, America's use of torture in Iraq, Guantanamo Bay, and beyond, the exhibition "Fabrication of Blindness" takes the form of a large dark cloud made out of the black military sandbags that are used to hood prisoners. The exhibition is presented as part of the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF) "Crossing the Line" festival.
"Speed Reading" (Montreal) (Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal; September 20, 2009). A 90-minute relay race of sorts, this sweat-filled event features 20–25 writers and artists who will take turns reading texts on the notion of speed while jogging/running/ambling on three treadmills positioned side-by-side.
Victor Houteff: "At the Eleventh Hour"
(Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn; August 21–September 16, 2009;
opening on August 20, 7–9 pm).
Cabinet presents “Victor Houteff: At the Eleventh Hour,”
an exhibition of paintings by the founder of the Seventh-Day Adventist
group that was later taken over by David Koresh in Waco, Texas. The
exhibition is drawn from the collection of Los Angeles-based artist Jim
Shaw.
Poetry Lab: "Sappho in Fragments"
(Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn; August 24, 2009; 7–9 pm).
Cabinet’s Poetry Lab plays host to the ancient Greek poet Sappho
and her gifted modern-day translator Anne Carson. Readings,
performance, special guests, and the chance to put a scattered oeuvre
back together for yourself. Roll up your sleeves and join us: free, as
always, and as always, wine will be served.
Performance: "Ice Music" by Emily Lacy
(Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn; Saturday, August 15, 2009; 4-8
pm, and Sunday, August 16, 2-6 pm). Working with time, music, color, and,
temperature, "Ice Music" allows for fantasies of intimate visceral
mischief with folk and electronic sound patterns. Performances made for
1-2 people will be available by Emily Lacy inside a small, freshly
cooled homemade music environment, similar to an igloo or personal
camping tent.
Nadia Wagner: “Recent addition to the permanent collection”
(Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn; July 18—August 8, 2009).
Nadia Wagner's exhibit offers an invisible modification of the Cabinet
event space that invokes change, decay, and prestige via the scent of
Evernyl.
Laurel Braitman: "Nanotechnology and the American Supersoldier"
(Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn; July 22, 2009, 7-8:30pm).
Laurel Braitman, a doctoral student at Massachusetts Institute of
Technology and an affiliate at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies,
is a historian and anthropologist of science and has been researching
the story of the so-called "supersuit" for the last three years. She
will present a talk on
nanotechnology, the development of the synthetic dog nose, and our
ongoing national efforts to create superheroes to save us from
ourselves.
Conrad Shawcross: “Pre-Retroscope VI—Gowanus Journey” (Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn; June 20—July 10, 2009). Documenting an expedition undertaken this spring along the length of Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal using a specially adapted rowboat, the exhibition—a compelling fusion of urban performance, exploration, and the processes of scientific discovery—will include video taken on Shawcross’s voyage, as well as drawings, photos, and the vessel itself.
Screening: "Taxidermy: Stuff the World" (Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn; July 9, 2009, 7-9pm). "Taxidermy: Stuff the World"(dir. Morgan Matthews, 90 mins) is a
BAFTA-nominated documentary that follows the fate of four competitiors
as they prepare for the 2005 World Taxidermy Championships in Illinois.
Party for issue 33, featuring "Specials" by Paul Ramirez Jonas & Lisa Sigal (Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn; July 8, 2009, 7-10pm).
The party to celebrate Cabinet issue 33 features "Specials," a
collaboration between artists. Lisa Sigal and Paul Ramirez Jonas have
created a moving taco stand and gallery.
Presentations of the Curious (Black & Blue Gallery,
267-271 Cleveland St, Level 3, Redfern, Sydney, Australia; July 4,
2009, 7-11pm). Cabinet's inaugural Australian event features SymbioticA and rats' brains,
Eden Falk recounting how Werner Herzog ate his shoe,
Cecily Hardy rubbing out a family member, and Charlie Garber investigating what it's like to have a hole in the head.
The Idea of Order on the Gowanus Canal: Wallace Stevens and Geography
(Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn; June 30, 2009). Cabinet Poetry Lab takes up the hermetic sage of Hartford, Wallace
Stevens, whose peculiar tincture of icy Platonism and earth-smudged
world-worship looms over American Modernism. Our line of approach on
this metaphysical opus? Cartography.
Reading in the Dark (Whitechapel Gallery, 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, London; June 18, 2009). A selection of talks and performances that takes place entirely in the dark. There will be dark thoughts, obscure utterances, and some black looks.
Screening: "Football as Never Before" with Simon Critchley (Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn; June 2, 2009, 7-9 pm). Eschewing all forms of editing associated with television sports coverage, "Football as Never Before" offers the spectator a unique record of a player's progress through a match and his attempts to "read the game."
Roundtable Discussion: Hakan Topal (xurban_collective) (Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn; May 26, 2009, 7-9 pm). In this roundtable discussion presented by Arte East, artist Hakan Topal will present the work of the artist collective xurban, including their current research on the idea of neighborhood and local community in relation to post-industrial cities in various part of Europe.
Workshop: Build a Synthesizer with Machine Project (Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn; May 16, 2009, 1-4 pm). Learn to solder by building a primitive
synthesizer in this three-hour workshop presented by Machine
Project.
Reading and Discussion: "Walking to Guantánamo" with Virginia Beahan and Richard Fleming (Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn; May 8, 2009, 7-9 pm). Photographer Virginia Beahan and author Richard Fleming present their recent works on Cuba.
Conversation: Basim Magdy and Regine Basha (Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn; May 6, 2009, 7-9 pm). In this event presented by Arte East, Magdy and independent curator Regine Basha will discuss his current show "1968: Memorial to a Rising Continent" at Newman Popiashvili Gallery.
Performance: “Sexual Advances” by Joanna Frueh (Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn; May 2, 2009, 7-9 pm). "Sexual Advances," which is debuted here, is a two-hour performance centered on an expansive, mantra-like poem that interweaves the everyday, such as images of Frueh’s lover cooking, with the romantic and sexual, including descriptions of his body and touch, and with the divine, the latter through language that speaks of deities and cosmic energies.
Poetry Lab: "Walt Whitman: a Democratic Experiment" (Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn; April 30, 2009, 7-9 pm).This is the first in a series of poetry events at Cabinet dedicated to reviving dead poets by unorthodox means. The inaugural event will feature readings of “Leaves of Grass” by Wayne Koestenbaum, Susan Wheeler, and C. K. Williams, alongside a series of smaller-scale improvisatory encounters with Whitman’s poems: antiphonal recitation, spontaneous translation, freehand sketching, flag-waving, and so on.
Conversation: Nils Norman and Eva Diaz on "Alternative Architecture and Outlaw Design" (Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn; April 24, 2009, 7-9 pm). Eva Diaz and Nils Norman will discuss sculptural structures as temporary interventions in urban sites, of kiosk production and shelter-information display hybrids, with special reference to Norman's previous work and his upcoming collaboration at SculptureCenter, "The University of Trash."
Talk: Jason Brown on "Paranoid Machines" (Cabinet,
300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn; April 4, 2009, 7-9 pm). Jason Brown's talk
will examine contemporary gnostic mythologies of
technology and paranoia, focusing on Vannevar Bush as a self-embodied
allegorical emblem of information perversity. Presented with Machine Project, Los Angeles.
Performance: "MakeShift" by Lucinda Segar and Tatyana Tenenbaum (Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn; March 27, 2009, 8-9:30 pm). "MakeShift" is a forty-minute collaborative performance piece that uses modern dance, video footage from a 2008 site-specific improvisation on the docks of a Vermont lake, and improvised live sound.
Talk: Leeza Ahmady (Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn; March 16, 2009, 7-9 pm). As part of its "Across Histories" series, Arte East presents a talk by independent curator Leeza Ahmady, who will discuss the process and development of her research and advocacy of work produced by artists from Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and other countries of Central Asia.
Talk: Oron Catts on "Semi-Living Tissue" (Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn; Feb 25, 2009, 7-9 pm). Oron Catts, director of SymbioticA and founder of the Tissue Culture & Art Project, will present his research into the use of tissue technologies for the purpose of creating semi-living entities located on the fuzzy border between the living and the non-living, and the born and the manufactured.
Exhibition: A Series of Coincidences, organized by Regine Basha (Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn; February 21 – March 13, 2009). An art exhibition organized by Regine Basha featuring Serkan Ozkaya, Daniel Bozhkov, John Menick, and Dario Robleto.
Cabinet issue 32 ("Fire") launch (Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn; Feb 18, 2009, 7-11 pm).The launch for Cabinet's new issue, with its themed section on Fire, will feature a special live fuse drawing performance by Mats Bigert, one half of Stockholm-based artist duo Bigert & Bergström.
Talk: McKenzie Wark on "Leaving the 21st Century"(Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn; February 7, 2009, 7-9 pm). McKenzie Wark's lavishly illustrated talk will examine the prospects for getting out of this century, which seems at first glance no better than the last one.
Talk: Adila Laidi-Hanieh on "The Palestinian Paradox: Post-Modern Globalized Cultural Practices Under Colonialism" (Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn; February 6, 2009, 7-9 pm). As part of its "Across Histories" series, Arte East presents a talk by cultural critic Adila Laidi-Hanieh, who will draw from her recent book Palestine: We Lack for Nothing Here (Palestine rien ne nous manque ici) to discuss the paradoxical vitality of Palestinian culture—literature, visual arts, film, music—its "normalization," and unprecedented access to the international art circuit despite its predominantly political content.
Untitled New York: Speculations on the Expanded Field of Writing (Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn; January 31, 2009, 1:30-10 pm)."Untitled New York" is a day-long conversation about writing which in some manner exceeds the printed page. It assembles a notable group of experimental writers to discuss the currently expanded and still-expanding field of writing that challenges assumptions about the nature of writing and the potentials of text.
Screening: "Macunaíma," preceded by discussion with Steven Villereal and Audrey Young (Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn; January 30, 2009, 8-10:30 pm). A DVD of the newly restored film will be screened, with a contextual Powerpoint presentation beforehand by NYU Moving Image Archiving & Preservation students and fierce lusophiles Steven Villereal and Audrey Young.
The Forewords (Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn; January 16, 2009, 8-10 pm). Paul Lukas and Liz Clayton are the Forewords, a musicless band that uses short lectures and slideshows to present unusual and entertaining revelations lurking within the everyday.
Winter Film Follies
(Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn; December 18, 2008, 7-9 pm). This
evening of films brings together a collection of remarkable short films
to warm the viscera on a cold December evening.
Make a Difference in Two Days
(Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn; November 17, 2008, 7-8pm). A
presentation of projects, all selected, conceived and built in two
days, demonstrate the potential of the design activism movement to
transform urban experience through small, elegant interventions.
The Idler's Glossary (Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn; November 8, 2008, 7-11 pm). Reading and party to celebrate the release of a vademecum for the contemporary idler.
Cabinet issue 31 Launch Party
(Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn; November 7, 2008, 7-10 pm).
Party to celebrate the belated Fall issue of Cabinet magazine.
The Adventures of Prince Achmed
(Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn; November 1, 2008, 6–8 pm). A
screening of the world's first animated feature-length film is followed
by discussion with John Isaacs and Marina Warner.
The Heights of Ecstasy
(Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn; October 31, 2008, 8–10 pm).
Cabinet and Slought Foundation celebrate Slought's new DVD series by
asking philosopher Simon Critchley to climb a very tall chair and
deliver a sermon on elevation and thinking.
An Evening with the Happy Hypocrite
(Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn; October 24, 2008 , 7–10 pm).
Cabinet hosts an event for the Happy Hypocrite, a new London-based
journal for and about experimental art writing.
An Evening of Dust,
London, October 17th, 2008 @ 7pm. Cabinet, in partnership with the
Hayward Gallery, presented a multi-media evening an evening dedicated
to the kingdom of dust. Speakers included Carolyn Steedman, Steven
Connor, and Helen Lloyd.
The Book of Stamps. Sumptuously
designed and printed, this cloth-bound volume features 15 detachable,
perforated and gummed full-page sheets of limited edition,
artist-designed stamps.
Presidential Doodles.
Paperback version of our book Presidential Doodles was released in fall
2007. The book, a catalogue of the most delightful and terrifying
doodles by US presidents, is accompanied by essays by Paul Collins and
David Greenberg. (Fall 2006)
Kiosk (Various locations; 2001–2008)
In Defense of Sloth,
New York, December 7-8, 2007, The Cooper Union and Zone, New York. The
Slought Foundation and Cabinet joined forces to put on a two-pronged
event on sloth and its myriad philosophical attractions.
Cabinet issue 27 ("Mountains") launch (The Nicholas Roerich Museum; October 19, 2007)
A Culture of Curiosity,
London, October 12th, 2007 @ 7pm. Cabinet is presenting an evening at
the Photographer's Gallery titled "Toward a Culture of Curiosity."
The Paper Sculpture Book and Show (Various locations; September 7, 2003 - 2007)
Cabinet at Frieze 2007. Booth M3 will be a little Cabinet fort/embassy/B&B between Oct 10-14. Please come visit.
Writers on/in/with Art,
New York, October 3rd, 2007 @ 7pm. Cabinet is co-sponsoring an evening
at Storefront for Art and Architecture as part of their Z-A festival.
This evening features writers who either write about or even (gulp!)
make art.
Sivan vs Finkielkraut. Kassel, Germany, September 8, 2007.
As part of Documenta, Cabinet presented an enactment and debate of the
Sivan vs Finkielkraut trial that occurred in Paris in 2006.
Documenta Magazines Project.
Kassel, Germany, June 16 - September 23, 2007. Cabinet was one of the
magazines asked by Documenta to participate in its "magazines project"
and help commission texts responding to the three "leitmotifs' of
Documenta 12.
Presidential Doodles.
Book by Cabinet, published by Basic Books in fall 2006. The book, a
catalogue of the most delightful and terrifying doodles by US
presidents, is accompanied by essays by David Greenberg and Paul
Collins. (Fall 2006)
Why Things Don't Fall Down. New York, NY. November 20, 2006.
The Kitchen presents a talk organized by the Institute For Figuring and
Cabinet magazine. In this event, Dr. Robert Connelly, a mathematician
at Cornell University, will discuss with IFF director Margaret
Wertheim the history and science of tensegrity.
Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip: A Panel Discussion. Tuesday, November 21, 2006 7 pm. Housing Works Bookstore. 126 Crosby Street, New York. FREE
Iron Artist.
Cabinet's contribution to P.S.1’s “Fine Print" series of public
programs co-organized with independent publications was “Iron Artist” a
series of competitive real-time artmaking duels between contemporary
artists. (P.S.1, 10 June 2006, 3 pm)
Cabinet issue 21 ("Electricity") launch (White Box; May 6, 2006)
The Last Supper.
Cabinet and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the New School
co-presented “The Last Supper,” a screening of a new documentary by
Mats Bigert and Lars Bergström on the historical practice of allowing
prisoners who are about to be executed to have a final meal of their
choosing. The one-hour documentary, broadcast on Swedish television and
screened in competition at the 2005 International Documentary Festival
Amsterdam, was followed by a panel. Mats Bigert was present, as was
Brian Price, a former prisoner who has cooked 218 last suppers in US
prisons, and New School professor Terri Gordon, who presented a paper.
(3 April 2006, 6:30 pm, The New School)
"Ruination: A Symposium on Decay, Debris, and
Destruction." Cabinet and the Kitchen co-presented a panel on Ruins, the
theme of Cabinet's Winter 2005/2006 issue. Participants included Brian
Dillon, Cabinet's UK editor and the editor of the "Ruins" section of
the issue; Jeffrey Byles, author of “Rubble”; and Svetlana Boym,
Harvard professor and author of “The Future of Nostalgia.” (The
Kitchen, Monday, 17 April 2006, 7 pm)
Where the Wild Things Are: A Talk by Prof Ken Millett on Knot Theory.
Cabinet co-organized this event with the Institute for Figuring and the
Drawing Center. The talk was sold out with an audience of 160. (The
Drawing Center, 2 March 2006, 7:00 pm ).
Cabinet at Proteus Gowanus.
Cabinet will be contributing on an ongoing basis to Proteus Gowanus, a
new exhibition venue and reading room near the Gowanus Canal (543 Union
St, Brooklyn). Cabinet's activities and presentations will take place
in an enormous early twentieth-century safe weighing 4 tons.
"Odd Lots: Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clark's Fake Estates"
An exhibit co-organized by Cabinet, Queens Museum of Art, and White
Columns based on the Gordon Matta-Clark project presented initially
presented in Cabinet issue 10. (Queens Museum of Art and White Columns;
September 2005-January 2006)
Odd Lots: Revisiting Matta-Clark's Fake Estates": The publication accompanying Cabinet's exhibition on Gordon Matta-Clark (distributed by D.A.P., launched in November 2005)
"More
Chromophilia: An Exploration of a Few Corners of the Visible Spectrum."
Cabinet presented an evening in conjunction with the Barbican's
exhibition "Colour after Klein." In addition to a talk by Cabinet
editor Christopher Turner on the Spectrochrome and chromotherapy,
Cabinet presented audio-visual presentations on Superblack, the history
of color gardening, the Chat Noir monochromes, and the first synthetic
dye. (The Barbican, London; July 29, 2005)
Philosophical Toys, organized by Sina Najafi. Works by: Friedrich Fröbel, Jeannine Mosely,
and Shea Zellweger Selected by: Norman Brosterman (author, Inventing
Kindergarten) and Christine & Margaret Wertheim (The Institute for
Figuring, Los Angeles).
"The Summit,"
a symposium featuring Jonathan Bach, George Pendle, Ambassador Raymond
Loretan, Eames Demetrios, and Gregory Green. Followed by screenings and
a party full of dignitaries to celebrate Cabinet's new issue on
"Fictional States". (The New School, New York; Thursday, June 23, 2005,
from 6PM to midnight, FREE)
"Laughing Matters"
A multimedia evening exploring why we laugh, featuring philosopher
Simon Critchley, artist Luke Murphy, and a screening of Samuel
Beckett’s Film (The Kitchen, New York; Wednesday, 8 June 2005).
The Truckazine brought you magazines you need, in addition to readings and music.(Streets of Manhattan and Brooklyn, June 4 and 5, 2005, FREE)
"The
Perfect Little Magazine." Cabinet at a symposium organized by the
Council of the Humanities, Princeton University. Participants include
Gabe Hudson, Adam Kirsch, Wendy Lesser, Sina Najafi, Joyce Carol Oates,
Francine Prose, Judith Shulevitz, and Lawrence Weschler (Chancellor
Green, Princeton University, May 11, 2005, 4:30-9:00 pm)
"Once Upon a Time: Modernity and Its Nostalgias" (Tamayo Museum, Mexico City; April 29-30, 2005)
Cabinet issue 17 ("Laughter") launch (White Columns, April 9, 2005).
Crocheting the Hyperbolic Plane:
A talk co-organized with the Institute for Figuring and the Kitchen.
This talk, organized in conjunction with the Institute for Figuring's
interview of Cornell mathematicians David Henderson and Daina Taimina
in issue 16, featured Henderson and Taimina talking about their
discovery of crocheted models of hyperbolic space, a geometric form
that is found in the crenellation of lettuce leaves, the anatomy of sea
slugs, and the shape of the physical cosmos. To read the interview from
issue 16 of Cabinet, click here. (The Kitchen, New York; Saturday, 5 February 2005)
Cabinet issue 16 ("Sea") launch (White Columns, January 22, 2005). THIS EVENT WAS CANCELLED BECAUSE OF OF A SNOWSTORM THAT WE WERE TOLD MIGHT KILL ALL 18 OF OUR SUBSCRIBERS IF THEY DECIDED TO SHOW UP.
BookWorks and Tate Modern Conference:
Cabinet is participating in a conference on art publications in London
organized by Book Works and Tate Modern. (Tate Modern, London; November
27, 2004)
"Flipside." Cabinet's "Doubles" issue included in a
show organized by Katherine Carl and ArtsLink (Artists Space, NY;
November 11-December 18, 2004)
Cabinet issue 15 ("The Average") launch (Cohan and Leslie Gallery, October 30, 2004)
Chromophilia: An Exploration of a Few Corners of the Visible Spectrum:
An event organized by Cabinet based on the magazine's "Colors" column.
Will include audio-visual material and readings by Jonathan Ames,
Andrea Codrington, Tim Griffin, Albert Mobilio, and Frances Richard
(P.S.1/MoMA; October 23, 2004)
Letters from Mayhem: An artist book by Roger Andersson and Albert Mobilio (A Cabinet publication distributed by D.A.P., launch on September 30, 2004)
Cabinet issue 14 ("Doubles") launch (Pierogi Gallery; August 5, 2004)
Ebay: Buy or Sell or Buy.
Cabinet's New Mexico land shenanigans from issue 10 included in this
show on Ebay (Pace Digital Gallery, May 6 - Sept 6, 2004 online)
"Artists in the Marketplace." A panel on art
publications organized by the Bronx Museum of Arts. Panelists include
Raphael Rubinstein, Art in America; Cay-Sophie Rabinowitz, Parkett; Dan
Graham, artist; and Sina Najafi, Cabinet. (The Bronx Museum of the
Arts; June 20, 2004)
Cabinet issue 13 ("Futures") launch (White Box; June 4, 2004)
Fine Print: Publishing in the Shadow of the Big Media.
Cabinet participates in a conference organized by the Humanities Center
at UC Irvine (University of California Irvine: May 19-21, 2004)
On the Uses of Nostalgia
Whitney Museum panel discussion organized by the Whitney in conjunction
with its Biennial; panel moderated by Sina Najafi, Cabinet (Barnard
College, New York: April 22, 2004)
Magazine Summit at the Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art (Helsinki; March 19-22, 2004)
2004 Whitney Biennial Roundtable. Sina Najafi, Cabinet, participates in an advisory panel for the Biennial. (The Whitney Museum, New York: March 2004)
Get Rid of Yourself.
Cabinet included in a show organized by the irrepressible Frank Motz
(Weimar, Leipzig, and Munich; July 26, 2003 - Feb 15, 2004)
Paper, Paper, Scissors (Housing Works, New York: November 13, 2003)
Celluloid Cabinet: Flying (White Box, New York: November 15, 2003)
Cabinet issue 11 ("Flight") launch (Pierogi Gallery; July 26, 2003)
Off the Wall: A Panel on Alternative Venues for Art (Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York: May 17, 2003)
A Conversation with Eyal Weizman (New York: May 6, 2003)
Cabinet issue 9 ("Childhood") launch (Bard High School Early College; January 19, 2003)
"Celluloid
Cabinet:
An Evening of Unusual Nature Films." The films, selected by Matthew
Buckingham and Sina Najafi, were accompanied by music by Brian Dewan
(28 Wooster Street, New York: October 27, 2002)
Francisco Lopez performance and round table discussion with artists of "Massless Medium" (Creative Time, New York: June 20, 2001)
Art Bingo (The Ohio Theater, New York; June 10, 2000)
A Heap of Language: Robert Smithson and Poetry (The Whitney Museum, New York: November 18, 1999)
WAR!: A Radio Broadcast (New York and Belgrade; November 14, 1999)
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