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[Bik Van der Pol <bikvdpol@earthlink.net>]

NOMADS & RESIDENTS
A forum for visitors in the arts: making connections, supporting
networks,  setting up meetings

Sunday April 2nd, 7.00 pm at the Swiss Institute, 495 Broadway, between
Spring and Broom, 3rd floor

“Mermaids on the Run.”
Feminsims.

with

Barbara Hammer (film, video, installation, and digital artist based in
New  York). Hammer will talk about her intervention into "lesbian
history" in her  forthcoming 16mm feature, "History Lessons" and in her
website  (www.echonyc.com/~lesbians). Currently she has 7 digitally
altered  "interventionist" photographs in the Rethinking the Modern
Amazon exhibition  at The New Museum of Contemporary Art.

Yvonne Volkart (academic, art-critic, curator, based in Zurich,
Switzerland)  and Cornelia Sollfrank (artist, based in Hamburg, Germany)
are members of  Old Boys Network (www.obn.org) and will talk about
cyberfeminism. Yvonne Volkart curated the ‘tenacity’. Cultural practices
in the age of global bio-  and information technology’ the current
exhibition at the Swiss Institute,  in which Cornelia Sollfrank is
showing her latest research on female  hackers.

Carrie Moyer (painter, based in New York) and Sue Schaffer
(photographer,  based in New York) will talk about DAM, Dyke Action
Machine, a public art  collaboration which critiques culture by
inserting lesbian images into a  recognizably commercial context.
Currently DAM! is working on "GYNADOME", a  streaming video website and
billboard funded by the Creative Capital  Foundation.
www.dykeactionmachine.com


Big cities are in a continuous flux, with a coming and going of people
who  settle in, stay temporarily or move through. Newcomers enter this
flux,  become part of the life of the city, and make connections with
others. The  city, as a space, contains possibilities through the
dynamic relationships  between people, which may provoke an active
engagement. Strangers become  friends, ideas become practice, models are
being transformed into action.

NOMADS & RESIDENTS makes connections with people who live here and with
people who visit, by setting up an active network of collaborators, and
creating and organizing public events in a variety of places. NOMADS  &
RESIDENTS invites artists, guests, curators, critics, activists,
travelers  and passers-by to present insight into their practice, their
ideas,  histories, and drives.

The curatorial and organizing group of NOMADS & RESIDENTS consists of
New  York based and temporary residents. They actively seek out
information about  who is coming to New York and when, they invite
guests to present his/her  ideas and solicit the involvement of spaces
where these presentations can  take place. They welcome advice, ideas
and the enthusiastic support of  others. The events will be partly
informal and casual, and will focus on  exchanging ideas, initiating new
projects and networks. They will also  include short presentations,
lectures, talks, sideshows, small exhibitions,  performances,
discussions. Priority will be given to proposals that could  become
projects that will be shared among the participants, to a practice  that
can make resources and ideas available for common use.

Liesbeth Bik (artist, The Netherlands)
Catherine Cruello (curator/organizer, New York)
Andrea Geyer (New York based artist)
Gordon Knox (New York based initiator and organizer)
Jan Kopp (artist, France)
John Menick (New York based artist)
Phill Niblock (New York based artist)
Olu Oguibe (New York based artist/curator)
Cesare Pietroiusti (artist, Italy)
Jos van der Pol (artist, the Netherlands)
Annette Schindler (New York based curator)
Shelly Silver (New York based artist)

For more information or suggestions for the program, contact us via
email at  nomadsresidents@hotmail.com





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