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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

Monday July 10th, 7.00 PM at 385 Broadway 4th floor (between Walker and
White Street)

Outside the Museum

Please join us for a conversation with Rike Frank (Vienna), Lia
Gangitano
(New York), Greg Williams (New York), and Lauren Ross (New York) who
will
talk about the necessity as well as the function and situations of so
called "alternative" spaces today.

Rike Frank lives and works in Vienna/Austria. She studied media-theory
and
is an independent curator and critic concerned with issues of
media-history, gender, representation, and video. Since 1996 she has
been
working under the name "Best Before" (together with Stefan Gyongyosi).
Curatorial and collaborative projects are among others Vinyl Video
(www.vinylvideo.com), vergessen (www.vergessen.com), Re-Play. Beginning
of
International Media Art in Austria (curatorial assistant, Generali
Foundation, Vienna), Five29Ninety9 (www.thing.net/~Five29Ninety9). She
is a
member of the advisory board of the non-profit art space Kunsthalle
Exnergasse (Vienna)

Lia Gangitano is the director of Thread Waxing Space, New York.

Lauren Ross is the assistant director  of White Columns and a curator
based
in New York

Gregory Williams was the Assistant Director of Apex Art Curatorial
Program
from 1996 to 1999 and is currently coordinating their Residency Program.
He
curated the exhibition, "Arrested Ambition," that took place at Apex
last
year. He is also involved with Immaterial Incorporated, a non-profit
cultural organization that will launch the magazine, Cabinet, this fall.

Williams has written for frieze, Performing Arts Journal, NU, Artbyte,
World Art and other art periodicals. He is currently working toward a
Ph.D.
in art history at the Graduate Center of the City University of New
York.


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
50%
New York based and 50% 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 include presentations, lectures, talks, sideshows,
small
exhibitions, performances. No real topics will be set beforehand.
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 Ruello (curator/organizer, New York)
Heather Felty (curator, 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)
Wolfgang Staehle ( New York)


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








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