Nachleben
May 7 – 30
Goethe-Institute Wyoming Building
5 East 3rd Street (between Bowery and 2nd Ave)
New York, NY
Taking up art historian Aby Warburg's signature idea of ‘Nachleben,’ meaning both "afterlife" and "survival," a display of contemporary art works and a series of related programs bring together artistic practices that share an affinity with Warburg's proposals regarding associative thinking, image sequencing, and a dialectics of seeing that extends across eras, cultures, and methodologies.
Contributing artists: Peggy Ahwesh, Clifford Borress, Matthew Buckingham, Patricia Esquivias, William E. Jones, Harun Farocki, Rachel Harrison, John Miller, Lucy Raven, James Welling, Christopher Wool, and Akram Zaatari
Additional works and archival documentation: Zora Neale Hurston, W. Eugene Smith, and Stan VanDerBeek
Nachleben Programs:
Opening reception Friday, May 7, 6pm
Saturday, May 8, 3pm – John Miller discusses his ongoing “Middle of the Day” project
Monday, May 10, 7pm – Screening and discussion with filmmaker Peggy Ahwesh
Thursday, May 13, 7pm – Screening of StanVanDerBeek films followed by a discussion with Sara VanDerBeek
Wednesday, May 19, 7pm – David Levi Strauss lecture: Breakdown in the Gray Room: Reconsidering the Images from Abu Ghraib
Thursday, May 20, 7pm – Matthew Buckingham revisits his installation and book project Improbable Horse
Tuesday, May 25, 7pm – Screening of Harun Farocki's The Taste of Life (1979) and a new work by William E. Jones, followed by a discussion with Jones
Organized by Fionn Meade and Lucy Raven
