ART IS COMMUNICATION Panel Discussion

James Kalm adopts his art historian hat to bring viewers this documentation. On the evening of October 23, 2008 a panel discussion ART IS COMMUNICATION IT IS THE ABILITY TO MANIPULATE PEOPLE was held at the Art Directors Club on West 29th Street in Manhattan. The panel was moderated by journalist Gabriel Sherman and included: Klaus Biesenbach, Chief Curator of the Department of Media at the Museum of Modern Art, and Chief Curatorial Advisor at PS1; Anne Pasternak, President and Artistic Director of Creative Time; Lauren Cornell, Executive Director of Rhizome and Adjunct Curator at the New Museum; and Mario Naves, artist, critic and writer for The New York Observer. This video is excerpts from that discussion. Because cameras and recordings were forbidden, the framing and sound quality are less than optimal.

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[RonSchira]

They barely touched on anything, but I did like the blog/video reference and the need to document on the web. It may not be necessary to criticise, however, to document, such as you and I are doing is important as a record of the actual scene as it transpires, not a re-translation spoonfeed of the event as seen through the eyes of another but the artwork itself. Allow the viewer to ascertain their own interpretations. James (Bond) Kalm, double-O art strikes again.

[jameskalm]

Ron,

You posit some interesting points. Ironically many of the issues they were discussing are being addressed by the act of recording the video, thanks JK

[maeiraldi]

pfffffffffffff

[Bureyeanne]

Klaus is such a paranoid freak at 2:29 That must have been daunting to have had a hidden camera when someone else gets caught. Also two of the discussion panelists look right at the camera when they say no cameras aloud.

[Bureyeanne]

Some of the most arrogant people I've ever met are in the art world.

[xboxlivequimbygod]

boaring

[seintzeit]

camera phobia.

[LawrenceCharlesMille]

p.s. I think Klaus did not want to be seen at the Art Directors Club. for secret reasons

[jameslour]

How are Bush and Cheney like art dealers, critics, and curators?

They both are so so sure of themselves.

[LawrenceCharlesMille]

Propaganda is often the absence of art. Say forbidding the photographing of flag draped coffins as the arrive at Dover. The forbidding of sound recording or images at a government's closed meeting with oil industry executives. There are signs and symbols everywhere. To quote Henry Miller - the artists' mission is to wake up the dead. Thanks James for being bold. Best

[huperill]

oooo, coooooooooooooooogl.

[plocqa17]

There is an interesting youtube/blog from mycluein which toys with some of the ideas thrown out there by the group...it is smartly and creatively put together. There is a connection to the artists potential as cultural communicators and the "stunts" put together by the media to manipulate...a lot about the "medium being the message" or possibly more appropriatly the "massage." Nice undercover work...thx, Kalm!