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The Assignment Book: A Conversation between the Artist and the Curator

On occasion of the summit, artist Luis Camnitzer and curator Christiane Paul discuss transfer of knowledge from the academy to the street, collective research in pedagogy and artistic practices, and how the notion of "assignments" must be redefined. The talk finds its material counterpart in the exhibition The Assignment Book, on view fromWednesday, September 21 to Saturday, October 1, in the Arnold and Sheila Aronson Gallery, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center
66 Fifth Avenue at 13th Street

In The Assignment Book, Luis Camnitzer presents unresolved conundrums and questions. The exhibition is intended to stimulate critical multidisciplinary thinking on the questions raised and prompt visitors to leave responses that serve as new stimuli for dialogue. Like the blog format, the exhibition offers a platform for the artist, curators, and visitors to enter into conversation as equal partners, thereby deinstitutionalizing learning and challenging the tradition role of the artist/teacher.

Luis Camnitzer is an Uruguayan artist residing in the U.S. since 1964. He received a degree in sculpture from the Escuela Bellas Artes of the University of Uruguay, where he also studied architecture at the School of Architecture. A professor emeritus of the State University of New York, he is the recipient of two Guggenheim Fellowships (1961 and 1982) and the Frank Jewett Mather Award, College Art Association (2011). His work has been exhibited in several international exhibitions, among them the Venice Biennale (1988 when he represented Uruguay with a one-person show), the Whitney Biennial (2000), and Documenta XI (2002). His work is in over thirty museum collections, among them the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate Modern, London; and the Museo de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba. He presently is the pedagogical advisor for the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection. Among his books are New Art of Cuba, Conceptualism in Latin American Art: Didactics of Liberation and On Art, Artists, Latin America and Other Utopias, all published by University of Texas Press. His work is represented by Alexander Gray Associates in New York.

Organized as part of MobilityShifts: The International Future of Learning Summit | www.mobiityshifts.org

Hosted by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School.
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*Location: Arnold and Sheila Aronson Gallery, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, 66 Fifth Avenue at 13th Street - Wednesday, September 21 6:30 p.m.

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• Christiane Paul