Join us this Monday, August 25 for the last night of Summer Mondays at e-flux, “Fail, Fail Better!,” with presentations by Tyler Coburn, Nuno da Luz, and Natasha Marie Llorens.
“Fail, Fail Better!”
Monday, August 25
7:30pm
e-flux
311 East Broadway
New York, NY 10002
Our last evening in the Summer Mondays series is based on the notion of failure-on lame ducks, bungles, flashes in the pan, and lead balloons-and will discuss its nature through ideas, exhibitions, and theories.
The evening begins with curator Natasha Marie Llorens who will give an experimental lecture about Failing to Levitate, a recent project she co-curated with Kerry Downey at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Project Space. From the press release, a line written months ago that describes this talk’s intention: “Failure here is not an end-it is a space that opens up after an idea or an experience has exhausted itself, after balloons deflate and the smoke clears. In this space, together, we hover in not knowing and struggling to listen.”
Last spring, artist and writer Tyler Coburn received an unusual invitation: to write a press release for an exhibition that didn’t exist. The following August, that exhibition would appear at Where, a shipping container in Bushwick. Run by artist Raphael Lyon and art historian Lucy Hunter, this project space is primarily accessible by means of a surveillance feed; Coburn, like the general public, will have to trust its veracity. Coburn’s press release imagines an “interpassive” exhibition, both in structure and content. For his presentation at Summer Mondays, he will consider interpassivity as a failure to perform established subject types, and how the terms of cultural authorship and exhibition making may decenter accordingly.
To close the evening, Nuno da Luz will present a diaporama on the subject of Zetetics, the science of research as devised by Polish engineer and inventor Joseph T. Tykociner (1877-1969). After retiring from forty years of researching electromagnetic radiation, sound-on-film, and piezoelectricity, Joseph Tykociner devoted himself to the systematization and collection of all the information he could find on the theory and practice of research, including the creative process. He envisioned a new science that would be able to discover gaps in knowledge and formulate new problems, in order to foster the growth and expansion of human knowledge.
Conversation and drinks will follow.
Tyler Coburn is an artist and writer based in New York. This fall, Coburn will participate in the Shanghai Biennale, curated by Anselm Franke, as well as exhibitions at The Hayward Gallery, London; Artspace, Auckland; Impakt Festival, Utrecht; S1 Artspace, Sheffield; and others.
Natasha Marie Llorens is a writer and an independent curator based in New York. Upcoming projects include Prove It To Me at REVERSE Gallery in Williamsburg and Frames of War at Momenta in Bushwick. She holds an MA in Curatorial Practice from Bard and is a PhD candidate in the department of Art History at Columbia University. Her research is focused on violence and representation in the 1970s and 1980s.
Nuno da Luz is an artist, graphic designer and publisher whose work circumscribes both aural and visual in the form of sound events, installations, and printed matter, mostly distributed through the publisher ATLAS Projectos and the record label Palmario Recordings. In 2011, he published Zetetics, a taxilogy of Pictorial Knowledge, a book on the science of research.
Summer Mondays
Every Monday evening from July 28 to August 25, e-flux will host a series of live presentations on themes loosely based on the archive of the Agency of Unrealized Projects (AUP), a project initiated by e-flux and the Serpentine Gallery, devised by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Julieta Aranda, Anton Vidokle, and Julia Peyton-Jones. Come join us for a drink in celebrating the semi-productive, unproductive, and failed.
On the Agency of Unrealized Projects
Unlike unrealized architectural projects, which are frequently exhibited and circulated, unrealized artworks tend to remain unnoticed or little-known. But perhaps there is another form of artistic agency in the partial expression, the incomplete idea, the projection of a mere intention? The Agency of Unrealized Projects seeks to document and display these works, in this way charting the terrain of a contingent future.
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