May 7 – June 4, 2005
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 7, 6–8pm

MAIN SPACE: Two exhibitions organized by the Bard College’s Center for Curatorial Studies:
Things Fall Apart All Over Again, curated by Cecilia Alemani and Simone Subal
Four by Four, curated by Yasmeen M. Siddiqui

In Things Fall Apart All Over Again, three artists employ strategies of construction, destruction, and transformation to explore the architectural structure of the house. Using everyday materials, Carlos Bunga, Heather Rowe, and Michael Sailstorfer build elaborate site-specific installations. Bunga constructs a huge cardboard house (Artists Space Project, 2005), which he then collapses through strategic cuts. In False Hopes/Silver Clouds (2005) and Untitled (2005), Rowe creates mock rooms in the interstices of makeshift walls. Sailstorfer’s video 3 Ster mit Ausblick (in collaboration with Jürgen Heinert) shows a little wooden house consuming itself. Curators: Cecilia Alemani and Simone Subal

Partial funding for this exhibition has been provided by the Instituto das Artes/Ministry of Culture, the Luso-American Foundation, and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Portugal.

Click here to view Things Fall Apart All Over Again exhibition brochure (PDF file).

The human figure is placed within architectural forms in Four by Four. «ağla Hadimioğluís Between Prayers: Proscribed Scenes From a Historic Monument (2002) uses a documentary mode in a monumental Iranian mosque. Beatriz Viana Felgueiras disrupts the modernist cube with her installation untitled (2004). Moataz Nasr excerpts and restages a monologue from the Egyptian film classic El Ard to build his double projection, The Echo (2003). Hassan Khan pans street lamps and crowds in his work to the man masturbating in the toilet of the Charles De Gaulle airport (2002), while an oral account of a street fight articulates a moment when control is lost. Curator:Yasmeen M. Siddiqui

Partial funding for this exhibition has been provided by the Monique Beudert Fund and the Ford Foundation, Cairo.

Roundtable: Constructing the Transnational Artist
Saturday, May 7, 2005 at Artists Space
Artists' talk: 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Roundtable conversation: 4:00 - 6:00 pm

At the roundtable, we will dissect the term transnational as it operates in contemporary art contexts. An emphasis is placed on current confluences and clashes between the artist, curator, commercial enterprise, and critic. Los Angeles based curator Magali Arriola, gallery owner Ted Bonin, critic and founding member of Amsterdam's Time Based Arts, David Garcia, with artists Beatriz Viana Felgueiras, Çağla Hadimioğlu, Hassan Khan, and Moataz Nasr, and the public, are invited to this roundtable.

The conversation is moderated by Yasmeen M. Siddiqui and Pelin Uran. This roundtable is organized in conjunction with the exhibition Four by Four: Projected works by Beatriz Viana Felgueiras, Çağla Hadimioğlu, Hassan Khan, and Moataz Nasr.

Heather Rowe, Untitled (detail), 2005, mixed media. Courtesy of the artist.	Carlos Bunga, Serralves Project, 2003, cardboard, tape and paint, installation view. Photo by Rita Burmester.	Moataz Nasr, The Echo, 2003, video still

May 17 - May 21, 2005
PROJECT SPACE: Art’s Reflection has no Complexion

^ Karlos Carcamo, Art in America (An Anthropological Debate), 2005, collage and glitter on paper, 16" x 19". Courtesy of the artist.	Michael Britto, still from I Dreamt I Was Hard, 2002 color video with sound, 4 minutes. Courtesy of the artist.

Opening reception May 17, 5pm; Curatorial Talk, May 17, 6pm
Art’s Reflection has no Complexion-while Racial Tensions create Art Inventions is an exhibition designed by student curators from Satellite Academy. Featuring Karlos Carcamo, Michael Britto, and Julia Brown, the exhibition focuses on works that deal with political, social, and economic issues of race. This exhibition is part of the ABACA (Arts Benefit All Coalition Alternative) program.