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S / L WORKS

 

KAI MATSUMIYA, NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER / October 2015

Artists - A selection of my recent Seminars / Lecture works.

Following Rainer Ganahl's exhibition "El Mundo," which inaugurated Kai Matsumiya in April 2014, the artist will now open the gallery's fall season with recent photographs from his Seminar/Lecture (S/L) series. This series of photographs was captured by Ganahl during seminars, lectures, and announced talks, and was not subjected to formal photogenic refineries, such as stage lighting, digital editing, tripods, or forced photographic perspectives. Each set is comprised of 2, 4, 5 or 6 photographs, and is specific to each event, and titled after the hosting institution and the date (i.e. “S/L, Jens Hoffmann, Martha Rosler, Jens Hoffmann in conversation with Martha Rosler, Art Basel, Basel 6/18/2010”). His subjects were sourced solely out of personal interest, rather than with any systematic or strategic considerations, thus revealing Ganahl’s intellectual flânerie.

Depicting speakers, audiences and venues, the images subtly reveal the economic and cultural privileges associated with access to these specific institutions and contexts, and the interests and understandings involved therein.

The artist began his S/L series in 1995, focusing primarily on influential academics. It was inspired by one of Edward Said's courses, titled "The Representation of Intellectuals." A few of the subjects from this original series have since passed away, including Said, Pierre Bourdieu, Eric Hobsbawm and Susan Sontag.

Whereas the photographs captured between 1995 and 2005 principally included intellectuals, The artist's most recent investigations have shifted towards an increased focus on artists and curators. He questions the changing interests in the art world, from the general philosophical, cultural and political topics discussed in the 1990s to matters concerning art production and its context.

“This trend also mirrors my renewed interest in arts education, with all of its implications, forms and consequences," Ganahl says "This exhibition will display the individual positions of artists as both intellectuals and human beings. I am interested in how artists live in an increasingly complicated, fragmented and precarious world, and how they try to cope with it.”

For his second show, Ganahl has selected photographs of lectures and discussions by artist-friends including Jutta Koether, Ken Okiishi, Yael Bartana, Martha Rosler, Stephen Prina, Willem de Rooij, Jeff Wall, and by artists he admires, such as Werner Herzog.
The show concludes in the back area of the gallery with a set of photos covering the presentation of Mike Kelley's Educational Complex by one of his best artist-friends John Miller. These images are surrounded by two other works made with pure silk which display the two questions in bold black letters - "Why do we fail?" and "Why do we fall?"

The most recent significant presentations of the "S/L" series were shown at the Arsenale section at the Venice Biennale (2007), curated by Robert Storr; and a solo exhibition at Columbia University's Wallach Gallery titled "The Politics of Learning” (2005), curated by William Kaizen.

 

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Seminar l Lecture, AA Bronson, AA Bronson, The Institute for
Art, Religion and Social Justice, Union Theological Seminary, New York 10/6/2010

4 photographs, 20 x 24, Editon: 1/4

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Seminar l Lecture, Jutta Koether on Agnes Martin, Dia Art Foundation, New York, 9/23/2013
4 photographs, 20 x 24, Editon: 1/4

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Seminar l Lecture, Werner Herzog, Conquest of the Useless, Reflection from the Making of Fitzcarraldo, Reading & Signing, McNally Jackson Bookshop, New York, 6/26/2009
2 photographs, 20 x 24, Editon: 1/4

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Seminar / Lecture, Alexander Alberro, Thomas Elsaesser, Harun Farocki, Artists Space, New York, 9/8/2014

4 photographs, 20 x 24, Editon: 1/4

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Seminar / Lecture, Scott Rothkopf, Carol Bove, Laura Owens, Stephen Prina, and Jordan Wolfson, THE KOONS EFFECT PART 1, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 9/11/2014

6 images 20 x 24 inches , edition of 4

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Seminar l Lecture, Ken Okiishi, Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen, Stuart Comer, Modern Mondays: An Evening with Ken Okiishi, MoMA, New Yoek 12/1/2014
4 photographs, 20 x 24, Editon: 1/4

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Seminar l Lecture, Jeff Wall, Willem de Rooij, Total Visibility, The artists, Witte de With, Rotterdam, 4/17/2009

2 photographs, 20 x 24, Editon: 1/4

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Seminar l Lecture, Yael Bartana, Yael Bartana, Capitainpetzel, Berlin 2/27/2015

4 photographs, 20 x 24, Editon: 1/4

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S/L , John Miller, Diedrich Diederichsen, John Beeson, Book presentation. Mike Kelley, Educational Complex, John Miller in discussion with John Beeson and Diedrich Diederichsen, Pro qm, Berlin, 8/28/2015

4 photographs 20 x24 inches, ed. of 4

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/L, Michael Fried, Wall and Wittgenstein: Photography and the Everyday, Discussants: Diarmuid Costello, Gregg Horowitz, Columbia University, New York 11/10/05

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BELOW WORKS NOT ON FEW DUE TO SPACE AND FRAMING RESTRICTIONS

 

Seminar/Lecture, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, Frank Stella, Suzanne Cotter, An Evening with Monir, Guggenheim Museum, New York, 3/12/2015

4 photographs 20 x24 inches, ed. of 4

 

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Seminar/Lecture, Karl Holmsqvist, Arthur Lindsay, Südblock, Berlin, July 28,2013

4 images, 20 x 24 inches (editoin of 4)

 

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Seminar/Lecture, Ed Atikins,Alisa Barenboym, Josh Kline, Katja Novitskova, Susane Pfeiffer, Speculations on Anonymous Materials, Art Basel, Messehalle Basel, 6/20/2014

4 images, 20 x 24 inches (editoin of 4)

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Seminar / Lecture, Naomi Klein, Open Forum, Naomi Klein, Occupy Wallstreet, Liberty Square, New York, 10/6/2011

(4 photographs) 20x24

 

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Seminar/Lecture, Judith Butler, Hannah Arendt and the Politics of the Street, Parsons, New York, 4/14/2011

3 images, 20 x 24 inches, edition of 4

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Seminar / Lecture, Jens Hoffmann, Martha Rosler, Jens Hoffmann in conversation with Martha Rosler, Art Basel, Basel 6/18/2010

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Seminar l Lecture, Manfred Pernice, On Strange Teaching , Strange Teaching, Künstlerhaus Leipzig, Leipzig, 5/15/2014

4 photographs, 20 x 24, Editon: 1/4s

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Seminar l Lecture, Simon Denny, Dimon Denny, The Composing Rooms, Berlin 2/26/2015

4 photographs, 20 x 24, Editon: 1/4

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Seminar l Lecture, Saadane Afif, Saadane Afif, Studio visit, Berlin 2/27/2015

4 photographs, 20 x 24, Editon: 1/4

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Seminar l Lecture, AA Bronson, AA Bronson, The Institute for Art, Religion and Social Justice, Union Theological Seminary, New York 10/6/2010
Seminar l Lecture, Jutta Koether on Agnes Martin, Dia Art Foundation, New York, 9/23/2013
Seminar l Lecture, Manfred Pernice, On Strange Teaching , Strange Teaching, Künstlerhaus Leipzig, Leipzig, 5/15/2014
Seminar l Lecture, Simon Denny, Dimon Denny, The Composing Rooms, Berlin 2/26/2015
Seminar l Lecture, Werner Herzog, Conquest of the Useless, Reflection from the Making of Fitzcarraldo, Reading & Signing, McNally Jackson Bookshop, New York, 6/26/2009
Seminar l Lecture, Ken Okiishi, Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen, Stuart Comer, Modern Mondays: An Evening with Ken Okiishi, MoMA, New Yoek 12/1/2014
Seminar l Lecture, Jeff Wall, Willem de Rooij, Total Visibility, The artists, Witte de With, Rotterdam, 4/17/2009
Seminar l Lecture, Saadane Afif, Saadane Afif, Studio visit, Berlin 2/27/2015
Seminar l Lecture, Yael Bartana, Yael Bartana, Capitainpetzel, Berlin 2/27/2015
Seminar / Lecture, Scott Rothkopf, Carol Bove, Laura Owens, Stephen Prina, and Jordan Wolfson, THE KOONS EFFECT PART 1, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 9/11/2014
Seminar / Lecture, Jens Hoffmann, Martha Rosler, Jens Hoffmann in conversation with Martha Rosler, Art Basel, Basel 6/18/2010
Seminar / Lecture Michael Fried, Wall and Wittgenstein: Photography and the Everyday, Discussants: Diarmuid Costello, Gregg Horowitz, Columbia University, New York 11/10/05
Seminar / Lecture, Saadane Afif, Saadane Afif, Studio visit, Berlin 2/27/2015
Seminar / Lecture, Judith Butler, Hannah Arendt and the Politics of the Street, Parsons, New York, 4/14/2011
Seminar / Lecture, Naomi Klein, Open Forum, Naomi Klein, Occupy Wallstreet, Liberty Square, New York, 10/6/2011
Seminar / Lecture, Ed Atikins,Alisa Barenboym, Josh Kline, Katja Novitskova, Susane Pfeiffer, Speculations on Anonymous Materials, Art Basel, Messehalle Basel, 6/20/2014
Seminar / Lecture, Karl Holmsqvist, Arthur Lindsay, Südblock, Berlin, July 28,2013

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