News and Events

Katherine Hubbard, MFASO Lecture

Hunter MFA Studios, Flex Space
205 Hudson Street
New York, NY

October 18, 7pm

Wayne Koestenbaum: Improvisation

The Artist’s Institute
132 E. 65th Street
New York, New York

October 22, 3-6pm
In this workshop, we will muse together on strategies for incorporating improvisation into our various artistic activities.  Individually and collaboratively in the workshop we will do several improvisatory exercises and experiments. Writers and artists should bring materials with which to play, including paper, pens, drawing materials, etc. Participants are also welcome to bring sources of inspiration for these experiments, whether scraps, objects, photographs, books, or other ephemera.

Space is limited. To apply, please e-mail writing@theartistsinstitute.org with a brief statement of interest.

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Wayne Koestenbaum: Camp Marmalade on East 65th Street

The Artist’s Institute
132 E. 65th Street
New York, New York

October 10, 7pm

Inspired by stanzas in his recently-published book, Camp Marmalade, the second volume of Koestenbaum’s “trance trilogy,” the poet will perform improvisatory Sprechstimme recitative, with free-style musical accompaniment—keeping open, in the evening’s séance, to the assistance of such ghosts as Charles T. Griffes, Alexandre Tansman, Germaine Tailleferre, and Witold Lutoslawski, though these invitees have not yet RSVP’d, and may decline to attend.  The poet will also project a very brief instructional video.

Shift/Fix(ed)

Thomas Hunter Project Space
930 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY

Through October 31

Thomas Hunter Project Space is proud to present Shift/Fix(ed), a series of multimedia collaborative works by MFA students from UMass Dartmouth.  What do the words Shift/Fix(ed) imply to contemporary art practice? We are told our political, environmental, and social worlds are shifting, in flux—perhaps on the precipice of change & revolution. The Postmodernist tradition, where the disruption of norms and critical stance in society was a given- is now under severe attack. Questions about the mutability of truth (fixed or un-fixed) permeate the culture. Are we talking to or at one another? Paired artists will form a discourse in the production of wall based works in diptych format that considers the rough dynamics of the world they live, how their practice navigates (shifts) and/or participates in the public space. Curated by UMD professors Jim Lawton and Janine Wong.

Full Moon Saloon Closing Party

Christopher Lin: What Do You Call the World?

Thomas Hunter Project Space
930 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY

October 7 – October 25
Opening Reception: October 14, 6-8pm

“Where do you come from?”
“From the South.”
“How is Practice there these days?”
“There is extensive discussion.”
“How does that compare to me here planting the fields?”
“What can you do about the world?”
“What do you call the world?”

– from Shōyō-roku (Book of Equanimity)

Thomas Hunter Projects is pleased to present an exhibition by 2015 MFA Alumnus Christopher Lin. In What do you call the world, Lin presents an installation addressing a koan from Shōyō-roku (Book of Equanimity) posing the paradoxical question as its namesake. In the parable, two teachers briefly discuss their practices upon meeting. One, who favors discussion, poses the question, “What can you do about the world?” In response, the other posits, “What do you call the world?”

In the isolation of a small, underground room, Lin has illustrated this paradox. Gravity has been flipped creating a surreal sensation. Bathed in the magenta glow of modern grow lamps, Spathiphyllum, or peace lilies, grow downwards despite the lack of natural light. A clock runs in reverse.

Visitors will need to get a “guest pass” from the main entrance at Hunter College on the corner of 68th St. and Lexington Ave. You may then use any entrance to reach the Thomas Hunter Project Space, located in the basement of the Thomas Hunter Building (930 Lexington Ave.)

Nicolas Guagnini, MFASO Lecture

Hunter MFA Studios, Flex Space
205 Hudson Street
New York, NY

October 3, 7pm

Thomas Allen Harris + Betty Yu in Conversation

Hunter East Harlem Gallery
2180 3rd Avenue
New York, NY

October 3, 6-8pm

Join Thomas Allen Harris in conversation with artist, filmmaker, educator, community activist, and Hunter College IMA MFA Alumna Betty Yu.

This event is sponsored by Crossway Foundation.

Mother, Bethel, Harlem, USA Symposium 

Hunter East Harlem Gallery
2180 3rd Avenue
New York, NY

September 29, 1:30-7pm

Join the student artists from Hunter College’s IMA MFA Program for a day full of speakers, poetry, and artist visits around the subjects of identity, neighborhood murals, archiving family histories, spiritual practices and much more!

The Gallerists: A panel discussion on the intimate relationships and histories between gallerists and artists

part of Stephen Mueller: Orchidaceous

205 Hudson Gallery
205 Hudson Street
New York, NY

September 25, 7pm

With Margaret Liu Clinton (Koenig & Clinton), Michael Findlay (Acquavella Galleries), and Fredericka Hunter (Texas Gallery and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation).

Moderated by Carrie Moyer

Theater of the Oppressed Workshop with Gail Burton

Hunter East Harlem Gallery
2180 3rd Avenue
New York, NY

September 27, 5-8pm

Attendees are invited to share photos and the stories/memories based on Thomas Allen Harris’ Digital Diaspora Family Reunion methodology in dialogue with Image Theater methodology in a workshop with specialist Gail Burton.

Student artist Chris J Gauthier will perform inside his installation at HEHG.

Reception to follow event!