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PUSH / PULL Issue 7
Folks in Minneapolis can pick up free print copies of PUSH / PULL Issue 7 at Midway Contemporary Art – available now!
PUSH/PULL is an online journal sponsored by @culturepusher a platform for ideas and thoughts that are still in development. PUSH/PULL is a virtual venue that allows CP to present a variety of perspectives on civic engagement, social practice, and other issues that need attention.
Issue 7 focuses on artistic freedom and expanded notions of censorship, including conversations with Dread Scott, Svetlana Mintcheva of the National Coalition Against Censorship, and Srirak Plipat of Freemuse, an independent international organization advocating for and defending freedom of artistic expression.
UltraViolet Archive is a collection of endangered creative works including films, graphic novels, music, literature, visual and performing arts that were formerly banned, challenged, or partially censored. For Queens International 2018, the interactive collection and installation focuses on works on loan from the Queens Library that are set in or challenged in New York, or authored by New Yorkers.
PUSH / PULL Issue 7 was supported by Culture Push, Freemuse, Danish Arts Foundation, National Coalition Against Censorship and Queens Museum Assistant Curator, Sophia Marisa Lucas.
Free Copies are also available at Printed Matter on 11th Ave. and the Zabar Art Library at Hunter College.
PUSH / PULL Launch at Queens Museum February 16
Join Culture Push and artist Christina Freeman, whose work UltraViolet Archive is currently featured in Queens International 2018: Volumes, for the launch of the first print edition of PUSH/PULL, the Culture Push online journal. This issue will focus on artistic freedom and expanded notions of censorship, including conversations with Dread Scott, Svetlana Mintcheva of the National Coalition Against Censorship, and Srirak Plipat of Freemuse, an independent international organization advocating for and defending freedom of artistic expression.
UltraViolet Archive is a collection of endangered creative works including films, graphic novels, music, literature, visual and performing arts that were formerly banned, challenged, or partially censored. For Queens International 2018, the interactive collection and installation focuses on works on loan from the Queens Library that are set in or challenged in New York, or authored by New Yorkers.
UltraViolet Archive in Artforum
The Lure of the Local
“WELCOME TO THE DREGS OF THE YEAR, when all we want—or need, given the chaos of 2018—is something socially nourishing. And no, I’m not talking about Art Basel Miami Beach.
On Saturday December 8, an afternoon of overlapping talks, workshops, film screenings, and performances was brought together under the banner of “Access and Agency” at the Queens Museum in conjunction with “Queens International 2018,” the eighth edition of the truly local group show that spotlights a set of artists working in the most royal borough. This year, a lively intergenerational dialogue on abstraction, chance operations, and found objects emerges among luminaries such as Milford Graves, Jack Whitten, Liz Phillips, and newcomers such as KT Pe Benito, Emilio Martinez Poppe, and Ani Liu, while a new partnership with the Queens Library, entailing installations in select branches and programming, gives the exhibition more breathing room. Hence its title: “Volumes,” a nod to publications and capabilities.
The programming on Saturday began with a “Censorpedia edit-a-thon,” presented by Christina Freeman as part of her UltraViolet Archive, 2018, an installation that gathers partially censored and banned works. In the museum’s theater, Freeman also screened two films from the archive by Oscar Micheaux. Simultaneously, there were conversations about cultural erasure, including Aruna D’Souza speaking with QI 2018 artist Janet Henry and Linda Goode Bryant. And did I mention that Eileen Myles, Tracie Morris, and Thurston Moore, among others, were giving readings of their works? [. . .]”
Access and Agency Program for QI’18
Access and Agency at Queens Museum December 8
Join us for the second in a series of dynamic public programs presented on the occasion of Queens International 2018: Volumes to delve deeper into the themes, contexts, and aesthetics that have informed the exhibition.
Programming on Saturday, December 8th will include talks, readings, performances, and film screenings that reflect on issues of access, censorship, surveillance, translation, and circulation regarding cultural narratives.
Schedule of Events:
12:00-3:00pm: Censorpedia Edit-a-thon
Censorpedia is a crowdsourced online database of censorship cases within the arts and in culture generated by the National Coalition Against Censorship. This edit-a-thon is presented alongside Christina Freeman’s UltraViolet Archive, a collection of endangered creative works including films, graphic novels, music, literature, visual and performing arts that were formerly banned, challenged, or partially censored. For Queens International 2018, the interactive collection and installation focuses on works on loan from the Queens Library that are set in or challenged in New York, or authored by New Yorkers.
Freeman will be facilitating a Censorpedia Edit-a-thon in the QM Galleries focused on editing entries for works inside the Ultra-Violet Archive installation.
12:00-4:30pm: Oscar Micheaux Screenings from the UltraViolet Archive
Join us for looping screenings of two Oscar Micheaux films, The Symbol of the Unconquered (1920) and Within Our Gates (1920) previously not on view as part of the UltraViolet Archive, being shown in the Queens Museum theater, 2nd Floor.
1:00-2:30pm: Rewriting the Narrative: Conversations on Exclusion, Censorship, and Space Making
Join us for a series of three conversations focusing on structural forces of omission, erasure, and negation in culture, literature, and on digital platforms.
Featuring:
Christopher Myers in conversation with Abena Hutchful and Nora Pelizzari of the National Coalition Against Censorship
Aruna D’Souza in conversation with QI 2018 artist Janet Henry and Linda Goode Bryant
Nora Khan in conversation with Ryan Kuo
CART Services (text transcription) in English will be provided for this series of conversations. Transcription services also provided in Spanish using Google Translate.
3:00-4:30pm: The People’s Guide to the Queens International Writing Workshop
The People’s Guide to the Queens International is a collaborative art project organized by Brian Droitcour and Christine Wong Yap. The People’s Guide invites the public to write reviews of artworks in the Queens International 2018 exhibition on the premise that anyone can be an art critic.
3:00-4:45pm: Queenzenglish Int’l 2018 @ Queens Museum
A series of readings and performances including:
Carla Harryman
Paolo Javier
Kyoo Lee
Maria Lisella
Thurston Moore
Tracie Morris
Eileen Myles
The Urban Mythfits – A Corona Group (Omar Montana, Elijah Kuan Wong, Yeong Ran Kim, Elizabeth Polanco, Jansiel Polanco, Una Chung, Mac Morris, and Patricia Clough)
Focusing on the expressive diversity of the English language in transition, this series of readings and performances is framed around the practice of “mp3,” “poetry, philosophy and performativity” in poetic and prose formats and with diverse rhythms, forms, tactics, dialects, accents and textures. The title “Queenzenglish,” a play on the “Queen’s English,” addresses the different mechanisms of control and creativity within language, questions the dominance of Anglo-American-centered norms, and challenges the idea that knowledge and success are directly related to mastery of the English language. Performing in Queens, where many “Englishes,” along with hundreds of other languages, are in active use, Queenzenglish poets, writers, and musicians examine the transformative potential of linguistic diversity and expressive plurality.
Participant bios can be found here.
Co-sponsored by mp3: Poetry, Philosophy, Performativity research team as part of the Seminar on Public Engagement and Collaborative Research from the Center for the Humanities at the Graduate Center, CUNY.
Image: Christina Freeman, UltraViolet Archive, 2018. Photo: Hai Zhang