OPENING RECEPTION:
Friday, October 5, 5-8pm
Pedro Albizu Campos Plaza
Entrance on E 14th Street between Avenues B and C
Featuring a performance of Doobie Couture by Wanda Ortiz and performance-duo Uniska Wahalo Kano & Jacob Cohen plus many of this year’s festival artists.
Keynote Performance: Martha Wilson
Saturday, October 6, 2012, 2-4pm
Parsons New School of Design, Kellen Auditorium, 66 Fifth Avenue.
Due to her achievements, expertise and unfaltering advocacy of public and performative art, Martha Wilson is the invited keynote performer for AiOP 2012: MODEL. Internationally recognized for her own accomplishments in arts as well as her dedication to emerging artists, she will set the tone for the AiOP's festival and reinforce our mission. She will perform as Barbara Bush for a mini workshop based on AiOP’ “Artist-Citizen” concept. Wilson will also cover a wide variety of topics: including experimental performative methods as well as the challenges and benefits within public art forms for both artist and viewer.
Tour #1:
Saturday, October 6, 2012, 4pm
Parsons New School of Design, meet outside at 66 12th Street.
Members of the AiOP 2012 Curatorial Team will walk citizens through selected nearby projects.
Info Sessions, Workshop
Thursday, October 11, 2012, 7-9pm
Parsons New School of Design, 66 W12 Street, Room 509
Moderated by leading visionaries, this workshop will focus on themes ranging from new models of economic sustainability, stretching the boundaries of performance art, alternative systems for engaging communities, and reclaiming vacant, publically owned land. Featured panelists include Jose Serrano-McClain of Trust Art, Petrushka Bazin Larsen of the Laundromat Project, Marlene Ramirez-Cancio of The Hemispheric Institute, and Paula Z. Segal & Eric Brelsford of 596 Acres.
International Panel Discussion
Saturday, October 13, 2012, 2-4pm
Parsons New School of Design, 66 W12 Street, Room 407
As part of AiOP 2012: MODEL we have planned an event featuring a few of the international participating artists from this year's festival. Moderated by AiOP 2011 artist Lawrence Graham-Brown, the panel talk will include Federico Martínez (Mexico), Alice Lang (Australia), and Nuria Montiel (Mexico).
Tour #2
Saturday, October 13, 2012, 4pm
Parsons New School of Design, meet outside at 66 12th Street.
Members of the AiOP 2012 Curatorial Team will walk citizens through selected nearby projects.
Special Project: ‘no platform’ by USSSA (united secret society of subversive artists)
Sunday, October 14, 2012 and Monday, October 15, 2012 (11am -1pm)
Intersections of Second and Third Avenues on 14th Street. This action is a response to the limited availability of public spaces and the institutional censoring of political content.
The USSSA (united secret society of subversive artists) is a national arts collective, organized to “promote artist perspectives in an era of increasing political discord.” USSSA projects are cooperative engagements wherein artists maintain their autonomy in addressing a more diverse political reality. Current artist initiatives may be found here: http://usssartists.blogspot.com/
Space is limited to all events.
First come, first serve basis.
