Event
Instance No. 8
Saturday Feb. 29 | 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Sunday March 1 | 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
60 Cleveland Ave. (Entrance on E. Gay Street) | Columbus
Free Admission. Free Parking.
A weekend of artists’ books, print editions, zines, and more from local, national, and international art book publishers, artists, and artist-run spaces. The 2nd edition of An Art Book Affair is situated within Season Two: Follow the Mud. Special programming include a presentation by the Season Two graphic design team Vier5, known for their work for Documenta 12 and 14, one of the most important international art exhibitions, and the launch of a special issue of Fairy Tale Magazine*, a fashion magazine featuring Columbus, and a Beeler Gallery supplement with reflections on Season Zero by Yin Ho, and photography by JiaHao Peng. Performances will be activated in the galleries, including Paris-based artist Laëtitia Badaut Haussmann in collaboration with art historian Daniel Marcus; Columbus artist Suzanne Silver; Minus Plato and Annie Vigier & Franck Apertet (les gens d’Uterpan); and live music by Voidgig (Gina Osterloh, Liz Roberts, and Melissa Vogley Woods).
From 11:30a.m. to 1:30p.m., Tibetan Momo Food Truck (Saturday) and Willowbeez Soulveg (Sunday) will be on site. Complimentary coffee provided by Brioso Coffee.
*100 free copies available for Columbus College of Art & Design students, with a valid ID, at 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐒𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 & 𝐁𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐫 𝐀𝐦𝐚𝐛𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐫𝐬 table by the entrance of the gallery.
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Galleries
Instance No. 7
Heide Hinrichs and second shelf
Saturday, Feb. 1, 2020 | 2–3 p.m.
60 Cleveland Ave. (Entrance on E. Gay Street)
Columbus, Ohio
On view until March 15, 2020
Join us for a gallery tour and conversation with Heide Hinrichs and Columbus artist Laura Larson. Complimentary coffee provided by Brioso Coffee.
second shelf, initiated in 2018 by Brussels-based German artist Heide Hinrichs, is a collaborative book acquisition project and multi-institutional, international effort to increase library holdings of publications by non-binary, female, and queer artists and artists of color. At the project’s core is the formation of a new collection of books in the library of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, and simultaneously acquired through Beeler Gallery at Columbus College of Art & Design’s initiative with Packard Library, and at University of Bristol, United Kingdom.
As part of Season Two: Follow the Mud, Heide Hinrichs installs more than 100 drawings, Inscriptions (2006–2020), based on drawings by artists in second shelf. In dialogue with these drawings is a selection of Columbus artist Laura Larson’s photographic series All the Women I Know. Larson’s book Hidden Mother (Saint Lucy Press, 2017) is part of second shelf.
For more info on second shelf, please visit www.second-shelf.org
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Galleries
Instance No. 6
Michel Auder + Michael Stickrod present Subversive Historian (2020)
Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020 | 6–8 p.m.
60 Cleveland Ave. (Entrance on E. Gay Street)
Columbus, Ohio
On view until March 15, 2020
Gallery tour with artists Michael Auder and Michael Stickrod, moderated by Columbus artist Liz Roberts, followed by a reception.
Subversive Historian (2020) is a new video commission by Ohio-based artist Michael Stickrod and part of the collaborative project Staples and Rubber Bands (1969-2019) with New York-based French pioneer video artist Michel Auder.
Filmed in rural Ohio, upstate New York, New York City, Pommiers and Paris, France, Subversive Historian (2019) was shot around Stickrod and Auder’s recent trip to retrieve the long-lost archive of photographs and documents in the Rhône valley, France. C. Spencer Yeh‘s performance, Improvisation on Amplified Violin, for the opening of Season Two: Follow the Mud, forms part of the soundtrack.
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Galleries
STILL BEGINNING: The 30th Annual Day With(out) Art
Saturday, Nov. 30 and Sunday, Dec. 1 | 12–6 p.m. on looping presentation in the gallery
Beeler Gallery is proud to partner with Visual AIDS for the thirtieth annual Day With(out) Art by presenting STILL BEGINNING, a program of seven newly commissioned videos responding to the ongoing HIV/AIDS epidemic by Shanti Avirgan, Nguyen Tan Hoang, Carl George, Viva Ruiz, Iman Shervington, Jack Waters/Victor F.M. Torres, and Derrick Woods-Morrow.
Visual AIDS is a New York-based non-profit that utilizes art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue, supporting HIV+ artists, and preserving a legacy, because AIDS is not over. In 1989, Visual AIDS organized the first Day Without Art, a call to the art world for mourning and action in response to the AIDS crisis. For Day With(out) Art’s thirtieth year, over 100 institutions worldwide will screen STILL BEGINNING, recognizing the important and necessary work of artists, activists, and cultural workers who have responded to AIDS while emphasizing the persistent presence of the epidemic.
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Galleries
Instance No. 5
Michel Auder + Michael Stickrod present Cleopatra (1970)
Thursday, Dec. 12 | 6–8 p.m.
60 Cleveland Ave. (Entrance on E. Gay Street) | Columbus, Ohio
*Screening everyday 12:15 p.m. and 3:15 p.m. until January 26, 2020
A rare screening of Michel Auder’s Cleopatra (1970, 126 minutes) in a room filled with goldenrod culled from Michael Stickrod’s home in McKean Township, Ohio.
Out of public view for many years, New York-based French artist Michel Auder’s Cleopatra based its characters’ improvisation on Joseph Mankiewicz’s 1963 film of the same name starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton—the most expensive film ever at the time of its making. Auder’s cast includes many from and around Andy Warhol’s Factory, including Auder’s former wife, Viva, as the queen, Louis Waldon, Taylor Mead, Nico, Ondine, Ultra Violet, Andrea Feldman, Gerard Malanga, and Christopher Walken.
A commissioned text by Robert Slifkin on Instance No. 5 will be available in a free takeaway poster designed by Vier5.
Galleries
Instance No. 4
Laëtitia Badaut Haussmann invites Julia Trotta, presenting Forget to be afraid: A portrait of Linda Nochlin
Tuesday, Nov. 19 | 6–7:30 p.m.
On view until Jan. 26, 2020.
BEELER GALLERY is ALWAYS FREE and OPEN to the public.
Paris-based artist Laëtitia Badaut Haussmann and New York-based filmmaker, curator, and writer Julia Trotta conceive an installation of their works in dialogue as part of Laëtitia Badaut Haussmann: WATER, the artist’s larger project for Season Two: Follow the Mud. Trotta selects vignettes of her film Forget to be afraid: A portrait of Linda Nochlin, on her late grandmother, the pioneering art historian known for her groundbreaking 1971 article, “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?”, in resonance to a work and impact of a life that is, and could be, forever in progress
Experience the installation starting at 6 p.m., and, at 6:30 p.m., the artists, who maintain a longstanding friendship, will hold their first public dialogue, on the topics of porous narratives, intimacy that resists sentimentality, representation of reality, and feminism. Please join us for a reception after the conversation.
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Galleries
Instance No. 3
Michel Auder + Michael Stickrod present May ’68 in ’78
Sunday, Nov. 10 | 12–1 p.m. (Beeler Gallery is open from 12-6 p.m.)
Beeler Gallery is ALWAYS FREE and open to the public. Free parking available. We encourage visitors to take public transportation. 150 COTA Free DayPasses will be distributed at BEELER GALLERY starting at noon.
At 12 p.m., enjoy hand-poured coffee station by Brioso Coffee. At 12:30 p.m, join Ohio-based artist Michael Stickrod and Director of Exhibitions Jo-ey Tang for an introduction of the collaborative project Staples and Rubber Bands (1969-2019) by Michael Stickrod and New York-based French artist Michel Auder. Throughout Season Two: Follow the Mud, sculptural installations by Stickrod set the scene for Auder’s video works. Instance No. 3 on Nov. 10 is a world premiere of May ’68 in ’78, a newly–edited and newly subtitled video of never-before-seen interviews with artists, workers, police, tax collectors, grocers, and his mother, among others, on the reverberation of the student movement in France in 1968, shot 10 years after. Seen in the context of the present cultural and political moment, how will May ’68 in ’78 read 50 years later, in 2019?
This is part of Downtown Art Sunday, which brings together downtown art spaces for a day of art with special programming. Participants include Beeler Gallery at Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus Museum of Art, Cultural Arts Center, Hawk Galleries, OSU Urban Art Space, OAC Riffe Gallery and Contemporary Art Matters. Itinerary and programming begins at Beeler Gallery, with hand-poured coffee station by Brioso Coffee at noon.
For more details on this year’s programming and suggested itinerary, please visit Downtown Art Sunday website.
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Off-Site
Instance No. 2
RSVP: here
(Thank you for your support! The event is now FULL. Due to limited capacity, a waiting list is available and notification will be sent out on Oct. 11 if a space becomes available.)
Instance No. 2: Laëtitia Badaut Haussmann: Exposure
Sunday, Oct. 13, 2019 | 1–4 p.m.
Glenbrow/Gunning House | Blacklick, Ohio
This is a FREE event. Free parking available at Beeler Gallery.
Join Paris-based artist Laëtitia Badaut Haussmann for a performative and interpretive tour of the Gunning House, also known as Glenbrow, a 1940 Usonian-style home east of Columbus designed by Tony Smith ((known for his contributions to Minimalist sculptures), Theodore van Fossen (known for Rush Creek Village in Worthington, Ohio), and Laurence Cuneo (who became art director for the television show I Love Lucy). Located on a 2.5-acre parcel, the house appeared on several endangered lists, including The Cultural Landscape Foundation and Columbus Landmarks. In 2014, Dorri Steinhoff and Joseph Kuspan purchased it. Their restoration took more than three and a half years and received a State of Ohio Preservation Award in 2018.
Galleries
Instance No. 1
Instance No. 1: Opening reception
Thursday, Oct. 10 | 6–8 p.m.
Beeler Gallery is ALWAYS FREE and open to the public. Free parking available.
Sound performance: C. Spencer Yeh (two sets at 6:20 p.m. and 7:20 p.m.)
ABOUT THE SEASON
Organized as a series of “instances” in a process of accumulation, each instance in Season Two: Follow the Mud is accompanied by an installation and activated by performances, screenings, and dialogs both at Beeler Gallery and beyond. Through voices and sounds, objects, spaces, images, movements, and text, we accumulated and uncovered hidden, suppressed, and forgotten histories in art, architecture, and politics, in order to allow individual subjectivities and personal narratives to re-emerge and intersect.
ARTISTS
Michel Auder + Michael Stickrod
Laëtitia Badaut Haussmann
Heide Hinrichs
Laura Larson
Julia Trotta
Vier5
C. Spencer Yeh
Ryland Wharton
Off-Site
Instance No. 0
Instance No. 0: shelf talk #8
Friday, Sept. 20, 2019 | 1-2 p.m.
The Classroom (in the Basement Theater)
NY Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1
22-25 Jackson Ave, Long Island City, NY 11101
second shelf, initiated in 2018 by Brussels-based German artist Heide Hinrichs, is a collaborative book acquisition project and multi-institutional, international effort to increase library holdings of publications by non-binary, female, and queer artists and artists of color. The core of the project is the formation of a new collection of books in the library of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, and simultaneously acquired through Beeler Gallery’s initiative with Packard Library at Columbus College of Art & Design, and at University of Bristol, UK.
Since October 2018, a series of interventions, shelf talks, have taken place in the library of Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, where Hinrichs teaches. These interventions are gestures of care and attention that creatively highlight the presence of the new collection and contextualize its ambitions. This shelf talk #8 will take place at New York Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1. second shelf advisors are convening in person for the first time during New York Art Book Fair as part of the public programming of The Classroom. The conversation about publishing, libraries, and artistic and institutional identities will inform a future publication on the project. A website that functions as an inventory is at second-shelf.org.
MEET Stephanie Cristello
Editor-in-chief of THE SEEN, Artistic Director at EXPO CHICAGO, Director of Chicago Manual Style
Tuesday, July 9
2-3 p.m.
Beeler Gallery at Columbus College of Art & Design
60 Cleveland Avenue, Columbus, OH
(entrance on E. Gay Street)
*Free parking, ADA accessible
Come join us at Beeler Gallery to meet Chicago-based critic and curator Stephanie Cristello over coffee. As Editor-in-Chief of THE SEEN, Stephanie will speak about arts writing in the Midwest as a site for connectivity, as well as her wide-ranging curatorial work as Director / Curator of Chicago Manual Style, which operates out of a residential garage, and Artistic Director at EXPO CHICAGO.
Galleries
2019 MFA & MDES Thesis: Replacing The Sun?
Replacing the Sun?
2019 CCAD MFA & MDes Thesis Exhibition
April 5-28, 2019
Beeler Gallery hours for Replacing the Sun?: Tues-Sun 12-6 p.m., Thurs 12-8 p.m.
Opening Reception: Friday, April 5, 2019, 6-9 p.m.
Each spring, Beeler Gallery hosts Columbus College of Art & Design’s Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibitions. The 2019 iteration, Replacing the Sun?, takes place in the atrium and inside Beeler Gallery. This year, the candidates of Master of Design in Integrative Design will present their thesis during the opening night in the Auditorium on Friday, April 5, 6-7 p.m.
MFA Candidates: Yajim Amadu, Joey Bee, Alexandria Carlton, Liyao (Rose) Chen, Neil Curran, Susanne Dotson, Sahar Fadaian, Jacs Fishburne, Quintin Gleim, Faith Goodman, Julia Hamilton, Amanda Ho, Grace Ko, Grace Korandovich, Yae Reem Lee, Rich McKinley, Xiaoshuo (Eric) Mei, Alissa Ohashi, Jiahao Peng, Danielle Michaux Wells, and Chenxuan Zhang.
MDes Candidates: Elyse Applewhite, Shielaugh Divelbiss, Weeraya Jirawongwaris, Priya Mehta, Elle Miller, Joseph Owens, Christopher Rabineau, Kendra Rabineau, and Maurshell Stokes
For more information on CCAD’s MFA program, here.
For more information on CCAD’s MDes program, here.
Galleries
Season One
Oct. 2, 2018 – March 17, 2019
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Nancy Brooks Brody
Joy Episalla
Zoe Leonard
Carrie Yamaoka
: fierce pussy amplified
Opening: Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2018
Artists’ tour with Jo-ey Tang, Director of Exhibitions: 5:30 p.m. Reception: 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Free and open to the public.
Beeler Gallery dedicates Season ONE to the individual art practices of the four original core members of fierce pussy, the New York-based queer art collective – Nancy Brooks Brody, Joy Episalla, Zoe Leonard, and Carrie Yamaoka.
Launch
second shelf
Launch: Sunday Nov. 4, 2018 as part of Downtown Art Sunday.
Now: Housed at CCAD Packard Library after Nov. 4, 2018
In the 1970s, American artist Elaine Sturtevant (1924 Lakewood, OH – 2014 Paris, France) began operating an art practice in which she meticulously copied selected works of her male colleagues, as a critique of the culture of the art world in which she was working.
The collaborative research and book acquisition project second shelf (2018-20), initiated by Brussels-based, German artist Heide Hinrichs, explores those influence of that culture on the library of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, Belgium, and asks how alternative canons can be generated in the library. The core of the project is the formation of a new collection of books in the library of the Royal Academy that document the work of artists – women, of gender spectrum, queer, and of color – and related theoretical text. This collection of books are also simultaneously acquired through Beeler Gallery’s initiative with Packard Library at Columbus College of Art & Design, and at University of Bristol, UK.
Part of this process of raising awareness is thinking about the creative networks that libraries make evident (and sometimes conceal), and about the economy of art and of publishing. This is being explored through institutional relationships and through the second shelf ‘mirror site’ at the Beeler Gallery and CCAD Packard Library.
PERFORMANCE
On Board(hers)
On Board(hers)
Open Rehearsal #1: Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018 | 6:30 p.m.
Open Rehearsal #2: Thursday, March 28, 2019 | 6:30 p.m.
This event is free and open to the public.
PRESS: Columbus Alive
Beeler Gallery presents On Board(hers), an all-women dance performance based on the recorded voices of 15 female immigrants’ testimonies and choreographed by Lucille Toth, Assistant Professor of French at The Ohio State University Newark campus. Two open rehearsals take place at Beeler Gallery on Dec. 11, 2018, and March 28, 2019, both followed by Q&A with the performers and refreshments.
Event
Day With(out) Art
Saturday, Dec. 1, 2018 | 12-6 p.m.
Screening on a looping presentation
Beeler Gallery screening room
In solidarity with Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art, Beeler Gallery presents ALTERNATE ENDINGS, ACTIVIST RISINGS, which highlights the impact of art in AIDS activism and advocacy today by commissioning compelling short videos from six inspiring community organizations and collectives—ACT UP NY, Positive Women’s Network, Sero Project, The SPOT, Tacoma Action Collective, and VOCAL NY. The program represents a wide range of organizational strategies, from direct action to grassroots service providers to nation-wide movement building, while considering the role of creative practices in activist responses to the ongoing AIDS crisis. This event is free and open to the public.
Event
Tyler Coburn: Richard Roe
A reading and the unveiling of an orchid.
Richard Roe is a multi-part work, comprising an orchid hybrid named by New York-based artist Tyler Coburn and a “memoir” of a legal person. The project builds on a convention particular to Singapore, wherein orchid hybrids are named after politicians and celebrities—in effect, as a means of cultural diplomacy.
Concert
Mx Justin Vivian Bond
Thursday, Nov. 15, 2018 | 8 p.m.
Southern Theatre (21 E. Main St., Columbus, OH)
“A gender-bending, truth-telling illusionist. The best cabaret artist of [their] generation.” — Hilton Als, The New Yorker
Beeler Gallery presents the first Midwest concert by the queer legend and Tony-nominated Mx Justin Vivian Bond at the historic Southern Theatre. Mx Justin Vivian Bond is a trans activist and trans-genre artist living in New York City. They are invited by the queer art collective fierce pussy, whose work is on view in arms ache avid aeon: Nancy Brooks Brody / Joy Episalla / Zoe Leonard / Carrie Yamaoka: fierce pussy amplified at Beeler Gallery.
Event
Downtown Art Sunday 2018
Sunday, Nov. 4, 2018 | 12 – 6 p.m.
Timed to daylight-saving Sunday, this event brings together downtown art spaces for a day of art with special programming.
Angela Meleca Gallery, Appendix, Beeler Gallery at Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus Museum of Art, Cultural Arts Center, Hawk Galleries, OSU Urban Art Space, and OAC Riffe Gallery. At Beeler Gallery, programming includes the launch of a book acquisition initiative called second shelf and a Harlem Renaissance prose and poetry reading.
The event is free and open to the public. Coffee provided by Brioso Coffee. Media sponsor: Columbus Underground.
Special programming details for all venues can be found on Downtownartsunday.org
Season One Events
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As part of arms ache avid aeon: Nancy Brooks Brody / Joy Episalla / Zoe Leonard / Carrie Yamaoka: fierce pussy amplified, Beeler Gallery works closely with the artists to conceive public events, to contextualize their practices and affinities.
Additional Events
Season One
Season One includes additional programming informed by the intersection of art and politics, the 2nd edition of An Art Book Affair, and the Visiting Artist & Scholars Series organized in collaboration with CCAD’s Graduate Studies program and CCAD’s Schools of Studio Arts and Design Arts.
An illustration by Henri Mondor for Paul Valery's 1935 book Sea Shells
Event / Publication Launch
The Daily Gentrifier FLYOVER FLYER (Columbus Edition)
Saturday, Sept. 8, 2018 | 2 p.m.
Dushko Petrovich, artist, writer, and Chair of New Arts Journalism at The School of Art Institute of Chicago, is launching The Daily Gentrifier FLYOVER FLYER (Columbus Edition), a publication featuring writing on the current state of art and gentrification in Columbus by local artists, writers and curators, including Marisa Espe, Daniel Marcus, Left Handed Sophie, MINT art collective, James Payne, Liz Roberts, and Maritt Vaessen.
The publication is free. The event is free and open to the public.
SEASON ZERO: Conversation Six
Sable Elyse Smith
Friday, Mar. 23, 2018
6:30 p.m.
Free and open to the public.
A talk by New York-based artist Sable Elyse Smith, whose practice calls attention to confining structures in society and the often invisible ways in which they shape our minds or direct our bodies, focusing on quotidian violence in the institution of language and the carceral system.
Sable Elyse Smith, Landscape I, 2017.
SEASON ZERO: Conversation Five
Dushko Petrovich
Saturday, March 3, 2018
3:30 p.m.
Free and open to the public.
Dushko Petrovich, artist and co-founder of arts journal Paper Monument, will speak about his art publishing projects and his upcoming project at Beeler, The Daily Gentrifier Flyover Flyer edition, to be launched in Fall 2018. A double-sided broadsheet edition of The Daily Gentrifier, that explores the “crafty, organic, and hyper-local” ethical and aesthetic positions of gentrification of the American coasts, was previously launched at the New York Art Book Fair and LA Art Book Fair. Petrovich is Program Director, New Arts Journalism, School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
The Daily Gentrifier
SEASON ZERO: Conversation Four
Les Levine
Thursday, March 1, 2018
6:30 p.m.
Free and open to the public.
Conceptual artist Les Levine (founder of art tabloid Culture Hero, on view in the galleries) will speak with Sarah Robayo Sheridan (Curator at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto) about his work that spans five decades. Known for his heterogeneous output, including vacuum-formed acrylic pod in the 1960s, videos in the 1970s, and billboards in the 1980s and 1990s, Levine has long incorporated documentation, interviews and encounters with other artists in his video works, actively engaging in the mythic realities of artists’ roles in society.
Les Levine, Culture Hero Masterprint: Jill Johnston Exposed, 1970
SEASON ZERO: Event
An Art Book Affair
Saturday, Feb. 24, 2018, noon – 5 p.m.
Sunday, Feb. 25, 2018, noon – 4 p.m.
Free and open to the public.
Beeler Gallery presents An Art Book Affair, Columbus’ first art book fair.
Featuring art books by local and international publishers and the participation of three international art book fairs, including the Detroit Art Book Fair, Copenhagen’s art book fair One Thousand Books, Mexico City’s Index Art Book Fair.
Index Art Book Fair (Mexico City); No Place Gallery (Columbus)
SEASON ZERO: Conversation Three
Neil Goldberg
Thursday, Feb. 22, 2018
6:30 p.m.
Free and open to the public.
Neil Goldberg, known for his video, photo, and performance work about embodiment, sensing, mortality, and the everyday, speaks at Beeler Gallery following a Feb. 21 performance at Idea Foundry, co-presented by Wexner Center for the Arts and CCAD Graduate Studies.
Neil Goldberg
SEASON ZERO: Conversation Two
Beeler History
Friday, Feb. 16, 2018
6:30 p.m.
Free and open to the public.
Beeler Gallery’s new Director of Exhibitions Jo-ey Tang invites his predecessors Dr. Natalie Marsh (Director and Chief Curator of the Gund Gallery, Kenyon College), Michael Goodson (Senior Curator, Wexner Center for the Arts) and James Voorhies (Dean of Fine Arts, California College of the Arts), as well as Assistant Director of Exhibitions and former Interim Director of Exhibitions Ian Ruffino to talk about the unique role of galleries within an art school context, the evolution of Beeler Gallery, and what it means to “take over” a space from a predecessor. Moderated by Michael Mercil, artist and professor, Interim Chair, Department of Art, The Ohio State University. Postscript by Merijn van der Heijden, interim director of Ohio State University’s Urban Arts Space, will be forthcoming on beelergallery.org.
Beeler History, with Dr. Natalie Marsh, James Voorhies, Michael Goodson, Ian Ruffino, Jo-ey Tang
James Voorhies, Bureau for Open Culture
SEASON ZERO: Listening Event
Listening To: Pop Resistance
Thursday, Feb. 15, 2018
6:30 p.m.
Free and open to the public.
Robert Loss, Assistant Professor at Columbus College of Art & Design, leads a listening event on Afrofuturism and pop music since 2000, based on his new book Nothing Has Been Done Before (Bloomsbury). In talking about the music of Janelle Monáe, Loss writes “Monáe’s commitment to her cyborg persona not only shows how any performer struggles with the pressure to construct a simplified self, it also makes us ask more questions, questions that might lead to the expansion of what identity means in the first place.”
With special guest: Sharon Udoh of Counterfeit Madison.
Listening To: Pop Resistance
Sharon Udoh of Counterfeit Madison & Robert Loss
SEASON ZERO: Conversation One
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Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018
6:30 p.m.
Free and open to the public.
Nancy Brooks Brody, Joy Episalla, and Carrie Yamaoka of the New York-based queer women artist collective fierce pussy (formed with Zoe Leonard in 1991) speak ahead of the four members’ upcoming seasons at Beeler Gallery at Columbus College of Art & Design in fall 2018 and spring 2019, which will be devoted to the resonances amongst their individual practices and the way in which the abstraction in their works activates perceptual and political agencies. Moderated by Jill Casid, Professor of Visual Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
SEASON ZERO: Wager of Word
Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2018
6:30 p.m.
Free and open to the public.
Writer and thinker Jennifer Teets conceives an evening on fictocritique, materialisms and tone, in a conversation with Michaël Van den Abeele (artist and co-founder of Établissement d’en face, Brussels), writer Dodie Bellamy, and curator Gean Moreno (Curator of Programs, ICA Miami).
Michaël Van den Abeele
SEASON ZERO
Moving Image
Feb. 1 – Mar. 25, 2018
Free and open to the public.
French philosopher Alain Badiou’s handwritten lecture notes and diagrams on love, which formed the basis for his book In Praise of Love (2012), are installed in Schema Corridor, informing Season Zero’s moving image programming at Beeler Gallery.
Videos by graphic designer duo Vier5 (of Documenta 14, Athens), artist Les Levine, filmmaker Ephraim Asili, and artist Sable Elyse Smith, screened on rotation during selected weekends in the galleries.
SEASON ZERO: Lecture
Six Mondays, Jan. 29, Feb. 12 & 26, March 5, 19 & 26, 2018
7:30 p.m.
Free and open to the public.
An interactive lecture series led by Richard Fletcher, Associate Professor in the Department of Classics at The Ohio State University, based on his blog Minus Plato, exploring the process of reforming the daily posts written last year into thematic chapters of an upcoming book, No Philosopher King: An Ancient Guide to Art and Life under Trump that will be published by AC Institute in 2018. The first and last lectures take place during installation and de-installation of Season Zero: How well do you behave? IN THE FLAT FIELD. at Beeler Gallery.
Minus Plato, Jan. 29, 2017
Minus Plato, March 10, 2017
Minus Plato, March 5, 2018
Minus Plato / Richard Fletcher - Our Book to Come (this week, last year)
Minus Plato / Richard Fletcher - Our Book to Come (this week, last year)
Minus Plato / Richard Fletcher - Our Book to Come (this week, last year)
Minus Plato / Richard Fletcher - Our Book to Come (this week, last year)