Friday, February 13, 2015

Tour of Site-Specific Works from the New School Art Collection
10:30–11:30 a.m. 

Begins in the Orozco Room at 66 West 12th Street, 7th floor
Works include Jose Clemente Orozco's historic 1931 New School mural cycle, "A Call to Revolution and Table of Universal Brotherhood" as well as other installations throughout the university's public spaces by Camilo Egas, Alfredo Jaar, Sol Le Witt, Dave Muller, Martin Puryear, Michael van Valkenburgh, Brian Tolle, and Kara Walker.
Guide: Silvia Rocciolo, Curator, The New School Art Collection

Session 5: Artists at Risk/Artists in Exile
11:30-1:00 p.m.

Chaw Ei Thein, Burmese multimedia artist
Naila Al Atrash, Syrian director, human rights activist
Moderator: TBA 

Session 6: Censorship and Self-Exile
2:00-3:30 p.m.

Shirin Neshat, Iranian visual artist and filmmaker 
Jack Persekian, Director and Head Curator, The Palestine Museum; former Director, Sharjah Art Foundation
Moderator: László Jakab Orsós, World Voices Festival and Public Programs Director, PEN America

Session 7: Who Does the Policing? What Is the Role of Self-Censorship?
4:00-6:00 p.m. 

Jeffrey Deitch, American art dealer and curator who served as director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) between 2010 and 2013
Boris Groys, Global Distinguished Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies, Department of Russian and Slavic Studies, New York University 
Jack Persekian, Director and Head Curator, The Palestine Museum; former Director, Sharjah Art Foundation
Lisa Phillips, Director, The New Museum
Moderator: Svetlana Mintcheva, Director of Programs, National Coalition Against Censorship; co-editor, Censoring Culture: Contemporary Threats to Free Expression (The New Press, 2006)

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