One-Day Symposium to be Held at ICP School

On Saturday, December 13, candidates from the ICP-Bard MFA and Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College MA programs will present What’s Love Got to Do with It: Affect, Interactivity and the Haptic, a one-day symposium examining the role love plays in the creation, interaction, and interpretation of art and objects.

The symposium will be composed of artist talks, panel discussions, and a performance followed by a Q&A session. Featured participants include dance and theatre educator Jessica Berson, poet Andrew Durbin, photographer LaToya Ruby Frazier, artists Gerard & Kelly, and performance artist Jacolby Satterwhite. Johanna Burton, Keith Haring Director and Curator of Education and Public Engagement at the New Museum, will moderate. The symposium will address the tactics used by artists and thinkers as they navigate the contemporary landscape while reshaping materiality, sensory practices, the economy of sexuality, and fetish. Topics of discussion will range from how experiences of loss, fantasy, intimacy and displacement change our proximity to photography and the creation and interpretation of images to how physical and virtual relationships cultivated in a post-internet culture influence contemporary art practice.

As part of a forthcoming symposium publication, objects offered by participants will be photographed over the course of the day.

Time & Date: Saturday, December 13, from 10 am–4 pm
Location: Seminar B/ Shooting Studio at the ICP School, 1114 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd Street)
Registration: Free and open to the public, but an RSVP is required. Tickets can be reserved at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/whats-love-got-to-do-with-it-tickets- 5300209068

Open Studios: After the symposium, 24 candidates from the ICP-BARD MFA Program in Advanced Photographic Studies will open their studios to share current work. Open Studios 2014 will be held from 6–10 pm at 24-20 Jackson Avenue in Long Island City.