Exhibition at Konsthall C, Stockholm Sweden

Joseph Henry interviewed me for Artforum.

https://www.artforum.com/interviews/rethinking-pedagogy-and-social-practice-in-the-pandemic-era-87819

My audio documentary "Glorious Wound" is now available on Montez Press Radio! The documentary consists of interviews I have been conducting with NYC public K-12 teachers over the past few months, reflecting on shifting conceptions of the classroom during the COVID era, the historical forces underlying the current crisis in education, and visions for the future of education. Listen here: https://radio.montezpress.com/#/show/2257

Teachers featured:
Grace Chang
Steve Deihl
Ali Haridopolos
Jake Jacobs
Jia lee
Jenn Leyva
Kyla MacDonald
Marilena Marchetti
Dianne Pannullo

"Glorious Wound," takes its title from French communist pedagogue Célestin Freinet’s (1896-1966) description of a lung injury that led to his reimagining of pedagogy. On returning to teaching after being injured in World War I, Freinet, no longer able to project his voice to his pupils, decided to transform his pedagogical approach to emphasize the emancipatory potential of collective creativity. Removing the rows of chairs and desks, he installed a printing press in the center of his classroom, which became the focal point of his new teaching method. He facilitated his elementary school age students in exploring their communities – researching and documenting the lived experiences and materials conditions of community members, and committing the results to print. Through his simple spatial reconfiguration, Freinet reshaped the relationship between student and classroom, and between classroom and world.

"Aesthetic Behavior; Developmental Sequences," my collaboration by Lluís Alexandre Casanovas Blanco, is featured in the latest issue of POOL, January 2021.

I will be Artist-in-residence at the Queens Museum for the next 18 months as part of their "Year of Uncertainty" programing.

On April 2, 2021, I will be participating in a panel discussion at Teachers College, Columbia University with Bill Gaskins, Miguel Braceli, and Neil Daigle Orians, moderated by Nicole Johnson, as part of Art School Pedagogy 2.0 symposium.

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On March 6, 2021, Mehdi Torkaman and I will be speaking at Bergen Kunsthall. about Camouflage Society, the summer school we organized at Tenthaus Oslo in 2018. The symposium organized by Tenthaus, is part of the programming for Jef Geys respective currently on view at Bergen Konsthall, Curated by Axel Wieder and Steinar Sekkingstad.

https://www.kunsthall.no/en/?k=1&aar=2021&id=26&aid=243&ark=1&arrtID=&ArrLokID=&index=9

https://www.onassis.org/video/compass-house-door-alina-tenser-gabo-camnitzerA Compass for the House Door is a video done in collaboration with Alina Tenser, commissioned by the Onassis Foundation, and curated by Queens Museum. “In A Compass for th… — https://www.onassis.org/video/compass-house-door-alina-tenser-gabo-camnitzer
*A Compass for the House Door* is a video done in collaboration with Alina Tenser, commissioned by the Onassis Foundation, and curated by Queens Museum.
“In A Compass for the House Door, Alina Tenser and Gabo Camnitzer use the floor plan of their apartment as a schema to consider the shifting boundaries of traditional conceptions of space during the COVID-19 crisis. Made using an old camera and craft materials the artists had at home, the video grapples with a wide set of topics including: Lucretius’ conception of the clinamen, marketing consultant Faith Popcorn’s term “cocooning”, Angela Mitropoulos’ consideration of Oikonomia and Edward Hall’s theory of proxemics. The video was made in 120 hours, using an old point and shoot camera and materials lying around our apartment.”

The project, Aesthetic Behavior; Developmental Sequences, done with with Lluís Alexandre Casanovas Blanco, has been nominated for the Arquia Próxima prize! https://fundacion.arquia.com/convocatorias/proxima/p/ProximaRealizacion/FichaDetalle?idrealiz… — The project, Aesthetic Behavior; Developmental Sequences, done with with Lluís Alexandre Casanovas Blanco, has been nominated for the Arquia Próxima prize!
https://fundacion.arquia.com/convocatorias/proxima/p/ProximaRealizacion/FichaDetalle?idrealizacion=7090&searchquery=q%3d%26f_ix_catalog%3dareaprofesional.convocatorias.proxima%26f_tipoficha%3drecurso%26f_convocatoria%3d2018-2019%26f_proyectosgalardonados%3dSeleccionado&backurl=%2fconvocatorias%2fproxima%2fexplora%2f%3ff_convocatoria%3d2018-2019%26f_proyectosgalardonados%3dSeleccionado

Art Critic Frida Sandström will be speaking about my collaborative project, …a simple but wonderful device…, at Göteborgs Konsthall. The event will also feature Paula Urbano and Maryam Fanni, who will be discussing their work with Mapping the Unjust… — Art Critic Frida Sandström will be speaking about my collaborative project, *…a simple but wonderful device…*, at Göteborgs Konsthall. The event will also feature Paula Urbano and Maryam Fanni, who will be discussing their work with Mapping the Unjust City / Vem äger staden. https://konsthallen.goteborg.se/program/makten-staden-konsten-vem-ager-staden/

Exhibition at Göteborgs Konsthall, Sweden, in collaboration with students from Lövgärdesskolan in Angered, Sweden. (link)

This fall I’ve been working with the youth program at The Sixth Street Community Center (@sixthstreetcc) on a project facilitating children in developing new strategies of pursuing climate justice. Engaging with the history of children’s strikes of the past 200 years, children at SSCC have been reflecting on the shortcomings of sanctioned forms of demonstration and experimenting with ideas that might point beyond the current paradigm. This Friday, November 8th at 730pm, at Tishman Auditorium at the New School, the children will be performing an intervention entitled “We are Animals” at the “Who Owns the World” Conference at the New School.

Image: still from a video we’ve been working on: “Pollution and Their Cronies” shot by Justin Denis.

Thanks to Trebor Scholz, Michael McHugh, and Angela Difede, for organizing the conference and inviting us!

Review in Brooklyn Rail by Joseph Lubitz (link)

CLOSING CONVERSATION WITH ADELITA HUSNI-BEY & PARK MCARTHUR .

To mark the closing of “Aesthetic Behavior; Developmental Sequences,” this Sunday, March 10, Lluis Alexandre Casanovas Blanco and I will be in conversation with artists ADELITA HUSNI-BEY and PARK MCARTHUR.

Doors open 12.00 pm.

Talk starts at 12.30pm.

Review in Avery Review by Filipe de Sousa. (link)

http://indexfoundation.se/talks-and-events/seminar-the-urge-the-echo

I’m leading a workshop at Queens Museum as part of the Queens International. (link)

I’m organizing this intervention in Leipzig this International Children’s Day as part of the exhibition Gaudiopolis at GfZK curated by Franciska Zólyom. (link)

Presenting my work at Moderna Museet in Stockholm. (link)

The show we’ve been working on in Oslo is opening. (link)

https://soundcloud.com/untitledartpodcastlive/gabo-camnitzer-with-the-camouflage-society-and-the-tenthaus-artist-group

Presenting my work at Malmö Konsthall.

Public Event, ISP Group Exhibition at Artists Space.

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