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The pages for this edition are currently being produced in NYC under the supervision of ICI Associate, Deborah Cullen-Morales. The cover art/’binding’ for the year will be designed and produced by Vladimir Cybil Charlier with special emphasis on the Haitian earthquake of January 2010.
Images from the painting sessions used to complete this edition are seen below.
| AIDS Chronicles Display History | |
| 2016 | ICI Open House featuring the completion of the 2001 Chronicle; Production of the 2010 Chronicle in New York |
| 2015 | 2013 Chronicle, the first digital edition of the AIDS Chronicles, is released online for viewing and download. |
| 2012 | ‘All the News That’s Fit to Paint’, paint-in event at the Institute of Cultural Inquiry, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2008 | 2008 edition displayed at Kerckhoff Gallery, at UCLA. |
| 2005 | Portions of 1993, 1994, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 & 2005 editions displayed at Open House (Wunderkammer) event at the Institute of Cultural Inquiry, Los Angeles, CA. |
| 2003 | (10th Anniversary Exhibition of the AIDS Chronicles) 1995, 1997, 1998, 2000 & 2003 editions displayed at Sam Francis Gallery at Crossroads School in Santa Monica, CA with a performance by J. Todd. |
| 1998 | 1998 edition displayed in front of the New York Public Library, New York. Funded in part by the Robert Farber Foundation and Visual AIDS; 1997 edition displayed at the Institute of Cultural Inquiry, Santa Monica, CA with a reading by J. Todd. |
| 1996 | Special Los Angeles Times 1996 edition displayed at Midnight Special Bookstore, Santa Monica, CA; 1995 edition displayed at the Institute of Cultural Inquiry in Santa Monica, CA. |
| 1995 | 1995 edition displayed at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; Special Los Angeles Times edition displayed at Midnight Special Bookstore, Santa Monica, CA. |
| 1993 | 1993 edition displayed at CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY |
An unfinished quilt project in the ICI Ephemera Kabinett will jumpstart the 1996 Chronicle. The abandoned project included some quilted panels displaying terms related to AIDS. Embroidered on canvas in 26 pairs — two for each letter of the alphabet — white panels spell out the public face of AIDS, while red panels counter with more personal responses. In its first imagining, the 1996 AIDS Chronicle would dialogue with the national AIDS quilt.
Fortuitously, 1996 turned out to be the last year the AIDS Quilt was shown in its entirety on the Washington D.C. Mall. The quilt’s display as a singular, political object — always an important function for the quilt — is often overshadowed by the attention given to the mourning function of the blanket’s individual panels. In it’s revised plan, the 1996 AIDS Chronicle aims to revive some of the discussions surrounding the AIDS Quilt’s dual role as a public and private document. In doing so, it offers a template by which the ICI can examine the dichotomies of its own AIDS project.
After the AIDS/HIV articles are isolated, the remaining newsprint will be used to create strips of newsprint ‘yarn.’ The yarn will be knitted into a large unwieldy blanket. Its ‘inconvenient’ size points to both the immensity of the pandemic and our inability to ‘hide’ its unbounded consequences. The Canvas panels will be used to create a storage pouch for the finished blanket.
BLESSINGS: A Continual Thread, a new group exhibition featuring Melinda Smith Altshuler, Laurie Gross, Robin Jones Elisha Schaefer, Mary Beth Schwartzenberger, Jana Zimmer is on display at the Platt/Bornstein Galleries at American Jewish University. Exhibition runs through December 19, 2016.
In conjunction with Interlaced Motive, ICI Associate Christel Dillbohner’s multi-disciplinary installation project at The Bonnafont Gallery in San Francisco, James Linnehan will be presenting “Center and Periphery: Byways of the Shadow Culture” — his thoughts on what occurs when we look at the shadow, and not the light or what interrupts it. Saturday, November 12th, at 5.30 pm.
ICI Associate Martin Gantman, is featured in S/Election: DEMOCRACY, CITIZENSHIP, FREEDOM a new exhibition at Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, opening October 20th.
The Institute of Cultural Inquiry (ICI) is pleased to announce the launch of With Everything but the Monkey Head: Theorizing Art’s Untheorizable Practices, a major project centered on the burgeoning field of studio-based research in the visual arts. This project will be a long-term collaboration with a host of diverse participants including nine researchers who have participated in some sort of visual research at the ICI; a set of specially selected interlocutors whose questions will help construct and strengthen the ideas central to each researcher’s project; and the curious spectators who bring discussion and debate to public exchanges.
The seventh iteration of the project will feature Pam Posey, a 2011 participant in the ICI’s 100/10 project. Posey returns to the ICI for a three week residency during which time she’ll share her thoughts about her own research practices while collaborating with the ICI to build a treatise on the organization’s visual research endeavors. Her stay will culminate in a finissage on October 1, 2016 during which time she’ll share her ideas with the public.
During her residency, Posey utilizes field data gathered on multiple trips to Iceland, interludes of analog observational techniques (drawing, printing, tracing), and an interest in hermeneutics to expand and “complicate” the simplifying and reductive tendencies of scientific classification systems.
Each iteration of With Everything but the Monkey Head will be accompanied with a unique laboratory workbook created by the researcher over the course of their short residency. In addition, each researcher will contribute to the project’s catalog, which is being produced to emulate late 19th century ‘sample’ books used by traveling salesmen, books whose form lends itself to an idea that is still unfolding.
All parts of the project can be followed on the ICI’s website. The construction of the lab books and the catalog will be charted on ISSUU where finished publications will be offered to the public through the print on demand service of ICI Press.
A PDF version of the press release for this iteration of the projects can be downloaded here.
ICI Associate Melinda Smith Altshuler, is featured in new a collaborative project with Georgia based writer, Gabrielle Hovendon, produced in part by 7×7. You can view the project in it’s entirety at http://7×7.la/light-and-hiding/.
The Institute of Cultural Inquiry (ICI) is pleased to announce the launch of With Everything but the Monkey Head: Theorizing Art’s Untheorizable Practices, a major project centered on the burgeoning field of studio-based research in the visual arts. This project will be a long-term collaboration with a host of diverse participants including nine researchers who have participated in some sort of visual research at the ICI; a set of specially selected interlocutors whose questions will help construct and strengthen the ideas central to each researcher’s project; and the curious spectators who bring discussion and debate to public exchanges.
The sixth iteration of the project will feature Christel Dillbohner, a 2013 participant in the ICI’s Visualist-in-Residence (VIR) project. Dillbohner returns to the ICI for an intense one-week mini residency during which time she’ll share her thoughts about her own research practices while collaborating with the ICI to build a treatise on the organization’s own visual research endeavors. Her stay will culminate in a finissage on August 13, 2016 during which time she’ll share her ideas with the public.
During her residency, Dillbohner will examine the roles of coincidence and serendipity, to render the (seemingly) invisible connection between these two phenomena into visibility and generate new possibilities for seeing and being in the world—ones which demand the conscientiousness of open eyes and an emptied mind to observe things “mit dem anderen Blick”.
Each iteration of With Everything but the Monkey Head will be accompanied with a unique laboratory workbook created by the researcher over the course of their short residency. In addition, each researcher will contribute to the project’s catalog, which is being produced to emulate late 19th century ‘sample’ books used by traveling salesmen, books whose form lends itself to an idea that is still unfolding.
All parts of the project can be followed on the ICI’s website. The construction of the lab books and the catalog will be charted on ISSUU where finished publications will be offered to the public through the print on demand service of ICI Press.
A PDF version of the press release for this iteration of the projects can be downloaded here.
The Institute of Cultural Inquiry (ICI) is pleased to announce the launch of With Everything but the Monkey Head: Theorizing Art’s Untheorizable Practices, a major project centered on the burgeoning field of studio-based research in the visual arts. This project will be a long-term collaboration with a host of diverse participants including nine researchers who have participated in some sort of visual research at the ICI; a set of specially selected interlocutors whose questions will help construct and strengthen the ideas central to each researcher’s project; and the curious spectators who bring discussion and debate to public exchanges.
The fifth iteration of the project will feature Christian Smith, a 2011 participant in the ICI’s 100/10 project. Smith returns to the ICI for an intense one-week mini residency during which time he’ll share his thoughts about his own research practices while collaborating with the ICI to build a treatise on the organization’s own visual research endeavors. His stay will culminate in a finissage on August 6, 2016 during which time he’ll share his ideas with the public.
During his residency, Smith will explore the role of materials and technique when setting research parameters. Utilizing antiquated wet-plate photography processes in a portable darkroom he’s built for this project, Smith aims to capture new environments in old ways as he continues to build his experimental, alternative map of Los Angeles.
Each iteration of With Everything but the Monkey Head will be accompanied with a unique laboratory workbook created by the researcher over the course of their short residency. In addition, each researcher will contribute to the project’s catalog, which is being produced to emulate late 19th century ‘sample’ books used by traveling salesmen, books whose form lends itself to an idea that is still unfolding.
All parts of the project can be followed on the ICI’s website. The construction of the lab books and the catalog will be charted on ISSUU where finished publications will be offered to the public through the print on demand service of ICI Press.
A PDF version of the press release for this iteration of the projects can be downloaded here.
