Name: Contemporary Art Forum: The Curative Object
Start: 2014-05-30T11:30
Location: Theater 3

Lecture/panel

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Held on Fri, May 30, 2014, 11:30 a.m.

Education Center, Mezzanine, Theater 3

The Celeste Bartos Theater

Pong balls and a plastic bag. Courtesy Associação Cultural “O Mundo de Lygia Clark,” Rio de Janeiro

This half-day conference explores the curative properties of engaging with and making objects. Looking at the work of contemporary artists and the larger field of art therapy, the program delves into our relationship with objects through the lenses of anthropology, psychology, therapy, and the arts. Participants include scholars Michael Taussig and Cynthia Hahn; artists Allison Smith and Dario Robleto; Glenn Adamson from the Museum of Arts and Design and Tim McHenry from the Rubin Museum of Art; and others. This program is organized in collaboration with Allison Smith as part of Artists Experiment.

Artists Experiment is an initiative in the Department of Education that brings contemporary artists into dialogue with MoMA educators to develop innovative and experimental approaches to public engagement.

The artists who participated in past years of Artists Experiment are:

2017–18
• Michael Rakowitz
• Emily Spivack

2014–16
• Nina Katchadourian

2013–14
• Paul Ramirez Jonas
• Allison Smith
• The Office for Creative Research

2012–13
• Raúl Cárdenas Osuna
• Kenneth Goldsmith
• Xaviera Simmons
• Caroline Woolard

This event is part of Artists Experiment.

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