The Global Commodification of Time: Artist Discussion with Tania Candiani and Danilo Correale, Moderated by Sara Reisman
Saturday, November 23
4 to 6pm
Danilo Correale, Detail from The Voice Within, 2018-ongoing. Variable dimensions. Private collection, courtesy of the artist. [Image Description: A photo of a vinyl cover. The left two thirds of the cover are white while the one third to the right is black. On the white part is a black square with the record title “HOW TO MASTER TIME ORGANIZATION” in it. The title sits on top of multi-colored hour glasses that recede from the right to the left, growing smaller the further back and left they go. To the right side of the title it is written “SUCCESS MOTIVATION INSTITUTE INC. TM HIGH FIDELITY”. Below the hour glasses it is written “BY PAUL J. MEYER… who knows that TIME is on YOUR SIDE the moment you ORGANIZE IT!”. Below the square in the white two-thirds it is written “Reference Guide to Narration” and “SUCCESS MOTIVATION INSTITUTE, INC. WACO, TEXAS.” In the black one third to the right is a large red hour glass with the words “SUCCESS MOTIVATION INSTITUTE INC. TM HIGH FIDELITY” written on top of it. On the bottom of the vinyl cover is a black section that runs from the left to right side where it is written “BY PAUL J. MEYER… who knows that TIME is on YOUR SIDE the moment you ORGANIZE IT!”.]
Moderated by the Foundation’s Executive and Artistic Director Sara Reisman, The Global Commodification of Time brought together artists Tania Candiani and Danilo Correale, both featured in our current exhibition Relational Economies: Labor over Capital, for a conversation that addressed the concerns of labor and inequity that are central to their respective projects in the show. Each artist discussed the research and process that went into their works – for Candiani the choreography of labor and its influence on her multi-faceted project The Sound of Labor, and for Correale, the effects of working conditions on mental health, and the theft of both sleep and time brought on by the all-consuming 24-hour global economy.
From 5 to 6:30pm, Stefanos Tsivopoulos’ Alternative Currencies: An Archive And A Manifesto was activated by performance artist Rebecca Pristoop. An ongoing project since 2013, Tsivopoulos’ Alternative Currencies features a selection of thirty-two systems of economic exchange from his larger body of research documenting the visual culture of transaction, including lending libraries, community development banks, and gift economies, among others. During the run of the exhibition, performances will be scheduled to make the archive of alternative currencies accessible to gallery visitors through movement and gesture.
Bios
The work of Tania Candiani (Mexico City, 1974) has been developed in various media and practices that maintain an interest in the complex intersection between languages systems - phonic, graphics, linguistic, symbolic and technological. She has worked with different associative narratives, taking as a starting point a proposal to invent from re-ordering, remixing, and playing with correspondences between technologies, knowledge and thought, using the idea of organization and reorganization of discourse, as a structure of creative and critical thinking and as material for actual production.
The translation between diverse systems of representation is key in the materialization of her work. She has created interdisciplinary working groups in various fields of knowledge, consolidating intersections between art, design, literature, music, architecture and science, with an emphasis on early technologies and their history in the production of knowledge. Candiani has projects that involved craft, labour, tradition, synesthesia, rhythm and translation. She has a special interest in projects developed for a specific site due to the precise social historical bonds that these triggers. Candiani uses historical records and archives as materials, just as if it were a fabric, which leads to intuitive forms of materialization.
She is fellow of the National System of Art Creators, from Mexico since 2012, in 2011 received the Guggenheim Fellowship for the Arts, and in 2018 the Artist Research Fellowship awarded by the Smithsonian Institution. Represented Mexico in the 56th Venice Biennial. Her work has been exhibited in museums, institutions and independent spaces around the world and is part of important public and private collections. Among her monographic books are Cinco variaciones de circunstancias fónicas y una pausa (2014); Habita Intervenido (2015); Possessing Nature. Pabellón de México. Bienal de Venecia (2015); and Cromática (2018).
Danilo Correale (born Naples, Italy, 1982) is an artist and researcher; he lives and works in New York. In his work he analyzes aspects of human life, such as labor-leisure, and sleep under the lenses of time and body. His work has been presented in numerous group exhibitions, including: 5th Ural Biennial, Yekaterineburg, RU; Broken Nature, Triennale Milano (2019); Istanbul Design Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey (2018); Riga Biennal, Riga, Latvia (2018); Somatechnic, Museion, Bolzano, Italy; Work It Feel It!, Vienna Biennale, 16th Rome Quadriennal, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Ennesima, Trienniale Milano (2015), Kiev Biennial, Kiev (2015), Per-formare una collezione, Madre Museum Naples (2014), Steirischer herbst, Graz, (2013) Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (2012), Manifesta 8 in Murcia/Cartagena (2010), Moscow Biennial, Moscow (2010), Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul (2009). Recent solo shows include: TheyWillSayIKilledThem MAC, Belfast, UK; At Work’s End, Art in General, NY, United States; Tales of Exhaustion. La Loge, Brussels, Belgium; The Missing Hour. Rhythms and Algorithms, Raucci/Santamaria, Naples, Italy. Correale recently published The Game - A three sided football match, FeC, (2014) , No More Sleep No More, Archive Books, 2015 and Reverie. On the Liberation from Work, Decelerationist Reader, 2017. He’s the winner of 2017 New York Prize for Italian Young Art, Art In General 2017 New Commissions, and the Italian Council Grant. He was the 2017 Associate research fellow at Columbia University, New York, US.
Rebecca Pristoop is a New York-based curator, performance artist, and collaborator committed to working with art through the lens of social justice. She is a lifelong educator with a record of curating exhibitions and organizing programs that prioritize marginalized stories. As a performance artist, Pristoop integrates intuitive movement with site and context responsive narratives. Her solo work interrogates autobiography and relational dynamics, while her collaborations emerge in response to researching specific sites and histories. Pristoop also directs The Moving Company, a performance art ensemble that collectively creates site-responsive pieces to bring attention to various histories, communities, and the social and emotional textures of each performance venue. As a curator she has contributed to and curated exhibitions at museums, galleries, universities, and alternative spaces. Pristoop received a MA in Art History from New York University's Institute of Fine Arts and a BA in Art History and Dance from Skidmore College.
Stefanos Tsivopoulos is an interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker who has exhibited extensively in art institutions and film festivals worldwide. In 2013, he represented Greece at the 55th Venice Biennial with the multimedia installation History Zero. He has also exhibited in documenta 14, Kassel, Germany, in 2017; the 2nd Beijing Biennial, in 2014; and Manifesta 8, Murcia, Spain, in 2010.
Tsivopoulos has participated in several renowned international residencies including the Rijksakademie van Beeldende kunsten Amsterdam, IASPIS Stockholm, Platform Garanti Istanbul, and ISCP New York City. His numerous awards include the Mondriaan Foundation Production Award, the Onnassis Cultural Foundation New York Commission, the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds Award, and the Greek Ministry of Culture Venice Biennale Commission.
Tsivopoulos’s work has appeared recently in solo exhibitions at the MuCEM, Museum of Civilizations of Europe and the Mediterranean, Marseille; Staatsgalerie Stuttgart; Cycladic Museum of Art, Athens; Stella Art Foundation, Moscow; and ISCP, New York among others. International group exhibitions include Tate Modern, London; MACBA, Barcelona; MUKHA, Antwerp; Kunsthaus, Zurich; Bundeskunsthalle Bonn; Haus Der Culturen Der Welt, Berlin; SALT, Istanbul; BAK Basis voor Aktuele Kunst, Utrecht; LEEUM, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul; and the Centre Pompidou Paris, among others.