After the Order —
Conversation between Artist Anetta Mona Chisa
and Executive & Artistic Director Sara Reisman
Saturday, March 7, 2020
4 to 6pm
Anetta Mona Chisa & Lucia Tkáčová, After the Order, 2006-2010. [Image Description: On top of light salmon graphing paper is a collage of people shaped in a pyramid. At the bottom are women dressed in white dresses and orange belts and above them are men at a bar with their backs facing the viewer. On the next level is a large group of young boys running towards the viewer wearing beige shorts and short-sleeved white tshirts with a black circle that is split in half by a horizontal white bar. Above them is a group of store cashiers wearing the same uniform of an orange short-sleeved tshirt with black pants. Next is a group of flight attendants dressed in blue uniforms. Above them is a group of regal women and men and then a group of people cheering. At the very top is a person with obscrued features caring a large white case on their shoulders.]
We hosted our final day of Relational Economies: Labor over Capital with a conversation between artist Anetta Mona Chisa and Rubin Foundation Director Sara Reisman. The conversation took Chisa’s large-scale prints After the Order (2006-2010), made in collaboration with Lucia Tkáčová, as a starting point, highlighting the artistic duo’s wide ranging artistic practice that engages language, power, desire, and game tactics.
Following the conversation, from 5:30 to 7pm, Stefanos Tsivopoulos’ Alternative Currencies: An Archive and A Manifesto was activated by performance artist Rebecca Pristoop, making the archive accessible to gallery visitors through subtle movement and gesture. 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.
Bios
Anetta Mona Chişa (born in Romania) and Lucia Tkáčová (born in Slovakia) have been working often in collaboration since 2000. They both graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava. They work across a variety of media including video, performance and sculpture, often employing language and game tactics in their acts. At the heart of their collaboration lies their quest to find a means of reconciling the political with the aesthetic validity of art. Their projects have been showed widely in numerous institutions across the world like Bozar, Brussels; Bunkier Sztuki Cracow; MNAC Bucharest; Art in General New York; n.b.k. Berlin; MoCA Miami; MuMoK Vienna; The Power Plant Toronto; Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt; Taipei Biennale; Prague Biennale; Moscow Biennale; and the 54th Venice Biennale, among others.
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.