This exhibition was on view from January 26 to April 16, 2017.
Renée Green: FAM Case (2001–2016)
As the 2016–18 Institution (Building) artist, Renée Green presents Pacing, a two-year engagement with the Carpenter Center.
FAM Case, as part of Pacing, takes shape in the case located on Level 0 of the Carpenter Center which displays a selection of Free Agent Media (FAM) printed matter: books, newspapers, print outs, public lecture notices, screening programs, exhibition announcements, and other ephemera. Green has used the moniker Free Agent Media (aka, FAM) as the authoring tool for her projects since 1994 as a means to register art’s complex relationship to the culture industry and complicate the tendency to read art emanating from “the museum,” “the academy” or “the market” as the only designated institutions for the production and reception of art. Instead, Free Agent Media (FAM), contextualizes the broader media ecology in which Green’s works, writings and ideas circulate.
In addition to conveying the twenty-two-year history of Green’s deployment of Free Agent Media to publish, exhibit and circulate, the display also performs a media archeology—outlining emerging and obsolete media formats and the analogue and digital forms through which they have taken shape. In this concentrated display, we see Green’s keen ability to formally and conceptually collage several disparate histories and taxonomies in order to reveal overlapping cultural and social complexities—essentially her working methodology that would promptly be taken up by many others in the field of contemporary art.
The problems and possibilities for language and media are long-standing subjects for Green, which the artist has rigorously framed in terms of translation, travel, and cultural transfer within her signal artworks. The FAM Case provides a unique opportunity for new audiences to trace some of the itineraries in which her work has circulated through the years.
The previous iteration FAM Case (1994–2000) was on view Oct 27, 2016–Jan 15, 2017
The following publications are available in the CRC/bookshop on Level 3:
Other Planes of There: Selected Writings, Duke University Press, 2014
Endless Dreams and Time-Based Streams, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 2011
Renée Green: Ongoing Becomings 1989-2009, JRP Ringier, 2009
Renée Green: Negotiations in the contact zone/Negociações na zona de contacto, Assírio & Alvim, 2003
Between and Including, Secession; DUMONT, 2001
Shadows and Signals/Sombras y señales, Fundació Antoni Tàpies, 2000
Artist/Author: Contemporary Artist Books, American Federation of Arts; D.A.P., 1998
Certain Miscellanies: Some Documents, De Appel Foundation; DAAD, 1996
Camino Road, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía; Free Agent Media, 1994
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American artist Renée Green (born 1959) spent two years engaged with the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, during which she presented a series of interlinked public programs and exhibitions, culminated with her major exhibition Within Living Memory (2018). Green’s Carpenter project, Pacing, is a meditation spurred by inhabiting an architectural icon—Le Corbusier’s Carpenter Center—while exploring the historical and institutional legacies of modernism’s other forms, including cinema, visual art, poetry, music and literature.
This handsome publication illuminates Green’s unfolding process, with a sequence of exhibitions that took place from 2015 and culminating in Pacing: Facing in Toronto; Tracing in Como, Italy; Placing in Berlin; Spacing in Lisbon; and Begin Again, Begin Again in Los Angeles. The result is a meditation on creative processes across histories and media, partially inspired by two architectural icons: Rudolf M. Schindler and Le Corbusier. Despite grand ambitions, Le Corbusier was only able to realize two buildings in the Americas, the Carpenter Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Casa Curuchet, in La Plata, Argentina. In Pacing, dreams, projections and geographically distant buildings are put into dialogue through time, weaving a layered constellation of unexpected relations.
Lavishly illustrated, Renée Green: Pacing features new texts by Gloria Sutton and Fred Moten, and brings together a series of previously unpublished conversations between the artist and Yvonne Rainer, Nora M. Alter and Mason Leaver-Yap. Additional contributions are provided by Nicholas Korody, William S. Smith and Carpenter Center director Dan Byers.
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