"Scènes à Faire" Exhibition
Dumbo Arts Center
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Scènes à Faire is the culminating exhibition of the Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts’ 2012 Art & Law Residency Program.
Scènes à Faire features artworks and programming made in response to the complex relationship between legal and artistic practices by the artists, writer, and curators of the 2012 Art & Law Residency program. The exhibition title, Scènes à Faire, stems from the term used in theatrical and legal arenas as the “scene to be made” and that essential element which is an obligatory component that cannot be isolated, copyrighted, or ignored. Held this year at Dumbo Arts Center, the “scenes a faire” of the exhibition’s diverse projects is the usage of language (textual and visual) as a means to address issues the law: power structures, privilege, intent, representations of loss, and access to knowledge.
As legal issues permeate into every aspect of social, political and cultural life, artistic production is no longer immune. The eight-month Art & Law Residency program provides an intellectual and artistic setting for artists, writers, and curators to engage in ongoing discussions and debates that examine the overlap and disconnect between artistic production and the law from historical, social, ethical and intellectual standpoints. Using law as discourse and medium, Residents gain the experience and knowledge for the artworks in Scènes à Faire and work beyond the Program. The Art & Law Residency is a program of Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts.
Also, for the first time, the Resident artists, curators, and writer will publish a catalogue to highlight their individual practices as well as the relationship they draw between art and the law. Public programming includes the artist conversation Text, Image, Law at Dumbo Arts Center on October 10, an Artist Film Club screening at Nitehawk Cinema on October 18, and a private screening of a film by James Kientz Wilkins. Public programming is organized by curator-in-residence, Joanna Montoya, and program curator, Caryn Coleman.
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Schedule
from October 05, 2012 to October 21, 2012
Opening Reception on 2012-10-04 from 18:00 to 21:00