forward union and red bull arts new york are pleased to announce the third annual forward union fair, which will take place 29-30 september at red bull arts new york. the annual social action fair is a coalition-building initiative, connecting social justice organizations with artists and creative communities. participants in this year’s fair will unite in their dedication to informed civic engagement and voter participation, and will additionally explore such themes as immigration, gun control, and healthcare through art installations and public programs.
the partnership will increase visibility for participating organizations and the causes they represent, and provide the fair with a multi-use arts space already outfitted for presenting contemporary art and public programming. spread across both floors of red bull arts new york’s dynamic space, the art installations featured at forward union fair will elucidate and provoke dialogue around timely social and political issues.
forward union fair
thursday, 16 november 2017
6 > 8pm
rsvp required
**seating is limited**
sarah meyohas and samuel loncar will be in conversation with trevor paglen to celebrate the launch of meyohas’ exhibition catalog.
centered around sarah meyohas’ film cloud of petals (2016), which shares its name with the title of the artist’s culminating exhibition at red bull arts new york (2017), the accompanying catalog features two commissioned texts, photographs and stills. this limited run publication showcases meyohas’ first large-scale presentation and provides insight into her multi-faceted practice. with contributing essays by scholar samuel loncar (phd candidate, yale university) and curator and cultural critic jeppe ugelvig. edition of 200. price upon request.
trevor paglen’s work deliberately blurs lines between science, contemporary art, journalism, and other disciplines to construct unfamiliar, yet meticulously researched ways to see and interpret the world around us. paglen’s visual work has been exhibited at the metropolitan museum of art, new york; the tate modern, london; the walker arts center, minneapolis; the andy warhol museum, pittsburgh; institute for contemporary art, philadelphia; the san francisco museum of modern art; massachusetts museum of contemporary art, north adams; the 2008 taipei biennial; the istanbul biennial 2009, and numerous other solo and group exhibitions.
samuel loncar is a philosopher, scholar, and writer whose work critiques the categories through which modernity interprets itself and develops a new theory of the nature, relationship, and potential of philosophy, religion, science, politics and art in the contemporary world. he specializes in modern german philosophy and religious thought, the history of philosophy, aesthetics, and theology, and theories of religion and the secular. he is completing a phd at yale university, is the editor-in-chief of the marginalia review of books (a channel of the los angeles review of books), and has recently finished his first book, the myth of the secular: martin heidegger, philosophy, and religion.
sarah meyohas (b. 1991, french-american) uses networks of information, power, value, and communication. meyohas has had solo exhibitions at independent régence in brussels, galerie pact in paris, and 303 in new york. her work has been included in shows at the museum of contemporary art detroit, the aperture foundation in new york, regen projects in los angeles. in 2015, she invented bitchcoin, her personal cryptocurrency.
meyohas holds a b.a. in international relations from the university of pennsylvania and a b.s. in finance from the wharton school, and in 2015 received an m.f.a. from yale university. she is based in new york and runs an eponymously named gallery, meyohas, in long island city.
