Week 2, Wednesday, January 12: BeAnotherLab, is an international, interdisciplinary art-science research laboratory dedicated to exploring the relationship between identity and empathy. They develop immersive technology systems to generate new modes of storytelling and to experiment with the perception of self and other. BeAnotherLab works at the intersection of art, science and technology. They question the hierarchies between these different ways of knowing and approach them as complementary, overlapping bodies of knowledge.
Wednesday, November 17, Nancy Hwang, Born in Seoul and based in New York, Nancy Hwang has been producing audience-participatory projects spanning more than two decades in North America, Europe, and Asia. Always possessing a sense of open-endedness, chance, and spontaneity, her practice involves making connections and building relationships. Hwang’s solo projects have been hosted by Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City; Project Space Sarubia, Seoul; and White Columns, New York. Her projects have been included in group exhibitions at apexart, Artists Space, El Museo del Barrio, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, The Kitchen, Museum of the City of New York, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, SculptureCenter and more! She has realized projects in the public realm with the support of Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York City Parks & Recreation and Storefront for Art & Architecture. Hwang’s ongoing project Somewhere in America invites proposals for traveling with her within the US.
Harrell Fletcher received his BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and his MFA from California College of the Arts. He studied organic farming at UCSC and went on to work on a variety of small Community Supported Agriculture farms, which impacted his work as an artist. Fletcher has produced a variety of socially engaged collaborative and interdisciplinary projects since the early 1990’s. His work has been shown at SF MoMA, the de Young Museum, the Berkeley Art Museum, the Wattis Institute, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in the San Francisco Bay Area, The Drawing Center, Socrates Sculpture Park, The Sculpture Center, The Wrong Gallery, Apex Art, and Smackmellon in NYC, DiverseWorks and Aurora Picture show in Houston, TX, PICA in Portland, OR, CoCA and The Seattle Art Museum in Seattle, WA, Signal in Malmo, Sweden, Domain de Kerguehennec in France, The Royal College of Art in London, and the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia. He was a participant in the 2004 Whitney Biennial. Fletcher has work in the collections of MoMA, The Whitney Museum, The New Museum, SFMoMA, The Berkeley Art Museum, The De Young Museum, and The FRAC Brittany, France. In 2002 Fletcher started Learning To Love You More, a participatory website with Miranda July. A book version of LTLYM was published in 2007 by Prestel. Fletcher is the 2005 recipient of the Alpert Award in Visual Arts. His exhibition The American War originated in 2005 at ArtPace in San Antonio, TX, and traveled to Solvent Space in Richmond, VA, White Columns in NYC, The Center For Advanced Visual Studies MIT in Boston, MA, PICA in Portland, OR, and LAXART in Los Angeles among other locations. Fletcher is an Associate Professor of Art and Social Practice at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon.
