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	 Farmlab Public Salon<br/>Joshua Decter<br/>Friday, March 7, 2008 @ Noon<br/>Free Admission
    </h3><div class="post-body"><p><div style="clear:both;"></div><a><img src="http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u231/Farmlab/Pawel20Althamer2C2027Path27.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;"/></a><br/><center><b>"How to be 'Situational'"</b></center><br/><br/><u>About the Salon</u><br/><br/>Join Joshua Decter for a consideration of the notion of 'situational' art practices and 'situational' curatorial projects, in relation to contradictions of place and placelessness, location and dislocation.<br/><br/><u>About the Salon Presenter</u><br/><br/>Joshua Decter is a critic, curator, art historian and theorist. Since the late 1980s, he has been writing on art, organizing exhibitions and other events, and teaching, primarily from a base in New York. Decter is a contributor to Artforum, Afterall and other periodicals, and has curated exhibitions at PS1 in New York, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, The Kunsthalle Vienna, The Santa Monica Museum of Art, among other institutions, and was a curatorial interlocutor for the inSite_05 San Diego /Tijuana exhibition project. He has organized numerous public conferences, including "The Situational Drive: Complexities of Public Sphere Engagement," in collaboration with inSite San Diego/Tijuana and Creative Time, New York, presented at The Cooper Union, NY, in May 2007.<br/><br/>Decter was recently appointed Assistant Professor and Director of the Public Art Studies Program at the Roski School of Fine Arts, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, and he is also on the graduate committee at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College. <br/><br><br><i>Image: A photograph of Pawel Althamer's project for "Path," a recent Sculpture Projects Munster exhibition<br><br>Image courtesy Joshua Decter </br></br></i><div style="clear:both; padding-bottom:0.25em"></div><p class="blogger-labels">Labels: <a>Lauren Bon</a>, <a>metabolic sculpture</a></p></br></br></p></div><p class="post-footer"><em>posted by not a cornfield / under spring / farmlab @ <a>3/01/2008 10:53:00 AM</a></em><span class="item-action"><a><img class="icon-action" height="13" src="https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"/></a></span></p><p> </p></div><hr class="rule"/><div id="comments"><a></a><h3>0 Comments:</h3><dl></dl><p><a class="comment-link">Post a Comment</a></p><p id="postfeeds">Subscribe to Post Comments [<a>Atom</a>]</p><p><a>&lt;&lt; Home</a></p></div></div><div id="sidebar"><h2 class="sidebar-title">Previous Posts</h2><ul id="recently"><li><a>Learn How To Make A Junker Garden at Santa Monica ...</a></li><li><a>Farmlab Public SalonYouth Environmental Stewards(N...</a></li><li><a>Farmlab Public Salon Series Resumes This Friday</a></li><li><a>Plant a F.L.A.G. (Farmlab Agbin Garden)Sunday, Apr...</a></li><li><a>No Farmlab Public Salon This Week (2/22/08)</a></li><li><a>Farmlab Tours City of L.A.'s Hyperion Sewage Treat...</a></li><li><a>Farmlab Public SalonBob SipchenFriday, February 15...</a></li><li><a>Special Evening SalonMel ChinThursday, February 11...</a></li><li><a>Farmlab Public SalonMelani Smith+Sumire GantFriday...</a></li><li><a>BLOGROLL</a></li></ul><p id="powered-by"><a><img src="https://buttons.blogger.com/bloggerbutton1.gif"/></a></p><p id="blogfeeds">Subscribe to<br/>Posts [<a>Atom</a>]</p></div></div><div id="footer"><p> </p></div></div><style>body {
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