[spectre] Warren Neidich: Confronting the Statisticon | Brooklyn Rail

[Warren Neidich Studio]

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Dear friends and colleagues,

Please join me for a performative lecture and discussion concerning my
neon wall sculpture, Confronting the Statisticon, 2015-2017, Monday,
December 5th at 7 p.m. at Industrial City, 900 Third Avenue in
Brooklyn. The work is part of the exhibition Singing in Unison,
curated by Phong Bui. Thyrza Goodeve, Sanford Kwinter, and Barry
Schwabsky will join me.  See below.

IN THIS TALK

Warren Neidich’s text-based neon sculpture The Statisticon Neon will
be the subject of a conversation between Thyrza Goodeve, Sanford
Kwinter, and Barry Schwabsky. The Statisticon was a term Neidich
invented in 2015 to describe a new form of power resulting from the
entanglement of mental labor, Big Data, and the brain’s neural
plasticity.  He will update this performance to consider its
importance to Deep Ecology and the development of eco-centric
technologies as a means of escape from the traumas inflicted by the
Anthropocene. The event will begin with a short blindfolded
performance of the sculpture by Neidich followed by ten-minute
comments by each respondent. Subjects ranging from the political power
of art, poetry and architecture, neural plasticity, ecology,
psychedelic drugs, the Internet of Everything, and Big Data will be
discussed in the hope of creating a language of resistance to our
current neural-digital predicament.
Industry City
900 3rd Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11232
(map ( https://goo.gl/maps/953wyU1UCFuWMyRJ7 ))

WARREN NEIDICH

Photo by Olivia Fougeirol

Over the past five years, American artist Warren Neidich has used
written texts, neon light sculptures, paintings and photographs to
create cross-pollinating conceptual works that reflect upon situations
at the border zones of art, science, and social justice. He is Founder
and Director of the Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art. He has exhibited
internationally and his work has been the subject of over 150 magazine
and newspaper articles. Recent awards include Stiftung Kunstfonds
NEUSTART KULTUR (2020 and 2021), Hauptstadtkulturfonds (2021), and
Katalogförderung des Berliner Senats (2017). Neidich currently works
between New York City and Berlin. His the author and editor of The
Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism: Part One (Archive Books,
2017), among others.

More On Warren Neidich

* warrenneidich.com ( http://www.warrenneidich.com/ )
*  @warrenneidichstudio (
http://www.instagram.com/warrenneidichstudio )

THYRZA NICHOLS GOODEVE

Thyrza Nichols Goodeve is a writer, editor, and educator who lives in
Brooklyn Heights. She was Senior Art Editor at the Rail from 2017 to
2019 and is currently an Editor-at-Large.

In the Rail: Thyrza Nichols Goodeve (
https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/thyrza-nichols-goodeve )

SANFORD KWINTER

Writer and theorist Sanford Kwinter is based in New York City. Author
of Architectures of Time (2001), Far From Equilibrium: Essays on
Technology and Design Culture (2008), co-author of Mutations (2001),
and the forthcoming What is Energy and How Else Might We Think About
It? and Excursions in the Ecosphere. Kwinter is currently Professor of
Science and Design at the Pratt Institute in New York.

BARRY SCHWABSKY

Art critic and poet Barry Schwabsky writes for The Nation and is
co-editor of international reviews for Artforum. His recent books
include The Perpetual Guest: Art in the Unfinished Present (Verso,
2016), Heretics of Language (Black Square Editions, 2017), Landscape
Painting Now(D.A.P, 2019), The Observer Effect: On Contemporary
Painting (Sternberg Press, 2020), and the monograph Gillian Carnegie
(Lund Humphries, 2020). His most recent collection of poetry is A
Feeling of And (Black Square Editions, 2021). He is a co-Director of
the Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art and an Editor-at-Large for the
Brooklyn Rail.

In the Rail: Barry Schwabsky (
https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/barry-schwabsky )
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