PROPERTY SHAPES ALL SOCIAL RELATIONS - LAUREL PTAK IN CONVERSATION

PROPERTY SHAPES ALL SOCIAL RELATIONS - 
LAUREL PTAK IN CONVERSATION

10 September 7.30pm

LAUREL PTAK is a New York City based curator and researcher interested in the social and political contours of art and technology. Her practice is best known for creating discursive platforms that allow for artistic dialogue and critical engagement. Together with artist Marysia Lewandowska, she is co-editor of the book Undoing Property? which explores artistic practices in relationship to immaterial production, political economy and the commons, published by Sternberg Press in 2013.

Using Undoing Property? as a starting point, at The Barber Shop Ptak will discuss a number of projects she's organized over the past few years that question notions of property from radically different vantage points—from alternative economies to cyberfeminism to intellectual property to debt to social media.

Ptak has held diverse roles inside art institutions internationally including Guggenheim Museum (New York City), MoMA PS1 Contemporary Art Center (New York City), Museo Tamayo (Mexico City), Tensta Konsthall (Stockholm), among others. Her curatorial work has been recognized with a nomination for the Independent Vision Award from Independent Curators International, Critical Writing Fellowship at Recess, Research Grant from the Foundation for Arts Initiatives and a Curatorial Fellowship at Eyebeam Art + Technology Center.

Ptak currently teaches in the department of Art, Media and Technology at The New School in New York City. In 2014 she was appointed Director of Triangle Arts Association in Brooklyn, a more than 30-year-old artist residency program within an international network of arts organizations around the world. She is currently at work transforming it into a revitalized institution that actively rethinks the site and conditions of artistic production and wonders what an artist residency can be in the year 2014.



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