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Artifacts of the Future: Artists’ Interventions in the Environment October 12-13, 2017 (Professors Pamela Karimi & Rebecca Uchill)

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Native New Bedford artist, Mark Dion artworks are being exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston.  The exhibition is entitled Mark Dion: Misadventures of a 21st-Century Naturalist  and will open Oct. 4, 2017 and continue through Jan. 1, 2018.

In conjunction with Mark Dion’s survey exhibition will be an symposium entitled, Artifacts of the Future, and will be begin at the New Bedford Whaling Museum on Thursday, Oct 12, 2017 | 6–8 PM and continue at the Institute of Contemporary Art on Friday, Oct/ 13, 2017.

Artifacts of the Future (NBWM)
Thursday, Oct 12, 2017 | 6–8 PM

Keynote Session: Inspired by the City that Lit the World: Mark Dion Reflects on His Creative Process

  • 6:00–6:30 PM: Pamela Karimi (Moderator & Lecturer) | The Artist and the American Post-Industrial Landscape
  • 6:30–7:30 PM: Mark Dion |  Space, Nature, and Materiality in New Bedford and Beyond
  • 7:30–8 PM: Caroline A. Jones | Commentary and Q&A

LOCATION: New Bedford Whaling Museum, Cook Memorial Theater
18 Johnny Cake Hill, New Bedford, MA 02740. Registration required. Registrants please arrive 15 minutes early to guarantee your seat. This event is presented by UMass Dartmouth.

Friday, October 13, 2017 | 9 AM–3 PM (ICA)

  • 9:00–9:30 AM: Coffee Reception
  • 9:30–9:45 AM: Welcoming Remarks
  • 9:45–10:15 AM: Mark Dion and Ruth Erickson in Conversation
  • 10:15–11:45 AM: Morning Session
    A. Laurie Palmer | In the Aura of a Hole: Exploring Sites of Material Extraction
    Cecilia Vicuña | Quipu Mapocho/Quipu Womb: Two Works in the Land and in the Museum, Addressing the Ancient Stories of Water and
    Survival in Chile and the Mediterranean
    Lize Mogel | Walking the Watershed
    Moderator: Sarah Kanouse
  • 12:00–1:30 PM: Lunch Break
  • 1:30–2:30 PM: Afternoon Session
    Juan William Chávez | Working as a Hive in the Urban Ecosystem
    Lenka Clayton | …circle through New York
    Moderator: Kirsten Swenson
  • 2:30–3:00 PM: Rebecca Uchill | Concluding Reflections

 LOCATION: Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, Barbara Lee Family Foundation Theater. 25 Harbor Shore Drive, Boston, MA

The symposium is co-organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston; Northeastern University; University of Massachusetts Boston; University of Massachusetts Dartmouth; and University of Massachusetts Lowell. It begins at the New Bedford Whaling Museum, in Mark Dion’s hometown, and continues the next day at the ICA/Boston.