TIME AS MATERIAL
MONDAY, OCT 24, 6:00 PM
THE KITCHEN

512 WEST 19TH STREET, NEW YORK, NY 10011

Featuring Christine Frohnert, Valerie Hegarty, Marc Hundley, and Mika Rottenberg.

Ad Hoc Vox and The Kitchen are pleased to invite you to Time as Material, the third in a series of panel discussions organized by Ad Hoc Vox on the subject of time. The first covered broad scientific and cultural understandings of time, while the second addressed time in narrative—focusing on literature, theater, and cinema. For Time As Material, we will explore time as both a subject and variable in the conception, execution, presentation, reception and conservation of art.

Art, of all the disciplines, has been the most ontologically slippery. Once synonymous with certain material traditions, like painting, the 20th century expanded the field of art to include a host of practices which set about to systematically dematerialize the art object. Such practices have produced their own objects, many of which, like film or performance, are durational and subsequently are categorized and studied as "time-based." Yet another effect of the expanded field of art has been that even materially-based practices are often understood—through frameworks as diverse as process, performativity, and sociality—as producing temporal objects. Time as Material will examine how these contexts for thinking through and about time inform artistic practice.

Time as Material will include Christine Frohnert, Valerie Hegarty, Marc Hundley, and Mika Rottenberg. Joe Winter will act as moderator.


CHRISTINE FROHNERT
was trained as a paintings and sculpture conservator in various institutions in Germany from 1986-1993. She joined the conservation department of the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany, in 1993 and held the position of the Chief Conservator from 2000-2005. In 2005 she joined Cranmer Art Conservation in New York. She lectures and publishes in the field of conservation of contemporary art with a strong research interest in the conservation of installation art created in the 1960s by the artist/engineer collaboration E.A.T (Experiments in Art and Technology) and is the current chair of the Electronic Media Group at the American Institute for Conservation serving from 2008.

VALERIE HEGARTY
Valerie Hegarty’s solo exhibitions include Nicelle Beauchene, NY; Locust Projects, Miami; Museum 52, London; MCA, Chicago; and Guild & Greyshkul, NY, among others. Selected group exhibitions in New York include the Brooklyn Museum, Artists Space, The Drawing Center, D’Amelio Terras Gallery, Derek Eller, White Columns, and PS1. Hegarty has been awarded numerous grants through foundations such as the Pollock Krasner, NYFA, the Rema Hort Mann Foundation, the Tiffany Foundation, and Campari NY. Residencies include Marie Walsh Sharpe, PS 122, LMCC, Yaddo, and Smack Mellon. She is represented by Nicelle Beauchene Gallery in NY.

MARC HUNDLEY
Marc Hundley’s work has been exhibited in numerous galleries in the U.S. and abroad, including Cherry and Martin,LA; Rivington Arms, NY; Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad; and Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney. His work is currently the subject of a solo exhibition at Team Gallery, NY.

MIKA ROTTENBERG
holds a BFA from the School of Visual Arts and an MFA from Columbia University. Solo exhibitions include M - Museum, Leuven (forthcoming); de Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; La Maison Rouge, Paris; KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin; and PS1, NY. Her work has been included in the Whitney Biennial (2008); New Work/New Acquisitions, The Museum of Modern Art, NY (2005); and Greater New York 2005, among others. Her newest work, SEVEN, a collaboration with Jon Kessler, is a performance and installation commissioned by Performa 11, on view at Nicole Klagsbrun Project in November.

JOE WINTER
holds a BA from Brown University and an MFA from the University of California, San Diego. His work has been exhibited at venues including Foxy Production, NY; Eyebeam, NY; The Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; The Western Front, Vancouver; The Urbis Center, Manchester, UK; Plug.In, Basel; Edith Russ Haus, Oldenburg, Germany; and the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, NY. He has completed residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology, Sculpture Space, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. His solo exhibition, The Stars Below, is currently on view at The Kitchen.