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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) 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.
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
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
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