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We are thrilled to announce that Dora Budor's Spring will be extended through September 6th due to popular demand. Photo: Dora Budor, "Our Children Will Have Yellow Eyes," 2015, detail. #dorabudor #spring #swissinstitute #ONEFORALL (at Swiss Institute / Contemporary Art New York)

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Swiss Institute's Digital Archive Kickstarter is LIVE! Here's a still from our Kickstarter video 🐵 Help us make 30 years of SI accessible to all #SIdigitalarchive #SIkickstarter (at Swiss Institute / Contemporary Art New York)

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Exhibition Curator Clément Delépine unpacking Niele Toroni's "Imprints of a n° 50 Paintbrush Repeated at Regular Intervals of 30 cm," 1987. @clement_delepine #nieletoroni #swissinstitute (at Swiss Institute / Contemporary Art New York)

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The countdown begins: only 3 days left to see Work Hard! Luciano Castelli, "Brücke," 1994. #workhard #lucianocastelli #swissinstitute (at Swiss Institute / Contemporary Art New York)

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Urban Zellweger at Plymouth Rock #urbanzellweger @mitchellwanderson (at Plymouth Rock)

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Please join us tomorrow night at 7 for a presentation of Boris Groys' 2007 video lecture, "Immortal Bodies." Groys will introduce the work and hold a Q&A immediately following. #swissinstitute #borisgroys #immortalbodies (at Swiss Institute / Contemporary Art New York)

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Detail of Edmond Bille's "Une Danse Macabre" from 1919. #workhard #swissinstitute #edmondbille (at Swiss Institute / Contemporary Art New York)

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Our screening of "Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000" tomorrow at 7pm promises to be a 🐳 of a comedy! RSVP to rsvp@swissinstitute.net #workhard #swissinstitute (at Swiss Institute / Contemporary Art New York)

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Panel | Bitchcoin with Sarah Meyohas, Lucy Hunter and R. Lyon, Jenny Jaskey, and Laurel Ptak

Friday, April 1 at 7PM

 “BitchCoin” is a digital currency backed by the photography of artist Sarah Meyohas. BitchCoin allows buyers to invest directly in Meyohas’ career, rather than in any specific work.  Developed in collaboration with Where, a gallery and think tank run by Lucy Hunter and R. Lyon, BitchCoin locates the artist as value-producer in a system fueled by prediction and speculation. Widely covered in popular press (Time, WIRED, Vice) as an empowering tool for artists, BitchCoin nevertheless walks a questionable line between critique and complicity in the commodification of art.

 Moderated by Jenny Jaskey and featuring Laurel Ptak, this panel is designed to put pressure on BitchCoin’s ambiguous position—not simply to judge the success of BitchCoin (both as an artwork and a financial product), but also to see how the project articulates the predictive mechanisms of an artist-gallery-press network that produces “up and coming” artists.

Please RSVP to rsvp@swissinstitute.net

 Panelists:

Lucy Hunter and R. Lyon (Where)

Where is a semi-public, high-security security shipping container and publishing project in Brooklyn, New York, produced by art historian Lucy Hunter and artist R. Lyon. Where collaborates with artists, curators, and critics, using the exhibition format to test the mechanisms of growth and complexity identified in information theory.

 Jenny Jaskey

Jenny Jaskey is Director and Curator of The Artist's Institute in New York, where she has worked with artists including Carolee Schneemann, Pierre Huyghe, Lucy McKenzie, and Haim Steinbach. Her writing appears in Mousse, Metropolis M, Modern Painters, and Texte zur Kunst, and she is co-editor with Suhail Malik and Christoph Cox of the forthcoming book Realism, Materialism, Art, co-published by CCS Bard and Sternberg Press.

 Sarah Meyohas

Sarah Meyohas studied finance and international relations, earning a B.S. in economics from Wharton and a B.A. in international studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She interned in both the private equity and hedge fund space. However, upon graduation, she headed straight to the MFA program at Yale in the photography department.

 Laurel Ptak

Laurel Ptak works across curatorial, artistic and pedagogical boundaries to address the social and political contours of art and technology. 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. Her past curatorial projects have taken up subject matter including alternative economies, debt, intellectual property and labor. She currently serves as Director and Curator of Triangle Arts Association in Brooklyn.

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Thanks @newyorkermag for the nice write-up on #WorkHard! (at Swiss Institute / Contemporary Art New York)

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#tbt to Heidi Bucher at Swiss Institute in 2014. 

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Méret Oppenheim at Swiss Institute

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Vittorio Brodmann at Swiss Institute

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Detail of Daniel Spoerri, "Le danger de la multiplication," 1971. #danielspoerri #workhard #swissinstitute (at Swiss Institute / Contemporary Art New York)

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Detail of David Hominal's "ST070910-II," 2010 in front of Ugo Rondinone's "achternovember- zweitausendundvierzehn," 2014. Currently on view in #WorkHard: Selections by Valentin Carron. #davidhominal #ugorondinone #swissinstitute (at Swiss Institute / Contemporary Art New York)

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Teaching us how it’s done, here is SI Director @simoncastets with a true #artselfie master, @klausbiesenbach. Join us tonight to take your very own #SIelfie!!! @dismagazine @artbook

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🐂🐂 Please join us tonight from 6-8 for the opening reception of "Work Hard: Selections by Valentin Carron." (Pierre Blanc, detail of "Taureau et Berger," 1945. 📷 courtesy Kevin Seisdedos, © FAP.) #swissinstitute #valentincarron #workhard 🐂🐂 (at Swiss Institute / Contemporary Art New York)