Join us for the launch of Near Contact by David Joselit and Amy Lien & Enzo Camacho, published by Common Practice New York. Joselit will be joined in discussion by Lia Gangitano, founder and director of Participant Inc, on Thursday, March 10, 7PM.

The publication is available as a printed booklet, or for download at http://commonpracticeny.org/assets/CPNY_NearContact_2016.pdf

Near Contact comprises two essays, with artwork by Amy Lien & Enzo Camacho:

David Joselit’s essay, “In Praise of Small,” is a seven-point litany on the work of small-scale organizations and the unique challenges they face. The essay was originally commissioned by Common Practice New York as part of a series of invitational roundtables on contemporary institutional practice organized in collaboration with students and faculty from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College in fall 2013. A version of the essay was later presented by Joselit at Out of Alternatives, spring 2014, a symposium on the role of small-scale arts organizations in New York City, hosted by Artists Space Books & Talks and co-presented by CCS Bard.

Amy Lien & Enzo Camacho’s “Thought Experiment” responds to an invitation from Common Practice New York to formulate a contribution to be published alongside “In Praise of Small.” Lien & Camacho’s collaborative practice as artists and writers has existed through a series of geographic displacements: between their respective home cities of New York and Manila; and recent periods living and working in Berlin, Milan, and Singapore. Accordingly, their work reflects different models of organizing around art—particularly “contemporary art”—both within and outside its supposed centers.

The work was edited by Matthew Shen Goodman and produced by Miriam Katzeff for Common Practice New York, and designed by Other Means.

Generous support for Near Contact has been provided by thee Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Lambent Foundation/Fund of Tides Foundation, and VIA Art Fund.

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