BHQFU @ WHITE SLAB

May 24 at 7 PM 77 Delancey Street

The Bruce High Quality Foundation University presents a night of conversation, exhibition, and peer critique with Adina Popescu, John Menick and Jaime Iglehart. Please join us for this special event!

For more information email: whatisametaphor@gmail.com

White Slab 77 Delancey Street

More at: http://newmodelhome.blogspot.com/

BHQFU @ LU MAGNUS ART LABORATORY + SALON

April 29 at 7 PM 55 Hester Street

The Bruce High Quality Foundation University and Lu Magnus Art Laboratory + Salon present a night of conversation, exhibition, and peer critique with Fawad Khan + Chitra Ganesh. The evening will also include a special project by the the San Francisco based collective, PRACTICE. PRACTICE is Erin Klenow, Nick Sung, and Najeeb Tarazi.

For more information email: whatisametaphor@gmail.com

Lu Magnus 55 Hester Street www.lumagnus.com

More at: http://newmodelhome.blogspot.com/

BHQFU @ LOISAIDA

March 22nd at 7 PM 62 Avenue C Apt 3

What's a Metaphor? Join us for a night of conversation with artists Asha Schechter, Duncan Malashock and Parker Ito. Plus, a very special guest. All are welcome. BYOB.

For more information email: whatisametaphor@gmail.com

LOISAIDA 62 Avenue C Apt 3 www.loisaidanyc.com

More at: http://newmodelhome.blogspot.com/

BHQFU @ RECESS ACTIVITIES, INC.

February 22nd at 7 PM 41 Grand Street

What's a Metaphor? with Stephen Wuensch and Paris Ionescu present a night of conversation. Artists Scott Keightly and Brian Edgerton will present work for discussion. All are welcome. BYOB.

For more information email: whatisametaphor@gmail.com

Recess Activities, Inc. offers a new model that gives contemporary and emerging artists space to use as a studio, exhibition venue, or grounds for experimentation.

RECESS 41 Grand Street www.recessart.org

More at: http://newmodelhome.blogspot.com/

BHQFU @ SILVERSHED

January 18th at 7 PM 119 W 25th St. PH

What's a Metaphor? with Stephen Wuensch and Paris Ionescu present a night of conversation. Artists Will Stewart, Daniel Galas, David Bernstein and Rose Marcus will present work for discussion. All are welcome. BYOB.

For more information email: whatisametaphor@gmail.com

Silvershed is an artist-run contemporary art project space in Chelsea, working between New York, Los Angeles and Berlin, as a collaboration for exhibitions, publications and events. Silvershed explores social dynamics of increasingly lateral flow of exchange of information, ideas and resources among artists to generate and to connect discussions of contemporary art values, ethics and aesthetics of the 21st century. Started in 2008 by Patrick Meagher, Yunhee Min and Oliver Lanz.

SILVERSHED 119 W 25th St. PH www.thesilvershed.org

A discussion at La MaMa Galleria, 6 East 1st Street, in conjunction with LIVE/WORK: A Painting Show

November 18th at 7 PM

What, exactly, does an art critic do, when he or she engages in the practice of criticism? Can we understand art criticism as anything more than the mere expression of the critic’s own feelings? Why or why not?

In a recent book, the philosopher Noël Carroll has attempted to identify, reconstruct, and interrogate the practice of criticism in the arts, with the aim of presenting his own account of that practice. The account that he defends is controversial and interesting and will form the basis of our discussion. After describing the details of Carroll’s view in as sympathetic a manner as possible, we shall attempt to employ it in our own practice of criticizing the works on display at La MaMa, in the hopes of discovering the strengths and weaknesses of the account that he offers.

VISIT: http://www.bricartsmedia.org/events/field-of-dreams-un-mundo-nuevo

FOR MORE INFORMATION

at RECESS (41 Grand St) A one-night event exploring the role of human behavior in the construction of meaning in art. This collaborative performance will attempt to replicate an early study on human behavior. The experiment brings together the work of John Watson, Thomas Pynchon and Barnett Newman to establish a theory of behavioral relations. By examining the structure of behavior we can foster an understanding of our own internal order. The event builds on an online investigation that considers behavior modification as a form of social sculpture. The project was initiated by Stephen Wuensch.

Edifying is a series of performative lectures organized by Beatrice Gross.

In the lineage of Robert Morris’s 1964 performance entitled 21.3 where the artist lip-synched a film of art historian Erwin Panofsky’s 1939 lecture, this series presents a selection of contemporary performance-lectures concerned with the dramatization of knowledge and its dissemination.

So far, Edifying has featured performative works by Ellie Ga, Pablo Helguera, Christine Rebet, and collaborative Slavs and Tatars.

For further information, please visit: http://web.me.com/edifying/Edifying/Welcome.html

Contact: bhqfu.edifying@gmail.com.

Sundays from 12-3pm.

The BHQFU Writing Group reads and discusses each others' written work. All figuring of speech permitted.

To participate, email bhqfuwrote@gmail.com.

Mondays from 7-10pm . Started September 27th!

what is drawing? this eight session course will attempt to answer this question by examining drawing as a reflexive process. Through open assignments and critique we'll explore the dynamic relationship between materials, processes, and subjects/objects that affects how we see and respond to the world.

To participate, email nick_sung@hotmail.com

Mondays from 7pm - 8:30pm starting Monday June 14th Location: 225, Mezzanine or Upstairs (depending on NASA)

This summer course (6 to 8 weeks long) will teach the basics of the Italian language, focusing on speaking more than writing or grammar. The goal is to be able to have a conversation in Italian by the end of the summer and to provide a base for further improvement if desired.

Wine, food, and film might also be included!

Syllabus and assignments (in the works but click below). Syllabus

Homework Contact: Melissa Turoff at meturoff@gmail.com

WEBSITE

The Artist at Work resumes Tuesday September 14th at 7 PM, teaming up with the Tuesday Critique Group.

The first round of this class involved a core group of people making scripts and preparing the set for each week's performances. The performances were possible thanks to the participation of a much bigger group of people who weren't necessarily even present more than once, but who dropped in to contribute their interpretations of whatever prompts they were given (including: bringing in paintings or special outfits, music, lots of improv), or assisted on set in various ways. The weekly agenda is available by email.

Thursday September 23rd at 7 PM there will be a screening of Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Mysterious Object at Noon, Emile de Antonio's Painters Painting, and any other related narratives particpants bring in or pull up on youtube.

Shooting begins in October, at locations to be discussed.

BLOG

This course will present an alternative history of performance studies. Alternative 1) because we will follow “underground” works which have been routinely marginalized by museums and academia and 2) because we will deliberately construct a history containing ideological gaps in order to investigate the most morally and ethically objectionable performances of the postmodern era. We will take advantage of the liberties afforded by the BHQFU classroom to focus on works that have been considered outlaw, pornographic, taboo, and ethically objectionable. We will also discuss the way museums and academia have dealt with this type of work.

You will attend live performance and check the blog periodically for updates. If you cannot make time for the readings, please take the time to at least watch the videos on the blog and do some of the exercises presented. Use the blog and the facebook as a tool to dialogue with me and other students.

All events TBA in accordance w/ visiting artists schedules. Some held on campus, some off. All announced via email, facebook, and tumblr.

WEBSITE

No case too small.

WEBSITE

Email hr@bhqfuda.org for more information.

BUILD YOUR OWN UNIVERSITY is the throbbing, gristling heart of BHQFU. Find out what's going on. Proposes new classes and projects.

All are welcome. Starts at 7pm. BYOB.

• DECEMBER 10TH @ 225 West Broadway

• NOVEMBER 16TH @ La MaMa Galeria

* OCTOBER 19TH

Schedule will be posted for future BYOU events soon; stay tuned…

Wednesdays from 7:30 – 10:30pm

This course investigates the content and structure of films, using methodologies and concepts culled from linguistics, psychoanalysis, semiotics, anthropology, and continental philosophy. We familiarize ourselves with, and evaluate the major issues and debates within film theory while critically engaging with films from a socio-historical context that rigorously confronts the heterogeneity of meaning, interpretation, and authorship. Along the way, we also consider relevant issues in narrative theory and literary texts.

SYLLABUS

For more information contact Michael Brent michael.brent@columbia.edu and Peter H. Duhon Jr. peter.duhon@artcomments.com

Thursdays from 7–9pm. Starting October 7th

When cultures with no common language come into contact, they have to create one. The result is a pidgin language: a tiny, makeshift language that allows for basic communication. Over time pidgins can evolve into complete natural languages called creoles.

In this class we will develop a musical pidgin language. English and other natural languages will be left at the door. In their place: musical instruments. As a starting point, everyone will receive 100 flashcards pairing melodic shapes and basic concepts. Over the length of the course, a new musical idiom will emerge as a side-effect of communication, as the desire to be understood magnetizes pitch, rhythm, inflection, and nuance. At its end, participants will be unconscious musical virtuosi whenever they think aloud.

All instruments including voice are welcome. Prior musical training is welcome but not necessary. Those who don't own a musical instrument have the option of purchasing a slide whistle, etc.

WEBSITE

Mondays 7-9pm Starting October 4th

WEBSITE

For additional information, contact tyra.pres@gmail.com

A collaborative workshop exploring the abandoned creative project and possibilities for continuation

Course meets monthly on Thursdays at 7pm Next session: JUNE 24

contact: sally.o.szwed@gmail.com

WEBSITE

Fridays at 4pm

FIENDS DE SIECLE! is a collaborative drama workshop organized by Adrea Teasdale.

To get involved contact adrearose@gmail.com

Saturdays from 3-6pm

WEBSITE

Cobraclass is a multi-part program that considers aesthetic principles and philosophies relating to deskilling, repetition, excess, mimicry, censured gestures, fragmentation and ritual. The main goal of this open structure is to nourish the terrain for an event. The project will involve group work with clay, actions and films, bringing together a series of seemingly un-related concepts and ideas. The duration of the bulk of the event itself can be undetermined like a Lacanian session. It could result in a series of sculptures and a film. How the end result could be made public should be discussed by the participants before and after the end of the interactive session.

Organized by Sarina Basta, Simone Leigh, and Karin Schneider.

For more information, contact sarinabasta@gmail.com.

The Official Athletics Team of BHQFU

Contact drankpee@gmail.com to get involved.

It's karaoke, bitch.

Contact keeganmonaghan@gmail.com to get involved.