Assisted by Devin N. Morris
Workshop 1: 2-3pm
Workshop 2: 4-5pm
In this workshop we will be making small zines with anonymous vernacular images picked from a bin. The images will be repurposed, manipulated, and placed under new context. The point is to think of the image in terms of its movement and the way sequencing and chance shift meaning beyond its original towards a new. Looking and working with found images is an exercise into our own desires and imagination when interpreting a photograph. Transcending time and space, the anonymous photograph provides a portal into past and future lives and narratives — a glimpse into spaces and gestures personal, intimate, and performative in a way where the photographic is inseparable from the social.
Marcelo Gabriel Yáñez is a rising senior at New York University. His Research focuses on archives, ephemerality, photograhy, and mysticism.
Newspaper was started in 1969 by Steve Lawrence, and it ran for nine issues till 1971. With prototypes developing around 1968, it was a small press publication that spotlighted work by figures of the Downtown NY scene. A pivotal publication for the time, Newspaper was a product of the conceptual art movement and an emphasis on media systems and subversion. In 1970 it was part of the Information show at MoMA -- widely acknowledged as the first large survey on conceptual art. Over the years and after the AIDS crisis, Newspaper was lost and Steve Lawrence's work faded into obscurity. Not much information on Newspaper exists, and as an art historian I'm currently working to contextualize the publication in history under the advisement of Shelley Rice at New York University.
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