Panel Discussion: GET CARE NOW
Open Source Gallery during Collecting Health by Jody Wood, 2024; photo by Stefan Hagen
NOVEMBER 21 | 6:30 PM
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Join us for the panel discussion “GET CARE NOW” featuring Barrie Cline (SUNY Empire State University), Jenny D. Ingber (Chess in the Schools), Isin Önol (School of Visual Arts), Diya Vij (Creative Time), Monika Wuhrer (Open Source Gallery/KoKo). The conversation will be moderated by Ursula Maria Probst (FLUCC, Vienna).
About the Event
The panel discussion “GET CARE NOW” focuses on artistic initiatives and communities, cross-disciplinary, innovative practices that address the needs and urgencies (number of people affected by poverty and hunger is increasing) of our society, children and young people in New York. In view of the rapid growth of cities and the post-Covid situation, “Youth Wellbeing in Cities” is an important topic that now increasingly needs to be addressed in the context of urban ecologies.
The question that arises in this context of whether and how artists, collectives or initiatives themselves can develop effective, sustainable projects (housing needs, places for young people and children to stay, self-sufficient energy, gardening, fermentation, food for all, movement de-escalation workshops, safe spaces for women and queer communities, circus of knowledge, playful approaches) together with communities as decision-makers will be explored using practical examples.
The transdisciplinary panel “GET CARE NOW” discusses best practice methods in the development of “Community of Practice”. Based on projects in New York on best practice methods and community outreach of projects of different groups and communities. The aim of the initiatives is to stand up against exclusion for a good coexistence. How can we develop a CARE Index based on a Care Agenda from this which is also including the question of ethical issues and what are the necessary tools?
About the Participants
Barrie Cline has long taught public art to blue-collar, trade unionist students at the Harry Van Arsdale Jr. School of Labor Studies (SUNY Empire State University) and in 2017 became faculty there and built an art program woven into the labor studies curriculum. The labor school’s emphasis is on the working-class experience, the labor movement, and the potential real-world power that organized workers can obtain. The art classes further prompt students to lay claim to art. Her long-term experience and commitment to this role has led to the formation of an artcollective “Workers Art Coalition“. The collective’s commissions for the public include works for the People’s Climate March, the Library of Congress (where they produced an electrician’s archive), The International Federation of Workers Educational Association as well as public artworks now in the collection of IBEW Local #3. The collective is currently producing display structures and a movable exhibition about worker’s lives and their perspectives on the meaning of labor studies for the SUNY Empire State University Foundation for June 2025.
Jenny D. Ingber, Ph.D. has been working in the field of Education for over two decades. Her expertise is in Science Education, but in the various roles she has held, she has put extensive emphasis on collaboration, community, the intersections between academic disciplines, and the bridges between home, school, and out-of-school learning. Jenny’s career has spanned public school, higher education, teacher professional learning, curriculum development, cultural institutions, and, now, she is the CEO and President of Chess in the Schools. Chess in the Schools is a NYC-based non-profit that supports children and youth from low-income backgrounds through the game of chess.
Işın Önol (b. 1977) is a curator, writer, and art professor based in New York City and Vienna. She currently serves as the Director of Curatorial Research at the School of Visual Arts, MA Curatorial Practice Program in NYC. Her curatorial research focuses on interconnecting archival information with oral histories to create platforms for collective memory through collaborative art practices. Önol has served as a guest professor, critic, and curator at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna (2022-2023 and 2016-2017), Montclair State University (2017-2022), and as a research scholar at the Center for the Study of Social Difference at Columbia University (2016-2020). She co-founded and directs the Nesin Art Village, an independent art school in Turkey. Önol completed the postgraduate curatorial study program at École du Magasin, holds an MFA from Sabancı University, Istanbul, an MAS from Zürich University of the Arts, and is a PhD candidate at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna. She is a member of IKT, the International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art, and has been elected twice to the Board of Directors of the Roberto Cimetta Fund, which supports the mobility of artists in the Mediterranean region.
Diya Vij is the Curator at Creative Time and is committed to critically investigating the evolving role of public art in politics and civic life. Over the past decade, she has held programming, curatorial, and communications positions at major New York City Institutions. At Creative Time, she commissions and stewards large-scale public art work, initiates public programs, and helps guide the curatorial direction of the organization. As the Associate Curator of Public Programs at the High Line, she organized dozens of live events and performances with artists, activists, practitioners, and healers. At the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Vij launched and co-directed the Public Artists in Residence (PAIR) program. Additionally, she helped lead the Agency’s citywide Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiative, and played an active role in public monument efforts, as well as CreateNYC—New York City’s first strategic long-term plan for culture.
Monika Wuhrer is the Founder and Artistic Director of Open Source Gallery and its education program KoKo NYC. Both Open Source and KoKo, stem from her own personal art practice as a socially engaged artist, where she is interested in shifting social norms and perceptions. After studying in Milan, Italy, Monika returned to her birth country Austria, where she completed her Masters of the Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts with Michelangelo Pistoletto. She continues to be an ambassador for Pistoletto’s Terzo Paradiso. She has exhibited across Europe and the U.S. and her project Wuzler was part of Bread and Soccer – In the Arena of the Arts, an exhibition at the Austrian Cultural Forum. Recently Wuhrer was awarded residencies by the Montello Foundation and the Elizabeth Foundation. She currently serves on the advisory board for the Puffin Foundation.
Ursula Maria Probst a.k.a. Transcultural Emancipation a.k.a. Female Obsession (Vienna/Austria), cultural worker, transformer, artistic director for contemporary arts FLUCC. Center for Arts and Communities, curator, art critic, lector, art historian, urban researcher with focus on gender, biodiversity, healing power of art and social and community engaged projects. Since 2018 AIR and Research Project BODY EMBEDDING with Hongwei Duan. Transformances at Myanmar, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Nepal, China, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, India, Peru, Taiwan. Since 2017 Transcultural Emancipation. Performances & Projects at Brazilia, Panama, Kuba, Chile, Argentina, Guatemala, Peru, Colombia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Germany, USA, Russia, China. Artcritic (Kunstforum International, Spike, dérive), curator (KulturKontakt Austria, BKA, Vienna Artweek, Kulturdrogerie, Galerie Krinzinger, K/haus, Kunstraum NÖ, public art niederösterreich, KÖR). 2024 BODY EMBEDDING Beijing; Don’t talk about us without us, MQ, Summerstage, Vienna; Get Care Now, KÖR, New York; Care on Earth. Who is mist, who participate, who cares on it?, Ecologies of Work. Flucc Vienna. 2023/24 SUPER NATUR, art in public space Lower Austria, 2023 In search of the urban alterego, KÖR; The future starts today, Festival of Regions.