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CIRCLE TALKS
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​FEATURING TRIPLE CANDIE
TUES AUGUST 21
​6:30pm

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​Part of our summer Circle Talks series that celebrates the acquisition of Working Library, a dialogic art project by Laura O’Quin and Rory Sparks. Over the next several months we will invite artists, curators, and arts administrators to lead conversations about the evolution of socially engaged artworks and how they expand the public discourse around what art can be and how it is valued.
ABOUT THE EVENT
Let the Artists Die
A Performance-Lecture by Triple Candie

Triple Candie will present a performance-lecture that focuses on its art-less exhibitions. The performance will explore a range of topics, from artist obituaries and artistic agency, to the “Death of the Artist” and the “Author Function” late ‘60s French theory, as well as the ethics of posthumous artistic creation. A brief history of Triple Candie’s programs are interwoven throughout -- David Hammons: The Unauthorized Retrospective, Cady Noland Approximately, James Lee Byars: I Cancel My Works at Death, Maurizio Cattelan is Dead: Life and Work, If Michael Asher, etc. The title “Let the Artists Die” is borrowed from a 1985 play by the Polish artist-playwright Tadeusz Kantor about art under authoritarian regimes.


ABOUT TRIPLE CANDIE
Triple Candie is a phantom-like institution run by internationally noted art historians Shelly Bancroft and Peter Nesbett. Founded in Harlem in 2001, Triple Candie produces exhibitions about art but largely devoid of it. Its primary purpose since late 2005 has been to explore the possibilities of exhibition-making as a truly alternative, critical practice. The New York Times once characterized Triple Candie as “Manhattan’s only truly alternative alternative space,” and Domus described it as “one of the most mysterious and creative institutions on the contemporary scene.” When Triple Candie left Harlem in 2011, it began guest-producing exhibitions for museums in the United States and Europe. Its most recent project, If Michael Asher, is currently on view at the Grazer Kunstverein in Austria. Triple Candie works out of a townhouse in Washington, D.C.


ABOUT WORKING LIBRARY
The Working Library set out to construct, populate, and activate a library in conversation with the community as the 2017-2018 c3: Project Incubator. Selected from a rigorous pool of applicants to independently occupy the c3 incubator space on the corner of North Chicago Ave and Lombard St, the project was home to a community amassed library, studio-run printing press, and bindery. In spring 2018 c3:initiative acquired the Working Library. c3 is inspired to continue this project under the guidelines set forth by its founders through residencies, partnerships, and programs.

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We at Stelo humbly acknowledge that our programming is being held on the traditional lands of the Multnomah, Kathlamet, Clackamas, bands of Chinook, Tualatin Kalapuya, Molalla and many other Tribes who made their homes along the Columbia (Wimahl) and Willamette (Whilamut) rivers.

​We offer respectful recognition to the Native communities in our region, and to those who have stewarded this land throughout the generations. Please consider the many legacies of violence, displacement, migration, and settlement that bring us together here today. We recognize the continual displacement of Native people by the United States and are committed to working to dismantle the ongoing effects of this settler colonial legacy. Please join us in respecting the contributions Indigenous peoples have, and continue to make to our community, country, and world.
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