Walk in workshop: Ansel Adams x Joseph Maida
Bring your voice, express yourself, and leave with a printed work of art based on Joseph Maida’s posthumous collaborative book with Ansel Adams, Born Free and Equal (published by CONVOKE). Join Maida for this free interactive workshop that repurposes Ansel Adams’ famed 1944 Manzanar Project to speak to the 21st century via both the political poster and Instagram.
This Fall, Maida is mailing every day over 4 weeks hand-marked, poster-size pages from his post-humous collaborative book with Ansel Adams, Born Free and Equal: The Story of Loyal ________Americans, to curators and editors at institutions that have a strong holding of Adams’ work, including Aperture, Yale University Art Gallery, and Museum of Modern Art, which originally exhibited Adams’ Manzanar pictures, on which Maida’s book and posters are based.
Participants can mark 11 x 17” printouts of book pages to create their own flyers using the same strategies and materials of Maida’s original mailing. These flyers will be photographed on site and circulated on Instagram by Maida as a collaborative act that marries analogue “posting” with social media “posting”, again tagging curators, this time via social media, at relevant institutions as a call to action to use their platforms and collections to activate broader conversations about the injustices in the current political climate in America, which closely mirror the injustices in the 1940s during World War II based on ethnicity, racial profiling, and fear.
SUN 22 SEPT 2019 — 13.00 - 14.45 / Location: Leidinghuis
Joseph Maida is an artist, writer, and educator, who chairs the BFA Photography and Video Department at New York's School of Visual Arts. Maida has exhibited his work extensively in the United States, Europe, Japan and China in solo exhibitions at Wallspace, Daniel Cooney Fine Art, the Nikon Salons, Tokyo and Osaka, and 403 International Art Center, Wuhan, among others. His work has also been included in group exhibitions in New York at the International Center for Photography (ICP); Yancey Richardson Gallery; Art in General; Artists Space; the Queens Museum; and the Bronx Museum and internationally at Foam Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam; the Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid; the Kunsthalle Wien; the Witte de With, Rotterdam; and C/O Berlin, among others. His commissioned work has appeared in publications such as The New York Times Magazine, New York Magazine, W, Wallpaper, and Vice, and his monographs New Natives and Born Free and Equal were published by L’Artiere in 2015 and COVOKE in 2018 respectively.
