20/06/2022 20:00 – 23:00

This is a conversation between curator Belén Santillán and artist Gabo Camnitzer about his work “50 Million Windows” at Momentum 12, hosted by Wei Ting Tseng/Zeng.

50 Million Windows is a collaborative drawing project inspired by the trailblazing public grade school teacher, Albert Collum’s prompt to his students from 1963: “Draw every window in New York City.” In the project’s first installment, the summer youth camp at Queens Museum (2021) attempted to draw New York City’s current 50,000,000 windows, while discussing what a window really is: where the word comes from (“wind-eye”), what differences in kinds of windows from neighborhood to neighborhood signify, and how our relationship to our windows changed over the course of COVID.

During Momentum 12, we invite you to look through the windows of this gallery and draw every window in Moss.

Gabo Camnitzer is an artist and educator working across experimental pedagogy, installation and video. Camnitzer’s work revolves around questions of education and knowledge exchange, often focusing on childhood to examine the societal structures that surround and shape subjectivity.

Camnitzer is an Assistant Professor of Social Practice and Director of the Foundations Program at UMass Dartmouth. He has previously held teaching positions at Columbia University, Valand Academy, and the Neighborhood School (PS 363), a public elementary school in NYC. He has presented projects at venues such as Queens Museum, New York; Kunstsaele, Berlin; GfZK, Leipzig; Artists Space, New York; Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm; Gertrude Contemporary Art Center, Melbourne; Museo Blanes, Montevideo, Uruguay. He received his MFA from Valand Academy, Gothenburg, Sweden, and attended the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York. He sits on the editorial board of the Swedish Art Journal, Paletten.

Belén Santillán takes her institutional roles as a researcher, educator and director as a starting point to think about institutional practices: how exhibitions are made, where is the place for education in museums, and how museums welcome the public and create the common. Santillán was director of Centro de Arte Contemporáneo and director of the Exhibition Area of Centro Cultural Metropolitano in Quito, Ecuador and has worked for the Mariano Aguilera National Arts Award. She currently works with Tenthaus to shape the mediation program for MOMENTUM 12.

Radio Momentum is a platform open to artists participating in MOMENTUM 12. It provides a bridge to a wider program of exhibitions, sound works, research, workshops, audio tours, interviews, discussions, and events.

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