NYBIENNALE ART THE BIGGEST ART SHOW IN NY CITY PROGRAM JULY 18-27 2008 Y WWW.NYBIENNALEART.ORG NYBIENNALE ART THE BIGGEST ART SHOW IN NY CITY WWW.NYBIENNALEART.ORG PROGRAM Friday , July 18th, 2008 4 pm - Grand Opening Grand Central Station Main Floor - Unveiling of the installation ‘LOVE the son of NY’ 6 pm Conference Hall Symposium GEA: Save our Mother - Al Gore - Hugo Chavez - Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio - Gary Hamel - Guy F Midgley - Ahmed Djoghlaf - Luc Nacadja - R K Pachauri - Arnold Schwarzenegger - Saifuddin Soz - David Leonard Downie - Yang Jiechi - Pietro Laureano - Mr. Sha Zukang 8pm - Grand Opening SOLO Exhibitions - Sandro Chia - Zaha Hadid - Massimiliano Fuksas - Lee Quinones Unveiling of w9 installation Gea - Workshop Climate – Glaciers melting Corinne Wacker (Suisse) – University of Beria, Zurich. Contrast the glaciers melting. The innovative use of a traditional tibetan technique allows to feed the glaciers and promote the shaping. Luca Mercalli (Italy) – President of the Italian Meteorological Society, Founder of the Italian magazine NIMBUS (meteorology and climate) Climate, waters and glaciers in the Alps Population and poverty Uriel Safriel (Israel) Demographic growth and poverty → NYBIENNALE ART THE BIGGEST ART SHOW IN NY CITY WWW.NYBIENNALEART.ORG Biodiversity and cultural diversity Carmela Vaccaro (Italy) Dimitra Rapti Caputo (Greece) Collapse of the bio-cultural landascape: the Po valley Desertifi cation Ismail Abd al Galil Hussein (Egypt) – Desert research Centre, Cairo. The desertifi cation of the Mediterranean countries El Faiz Mohammed (Marocco)- Historien des Jardins, Universitè Cadi Ayyad Marrakech. Ancient techniques hydraulic civilization Arabic Muslim Zafar Adeel (Libanon) – Director UNU international Network on Water health and environment, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Appropriate management of arid lands Water Larry W. Mays (USA) – Professor Civil and environmental engineering, Arizona State University. Formerly director of the center for research in water resources at university of texas at Austin. Crisis water and ecosystems management Anil Agarwal (India) CSE Centre for science and Environment, New Delhi Sunita Narain (India) The ancient techniques of water picking up in India Deforestation John Parrotta (USA) – Coordinator IUFRO Task Force on Traditional Forest Knowledge. USDA Forest Service, research & development, Washington Offi ce Forests, medical and biological heritage Energy and small companies scale Elias J. Mujica (Perù) – Deputy coordinator, Consorzio para el Desarrollo Sostenibile de la corregion Andina (CONDESAN), International Potatoe Centre, Lima. Solutions appropriate ancient civilization precolombiane Fishing and aquatic ecosystems Saùl Alcàntara Onofre (Messico) – Diseno y Conservacion de Paisajes y Jardines Floating gardens Kazumi Yamaoka (Japan) – Chief of Laboratory National Institute for Rural Engineering Japan, NIRE. Innovative protection of coastal systems with traditional techniques → NYBIENNALE ART THE BIGGEST ART SHOW IN NY CITY WWW.NYBIENNALEART.ORG Urbanization and risks Hans Gunter Brauch (Germany) – Senior academic Consultant CASA Fellow, UNU EHS Institute for Environment and Human Security Crisis urban migration and insecurity Crisis urban migration and insecurity 8pm Opening of NY BIENNALE ART Spaces Exhibition: “ARTcamp 2008” July 10 - August 30 NY Studio Gallery 511 W. 25th St. #6-07 (b/t 10 & 11 Aves) New York, NY 10001 Hours: Thurs - Sat, noon - 6 pm or by appointment Art Camp: Studio Residency is a group of six artists working together at NY Studio Gallery during July and August. Artists may work in any medium they desire, from painting, collage, video, digital art or sculpture. Gallery hours continue to be in effect during Art Camp, resulting in increased exposure for the artists’ work from walk- in traffi c. Group show: Japanese contemporary Kawashima, Sorayama, Toda, July 10th, 2008 - Aug 16, 2008 Artspace Company NY 135 W 29th Street Suite 401 NY, NY 10001 Saturday, July 19th, 2008 8pm Opening SOLO exhibitions Sunday, July 20th, 2008 10am Central park Grand Opening perfomance & installation Adoption - Cracking Art Group & NY animals 4pm Stars Space - Robert Storr → NYBIENNALE ART THE BIGGEST ART SHOW IN NY CITY WWW.NYBIENNALEART.ORG 6pm Conference Hall Symposium - Debate Globalisation of immaterial values - Evelyne Huber - Daniel Cohen - Jagdish Bhagwati - Bill Bigelov - Naomi Klein - Fausto Bertinotti 8pm Unveiling of the installation ‘Vote for your Superhero’ Monday, July 21st, 2008 4pm Stars Space - Chuck Close 6pm Stars Space - Jeanne Claude & Christo 6pm Conference Hall Symposium Round table The overpassing of materialistic era with the constructive immaterialism. - Marshall Berman - Amartya Sen - Antonio Negri - Dietrich Rueschemeyer - Werner Meissner - Renato Barilli 8pm Unveiling of the installation ‘B&B INGCOC’ Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008 6pm Stars Space - Phil Adams → NYBIENNALE ART THE BIGGEST ART SHOW IN NY CITY WWW.NYBIENNALEART.ORG 6pm Conference Hall Symposium - Debate New rules for the contemporary art market: - Clare McAndrew - Patrizio Bianchi - Edward Dolman - Larry Gagosian - Friedhelm Huette - Glenn D. Lowry - Tobias Meyer - Cay Sophie Rabinowitz - Vicente Todoli Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 4pm Stars Space - Joan Rosenbaum 6pm Stars Space - Ellsworth Kelly 6pm Conference Hall Symposium Art as factor of economic growth: the role of the Universities - Peter Barna - Patrizio Bianchi - Allan Brinkley - David McLaughlin - Matthew Goldstein - Shri. S M Krishna - Tim Marshall - Christopher Francis Patten - Maurice Quénet - Ludmila Alekseyevna Verbitskaya 8 pm Oscart - Web Designers Competition Apple Store 5th Avenue Thursday, July 24th, 2008 4pm Stars Space - Jeffry Deitch → NYBIENNALE ART THE BIGGEST ART SHOW IN NY CITY WWW.NYBIENNALEART.ORG 6pm Stars Space - Michael Kimmelman 6pm Conference Hall Symposium - Debate The New Town - Michael Bloomberg - Ken Livingstone - Bertrand Delanoe - Marshall Berman - Massimiliano Fuksas - Zaha Hadid - Shintaro Ishihara - Shubha Raul - Jean Nouvel - Norman Foster - Richard Rogers - Arata Isozaki - Leonardo Domenici 8pm Oscart - Web Designers Competition Apple Store 5th Avenue Friday, July 25th, 2008 4pm Stars Space - Ann Philbin 6pm Stars Space - Jerry Saltz 6pm Conference Hall Symposium Coloured Alliance Art, science and politics for a new era of prosperity and happiness - Michael Bloomberg - Bill Clinton - Jack Lang - Carlo Rubbia - Dario Fo - Orhan Pamuk - Sonia Ghandi - Robert J. Aumann - Marina Abramovich → NYBIENNALE ART THE BIGGEST ART SHOW IN NY CITY WWW.NYBIENNALEART.ORG - Francesco Rutelli - Paul Auster 8pm Oscart - Web Designers Competition Apple Store 5th Avenue Saturday, July 26th, 2008 8pm SOLO Exhibitions Sunday, July 27th, 2008 6pm Conference Hall “Salad & macaroni?“ Where are the contemporary art going? - Francesco Bonami - Davide Croff - Arthur C. Danto - Jeffrey Deitch - Romy Golan - Thelma Golden - Tim Marlow - Gianluca Marziani - Walter Robinson - Roberta Smith - Simon Watson 12pm Big Surprise! NYBIENNALE ART DIRECTOR: PIETRO FRANESI WWW.NYBIENNALEART.ORG JULY 18-27 2008 18