April 19 – 23, 2010
Download the 2010 Gallatin Arts Festival catalog here.
Artistic Director Statement:
“This year the arts festival showcases the imaginative thinking of Gallatin students from the visual and performing arts who have created work in response to the theme, Chaos and Order: Art as Survival. In December, the student leadership team devised the theme as a means of challenging artists to explore the ways in which art can function as a tool for change as well as a new way of seeing. When this year’s team began brainstorming ideas and visions of chaos, images of what survives disaster emerged leading to evocative questions about the relationship between chaos and survival. Does survival mean bringing order to chaos or the opposite? Does chaos inevitably lead to disaster? What else can emerge from chaos? What might chaos presuppose about order or vice versa? How does one find order in chaos or freedom in structure?
Part of what art does is test the limits of order and chaos – how can artistic work push the boundaries of our conceptual thinking around these ideas? The arts festival serves as an opportunity for the Gallatin community to consider, dream, and reflect on art that stimulates fresh thinking and new connections about the world we inhabit. Thank you for joining us!”
—Kristin Horton, Artistic Director
CURATORIAL STATEMENT:
“The artists of Chaos and Order: Art as Survival explore means of wielding art as a tool for reaction, interaction, dismantling, and healing within the aftermath of disaster. We use the term disaster broadly, to represent the spectrum from inner turmoil to global strife. The artists persevere with and through their creativity as an ongoing process and, in doing so, they seek to examine the relationship between chaos and order. The plurality of approaches displayed throughout the festival is a testament to the necessity of art in the face of struggle. That is, the struggle for liberation from restriction, or for structure in the face of havoc.”
—Salome Asega and Chelsey Pinke (BA ’10), Curators
STUDENT LEADERSHIP TEAM:
Salome Asega (gallery curator)
Kate Erskine (marketing manager)
Emily Rozanksi (performing arts manager)
Paloma Wake (performing arts manager)
Chelsey Pinke (gallery curator)
Sarah Chow (web designer)
PROFESSIONAL STAFF:
Kristin Horton, Artistic Director
Ben Steinfeld, Associate Artistic Director
Keith Miller, Visual Arts Advisor
Samantha Shapses, Assistant Director of Student Life
Melissa Daniel, Assistant Director of Faculty Affairs
Sheiva Rezvani, Graduate Assistant
About the Gallatin Arts Festival:
MISSION
The Gallatin Arts Festival is a week-long, community-wide celebration of the unique artistry and interdisciplinary scholarship of students at NYU’s Gallatin School. The festival features student work in the visual and performing arts and serves as a galvanizing force and springboard for action and discussion through the creation and presentation of artistic work.
HISTORY
The Gallatin Arts Festival originated in 1992 as a collaborative effort between Professor Laurin Raiken and graduate student Barry Spanier. Under Professor Raiken’s guidance, Spanier developed the festival as part of his master’s thesis. Since then GAF has expanded into the largest public event sponsored by the Gallatin School. GAF provides hands-on opportunities for students to gain knowledge of the process required to produce a multidisciplinary arts festival. Under guidance from members of the arts faculty and student affairs, the Student Leadership Team serves as the primary support for the festival. GAF is a learning experience emphasizing the development of ideas and collaborative innovation.
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