WHERE IS AI WEIWEI?
Special Exhibition + Screenings + Performances + Benefit Art Sale
June 7, 2011 | 6 - 9 PM
MC: Tim Rollins
6 PM - Performances by Margaret Leng Tan | Lutz Rath | Tim Rollins and K.O.S. Poetry by Anthony Haden-Guest
7 PM - Symposium moderated by Jerome A. Cohen
Panelists - Alfredo Jaar | Eleanor Heartney | Carroll Bogert | Melik Kaylan | Alexander Melamid | Joan Lebold Cohen
8 PM - Benefit Art Sale
Previews June 6-7, 11am - 6pm
6 - 9 PM
Screenings of videos works by Ai Weiwei and excerpt from Alison Klayman's documentary Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
Suggested Admission: $50
Donations (tax-deductible): http://whereisaiweiwei.eventbrite.com/
$100 Receive Limited Edition 3-D Ai Weiwei T-shirt by Ali Hossaini
$200 Receive Limited Edition Signed Photo by Christoph Draeger
Rsvp to: benefit@whiteboxny.org
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS (click to view artwork)
Adrian Piper, Agnes Denes, Ai Weiwei, Andres Serrano, Alfredo Jaar, Ali Hossaini, Anna Kunz, Anton S. Kandinsky, Ben Sakoguchi, Braco Dimitrijevic, Christophe Draeger, Cris Gianakos, Dan Graham, Dara Birnbaum, David Medalla, Dennis Oppenheim, Gary Hill, Hans Breder, Ida Applebroog, Ivan Navarro, Jerry Kearns, Jorge Tacla, Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung, Leon Golub, Lorna Simpson, Luis Cruz Azaceta, Luis Jimenez, Lydia Venieri, Komar and Melamid, Kimsooja, Maripol, Mary Mattingly, Nathalie Talec, Pat Steir, Paul D. Miller, Peter Fend, Stefano Cagol, Teresa Margolles , Tim Rollins and K.O.S., Ushio Shinohara
In collaboration with Human Rights Watch, the international non-profit space White Box (whiteboxny.org) will be presenting Ai Weiwei with the first 2011 White Box Arts and Humanity Award for his distinguished contributions to world art and culture. Due to the urgency of Ai Weiwei’s continued detainment, White Box has decided to honor the artist on June 7, 2011 in conjunction with its Spring Benefit.
The award pays tribute to Ai Weiwei as an unparalleled defender of freedom of speech and recognizes his brilliant career as a Chinese patriot, an artist, architect, global citizen and activist.
At the June 7th 2011 Benefit, White Box together with Human Rights Watch will present WHERE IS AI WEIWEI? – a panel, exhibition and fundraiser event to benefit equally Human Rights Watch and White Box’s Global Outreach program. There will be screenings of selected videos by Ai Weiwei as well as an excerpt from Alison Klayman's documentary, Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry.
The panel, video screenings and benefit exhibition and event will take place at White Box on 329 Broome Street in the Bowery/Lower East Side art district, New York City. A select group of artists with social/political conscience will be invited to contribute works that in some measure may respond to Ai Weiwei’s incarceration.
White Box plans to also present a follow-up benefit event in October 2011, at which time we hope the artist will be present to accept the award in person.
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