Events

Fall Exhibitions Opening Reception

Thursday, September 8, 5:00-7:00 pm
Main Gallery

Michal Heiman: Chronically Linked                                                                                                                                                            Thursday, Sept 8 - Saturday, Dec 10, 2022

Featuring photographs, videos, and archival materials, Michal Heiman: Chronically Linked explores the intersections of psychoanalysis, asylums, and oppression through a number of recent projects including Michal Heiman Tests (1997-2012); Radical Link: A New Community of Women, 1855-2021 (2013-present); and Hearing (2020).

In conjunction with the Michal Heiman exhibition is Unconventional Care: The Mission of the NYS Inebriate Asylum. It is on view in the Museum’s lower galleries, along with Death in Venice: Bright Scenes with Dark Themes, curated by Eliana Ellerton ’23; Beau Idéal: American Love and Life, curated by Taylor Garris ’23; and Returning to Touch, curated by Aaron Berkowitz ’23.

Homecoming Weekend

Friday, October 7 and Saturday, October 8, Noon - 4 pm

To highlight our recent acquisition of "american sampler" (1969) by Corita Kent, the museum will host a series of free, hands-on activities for creators of all ages that embody Kent's commitment to innovative teaching. Visit our Recent Acquisition page to learn more about this print! 

Michal Heiman + John Tagg in conversation

Tuesday, October 25, Noon-1 pm EST/ 8:00-9:00 pm IST

Registration link: https://binghamton.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0pf-mpqTspH9EGrn5jX3IOg8wCoEdsP5ow 

Join the artist, Michal Heiman, in conversation with John Tagg (SUNY Distinguished Professor of Art History) about her recent work including the Dress Project and Michal Heiman Tests. 

Michal Heiman (b. 1954, based in Tel Aviv) is an artist, curator, member of the Tel-Aviv Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, theorist, and activist whose work inhabits the spaces between art and therapy, photography and diagnosis, theory and praxis. As installations, video, sound, photography, performance, and archival displays, her work has been shown in venues such as the University of Melbourne Museum of Art, Documenta X (Kassel), Le Quartier (Quimper), The Jewish Museum (New York), The Museum of Modern Art (Saitama City), The Van Abbe Museum (Eindhoven), Museum Ludwig (Cologne), the American University Museum (Washington DC), and the American Jewish University (Los Angeles).

John Tagg looks at forms of photographic practice that were not previously part of the History of Photography and writes about photography not as a self-contained medium but as a complex apparatus whose social effects and effects of meaning are multiple and diverse. His interests extend to the ways in which we construct histories of cultural technologies and visual regimes and to the range of theoretical debates that, since the 1970s, have transformed the business of art history. His publications, which have been translated into more than fifteen languages, include The Burden of Representation: Essays on Photographies and Histories (1988), Grounds of Dispute: Art History, Cultural Politics, and the Discursive Field (1992) and The Disciplinary Frame: Photographic Truths and the Capture of Meaning (2009).

Elizabeth Mozer, The Asylum Project selections + linkages

Tuesday, November 15, 6:00 pm
Main Gallery

Elizabeth Mozier’s one-woman play The Asylum Project is drawn from the lives of patients of the Binghamton State Hospital; their stories are expressed both physically and verbally. Mozer will perform a few select characters from the play in the gallery, surrounded by Michal Heiman: Radical Links. These performances will be joined with reflections on her practice, the play's links to Heiman's practice, and the history of the Binghamton State Hospital. 

Elizabeth Mozer (Associate Professor, Theatre)  is a director, actress, deviser (theatre maker) and educator, with a specialization in movement. Mozer performed The Asylum Project in NYC, Montreal, Boulder, and throughout New York, including performances at The Cherry Arts in Ithaca. In 2019, Mozer was selected to perform The Asylum Project at the International United Solo Theatre Festival in NYC where it received the award for Best Drama.