The Center for Humanities at the Graduate Center, CUNY presented the next installment of their Intimacy and Aesthetics: Video Artists in Conversation series. The guest conversationalists were Tony Ousler and Constance DeJong.
Even though the weather was again rainy and pretty nasty, the turn out was much better. I think that they did more publicity for the event and that Constance DeJong is a professor in the graduate program at Hunter College and required her students to attend. Also, Tony Ousler is a fairly big name nowadays, especially after his show at the Met.
I found that this conversation was a bit lacking. Even though it was established that Tony and Constance knew and worked with each other quite a bit, it seemed like they were on completely different pages. The organization of their conversation was very hard to follow and it didn't seem as though they built upon each other's ideas. Constance constantly seemed to be cutting Tony off and interjecting her own thoughts as a final that's that. Some may have seen it as being "cute" or like an old married couple, but I didn't find it "cute" at all.
The only other thing that really bothered me was that it was very difficult to hear them at times. They should have definitely have checked out the sound equipment before the people all arrived.
I do hope that they continue with these lecture/conversation series.
I also caught the tail-end of the talk with Chuck Close at the Barnes and Noble on the corner of 21st Street and 6th Avenue on my way back to the studio. By the time I got there though, they had pretty much finished up with what they had to say and had moved on to signing books.
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