https://julieniemi.com Julie Niemi Mon, 28 Nov 2022 00:47:27 +0000 https://julieniemi.com en http://julieniemi.com/Growing-Up-Absurd Mon, 28 Nov 2022 00:47:27 +0000 Julie Niemi 434350  Home Growing Up Absurd (single channel version) 2022, 15 minutes, 16mm&gt;digital Made in collaboration with Ben BalcomPreview link available upon request <img width="1500" height="1124" width_o="1500" height_o="1124" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/817b3bad4bb0b5c3b5c628d03a0da74a129e8670a22aa12a5b49a3902292c6ba/growingupabsurd-still9.png" data-mid="1243073" border="0" data-scale="48"/><img width="1500" height="1123" width_o="1500" height_o="1123" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/d8f9d91b2e659432de519cb8491c1bc67e891f12b895c4b0c811b827bfe6c863/growingupabsurd-still10.png" data-mid="1243074" border="0" data-scale="48"/> Growing Up Absurd is assembled from interviews conducted remotely with key members of the Tolstoy College community – Alex Van Oss, Peter Murphy, Chip Planck, and Paul Richmond – that speak to the ethos and history of the college, from its founding in 1969 to its dissolution in 1985. At once a sweeping portrayal of the college’s meeting places and the state of the campus today, Growing Up Absurd layers memories and traces of history to convey the lived experiences of its participants. College F, known colloquially as Tolstoy College, was an anarchist educational community which operated within the University at Buffalo between 1969 and 1985.Growing Up Absurd will premier at the 2023 International Film Festival Rotterdam.  Home Growing Up Absurd (single channel version) 2022, 15 minutes, 16mm&gt;digital Made in collaboration with Ben BalcomPreview link available upon request ... http://julieniemi.com/Studies-from-the-Bottom-Up-Tolstoy-College-at-the-University-at Wed, 07 Jun 2017 00:02:39 +0000 Julie Niemi 181093  Home&nbsp; Next&nbsp; Studies from the Bottom Up Tolstoy College at the University at Buffalo, 1969–1985Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College Annandale-on-Hudson, New York&nbsp;April 9–May 28, 2017 Curated by: Julie Niemi&nbsp;  Tolstoy College was an anarchist educational community active at the University at Buffalo between 1969 and 1985. The school was part of a larger project by president Martin Meyerson to transform University at Buffalo into a “Berkeley of the East,” with hopes of aligning the university with increasing student activism across the country. By the mid-1970s, Tolstoy College’s anarchist teachings were viewed as a threat to the university administration. In a 1976 letter to the university chartering committee defending their own anarchist politics, Charles Haynie asked the administration: “What place does the expression of emotion and feeling have on the university campus?” The college insisted that such expressions not only deserved a place: they needed to be central in any reimagining of education. Faculty members, including Haynie and Charles “Chip” Planck, supported a pacifist-anarchist position best expressed by Russian author Leo Tolstoy’s essays on education and his questions on “How to live?” and “What to live for?” Based on these Tolstoyan questions, the anarchist teachings of Tolstoy College consistently put forward the personal and subjective experience of faculty and students in their studies. Studies from the Bottom Up is a publication and exhibition exploring the contexts of education, curriculum, and communal life emerging from Tolstoy College. The publication, designed by João Doria, features contributions by Martin Beck, Adelita Husni-Bey, Nadja Millner-Larsen, and Jennifer Wilson. The exhibition builds on this collective research and includes additional materials sourced from the University Archives at the University at Buffalo, examining this anarchist space nested within a state-funded institution. &nbsp;&nbsp;the publication.  the gallery guide.&nbsp; purchase the publication at Printed Matter. <img width="2048" height="1367" width_o="2048" height_o="1367" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/aea9174d797fce39f0190581c934b998f948d2989a61b75122c43a3d465b87f9/Studies-From-01-HR.jpg" data-mid="231603" border="0" /> <img width="2048" height="1367" width_o="2048" height_o="1367" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/324d2cad69f2fd4910d5964a94f40f0c11cd0fdc350ff9e2fbe0320cb3a615f2/Studies-From-09-HR.jpg" data-mid="231604" border="0" /><img width="2048" height="1367" width_o="2048" height_o="1367" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/7bf77baff13ea5c06bd6a7ff838a736c55583d23799e4b2534a8fbf1bae15173/Studies-From-14-HR.jpg" 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book. Thank you Martin Beck, Adelita Husni-Bey, Nadja Millner-Larsen, and Jennifer Wilson for their contributions.&nbsp;  Home&nbsp; Next&nbsp; Studies from the Bottom Up Tolstoy College at the University at Buffalo, 1969–1985Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial... http://julieniemi.com/K8-Hardy-Undergirding-Heroine-Ensemble Tue, 06 Jun 2017 23:54:36 +0000 Julie Niemi 181089  Home  Next&nbsp; K8 Hardy: Undergirding Heroine EnsembleThe Barn Tivoli, New York May 12–24, 2017 Curated by: Julie Niemi &amp; Lola Kramer&nbsp;  K8 HARDY: UNDERGIRDING HEROINE ENSEMBLE draws upon semiotics of style, mall culture, consumerism, and the influence of art-historical narratives in contemporary art. Central to this exhibition is Look 11 a multi-coloured mannequin wearing an outfit from Hardy’s Untitled Runway Show, a performance originally presented at the Met Breuer during the 2012 Whitney Biennial. Presented in situ at the barn, Hardy’s work transforms the space into a contemporary tableau of the symbolic art-historical à Judith Slaying Holofernes, or Salome – where Marvel-superhuman-meets-cowgirl and dinner’s nearly ready. There’s a little blood on her shoulder, but no big deal... If looks could kill, this one’s in the bag.  a version of the accompanying zine.&nbsp;  <img width="1000" height="667" width_o="1000" height_o="667" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/df30dbcb796dc7f7cdd0de14b8eca70e31f6154cd58e707fa533444dbaf53d09/_MG_8903.jpg" data-mid="231598" border="0" /> <img width="667" height="1000" width_o="667" height_o="1000" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/585f337273db850278e83bdbf3c2bb310ff87917c3942381cfe1c444637ef55d/_MG_8913.jpg" data-mid="231599" border="0" /> <img width="667" height="1000" width_o="667" height_o="1000" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/a4bcf8189a45fa6abaece394451f53cb6ac593f5e74201669d70a1044951657f/_MG_8905.jpg" data-mid="231600" border="0" /> <img width="1512" height="1512" width_o="1512" height_o="1512" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/a443eab25168ff946d2c6de95025846751f7a89138465fc183756af672fe761a/IMG_6540-1.JPG" data-mid="231596" border="0" /> <img width="1000" height="667" width_o="1000" height_o="667" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/63310760e2ab9c1b88f7927f6934cb74d5e618a014e1b7d96553f0af2adfd066/_MG_8931.jpg" data-mid="231597" border="0" /> Installation images by Jonathan Pivovar, 2017.  Home  Next&nbsp; K8 Hardy: Undergirding Heroine EnsembleThe Barn Tivoli, New York May 12–24, 2017 Curated by: Julie Niemi &amp; Lola Kramer&nbsp; ... http://julieniemi.com/Home-Page Mon, 17 Aug 2015 23:34:03 +0000 Julie Niemi 180742 Julie Niemi artist/curator/writer/editor currently  Growing Up Absurd (2022) recently doing F: Reconstituting Tolstoy CollegeCollective QuestionExhibition and film projectUB Art Galleries, New York Fall 2021 Perfidia by Sky Hopinka Managing Editor &amp; ContributorPublished by Wendy’s Subway &amp; CCS BardSeptember 2020 Collection Question Residency Wendy’s Subway, Brooklyn, NY August 21–31, 2019 Collective Question in Loosely Assembled&nbsp; SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art&nbsp; Montreal, QC February 15–April 15, 2019 a while ago now  Foundation for Arts Intitiatives (FfAI)Grant Recipient for extended research on Tolstoy College June 2018–June 2019 Assistant CuratorJohn Michael Kohler Arts Center Bibliothèque Kandinsky's Summer UniversityCentre PompidouJuly 2018 Curator in Residence Contemporary Art Stavanger, Norway October 2017 Moving Image Residency EMPAC July 2017 Curator The Barn 2016–2017  say hello &nbsp; julieaniemi@gmail.com view cv  other internet places     Julie Niemi is an artist, filmmaker, writer, editor, publicist, and person based in New York. Through research, design, writing, publishing, and exhibition-making, her projects grapple with counter histories in the United States. These projects typically look to the built environment and to place-making as a starting point for inquiry, utilizing scraps of archives and natural resources to tell a longer story of unknown persons, regional places, nameless figures, and collectives. &nbsp;Julie received an MA from the&nbsp;Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, where she was the commissioning editor of aCCeSsions. Her thesis at CCS Bard was on&nbsp;Tolstoy College, an anarchist educational community active at the University at Buffalo in the 1970s and ‘80s. From 2013–2015, she was co-founder and editor of VIA Publication.Currently, she’s Senior Publicist at The Met. Previously, she held positions as Associate Director at Lehmann Maupin in New York; Communications Manager at&nbsp;David Kordansky Gallery, New York and Los Angeles; Assistant Curator at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI; Curatorial Fellow at the Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo; and Communications Associate at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.&nbsp; Julie Niemi artist/curator/writer/editor currently  Growing Up Absurd (2022) recently doing F: Reconstituting Tolstoy CollegeCollective QuestionExhibition...