David Levine
Director of Studio Component
DAVID LEVINE is an artist based in New York, and Berlin, whose work encompasses theater, performance, video and photography. His performance projects have been seen at MoMA, Mass MoCA, Documenta XII, PS122, the Watermill Center, and Gavin Brown@Passerby, and his video and photographic work has been exhibited at Cairo's Townhhouse Gallery, HAU2 (Berlin), ISCP (New York), TPW Gallery (Toronto), the Goethe Institut New York, François Ghebaly Gallery in Los Angeles, and Galerie Feinkost in Berlin.
He was awarded at 2007 Kulturstiftung Des Bundes grant for Bauerntheater, and a 2009 Etant Donnés grant for Venice Saved: a Seminar, which premiered at PS122. His work has been featured or reviewed in Artforum, Art in America, the New York Times, the Believer, Bomb, Theater and Von Hundert, and he has published artists' projects and essays in Cultural Politics, Triple Canopy and Cabinet, for whom he created the performance Talk Show in 2011. In 2008 he taught as a guest professor at the Institut für Theaterwissenchaft at the Freie Universität Berlin, and has conducted guest seminars and lectures at the Pratt Institute, the Kennedy School Berlin, Theaterakademie Hamburg, Sarah Lawrence College in the US, and Columbia University. He holds an MA in English Literature from Harvard University.
As ECLA aims to open dialogue between different academic disciplines, so does the Studio Component aim to open a theoretical and practical dialogue between visual, performing, and performance art, as well as between studio practice and critical thought.
Although the Studio Component does offer discrete courses in visual arts and theater, its aim is to create an environment where, through shared studio spaces and equipment, as well as guest talks, critiques, and academic seminars, various artistic disciplines can engage with influence on one another.
Publications:
"Matter of Rothko" Triple Canopy, #13, 2011
"Parking Plots" Cabinet Magazine, #41, 2011
"Unsolicited Submission," Cultural Politics 6:1, 2010
"I Like Your Work: Art & Etiquette", Paper Monument (pamphlet #1), 2009
"Hopefuls" [artist's project], Cabinet Magazine #31, 2008
"Sin City: The Art of Howard Chaykin", Nextbook, 2008
"Bauerntheater Production Diary" Theater, 28:2, 2008
"Bauerntheater" [catalogue], Biorama Projekt/Kulturstiftung des Bundes, 2007
"Interview with Michael Thalheimer", BOMB.com 2007
"Actors at Work," [artist's project],Cabinet Magazine, #25, 2007
"Bad Art & Objecthood," Art/US #13, May-June2006
"Re-Public," Theater, 2005
"Babylon is Everywhere," Theater, 2004
Articles and reviews (selected):
Michael H. Miller, "The Straight Story of the Matter of Rothko," August 12, 2011
Murray Whyte, "David Levine's Habit", Toronto Star, June 15, 2011
Paul David Young, "Evolutions of the Performance Aesthetic", PAJ 98, Spring, 2011
Caitlin Berrigan, "Specters: David Levine", EMPAC Uncertain Spectators Blog, January, 2011
Nikki Columbus, "Double Play," Artforum.com, June 1, 2010
Michael Rush, "Interview with David Levine," Art International Radio, May 7, 2010
Ana Texeira Pinto, "Susan Boyle, C'est Moi" [review], Von Hundert 010, 2009
Naoko Kaltschmidt, "Hopeful" [review], Spike, Autumn 2009
Dominikus Mueller, "Hopeful" [review], Artforum, October 2009
Kari Rittenbach, "Keeping the Hope Alive", Art in America.com, July 8, 2009
Alexis Soloski, "Mr. High Concept", The Village Voice, March 17-24,2009
"Christian Hawkey in conversation with David Levine," The Believer, Winter, 2009
Astrid Mania, "Berlin Dispatches," Art Review #25, September, 2008.
Marvin Carlson, "David Levine's Bauerntheater: The Return of the Matrix" TDR, Fall, 2008, 52:3
Walter Robbins, "Art Opening as Theater in Berlin", Artnet, June 24, 2008
Wolfgang Behrens, "Wer Erntet die Dickste Kartoffeln?" Theater der Zeit, June 2007
Anja Quickert, "Das Kartoffel-Konzept" TheaterHeute, June, 2007
Daniel Volzke, "Ertragreich," Tagesspiegel , May 21, 2007
Sally McGrane, "An Actor Out Standing in his Field" The New York Times, May 20, 2007
In the Media:
Audience Experiments: Contemporary Art in the Age of Spectacle
e-flux
April 9, 2010
David Levine: Hopeful (PDF)
Dominikus Müller (ArtForum)
October 2009
Keeping the Hope
Kari Rittenbach (Art in America)
July 8, 2009
Spring Guide: David Levine Messes with Imperfection in Venice Saved: A Seminar
Alexis Soloski (The Village Voice)
March 17, 2009
David Levine in Conversation with Alix Rule
Saatchi Online
July 16, 2008
An Actor Outstanding in His Field
Sally McGrane (The New York Times)
May 20, 2007
David Levine: Hopeful (PDF - German)
Naoko Kaltschmidt (Spike Art Quarterly)
Autumn 2009