CREDENTIALS

Exhibitions

An American Odyssey, 1945/1980: Debating Modernism, an exhibition of one hundred thirty works accompanied by a book length (410 pp.) catalogue with all exhibited works reproduced full page, in color. Circulo de Bellas Artes,Madrid, April 13 - May 30, 2004; Domus Artium 2002 (Salamanca), June 10 - July 31, 2004; Kiosco Alfonso (A Coruna), September 2 - October 2, 2004; QCC Art Gallery (Queens, New York), October 24 - January 15, 2005. Franz Kline: Art and the Structure of Identity, an exhibition composed of about 70 works accompanied by a book-length catalogue. Fundacio Antoni Tapies, Barcelona, March 18 - June 5, 1994; Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, July 8 - September 11, 1994; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, September 27 - November 21, 1994; Saarland Museum, Saarbrucken, December 11, 1994 - February 5, 1995. The World According to Dada, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, June 11 - August 7, 1988. Composed of 325 works, the exhibition was not permitted to travel. The Avant-Garde and the Text. with Estera Milman and Roy F. Allen, an exhibition of 130 works; Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York, September 9 - October 14, 1988 and subsequent travel to six further museums. Lettrisme: Into the Present, an exhibition composed of 100 works, University of Iowa Museum of Art, October 28 - December 11, 1983, The Mandevelle Art Gallery (San Diego), March 9 - April 15, 1984. Dada Artifacts, an exhibition of 150 periodicals, books, objects, graphics, posters and other Dada documents, University of Iowa Museum of Art, March 30-May 7, 1978.

Publications: Books and Exhibition Catalogues

An American Odyssey, 1945/1980: Debating Modernism (exhibition catalogue) (Madrid: Circulo de Bellas Artes, 2004), with additional essays by Daniel Siedell, Estera Milman and John Yau (chronology by Janis Mink). Hans Richter: Activism, Modernism, and the Avant-Garde, contributing editor (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1998). Dada Cologne Hannover, contributing editor, with Charlotte Stokes (New York: G.K Hall & Co., 1997). Third volume of a ten volume series of Dada histories. Dada: The Coordinates of Cultural Politics, contributing editor (New York: G.K. Hall & Co., 1996). First volume of an eight-volume series of Dada histories. Franz Kline: Art and the Structure of Identity, (exhibition catalogue) (Barcelona: Fundacio Antoni Tapies, 1994). The Avant-Garde and the Text, (exhibition catalogue), eds. Stephen C. Foster and Estera Milman, special double issue of Visible Language (XXI, 3/4), 1988. Event Arts and Art Events, contributing editor (Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1988). The World According to Dada, (exhibition catalogue) (Taipei: TFAM, 1988). Dada/Dimensions, contributing editor (Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1985). Lettrisme: Into the Present, (exhibition catalogue), contributing editor (Cleveland, Visible Language, 1983). Also appeared as a special issue of Visible Language, 17/3, (January 1983). The Critics of Abstract Expressionism (Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1980, 1985). Dada Spectrum, co-contributing editor with Rudolf Kuenzli (Madison: Coda Press, 1979). Intermedia, co-editor with Hans Breder (Iowa City: University of Iowa, 1979). Dada Artifacts, (exhibition catalogue), with contributions by Richard Sheppard and Rudolf Kuenzli (Iowa City: University of Iowa Museum of Art, 1978).

Books in Preparation:

Franz Kline (Two volume monograph and comprehensive catalogue), anticipated publication 2006.

General Editorship (Series and Publication Programs)

Crisis and the Arts: A History of Dada, general editor; contracted for publication by G. K. Hall between 1996 and 2003, the project is composed of a ten-volume history. Volume chapters are authored by international Dada scholars. Volume topics are as follows: Dada: The Coordinates of Cultural Politics, (vol. 1) Stephen C. Foster, editor (May 1996); DADA Zurich - A Clown's Game for Nothing, (vol. 2) Brigitte Pichon and Karl Riha, editors (September 1996); Dada in Cologne and Hanover, (vol. 3) Stephen C. Foster and Charlotte Stokes, editors (September 1997); The Eastern Dada Orbit: Russia, Georgia, the Ukraine, Central Europe and Japan, (vol. 4) Gerald Janecek and Toshiharu Omuka, editors (May 1998); Berlin Dada 1917-1923: Dada Conquers!, (vol. 5) Hanne Bergius, editor (2001); Paris Dada: The Barbarians Breach the Walls, (vol. 6) Elmer Peterson, editor (2001); The Import of Nothing: How Dada came, saw and vanished in the Low Countries, (vol. 8) Herbert van den Berg, editor, (2001); Dada America/ , (vol. 7) Martin Gaughan, editor (2003); Bibliography, (vol. 9) Jurgen Schaefer, editor (2003);Press Responses to Dada, (vol. 10) Harriett Watts, editor (2003).

Series in the Fine Arts: Architecture and Urban Design, Stephen C. Foster, series editor, UMI Research Press, 1982-1987, composed of 15 monographs.

Studies in the Fine Arts: The Avant-garde, Stephen C. Foster, series editor, UMI Research Press, 1980-1990, composed of 60 monographs.

Program and Collection Development

Founder, Alternative Traditions in the Contemporary Arts (ATCA), The University of Iowa   (Founding Director, 1982 through 2004). ATCA attained an international reputation as both a groundbreaking repository for contemporary artworks and a research program.  Charter Member, Conceptual and Intermedia Arts Online (CIAO) and Project Leader, CIAO Fund-raising Subcommittee, 1997 – 2000.  Charter members of the consortium include ATCA, the Berkeley Art Museum, the Hood Museum of Art, the Getty Institute, Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc, the National Gallery of Canada, the Tate Gallery and the Walker Art Center.  Co-Founder, Associate Director and Faculty Fellow, Program for Modern Studies, 1988 – 97.  Program Coordinator and Participating Scholar, The Fine Arts Dada Archive and Research Center, 1982 – 1988.

Exhibitions

NO!art and the Aesthetics of Doom. Selected by The Chicago Tribune as representative of the antithesis of Òcomfort artÓ in the immediate post 9/11 Chicago artworld and  described by the Chicago Reader as "one of the best [Chicago area] exhibits of 2001," the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, November, 2001; The University of Iowa Museum of Art (UIMA), June 2002.  Ken Friedman: Art[net]worker Extra-Ordinaire. UIMA,  2000.  Lil Picard. UIMA, 1999--2000.  Latin American Realities/International Solutions, (a virtual exhibition on the World Wide Web http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/cayc/, 1999 – to the present); UIMA galleries, March, 2000; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska, 2001. Boris Lurie: Knives in Cement and Other Selected Constructions. UIMA and the Center for Human Rights, 1999. The Artists' Poster Committee: A Decade of Political Art. UIMA 1999. Alice Hutchins: Arenas for Happenings. UIMA, 1998.  Artifacts of the Eternal Network.  Encompassing well over three hundred correspondence works from the Alternative Traditions in the Contemporary Arts collection, UIMA, 1997.  Allan Kaprow: Inventions/Reinventions. An exhibition composed of two distinct segments:  Photo-texts, Recipes and Documents and Course/Re-Course: Iowa City, 1969-1996<. Fluxus: A Conceptual Country.  A traveling exhibition devoted to the investigation of the congruency of the movement's works and its social structure. Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc. and the Anthology Film Archives, New York City, September 1992; Madison Art Center, December 1992; The University of Iowa Museum of Art and the Institute for Cinema and Culture, March 1993; Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, July 1993; Mary and Leigh Block Gallery at Northwestern University, September 1993; Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, March 1994.  American Pop: The Work of Art in the Post-Industrial Age,  Des Moines Art Center, 1990. The Avant-garde and the Text (with Stephen C. Foster and Roy F. Allen), a traveling exhibition and conference mounted by the Visual Studies Workshop in collaboration with the Fine Arts Dada Archive and Research Center, the University of Iowa Museum of Art, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, the Krannert Museum of Art (University of Illinois), the Blaffer Gallery (University of Houston), and the Palmer Museum of Art (Pennsylvania State University), 1988. Fluxus and Friends, Selections from the Alternative Traditions in the Contemporary Arts Collection, UIMA, 1988. Through the Looking Glass: Dada and the Contemporary Arts, The Taipei Fine Arts Museum, The Republic of China, 1988.

 

Selected Publications: Books and Exhibition Catalogues

NO!art and the Aesthetics of Doom, (Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, 2001), funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. Alternative Traditions in the Contemporary Arts: Subjugated Knowledges and the Balance of Power, (The University of Iowa Museum of Art, 1999), funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. Fluxus: A Conceptual Country, Visible Language, Volume 26, Number 1/2, Winter/Spring, (Providence, RI, 1992), funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. Art Networks and Information Systems: A Source Book and Miscellany, Alternative Traditions in the Contemporary Arts, (1990), funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. The Avant-Garde and the Text, Visible Language, Volume XXI, number 3/4, (Providence, RI, 1988), with Stephen C. Foster. Fluxus and Friends, Selections from the Alternative Traditions in the Contemporary Arts Collection, (The University of Iowa Museum of Art, 1988). Through the Looking Glass: Dada and the Contemporary Arts, (Taipei, The Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 1988), bound into The World According to Dada.

Books and Catalogues in Preparation

Burning Bridges: NO!art and the Political Realities of the Post-McCarthy Era. Neo-Dada: Selected Essays on the Politics of Marginalization.

 

Film and Video Festivals, Performance and Intermedia Events and Other Special Projects

An Anthology of Activist North American Cinema from the 1960s, mounted in collaboration with the Anthology Film Archives, New York (with Jonas Mekas), 1999. Allan Kaprow: Course Re-Course, a ÒHappening,Ó 1996. In and Around Fluxus: Film Festival and Fluxfilm Environment, the first authentic reconstruction of the original Fluxfilm environments (curated by  Jonas Mekas). The collaboration concurrently facilitated the production of the Fluxfilm Anthology, currently being circulated by the Anthology Film Archives. Fluxbase: A Virtual Exhibition (with Joan Sustik Huntly) 1992. Fluxus: A Workshop Series, 1984. The Artist and Television (with Jamie Davidovich, Founder, SoHo TV), an interactive performance festival, conference and teleconference, cablecast live, coast to coast.  This Time/life affiliated interactive intermedia event won an ATC Cablevision Award in 1983. The Second Intermedia Arts Festival, mounted in collaboration with the Experimental Intermendia Foundation (NYC), 1982.

Symposia Organized

NO!art and the Aesthetics of Doom, a symposium mounted by Northwestern University on the occasion of the opening of an exhibition of the same title, 2001. NO!art: Art Actions and Human Rights, a component of the commemoration of the ratification of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1999. The State of the Art of History: A Discussion of the Historiography of Twentieth-Century Cultural Studies. Center for Advanced Studies, the University of Iowa, 1995.   Metamorphosis of the Avant-Garde Artist and Author,1908-1939: Social Roles and Cultural Consequences, an international, interdisciplinary research conference jointly sponsored by The University of Puget Sound, Northwestern UniversityÕs Center for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts and The University of IowaÕs Program for Modern Studies (with Stephen C. Foster, Kent Hooper, and Rainer Rumold), 1991.  Art Networks and Information Systems, a collaboration between Alternative Traditions in the Contemporary Arts and Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc.  (with Martha Wilson), 1988. The Arts and the Event: Aesthetics and Social Transaction, The University of Iowa's Third Annual Humanities Symposium; (with Stephen C. Foster) 1985.