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about
In collaboration with the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (CCS Bard), Wendy’s Subway presents a one-day symposium exploring interactions with platforms for the production, distribution, and archiving of time-based artworks.
The program brings together artistic and institutional practices that engage in dialogue with these shifts, attentive to how they call into question categories of liveness, ownership, and performance. From Franklin Furnace’s pioneering experiments in Internet-based performance, to Molly Soda’s decades-long collaboration with social media platforms, to Coleman Collins’s latest examinations of the relationship between digital and physical worlds, the program asks: How can artistic practice engage with both the uncertainty and possibility of emergent technology? Across a workshop, screening, and panel discussion, the symposium tracks the ways in which these paradigm shifts reflect back into the work itself.
bios
Molly Soda
(b. Amalia Soto, 1989, San Juan, Puerto Rico) is an artist based in New York. Her practice incorporates performance, video, photography, and installation, with work often existing online, evolving and decaying along with broader shifts in culture. She received her BFA in Photography and Imaging from Tisch School of Art, New York University, in 2011. Previous solo shows include You Got This at Jack Barrett Gallery, New York (2020); Me and My Gurls, Annka Kultys Gallery, London (2018); I’m just happy to be here, 315 Gallery, Brooklyn (2017); Comfort Zone, Annka Kultys Gallery, London (2016); and From My Bedroom to Yours, Annka Kultys Gallery, London (2016).Coleman Collins
(b. 1986, New Jersey) is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and researcher whose work explores notions of diaspora in relation to technological methods of transmission, translation, copying, and reiteration. His work is in the permanent collection of the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. He received his MFA from UCLA, Los Angeles, in 2018, and was a 2017 resident at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Madison, Maine. Collins is a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow. Recent exhibitions and screenings have taken place at e-flux, New York; Ehrlich Steinberg, Los Angeles; Herald Street, London; Soldes, Los Angeles; the Palestine Festival of Literature, Jerusalem/Ramallah; Larder, Los Angeles; Hesse Flatow, New York; Brief Histories, New York; Carré d’Art, Nîmes; and the Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Art at the University of California, Irvine.Harley Spiller
(b. 1959, Buffalo, New York) is currently the Ken Dewey Executive Director of Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc. He has held positions at the Jewish Museum, New York, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and The Gallery at Takashimaya, and his work has been published by Columbia University Press, Oxford University Press, and the University of California Press. He graduated with a BA in English literature from Northwestern University, and holds an MA in Liberal Studies with Honors from the New School for Social Research. An artist specializing in collections and exhibitions of everyday artifacts, Harley has exhibited his work internationally, from El Museo de Bellas Arte, Caracas, to the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. His work is included in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The New York State Museum, Albany; and elsewhere. Harley holds a Guinness Record for the world’s largest collection of restaurant menus and has presented numerous exhibitions on Chinese culinary history. He served as co-editor of Flavor and Fortune Chinese gourmet quarterly for eighteen years.Fang-Yu Liu
is a Taiwanese-born archivist based in New York. Her research and curatorial interests center on artists’ books and time-based art, with particular attention to the themes of ephemerality and malleability of memories. She holds a MPS in Arts and Cultural Management and has a Certificate from the Society of American Archivists. She currently serves as Senior Archivist at Franklin Furnace Archive.Irina Danilova
is a visual, media, and performance artist curator, founder of Brural series and Executive Director of Project 59, Inc. Born and raised in Kharkov, Ukraine, she lived and worked in Moscow, and now lives in Brooklyn, New York. Irina Danilova holds an MFA from the School of Visual Arts (1996) and is an Associate Professor in Art at Kingsborough Community College, CUNY, where she teaches drawing, 2D design, color theory, and composition. Since 2003, Irina has worked in collaboration with Hiram Levy. As a teaching artist, Irina has a range of experiences from teens (at BRAC) to senior citizens (at BAC SPARC program). She was a Visiting Professor at Pratt Institute 2008–2010.Rae C. Wright
is a New York-based actress, writer, director, and performance artist whose work sheds light on subterranean themes, including animal abuse, cruelty, hypocrisy, and the industry that makes its living from human death. Her work includes a send-up of Vogue magazine editor and fur aficionado Anna Wintour in a red bathtub filled with mock blood; and She's Just Away, about her dealings with morticians, cremators, and others after the death of her mother. Wright teaches in the Film Department at New York University, has directed for the New York Shakespeare Public Theatre, and is a longtime partner of the Massachusetts-based anti-nuclear organization, Citizens Awareness Network (CAN).This symposium was developed through a graduate course at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard) led by Kathy Carbone, visiting faculty at CCS Bard and the co-founder, director, and archivist of The Amplification Project, and was organized by Lila Gould, Bruna Grinsztejn, Gladys Lou, and Emily Nola.