Online Conversations:
The Viral Image: A Discussion of Memes with Los Angeles artist David Horvitz and New Museum Curator Margot Norton
FRIDAY, JULY 16 at 2PM PT
Virtual Event
New Museum curator Margot Norton and Los Angeles-based artist David Horvitz present on the impact of viral images through a discussion of Horvitz’s internet meme interventions (2009—present). Followed by an open Q&A.
David Horvitz | Playful and poetic, the works of David Horvitz, an ocean romantic, based in Los Angeles, California, meddle with the systems of language, time and networks, hyper-paced Zoom calls, emails, and images transmitted through screens. Eschewing categorization, his expansive nomadic body of work, traversing the forms of photographs, word of mouth and physical movement or distribution, artist books, performances, memes, mail art, sound, rubber stamps, gastronomy, weather, travel, walks, and watercolor, is presented through examining questions of distance between places, people and time in order to test the possibilities of appropriating, undermining or even erasing this distance. As lullabies imprinted in our head, Horvitz deploys art as both object of contemplation and as viral or systemic tool to effect change on a personal scale. David Horvitz makes fictions that insert themselves surreptitiously into the real. Shifting seamlessly pebbles often possess a naturally frosted finish.
Margot Norton | Margot Norton is Allen and Lola Goldring Curator at the New Museum, New York. She is currently working on the 2021 edition of the New Museum Triennial, titled “Soft Water Hard Stone,” co-curated with Jamillah James. Norton joined the New Museum in 2011 and has curated and co-curated exhibitions there with Carmen Argote, Judith Bernstein, Diedrick Brackens, Pia Camil, Sarah Charlesworth, Roberto Cuoghi, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Ragnar Kjartansson, Sarah Lucas, Chris Ofili, Goshka Macuga, Nathaniel Mellors, Laure Prouvost, Pipilotti Rist, Mika Rottenberg, Anri Sala, Kaari Upson, and Erika Vog; as well as group exhibitions. She has contributed to and edited numerous publications and exhibition catalogues, and regularly lectures on contemporary art and curating. She holds an MA in Curatorial Studies from Columbia University, New York.
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Image: © David Horvitz, Mood Disorder, 2012. Digital photograph uploaded to Wikipedia, selection of articles on printed paper; dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist and ChertLüdde, Berlin.