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Board of Directors | 2008-2009 Term
Eduardo Cadava
Dennis Oppenheim
Lorand Hegyi
Dieter Ronte
Judith Stein
Aaron Levy
Jean-Michel Rabaté
Osvaldo Romberg
Assistant to the Executive Director:
Jackie Backer
Architectural Consultant:
Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss / NAO
2007-2008 Term Interns:
Becca Starr, Jonathan Liebembuk
2007-2008 Term Volunteers:
Jeremy Butman, Karen Froehlich, Meghan Clendaniel, Ashley Thompson
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Aaron Levy | Founding Executive Director and Senior Curator
Levy has organized hundreds of exhibitions and public symposia internationally, each topically intervening in current debates around contemporary art, architecture, and critical theory with figures such as Cecil Balmond, Helene Cixous, Arakawa + Gins, Peter Weibel, Braco Dimitrijevic, and Teddy Cruz. Publications edited include Blood Orgies: Hermann Nitsch in America; Cities Without Citizens; William Anastasi's Pataphysical Society: Jarry, Joyce, Duchamp, Cage; Helene Cixous' Ex-Cities; Rrrevolutionnaire: Conversations in Theory; Tooth and Nail: Film and Video 1970-1974 by Dennis Oppenheim; and a new series of DVD publications in collaboration with Vito Acconci, Alain Badiou, and Werner Herzog (forthcoming).
Levy is on faculty in the Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania, where he taught the 2007-2008 RBSL Bergman Foundation Seminar in Contemporary Curatorial Studies, and at the Transart Institute MFA program in Linz, Austria. He is completing a doctorate in History of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds about the year 1971.
Jean-Michel Rabaté | Senior Curator
Rabaté is Vartan Gregorian Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania, and a 2008 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He has authored or edited more than thirty books on James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Samuel Beckett, Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida, Thomas Bernhard, Modernism, psychoanalysis and literary theory. Among these, James Joyce and the Politics of Egoism (2001), Jacques Lacan and the subject of Literature (2001), The Future of Theory (2002), Given: 1) Art, 2) Crime (2006) and 1913: The Cradle of Modernism (2007). He also edited The Cambridge Companion to Jacques Lacan (2002), The Palgrave Advances to James Joyce Studies (2004), and Architecture Against Death: On Arakawa and Gins (2005).
Osvaldo Romberg | Senior Curator
Romberg is a Professor at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He was born in Buenos Aires and lives and works in New York, Philadelphia, and Isla Grande, Brazil. At Slought Foundation, he has curated retrospectives on artists such as William Anastasi, Hermann Nitsch, Dennis Oppenheim, and Gunter Brus. He has exhibited widely as an artist at institutions including the Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna; Kunstmuseum, Bonn; Ludwig Museum, Cologne; Sudo Museum, Tokyo; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; The Jewish Museum, New York; the XLI Venice Biennial, Israel Pavilion; the Museum of Modern Art, Buenos Aires; and the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, among others. Theater of Transparency, an exhibit of his video installations at the Kunstmuseum Bonn in 2008, was co-curated by Aaron Levy and Gunther Holler-Schuster and travels in 2009 to the Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, the Neue Galerie, Graz, and the Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe.
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