Highlights The fifth Cornell Biennial featured 40 artists across 36 events from July through November 2022. Curated by Timothy Murray and hosted by the Cornell Council for the Arts, the 2022 Cornell Biennial has finally come to a close. Among the dozens of memories and…
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The Cherry Arts is a radically local, radically international, experimental multidisciplinary arts company specializing in international performing arts, studio classes, and a newly-opened visual arts gallery, located in Ithaca, NY. The Cherry is now accepting submissions for an exhibition "Local Futurities" scheduled for Fall 2022.…
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30+ INVITATIONAL AND CORNELL ARTISTS Cornell Council for the Arts announces the fifth Cornell Biennial, featuring artworks, installations, and performances addressing the curatorial theme: “Futurities, Uncertain.” Curated by Timothy Murray, CCA Director and Professor of Comparative Literature and Literatures in English, the 2022 Cornell Biennial…
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Kyungwon Moon + Joonho Jeon, The Ways of Folding Space and Flying Cornell Council for the Arts Calls for Entries, 2022 Cornell Biennial, “Futurities, Uncertain,” Fall 2022 In Fall 2022, the Cornell Council for the Arts (CCA) will host the fifth Cornell Biennial around the…
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2020 Cornell Biennial The Cornell Council for the Arts is holding three lunchtime roundtables in preparation for the 2020 Cornell Biennial, focused on the theme “Swarm: Ecology, Digitality, Sociality.” At each roundtable, an interdisciplinary group of faculty members and students will informally discuss their work…
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Women Empowered: Fashions from the Frontline. Ruth Bader Ginsberg Knit hats in all different shades of pink from the Women’s March fill a display case. In front of the hats is a colorful circus-themed ensemble created by a Cornell student. A few displays down are…
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Coretta Scott King wears a local 1199 union cap during the 1969 “Union Power, Soul Power” campaign, where she served as honorary chair and advocated for health care workers’ rights on the picket line in Charleston, South Carolina. Kheel Center/Provided Chronicling how women have strategically…
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Shoes that Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) wore while campaigning will be included in a new exhibit on campus. Image/Rachel Getman Chronicling how women have strategically used fashion to empower and collectively uplift themselves, the exhibition is part of the 2018 Cornell Council for the Arts…
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LOG KNOT‘s form references how forests are extracted for resources in a perpetual cycle of harvesting and regrowth. (Courtesy Cornell Robotic Construction Laboratory) When a tree is harvested for wood, what happens to the pieces that aren’t ramrod straight? An installation designed by Cornell University’s…
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Xu Bing, left, A.D. White Professor-at-Large, speaks to students in the Milstein Program in Technology and Humanity with help from graduate student Junting Huang, serving as translator. Image/Andrew Gao '22 Students in the Milstein Program in Technology and Humanity were treated to a special Q&A…
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Featured CCA Biennial artist Carrie Mae Weems discusses her Arts Quad installation “Heave” during a tour of Biennial art projects on campus. Jason Koski/Brand Communications The 2018 Cornell Council for the Arts (CCA) Biennial launched with a tour of outdoor projects on campus Sept. 28…
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One of the two gramophones installed as part of Joanna Malinowska and C.T. Jasper's work for the biennial titled The Emperor's Canary. Edith Fikes/AAP The 2018 Cornell Council for the Arts (CCA) Biennial is underway and includes three projects by AAP students and faculty, each…
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Carrie Mae Weems, Meet Me At The Edge Of The World, 2018. Image/Carrie Mae Weems Produced by Carrie Mae Weems for the 2018 CCA Biennial, Heave is a two-part artwork installed in specially designed pavilions on Cornell’s central Arts Quad. Linked to Weems’ 2017 project…
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Boris Tsang / Sun Assistant Photography Editor One day, Cornellians woke up to find two unassuming, beige-colored structures in the Arts Quad that didn’t entirely seem at home there. Some students jokingly speculated the construction was part of the planned Sophomore Village that is meant…
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A scene from Ni’Ja Whitson’s “A Meditation on Tongues,” a multimedia dance performance being staged for Cornell Council for the Arts’ 2018 Biennial, Sept. 14-15 at the Schwartz Center. The 2018 Cornell Council for the Arts (CCA) Biennial kicks off Sept. 14-15 at 8 p.m.…
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Ni'Ja Whitson, A Meditation on Tongues. Photo: Scott Shaw. The Cornell Council for the Arts (CCA) announces the theme and participants for the 3rd CCA Biennial, 2018, Duration: Passage, Persistence, Survival. Curated by CCA Director, Timothy Murray, the 2018 CCA Biennial features Carrie Mae Weems…
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The LOG KNOT installation is composed of irregularly-shaped logs connected in a twisting design. BreAnne Fleer / Sun News Editor Looping around itself on the Ag Quad stands LOG KNOT — On Perpetual Wood Cycles and Forest Processes, a new installation built with robotic technology…
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Empathy Project Since its launch in September 2016, the Cornell Race and Empathy Project has recorded, archived and shared the everyday stories of Cornellians that evoke racial empathy. The project was funded through the Cornell Council for the Arts’ 2016 biennial and meant to remain…
Read moreNi'Ja Whitson, A Meditation on Tongues. Photo: Scott Shaw. With the theme “Duration: Passage, Persistence, Survival,” the Biennial opens Sept. 27-29 on campus with a conference, public lectures by Weems and Xu, and participating faculty members and students joining artist panels and leading gallery and…
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"Side by Side" exhibit by Pepon Osorio, displayed at Cornell University. Kelsey O'Connor/Ithaca Voice Empathy is the subject of a new art installation at Cornell University by artist-in-residence Pepón Osorio. The project, unveiled Thursday, drew inspiration from the local community. "Side by Side" was the…
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An image taken in the Yarmouk refugee camp outside Damascus, from the multimedia production 'Desert of Light' at the Schwartz Center. Photo by Lens Yound Dimashqi. Palestinian-Syrian playwright Rama Haydar’s “Desert of Light” is a tragicomic and human portrayal of the refugee crisis in the…
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A detail from guest artist Teresa Diehl’s CCA Biennial project, “Revolution.” The Cornell Council for the Arts (CCA) 2016 Biennial, “Abject/Object Empathies,” will feature 12 new projects by invited artists, Cornell faculty members and students. Most of the works will be presented on campus between…
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A Needle Woman. Photo by Jason Koski/University Photography. An innovative creative project by Korean-American artist Kimsooja with Cornell scientists and students is the subject of a new Art21 documentary. “A Needle Woman: Galaxy was a Memory, Earth is a Souvenir” represented a new direction for…
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The Ho-Am Foundation The CCA would like to extend our heartfelt congratulations to CCA 2014 Biennial Artist-in-Residence Kimsooja for being selected to receive the 2015 Ho-Am Foundation Prize. The prize, won in the past by video artist Nam-June Paik, is presented each year to individuals…
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Materials science and engineering professor Uli Wiesner, artist Kimsooja, CCA Director Stephanie Owens and architect Jaeho Chong with Kimsooja's "A Needle Woman" after its installation on the Arts Quad in September. A temporary art installation on campus, part of the Cornell Council for the Arts’…
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Kimsooja, A Needle Woman: Galaxy was a Memory, Earth is a Souvenir, 2014. Steel, custom acrylic panel, laminated block copolymer film, mirror; 46 x 4.5 (diameter) feet. Photograph: Jaeho Chong. © Kimsooja Studio. As part of the 2014 CCA Biennial, Korean-born conceptual multi-media artist Kimsooja…
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CCA director Stephanie Owens and professor Uli Wiesner look over a polymer sample in Wiesner's lab, which developed material for artist Kimsooja's "Needle Woman" project on the Arts Quad. The biennial theme intends to “show how artists address realms of human experience that lie beyond…
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CCA Director Stephanie Owens, left, and artist kimsooja toured the Arts Quad Nov. 23, the intended site of the artist's installation project in the 2014 CCA Biennial. A campuswide exhibition next fall will explore the cultural and human consequences of seeing the world at the…
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