Considering Forgiveness
20052006

Political engagement is rarely viewed in terms of forgiveness. The willingness to confront injustice—to name and identify it—is by its nature a bold act. But since injustice (and justice) are controversial concepts that involve highly polarized parties—the accuser and the accused—forgiveness encompasses a vast range of emotions and procedures, and constitutes one of the most complex forms of human commitment.

Offering neither calls for forgiveness nor a granting thereof, the programs dedicated to the theme of “Considering Forgiveness” examine this form of commitment in interdisciplinary terms. The first step in this process is a review: what actually occurred needs to be established both historically and emotionally. With history never completed, the work of remembering becomes an act of the present and a blueprint for the future. In considering the work of German artist Anselm Kiefer, art historian Andreas Huyssen states that it examines the “unbearable tensions between the terror of German history and the intense longing to get beyond it.” It is in this confrontation between the past and the future where forgiveness lies.

Book

Considering Forgiveness

Panel

Something is Missing—Utopia in the 21st Century

Jun 13, 2006

Panel

Reclaiming the Land: Conversations on Collaboration

May 24, 2006

Conversation, Screening

The Last Supper

Apr 3, 2006

Talk

John Currin

Mar 28, 2006

Panel

Confounding Expectations: Photography in Context – Things as They Are, Photojournalism Today

Mar 22, 2006

Lecture

Subjective Histories of Sculpture: Paul Pfeiffer

Mar 13, 2006

Roundtable

The Public Talks Roundtable: The Public Theater Goes to War

Mar 9, 2006

Book Launch, Panel, Party

The Social and the Real

Feb 27, 2006

Panel

Confounding Expectations: Photography in Context What Makes An Image Iconic?

Feb 15, 2006

Panel

Cultural Genocide and Hegemony: Keys to Political, Economic, Religious and Cultural Domination

Feb 13, 2006

Roundtable

The Public Talks Roundtable: Writers and The Public Theater

Feb 2, 2006

Conversation

“Unforgiving Art? Unforgivable Nation?” – Artist Paul Chan in a conversation with Robert Hullot-Kentor

Jan 26, 2006

Roundtable

Curating the Biennial—An Artforum Roundtable – Seven Curators Past and Present Discuss the Whitney Experience

Jan 23, 2006

Conversation, Screening

Poetics Become Law: A Screening and Conversation between Attorney Lynne Stewart and Artist Paul Chan

Dec 15, 2005

Panel

Zero Culture. What’s Happening to the Arts at Ground Zero?

Dec 12, 2005

Panel

Confounding Expectations: Art Photography Now

Dec 7, 2005

Performance

My Neck is Thinner than a Hair: A History of the Car Bomb in the 1975-1991 Lebanese Wars; Volume 1: January 21, 1986

Dec 6, 2005

Panel

On Healing and Memory: AA Bronson in a Conversation with Gregg Bordowitz and Elizabeth A. Povinelli

Dec 3, 2005

Talk

Do-Ho Suh

Nov 21, 2005

Conversation, Performance

Embodiments and Monumentality, a performance by Pia Lindman

Nov 12, 2005

Panel

The Dayton Peace Accords-10 Years On

Nov 11, 2005

Panel

Confounding Expectation: Photography in Context – Constructed Realities

Nov 9, 2005

Talk

Roni Horn

Nov 7, 2005

Screening

Innocents Lost: Film Program and Book Signing with Jimmie Briggs

Oct 20, 2005

Exhibition

“I Beg Your Pardon.” or the Reestablishing of Cordial Relations

Oct 15, 2005

Panel

Emerging Creative Voices from Pakistan: A Political Context

Oct 11, 2005

Panel

Dreamland or Nightmare? The Future Development of Coney Island and its Community

Oct 10, 2005

Panel

Confounding Expectation: Photography in Context – Nazar: Contemporary Photography in the Arab World

Sep 28, 2005

Panel

Bends in the Road: Looking Forward and Back Along New York’s Grand Concourse

Sep 22, 2005

Lecture

Elisabeth Young-Bruehl: Notions of Forgiveness in the Work of Hannah Arendt

Sep 19, 2005

Essay, Series

Art Collection Writing Award Winners, 2005–2006

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