As part of the Spring 2022 Intra-Disciplinary Seminar series, Anthony Huberman, who is director and chief curator of the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco, gives a free online lecture about art, and one way to talk about art is to talk about drumming. Percussive polyrhythms and percussive ensembles provide a framework for thinking about aesthetic, expressive, political, and curatorial forms more broadly.

Registration is required.

Huberman's recent projects include solo shows of newly commissioned work by Lydia Ourahmane, Vincent Fecteau, Adam Linder,  Diamond Stingily, and Laura Owens, among others, as well as long-term research programs with Cecilia Vicuña, David Hammons, Dodie Bellamy, Seth Price, and Joan Jonas. He has also curated exhibitions at MoMA PS1 and SculptureCenter in New York, Contemporary Art Museum in St. Louis, ICA London, Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Secession in Vienna, and co-curated the 2014 Liverpool Biennial. Major group exhibitions include Drum Listens to Heart (2022), Mechanisms (2017), For the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn't there (2009), and Grey Flags (2006), Recent books include Where are the tiny revolts?, Abbas to Yuki: Writing Alongside Exhibitions, and Today We Should Be Thinking About. Huberman was the Founding Director of The Artist's Institute at Hunter College in New York.

The IDS public lecture series is part of the Robert Lehman Visiting Artist Program at The Cooper Union. We are grateful for major funding from the Robert Lehman Foundation. The IDS public lecture series is also made possible by generous support from the Open Society Foundations.