ZKM, Germany Ghana ThinkTank is exhibiting at the ZKM Museum in Karlsruhe, Germany Sept. 17th, 2011–Feb. 5th, 2012. This show, “The Global Contemporary: Art Worlds After 1989″ is a sweeping retrospective of art from the past three decades that deal with issues of globalization, including work by Mona Hatoum, Elmgreen & Dragset, SUPERFLEX, Francis Alÿs [...]
The Leonard Lopate Show: InSite: Art + Commemoration – WNYC
Hey! I’m on Leonard Lopate show on WNYC.org! LMCC/ InSite: Art + Commemoration, ten artistic responses to mark the ten-year anniversary of September 11. Christopher Robbins A collaborative founder of the Ghana Think Tank, Robbins works on the uneasy cusp of public art and community action, creating sculptural interventions in the daily lives of strangers. [...]
our workshop in Karlsruhe
. The beginnings of our install at ZKM. The workshop they gave us is gorgeous in that haphazard way old europe is. An old equestrian training barn with waaaaaay high ceilings and majestic arches supporting it. Slate roof (of course). Notice the model John painstakingly made (and then remade after it travelled across the atlantic [...]
LMCC InSite
Hey, I am one of 10 artists chosen for the LMCC’s InSite Art + Commemoration. InSite: Art + Commemoration – Ideas As Lower Manhattan’s future continues to be rebuilt and re-imagined, LMCC invited artists to contribute to the InSite 9/11 program. They were invited to respond in the form of an observation, interpretation, or idea, [...]
Ghana ThinkTank Presentation at Momenta Art
Ghana ThinkTank will be presenting at MOMENTA ART as part of a series of lectures and workshops on Modeling Alternatives: Art and Social Change | Institute For Wishful Thinking Friday, May 6: 6:30 – 8:30 PM Momenta Art is located at 359 Bedford Avenue, ground floor, between South 4th and South 5th Sts. in Williamsburg, [...]
Upcoming and ongoing
Here is news of my ongoing and upcoming shows, if you’d like to stop by! Ghana Think Tank at Tania Bruguera’s Immigrant Movement International. June 5, 2011. Queen’s Museum of Art, Creative Time Open Door Commission. May 8 – Aug 21, 2011. Presentation at MOMENTA, May 6, 2011. Creative Time presents Ghana Think Tank at [...]
Photos from The Typhoon Continues and So Do You
Some photos from The Typhoon Continues and So Do You, which opened Friday at Flux Factory. Here are some shots of my piece: “I consider this tribunal false tribunal” “This trial’s aim is to produce false justification for the war crimes of NATO” – Slobodan Milosevic, in transcript of War Crimes at the Hague Video [...]
In This Hello America preview
Spent the day at Bard with Douglas Paulson meeting students and doing a test run of In This Hello America, which opens May 1! Updates on Tumblr here.
Ghana Think Tank receives 2011 Black Rock Arts Foundation Grant
The Ghana Thinktank John Ewing, Carmen Montoya and Christopher Robbins Roxbury, MA, and international locations. $5000 The Ghana Thinktank is developing the First World. Ghana Thinktank is a worldwide network of think tanks creating strategies to resolve local problems in the "developed" world. The network is composed of people from all walks of life and [...]
The Typhoon Continues and So Do You @ Flux Factory
The Typhoon Continues and So Do You Opening reception: April 1, from 6 pm on Exhibition dates: Saturday, April 2 through Sunday, May 8 Hours: open weekends, 12 – 6 pm or by appointment Location: Flux Factory, 39-31 29th Street, Long Island City, Queens Flux Factory is pleased to announce The Typhoon Continues and So [...]