Upcoming Events

Public Programs

Renée Green: Endless Dreams and Time-Based Streams / Screening and Book signing reception

Thursday, May 3, 7 PM

ACT Cube, Wiesner Building

The MIT List Visual Arts Center will host a screening and book signing reception to celebrate the publication of Renée Green’s latest book Endless Dreams and Time-Based Streams.  Conceived for Green’s 2010 exhibition at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, Endless Dreams and Time-Based Streams considers the intricacy of the artist’s working methods, particularly in relation to writing. Over the past 20 years, through film, video, sound art, photographs, prints, banners, texts, websites and ephemera, Green’s work has comprised complex, multilayered installations, employing a vast array of sources which always urge viewers to become active participants

As writing and publishing are an essential part of Green’s practice, this recent publication comprises a convergence of theories and practices, dreams of the now, and perceptual shifts that span a vast range of time and space. Endless Dreams and Time-Based Streams provides different ways to consider how words, images and sounds are animated and activated.  The book includes a comprehensive catalogue of Green’s time-based works and installations making this publication an essential complement to her retrospective catalogue Ongoing Becomings. Both publications will be available for purchase.

 In conjunction with the program Green’s feature film, Endless Dreams and Water Between (2009) will be screened;  the film’s  four fictitious characters sustain an epistolary exchange in which their “planetary thought” is weaved with the physical locations they inhabit, visual and aural characters in themselves: the island of Manhattan, the island of Majorca, in Spain, and the islands and peninsula that form the San Francisco Bay Area. The characters reflections and dreams enact what could be described as “an archipelagic mind,” linking worlds, time, and space.

Joachim Koester: To navigate, in a genuine way, in the unknown...

Opening Reception:  Wednesday, May 9, 6-8PM

Conversation with artist Joachim Koester and List Center curator João Ribas

5:30-6:30PM, Bartos Theatre

The MIT List Visual Arts Center presents the first major U.S. museum exhibition surveying the work of Danish-born, New York-based artist Joachim Koester. Koester's work explores history, perception, consciousness and the body through photography and film bordering between documentary and fiction. The artist's interest lies in what can and cannot be narrated, rationalized, or represented, "the twilight zone of what can be told and what cannot be told." With a research-intensive, archival approach, Koester traces historical narratives, forgotten journeys, obscure phenomena, and altered forms of consciousness.

The program is FREE and open to the general public.

Cai Guo-Qiang Keynote Address to the MIT China Forum / "Ring Stone" Public Dedication & Reception

Thursday, May 10, 5:30 - 7:30 PM

Building E61

The MIT List Visual Arts Center and the MIT China Forum invite you to the dedication of Ring Stone a public work by acclaimed internation artist Cai Guo-Qiang.

5:30-6:30pm

MIT China Forum

Keynote speaker: Cai Guo-Qiang

MIT Wong Auditorium, Tang Center

2 Amherst Street, Building E61

6:30-7:30pm

Public Dedication and Reception

Site of Ring Stone, North Garden

MIT Sloan School of Management

100 Main Street, Building E62

Cambridge, MA

Reserve free seats at

http://caiguoqiangmit.eventbrite.com/