Vanessa Haroutunian

                          CURATION & PROGRAMS

2019                 "The Hammer Mix: Decades", Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

2018                 "The Hammer Mix: Generations", IFC Center, New York, NY

2017                 "The Hammer Mix", IFC Center, New York, NY

2017                 Out of the Past, Live Event portion of 2016-2017 Queer|Art|Mentorship Annual Exhibition, Leslie-Lohman Prince Street Project Space, New York, NY

2016                 It’s Kind of a Big Deal: 2015-2016 Queer|Art|Mentorship Annual Exhibition, Leslie-Lohman Prince Street Project Space, New York, NY

2015                 2014-2015 Queer|Art|Mentorship Annual Exhibition, Leslie-Lohman Prince Street Project Space, New York, NY

2014-2015        Selected videos from Joanie4Jackie, Alien She, Traveling Exhibition

2013                 Peggy Ahwesh & Joe Gibbons, Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY

2013                 Guest Artist & Screening: 2 Days of Katrina Del Mar, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

2013                 Screening: Lady-Made Performance Vidz from the 70s, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

2013                 Joanie4Jackie Screenings, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

2012                 Screening: County Down, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

2012                 Guest Artist & Performance: JD Samson & MEN, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

2012                 Guest Artist: K8 Hardy, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

2012                 Guest Artist: Elisabeth Subrin, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

2012                 Party in the J4J: Screening from the Archive, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

2011                 Guest Artist: Ryder Cooley, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

2011                 Joanie4Jackie4Now!: Archive Exhibition & Screening, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

2011                 Pairings: Exhibition, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

                         WORKSHOPS, PANELS & ARTIST TALKS

2019                "The Hammer Mix: Decades" with A.K. Burns, Sarah Keller & Miatta Kawinzi, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

2018                "The Hammer Mix: Generations" with Peggy Ahwesh & Lynne Sachs, IFC Center, New York, NY

2017                 "The Hammer Mix" with Martha Rosler & Carolee Schneeman, IFC Center, New York, NY

2017                 Alynda Segarra presents Fried Green Tomatoes, IFC Center, New York NY

2016                 Katy Pyle presents But, I’m a Cheerleader, IFC Center, New York, NY

2015                 K8 Hardy presents Vagabond, IFC Center, New York, NY

2015                 More than Reality Itself with A.L. Steiner, UnionDocs, Brooklyn, NY

2014                 JD Samson presents Heavenly Creatures & Dyketactics, Northside Festival, Nitehawk Cinema, Brooklyn, NY

JOANIE4JACKIE

Joanie4Jackie

In 2008, while a student at Bard College, I stumbled upon a closet full of boxes of VHS, pieces of paper, and photos. This room full of boxes turned out to be the archive of Miranda July's lady-made video project Joanie4Jackie (formerly Big Miss Moviola). Over the next year, under the guidance of Ed Halter and Jackie Goss, I began digging through the archive, reorganizing things, watching endless tapes, scanning old zines, and piecing together the puzzle of artifacts left from Miranda. In 2010, this archive and a variety of interviews I conducted turned into my senior these film, pure&magicalpussypower: a documentary on joanie4jackie, which won the Jerome B. Hill Award in Documentary Excellence. With the archive in need of some extra care and new life, I restarted the J4J tutorial with Jackie Goss at Bard College and started a student club to get funding to preserve the archive. We started inviting guest artists so students could meet some of the amazing women who had been involved with J4J since the 90s and other exciting women we discovered along the way. We began screening films made by women, collections long forgotten and reviving the Chainletter tapes. Guest artists include K8 Hardy, Ryder Cooley, Elisabeth Subrin, JD Samon & MEN and Katrina del Mar. Film screenings include Point Break (Kathryn Bigelow), works by Sadie Benning, Ratcather (Lynne Ramsey), a collection of performance videos from the 70s, County Down (Laura Parnes) and Kelly Reichardt's River of Grass among many many others.  Seven years later, the archive is now is much better condition at the Getty Institute. Miranda July, Astria Suparek and Yuri Ono have launched a brand new website for the project which digitally tells much of the story and preserves the archive we digitized at Bard forever on the internet.

The new website can be found here: www.joanie4jackie.com

News from the Getty can be found here

Miranda July on Joanie4Jackie in the New York Times can by found here