November 3, 2009
Arts & (Incarcerated) Bodies
Arts on Earth Presentation: Arts & (Incarcerated) Bodies
7:00 PM, Stamps Auditorium, Walgreen Drama Center,1226 Murfin Avenue
Bodies are incarcerated everywhere, in many ways – in jails, illness, war zones, dangerous neighborhoods, dangerous families – with emotional, psychological, intellectual, physical, and spiritual effects on the individuals incarcerated. What role do the arts play when bodies – people – are incarcerated?
Can engagement with the arts help undo some of the effects of incarceration? Can the arts help the unincarcerated (or less incarcerated) view the more incarcerated differently, help us think more clearly or compassionately about types of incarceration, and effects? Can the arts bring home how each member of any society is implicated in the incarceration of other citizens?How might incarceration affect the art-making of the incarcerated – both process and product?
Join us for an unforgettable evening of performance, exhibition, and conversation about these and other questions with three consummate artist/activists who have worked with the variously incarcerated for decades.
Buzz Alexander – U-M Professor of English, is Founder and Member of the Prison Creative Arts Project, which has engaged thousands of Michigan prisoners in writing and the plastic arts since 1990. Buzz and Janie Paul curate the Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners.
Jon Deak – Associate Principal Bassist with the New York Philharmonic since 1973 and a prominent composer of contemporary chamber pieces, Jon Deak also commits himself to helping students in New York’s most troubled schools express themselves through musical composition.
Janie Paul – U-M Professor of Art & Design and Social Work, Janie Paul is a member of the Prison Creative Arts Project and a co-curator of PCAP’s annual Exhibitions of Art by Michigan Prisoners. Professor Paul has dedicated much of her life to bringing art-making opportunities to adolescents and adults in Michigan’s prisons, and to underserved students in the Detroit Public Schools.
November 4, 2009
Queer Art and Censorship after the Culture Wars
Queer Art and Censorship after the Culture Wars, Richard Meyer
Wednesday, November 4, 5:10pm
Room 2104, Art & Architecture Building
2000 Bonisteel Blvd.
The “culture wars” that erupted over arts funding in the 1980s and 1990s were all about bodies in art – the depiction and deployment of bodies and of sexuality in artistic works. Sometimes religious symbols were also in play (most memorably, perhaps, in Andre Serrano’s “Piss Christ”); always, however, religious beliefs and attitudes were at issue, whether or not their role was blatant or claimed.
USC art historian Richard Meyer, author of Outlaw Representation: Censorship and Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century American Art (Oxford, 2002), addresses some of the ongoing effects of the culture wars on arts funding, sexuality, and religion. Meyer will consider several queer artists whose work has been censored since the late 1990s in local and state contexts, and will address the suppression of sexually explicit art from within the gay and lesbian communities and from without.
Following Meyer’s presentation, Professors Holly Hughes, Carol Jacobsen, Petra Kuppers, and Robin Wilson will respond.
Richard Meyer is Associate Professor in the Department of Art History and Director of the Contemporary Project and the Visual Studies Graduate Certificate at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Outlaw Representation: Censorship and Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century American Art (Oxford University Press: 2002), and co-author, with Anthony Lee, of Weegee and Naked City (University of California Press: 2008). Last year, he curated “Warhol’s Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered” for the Jewish Museum in New York and the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco. With Catherine Lord, he has just completed a survey text titled Art and Queer Culture, 1885-present which will appear in Phaidon’s “Themes and Movements” series.
November 5, 2009
AAFF Screening at Work • Detroit
A part of TIME at WORK • Detroit
Thursday, November 5th 7 pm - 9 pm
Ann Arbor Film Festival hosts a screening of the 47th AAFF Tour Reel
November 5, 2009
Jamy Ian Swiss
Sleight of Hand: How Bodies Fool Minds
“Jamy Ian Swiss is like seeing Yo-Yo Ma practicing scales at Carnegie Hall.” Swiss explodes some of the commonplace myths about illusion-making, and provides a view of the real work of the magician. He examines the role of body language in deception, considers why psychology is more important than speed and discusses and demonstrates magic that is done with the human body itself, both as a property of performance, and as a tool of the secret workings of magic. With support from UM Arts on Earth and the University Musical Society (UMS).
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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November 10, 2009
Panel Discussion: Forgiveness
Tuesday November 10, 8:30 - 11:30 am
Thursday, November 12, 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
As part of a required course, Concepts, Form & Context: Culture, The School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan is holding a symposium on Forgiveness from a multi faith perspective. On Tuesday, November 10, 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and Thursday, November 12, 7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. a panel of Metro-Detroit faith leaders and students and faculty from 7 CFC II classes at U of M SOA&D will be discussing Forgiveness. The guest speakers are leaders from the Muslim, Jewish, Christian and Hindu communities. Included in each presentation will be an explanation of the faith’s teachings related to forgiveness and individual experiences and challenges in putting into practice these teachings. Several students will also present statements addressing many aspects of forgiveness. A discussion involving all who are attending will follow. Both sessions are open to everyone. Please forward this to others who might want to attend.
The Tuesday morning session will be held in Slusser Gallery in the Art & Architecture building on North Campus. The Thursday evening session will be in the Art & Architecture Auditorium. You can find a map at http://www.engin.umich.edu/facilities/maps/artarch.html
Speakers include:
PADMA KUPPA - Hindu Community
GAIL KATZ - Jewish Community
SHERI SCHIFF - Jewish Community
MICHAEL HEDGE - Christian Science Community
IMAM ABDULLAH EL AMIN - Muslim Community
IMAM ACHMAT SALIE - Muslim Community
MICHAEL BROOKS - Jewish Community
November 11, 2009
Artist’s Talk by Jim Cogwell
Artist’s Talk by Jim Cogwell
Reception & Remarks: 4:30 - 5:30, Richard Bailey Library
Lecture: 6:00 room 175 Crane Liberal Arts & Sciences Building
Washtenaw Community College
In conjunction with Cogswell’s solo exhibition: Meanwhile, at Gallery One from 10.10-12.11
November 12, 2009
Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison
Intent
Photographers Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison continue to pursue, with absorbing psychological and sensory effect, the ever-bleakening relationship linking humans, technology, and nature. At once formally arresting and immeasurably loaded with sensations—the work has a powerful impact both visually and viscerally. With support from the UM Museum of Art (UMMA). The ParkeHarrison’s lecture is complemented by an exhibition of their work in the School of Art & Design’s Slusser Gallery October 16- November 13.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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November 17, 2009
Films From and About Palestine
A part of TIME at WORK • Detroit
Tuesday, November 17th, 7pm-9pm
An Evening of films from and about Palestine
Curated by Toby Millman and Tirtza Even
EAST TO WEST
A documentary directed by ENAS MUTHAFFAR
16 minutes, 2005
In 2004, a wall is being built and the family of Enas must leave their home so they don’t find themselves on the wrong side. It is the father’s second experience. He was born in a house in Jaffa, but in 1948 he had to leave. Between Jerusalem and Jaffa - to each generation its own move.
BIL’IN HABIBTI (BILIN MY LOVE)
A documentary directed by SHAI CARMELI POLLAK
52 Minutes
2006
BIL’IN HABIBTI tells the story of a small Palestinian village trying to save itself and to break the occupation in a non-violent resistance against the Israeli Army. Under the pretext of security, the village of Bil’in is about to lose more than half of its lands to the Israeli separation fence and to the neighbouring Israeli settlement. In an attempt to stop the bulldozers, tear gas, beatings, arrests and live ammunition, the villagers confront the army in creative weekly demonstrations. It’s not an ordinary documentary, because after following the struggle, in dozens of other villages, Shai Carmeli-Pollak arrives in Bil’in first and foremost, as an activist fighting the occupation and only then as filmmaker. He stays for more than a year and accompanies the village’s struggle, focusing on two people that become real friends: Mohamed, a member of the village’s local committee against the fence, and Wagee, an olive tree farmer and father of ten, who is losing the majority of his land to the fence.
November 19, 2009
Phoebe Gloeckner
Through a Glass Darkly
Writer and visual artist Phoebe Gloeckner is the author of A Child's Life and Other Stories (1998) and The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2002), called "one of the most brutally honest, shocking, tender and beautiful portrayals of growing up female in America.” A Guggenheim Fellowship recipient, Gloeckner is currently working on a novel based on the lives of several families in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Gloeckner is an assistant professor at the University of Michigan.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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November 19, 2009
3 x 3: artistspacetime
Thursday, November 19, 2009 6:00 - 8:30 p.m.
John R Entrance
Free and Open to Public with RSVP
Cash concession for food and beverages available Cash Valet at John R Door
Building on the success of previous FMCA events staged in the permanent collection galleries, performance artist Melanie Manos joins Becky Hart to curate a series of three performances staged in the contemporary galleries. This evening features regional artists recognized internationally for their excellence in performance art. Guests can wander the galleries throughout the evening to observe the various living works.
An anthology of performances by artists with Detroit connections will be screened in Rivera Court. The video exhibition Action Reaction will be open in the Rivera Galleries.
Sponsored by Molly and Mark Valade.
Three Artist Performances
I AM RUNNING and SWOON AND DRENCH
Performance
Amanda Krugliak
The collection of monologues “Swoon and Drench,” represents a time of tremendous change and transition. Being thrown off balance, off the beam, forces us to see things in a new way, and perhaps be reconstituted in the process.
In the signature performance piece “I Am Running,” Krugliak takes the audience on a well-worn path from childhood relays around the block to returning to a college town in the middle of her life, with no assurance as to what lies ahead. The work leads us to the completely outrageous and unexpected in an uncanny reveal, and as Krugliak literally runs in place for the duration, versions of self past and future seem to be gaining momentum right over her shoulder.
AFTER BEFORE THE REVOLUTION
Performance
Danielle Abrams
Danielle Abrams is New York-based African-American and white Jewish artist who performs Borscht Belt “schtick” wearing a tuxedo and a mask of borscht. Eleanor Antin is a California-based artist who in 1979 performed as a Eleanora Antinova, a dancer in Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, who wore brown-skin makeup and a leotard. For After Before, Abrams has struck up a conversation with Antin to guide her re-performance of Antin’s revolutionary work. Abrams will recall Antinova’s position in the Ballets Russes as a “Black face in a snowbank.” Like Antin, Abrams raises the barre in awareness about racial taboos in the history of Western culture. Although Abrams and Antin are distanced by the stretch of America, and their performances span three decades, the artists both enact personae in historical genres as a means to resist social hierarchies in the contemporary Western world.
FLICK FLICKER
Performance
Russ Orlando
Fluorescent lights, electrical wires, interrupters, cushion and self
I use Detroit often as the conceptual genesis for my performances. Most of my work deals with my reconciliation with the city. This piece recreates the experience I felt when I came upon a fluttering fluorescent light illuminated from a lifeless city structure. How could this light still exist? Why was there still power flowing to a building seemingly in ruins? Could there still be a pulse here? I found this moment a metaphor for the city.
This evening’s events are free and open to the public. Make your reservation here. Reservations will close at capacity. Program of Artist Video Performances screened in Rivera Court throughout evening.
Video Installations
July 3, 2009-January 3, 2010
With the advent of video as an art form artists began to capture the fleeting interval between an action and its effect. As time based work evolved art was no longer confined to the tradition of stop-action records used by painting and sculpture. Action
Reaction highlights five videos that examine this causal relationship and document the evolution of video over four decades.
Video pioneer Bruce Nauman (American, born 1941) explores the body in space with Bouncing in the Corner, no. 1, (1968)contending that, “... whatever I was doing in the studio was art.” In two videos made near Oaxaca, Mexico Ana Mendieta (Cuban-American, 1948-85) records performances using gun powder, fireworks, the human form and nature. The Swiss duo Peter Fischli (born 1952) and David Weiss (born 1946), amuse and delight with their continuous motion installation using household goods in The Way Things Go (1987). Video master Bill Viola (American, born 1951) takes on issues of immortality and the conflict between human will and the autonomic nervous system in Nine Attempts to Achieve Immortality (1996).
When viewed in the context of one to another these works pose questions about the temporal and mysterious nature of human existence.
Organized by the DIA, these installations have been generously underwritten by the Dr. and Mrs. George Kamperman Fund.
November 20, 2009
Empty Bowls
Hunger and need don’t just occur on the nightly news, in some far away country. If you haven’t noticed, it’s in our own backyard. The U of M Ceramics Club will be hosting an Empty Bowls Event Thursday and Friday from 11- 3:00 pm (lunch time), in the street gallery next to Slusser Gallery, to raise money to help support issues of hunger, homelessness, and need for many families and individuals of Wastenaw County.
What is Empty Bowls? Over 300 Bowls have been hand-made by the U of m Ceramics Club and will be sold for $10 each during this lunchtime event. 2 wonderful soups (Fall butternut/acorn Squash & Vegetable - both vegetarian) have been prepared to fill your bowl and along with bread and water will provide a tasty and healthful lunch. All monies from the sale of these bowls will be donated to S.O.S Community Outreach Service of Wastenaw county to restock their food cupboards for the upcoming winter season.
Make your lunch count, take home a hand-made ceramic bowl, and thank you in advance for your support - U of M ceramic club
November 20, 2009
8th Annual All Student Exhibition: Opening Reception
The School of Art & Design’s Eighth Annual All Student Exhibition is scheduled to open on Friday, November 20 and close on Wednesday, December 16, 2009. Student work will be installed throughout the School’s facilities: Slusser, Robbins, Work•Ann Arbor, and all corridor venues in the Art & Architecture Building. Over $30,000 will be awarded to freshmen, sophomores, juniors, graduating seniors, and graduate students. There will be gala receptions with refreshments and music on Friday, November 20, from 6:00 to 9:00 pm at Slusser, Robbins, and Work•Ann Arbor, and later in the evening at the Graduate Studios building on South State Street. The Maskell Express will shuttle exhibition visitors among North Campus, Central Campus, and the Graduate Studios.
Exhibition Opening Reception: 6:00 - 9:00 pm at all Ann Arbor exhibition spaces: Slusser Gallery, Warren Robbins Gallery, Work•Ann Arbor.
Open Studio: A&D Graduate Students
8:00 pm - 12:00 am, Art & Design Graduate Studios,1631 S. State St.
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