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NOVEMBER Screening Lecture Exhibition Lecture Lecture Lecture Last Updated on Nov 15, 2007
OCTOBER Exhibition Screening
SEPTEMBER Lecture
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Peter
Hutton’s cinema captures the mystery of the cinema’s
opening onto the world, with exquisite images of landscape as well
as the everyday events of light, shadow and form on a variety of
scales. His images reveal dimensions of the visual world that ordinary
seeing might miss, with a patient and perfect framing, an awareness
of the power of small movements, and a sense of the nearly invisible
dramas of the cosmos slowly rendered visible. Beauty dwells in Hutton’s
films with the insistence and necessity that only a transformation
of vision can offer. Films for this screening will be announced
at a later date. Curated by Mary Patten for Feeltank Chicago
A
member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Professor Bois
obtained his doctorate from the École des Hautes Études
en Sciences Sociales (1977). He began his career at the Centre National
de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris in 1977. He joined the faculty
of the Johns Hopkins University in 1983 and remained there until
1991, at which time he accepted the Joseph Pulitzer, Jr. Professorship
of Modern Art in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture
at Harvard University. Bois was acting chair of the department in1999–2000,
and chair from 2002–2005. He joined the Faculty of the Institute
for Advanced Study in 2005.
From
the demise of communism to the Iraq war, globalization has taken
a turn from the rhetoric of optimism to the reality of conflict.
With the war going into its fifth year, the events in Iraq are less
the headlines these days and more a backdrop. Meanwhile in Baghdad…
is a group exhibition which takes the war as a general context in
which to examine a range of artistic responses, some as direct as
Daniel Heyman’s Abu Ghraib Project in which the artist made
engravings based on first hand accounts he gathered from victims
of torture, and others as viscerally poignant as a series of bandaged
bed frames by Jannis Kounellis.
Eleanor
Heartney is a New York based art writer and cultural critic who
has been writing about art since 1981. She is Contributing Editor
to Art in America and Artpress and has written extensively on contemporary
art issues. A collection of Heartney’s essays was published
in 1997 by Cambridge University Press under the title Critical Condition:
American Culture at the Crossroads. Heartney is currently working
on a survey of contemporary art from the 1980s to the present which
will be published by Phaidon in early 2008. She is a past President
of AICA-USA, the American section of the International Art Critics
Association. She received her BA and MA from the University of Chicago.
Brian
Holmes is an art and cultural critic, activist and translator, living
in Paris, interested primarily in the intersections of artistic
and political practice. He was the English editor of publications
for Documenta X, Kassel, Germany, 1997, and was a member of the
graphic arts group Ne pas plier from 1999 to 2001, and has recently
worked with the French conceptual art group Bureau d'études.
He is a member of the editorial committee of the art magazine Springerin
and the political-economy journal Multitudes, a regular contributor
to the magazine Parachute, and a founder of the new journal Autonomie
Artistique. He is currently preparing a book in French, entitled
La Personnalité Flexible: Pour une Nouvelle Critique de la
Culture.
Nicolas
Bourriaud, born 1965, is a writer and curator who lives in London.
He is currently curator for contemporary Art at Tate Britain, after
having been the director of Palais de Tokyo in Paris between 1999
and 2006. Among the numerous exhibitions he has curated around the
world are: Aperto for the Venice Biennale in 1993, Traffic at CAPC
Bordeaux in 1996, Touch at San Francisco Art Institute in 2002,
Lyon Biennale 2005, Experience of Duration (curated with J. Sans)
and the Moscow Biennale in 2005 and 2007. His books, Relational
Aesthetics (1998), and Postproduction, translated into 12 languages,
were among the most influential theoretical contribution to the
last decade.
The
Renaissance Society will present a new film installation by British
artist and Turner Prize winner Steve McQueen (b.1969). McQueen’s
films explore identity and perception, using unexpected framing,
exposure, and editing techniques to alter the continuity of the
narrative, examine constructed realities, and question the space
between the viewer and the film. His project for The Renaissance
Society retraces in the present day the journey up the Congo River
described in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, examining
the connections between global enterprise, imperial exploitation,
and racism. The film will premiere at the 52nd Venice Biennale and
receive its U.S. premiere at The Renaissance Society.
Christine
Mehring works on 20th century European art and photography, postwar
American art, and contemporary art. She is completing a book on
the German abstract painter Blinky Palermo, co-editing an anthology
of postwar European art, and working on a study of abstraction and
decoration in the 20th century. Her publications include: “Hans
Hartung, Mid-Century Modern” in Hans Hartung: 10 Perspectives
(2006); Neo Rauch, Renegaten (2005); “Abstraction and Decoration
in Blinky Palermo’s Wall Paintings” in Grey Room (2004).
She has essays forthcoming on the collaborations between Gerhard
Richter and Blinky Palermo, on Thomas Bayrle, Dieter Roth, Aaron
Siskind, Benjamin Buchloh, and 20th century abstract painting in
Europe.
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The Open Practice Committee in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago explores the atmospheres and attitudes that make art contemporary. The Open Practice Committee’s programming fosters a genuinely experimental, yet conceptually rigorous environment – a space in which strategies of production and description are challenged and renewed. From the conventional departmental presentation to the unconventional institutional event, the Open Practice Committee aims to advance our collective understanding of theory and practice within the visual arts. Video Archive Brian Holmes, 1 November 2007, "Escape the Overcode", Sponsored by the Contemporary Art Workshop and the Open Practice Committee in the Department of Visual Arts. Eleanor Heartney, 8 November 2007, "Art Today: Tales of Plastic Surgery, Genetically Altered Rabbits, and Other Acts of Art.", Sponsored by the Contemporary Art Workshop and the Open Practice Committee in the Department of Visual Arts. Yve-Alain Bois, 29 November 2007, "Pseudomorphism: What to make of Look-alikes?", Sponsored by the Department of Art History's Smart Lecture Series. Jessica Morgan, 22 February 2008, Contemporary Art at Tate Modern, Sponsored by the Open Practice Committee in the Department of Visual Arts and the Nicholson Center for British Studies. Committee Members For More Information Contact |
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