Category Archives: Special Lectures

February 7 – Tacita Dean Film Project, Arcadia University

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February 7 – April 21, 2013
JG a film project by Tacita Dean

OPENING EVENT
Lecture by Tacita Dean

Thursday, February 7, 6:30 p.m.
Commons Great Room (map #14)

Reception follows; film will be on view from 6:30 to 10 p.m.

Event is free; Reservation required.
Please register online.


Arcadia University Art Gallery is pleased to announce the presentation of JG by internationally acclaimed British-born, Berlin-based artist Tacita Dean. Commissioned by and made for the gallery, JG is funded by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage and will be on view from February 7 through April 21, 2013.

JG is a sequel in technique to FILM, Dean’s 2011 project for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall. It is inspired by her correspondence with British author J.G. Ballard (1930-2009) regarding connections between his short story “The Voices of Time” (1960) and Robert Smithson’s iconic earthwork and film Spiral Jetty (both works, 1970). The new 26 1/2 minute work is a looped 35mm anamorphic film shot on location in the saline landscapes of Utah and Southern California using Dean’s recently developed and patented system of aperture gate masking. An  unprecedented departure from her previous 16mm films, JG tries to respond to Ballard’s challenge–posed to her shortly before he died–that Dean should “treat the Spiral Jetty as a mystery her film would solve.”

For more information and shuttle registration, please visit Arcadia University Art Gallery.

January 17-19, 2013 INTIMATE COLLABORATIONS

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INTIMATE COLLABORATIONS CONFERENCE

January 17th to 19th, 2013

Terrace Room, Claudia Cohen Hall, University of Pennsylvania

Preceded by:

PERFORMANCE/DISCUSSION

Alicia Hall Moran: the motown project

Thursday, January 17th, 2013 6:00 pm

Amado Recital Hall, Irvine Auditorium, First Floor

3401 Spruce Street Philadelphia, PA

How do we describe the intimacies that are born through works of art? What do intimate aesthetic collaborations bring into view or fail to make visible? What do different modes and forms of artistic collaboration yield (or at the very least promise) aesthetically, philosophically, or even politically? How does the work of theorizing artistic intimacy ultimately impact the way we think about art history as a practice or a discipline? What does intimacy require of us as scholars, critics, lovers, and producers of art? These are just a few of the questions that animate Intimate Collaborations, a conference which looks to foster new modes of intimate exchange between art, artists, and historians of art on the occasion of a momentous exhibition of some of the richest artistic collaborations of the second half of the 20th century.

Intimate Collaborations is a conference inspired by, and organized to coincide with the Philadelphia Museum of Art?s exhibition, Dancing Around the Bride: John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Marcel Duchamp. It will address the strange and complex intimacies that emerge when relationships between artists take form through the process of art-making. Dancing Around the Bride is the first exhibition to explore the interwoven lives, works, and experimental spirit of Duchamp and Cage, Cunningham, Johns and Rauschenberg. Intimate Collaborations seeks to conceptualize and expand upon the possibilities set in motion by these artists for thinking the category of collaboration more broadly.


SPEAKERS

Kaja Silverman, Douglas Crimp, Andrew Uroskie, Catherine Craft, Ashley Ferro-Murray, Jonathan Katz, Tara McDowell, Homay King, Huey Copeland, Bibi Obler, Anne M. Wagner, Kate Kraczon, Alex Klein, Danny Snelson, Mashinka Firunts, and Avi Alpert

For more information and free registration:

http://kajasilverman.com/intimate-collaborations-conference.php

November 19 – artist Lisa Kereszi

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Please join us for an illustrated talk by artist Lisa Kereszi on Monday November 19 at 5pm in Taylor Hall Room C. This event is organized by Special Collections Art and Artifacts and presented with the support of the Friends of the Bryn Mawr College Library.

Lisa Kereszi (Born Chester, PA) presents images from and engages in a Q&A on her long-term project documenting her family’s Philadelphia-area scrap business (the subject of her new book, “Joe’s Junk Yard”) and several other bodies of photographic work. “Joe’s Junk Yard” was recently highlighted in the New York Times, and Philadelphia’s Space 1026 will host a solo exhibition of Kereszi’s work in January 2013.


http://lisakereszi.com/projects/joes-junk-yard

Before Lisa’s talk, please consider checking out Docu-Commencement: Kay Healy, Jennifer Levonian, James Johnson, and Gilbert Plantinga, the residency-based new-works exhibition on currently on view in the Class of 1012 Rare Book Room gallery in Canaday Library. We’ll keep the show open until just before 5.
http://www.brynmawr.edu/library/exhibitions.html

Brian Wallace
Curator and Academic Liaison for Art and Artifacts
Bryn Mawr College
bwallace@brynmawr.edu
610.526.5335

November 12 – Jonathan Conant

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Jonathan Conant, Assistant Professor, Brown University
“Defying Attila: Slavery, Violence, and the Precariousness of Social Obligations in the Late Antique Mediterranean”
Monday, November 12, 2012, 5pm
Carpenter B21 (followed by a reception in the Quita Woodward Room)

In 443, Romans living along the empire’s Danube frontier defied the imperial administration and refused to accede to Attila the Hun’s demand that they surrender fellow citizens into captivity as the price of peace. At the same time, bishops throughout the Mediterranean—including Augustine of Hippo—found themselves confronted with the problem of free (or freed) Roman citizens being captured by slave traders and sold into bondage to their fellow Romans within the territory of the late Roman state. In light of the susceptibility of Roman populations to violent enslavement in late antiquity, this paper will explore fourth- and fifth-century conceptions of what members of a society owed one another, why, and how far those obligations extended.

This talk is held in connection with the Graduate Group seminar “Carthage: The View from Elsewhere”, and is sponsored by the Graduate Group in Archaeology, Classics, and History of Art.

November 2 – Michaël Darin Seminar

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The Center for Visual Culture and the Department of the Growth and Structure of Cities at Bryn Mawr College and the Art Department at Swarthmore College are offering a special seminar on 19th-century Paris and have invited a scholar from Paris to address the subject of modern urban planning.

“La Comédie Urbaine” : Paris as an urban form

What makes Paris modern?  What went into the planning and shaping of Paris?  What is particular to its form and how did it come to be a model for urban planning?  How is its form studied?

Michaël Darin, Professor at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture of Strasbourg, France, has taught and published widely in the field of architectural history and urbanism, with recent publications including studies on Paris’ morphology, “La Comédie Urbaine” (2009) and “Pathworks parisiens, petites leçons d’urbanisme ordinaire” (2012), and various studies on Tel-Aviv, La Roche-sur-Yon and Pontivy, as well as articles concerning the history of the boulevard and topics in 20th-century architecture.

If interested in Paris, urban studies and/or architecture, you are encouraged to participate.  The event will be in English.

 11:00  Friday, Nov. 2, 2012
Ely Room, Wyndham
Bryn Mawr College

Lunch will follow the seminar.

Bryn Mawr students, please RSVP to Jeffrey Cohen, jcohen@brynmawr.edu
All other students, please RSVP to Min Kyung Lee, mlee5@swarthmore.edu

September 26 – José Galvez Lecture

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You are invited to a public lecture sponsored by

Mujeres, LALIPC, the Center for Visual Culture, the Department of Spanish, and the Department of History

José Galvez
Photograper and Writer

will give the

National Hispanic American Heritage Month Keynote Lecture
on the Latino/a Experience in America captured through his photography

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Wednesday, September 26
7:30 pm
Thomas Great Hall

A reception will be held at 5:30 pm in Special Collections, 2nd floor of Canaday Library

– In addition to his lecture, a selection of Mr Galvez’s photographic work will be displayed on the second floor of Canaday Library throughout the fall semester. –

About José Galvez:
For over 40 years, José Galvez has used black and white film to create a powerful and unparalleled historical record of the Latino experience in America. His compelling work, done with respect, pride and no pretense, captures the beauty of daily life. For José, photographing the lives of Latinos is not a one-time project or “current passion” but a lifelong commitment. As an artist, he photographs nothing else. His personal history, love of family, and cultural knowledge enable him to pursue his work with a reverent understanding of the stories behind the images.