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Perspectives 172: Kirsten Pieroth
Opening reception: Thursday, September 30, 6:30 - 9:00 p.m.
Gallery walk-through with artist: Thursday, September 30, 6:30 p.m.
On View: October 1, 2010 – January 2, 2011
Berlin-based artist Kirsten Pieroth plays with the materials and histories of everyday objects—books, maps, bottles, maps, and furniture parts. Looking for loose connections and unexpected possibilities in and between commonplace things, she uncovers new opportunities for transformation and communication.
Filled with low-key humor and conceptual-art analysis, Pieroth’s work blends fact and fiction to restage the world as a mutable funhouse, where established functions are simply starting points for musings on the shiftiness of ordinary life. For her CAMH project, Pieroth will explore the history of the life and work of radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937). Perspectives 172: Kirsten Pieroth is organized by CAMH Senior Curator Toby Kamps.
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Dance with Camera
Opening reception: Friday, August 6, 7:00 – 10:00 p.m.
Artists/Scholars Talk: Saturday, August 7, 2:00 p.m.
On view: August 7 – October 17, 2010
Dance with Camera is an exhibition and a screening program that explores the work of a group of artists and dancers who make choreography for the camera. The exhibition features film, video, and still photography that exemplify the ways dance has compelled visual artists to record bodies moving in time and space. The art works in Dance with Camera use the lens as not merely a recording device, but stage and audience simultaneously. The camera creates a unique space for dance; it allows close-ups that bring us near the performer and can move with its subjects, putting the viewer in the heart of the action. The screening program elaborates the show’s theme with iconic dance films, ranging from Busby Berkeley’s Hollywood musicals to Maya Deren’s avant-garde films. Dance with Camera spans seventy years of art and film, and features over thirty artists and filmmakers.
Dance with Camera is originated by the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania and is curated by Jenelle Porter, ICA curator. A 176-page, fully illustrated catalogue published by Institute of Contemporary Art accompanies the exhibition.
ICA is grateful for primary funding from an Anonymous donor. We acknowledge additional support from Jody and John Arnhold & Babette and Harvey Snyder, and The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through Dance Advance. Further funding has been provided by The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation; the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Council on the Arts; The Dietrich Foundation, Inc.; the Overseers Board for the Institute of Contemporary Art; friends and members of ICA; and the University of Pennsylvania.
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Benjamin Patterson: Born in the State of FLUX/us
Opening reception: Friday, November 5, 7:00 – 10:00 p.m.
Artists/Scholars Talk: Saturday, November 6, 2:00 p.m.
On view: November 6, 2010 – January 30, 2011
Benjamin Patterson: Born in the State of FLUX/us is a retrospective of the artist’s career, which now spans nearly fifty years. Emerging in the early 1960s with work that fell under the rubric of Fluxus or Neo-Dada, Benjamin Patterson co-organized the first International Festival of New Music, which debuted at the Staatsmuseum in Wiesbaden in 1961. One of the last surviving members of that constellation of artists whose works were featured at the festival—John Cage, Dick Higgins, Emmett Williams, Philip Corner, David Tudor, and Nam June Paik, among others—Patterson helped to revolutionize the artistic landscape of the times and usher in an era of new and experimental music.
Trained in classical music instrumentation and composition, Patterson made his most significant contribution to Fluxus with his concept of the “gesture of music”—the combination of sound, action, and composition. His iconic works Paper Piece (1959), Variations on Double Bass (1961), and later Lick Piece (1964) have all become staples in the Fluxus performance handbook. For the first time, Patterson’s annotated scores and instructions for performances will be on exhibit. Accompanying these scores is audio and video documentation of the artist’s performances over the last five decades. In addition to scores and performance documentation, Born in the State of FLUX/us will feature one-of-a-kind artist books, puzzle poems, paintings, sculptures and installation works created by Patterson.
Now in his seventies, Patterson is being “discovered” by a new generation of artists. This exhibition marks his first major exhibition, bringing together a multitude of works never before seen in the United States. It also underscores the significant contributions of this artist, whose presence within the dynamic constellation of Fluxus is palpable. This exhibition provides audiences with their first comprehensive look at this artist’s work and explores his contributions to both Fluxus and the larger contemporary art landscape. Born in the State of FLUX/us is organized by CAMH Curator Valerie Cassel Oliver.
Benjamin Patterson: Born In the State of FLUX/us is sponsored in part by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and National Endowment for the Arts, which believes a great nation deserves great art.
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Perspectives 173: Clifford Owens
Opening reception: Thursday, January 6, 6:30 - 9:00 p.m.
Gallery walk-through with artist: Thursday, January 6, 6:30 p.m.
On view: January 7—April 3, 2011
Organized by CAMH Curator Valerie Cassel Oliver.
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Answers to Questions: John Wood & Paul Harrison
Opening reception: Friday, February 3, 7:00 -10:00 p.m.
Artists/Scholars Talk: Saturday, February 4, 2:00 p.m.
On view: February 4—April 24, 2011
Organized by Toby Kamps, senior curator at the CAMH, Answers to Questions: John Wood & Paul Harrison will be the first United States museum survey of work in video by this British artistic team. Wood and Harrison use a wide variety of props, often including their own bodies, to create short video vignettes that highlight the inventive play behind all art, even in its most minimal and conceptual strains. Well known throughout Europe and Asia, and especially in their native England, where they have collaborated since 1993, Wood and Harrison’s imaginative, inventive, and often hilarious shorts will be an exciting new discovery for American audiences.
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Perspectives 174: Teen Council
Opening reception: Thursday, April 7, 6:30 - 9:00 p.m.
Gallery walk-through with artists: Thursday, April 7, 6:30 p.m.
On view: April 8—July 3, 2011
CAMH’s Teen Council presents Perspectives 174, a juried exhibition of work by Houston-area teens.
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Stan VanDerBeek: The Culture Intercom
Opening reception: Friday, May 12, 7:00 -10:00 p.m.
Artists/Scholars Talk: Saturday, May 13, 2:00 p.m.
On view: May 13 – July 31, 2011
CAMH Director Bill Arning and MIT List Visual Arts Center Curator Joao Ribas are organizing the first museum survey of the work of media art pioneer Stan VanDerBeek, exploring his investigation of the links between art, technology, and communication. Surveying the artist’s remarkable body of work in collage, experimental film, performance, participatory, and computer-generated art over three decades, Stan VanDerBeek: The Culture Intercom highlights his pivotal contribution to today’s media-based artistic practices. The exhibition features a selection of early paintings and collages, a selection of his pioneering films, recreations of immersive projections and film environments, documentation of site-specific and telecommunications projects, and material related to his influential writing on media. Co-organized by CAMH and the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA.
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Perspectives 175: Marc Swanson
Opening reception: Thursday, July 7, 6:30 - 9:00 p.m.
Gallery walk-through with artists: Thursday, July 7, 6:30 p.m.
On view: July 8 – October 2, 2011
Curated by CAMH Director Bill Arning.
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Donald Moffett: Twenty Years
Opening reception: Friday, November 10, 7:00 -10:00 p.m.
Artists/Scholars Talk: Saturday, November 11, 2:00 p.m.
On view: November 11, 2011 – January 29, 2012
Organized by CAMH Curator Valerie Cassel Oliver and Eric C. Shiner, The Milton Fine Curator of Art at The Andy Warhol Museum, Donald Moffett: Twenty Years is the first survey exhibition of this American artist’s prolific practice. The exhibition will present work created over the last two decades, surveying nine important bodies of work that interrogate and blur the definition of painting by incorporating non-traditional materials such as video and photography. The exhibition will also address Moffett’s political engagement.
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