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PASC celebrates ’Pataphysics Unrolled, edited by Katie L. Price and Michael R. Taylor and published by Penn State University Press. The Kindle version is available here.
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Jayson Musson as "Jay" with "Ollie," puppeteered by Cedwan Hooks with Jimmica Collins. Episode 3: "Dipping Toes." From Jayson Musson, in collaboration with The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, "His History of Art," 2022. Video still courtesy of the artist; used with permission.
Through Nov. 13, 2022: Jayson Musson: His History of Art, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, 1214 Arch Street, Philadelphia. Musson's video series is "a sitcom orbiting art history and all the fun to be had dancing on the minefield of the past." Accompanying events are still being added; visit The Fabric Workshop and Museum's website for details and updates.
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Click here for full list of PASC-recommended events.
What we doWe believe PASC is a timely initiative that will be a resource for inquiry and collaboration among like-minded scholars, curators, artists, and collectors, generating new research, exhibitions, and performances relating to local and global avant-gardes, as well as Philadelphia’s unique role in the genre.
Who we areCO-DIRECTORS
John Heon David McKnight Michael Taylor STEERING COMMITTEE Tina Brock Christiana Dobrzynski Cheryl Harper Sid Sachs Emily Brewton Schilling ADVISORY BOARD Charles Bernstein Robert Cargni Mitchell Matt Neff Katie Price Jean-Michel Rabaté Mari Shaw Join usIf you're interested in participating in PASC or would like to recommend individuals or institutions to be included, please contact us or email pascinitiative [at] gmail.com.
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A resource for scholars, curators, artists and collectorsThe Philadelphia Avant-Garde Studies Consortium (PASC), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, is a network of educational and cultural institutions and associated scholars, artists, curators, and collectors who combine expertise and resources to foster the advanced study of avant-garde movements and promote related special collections, exhibitions, and performances in the greater Philadelphia area and Delaware Valley region.
Support for projects and collaborationsArtists of all types who have strong local connections and whose works or archives are in collections in the region are important elements of PASC’s focus. These include, among others, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Morton Schamberg, Charles Sheeler, Thomas Chimes, James Brewton, David Lynch, William Carlos Williams, H.D., Ezra Pound, and Harry Mathews. Likewise, certain fields such as literature, the visual arts, theater, film, music, and architecture are central, as are movements or groups such as Dadaism, Surrealism, Futurism, Fluxus, Oulipo, and the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poets.
Interdisciplinary focus
Given the deeply interdisciplinary nature of so many avant-garde movements, other fields not usually considered are pertinent, such as the medical humanities, psychology, philosophy, linguistics, and the history and sociology of science, to name a few. Similarly, although PASC’s main focus is on avant-gardes in Europe and North America, it is not limited to them; the increasingly global nature of avant-garde art and culture requires a global perspective.
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"Apolitical My Ars" symposium, 2017
"RE: ACT" with PASC and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, March 2017
"Re: Actions," PASC's second annual symposium, December 2016
Cover of the program for "Pataphysics Then and Now" conference in Philadelphia, March 2014
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