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    • Slought Statement | March 2020
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    • Cheryl Harper interview by John Heon
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    • Jim Brewton by Emily Schilling
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PASC hosts an annual symposium during the fall semester (generally November or December),
posting a Call for Papers, performances, lightning presentations and miscellany during the summer.
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PASC's "Avant-Green, Radical by Nature" symposium will be held in Fall 2023.

PASC's upcoming symposium, Autumn 2023: 

Avant-Green, Radical by Nature 
Environmentalism, Ecology, and the Natural World
in Avant-Garde Art and Thought of the Anthropocene


for more on the topic >>

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Allen Ginsberg at Philadelphia's Earth Week in 1970
1970 Earth Week logo
Philadelphia's first Earth Week is an enormous success in 1970.

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“Ad Absurdum: The Politics and Poetics of Absurdity in Avant-Garde Art and Thought” took place online ​
Friday, December 4, 2020, 1 to 4 p.m.
 (U.S. Eastern Time)

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A good snort: Zero Mostel, probably photographed by Leo Friedman, in Eugène Ionesco's "Rhinocéros."

Participants from past symposia
​and more about their projects:

'Invisible City,' an exploration of all that's avant garde in the City of Philadelphia, curated by Sid Sachs, Director of Exhibitions, University of the Arts, was on view January 21, 2020, until the Covid-caused shutdown.  

Invisible City is also a fantastic database, with a searchable chronology, interviews and more. This comprehensive project is a boon to artists, curators, scholars, researchers--and Philadelphia.
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Click to visit the Invisible City website, which offers a glimpse of why the 2020 exhibition is going to be so impressive.
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Click for the database: 'Invisible City' is searchable by genres, dates, names ... Philadelphia's unexpectedly wide-ranging and important cultural avant-garde contributions are fascinating.
Sid Sachs
Sid Sachs, Director of Exhibitions, University of the Arts, gives an electrifying talk about "Technology and Art at the Tyler School of Art in the 1960s" at PASC's 2018 symposium on Dec. 7. Watch for news of his exhibition, "Invisible City," an exploration of all that's avant garde in the City of Philadelphia. "Invisible City" promises to be an exciting and important show. Sited in multiple venues and featuring reenactments of Happenings and all sorts of events, we eagerly anticipate this celebration of Philadelphia's rich cultural history, Jan. 21 through April 4, 2020.
Thomas Patteson, Professor of Music History, Curtis Institute of Music, spoke about 'Abstract Machines in Experimental Music' at PASC's Dec. 7, 2018, symposium. ​Among highlights of his talk was an audience hoot-along with a recording of John White's 'Drinking and Hooting Machine' (1968).
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Hoot along with the Ensemble for Experimental Music and Theater's performance in Japan's Kichijoji Theater, Jan. 26, 2014. As you sip, swig or gulp, the sound of your hooting will change. (Links to Youtube)
After the day's events, Thomas Patteson gave a modular synthesizer performance.
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John White's "Drinking and Hooting Machine" score (1968)
For more about Thomas Patteson's work, visit his website.
Katie Hubbell dazzled us with 'Dreamsicle, Dreamcycle' at the 2018 symposium.
To hear it and learn more about her work, visit her website.
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  • Home | About
  • Projects | Events
    • Upcoming >
      • Past recommended events
    • Avant Green
    • Absurd
    • Illuminating the 'Invisible City' | November 2019
    • A very nice panel on 'Dionysus' | April 2019
    • The 'Vivifying Current of Science' | December 2018
    • Apolitical, My Ars! | December 2017
    • RE: ACT | March 2017
    • Re: Actions | December 2016
    • Locating the Avant-Garde | October 2015
    • Philadelphia à la Pataphysique | March 2014
  • Interviews | Blog
    • Metafiction by Matt Madden | October 2021
    • Matt Madden's EX LIBRIS | September 2021
    • Slought Statement | March 2020
    • Black Women Make Art by Janyce Denise Glasper
    • Charles Bernstein wins Bollingen Prize
    • Cheryl Harper interview by John Heon
    • Slought Post-Election Statement
    • A Necessary Luxury by Tina Brock
    • Jim Brewton by Emily Schilling
    • Workshop Series at Princeton
    • Welcome to PASC
  • Partners | Presenters
  • Calls for Papers
  • Contact us