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    • 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
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    • Taji Ra'oof Nahl Named 2024 Guggenheim Fellow | April 2024
    • 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
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PASC hosts an symposia and events,
posting calls for papers, proposed performances, lightning presentations and miscellany a few months in advance.
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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, was on view at University of the Arts and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from January 21, 2020, until the Covid-caused shutdown.  

Invisible City was also a database with a searchable chronology, interviews and more. This comprehensive project was a boon to artists, curators, scholars, researchers--and Philadelphia. In June 2024, University of the Arts abruptly shut down, and the database is gone.
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A glimpse of the former database: 'Invisible City' was searchable by genres, dates, names ... celebrating Philadelphia's unexpectedly wide-ranging and important cultural avant-garde contributions.
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Installation photo from 'Invisible City' at UArts. (Photo: John Heon.)
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
    • 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
    • Taji Ra'oof Nahl Named 2024 Guggenheim Fellow | April 2024
    • 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