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The Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium's 2015 production of “Exit the King,” by Eugene Ionesco. Photo: Johanna Austin
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PAST EVENTS | 2019
MARCH 2019
MARCH 24, 8 p.m.: Ars Nova Workshop presents Yunohana Variations. Experimental music with YoshimiO, drums; Susie Ibarra, drums and percussion; and Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe (Lichens), electronics. Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 N. Frankford Avenue, Philadelphia. $18 General Admission; details and tickets, visit Ars Nova Workshop's website.
FRIDAY, MARCH 1: "PEAL," a special Modernism conference (see below) event, 6:15 to 7:15 pm. Randall Couch, author of Peal (Coracle Press, 2017), "together with performers from Charlottesville-based Orchestral Maneuvers, presents an inter-genre work combining aspects of text art, algorithmic composition, and conceptualist poetry. The presentation will include an introduction to change-ringing and the book’s genesis, followed by a reading and polyvocal performance. Concrete and conceptual, structured and sensuous, in performance Peal offers the opportunity for procedural poetry to be both heard and deeply felt. Orchestral Maneuvers performers include Sandra Bain Cushman, Molly Derdeyn, Connor Douglas, Lisa Goff, Kathy Kuhlmann, Virginia Osterman, Laura Rogers, Tucker Rogers, and Thea Tupelo-Schneck, as well as Phil Walker (Charlottesville support team).
"Interested in learning more about Peal? We encourage you to visit the exhibition "Writers Making Books," presented in conjunction with the Pew Foundation's regional project "Whitman at 200: Art and Democracy," at Arcadia University's Spruance Art Gallery in Glenside, PA, February 28–April 21, 2019." -- the Kislak Center's website
"Interested in learning more about Peal? We encourage you to visit the exhibition "Writers Making Books," presented in conjunction with the Pew Foundation's regional project "Whitman at 200: Art and Democracy," at Arcadia University's Spruance Art Gallery in Glenside, PA, February 28–April 21, 2019." -- the Kislak Center's website
FEBRUARY 2019
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FEB. 28 - MARCH 2: ‘Modernism – Materiality – Meaning’
FREE three-day conference, Thursday, Feb. 28 through Saturday, March 2, at the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, 3420 Walnut St., Philadelphia. The conference is free and open to the public, but seating is limited; attendees are asked to register. PASC co-sponsors Session III on March 1, "James Joyce, Surrealism, and the Gotham Book Mart," featuring a talk by Dr. Matthew Affron, Curator of Modern Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, on Marcel Duchamp's work in the 1940s and his Gotham window, "Lazy Hardware." The Modernism conference is in conjunction with "Wise Men Fished Here: A Centennial Exhibition in Honor of the Gotham Book Mart, 1920–2020," up Feb. 18 through May 20. From the Kislak Center’s website: “During its formative years, the Gotham Book Mart was one of the few book shops in North America to specialize in avant-garde and modernist literature, film, and art. Over its long run of 85 years in business, the shop attracted not only New Yorkers but also an international clientele eager to purchase little magazines and small press publications. Like other modernist bookshops, the Gotham Book Mart not only served as a retail space, but also acted as a publisher, distributor, and agent. The shop played an advocacy role for independent publishers seeking a space to promote new books, and provided a meeting place and salon for many writers. Above all, founder Frances Steloff provided support and friendship to five generations of Anglo-American and European writers (and expatriates) who visited her shop in midtown New York. |
Click for more about the exhibition, up through May 20, 2019
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"Responding to growing interest in the concept of the modernist book store, the ‘Modernism – Materiality – Meaning’ conference will provide a framework for exploring the role of the Gotham Book Mart within the larger context of the printing arts, non-commercial publishing, retailing, and the marketing of modernism, with particular attention to the important role of little magazines and small presses. Other topics will include Surrealism, the New York poetry scene, the Beats, Edward Gorey, and much more. The conference will be preceded by a film festival inspired by the Gotham Book Mart’s promotion of modernist film. Other events will include a poetry reading, panels, and workshops.
"Speakers participating in the conference include keynote speaker Andrew Thacker (Nottingham Trent Oxford University), Lise Jaillant (Loughborough University), Matthew Affron (Philadelphia Museum of Art), Steve Clay (Granary Books), Brian Cassidy (Brian Cassidy Books), Anne Waldman (Naropa University), Dan Saxon (magazine publisher), Paul Saint-Amour (UPenn), Jean-Christophe Cloutier (UPenn), Josh Kotin (Princeton University), Brad Duncan (UPenn), Liliane Weissberg (UPenn), Michael Duncan (art critic), Michael Thurston (Smith College), Steve Rothman (book collector), and Tim Murray (University of Delaware), among others.
"Speakers participating in the conference include keynote speaker Andrew Thacker (Nottingham Trent Oxford University), Lise Jaillant (Loughborough University), Matthew Affron (Philadelphia Museum of Art), Steve Clay (Granary Books), Brian Cassidy (Brian Cassidy Books), Anne Waldman (Naropa University), Dan Saxon (magazine publisher), Paul Saint-Amour (UPenn), Jean-Christophe Cloutier (UPenn), Josh Kotin (Princeton University), Brad Duncan (UPenn), Liliane Weissberg (UPenn), Michael Duncan (art critic), Michael Thurston (Smith College), Steve Rothman (book collector), and Tim Murray (University of Delaware), among others.
FEB. 5 - 24: Elmer Rice's "Dream Girl," The Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium
("We Bring Good Nothingness to Life"), Philadelphia's own theater of the absurd, presents its 2019 season. Website and tickets here.
Elmer Rice's "Dream Girl," directed by Tina Brock, runs Feb. 5 through 24, 2019, presented at The Sanctuary at St. Mary's Church, Hamilton Village, 3916 Locust Walk. From IRC's website: "A lovely young woman quite inefficiently runs a bookstore, where the slightest suggestions send her off into the most extravagant daydreams. Thirty-two characters bring to life the Philadelphia premiere of this comedy in two acts from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'The Adding Machine.'"
Tickets are also now on sale for "Betty's Summer Vacation" by Christopher Durang, June 11-30, 2019, presented at The Walnut Street Theatre's Independence Studio on 3.
("We Bring Good Nothingness to Life"), Philadelphia's own theater of the absurd, presents its 2019 season. Website and tickets here.
Elmer Rice's "Dream Girl," directed by Tina Brock, runs Feb. 5 through 24, 2019, presented at The Sanctuary at St. Mary's Church, Hamilton Village, 3916 Locust Walk. From IRC's website: "A lovely young woman quite inefficiently runs a bookstore, where the slightest suggestions send her off into the most extravagant daydreams. Thirty-two characters bring to life the Philadelphia premiere of this comedy in two acts from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'The Adding Machine.'"
Tickets are also now on sale for "Betty's Summer Vacation" by Christopher Durang, June 11-30, 2019, presented at The Walnut Street Theatre's Independence Studio on 3.
THROUGH FEB. 18 & 25: MoMA, New York City: Bruce Nauman retrospective, "Disappearing Acts," is ongoing through Feb. 18, 2019 (and through Feb 25 at MoMA's PS1 location). Visit MoMA's website for more.
The PS1 exhibition is well worth the quick journey: from MoMA, go across 53rd Street to the subway station on 53rd near 5th Ave.) and take the E or the M to Court Square/23rd Street Station. Walk south three blocks to PS1 at 22-25 Jackson Ave, New York, NY 11101. The whole trip should take less than 20 minutes. For map, hours, driving directions and more, see www.moma.org/visit/ .
Philadelphia and PASC have connections with Bruce Nauman, whose "Topological Gardens," was the U.S. exhibition in the 2009 Venice Biennale, commissioned by curators Michael R. Taylor (PASC Co-Director) and Carlos Basualdo for the Philadelphia Museum of Art. "Topological Gardens" won the Golden Lion award for best national pavilion. Later that year, Bruce Nauman's "Days" and "Giorni," sound installations that were part of the exhibition in Venice, made their U.S. debut at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
The PS1 exhibition is well worth the quick journey: from MoMA, go across 53rd Street to the subway station on 53rd near 5th Ave.) and take the E or the M to Court Square/23rd Street Station. Walk south three blocks to PS1 at 22-25 Jackson Ave, New York, NY 11101. The whole trip should take less than 20 minutes. For map, hours, driving directions and more, see www.moma.org/visit/ .
Philadelphia and PASC have connections with Bruce Nauman, whose "Topological Gardens," was the U.S. exhibition in the 2009 Venice Biennale, commissioned by curators Michael R. Taylor (PASC Co-Director) and Carlos Basualdo for the Philadelphia Museum of Art. "Topological Gardens" won the Golden Lion award for best national pavilion. Later that year, Bruce Nauman's "Days" and "Giorni," sound installations that were part of the exhibition in Venice, made their U.S. debut at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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FEB. 19: "Jasper Johns: Redo an Eye": Talk by Dr. Roberta Bernstein at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Tuesday, Feb. 19, 6 to 7 pm.
Perelman Auditorium, Perelman Building. (Tickets are free with museum admission; members free). Dr. Bernstein, project director of Jasper Johns: Catalogue Raisonné of Painting and Sculpture, discusses her new book and experience working with Jasper Johns. For more information, visit the Philadelphia Museum of Art website, the Jasper Johns Catalogue Raisonné Project site, in association with The Wildenstein Plattner Institute and published by Yale University Press. |
Poster for a 1964 Jasper Johns exhibition at The Jewish Museum in New York. (Courtesy James Brewton Foundation)
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FEB. 7 - 17: Philly Theatre Week. Events, discounted tickets: visit Theatre Philadelphia's website.
THROUGH FEB. 17: Slought, 4017 Walnut St., Philadelphia: Photography in Crisis: Depression Era, 2011-2019, a retrospective exhibition presenting the Depression Era project, a collective lens-based arts project based in Athens, Greece, with work that engages the so-called "Greek crisis" and its aftermath, on display through February 17, 2019. During this time, Allan Sekula's "Waiting for the Tear Gas" (1999) will also be on view in the Slought Mediatheque as a companion piece to the exhibition.
The opening reception, Thursday, Jan. 17, featured a conversation featuring with members of the collective, including Pavlos Fysakis, Yiannis Hadjiaslanis, Yorgos Prinos, Georges Salameh, Vangelis Tatsis, and Pasqua Vorgia.
The opening reception, Thursday, Jan. 17, featured a conversation featuring with members of the collective, including Pavlos Fysakis, Yiannis Hadjiaslanis, Yorgos Prinos, Georges Salameh, Vangelis Tatsis, and Pasqua Vorgia.
FEB. 11 & 12: JOHN R. KEENE at Kelly Writers House, part of the Kelly Writers House Fellows program. Reading, Feb. 11 at 6:30 p.m.; brunch conversation, Feb. 12 at 10 a.m. Both programs will be broadcast live on KWH-TV; attendance is by RSVP only to whfellow [at] writing.upenn.edu.
From the KWH website: "John R. Keene, born in St. Louis in 1965, is a poet, fiction writer, essayist, translator, and professor best known for his fictions, "Annotations" (1995, New Directions) and "Counternarratives" (2015, New Directions). The latter book received an American Book Award. Keene received his bachelor's degree from Harvard College, and an MFA from New York University, where he was a New York Times Fellow. In 1989, Keene joined the Dark Room Writers Collective, and has been a Graduate Fellow of the Cave Canem Writers Workshops. He is the author of the poetry collection "Seismosis," with artist Christopher Stackhouse, and a translation of Brazilian author Hilda Hilst's novel "Letters from a Seducer." Keene received a 2005 Whiting Writers Award for fiction and poetry. He has had his work published in a wide array of journals, including African-American Review, AGNI, Encyclopedia, Gay and Lesbian Review, Hambone, Indiana Review, Kenyon Review, Mandorla, Ploughshares, and Public Space. He teaches at Rutgers-Newark where he is an Associate Professor of English and chair of the Department of African American and African studies. He also teaches in the MFA program in Creative Writing. John Keene is a 2018 MacArthur Fellow."
From the KWH website: "John R. Keene, born in St. Louis in 1965, is a poet, fiction writer, essayist, translator, and professor best known for his fictions, "Annotations" (1995, New Directions) and "Counternarratives" (2015, New Directions). The latter book received an American Book Award. Keene received his bachelor's degree from Harvard College, and an MFA from New York University, where he was a New York Times Fellow. In 1989, Keene joined the Dark Room Writers Collective, and has been a Graduate Fellow of the Cave Canem Writers Workshops. He is the author of the poetry collection "Seismosis," with artist Christopher Stackhouse, and a translation of Brazilian author Hilda Hilst's novel "Letters from a Seducer." Keene received a 2005 Whiting Writers Award for fiction and poetry. He has had his work published in a wide array of journals, including African-American Review, AGNI, Encyclopedia, Gay and Lesbian Review, Hambone, Indiana Review, Kenyon Review, Mandorla, Ploughshares, and Public Space. He teaches at Rutgers-Newark where he is an Associate Professor of English and chair of the Department of African American and African studies. He also teaches in the MFA program in Creative Writing. John Keene is a 2018 MacArthur Fellow."
FEB. 8: Wolf Humanities Center symposium, "Stuff: Anxieties and Aspirations of the Material World," Friday, Feb. 8, 2019, from 9:30 am to 6 pm. Held at the Institute of Contemporary Art, 118 S. 36th Street, Philadelphia; for more information and RSVP, visit Wolf Humanities Center's site. FREE and open to the public.
From WHC's website: "'Stuff: Anxieties and Aspirations of the Material World' asks us to reconsider our relationship with stuff - the materials and matter that surround us on a daily basis. Stuff speaks both to the promises and perils entangled in things. Through the lens of aspiration and anxiety, the program will reflect on the creation, use, preservation, discarding and collection of stuff across geographic and temporal contexts. In doing so, the symposium brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to examine these themes and to probe the ethics, promise, and recalcitrance of human engagement with the material world."
From WHC's website: "'Stuff: Anxieties and Aspirations of the Material World' asks us to reconsider our relationship with stuff - the materials and matter that surround us on a daily basis. Stuff speaks both to the promises and perils entangled in things. Through the lens of aspiration and anxiety, the program will reflect on the creation, use, preservation, discarding and collection of stuff across geographic and temporal contexts. In doing so, the symposium brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to examine these themes and to probe the ethics, promise, and recalcitrance of human engagement with the material world."
FEB. 6: The Decolonial Imagination, 5 to 7 pm at Slought, 4017 Walnut St., Philadelphia. From Slought's website: "a conversation with Walter D. Mignolo, Gabriel Abudu, and Victor E. Taylor on the history and development of decolonial thought and theory, on Wednesday, February 6, 2019, from 5 to 7 pm. This event is co-presented with the York College of Pennsylvania's Institute for Civic Arts and Humanities and the Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania.
"The Decolonial Imagination engages Mignolo's recent book with Catherine E. Walsh entitled On Decoloniality: Concepts, Analytics, Praxis. As Mignolo writes, decoloniality is a way to fundamentally address and resist how human beings are being "ruled." It is an examination and confrontation of power alongside and before coloniality—the material conditions for invasion and control. Decoloniality is also a way of imagining, a process of creatively shaping a world-future that holds the possibility of an existence radically unaligned with Western systems of epistemological, political, and theological hegemony. The decolonial imaginary gives us a perspective on these possibilities and the material conditions required to bring them more fully to life in the arts, literature, and politics."
"The Decolonial Imagination engages Mignolo's recent book with Catherine E. Walsh entitled On Decoloniality: Concepts, Analytics, Praxis. As Mignolo writes, decoloniality is a way to fundamentally address and resist how human beings are being "ruled." It is an examination and confrontation of power alongside and before coloniality—the material conditions for invasion and control. Decoloniality is also a way of imagining, a process of creatively shaping a world-future that holds the possibility of an existence radically unaligned with Western systems of epistemological, political, and theological hegemony. The decolonial imaginary gives us a perspective on these possibilities and the material conditions required to bring them more fully to life in the arts, literature, and politics."
JANUARY 2019
Wednesday, Jan. 23, 6 p.m. in the Arts Cafe at Kelly Writers House: A READING BY NASSER HUSSAIN (Writers Without Borders) hosted by Al Filreis. From KWH's website: "NASSER HUSSAIN is a Lecturer in Literature and Creative Writing at Leeds Beckett University. He published his first full collection of poetry, boldface, with Burning Eye Press in 2014. His work has appeared in a number of poetry journals and anthologies, most recently in Wretched Strangers (BoilerHouse press, 2018), and Concrete and Constraint (Penteract Press, 2018). His current poetic interest is mass transit, and his latest book, SKY WRI TEI NGS (Coach House Press 2018) is a book of poems written entirely from IATA airport codes. Tweet him @nassershussain"
Thursday and Friday, Jan. 17 (5:30 to 8 pm) and 18 (9 am to 5 pm), 2019, "Digital & Archival Approaches to Theater History, conference in honor of the Philadelphia Playbills Project at Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, sixth floor 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA. Free and open to the public (please show photo ID at entrance).
From the UPenn Libraries' website: "The challenge of theater and performance history has always been how to reconstruct and understand ephemeral events of a previous age. This conference addresses how scholars, librarians, archivists, and digital humanists take on this challenge in the 21st century as we look back at the materials in our archives that document past performances and look forward to the way new digital approaches can transform the we approach the study of theater history. Please register to attend here.
"We are grateful for the generous support of the National Endowment for the Humanities for making this conference possible."
From the UPenn Libraries' website: "The challenge of theater and performance history has always been how to reconstruct and understand ephemeral events of a previous age. This conference addresses how scholars, librarians, archivists, and digital humanists take on this challenge in the 21st century as we look back at the materials in our archives that document past performances and look forward to the way new digital approaches can transform the we approach the study of theater history. Please register to attend here.
"We are grateful for the generous support of the National Endowment for the Humanities for making this conference possible."