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Upcoming & current events we recommend
Installation view of "Sketchbook, With Foreboding" by Renee Stout. 2019, oil and acrylic on wood panel, at African American Museum in Philadelphia. Part of the two-venue exhibition, "Rising Sun: Artists in an Uncertain America," up through Oct. 8, 2023. Photo by Emily Schilling.
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Installation view at PAFA: "Delegate" (detail) by Rose B. Simpson. 2022, glazed ceramic, steel, hardware, twine, rope, and grout, 75" x 21" x 16". Photo by Emily Schilling.
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MARCH 23 - OCT. 8: Rising Sun: Artists in an Uncertain America, a collaborative, multivenue exhibition presented by The African American Museum in Philadelphia (AAMP) and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA). Commissioned new works examine the timely question: “Is the sun rising or setting on the experiment of American democracy?” Installations by 20 celebrated artists explore themes of equality, free speech, and other tenets of democracy. For information on the exhibition, events and programs, visit RisingSunPhilly.org. AAMP: 701 Arch Street; and PAFA: 118-128 N. Broad Street, Philadelphia.
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Installation view of "Afterwork#10," by Rodrigo Valenzuela. 2021, gelatin
silver print, 24” x 30”, edition 1 of 3, on view at The Print Center through July 15. Photo by Emily Schilling.
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THROUGH JULY 15: solo exhibition, Rodrigo Valenzuela: Workforce, recent and newly created work by the Chilean-born artist, at The Print Center. Opening reception: Friday, April 14, at 5:30 p.m. The Print Center, 1614 Latimer Street, Philadelphia.
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THROUGH JUNE 4: Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art in London presents On Discomfort, solo exhibition by artist Pilvi Takala (b. 1981, Finland). The exhibition includes the multi-channel installation Close Watch (2022), which was presented at the Finnish Pavilion for the 2022 Venice Biennale. Takala was employed as a security guard at a large shopping mall and filmed subsequent workshops with her colleagues. Goldsmiths CCA, St James’s, New Cross, London, UK.
THROUGH SEPT. 9: "Roth Bar" at Hauser & Wirth St. Moritz. A fully-functional bar, conceived by artist Dieter Roth in the early 1980s, activates the gallery’s ground floor space as a hub for socializing and performances. At Roth's request, a bar formed part of his first show with Hauser & Wirth in 1997. Since its first iteration, the bar has evolved. Versions have operated at Reykjavik Art Museum in 2005; Hauser & Wirth Coppermill, London (2006); HangarBicocca, Milan (2013); to Hauser & Wirth Zurich, and Hotel Les Trois Rois, Basel (2015). It was last shown in 2019 at Museum Tinguely in Basel. For those who visit Switzerland this summer, a trip to St. Moritz might be on order. The bar is open Thursdays 11 am – 7 pm and Fridays and Saturdays, 11 am – 11 pm. Via Serlas 22, 7500 St. Moritz, Switzerland. For those who can't get there in person, enjoy the display online.
Books and Essays
Essay: "Ballet Mécanique and Interwar Avant-Garde Cinema" by Sean Smalley, Library Technical Assistant II at the New York Public Library (NYPL). Posted Feb. 7, 2023, Smalley's study of a 16-mm print in the archives at NYPL's Library for Performing Arts, the Dadaist film Ballet Mécanique, is a fascinating look at an avant-garde film made in 1924 by Fernand Léger with George Antheil and Dudley Murphy.
’Pataphysics Unrolled (2022, Penn State University Press), edited by Katie L. Price and Michael R. Taylor, explores pataphysics' "presence through modernism, postmodernism, and into contemporary experimental practices, capturing the imaginations of writers, artists, thinkers, and musicians," writes Price in her introduction.
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All images from EX LIBRIS are copyrighted by Matt Madden and used with permission.
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PASC recommends Matt Madden's EX LIBRIS by Uncivilized Books. The reviews are glowing:
Ed Park's review in The New York Times calls Madden “the stunt-man philosopher of American comics” and describes Ex Libris as a work with “virtuoso books-within-bookishness” in which “insider wit abounds.” Read The New York Times review here. Publisher’s Weekly selected Ex Libris as the only graphic novel on its 2021 Top 20 Independent Publishers list, calling it an “endlessly inventive work” that “is a metafictional master class in comics.” "A mind-bending journey through an wide array of genres and states of consciousness," says PASC's John Heon, reviewing it here. |
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FALL 2023: PASC Symposium, “Avant-Green, Radical by Nature: Environmentalism, Ecology, and the Natural World in Avant-Garde Art and Thought,” hybrid event in Philadelphia and online. For more about the topic, click here.
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An estimated 40,000 to 60,000 people attended Philadelphia's Earth Day event in 1970 at Fairmount Park. Photo © 1970 Earth Week Committee of Philadelphia, which grants free use of the images under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license.
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Every Saturday from May 2020 through October 2021, host Tina Brock (above) and producers Erica Hoelscher and Bob Schmidt brought us "Into the Absurd," online conversations with fascinating Philadelphians. They cheered our weary quarantines, gathering a wonderful collection of insights into many artistic lives. Click image for the episode archive.
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OCCASIONAL: Online series, Into the Absurd: A Virtually Existential Dinner Conversation. Hosted by Tina Brock and produced by Erica Hoelscher and Bob Schmidt, The Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium (IRC), these hour-long conversations took place every Saturday during the first year of the pandemic. The show will return occasionally, and the recorded archive serves as an inspiring glimpse into the lives and work of many Philadelphians--"interesting, funny and wickedly bright conversationalists whose work you've come to know and appreciate," says the IRC. "A dream for years has been to round up favorite creators and artists from the IRC and the broader community at the dinner table. And so, Into the Absurd, a Virtually Existential Dinner Party was born. ... We'll gather with a guest for the better part of an hour to explore what it means to live and to think about art in a brave new world -- how our thinking and actions are changing in our community and in neighborhoods and the country."
New episodes will be announced; in the meantime, dip into the archive on Youtube. It's a Philadelphia-centric delight. |
The Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium's production of "The New Electric Ballroom" by Enda Walsh, scheduled for a June 2020 run at The Walnut Street Theatre Independence Studio on 3, is postponed until 2022.
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2023: "The New Electric Ballroom" by Enda Walsh, directed by Peggy Mecham and brought to us by The Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium (IRC), Philadelphia's theater company with the mission to "bring good nothingness to life."
The IRC's Tina Brock and Peggy Mecham discuss "The New Electric Ballroom" in a 24-minute video recorded for PASC's online symposium, Dec. 4, 2020; click here to view it on YouTube. 
Director Peggy Mecham and IRC Founding Artistic Director Tina Brock discuss "The New Electric Ballroom"; click image to watch on YouTube.
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