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UPCOMING
EVENTS / PAST EVENTS
MOCAD hosts musical, literary, and artistic events throughout
the year. Check back often or contact us at info@mocadetroit.org
if you would like to be kept up to date on upcoming events.
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Sunday,
December 10, 3 PM
READINGS:
Vievee Francis, Bill Harris, and Peter Markus
Vievee Francis has had work appear in Callaloo,
The Crab Orchard Review, markszine
and Dispatch Detroit among others. Her first book
Blue-Tail Fly (Wayne State University Press) was
named by Poets and Writers as a notable book of 2006. Read
an interview with Francis on the Shaman Drum Bookshop
website.
Bill Harris is a playwright, poet, and professor
of English. His New York productions include Stories About
the Old Days, starring S. Epatha Merkerson and Denzel
Washington; and Robert
Johnson: Trick the Devil, with Guy Davis. His books
of poems include Yardbird
Suite: Side One, a bio poem of jazz musician Charlie
Parker (Michigan State University Press), and The Ringmaster's
Array (Past
Tents Press). There are two novels in progress.
Peter Markus is the author of three short
books of short fiction, Good, Brother, The Moon is a Lighthouse,
and The Singing Fish. His stories have appeared
in such journals as 3rd Bed, Post Road, Black Warrior
Review, Massachusetts Review, Quarterly West, New Orleans
Review, among others, and have appeared in anthologies
brought out by Bloomsbury USA and W.W. Norton. He lives in
Michigan. Read
an interview with Peter Markus.
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Thursday, December 7 at 7:30 PM
LECTURE BY PAUL PFEIFFER
Woodward Lecture Series
College for Creative Studies
Walter B. Ford II Building
201 e. Kirby Street
Detroit
Paul Pfeiffer, one of the nine artists exhibited in "Meditations
In An Emergency", will discuss his work.
The following is excerpted from the art:21
website: "Paul Pfeiffer was born in Honolulu, Hawaii in
1966, but spent most of his childhood in the Philippines.
Pfeiffer relocated to New York in 1990, where he attended
Hunter College and the Whitney Independent Study Program.
Pfeifferçs groundbreaking work in video, sculpture, and photography
uses recent computer technologies to dissect the role that
mass media plays in shaping consciousness. In a series of
video works focused on professional sports eventsÊincluding
basketball, boxing, and hockeyÊPfeiffer digitally removes
the bodies of the players from the games, shifting the viewerçs
focus to the spectators, sports equipment, or trophies won.
Presented on small LCD screens and often looped, these intimate
and idealized video works are meditations on faith, desire,
and a contemporary culture obsessed with celebrity. Many of
Pfeifferçs works invite viewers to exercise their imaginations
or project their own fears and obsessions onto the art object.
Several of Pfeifferçs sculptures include eerie, computer-generated
recreations of props from Hollywood thrillers, such as "Poltergeist",
and miniature dioramas of sets from films that include "The
Exorcist" and "The Amityville Horror". Pfeiffer is the recipient
of numerous awards and fellowships, most notably becoming
the inaugural recipient of The Bucksbaum Award given by the
Whitney Museum of American Art (2000). In 2002, Pfeiffer was
an artist-in-residence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
and at ArtPace in San Antonio, Texas. In 2003, a traveling
retrospective of his work was organized by the MIT List Visual
Arts Center and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago."
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Paul Pfeiffer, still
from Live from Neverland (2006)
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Detail of Fachini's
The Rock Box Sound System Plays The Mental Machine.
Photo by Charles Saadiq. |
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Sunday,
November 26
FAMILY DAY
Join us for drawing workshops and other hands-on educational
activities with local artists.
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Saturday,
November 25, 4 PM
spontaneous REACTION!
Aku Kadogo (Sydney/Detroit) is a director/performer/choreographer.
She is currently teaching at Wayne State University. Her World
Physical Performance class is an introduction for students to
performance art. As part of the course each semester, students
will create a response to the exhibit on display at MOCAD For
this semesterçs project students have created short works in
response to or around Meditations in an Emergency.
Kadogo and her students will be available for questions about
ideas and processes afterwards.
Read more on Aku
Kadogo in the Metro Times.
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Sunday, October 29
FAMILY DAY
We invite you to be one of the first to visit the museum and the premier exhibition "Meditations In An Emergency." During MOCAD's Family Day there will be artist-led tours of this inaugural exhibition.
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Weekend of October 28 & 29
HEAR THE MUSIC OF THE MENTAL MACHINE, BY
CHRISTOPHER FACHINI
Detroit sound artist Christopher Fachini has spent the last
four years working on a solo project called "The Mental Machine,"
which will premiere at MOCAD's grand opening in October. Fachini's
performances, inspired by the rebellious energy of dub reggae
music associated with Jamaican independence, will be set against
the Rock Box Sound System. Fachini was described by Chris
Handyside of the Detroit Metro Times as "one of Detroit's
truly under-appreciated musical talents" with an "ear for
the essence of Motown, Phil Spector, the Beach Boys and old
soul pop music." Fachini will be giving live performances
during the museum's opening weekend.
Watch a video of Chris Fachini and the Rock Box Sound System at MOCAD
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Christopher Fachini in his studio.
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Saturday,
October 28
GALLERY TALKS BY CURATOR KLAUS KERTESS
4 PM & 7 PM: "Meditations in an Emergency"
curator Klaus Kertess will lead a gallery talk of the exhibit.
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Klaus Kertess leads
museum visitors through the Meditations in an Emergency
exhibition (October 2006).
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October 26th, 2006
CELEBRATE THE GALA OPENING OF MOCAD
Patrons Preview 6 PM Food
and drinks.
Tour the "Meditations In An
Emergency" exhibition with curator Klaus Kertess. Experience
live performances and meet some of the featured artists.
Contribution $125 per person advance
$135 at the door
Museum Preview 8 PM Hors
dçoeuvres, cash bar.
Experience live performances and meet some of the featured artists.
Contribution $45 per person advance
$55 at the door
Ambient music during the preview hours by Clark Warner, Minus.
Afterparty, 9:30 PM
Ghostly
International presents DJçs Matthew Dear and Ryan Elliott
(Spectral
Sound) from 10-1 AM, cash bar.
Contribution $10 per person
Event Production and support provided by Paxahau
and Burst
To purchase advance tickets to the Grand Opening email info@mocadetroit.org
or send a fax to 248-851-5179.
Grand opening
event co-chairs:
Edward Jackson, Linda Powers
Committee:
John Arnold, Hazel Blake, Sara Blakeman, Joanne Danto, Sharon
Dowdle, Linda Dresner, Nancy Gershenson, Tony Grassadonia, Susanne
Feld Hilberry, Wendy Jahnke, Jody Levy, Lauren Rakolta, Cate
Strumbos, Liza Sweitzer
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