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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 30 from 1-3 pm
"FUN WITH WORDS"
KIDS CRAFT & ACTIVITY DAY
Parents can enjoy a free cup of coffee from MOCAD's brand new
café while kids craft away and enjoy the music. Kids
can create their own buttons, magnets and work booklets that
include word games, collage space and questions to connect
kids with the current exhibition WORDS FAIL ME and
help them explore the relationship between language and art.
This event is free and open to the public. All materials are
provided. Please call ahead for large groups.
The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) invites kids
of all ages (that includes parents too) to pick up a glue stick,
some coloring markers, and create your own holiday gifts while
indulging your creative impulses Sunday, December 30, 1-3pm
for our monthly KIDS CRAFT & ACTIVITY DAY.
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Sunday,
December 16 at 3 pm
LITERATURE READING: TERRY BLACKHAWK, DANIEL PADILLA AND
TYREE GUYTON WITH JENENNE WHITFIELD
Brought to you by MOCAD, Marick Press & Wayne State University
Press
Marick Press, MOCAD, and WSU Press are building on their successful
individual readings to form a collaborative reading highlighting
local writers and literary artists. This collaboration is extended
to all small presses in the area. Come and support small presses
and their authors, artists and musicians at MOCAD!
Writers will have books available for signing. Refreshments
will be provided.
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Sunday,
December 16 from 1-3 pm
THE SISTERS LUCAS
At The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit
"FUN WITH WORDS"
KIDS CRAFT & ACTIVITY DAY
Every Third Sunday
Parents can enjoy a free cup of coffee from MOCAD's brand new
café while kids craft away and enjoy the music. Kids
can create their own buttons, magnets and work booklets that
include word games, collage space and questions to connect
kids with the current exhibition WORDS FAIL ME and
help them explore the relationship between language and art.
This event is free and open to the public. All materials are
provided. Please call ahead for large groups.
The December 16th Kids Craft & Activity Day will feature live
music by The Sisters Lucas. Leaving behind her Larkspurs, and
joined by sister Julie, Loretta Lucas continues on down the
path laid before her by the likes of Dolly Parton, Loretta
Lynn, Cat Power's Chan Marshall, and Miss Polly Jean Harvey.
Combing wistful pop, with a bare bones countrified sensibility,
to create a a blissful hybrid sure to please kids and adults
alike.
Watch
a video of the Sisters Lucas.
Visit
the Sisters Lucas at Myspace.
The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) invites kids
of all ages (that includes parents too) to pick up a glue stick,
some coloring markers, and create your own holiday gifts while
indulging your creative impulses Sunday, December 16, 1-3pm
for our monthly KIDS CRAFT & ACTIVITY DAY.
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Top: Two museum
visitors in front of a Jennifer West film. Middle and
Bottom: the Sisters Lucas (Loretta and Julie). |
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Friday,
December 14 at 8 pm
MOCAD and the
Crofoot are proud to present
MUSIC: RRIICCEE
FEATURING; VINCENT
GALLO / ERIC ERLANDSON / REBECCA CASABIAN / NIKOLAS HAAS
all ages
$15
Tickets are available in advance through the
Crofoot.
Vincent Gallo (born Buffalo, NY on April 11th, 1962) and Eric
Erlandson (born Los Angeles, CA on January 9th, 1963) have
formed a new musical project, RRIICCEE. Gallo, a movie actor,
filmmaker and musician, is the critically acclaimed writer
and director of such films like Buffalo 66 and The
Brown Bunny. He has released two solo albums on the British
recording label, Warp Records, and also collaborated with the
artist Jean-Michel Basquiat in the New York no-wave musical
group Gray. Erlandson is the former guitarist and founding
member of the rock band Hole, along with Courtney Love. The
band released three albums including their 1994 commercial
breakthrough, Live Through This. RRIICCEE will embark
on their debut national tour in December.
RRIICCEE is a spontaneous collective between the two musicians
(with the potential of additional members) and exhibits the
creation of composition within a live performance. For all
appearances, the outfit does not perform pre-written music
and is not limited to the boundaries of one specific musical
genre. At the present time, RRIICCEE has no recorded music
and has no plans on recording a commercial release.
Gallo offered, "Improvisation is not a good word for what we're
doing. It's more a gesture of composing and performing at the
same time, always hoping to avoid musical cliché or
jamming. We've chosen not to go into a studio in a traditional
way like other bands have done in the past: to make recordings,
cut them up, dub on them, fine tune and mix them, and then
release them as an album, then later, go on tour, pantomiming
those recordings over and over each night as a form of cabaret.
Instead, for a long time now, we've chosen to remain open,
to grow and change more naturally, and when we play live, the
music is often created during the performance. If we choose
to record a performance, the recording itself is only evidence
of that creative moment. The purpose of recording then, is
to listen back for enjoyment."
RRIICCEE have previously performed at the Fuji Rock Festival
in Japan as well as a performance in San Francisco in 2007.
For more info go to Vincent
Gallo's website.
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Friday,
December 7
MUSIC AT MOCAD:
TONY CONRAD WITH M.V.
CARBON (10 PM)
WINDY & CARL (9
PM)
WOLF EYES (11
PM)
8 pm doors, all ages
$16 admission
Tony Conrad will
perform live in collaboration with M.V.
Carbon (formerly of Chicago's Metalux) along with internationally
acclaimed, Dearborn-based, ambient "space rock" minimalists, Windy & Carl,
and Detroit/Ann Arbor-based, international compositional-noise-rock
icons Wolf
Eyes.
Saturday, December 8 at 7 pm
TONY
CONRAD FILMS AND DISCUSSION
2.5 hour program
$9 admission
Tony Conrad will screen and discuss a 2.5-hour retrospective
program of his films.
December 7 & 8
A WEEKEND WITH TONY CONRAD
$23 advance tickets available for Friday & Saturday available through December 6
$23 advance tickets are for sale here (throuth Paypal), at
the MOCAD bookstore, and at Stormy
Records (Dearborn) through December 6. Individual tickets
will be for sale at the door on the nights of the events. Online
sales are will call only.
TONY CONRAD (b. 1941) is the quintessential cult figure; resident
outsider; rebel angel; TonyConrad's got the kind of immaculate
credibility that can't be bought and can't be sold -- and how
else, otherwise, could he have persevered? Rumbling under the
cultural radar since the Kennedy Era, Conrad is at once first
cause and last laugh, a covert operative who can stand as a
primary influence over succeeding generations.
At the core of Conrad's legend is his work as a violinist,
in which primal, enveloping drones create an oscillating ritual
theater. In 1962 he co-founded the groundbreaking ensemble
known as the Dream Syndicate. Wielding a drone both aggressively
confrontational and subtly mesmerizing, he and his collaborators
-- including La Monte Young and future Velvet Underground co-founders
John Cale and Angus MacLise -- created some of the most revolutionary
music of that -- or any -- decade. Utilizing long durations,
precise pitch and blistering volume, Conrad and co. forged
a "Dream Music" that articulated the Big Bang of "minimalism." However,
the many rehearsal and performance tapes from this period were
repressed by Young, becoming the stuff of legend.
Following the dissolution of the group in 1966, Conrad played
a pivotal role in the formation of the Velvet Underground,
then refocused his efforts on experimental film and video,
including his 1966 masterwork The Flicker, considered the cornerstone
of the Structural Cinema movement. Musically, he resurfaced
only briefly, to jam with German krautrock progenitors Faust
on the 1972 LP Outside the Dream Syndicate, a work of explosive
prophecy that to this day retains an undiminished power to
startle and excite.
The present decade has seen a series of releases that confirm
Conrad's indefatigable creative legacy. These include field
recordings, piano compositions, film soundtracks, and electronic
compositions, as well as his documentation of early, seminal
efforts by John Cale and the late filmmaker and performance
artist Jack Smith. Taken together, these comprise a remarkable
body of work, and celebrate the wild breadth of a spectacular
40-year career.
"Tony Conrad is a pioneer, as seminal in his way to American music as Johnny
Cash or Captain Beefheart or Ornette Coleman, one of those really savvy old guys
whom all the kids want to emulate because their ideas, their style are electric
and new and somehow indivisible."
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"Conrad invents a new musical language ... unbearably intense and gloriously
ecstatic."
- The Wire
Visit Tony Conrad's website: http://www.tonyconrad.net/songs.htm
Tony Conrad on MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/slappingpythagoras
Watch Tony Conrad live videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yCHstLAChs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_PgecNNKcY
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Top to bottom: Images
from tonyconrad.net,
Tony Conrad (photo by Bettina Herzner), Windy & Carl
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Saturday,
December 1 at 6 and 8pm
MUSIC AT MOCAD: NOEL
NIGHT
AMERICAN
MARS
Detroit alt-country act American Mars performs two free sets
on MOCAD's second Noel Night. Featuring members of Blanche,
and Saturday Looks Good To Me, American Mars' cool, lyrical
indie-rock has garnered them critical praise and slots with
other similarly informed purveyors of breezy Americana, like
Bright Eyes, and Richard Buckner.
Visit American Mars website: http://www.americanmars.com/
listen to and watch videos by American Mars: http://www.americanmars.com/site/media/
American Mars will be performing at MOCAD as part of the 35th
Annual NOEL NIGHT, which will be held on Saturday, December
1, 2007, 5:00pm - 9:30pm in Midtown. This special community
event attracts more than 25,000 metro Detroit adults and children
to sample the attractions of our university/cultural center
neighborhood, while enjoying the sights, sounds and tastes
of holiday and seasonal traditions.
Over 20 institutions, including the Detroit Institute of Arts,
the New Detroit Science Center, and the Charles H. Wright Museum
of African American History open their doors to the public
free of charge during this Cultural Center-wide holiday "open
house." Activities include horse-drawn carriage rides, holiday
shopping, family craft activities and performances by over
50 area music and dance groups. The evening's festivities culminate
with a community sing-along on Woodward Avenue led by the Salvation
Army Band - a long-standing Noel Night tradition.
Noel Night activities take place in and around Midtown Detroit's
Cultural Center institutions, primarily between Cass and John
R and Kirby and Willis. Free shuttle service is offered between
participating venues. Convenient parking is available in area
lots.
Noel Night is produced by the University Cultural Center Association,
a non-profit community development organization supporting
economic growth in Detroit's Midtown district. Call 313-577-5088
or visit www.detroitmidtown.com for
additional information.
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American Mars (top) will perform at MOCAD for the 35th annual Noel Night. |
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Wednesday,
November 21
THANKSGIVING AT MOCAD:
MAGAS with
GOUDRON & PERSPECTS
$9 admission
8 pm doors, 9 pm showtime
All ages
James Marlon Magas has become a Midwestern superstar for bringing
primal, progressive sounds to the world through his previous
bands Couch (featuring future Wolf Eyes member Aaron Dilloway),
Lake of Dracula, his Many Moods of Marlon Magas, and as co-founder
of seminal 90's noise rock label Bulb records. Now, simply
known as MAGAS, he builds from his history with harsh no-wave
punk, creating his own his own darkly eccentric, electronic
music, tinged with shades of dirty Detroit Ghetto-tech, early
electro and booty music. Having, in the past, worked producing
and releasing records with Adult. on their Ersatz Audio imprint,
Magas has now produced and released his own record "May I Meet
My Accuser" which "showcases a rougher, more rough hewn sound" focusing
on the "thunderous roar of an old ARP [to create] a new style
of electronic motor-punk."
Visit MAGAS's
website
MAGAS
on myspace
MAGAS
on ersatz audio's discography page
Listen
to Magas' "Transgressors" off of his "May I meet My Accuser" LP
Also performing will be Detroit artist-musician, circuit bender,
dance floor shaker, and former Ersatz Audio recording artist,
Ron Zakrin, as Goudron. Along with Artist, msucian and former
member of Ersatz Audio's Le Car duo, Ian Clark will open the
evening, performing a live set utilizing electronics, drums
and voice, as Perspects.
Listen to an MP3 of "Art
School Fuckheads" by Goudron (off of his Ersatz Audio album
Raw Voltage)
Listen
to Goudron on Ersatz Audio website
Goudron
on Interdimensional Transmissions records website
Goudron
on myspace
Listen to an MP3 of "Character
Map (remix)" by Perspects
Perspects
on MySpace
Perspects
at Interdimensional Transmissions site
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Top: MAGAS, Middle:
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Sunday,
November 18 at 3 pm
LITERATURE READING: MELBA JOYCE BOYD, JUDITH KERMAN AND JACK RIDL
Brought to you by MOCAD, Marick Press & Wayne State University Press
Marick Press, MOCAD, and WSU Press are building on their successful individualæreadings to form a collaborative reading highlighting local writers and literary artists. This collaboration is extended to all small presses in the area. Come and support small presses and their authors, artists and musicians at MOCAD!
Writers will have books available for signing. Refreshments will be provided.
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Sunday,
November 18 from 1-3 pm
"FUN WITH WORDS"
KIDS CRAFT & ACTIVITY DAY
The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) invites kids
of all ages (that includes parents too) to pick up a glue stick,
some coloring markers, and get ready to let your creative impulses
take over every third Sunday of the month for our monthly KIDS
CRAFT & ACTIVITY DAY.
As part of the 2007 fall programming, MOCAD presents a monthly
children's workshop to engage specifically with the theme of
the current exhibition Words
Fail Me. Participants can create their own buttons,
magnets and booklets that include a variety of word games and
questions to connect kids with the artwork on view by exploring
links between art and language. This event is free and open
to the public. All materials are provided. Please call ahead
for large groups.
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Saturday,
November 17
URBAN
ORGANIC FESTIVAL '07
Films, Live Music, Workshop
More information and tickets available at www.urban-organic.net
SEMINAR
"How to Make Money as an Independent?"
11 am - 12:30 pm
Free for artists with published CD
Non-Artists - $10.00
Hosted by Jodine Dorce, of Jodinescorner.com
Tonya Byrd Wilson, Sirius Radio; Kevin Harewood, Edclectic
Entertainment, Fiona Bloom, The
Bloom Effect, Korie Enyard, Gypsy People Music
Participants learn about publishing, song writing, marketing,
promotions, retail activation, and more.
FILMS
Urban Organic Film Sessions at MOCAD
11:30pm to 5:00pm
$10/film or $20/3 films
There's No Such Thing as Neo Soul
Running Time: 61 Minutes
11:30AM
Movie filmed at various performance venues throughout 2003, "No
Such Thing As Neo-soul" provides viewers with a deeper appreciation
of factors that have led the City of Brotherly Love to a significant
position in the world music scene, thanks to its contributions
to what is commonly referred to as Neo-soul. Discussion Following
Film with Filmmaker Stephanie Renee
High Tech Soul
Running Time: 64 Minutes
1:05PM
The first documentary to tackle the deep roots of techno music,
alongside the cultural history of its birthplace, Detroit.
From the race riots of 1967 to the underground party scene
of the late 1980s, Detroit's economic downturn didn't stop
the invention of a new kind of music that brought international
attention to its producers and their hometown. Discussion Following
Film
Before The Music Dies
Running Time: 95 Minutes
2:40PM
Narrated by Academy Awardå Winner Forest Whitaker, BEFORE THE
MUSIC DIES is an unsettling and inspiring look at today's popular
music industry featuring interviews and performances by Erykah
Badu, Eric Clapton, Dave Matthews, Branford Marsalis, Questlove
and a wide variety of others.
Discussion Following Film
LIVE MUSIC
The Urban Organic Experience: Everybody Loves the Sunshine
Doors Open 7pm; Performances 8 pm ¨ 12 am
$20.00 tickets are available until November 1st
Tickets are $20-$50
Tickets Available at Urban-Organic.net
Hosted by Amp Fiddler
Featuring Roy Ayers, Anthony David, Monica Blaire, Suai, Alison
Crockett, Jon Bibbs, John Arnold, Cel, Melissa Young, Kloud
9, and others
Internationally renowned recording artists, Roy Ayers, will
perform at the Urban Organic Festival on Nov. 17th at the Museum
of Contemporary Arts of Detroit.
Possessing an extensive musical repertoire, Ayers has delivered
jazz/funk, R&B, Afro-pop and disco; contributing hits such
as: "Everybody Loves The Sunshine", "Searchin," "Runnin," "You
Send Me", "Mystic Voyage", "Vibrations", "Fever" and many more.
In the early 1970s, Ayers produced and recorded the soundtrack
to legendary movie, "Coffy", featuring Pam Grier and Booker
Bradshaw, a successful project released in 1973.
Credited as one of the prophets of Acid Jazz, a musician years
a head of his time, Ayers respectively served his time at the
top of the R&B charts during the height of his commercial success
in the 70s. Often sampled by todays hip-hop and soul heavy
weights including Erykah Badu, Kanye West, Mary J Blige, and
The Roots, Femi Kuti and Guru.
Transcending borders and musical genres, the talented Roy Ayers
will bring his musical genius to Detroit for one show and one
night only. Urban Organic seeks to honor the musical talent
who has paved the way, and serve as volumes of inspirations
for artists today.
"This year's festival theme is Connecting the Dots, and we basically wanted to
show where the love of the music originates. We are on a continuum, and it is
important to look back and see who led the way. For that reason, we have chosen
Roy Ayers to be our headlining artist," said Drake Phifer, founder of Urban Organic.
The Mayor of Detroit Kwame M. Kilpatrick says, "The Urban Organic
Festival is a movement. Detroit's music scene has been the
launching pad for some of today's most well-known artists and
this festival is a showcase for established home-grown talent
as well as the next generation of local and national artists."
The Urban Organic Festival is a multi-venue festival celebrating
Detroit culture and soul music in its entirety occurs November
15th-November 18th in Downtown Detroit. Tickets for Roy Ayers
are $20-$50.00. $20 tickets to see Roy Ayers, Anthony David,
John Arnold, Monica Blaire, Alison Crockett, Suai and others
are available for $20.00 until November 1st. More Information
is available at www.urban-organic.net.
This year's Urban Organic Festival is presented by Fusicology.com the
web's largest and fastest growing portal to progressive music
and culture, The
St. Regis Hotel of Detroit, and Project
Producers, management company for Motown recording artist,
Kem.
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Recording artists
Roy Ayers, Anthony David, and Amp Fiddler (pictured,
top to bottom) will be performing live at MOCAD on Saturday,
November 17 as part of the Urban
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Friday,
November 16, 9 pm to 12 am
A NIGHT OF ART AND THE SOUND OF DESIGN
DJ KREEMY (A.K.A. KARIM RASHID)
w/ JEREMY "AYRO" ELLIS
Presented by MOCAD and Clear Magazine
No cover, cash bar
Rashid is a leading figure in the fields of product, interior,
fashion, furniture, lighting design and art. He is best known for
bringing his democratic design sensibility to the masses. Designing
for an impressive array of clients from Alessi to Dirt Devil, Umbra to
Prada, Miyake to Method, with his 2,500 products Rashid is radically
changing the aesthetics of product design and the very nature of the
consumer culture.
Playful, bold, unforgettable in personality and design,
DJ Kreemy spins a set at Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit.
Also performing live, Jeremy "Ayro" Ellis.
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Thursday,
November 15 at 7pm
ARTIST'S TALK: SAM
DURANT
L.A.-based artist Sam Durant will present his work.
"Like all histories, Durant's work is essentially a rolling dialogue between
then and now... Like some renegade historian let loose in the library after dark,
he weaves a lattice connecting the faded glories of Modernism with the tarnished
moments of rock music, and dredges the idealism of civil rights era protest for
its darker undercurrents." (Dan
Fox, "Like a rolling stone," Frieze)
"...In Durant's work handwriting of a very specific kind -- that found on the
signs that people carry at protests and marches -- serves as inspiration and
source material. With his appropriation of these sign texts, Durant rescues from
the prison house of received history a welcome aid in awakening us from the grey,
resentful, depressive stupor into which some of us feel we have been pummeled
by recent political history." (Jonathan
Flatley, "The Agency of Letters," Afterall)
Sam Durant (b. 1961 Seattle, Washington) received his M.FA.
from California Institute of the Arts. Durant has had solo
exhibitions with Blum and Poe in Los Angeles and the Walker
Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has been recently
included in the group exhibition Panic Room, from
The Dakis Joannou Collection at the Deste Foundation Centre
For Contemporary Art in Athens, Greece, and was included in
the 2004 Whitney Biennial.
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Sam Durant, Let's
judge ourselves as people, 2002, Courtesy the
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Wednesday,
November 14 at 7pm
GALLERY TALK: STEVEN
SHAVIRO
Steven Shaviro will discuss work in the show Words Fail
Me.
Shaviro is the DeRoy Professor of English at Wayne State University.
He is the author of Passion and Excess (1990), The
Cinematic Body (1993), Doom Patrols: A Theoretical
Fiction About Postmodernism (1997) and Connected,
or, What It Means To Live in the Network Society (2003).
Read more on his blog, The
Pinocchio Theory .
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Thursday,
November 8 at 7 pm
ARTIST'S TALK: LISA
ANNE AUERBACH
WORDS NEVER FAIL ME
"Linkages Between Language and Art"
Artist Lisa
Anne Auerbach will discuss her work. Visit her
website for more information. And check stealthissweater.com as
well.
"...Auerbach has deliberately pursued knitting as a formal art-making strategy.
She has recast knitting from its traditional role as a nostalgic or otherwise
personally historic language to an idiomatic armature on which to pin sociopolitical
commentary. It's fine art about radicalized women's work, belonging to a tradition
of art making that is rooted much more firmly in conceptual art than traditional
garment or textile craft and trade ... Auerbach inverts the quiet domesticity
of knitting, drafting the needle art into the service of public outrage and the
assertion of individuality." (Shana
Nys Dambrot, "Adorned in Ideas," Fiber Arts)
Lisa Anne Auerbach received her MFA in Fine Arts at the Art
Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. Her most
recent solo show was at Gavlak in West Palm Beach in Florida
in March of 2006. Over the past ten years Auerbach has consistently
shown work across the U.S. She has also shown internationally
at the CPK Kunstalle in Copenhagen, Denmark in 2006, the Cubitt
in London, England in 2004, and the Pestorius Sweeny House
in Brisbane, Australia in 2004. She has collaborated with such
acclaimed artists as Andrea Zittel and Aleksandra Mir.
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Lisa Anne Auerbach, Everything
I touch turns to $old, 2006. Courtesy the artist
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Saturday,
November 3 at 8 pm
PAT
OLESZKO: PERFORMANCE ART
"A ribald performance artist whose work charms as it disarms using satire, subversion
and unabashed silliness. The films and performances show us an Amazonian artist
whose body is both the seat of politics and a body of art." (patoleszko.com)
"Pat Oleszko makes a spectacle of herself -- and doesn't mind if you laugh. Known
as the Ms Tricks of Dis Guise, she has a large body -- of work -- which includes
many Unnatural Acts. Utilizing elaborate costumes and props, she has created
lithe performantzes, films, installations that a-dress trees, knees, breasts,
butts, elephants and fingers. There have been notorious spatial events with the
cast-off thousands and uttered shenanigans. She has worked from the popular artforms
of the street, party, parade and burlesque house, to the Museum of Modern Art,
from Sesame Street Magazine to Ms, Playboy, and Artforum. A
much decorated artist, literally and figuratively, she has been amply rewarded
for her diverse efforts pumping irony and disparately bringing home the beacon.
The truth squirts." (patoleszko.com)
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Pat Oleszko, The
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Thursday
- Sunday, November 1-4
MEXICANTOWN
HUBBARD COMMUNITIES
9TH ANNUAL DAY OF THE DEAD FESTIVAL & WALKING TOUR
At the Mexicantown Mercado & Ford Plaza
MOCAD Mercado Arts Workshops: Thursday & Friday, November 1-2,
9 am to 3 pm
Join the Mexicantown Community Development Corporation in the
annual Day of the Dead festival with authentic Mexican food,
Ofrendas, Dia de Muertos crafts, workshops, school tours and
much more over a four-day celebration.
MOCAD will be offering craft stations at the Mercado Plaza
for kids of all ages on Thursday and Friday of the Festival,
9am-3pm, at which participants can make and decorate their
own paper cutout garlands, sugar skulls, papier mache items,
calavera poems, and collage booklets.
Mexicantown Mercado
2826 Bagley Avenue
Detroit, MI 48216
313-967-9898/info@mexicantown.org
www.mexicantown.org
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Thursday,
October 25 at 6 pm
WAYNE
STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS: CELEBRATE DETROIT BOOKS!
$20 admission, or $15 admission for Wayne State University
students and staff (with OneCard) and MOCAD members
RSVP for event
Join Wayne State University Press for our annual fall benefit
at MOCAD. Celebrate Detroit with our books:
Amos Walker's Detroit
Text by Loren D. Estleman, Photographs by Monte Nagler
Connecting the Dots: Tyree Guyton's Heidelberg Project
Life with Mae: A Detroit Family Memoir
by Neal Shine
Sonny Sez: Legends, Yarns & Downright Truths
Text by Sonny Eliot, Illustrations by Draper Hill, Edited by
Stanley D. Williams
American City: Detroit Architecture, 1845¨2005
Text by Robert Sharoff, Photographs by William Zbaren
Talking Shops: Detroit Commercial Folk Art
Photographs by David Clements
Tour the museum and its new exhibition Words Fail Me. Mingle
with authors while they sign and discuss their books. Enjoy
wine, hors d'oeuvres, and desserts from some of our favorite
local restaurants. Meet journalist Jack Lessenberry, master
of ceremonies for the evening.
For more information about this event visit the WSU Press website: wsupress.wayne.edu.
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Sunday,
October 21 from 1-3 pm
"FUN WITH WORDS"
KIDS CRAFT & ACTIVITY DAY
The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) invites kids of all ages (that includes parents too) to pick up a glue stick, some coloring markers, and get ready to let your creative impulses take over every third Sunday of the month for our monthly KIDS CRAFT & ACTIVITY DAY.
As part of the 2007 fall programming, MOCAD presents a monthly children's workshop
to engage specifically with the theme of the current exhibition Words Fail
Me. Participants can create their own buttons, magnets and booklets that include a variety of word games and questions to connect kids with the artwork on view by exploring links between art and language. This event is free and open to the public. All materials are provided. Please call ahead for large groups.
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Friday,
October 12
THOLLEM
MCDONAS
6 pm: Discussion with Thollem McDonas about modern composition.
7 pm: Live performance, featuring Thollem McDonas, piano; Joel
Peterson (of Odu Afrobeat Orchestra, immigrant suns, Scavenger
Quartet), bass
Thollem McDonas is a pianist / vocalist / composer / improviser
and the recipient of the 2006 National Endowment of the Artsˆ Meet
The Composer grant from Washington, DC. Born in the Bay area
in 1967. Currently based out of Prague. McDonas takes what
he will from a youth spent studying intently the repertoire
of European composers of the 20th century renaissance. Throwing
elements learned as a international minstrel performing in
theaters, universities, galleries, elementary schools, Jazz
clubs, as well as, as an accompanist to West African drum troupes,
Javanese gamelan ensembles, and as a composer for opera and
modern dance.
Listen
to Thollem McDonas at Edgetone records website
Thollem
McDonas website
Visit
Thollem McDonas's MySpace page.
This event will be MOCAD's first collaborative effort with
the Bohemian
National Home where McDonas will also be performing.
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Wednesday,
October 10 at 7pm
ARTIST'S TALK: CARL POPE
"TEXT AS ARTISTIC PRACTICE"
"Street posters and advertisements don't merely sell stuff; they get inside the
brain, shape thoughts, ideologies, identities. Or so one gathers from Pope's
first New York solo show, a wall of handcrafted letterpress posters that carry
messages like "African-Americans, Negroes, Blacks, and Post-Blacks All Agree:
The Use of the 'a' Instead of the 'er' Changes Everything!" and "Venturing Into
Blackness is a Lonely Business." Pope takes cues from writers like Ralph Ellison
and Ishmael Reed, but his acerbic and funny approach to the politics of race
draws comparisons to an even wider range of social forces, from street protests
to critical theory." (New Yorker via Momenta)
Chicago-based artist Carl Pope will discuss his work. Carl
Pope (b. 1961 Indianapolis, Indiana) revived his M.F.A. from
Indiana University in 1999. He attended Skowhegan School of
Painting and Sculpture in 1997. His work was included in Afro-Futurism at
the Soap Factory in Minneapolis, MN in 2005, The Whitney Biennial
in 2000, Enough About Me at Momenta Art in 2002, and Black
Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American
Art at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, in
1994. He received a Louis Tiffany Foundation Award in 2005.
Read
a review of Carl Pope's installation, The Bad Air Smelled
of Roses, on the New York Times website.
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Carl Pope: The
Bad Air Smelled of Roses, 2004-2007, Letterpress
Broadsides (top: installation, bottom: detail) |
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