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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 š 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, 1845š2005
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 Arts 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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Sunday,
October 7 from 1-3pm
CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL MUSIC
Chamber Music, as part of the American Romanian Festival
As part of the American Romanian Festival, join us for a special afternoon of Classical Music. Performing will be: Cornel Taranu (conductor), Kyoko Kashiwagi (violin), Marian Tanau (violin), Eva Stern (viola), Paul Wingert (cello), Joel Schoenhals (piano) and Ling-Ju Lai (piano). Music performed will include: Dinu Lipatti: 'Fantesie op. 8', and Cornel Taranu: 'Prolegomene'. Performances and discussion will follow performances.
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Saturday,
October 6 at 7pm
FILM SCREENING & DISCUSSION
20 TO LIFE: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JOHN SINCLAIR
Discussion with John Sinclair & director Steve Gebhardt to follow screening
$10 admission
John Sinclair is a real American character. Poet, performing artist and bandleader, music journalist, radio broadcaster, record producer, educator and archivist, Sinclair first emerged out of his small-town Michigan background to forge a legendary course through the 1960s as a cultural activist, founder of the Detroit Artists Workshop, manager of the MC-5, and Chairman of the White Panther Party. An early victim of the War on Drugs who faced 20 years to life in prison for giving two joints to an undercover policewoman, Sinclair mounted a historic challenge to the constitutionality of Michigan's marijuana laws and served 29 months of a 9-1/2-to-10-year sentence before his legal victory on appeal changed the law for good.
Sinclair left Detroit in 1991 for New Orleans and cut a broad mark there as a popular performing artist, music journalist, award-winning broadcast producer and radio personality on WWOZ-FM. In 1998 Sinclair was invited by High Times magazine to serve as High Priest at the Cannabis Cup in Amsterdam, beginning a burgeoning love affair with the Netherlands that climaxed with Sinclair's decision to move to Amsterdam in 2003.
Begun in 1991 and completed in 2004, 20 TO LIFE is the real-life story of this legendary poet-provocateur and American cultural warrior whose exploits have reverberated throughout the international underground for 40 years. The story is told by Sinclair, his family, friends and associates through the years and highlighted by a series of electrifying poetry performances by Sinclair's contemporary blues and jazz ensembles.
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Friday,
October 5
MUSIC AT MOCAD:
THE
MULDOONS and
THIS
MOMENT IN BLACK HISTORY
$5 admission
8 pm doors, 9 pm showtime
All ages
The Muldoons are a family band from Detroit. Two brothers that
write, sing and compose songs while their dad drums. Shane
(age 10) sings and plays guitar, Hunt (13) plays guitar and
sings. Playing raw, unhinged garage rock & roll together, the
Muldoons conjure the spirits of Detroit Rock's past while hailing
it's future.
Listen to the Muldoons and watch videos on their myspace page: http://www.myspace.com/muldoonsofficialsite.
Also performing will be Cleveland's This Moment in Black History.
Combining the quirky keyboard punk artiness of Pere Ubu & DEVO
with the dirt-poor rock of legendary Cleveland pre-punks the
Electric Eels & the Dead Boys to create their own hybrid, spastic
art-punk sound.
Listen
to This Moment in Black History
This
Moment in Black History on myspace
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The Muldoons (top)
and This Moment in Black History (bottom). |
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Wednesday,
October 3, 11:30 am to 1 pm
CREATIVE
CAPITAL FOUNDATION
GRANT INFORMATION SESSION
Performing Artists, Writers, and Artists in Emerging Fields
Kemi Ilesanmi
Associate Director of Grants & Services
Creative Capital Foundation is a national nonprofit organization
that supports artists pursuing adventurous and imaginative
work in the performing and visual arts, film/video, innovative
literature, and emerging fields. In 2008, Creative Capital
will be considering proposals in the performing arts, innovative
literature, and emerging fields.* Far from a traditional funder,
Creative Capital is committed to working in long-term partnership
with the bold and groundbreaking artists that we fund by making
a multi-year financial commitment as well as providing advisory
services and professional development assistance. We have a
special interest in projects that transcend discipline boundaries
and reveal something new about the moment in which we live.
For more information, please visit www.creative-capital.org.
The Multi-Arts
Production Fund is program of Creative Capital, supported
by the Rockefeller Foundation. The MAP Fund supports new works
in all disciplines and traditions of the live performing arts.
Our aim is to assist artists who are exploring and challenging
the dynamics of contemporary live performance. In contrast
to the preservation of existing repertoire, MAP Fund supports
those creating the art of our own time. For more information,
please visit www.mapfund.org.
Please RSVP and refer questions to grants@creative-capital.org
* Performing Arts may include dance, music theater,
experimental music performance, experimental opera, spoken
word, theater/performance art, puppetry, and interdisciplinary
projects. Emerging Fields may include all forms of
digital arts, audio work, multidisciplinary projects, and new
genres. Innovative Literature may include poetry,
fiction, nonfiction, as well as genre-defying work by writers
who demonstrate exceptional stylistic, linguistic, and formal
originality.
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Sunday,
September 23 from 3 - 5 pm
AUTHOR READING: ALEXANDER SUSZEK, GREGORY KIEWIET AND
DAVID CLEMENTS
A collaboration between MOCAD, Wayne State University Press
and Marick Press
Representing Marick Press is Alexander Suczek. In addition
to his longtime service to Pro Musica Detroit, Alexander Suczek's
involvement in classical music and the arts began while a student
at Harvard University as a company member of the Brattle Theater.
Since then, Suczek has performed as a classical guitarist and
folk and art singer and headed a summer concert series for
25 years. For the past several years, he has authored a weekly
column in the Grosse Pointe News, "State of the Arts." In 2006,
he was decorated by the Austrian government for promoting that
country's image in arts and music in the United States. Now
retired, he was a writer and executive for Campbell-Ewald.
He now spends his time at his homes in Grosse Pointe Farms
and South Padre Island, Texas. The Witness of Music is
his first book.
MOCAD is pleased to welcome Gregory Kiewiet. Kiewiet received
his M. A. in English (with an emphasis in Creative Writing)
in 2001 from Wayne State University and his B. A. in Art History
and English from Oakland University in 1995. Most recently,
a scene from his play "A Day In the Hour" appeared in the publication Box.
In 2004 some of his translations from the Dutch Poet Coert
Poort appeared in Dispatch Detroit volume seven. His
other work has appeared in Marks: An On-line Arts Journal, Dispatch
Detroit volume two, Graffite Rag, and Woodward
Magazine. His play "Gun For Hire" was a finalist in the
Lois Heck-Rabi Dramatic Writing Competition in 2001.
Wayne State University is proud to welcome David Clements, author and
photographer of Talking Shops.
All writers will have books available through MOCAD for signing.
Come and celebrate this new initiative with us! These three
non-profit organizations are dedicated to introducing visionary
and groundbreaking books of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and
art to the city of Detroit and its surrounds.
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Saturday,
September 22 from 1 - 3 pm
ELLEN
LUPTON
FAMILY DAY WORKSHOP:
"MAKE YOUR OWN WORD ART"
The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit invites kids of all
ages (that includes parents too) to pick up a glue gun, some
coloring markers, and get ready to let your creative impulses
take over as Ellen
Lupton leads demonstrations of activities from her new
book D.I.Y.
Kids.
Featuring dozens of creative activities from decoupage boxes,
graffiti bracelets, stencil sweatshirts, popsicle magnets,
and graphics exercises, Lupton brings her background in design
and visual culture to life for all ages by creating a how-to
book inspired by the current Do-It-Yourself culture, coyly
redubbed "Design-It-Yourself" by Lupton.
As part of the 2007 fall programming, MOCAD presents a children's
workshop with renowned designer Lupton to launch the forthcoming
publication of D.I.Y
Kids, co-written with her twin sister Julia Lupton,
and soon to be published by Princeton Architectural Press.
As curator of contemporary design at Cooper-Hewitt, National
Design Museum (1992-2007), Lupton produced numerous exhibitions
and books, including Mechanical Brides: Women and Machines
from Home to Office (1993), Mixing Messages: Graphic
Design and Contemporary Culture (1996), and Skin:
Surface, Substance + Design (2002). Special advance copies
of D.I.Y.
Kids will be available for sale.
Ellen Lupton is the recent recipient of the prestigious 2007
Gold Metal Award from the American Institute of Graphic Design.
She is a writer, curator, and graphic designer. She is currently
director of the Graphic Design MFA program at Maryland Institute
College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore.
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Some of the projects
featured on Ellen and Julia Lupton's D.I.Y.
Kids website. |
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Sunday,
September 16 at 3pm
SCREENING OF MEMORY BUCKET
FOLLOWED BY A CONVERSATION BETWEEN MATTHEW HIGGS AND JEREMY DELLER
Join us as guest curator Matthew Higgs and artist Jeremy Deller discuss Deller's celebrated film, Memory Bucket.
Jeremy Deller (b. 1966 London, England) received the Turner Prize in 2004. He also was chosen to be an international artist in residence at Artpace in San Antonio, Texas. Jeremy exhibited in the very prominent 54th annual Carnegie International. He was recently included in the Prague Biennale 3. He has had solo exhibitions at The Modern Institute in Glasgow, Scotland; The Centre Pompidou in Paris, France, and the Tate Modern in London, England.
Matthew Higgs is a curator, critic and artist currently living
and working in New York. Since the early 1990s he has sought
to develop a practice that considers the intersections and
overlaps between these
disciplines. Higgs is currently the Director and Chief Curator
of White Columns, New York's oldest non-profit art space.
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Jeremy Deller, Memory Bucket, 2003, video still |
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Saturday,
September 15 at 7pm
WORDS
FAIL ME
Curated by Matthew Higgs
Reading by John Giorno
Followed by music by
Little Claw, Pink
Reason, Michael Yonkers
$8 admission, free for MOCAD members
The exhibition opens on Sept.15 with a special preview from
7-11 pm. At 8pm the poet John Giorno will give a reading. Music
by Little Claw from their new album, Pink Reason and Michael
Yonkers begins at 9:30. There
will be a cash bar.
The artists in the show are:
Lisa Anne Auerbach
Tauba
Auerbach
Anne-lise Coste
Martin
Creed
Jeremy Deller
Sam Durant
Peter Fischli / David Weiss
Ryan Gander
Siobhan Liddell
Jonathan Monk
Philippe Parreno
Jack Pierson
Carl Pope
Kay Rosen
Ron Terada
Rirkrit Tiravanija
Jennifer West
Words Fail Me is an exhibition that explores visual
art's ongoing engagement -- and entanglement - with language.
Language is labyrinthine, its permutations endless: This is
partly the pleasure of words. The complexity of language, its
ability to both inform and confound us, is -- no doubt -- part
of its continuing appeal to artists. Words
Fail Me considers highly idiosyncratic manifestations
of language in recent contemporary art produced by an international
and intergenerational group of artists. Throughout the exhibition
language is denied its interpretive, explicatory, or narrative
function. Instead the works in the exhibition embrace language's
more permeable state: its elasticity, its penchant for questions,
subtexts and double meanings. Exploring language's limits and
limitations the works in Words
Fail Me are often highly emotive and occasionally melancholic,
collectively they embrace questions of politics, mortality,
identity, idealism, and alienation. Prevailing throughout
is a nagging sense of ambivalence that reflects upon - and
perhaps even amplifies -- the uncertainties of our present social
landscape.
Images at right, top to bottom: John Giorno (read an interview here),
Little Claw, Michael Yonkers, Pink
Reason.
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Wednesday,
August 8 at 8pm
METRONOMY
JIMMY EDGAR
$7 admission
All ages
Between playing at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, MN
and the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, PA, METRONOMY will
be stopping by Detroit to play at Museum of Contemporary Art
Detroit!
Twenty-three-year-old Jospeh Mount, AKA London's METRONOMY
has been causing a considerable stir recently. Feted by everyone
from Roots Manuva to Bright Eyes, Franz Ferdinand to Gorillaz
(all of whom he has remixed) his live show features a full
live band and "will blow your wig off" (Losingtoday).
METRONOMY's distinctive production sound with Melodica, accordion,
guitar and found sounds, has a disarming charm. The hilarious
live show, uses a full band, The Food Groups, all wired up,
with syncronised light dances doing a semaphore and a morsey
wave to the masses at sold out shows from Trash & Hammersmith
to supporting likes of The Presets, Pippettes, Klaxons, Sunshine
Underground on tour. Stirring up Krautrock, dancehall, polka,
pop, and folk music: his album is a revelation!
WEB: http://www.myspace.com/metronomy
Watch
a video on YouTube.
Besides Scissor
Sisters and Klaxons,
Metronomy has already remixed...
Box Codax
Sebastien
Tellier
Roots
Manuva
Franz
Ferdinand
Lady
Sovereign
Ladytron
Bright
Eyes
Magnet
before he even released a record!
There will also be a performance by Jimmy Edgar (Warp Records). Visit his website for more information: http://www.jimmyedgar.com/
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Metronomy (top) and Jimmy Edgar (bottom) |
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Saturday,
July 28 at 9:30
MOCAD DRIVE-IN MOVIE NIGHTS ON WOODWARD: THE LOST AVANT-GARDE
Admission charge $5/person, $10/car.
George Manupelli: Cry Dr. Chicago (1971)
Note: The drive-in movie screening, originally scheduled for July 14, was postponed to July 28 due to inclement weather.
What better way to celebrate the Summer than a drive-in movie in the heart of the motor city? As part of its Avant-Garde Film series, The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit is proud to present the debut of our drive-in movie night. Pack a car full of people or bring lawn chairs and enjoy a summer night.
On July 14th at 9:30 pm we will be screening George Manupelliçs
feature film Cry Dr. Chicago, an offbeat vision of
a strangely sympathetic scumbag in pursuit of his impossible
American dream. Referred to as one of the "pioneering examples
of New American Cinema" (George Tysh, Metrotimes, June 27,
2007), the Dr. Chicago series is Manupelli's exquisitely
composed romp of a film. Shot locally on the grounds of Cranbrook
in 1971, The DR. CHICAGO films were the last great
project of the legendary Once Group, who made up the cast,
including the now famous composer Alvin Lucier and Steve Paxton;
a dance pioneer of the late 20th century.
The feature will be preceeded by short films, including local
filmmaker Jack Cronin's Invisible City, an ode to
Detroit Italo Calvino style.
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Thursday,
July 26 at 7pm
FILM NIGHT: MODELS OF AVANT-GARDE FILM, PROGRAM IV,
MYTH
E. Elias Merhige: Begotten (1990)
Another form of magic, close to surrealism and the work of
Maya Deren, is the exploration of myth and origins, and this
is the central preoccupation of Merhige's still extraordinary
film Begotten which Susan Sontag characterized as one of the
ten most important films of all time.
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Thursday,
July 19 at 7pm
FILM NIGHT: MODELS OF AVANT-GARDE FILM, PROGRAM III,
SOAP OPERA
Louis Feuillade: Fantomas, (1913)
Feuillade's early serial, Fantomas, is nothing less
than a form of soap opera of the avant-garde, especially the
surrealists, and allows one to see how the surrealists were
enraptured by Fantomas for transforming the everyday
into something marvelous and magical.
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