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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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Kristin Palm, author of The Straits (Palm Press) |
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From top: Space Band (2007); bottom: Leyya Tawil and Michael Khoury |
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Saturday, June 14th at 7pm
FILM: MOTOR CITY'S BURNING
Free admission
A BBC produced documentary about the rise and fall of the most notorious
elements of Detroit's rock 'n' roll legacy. From Motown to the Stooges, Motor City's Burning tells the musical story of Detroit in the 60s, as told via an "impressive
soundtrack, extensive archive footage and contributions from top names of
the time."
See the BBC website's synopsis of the movie
after the film:
TIME STEREO UFO FACTORY EVENT:
PERFORMANCE:
WOLFMAN FREEDOM RALLY |
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Promotional picture of MC5 from Motor City's Burning |
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Thursday, June 12 at 8pm
READING: "POETRY STILL AIN'T NEWS" A READING CELEBRATING JIM GUSTAFSON
Jim Gustafson (1949-1996) was Detroit's legendary boisterous bard. This event, celebrating his life and work, features a reading by Bill Berkson, famed San Francisco poet and critic, as well as readings by Lynn Crawford, Mark Grafe, Glen Mannisto, Ken Mikolowski, Michelle Perron, Ned Richardson, Dennis Teichman, Mick Vranich and others.
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Jim Gustafson; Photo by Carl Schurer |
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Thursday, June 12 from 7-8pm
"ART AND DEATH OF THE ADDRESSEE: A CONVERSATION WITH BILL BERKSON"
Born in New York in 1939, Bill Berkson is a poet, critic, teacher and sometimes curator, who has been active in the art and literary worlds since his early twenties. Director of Letters and Science at the San Francisco Art Institute from 1993 to 1998, he taught art history, critical writing and poetry and directed the public lectures program there from 1984 to 2007.
After moving to Northern California in 1970, he began editing and publishing a series of poetry books and magazines under the Big Sky imprint. He was awarded a creative writing fellowship in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1980 and has also received awards and fellowships from Yaddo, Artspace, the Poets Foundation, The Fund for Poetry, and Briarcombe Foundation. Before coming to the Art Institute, he taught regularly in the California Poets in the Schools program.
In the mid-1980s he resumed writing art criticism on a regular basis, contributing monthly reviews and articles to Artforum from 1985 to 1991; he became a corresponding editor for Art in America in 1988 and also writes frequently for such magazines as Aperture, Modern Painters, Art on Paper, and others.
Recently, he was Distinguished Paul Mellon Lecturer for 2006 at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine. A collection of his criticism, The Sweet Singer of Modernism & Other Art Writings, appeared in 2004, and Sudden Address: Selected Lectures 1981-2006 in 2007.
Designed to stimulate audience dialogue and responses, poet, art critic and curator Bill Berkson will read provocative passages from his recent books. Covering topics ranging from museum practice, to art criticism and art history, Berkson will then ask the audience to respond to these passages and engage and direct a lively discussion amongst audience members.
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Bill Berkson; poet, critic, teacher, and occasional curator |
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Friday, June 6th at 8pm
MUSIC: ? AND THE MYSTERIANS + F'KE BLOOD
Admission $10
All ages
In 1966 in Bay City, Michigan, five Latinos unleashed the garage rock
classic "96 Tears" upon the world. The band, the Mysterians, was led by
enigmatic frontman ? [Question Mark], whose claims of a Martian birthright
and other wild antics led the band to success and eventual
near-legendary obscurity. "96 Tears" has subsequently become an iconic
hit, influencing everyone from the White Stripes and the Stooges to Alan
Vega's Suicide. Over 40 years later, ? and the Mysterians are
still rocking stages around the world. Joining them on this night will be
local post-punk rockers F'ke Blood, featuring current and ex-members of
the Go, the Von Bondies, Godzuki, the Snitches.
Question Mark and the Mysterians official website
Question Mark and the Mysterians on Myspace
F'ke Blood on Myspace
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Visitor's Center for the Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge Gateway, 2006 by Hamilton Anderson Associates |
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Jerry Herron, WSU Honors Head |
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Saturday, May 17 at 8pm
PERFORMANCE: JODY OBERFELDER DANCE PROJECTS
Admission $10
Recognized as "one of the funniest modern-dance choreographers in New York",
(Jennifer Dunning, NY Times, June 15, 2007), Jody Oberfelder combines
strength and virtuosic movement with levity and whimsical physical
imagination. A former Detroiter, she is known for her inventive choreography
and daring, acrobatic movements. In previous work, Oberfelder has
implemented surprisingly nontraditional elements, from props, one piece
featured dancers bowling with potatoes, to unusual sets and unexpected
arrays of musical accompaniment. However, she has earned most critical
accolades for the risks she takes in the dancing itself. Backstage writes,
"The awesome athleticism and acrobatic partner work of Oberfelder's
choreography proves perpetually compelling." Jody Oberfelder Dance Projects
will be performing "The Title Comes Last" and excerpts from "LineAge". |
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Jody Oberfelder Dance Projects, photo: Steven Scheiberl |
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Sunday, May 11 at 2pm
ARTIST TALK: ELLEN CANTOR
A former Detroiter now living in London, Ellen Cantor has been creating
videos for years, always fascinating viewers with their unpredictable mixes
of found footage and personal melodrama, romanticism, and irony. Integrating
elements of humor and sadness in her video work, Ellen Cantor's work points
in part to how the myths we imbibe from popular culture generate structures
of feeling that allow for no resolution. She will speak on her piece
"Whitby Weekender", a video on a soul-dance convention in the United Kingdom
and the influence of Detroit in her work.
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Saturday, May 10
7PM: OPENING RECEPTION FOR CONSIDERING DETROIT and CONSIDERING ARCHITECTURE: SUSTAINABLE DESIGNS FROM DETROIT
considering Detroit is the first in a projected series that will explore contemporary art somehow linked to the Detroit area, and document this recent artistic activity. considering Detroit will include five visual artists, one poet, and a collective. They are: Ellen Cantor, Maurice Greenia Jr. (Maugre), Jim Gustafson, Allie McGhee, Heather McGill,
Gordon Newton, and the artist collective TIME STEREO.
In conjunction with MOCAD's considering Detroit show, considering Architecture: Sustainable Designs from Detroit will also be on view. This show will include the designs, architecture and products of several local area architecture firms and highlight their projects that include "green" or sustainable design practices.
9PM: MUSIC BY NOMO,
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MONSTER ISLAND PERFORMING THE SHADOW PLAY "REHERSAL FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF MU"
$5 general admission
Free for members
Cash Bar
NOMO
Ubiquity recording artists' perform a unique blend of indie-afrofunk-jazz in
a large horns and rhythm based ensemble. Capturing the pioneering spirit of
Impulse era futuristic jazz exploration and the heavy funk rhythm's of Fela,
simultaneously.
Visit Nomo's website and see Nomo on the Ubuiquity recordings website. Visit Nomo at Myspace.
Monster Island perform the shadow play "Rehearsal for the Destruction of Mu"
Former Destroy All Monsters member, Cary Loren's otherworldly psychedelic
collective create a multi-media experience. Dubbed "The living theater" --
this experience presents "a changing social/political landscape of folk,
religious & street rituals derived from themes and topics that enhance
psychedelic experience, resistance and subversive behavior."
See MonsterIsland on Myspace and Destroy All Monsters and Monster Island information.
MOCAD is a proud participant of:
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Top to bottom: Gordon Newton, Untitled (Swordfish), courtesy Wayne State University; Visitor's Center for the Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge Gateway, 2006 by Hamilton Anderson Associates; Nomo; and Monster Island |
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Saturday, May 3
BE IN ART:
THE THIRD ANNUAL BENEFIT PARTY FOR THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DETROIT
6 PM: DINNER
8 PM: PARTY
"BE IN ART," is the theme for MOCAD's 3rd annual benefit, held for the first time in the Museum on Woodward Avenue in Detroit on May 3rd. The event begins at 6 pm and concludes after midnight. In between, guests will have all sorts of encounters with terrific art. This is a MOCAD party, after all -- fantastic, elegant and provocative.
The festivities begin at the front door. Artists have designed a special entrance to the Museum, that will get everyone in the mood to look, eat, visit and just have fun. The party space will be overloaded with good, affordable art and other stuff, in a silent auction. This is an opportunity to purchase something you shouldn't live without, at the right price and benefit MOCAD as well the artist who made it. For more information, visit the Be In Art Benefit page here.
Tickets available online or by calling (313) 832-6622. |
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Thursday,
April 17 at 6 pm
LECTURE: SARAH LEWIS
Sarah Lewis, is a visiting faculty member in the Department of Art History at Yale University. She is also a Curatorial Assistant in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art and has most recently worked with Robert Storr on MoMA’s retrospective of painter Elizabeth Murray. Prior to her work at the Museum of Modern Art, Ms. Lewis has worked in a number of museums, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Tate Modern. Her talk will focus on Holy Hip-Hop! New Paintings by Alex Melamid. |
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Sunday,
April 20 from 1-3pm
BLACK HISTORY 101 MOBILE MUSEUM
Featuring the Bell Collection
A full size trailer full of over 1,500 hip-hop artifacts and memorabilia will
be at MOCAD! Special workshops on Graffiti, Break-dance, MC demo/instruction
and a DJ performance will be featured, in addition to workshops on Portraiture,
Self-Fashioning + Recycling Fashion.
Watch this video for more information.
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Hip-hop materials from the Black History 101 Mobile Museum. |
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Saturday,
April 19 at 3 pm
PANEL DISCUSSION: THE RELEVANCE OF FASHION
Rei Kawakubo’s approach to fashion design has touched off dialogue in multiple fields of intellectual investigation, from contemporary feminism, postwar politics, anthropological and sociological inquiries, to the relevance of fashion’s relationship to art. Join in on a panel discussion of perspectives of experts outside the field of fashion design, and their thoughts on Kawakubo’s influence more broadly than merely how we dress ourselves.
Panelists: Jennifer Robertson, Professor, Anthropology,
University of Michigan; Michael Stone-Richards, Associate Professor, College for Creative Studies; Linda Dresner, Linda Dresner Inc.. |
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Friday,
April 4 at 7 pm
Admission: FREE
Detroit Summer, Fusicology and MOCAD present
an exclusive screening of:
HIP-HOP: BEYOND BEATS AND RHYMES (61 min. 2006)
Acclaimed documentary exploring the history of Hip Hop. Sparking
dialogue on hip-hop and its declarations on gender, HIP-HOP: Beyond
Beats and Rhymes provides thoughtful insight from intelligent,
divergent voices including rap artists, industry executives, rap fans
and social critics from inside and outside the hip-hop generation. The
film includes interviews with famous rappers such as Mos Def, Fat Joe,
Chuck D and Jadakiss and hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons; along with
commentary from Michael Eric Dyson, Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Kevin Powell
and Sarah Jones and interviews with young women at Spelman College, a
historically black school and one of the nation’s leading liberal arts
institutions.
The film also explores such pressing issues as women and violence in
rap music, representations of manhood in hip-hop culture, what today’s rap lyrics reveal to their listeners and homoeroticism in hip-hop. A
“loving critique” from a self-proclaimed “hip-hop head,” HIP-HOP:
Beyond Beats and Rhymes discloses the complex intersection of culture,
commerce and gender through on-the-street interviews with aspiring
rappers and fans at hip-hop events throughout the country.
This film screening is free and will be promptly followed by:
Followed promptly by performances by:
MC Invincible (Detroit)
MC Truth Universal (of New Orleans)
& MC Versiz (Detroit)
w/ special guests Pheonix, Dj InCreDUBle & Dj Defiant.
Versiz on Myspace
Visit Versiz website |
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MC Versiz and MC Invincible |
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