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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. Follow MOCAD's upcoming events and announcements :
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FAMILY DAY
Sunday, December 18th from 12PM to 4PM MOCAD and The Family Hootenanny present a very special Holiday Hootenanny Admission: Free This very special Holiday Hootenanny will be the third annual collaboration between MOCAD and the Family Hootenanny. The Family Hootenanny is a gathering of kids and their grownups brought together for the express purpose of singing, stomping, shouting, strumming, taking part in silliness and otherwise making music for the whole family. Past Hootenannies have included such sonic entertainment wonders as: homemade country ditties about popsicle soup and being stuck in playpens, tear-inducing renditions of Muppets songs, and punk jams about woodland creatures! For this year’s holiday edition, MOCAD will be leading holiday craft workshops, making fun and creative musical instruments from recycled and everyday materials. All materials will be provided free of charge. It’s going to be a wonderful holiday extravaganza. We hope to see you all there! |
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WORKSHOP
MOCAD, College for Creative Studies, Cranbrook Academy of Art, and Artserve Michigan present Friday, December 16th from 6:30PM to 8PM AND Saturday, December 17th from 11AM to 5PM Artist Development Summit Admission: $12.00 (advance registration required) This multi-phase artist development summit will bring together artists and experts from across a broad spectrum of disciplines, from fine arts and applied, film, music, literary arts and the world of publishing, in order to share their knowledge and expertise with local artists. The short sessions that will make up this daylong summit will offer the opportunity for serious, working artists to gather information on expanding their professional practice through a series of one-on-one discussionss, workshops and presentations by local and national professionals. Topics that will be covered will include writing for artists, portfolio reviews, independent publishing, grant writing and the establishment of the necessary tools for strong professional development. Advance registration for this event is required. For more information and registration, visit http://bit.ly/vtotgf |
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READING
Thursday, December 15th at 7PM Mel Nichols and Tyrone Williams Admission: Free Mel Nichols teaches digital poetry, creative writing, literature, and writing for artists at George Mason University. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in numerous magazines, including Fascicle, New Ohio Review, Practice, Van Gough's Ear, The Tangent, and Gargoyle. She is co-editor of illuminated meat, and an editor of the online journal English Matters. With Rod Smith, she curates the Ruthless Grip Poetry Series at Pyramid Atlantic Arts Center. On this very special evening at MOCAD, Nichols will be presenting works of experimental criticism culled from her vast body of diverse works. Poet and scholar Tyrone Williams was born in Detroit, Michigan where he attended Wayne State University. He teaches literature and theory at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is the author of three books of poetry, c.c. (Krupskaya Books, 2002), On Spec (Omnidawn Publishing, 2008), and The Hero Project of the Century (The Backwaters Press, 2009). A prose eulogy is forthcoming from Hooke Press in 2011. Williams has also completed a manuscript of poetry commissioned by Atelos Books. On this evening, Tyrone Williams will present a reading utilizing the work of Californian artist and poet Wendy Kramer’s emails and responses to his “interpretations” of some of her art collages created for friends. He will be presenting Wendy’s responses to his work, “enacting homologies between art, writing and audiences” as a way to problematize the “locus” of what Tyrone Williams is calling Wendy Kramer’s “Friend-Specific” art. For more info on Mel Nichols visit http://mason.gmu.edu/~mnichol6/about_mel.html For more info on Tyrone Williams visit http://home.earthlink.net/~suspend |
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BOOK LAUNCH
Friday, December 9rd from 6PM to 8PM Presentation and Reading at 7PM Paper Rehabilitation Project: Series 1 Admission: Free The blank books in this first series of the Paper Rehabilitation Project are made of stock found at a warehouse of excess, rejected and damaged paper. Each book contains four different sheets – Rolland Enviro, Oxford White, Cougar Natural Opaque, and Royal Cotton, manufactured by Cascades, Neenah, Domtar, and Wasau paper companies. Three different stocks for the covers were found – blue and gray with a linen finish, and a plum, with a sort of faux-leather finish. They were bound by Janutol Printing on Detroit’s East side. For more info on Paper Rehabilitation Project visit http://internationaltypographicalunion.org/ |
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MUSIC
Saturday, December 3rd at 5PM 39th Annual Noel Night MUSIC: Starlicker Trio Admission: Free Noel Night is a one-night celebration of Detroit’s Midtown district’s cultural diversity. This fun-filled night features shopping, horse-drawn carriage rides, carolers, music, dance, children’s activities and enough surprises to satisfy the biggest Scrooge in the crowd. MOCAD’s store will have special holiday themed items for sale, while MOCAD staff persons guide children through a series of simple and exciting craft workshops. As an added bonus, for this year’s Noel Night, MOCAD is proud to present the funky, “way out” jazz sounds of Chicago’s Starlicker Trio, a jazz combo comprised of Rob Mazurek on horn, John Herndon of the group Tortoise on drums, and Jason Adasiewicz on vibes. Deeply rooted in the Chicago sound and International avant-garde, Jazz and Rock scenes, Starlicker Trio excels in producing sound with energy, a sense of immediacy and beautiful careful arrangements. It is with great pleasure that MOCAD presents this innovative ensemble for two free performances at 6PM and at 7PM as part of the 39th annual Noel Night. For more info on Starlicker Trio visit http://www.robmazurek.com |
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FILM Friday, December 2nd 6-8PM Affirmations and Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) Observe Day With(out) Art World AIDS Day Untitled Admission: Free The event will take place at Affirmations: 290 W 9 Mile Rd, Ferndale, MI 48220 Affirmations and the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, in partnership with Visual AIDS is observing Day With(out) Art by screening Untitled a film by Jim Hodges, Encke King, and Carlos Marques da Cruz. Affirmations and the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit joins over 55 major museums, arts organizations, community groups and colleges throughout the United States presenting free public screenings of Untitled in honor of World AIDS Day. For more info on Untitled visit http://creativetime.org/programs/archive/2011/daywithoutart/ |
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FAMILY DAY Sunday, November 20th from 12PM to 4PM DDC Dance Workshop Admission: Free DDCdances has been active in Detroit since 1980. The collective believes in the power of dance and it’s ability to communicate and play a profound role in our everyday lives. Barbara Selinger, the current artistic director and principal choreographer, is a professional contemporary dance producer dedicated to the creation of a visually striking repertory. DDC is a pioneer in contemporary dance, paving the way for other dance artists and companies by exposing audiences to exciting concerts, lecture demonstrations, classes, workshops and educational programs. For this one-time collaborative workshop at MOCAD, DDC will teach several techniques in dance improvisation and choreography in this special 2-hour, animal-inspired creative arts and movement workshop. Participants will work together, share their creativity, and show what they have created in the dance sessions with family and friends. Before and after the workshop MOCAD staff persons will be on hand to work with children and parents to produce fanciful props for the dance performance. There will also be a free screening of “Carnival of the Animals,” an animal-themed performance staged by DDC. Come ready to move and boogie! Workshop Presenters – DDC Dance Artists Barbara Selinger is the artistic director of DDCdances. She is the recipient of numerous awards for her work including six Creative Artist Grants from the MCACA. Barbara’s choreography, celebrated for its humanity and ability to stimulate the senses through visually striking images, has been presented in concerts and performance demonstrations throughout the state of Michigan, in Chicago, and New York City. Her academic achievements include a M.Ed. in Dance from Wayne State University and a B.A. from Anna Maria College, Paxton, Massachusetts. Barbara has more than 25 years experience teaching at the university level where she mentors many young students pursuing a career in the arts and also conducts numerous classes and workshops in schools K-12. She has been awarded the prestigious Arts Achievement and Dance Alumni Awards from Wayne State University and Teacher of the Year Award from the Michigan Dance Association, Youth Arts Festival. In 2005 was one of three artists selected for the Governor’s People’s Choice Award for outstanding Michigan artist. Lisa LaMarre is the originator of “LaMarre and Dancers,” an explorative group of dancers focused on interdisciplinary collaborations. Her choreography has been produced for DDCdances, Grand Valley State University, Oakland University, Michigan Youth Arts Festival, People Dancing, Allure Dance Company, Churchill High School, RAD Festival, “What You Will” Improvisation Festival, the Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit, Poetry OutLoud, and numerous galleries/spaces/schools across Michigan. Lisa holds a BA degree in Dance from Western Michigan University and was selected as the WMU Department of Dance Presidential Scholar. She has worked as the Education Director of DDCdances and as an artist in residency for VSA of Michigan. Lisa has presented her integrated, inclusionary teaching technique at conferences in Washington, DC at the International VSA Arts Festival and in Grand Rapids, MI at The Heart and Spirit of Caregivers Conference. She is a member of the National Dance Education Organization and Michigan Dance Council. For more info on DDC visit http://detroitdancecollective.org/DDC_Website/Welcome.html |
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FILM Saturday, November 19th at 8PM The Ann Arbor Film Festival and MOCAD present The 49th Ann Arbor Film Festival Traveling Tour Admission: Free The MOCAD and the Ann Arbor Film Festival are proud to partner for another year to present a curated program, choosing some of the best audience-favorite films from this year's festival. The films in this program represent a broad cross section of experimental cinema by some of the most interesting and progressive artists from around the world. This year's program will include: Miramare - Michaela Müller | Croatia | 8 min A look at life on the Mediterranean borders of Europe, where tourists try to relax while "illegal" immigrants struggle to get a chance for a better life. Atlantiques - Mati Diop | Senegal/France | 15 min Sitting by the campfire, Serigne, a young man from Dakar, tells his two friends the story of his sea voyage as a stowaway. Not only he, but everyone in his surroundings seems to be continually obsessed by the idea of trying to cross the sea. His words reverberate like a melancholic poem. A story about boys who are continually traveling: between past, present and future, between life and death, history and myth. Protopartículas - Chema García Ibarra | Spain | 7 min The experiment was almost a success: protomatter exists. Hand Soap - Kei Oyama | Japan | 16 minutes [AAFF Best Animation Award] A calm, sultry animation about a family with a growing adolescent son whose insecurity, obsession with his body and his ill-at-ease family are reflected in details and objects that occasionally lead a life of their own. Point Line Plane - Simon Payne | England | 9 min Shifting grids in black, white and shades of grey plot and continuously reframe the screen space. The increasingly complex matrix of layers produces an illusion of depth, beyond the surface of the screen, but with positive and negative switching, the piece also illuminates the viewer. These Hammers Don't Hurt Us - Michael Robinson | USA | 13 min [AAFF Most Technically Innovative Film Award] Tired of underworld and overworld alike, Isis escorts her favorite son on their final curtain call down the Nile, leaving a neon wake of shattered tombs and sparkling sarcophagi. Looking to a future beyond death, Michael Robinson's These Hammers Don't Hurt Us, one of the filmmaker's most sophisticated found footage concoctions yet, combined Michael Jackson's "Remember the Time" music video with footage of Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra and roughly a dozen other sources, creating for the late pop star a solemn passage into a bedazzled Egyptian afterlife tenderly ushered by his real-life confidante. –Genevieve Yue, Reverse Shot In the Absence of Light, Darkness Prevails - Fern Silva | USA/Brazil | 13 min [AAFF Best Experimental Film Award] "O mother of waters! Great is your power, your strength, and your light...Let your greatness be the greatest wealth you dispense to me... surrounded by sweet melodies springing from your own self..." –prayer to Iemanjá Fern Silva's In the Absence of Light, Darkness Prevails suggests a future already arrived, merging the destruction with the creation of life as seen in the tiny turtles crawling their way to the sea, or heard in the crackling of a Geiger counter as a masked man sprays plants with pesticides. Though only 13 minutes, the film's span is enormous. As revelers in Salvador, Bahia parade through the streets, a gnat-sized Mercury passes across the surface of the sun, and men slowly make their way up the giant steps of an ancient temple; the film resides in a well of deep time, civilizational history swallowed by the life of the planet. –Genevieve Yue, Reverse Shot The Ann Arbor Film Festival is the longest-running independent and experimental film festival in North America, established in 1963. Internationally recognized as a premiere forum for independent filmmakers and artists, each year's festival engages audiences with remarkable cinematic experiences. The AAFF is a pioneer of the traveling film festival tour and each year presents short film programs at more than 35 theaters, universities, museums and art house cinemas throughout the world. The AAFF also presents and partners on events throughout the year, which have included screenings with the Ann Arbor Summer Festival, University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) and Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD). For more info on the Ann Arbor Film Festival visit: http://www.aafilmfest.org |
  Miramare - Michaela Müller  Atlantiques - Mati Diop  Protopartículas - Chema García Ibarra  Hand Soap - Kei Oyama  Point Line Plane - Simon Payne These Hammers Don't Hurt Us - Michael Robinson
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WORKSHOP Saturday, November 19th from 3 to 4:30PM Wadada Leo Smith: Learn Methods of Improvisation with Wadada Leo Smith Admission: $9.00 (advanced registration required) This will be a closed session, open only to workshop participants. Legendary improvisational Jazz musician, teacher and ethnomusicologist Wadada Leo Smith will lead an hour and half long workshop during which he will present his own take on the history of creative improvised music, as well as his own methods of improvising. Wadada will then work with the group of attending musicians in developing their own methods in conjunction with his own theories and ideas of free playing. The workshop session will culminate in a group improvisation with Smith and the workshop participants. This afternoon workshop will provide a rare and wonderful opportunity for seasoned and beginning players to work with this world-renowned artist to expand their musical horizons and to improvise freely in a large ensemble. Wadada Leo Smith is an avant-garde improvisational jazz musician who has been influencing contemporary music for over 40 years. He developed of the “systemic musical language” Ankhrasmation, Smith’s own method of notation for scoring musical improvisation, silence, and rhythm. Wadada has been the recipient of numerous awards including NEA grants, Meet the Composer grants, and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship. The publication on his philosophy of music,Notes (8 Pieces) Source a New World Music: Creative Music (1973) has been translated from English into Italian and Japanese. Currently, Smith leads the New Music and Free Jazz ensembles “Organic,” “Golden Quartet,” and “Silver Orchestra.” His compositions have been performed by The Kronos Quartet, California E.A.R. Unit, and by the Contemporary Chamber Players (University of Chicago), among others. He is also an integral member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) in Chicago since shortly after the organizations foundation. For more info on Wadada Leo Smith visit http://adagio.calarts.edu/~wls |
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MUSIC Friday, November 18th at 8PM Wadada Leo Smith with Thomas Buckner Admission: $9.00 (Free for members) | All ages Wadada Leo Smith is an avant-garde improvisational jazz musician who has been influencing contemporary music for over 40 years. He developed of the “systemic musical language” Ankhrasmation, Smith’s own method of notation for scoring musical improvisation, silence, and rhythm. Wadada has been the recipient of numerous awards including NEA grants, Meet the Composer grants, and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship. The publication on his philosophy of music, Notes (8 Pieces) Source a New World Music: Creative Music (1973) has been translated from English into Italian and Japanese. Currently, Smith leads the New Music and Free Jazz ensembles “Organic,” “Golden Quartet,” and “Silver Orchestra.” His compositions have been performed by The Kronos Quartet, California E.A.R. Unit, and by the Contemporary Chamber Players (University of Chicago), among others. He is also an integral member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) in Chicago since shortly after the organization’s foundation. AACM Inc. was founded in Chicago in 1965 as a musicians’ collective designed to develop, support, and expose the work of innovative, original musicians. The phrase “Great Black Music” is used by AACM to describe the direction of the organization to inspire high standards among artist members. Members of the AACM have received grants from the MacArthur Foundation, the NEA, and the Jazzpar award, among many others. The AACM is perhaps best known for producing free public concerts with internationally recognized talent. The organization also works to nurture and develop the potential of city youth with a free music-training program, called the AACM School of Music. Wadada Leo Smith joined AACM in 1967 and has worked closely with its members to create a richer cultural community. For more than 40 years, baritone Thomas Buckner has dedicated himself to the world of new and improvised music. Buckner has collaborated with a host of New Music composers including Roscoe Mitchell, Christian Wolff, Robert Shaley, Phil Niblock and numerous others. He has made appearances at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Prague Spring Festival, and the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. For the past twenty years, Buckner has co-produced the Interpretations series in New York City. He also created the Mutable Music record label to produce new recordings and reissue some important historic recordings, previously unavailable in CD format. For more info on Wadada Leo Smith visit: http://adagio.calarts.edu/~wls/ For more info on the AACM visit http://aacmchicago.org/ For more info on Thomas Buckner visit http://www.thomasbuckner.com |
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PANEL Thursday, November 17th at 7PM Sound in Context: A History of Free Music Admission: Free The second in a seasonal series of discussions that seek to provide context both to MOCAD’s music programming for the evening of Friday, November 18th with Wadada Leo Smith, as well as a broader understanding of the history and context of the music that is known today as “Free Jazz.” A form of music with no universally accepted definition, “Free Jazz” or “Creative Improvised Music,” as it may be known, is a form of Jazz developed in the “post-Bop” era of the 1940s and 50s that sought to create a music completely removed from any kind of modal or harmonic strictures. The pioneers of the sound are well known today, and may even be viewed as conventional by today’s standards: Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Eric Dolphy, Cecil Taylor, Archie Shepp and Sun Ra first began developing their own distinct sound in response to what they viewed as the formalized, melody-based limitations of “BeBop” improvisation. Their work led the way for even more inventive and experimental sounds from 1960s Jazz visionaries such as Albert Ayler, Anthony Braxton, and Derek Bailey, and on to more contemporary names such as Sonny Sharrock, Matthew Shipp, James “Blood” Ulmer, and David S. Ware. Participants in this open discussion will include Kim Heron, editor of the MetroTimes and host for 17 years of the Kim Heron Show on WDET FM; Mike Khoury, musician, musicologist and founder of the Entropy Stereo recording label; Pat Frisco, New Music Society co-founder and WDET FM on-air host; Faruq Z Bey, legendary Detroit musician and founder of renowned Free Jazz ensemble Griot Galaxy, and other invited guests. This historical talk should be engaging and educational for lifelong fans, the uninitiated and the curious. |
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FILM Saturday, November 12th at 8PM The Ann Arbor Film Festival and MOCAD present Shadowbox Cinema III Admission: Free The Ann Arbor Film Festival (AAFF) and MOCAD present Shadowbox Cinema III, an annual showcase for new indie shorts from local, national, and international filmmakers. This short film festival is an original program curated by the AAFF and MOCAD which features amazing, hand-selected works submitted to the AAFF that did not fit into the festival's format. The films in Shadowbox Cinema span the cinematic spectrum, from animation and documentary to narrative and experimental, from light and irreverent to poignant and thoughtful. MOCAD is very excited to present this wonderful program for a third year. Moving (5 minutes) Sean Curtis Patrick, Austin, TX "Moving" is an experiment in Dela, Phasing, and color. Filmed in my new city of Austin, Texas, My process was simple. Filming a fluctuating landscape and visually delaying and multiplying the image with a phased permutation. -SCP Jeannie (14 minutes) Olivia Jampol, Brooklyn, NY A young girl in a 1970s suburban town grapples with her own desires after a traumatizing first sexual encounter. Voice on the Line (7 minutes) Kelly Sears, Houston, TX The era of nuclear anxiety, red scare paranoia and covert CIA plots forever changed how we engaged with the telephone. Boys of Summer (13 minutes) Alee Peoples, Providence, RI Mischievous group male bonding and ice cream induced summer love are alive and well in this backwoods town, USA. Filmpiece for Bartlett (6 minutes) Scott Nyerges, Brooklyn, NY A tribute to the late filmmaker Scott Barlett (”Off/On”, “Serpent”). A fountain in the Museum of Modern Art courtyard becomes a literal and figurative reflection upon Bartlett’s quote in film historian and critic Gene Youngblood’s 1970 book “Expanded Cinema”: ‘There is a pattern in my film work that could be the pattern of a hundred-thousand movies. It simply is: Repeat and purify; repeat and synthesize; abstract, abstract, abstract.” -SN A Time Shared Unlimited (10 minutes) Zachary Epcar, San Francisco, CA Near-future leisure time activity and anxiety acted out as a series of minor incidents in continual interruption, alternating between an overcrowded virtual space and a virtually abandoned city space. -ZE The Blockbuster Tapes (5 minutes) Daniel Martinico, Los Angeles, CA Documents a three-year endeavor in which VHS tapes were rented, subtly modified, and returned to the store. -DM Magic for Beginners (20 minutes) Jesse McLean, Chicago, IL "Magic for Beginners" examines the mythologies found in fan culture, from longing to obsession to psychic connections. The need for such connections (whether real or imaginary) as well as the need for an emotional release that only fantasy can deliver are explored. -JM Possessed (9 minutes) Fred Worden, Silver Springs, MD Sequence with a passing train, passengers in motion and a woman standing still on the platform becomes a study of illusionary movements. This work incorporates clips with Joan Crawford from the classic 1931 Hollywood film "Possessed". The Orange (3 minutes) Nick Fox-Gieg, Toronto, Canada Suddenly, a humble citrus fruit is granted absolute power over the universe. |
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FILM Saturday, November 5th at 7PM The Lost Landscapes of Detroit Admission: $5.00 An eclectic montage of rediscovered and rarely-seen archival film clips exhibiting life, cityscapes, labor and leisure from a ‘vanishing Detroit,’ as captured by amateurs, newsreel cameramen and industrial filmmakers. The Lost Landscapes of Detroit aims to offer Detroiters imagery of the City’s past, free from any sense of nostalgia, in an attempt to provide subject for contemplation as the people of the city build toward a new future. Unlike most film screenings, Lost Landscapes relies on audience participation for the soundtrack – interaction with the films is encouraged, as questions are shouted out, observations are shared and mysterious locations are identified. Rick Prelinger began collecting ephemeral films -- advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur works -- in 1983. In 2002, his collection of over 200,000 items was acquired by the Library of Congress; many key films are available online at the Internet Archive. In 2004 Rick and spouse Megan opened the Prelinger Library in downtown San Francisco. The archive is open to the public and includes over 60,000 pieces of print ephemera, books, periodicals, maps, and zines. |
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FILM Saturday, November 5th 4PM matinee A Family Screening of The Lost Landscapes of Detroit Admission: Free | For families only (you must be with a child to attend) An eclectic montage of rediscovered and rarely-seen archival film clips exhibiting life, cityscapes, labor and leisure from a ‘vanishing Detroit,’ as captured by amateurs, newsreel cameramen and industrial filmmakers. The Lost Landscapes of Detroit aims to offer Detroiters imagery of the City’s past, free from any sense of nostalgia, in an attempt to provide subject for contemplation as the people of the city build toward a new future. Unlike most film screenings, Lost Landscapes relies on audience participation for the soundtrack – interaction with the films is encouraged, as questions are shouted out, observations are shared and mysterious locations are identified. Rick Prelinger began collecting ephemeral films -- advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur works -- in 1983. In 2002, his collection of over 200,000 items was acquired by the Library of Congress; many key films are available online at the Internet Archive. In 2004 Rick and spouse Megan opened the Prelinger Library in downtown San Francisco, which includes over 60,000 pieces of print ephemera, books, periodicals, maps and zines and is open to the public. |
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Friday, November 4th at 7PM The Lost Landscapes of Detroit Admission: $5.00 An eclectic montage of rediscovered and rarely-seen archival film clips exhibiting life, cityscapes, labor and leisure from a ‘vanishing Detroit,’ as captured by amateurs, newsreel cameramen and industrial filmmakers. The Lost Landscapes of Detroit aims to offer Detroiters imagery of the City’s past, free from any sense of nostalgia, in an attempt to provide subject for contemplation as the people of the city build toward a new future. Unlike most film screenings, Lost Landscapes relies on audience participation for the soundtrack – interaction with the films is encouraged, as questions are shouted out, observations are shared and mysterious locations are identified. Rick Prelinger began collecting ephemeral films -- advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur works -- in 1983. In 2002, his collection of over 200,000 items was acquired by the Library of Congress; many key films are available online at the Internet Archive. In 2004 Rick and spouse Megan opened the Prelinger Library in downtown San Francisco. The archive is open to the public and includes over 60,000 pieces of print ephemera, books, periodicals, maps, and zines. |
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DANCE PARTY Friday, October 7th at 8PM Saturday, October 29th at 8PM MOCAD’s New Wave presents Horror Movie. Admission: $10.00 | All ages | Cash bar for 21+ Horror Movie. is the fourth-annual Halloween dance party hosted by MOCAD's young professionals auxiliary committee, the New Wave, as a fundraiser for the Museum’s public programs. This year's party promises to be an absolutely horrifying spectacle! Dress as your favorite horror movie icon and then come out to enjoy dancing and all sorts of scary weirdness. With a costume contest, prizes, frightening features, and tons of fun, this year’s party is definitely going to be one of the best parties that MOCAD and the City of Detroit have to offer! Entertainment provided by Macho City / Disco Secret DJs |
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READING Friday, October 21st at 7PM Rob Halpern with Peter Markus Admission: Free Rob Halpern is the author of two books of poems, Rumored Place (Krupskaya 2004), which was nominated for a California Book Award, and Disaster Suites (Palm Press 2009), as well as several chapbooks. In his poetry, Halpern's writing activates a lyrical voice shot-through with linguistic debris and media fallout. In the confusion of current geo-political conflicts, his poems make the fatal abstractions of crisis audible—finance, militarization, and war—by implicating the lyric voice in the materialization of those abstractions. Peter Markus is the author of a novel, Bob, or Man on Boat, as well as three books of short-short fiction, the most recent of which is We Make Mud. He is the Senior Writer with the InsideOut Literary Arts Project of Detroit and also teaches fiction writing at Eastern Michigan University. His stories and poems have appeared in such literary magazines as Black Warrior Review, Quarterly West, Massachusetts Review, Northwest Review, and New Orleans Review. His work has also appeared in numerous anthologies including New Sudden Fiction (Norton) and Fiction Gallery (Bloomsbury USA). He has taught at the Interlochen Center for the Arts and holds a BA from the University of Michigan and an MFA in Creative Writing from Western Michigan University. Both readers will be presenting works that touch on and expand on themes and ideas addressed in MOCAD’s two current exhibitions, barely there (part two) and Stéphanie Nava: Considering a Plot (Dig for Victory). |
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Sunday, October 16th at 12PM Creepy Crawly Costumes Admission: Free Create your own Halloween costume this year at MOCAD. Families will have a slew of bizarre, recycled materials to choose from, and two of Detroit’s most talented artists on hand to help bring to life a heart-stopping, goosebump-inducing, creepy crawly costume for you! All materials for this workshop will be provided by MOCAD free of charge. Artist and designer Sarah Lapinski runs the independent menswear company known as WOUND. She is an award-winning, self-taught designer and seamstress. Her work is carried in boutiques, galleries and museums and has appeared in numerous local and national publications. Artist Mary Fortuna has been active in the Detroit art community for twenty-plus years. She graduated from Wayne State University with a BFA in 1992. She is currently employed as the Exhibition Director at Paint Creek Center for the Arts in Rochester, Michigan. When she’s not at work she sews, knits, draws and makes dolls and puppets. |
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BENEFIT
Friday, October 14th V: MOCAD’s 5th ANNIVERSARY MUSIC: Ze Dark Park with special guests Prussia, Dj Brian Gillespie and HAUTE to DEATH DJs Ash Nowak and Jon Dones VIP Party 7PM to 9PM | General Admission 9PM to 2AM ADMISSION: This event has a three-tiered ticket system VIP PARTY 7 pm Silent Art Auction, Site-Specific Performances, Unexpected Occurrences $100 ticket includes: All Inclusive Dinner + Drinks until 9 pm, MOCAD Membership, Special Gift $50 ticket includes: Dinner + Cash Bar GENERAL ADMISSION 9 pm - 2 am $10 ticket includes: Main Stage Entertainment + Cash Bar To charge by phone, call (313)-832-6622 Mail a check payment to: Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit 4454 Woodward Ave Detroit, MI 48201 Can’t make it to the party? You can still make a donation to support another five years of MOCAD operations! MOCAD is turning five years old and in honor of this landmark the museum is throwing itself a birthday party. You are cordially invited to come celebrate with old friends and to invite some new ones for a night of art, music, and more than a few birthday surprises from Carbon Arts, Dr. Cyclops, InsideOut Literary Arts Project (Joseph Verge and Justin Rogers), LaMarre and Dancers, and Princess Dragon Mom/Cloud Bridge. The museum will be providing dinner and drinks from 7 – 9 pm from a selection of Detroit’s finest restaurants, some have worked closely with MOCAD over the past five years and others are up and coming favorites not to be missed. While you dine, you are invited to participate in a silent auction of fine art and unique products provided by friends and supporters in the metro Detroit area including the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, 71 Pop, Sole Sisters, University Musical Society, Wheelhouse Detroit, Leopold’s Books, among others. All proceeds from the auction will go directly to future museum operations. Prussia is a Detroit-born rock group that makes uncommonly beautiful and evocative music. The music of Prussia explores a wide breadth of influences and styles: from Talking Heads-style funky, post-punk and Animal Collective’s exploratory pop constructions, to the trippy, composerly experimentalism of Syd Barret-era Pink Floyd. Prussia runs the gamut of popular styles and genres to create their own distinctly fantastical product. Ze Dark Park is the fruitful collaboration of Ian Clark (Perspects and Le Car), Ron Zakrin (Goudron), and John Ryan (Spacelings and Bassheads). Together, this electronic music trio creates complex, multi-layered dance music that references Disco, New Wave, and Techno. They have been tearing up dance floors around Detroit since their conception and are the perfect act to ring in MOCAD’s fifth year in a stylishly dark and sweaty night of unbridled dancing. |
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MUSIC
Friday, October 7th at 8PM Redondo Beat, Outrageous Cherry, and Jöjjön Admission: $7.00 | All ages Redondo Beat started making stylishly retro rock and roll in the early 00’s in a small village near Gelnhausen, Germany where their idols, the pioneering American garage rockers, The Monks where stationed in the early 1960s. Redondo Beat’s influences range from the earliest of the 60s Brill Building songwriters, Creedence Clearwater Revival, 70s AM radio, 60s girl groups, and 70s power punk. The group was organized around multi-instrumentalist Roman Aul’s solo recordings to present his unique visions in a full band setting. Redondo Beat has since gone on to perform alongside The Monks and as the backing band for Sky Saxon, frontman for legendary 60s garage-psyche rockers The Seeds. MOCAD is happy to present this rare Detroit-area performance to celebrate Fall’s arrival in Michigan. Outrageous Cherry emerged from Detroit's underground scene of the early ‘90s, and quickly advanced from playing Troggs, Stooges and Monkees covers in the basement to becoming a prolific and enigmatic rock n' roll group with no cymbals, sometimes elaborate studio production, an inclination towards playing really long guitar solos, and Dylan-esque amounts of lyrics. The 4-piece band consists of Detroit music scene mainstays Matthew Smith and Larry Ray joined on stage by a revolving cast of bassists and drummers. Together they present a crisp and clear take on ‘60s pop-inflected rock songs that borrow from the best of the American songbook in a decidedly non-retro fashion. Outrageous Cherry is a multi-faceted celebration of the sounds of yesterday, today. Jöjjön is an indie-rock band from Detroit, MI using guitar, bass, drums, cello and voice to create a rustic sound drawing on a wide range of influences including their individual origins in the state of Indiana, the city of Budapest, and the city of Detroit. Their sound is a “go-sound” drawing on indie rock, rural psychedelia, arcane ideas, urban landscapes and obscure knowledge. |
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WORKSHOP
Saturday, October 1st from 12PM to 4PM Iron Pour with Carbon Arts Admission: $12.00 entry (free for children under 10 years) Carve a reverse relief design into a pre-made sand mold to prepare it for the iron pour (tools & professional assistance will be made available). Then watch as crews pour hot, molten iron into the pre-made molds. Be a part of this transformation and walk away with your very own original art piece! Participants will get to purchase scratch blocks of various sizes that they can then design and to make their very own, freshly poured iron sculpture. Carbon Arts is a Detroit-based organization founded by artists Casey Westbrook & Aaron McCaffery. Westbrook and McCaffery met while working on Matthew Barney's film "KHU", which was filmed in and around Detroit in 2010. Together, they designed and built the cupolas (furnaces) for an iron pour as part of the film, which at 25 tons is the largest iron pour ever attempted for art. Together, they focus their organization on the education of carbon arts through lectures, demonstrations, and workshops. This wonderful workshop offers families the opportunity to learn more about the ancient art of iron pouring and the creation of reliefs. |
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CURATOR'S TALK
Art Detroit Now Friday, September 30th at 6PM Luis Croquer Admission: Free As part of Art Detroit Now, MOCAD Director + Chief Curator, Luis Croquer will present the two exhibitions that he curated for the Museum's Fall 2011 season. This informative walk-thru promises to contextualize MOCAD's two most recent exhibitions Stéphanie Nava: Considering a Plot (Dig for Victory), which features the French artist in her first solo US show, and the multi-generational group exhibition barely there (part two), the second part of Croquer's exploration into large concepts, performance and dematerialization. This exhibition tour will be free and open to the public and will be very illuminating. |
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WORKSHOP
Saturday, September 24th from 2PM to 4PM FMCA, InsideOut Literary Arts Project and MOCAD present Memory Cloud – Haiku workshop Admission: Free The Friends of Modern and Contemporary Art at the DIA and MOCAD are partnering with InsideOut Literary Arts Project to present a Haiku workshop for high school students (and the young at heart). Attendees will be coached in this ancient tradition in order to develop short phrases and haikus which will be texted and written in smoke on Woodward Avenue as part of the DIA's event Memory Cloud: Detroit presented by artist collective Minimaforms the following week. At the MOCAD workshop, images from the City of Detroit will be projected in a large format to be taken as subjects of inspiration for poems and writings composed by attendees of this short workshop/class run by InsideOut founder Terry Blackhawk. Terry Blackhawk is the founder and director of Detroit 's acclaimed InsideOut Literary Arts Project, a poets-in-schools program serving over 5,000 youth per year. She began teaching English in 1968 after graduating from Antioch College and took up writing poetry, herself, when she was already teaching it to her students. Terry's poetry collections include Body & Field (Michigan State University Press, 1999), Escape Artist (BkMk Press, 2003), which was selected by Molly Peacock for the John Ciardi Prize; and The Dropped Hand (Marick Press, 2007). She has published two chapbooks, Trio: Voices from the Myths (Ridgeway Press, 1998) and Greatest Hits 1989-2003 (Pudding House Press). Her poems have appeared in numerous anthologies and journals, including Marlboro Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Florida Review, Borderlands, Artful Dodge, The MacGuffin and Nimrod. Her essays have been published in Review Revue, An Emily Dickinson Encyclopedia, Language Arts Journal of Michigan and anthologies from the Teachers & Writers Collaborative. She was a finalist for the 2009 Pablo Neruda Prize from Nimrod Press for "Out of the Labyrinth" and other poems. She has received many recognitions for her teaching, including Creative Writing Educator of the Year from the Michigan Youth Arts Festival (2008), a Humanities Award from Wayne County Arts, History and Humanities Council (2008), and 2007 Detroit Bookwoman of the Year from the Women's National Book Association. Terry is the recipient of the 2010 Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize from Nimrod International for her poem "Chambered Nautilus, with Tinnitus and Linden." The event is sponsored by the Detroit Institute of Arts, funded by the Dr. and Mrs. George Kamperman Fund and Friends of Modern and Contemporary Art, in cooperation with Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. For more information on Minimaforms Memory Cloud: Detroit visit http://www.voiceofdetroit.com/ or http://www.dia.org/calendar/ For more info on Terry Blackhawk and InsideOut Literary Arts Project visit http://terrymblackhawk.com http://www.insideoutdetroit.org |
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ARTIST TALK
Friday, September 23rd at 7PM The Penny Stamps Lecture Series and MOCAD present François Delarozière Admission: Free French artist, engineer and inventor François Delarozière crafts fantastic machines that create artful public spectacles. He is the Artistic Director of La Machine, a French company that brings together artists, designers, fabricators and technicians in order to produce giant performing machines that often resemble animals and bizarre creatures. He has collaborated with French and international companies in productions ranging from traditional theatre to experimental street art. |
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MUSIC
Wednesday, September 21st at 6PM The Raincoats with special guests Pink Reason, Grass Widow, Swimsuit and the Keep on Trash DJs Admission: $10.00 | All ages | Cash bar for 21 + Classic art-punk-girl-group, The Raincoats started playing in London around 1977 when Gina Birch and Ana da Silva became inspired by what was happening in the UK punk scene. One of their greatest inspirations was the similarly feminine punk group, The Slits. The band toured, made a few albums and then the Raincoats went their separate ways in the mid-80s. Eventually, in the early 90s at the behest of Kurt Cobain, The Raincoats would reform to make one album for Geffen records, and to tour with Cobain's popular rock group, Nirvana. In the 21st Century The Raincoats have continued to tour and create albums at a leisurely pace. Their angular, skewed take on punk, pop and classic rock has had a lasting impact on the underground music world, from New York's "No Wave" scene of the early 80s to today's resurgence in artful, psychedelic, punk sounds. The Raincoats opened a door of possibilities that remains open to this day allowing countless misfit artists to sculpt their own sonic landscapes free from commercial or social constraints. MOCAD is proud to present one of ten US dates that The Raincoats will play in 2011. All online tickets are "Will Call" only. Purchasers name will be added to a list and tickets will be at the door on the night of the event. Tickets are also available at Encore Records (Ann Arbor), Hello Records (Detroit), Peoples Records (Detroit), Street Corner Music (Oak Park), and Stormy Records (Dearborn). Pink Reason is Kevin DeBroux – a native of Wisconsin. Playing loud music with slow rhythms and a pinch of screaming, DeBroux presents poetic lyrics amidst a cloud of estrangement and murky psychedelic sounds. His Mid-Western ballads about empowered losers, worried minds, and lost and dead souls present a new landscape for punk rock that reaches out to an angst-ridden post-Stooges world but hails from the murky, sunglasses-at-night landscape of the Velvet Underground. Songs prevail but the attitude is straight, no-hope-for-the-true-of-heart punk rock and roll. Grass Widow is a San Francisco-based trio who work collaboratively to create melodic, post-punk influenced songs with intricate and layered instrumentation. The fact that they are largely self-taught musicians contributes to their unique musical inclinations. Formed in 2007, Grass Widow quickly received attention within the Bay Area as well as national underground press while serving as direct support for Mike Watt, Sonic Youth, and Half Japanese's Jad Fair. Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti, Michigan's Swimsuit plays an idiosyncratic form of New Wave and indie-pop. The group includes past and present members of Saturday Looks Good to Me, City Center and Tyvek. Their sound is simultaneously noisy and catchy, with vague hints of psyche, fuzzy punk pop and positive vibes. For more info on The Raincoats visit http://www.theraincoats.net For more info on Pink Reason visit http://pinkreason.com For more info on Grass Widow visit http://wizardmountain.org/grasswidow For more info on Swimsuit visit http://www.myspace.com/swimsuitsounds |
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FAMILY DAY
Sunday, September 18th from 12PM to 4PM Creatingness' Great Reward Admission: Free This fun workshop will show children and their parents how to create contemporary art out of reclaimed and recycled materials. Stations will be set up that will encourage and challenge families to work together to make extraordinary sculptural reliefs and sculptures out of organic materials. This Family Day will be run by MOCAD's Public Programs and Education staff as a fun and easy way to create a connection between visitors from the local community and MOCAD's current exhibition, Stéphanie Nava: Considering a Plot (Dig for Victory). |
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ARTIST TALK
Saturday, September 17th at 2PM Stéphanie Nava Admission: Free This multimedia lecture by artist Stéphanie Nava will present contextualizing information about her exhibition currently on display at MOCAD: Considering a Plot (Dig for Victory). Nava's work examines and investigates WWII Victory Gardens and the environments that led to their creation. The talk will also seek to illuminate her work process, providing a broad introduction to her practice and examining some key questions that shape her ongoing projects and works that deal with drawing, politics, community issues, built and constructed environments, organized spaces and gardens. |
Stéphanie Nava, from the series Les Archipels, ink on paper 59x42cm, 2010 | |||
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OPENING NIGHT
Friday, September 16th at 8PM (6PM – 8PM preview) MUSIC at 9PM:Crash Course in Science with special guests Moon Pool & Dead Band Admission: $8.00 | Free for members Obscure, Philadelphia-based electronic music act, Crash Course in Science (CCIS) began producing unique, dark dance music when art school students Dale Feliciello, Mallory Yago and Michael Zodorozny became intrigued by punk music and performance art in 1979. Their sound was marked by the use of unconventional instruments, tools, kitchen utensils and odd sounds that set them apart form the rest of the acts rising out of the East Coast New Wave scene. CCIS immediately released "Cakes in the Home," a seven-inch vinyl single on Go Go Records in 1979, followed by "Signals from pier Thirteen" in 1981. The latter contained the danceable club hits "Cardboard Lamb" and "Flying Turns." At the time, CCIS were performing highly theatrical concerts in clubs and galleries in New York City and Philadelphia, including The Hot Club, and the legendary CBGB. Several appearances in the cult television show "The Uncle Floyd Show" increased their visibility in the early '80's. Since then, Crash Course in Science has remained active releasing several singles including "Planete Rouge," "Jupiter" a box set debuting their album "Near Marineland" and a slew of live recordings, re-pressings, and bonus tracks. Moon Pool and Dead Band are an electronic music duo from Detroit who present a cross pollination of electronic, progressive and psychedelic sounds. Nate Young and Dave Shettler started Moon Pool and Dead Band in order to experiment with more ambient and dance floor-oriented sounds than either of their respective bands, Wolf Eyes and SSM, would generate. The resulting product is a synthesis of forms, at once dark and popular in appeal and approach. For more info on Crash Course in Science visit http://crashcourseinscience.com For more info on Moon Pool and Dead Band visit https://www.facebook.com/moonpooldeadband |
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