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UPCOMING EVENTS / PAST EVENTS / VIDEOS 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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The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit is supported through generous contributions from individuals and invaluable support from members. Additional support is provided by The Kresge Foundation, The Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, MASCO Corporation Foundation and Erb Family Foundation.
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
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MUSIC: Shooting Spires is the solo-project of Brooklyn-based art rock ensemble Parts and Labor bassist/keyboardist, BJ Warshaw. The sound of this one-man-band hearkens the earliest Eno-inflected releases by Roxy Music, with a rich layering of keyboards, drum machines, over-driven guitars and voice, accented by occasional blasts of saxophone and random synthesizer loops. The resulting songs are simple, hook-laden pop buried under a sonic cloud reminiscent of My Bloody Valentine, Animal Collective and Brian Eno’s exploratory rock albums. Deastro is the product of Randolph Chabot, a very productive kid from the outer reaches of suburban metro-Detroit. For several years Chabot has kept his Deastro persona alive through a series of home-recordings and internet releases. His early sound brought together a mash of retro-80’s, Nintendo inspired synth-pop and celebratory prog-rock, all performed by Chabot alone in various guises (drums along with pre-programmed synths, singing and playing synthesizer along to pre-programmed rhythms, etc.). On this evening, having just released their ‘Moondaggers’ LP on the internationally renowned Ghostly International label, Deastro will premiere its newest incarnation as a full band. |
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CURATORS TALK: The Chief Curator of the Contemporary Art Museum of St. Louis, or the Blind Man curator, Anthony Huberman gives a special lecture about his approach to making exhibitions. Within the context of the current show, For the blind man..., Huberman presents artists, artworks, and ideas that have inspired the way he thinks about art in general. |
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010 at 7PM LOST LANDSCAPES OF DETROIT; an eclectic montage of rediscovered and rarely-seen archival film clips exhibiting life; cityscapes, labor and leisure from ‘vanishing Detroit’, as captured by amateurs, newsreel cameramen and industrial filmmakers from the 1920’s to the 1960’s. Lost Landscapes aims to offer Detroiters imagery of Detroit's past, free from any sense of nostalgia, in an attempt to provide subject for contemplation as the people of the city build towards 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. “How we remember and record the past reveals much about how we address the future” points out archivist Rick Prelinger, who will be on hand to preface the screening with a brief talk on the value of ephemeral films, on the changing nature of historical memory, and what consequences will arise from the emerging massive matrix of personal records. 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. |
  Photos courtesy of Richard Prelinger, Prelinger Archives. |
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Thursday, February 11, 2010 from 7PM - 9:30PM Danialle Karmanos’ Work it Out -- the non-profit program that features a yoga- based approach to preventing childhood obesity -- will hold a fundraiser at MOCAD to help expand its activities in 2010. Tickets are $50 per person, $75 for VIP champagne reception with photographer Brad Ziegler, whose captivating images of DKWIO participants will be featured. The evening at MOCAD will include wine and appetizers from D’Amato’s of Royal Oak, music by DJ Urban Kris and a chance to explore the galleries of MOCAD. For more information or to purchase tickets, please visit: www.dkwio.org/events/eveningout |
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DANCE PARTY: The First New Wave dance party in celebration of the most romantic night of the year! Party it up with the one(s) you love with all-night-long party music from superstar DJ’s Frankie Bank$ and Johnny Saco. Cash bar. Please note: tickets will not be sent via mail, the purchasers name will be on a will call list at the door. |
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READING: The preeminent Cuban poet of his generation and one of the most influential poets from Latin America, Jose Kozer, comes to MOCAD for an intimate bilingual reading of selected poems from his book Stet. Kozer will read his own works in Spanish and Detroit poet, activist and educator Marilynn Rashid will read Mark Weiss’ English translations of the same works. The readings will be followed by a brief question and answer session with Mr. Kozer. |
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FAMILY DAY: Kids can creatively challenge their parents to see how the pieces fit together on this fun-filled Family Day with stuffed toy re-assembly, make-your-own collaged puzzles, and more crafty weirdness! All materials are provided free of charge. |
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Friday, March 5, 2010 from 4PM to 7PM “Comic Jam” is an event held regularly by Green Brain Comics in Dearborn, in which participants are encouraged to partake in the creation of spontaneous, improvised comics and free form drawings with other artists and illustrators. For one night only the Comic Jam will move to MOCAD, where stations with the materials for various collaborative drawing opportunities will be set up. Paper and other materials provided, participants are encouraged to bring their drawing tool of choice. The public is encouraged to come at the end of the party to witness the results of the session before Jeffrey Brown’s lecture. |
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ARTIST TALK:
Comic artist and Michigan native, Jeffrey Brown has gained much renowned for his trio of books dedicated to past relationships, the self-published Clumsy (2003), Unlikely (2003) and AEIOU: An Easy Intimacy (2005), as well as more recent comic works The Incredible Change-bots (a Transformers parody) and his most recent work Funny Misshapen Body: A Memoir. His work is simultaneously wry and sincere, crude yet beautiful and emotional. His simple, sweet, illustrated novels, composed of snippets and snapshots of everyday life, have drawn attention to Brown from established comic icons like Chris Ware (Jimmy Corrigan, Acme Novelty Datebook) and Daniel Clowes (Eightball, Ghost World), and more mainstream praise from Ira Glass and his This American Life program on National Public Radio on which Brown has appeared to discuss his work. Jeffrey Brown will present a lecture about his own work and about the fumbles and foibles of being an independent comic artists/illustrator today. |
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FILM:
This short film, the first collaboration by the playful Swiss duo of Fischli and Weiss , presents an offset, noir-ish Los Angeles, in which two animal partners (Rat and Bear), become embroiled in a murder mystery that brings to question the nature of art and crime. |
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READING:
K. Silem Mohammad is a modern outlaw, a controversial figure crafting art, in the form of poetry and prose pieces, from stolen moments of conversation, fragments of advertisements and procured bits of arcane apocrypha. One of the leaders of the “Flarf” poetry movement, K. Silem Mohammad’s work has succeeded in reigniting interest in the form by inviting equal amounts of praise and scorn for it’s use of phrases and terms culled directly from Google searches and the lowliest of cultural forms. Blogs, chat rooms, and long-since forgotten and discredited texts become finely rendered anti-forms in the hands of the craftsman, Mohammad. Lara Glenum, if she were to be understood solely through her work, is a gothic southern belle bathed in slime and ichor, a withering creature, reaching with tendrils into the penumbra. The darkest sensibilities are explored in Glenum’s poetic deconstructions, in which illogic and senselessness straddle the horrific otherworldly, ‘creature-feature’ worlds of David Cronenberg and H.P. Lovecraft. |
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MUSIC:
This legendary art-jazz ensemble from San Francisco comes to Detroit for the first time ever in their 30+ years of performing idiosyncratic free jazz. A precocious group of musicians with a fondness for mixing post-bop, free jazz, avant-rock and 20th century chamber music, while simultaneously drawing inspiration from traditional and popular styles of Africa, Asia, Europe and the early primitive music of the United States. The group will perform two distinctly different hour-long sets on this night. |
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FAMILY DAY:
Create and decorate your own piñatas and traditional confetti-filled “Cascarones” on this fun and interactive Family Day. All materials will be provided free of charge. |
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SMASH ART:
This wild, Duchamp-ian activity promises to be a rollicking experience for all participants. Artists, collectors and hangers-on are invited to come to MOCAD bearing at least one piece of original art each. Participants will then be encouraged to collectively smash, mutilate and destroy the works that they brought. Everyone will then be encouraged to work together to create a new and different, monumental art piece as a collective with all of the remnants of the smashed works. Art works and the tools to destroy them will not be provided by MOCAD. We request that no glass, dangerous materials or any hazardous products be used. |
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READING:
David-Baptiste Chirot is an eccentric artist and writer, currently residing in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His creative output combines visual and audio collage, chalk and charcoal rubbings and intense prose, examining contemporary art, society and politics in his own, highly individualistic style. |
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Saturday, April 3, 2010 from 4PM to 6PM Artist David Reinfurt is one half of the art duo David William. Reinfurt will be on hand to facilitate children and their families in playing the conceptual “game” that he and William Holder (the William half of David William) have developed for the Blind Man … exhibition. The nature of the game itself changes over time, as the show travels to different venues. The game begins with an investigation into the traditional view of the fourth dimension: time in relation to the other three dimensions. As yet, this game has no rules, and David William have merely provided potential players with objects with which to engage. Players of all ages are invited to intuit an improvised structure in this fun, free form family activity. |
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Saturday, April 3, 2010 from 7PM-8PM Grupo Escobar, Detroit’s very own Latin-salsa sensation, will provide the soundtrack to the celebratory end of the Blind Man… exhibition, where attendees will be able to help smash & trash Mariana Castillo Deball’s Piñata! Stop being a passive participant! Come in, dance and destroy part of the exhibition away! |
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