Wednesday February 10, 2010
Pedagogy of the Periphery
Coordinated by the Open Practice Committee at the University of Chicago, threewalls will host Pedagogy of the Periphery on February 10th from 4:00 - 7:00 pm, a special workshop style event to compliment the Radical Caucus for Art's Autonomizing Practices panel at this year's College Art Association meeting.
In conjunction with AREA Chicago's ninth issue, Peripheral Vision, Pedagogy of the Periphery will focus on the history, practice and theory of radical pedagogy inside and outside institutions. Together, educators and students will discuss pedagogical practices, broadly defined— their optimism, obstacles, methods, pleasures, and frustrations—with both short informal presentations and time for group discussion. Some discussion questions will be submitted in advance by students, however there will be flexibility to address current events as needed (such as, campus uprisings happening in California, Europe, and elsewhere).
This free event allows people not attending the conference to benefit from a sampling of visiting speakers. It is not conceived as anti-CAA, but happens alongside the conference to illustrate the fact that some conversations are easier to hold outside the professional machine.*
Presenters: Dara Greenwold, Eve Ewing, Nicole Marroquin, Gregg Sholette, Bert Stabler and Liz Mason-Deese and Tim Stallmann of the Counter Cartographer's Collective
*For more information and to pre-register, please contact Zachary Cahill, Lecturer & Open Practice Committee coordinator at zcahill@uchicago.edu.
This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Art History and the Open Practice Committee in the department of visual art.
Tuesday February 23, 2010
threewallsSALON: Cartography 2.0
Image: Sara Schnadt, Re-Trace, 2006 performance. Photo by Rachel Aherin.
Tuesday February 23rd, 7:00 pm
The ancient art of cartography has mysterious and storied resonances of ignorance, journeys and discovery; idealized and paradisiacal utopias; Cartesian desires for quantifiable knowledge; and colonial powers and empires. Today, contemporary artists across the globe employ mapping and diagramming in their creative practice to incredibly diverse ends. Bourriaud locates this practice as characteristic of a new era in art in his curatorial essay on the “altermordern”; for the curator, it reflects our age of invisible but enforced borders; multiple passports; global culture and nomadism. Beyond the obvious socio-political qualities in the art of making a map, however, there is also the fundamental act itself of making connections, of stringing ideas together visually and spatially.
A spate of exhibitions in Chicago and beyond from around 2004 on ignited a flurry of interest in the map, such as the Mapping show at Mess Hall in 2004, Mapping the Self at the MCA from 2007-8 and An Atlas at Gallery 400, 2007-8. These exhibitions and the work of invited guest respondents will figure into our conversation as we explore the political, social, personal and ontological dimensions of the map.
Guest respondents: Bret Bloom, Scott Carter, Adelheid Mers, Deb Sokolow and Sara Schnadt
2010 SALONS were coordinated by Ania Szremski, a graduate dual degree candidate in Arts Administration and Art History, Theory and Criticism at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
This program was made possible by The Presidential Urban Engagement Grant from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Friday February 26, 2010
Chasing Two Rabbits
Friday, February 26th, 2010.
Doors at 6pm, Program starts at 7pm
Suggested Donation: $10.00
Chasing Two Rabbits is a special event curated by Sonia Yoon and Shannon Stratton that pairs animators with live performances by sound artists and musicians. Inspired by the experimental films of Norman McLaren, who combined abstract imagery (including scratching and painting into the film stock in earlier work, as well as paper cut-outs and live action and dance) with imaginative music and sound, Chasing Two Rabbits, acts to pair artists in both genres to produce a unique event where, rather than leaving art to illustrate a story, perhaps sound and vision will illuminate each other.
The program for the evening will include animations by Gracen Brilmyer, Peter Burr, Tom Burtonwood, Dana Carter, Jodie Mack, Tracy Taylor, and Rebecca Schoenecker with sound by The Chicago Phonographers, Chris Hammes, Eric Zeigenhagen, Steve Lacy, Frank Van Duerm, Kotoka Suzuki, Cait Stevens, George Monteleone and Broken Chooser.
“If you chase two rabbits, both will escape.”
Saturday February 27, 2010
FLEISCHER FISCHINGER hosted by Jim Trainor
WE REGRET THAT WE HAVE HAD TO CANCEL THIS EVENT.
Saturday, February 27th, 2010
Doors at 6pm, Program starts at 7pm