Sunday, February 21, 2010
MIT Lecture Event - February 22, 2010
MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology
Spring 2010 Lecture Series
The Theatrical. The Performative. The Transformative.
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Monday, February 22 at 7:00 PM
"Production and Reception of the Visual"
Xavier Le Roy
Bartos Theater
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Production and Reception of the Visual
This lecture is the kick-off of our spring series. Xavier Le Roy will explore the relationships between the production and reception of the visual. What do spectators see? Watching a choreography, they see not only a form or a content, but processes at work during the production of the movements in rehearsals as well as during execution of the movements in performance. How and when are these relationships constructed?
Xavier Le Roy
French choreographer Xavier Le Roy studied biochemistry at the University of Montpellier before beginning his dance career in 1988. He performed for various companies before founding his current company, in situ productions with Petra Roggel in 1999. From 2000 and on, Le Roy collaborated with world-renowned artists such as Jerome Bel and Yvonne Rainer and presented his work in various settings. He recently choreographed and performed Rites of Spring at Performa 07 in New York City; and another new work at the Montpellier Danse Festival 2008. Le Roy is in residence at the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) this spring. Le Roy will develop a new piece in collaboration with MIT scientists and researchers about species, categorization, classification, and difference in animal and human behaviors
Moderator: Nell Breyer
Nell Breyer is a research affiliate at the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) who situates her work at the intersection of dance, new media, and visual art.
Location:
MIT Bartos Theater, Wiesner Building (E15)
20 Ames Street, Cambridge
(see directions below). Free and open to the public.
For more information:
http://visualarts.mit.edu
vap@mit.edu
617-253-5229
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ABOUT THE SERIES
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The Theatrical. The Performative. The Transformative. is a lecture series introducing key figures whose artistic practice is situated at the intersection of performance art, avant garde dance, and activist theater. Focusing on time-based and ephemeral formats that navigate between art, film, theater and dance, the series juxtaposes speakers of different generations and backgrounds who share an interest in feminist discourses and politics.
The series this spring is dedicated to Joan Jonas, a pioneer in video and performance art, and the 2010 recipient of the Gyorgy Kepes Fellowship Prize presented by the Council for the Arts at MIT on April 15, 2010.
The lecture series is directed by Associate Professor Ute Meta Bauer, Director of the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) in collaboration with Professor Joan Jonas, and Lecturer Amber Frid-Jimenez.
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THANKS
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The lecture series was made possible in part by the Grants Program of the Council for the Arts at MIT. Thanks also for support from the MIT Artist-in-Residence (AiR) Program.
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SERIES SCHEDULE
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02/22/10 - Production and Reception of the Visual
See details above.
03/01/10 - Dance on Top of Everyday Throwaways: Extreme Simultaneity
Constanza Macras
Jay Scheib, moderator
Constanza Macras, an Argentine choreographer based in Berlin, was recipient of the 2009-2010 Abramowitz Award. Macras‘ and her company, DORKYPARK, create works that mix video, dance, text and music with a diverse cast of performers. Her work is based on everyday situations that interrupt themselves and accumulate, creating a form of hyper-narrative. Jay Scheib is Associate Professor for Music and Theater Arts at MIT and is a writer, director and designer. Macras is at MIT through the Student & Artist-in-Residence Programs of the Office of the Arts and the William L. Abramowitz residency.
03/08/10 - The Bread and Puppet Theater
Peter Schumann
John Bell, moderator
Peter Schumann, legendary founder of The Bread and Puppet Theater will present a short “fiddle lecture“ illustrated with cantastoria banners. Moderator John Bell, long-time collaborator of Bread and Puppet Theater, will discuss with Schumann the theater‘s use of public space, technology, the concept of progress, and the relations between puppet theater and modernism. The evening will end with a drum and fiddle performance. John Bell, a fellow at MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology, is a puppeteer, scholar, and teacher.
03/15/10 - It’s Real to Me
Magda Fernandez
Amber Frid-Jimenez, moderator
Magda Fernandez, a Boston-based artist, creates synthetic video worlds that question our real lives in contemporary times. Fernandez‘s videos rely liberally on composite technology and special effects to make sense out of the nonsensical. Fernandez will screen four of her videos and discuss their subjects and means of production. Amber Frid-Jimenez is a lecturer in the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology
04/05/10 - Stylistic Economies, Reenactments, and Choreographic Regimes
Catherine Sullivan
Jane Farver, moderator
Catherine Sullivan‘s works engage a variety of media—theater, film, video, photography, writing and sculpture. Sullivan will discuss the numerous layers of collaboration and reference apparent in her work, and the anxious and unresolved political and social sensibility that it gives rise to. Catherine Sullivan is a Professor of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago. Jane Farver is a curator and the director of the MIT List Visual Arts Center.
04/12/10 - Where’s the Passion
Yvonne Rainer
Joan Jonas, moderator
Yvonne Rainer made a transition to filmmaking following a fifteen-year career as a choreographer/dancer. “Where‘s the Passion“ is a lecture in which notions of self-expression, impersonation, and the politics of looking and being looked at are examined, accompanied by documentations of two of her recent performances. Rainer is currently a professor of Studio Art at the University of California, Irvine. Joan Jonas is a pioneer in video and performance art and a professor in the MIT Program of Art, Culture and Technology.
04/26/10 - Text: Free and Indirect. A Future Perception.
Eva Meyer
Ute Meta Bauer, moderator
Eva Meyer, a writer and filmmaker based in Berlin, will screen and discuss Sie könnte zu Ihnen gehören/She Might Belong to you, a 37 minute film Meyer created with artist Eran Schaerf in 2007 for Skulptur Projekte Münster. Meyer describes the film: “With the passing of time she has become clairvoyant….She could go beyond the perceptive and sensitive states of experience and entrust sensations surpassing them to a future perception.” Ute Meta Bauer is a curator and director of the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology.
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DIRECTIONS
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MIT Bartos Theater is located on the ground floor of the Wiesner Building on MIT campus (20 Ames Street, Building E15, Cambridge) in close proximity to Kendall Square.
By Public Transportation
Take the MBTA red line to the Kendall/ MIT stop, follow Main Street west to Ames Street, turn left, walk the distance of about one block to the crosswalk and the Wiesner Building (E15) is on your left.
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SAVE THE DATE
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03/13/10
Max Wasserman Forum on Contemporary Art Parody, Politics, and Performativity Saturday, March 13, 3PM, Stata Center, presented by the MIT List Visual Arts Center.
04/15/10
The MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) is celebrating its official inauguration with an Open House and day of activities in Buildings E14 and E15 presenting various projects by our current SMVisS graduate students, ACT fellows and affiliates, the launch of new ACT website and the release of Engaged a DVD celebrating 20 years of the MIT Visual Arts Program in collaboration with Aspect: the Chronicle of New Media Art featuring works by VAP faculty and alumni. More details TBA.
Spring 2010 Lecture Series
The Theatrical. The Performative. The Transformative.
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Monday, February 22 at 7:00 PM
"Production and Reception of the Visual"
Xavier Le Roy
Bartos Theater
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Production and Reception of the Visual
This lecture is the kick-off of our spring series. Xavier Le Roy will explore the relationships between the production and reception of the visual. What do spectators see? Watching a choreography, they see not only a form or a content, but processes at work during the production of the movements in rehearsals as well as during execution of the movements in performance. How and when are these relationships constructed?
Xavier Le Roy
French choreographer Xavier Le Roy studied biochemistry at the University of Montpellier before beginning his dance career in 1988. He performed for various companies before founding his current company, in situ productions with Petra Roggel in 1999. From 2000 and on, Le Roy collaborated with world-renowned artists such as Jerome Bel and Yvonne Rainer and presented his work in various settings. He recently choreographed and performed Rites of Spring at Performa 07 in New York City; and another new work at the Montpellier Danse Festival 2008. Le Roy is in residence at the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) this spring. Le Roy will develop a new piece in collaboration with MIT scientists and researchers about species, categorization, classification, and difference in animal and human behaviors
Moderator: Nell Breyer
Nell Breyer is a research affiliate at the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) who situates her work at the intersection of dance, new media, and visual art.
Location:
MIT Bartos Theater, Wiesner Building (E15)
20 Ames Street, Cambridge
(see directions below). Free and open to the public.
For more information:
http://visualarts.mit.edu
vap@mit.edu
617-253-5229
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ABOUT THE SERIES
····················································································
The Theatrical. The Performative. The Transformative. is a lecture series introducing key figures whose artistic practice is situated at the intersection of performance art, avant garde dance, and activist theater. Focusing on time-based and ephemeral formats that navigate between art, film, theater and dance, the series juxtaposes speakers of different generations and backgrounds who share an interest in feminist discourses and politics.
The series this spring is dedicated to Joan Jonas, a pioneer in video and performance art, and the 2010 recipient of the Gyorgy Kepes Fellowship Prize presented by the Council for the Arts at MIT on April 15, 2010.
The lecture series is directed by Associate Professor Ute Meta Bauer, Director of the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) in collaboration with Professor Joan Jonas, and Lecturer Amber Frid-Jimenez.
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THANKS
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The lecture series was made possible in part by the Grants Program of the Council for the Arts at MIT. Thanks also for support from the MIT Artist-in-Residence (AiR) Program.
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SERIES SCHEDULE
····················································································
02/22/10 - Production and Reception of the Visual
See details above.
03/01/10 - Dance on Top of Everyday Throwaways: Extreme Simultaneity
Constanza Macras
Jay Scheib, moderator
Constanza Macras, an Argentine choreographer based in Berlin, was recipient of the 2009-2010 Abramowitz Award. Macras‘ and her company, DORKYPARK, create works that mix video, dance, text and music with a diverse cast of performers. Her work is based on everyday situations that interrupt themselves and accumulate, creating a form of hyper-narrative. Jay Scheib is Associate Professor for Music and Theater Arts at MIT and is a writer, director and designer. Macras is at MIT through the Student & Artist-in-Residence Programs of the Office of the Arts and the William L. Abramowitz residency.
03/08/10 - The Bread and Puppet Theater
Peter Schumann
John Bell, moderator
Peter Schumann, legendary founder of The Bread and Puppet Theater will present a short “fiddle lecture“ illustrated with cantastoria banners. Moderator John Bell, long-time collaborator of Bread and Puppet Theater, will discuss with Schumann the theater‘s use of public space, technology, the concept of progress, and the relations between puppet theater and modernism. The evening will end with a drum and fiddle performance. John Bell, a fellow at MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology, is a puppeteer, scholar, and teacher.
03/15/10 - It’s Real to Me
Magda Fernandez
Amber Frid-Jimenez, moderator
Magda Fernandez, a Boston-based artist, creates synthetic video worlds that question our real lives in contemporary times. Fernandez‘s videos rely liberally on composite technology and special effects to make sense out of the nonsensical. Fernandez will screen four of her videos and discuss their subjects and means of production. Amber Frid-Jimenez is a lecturer in the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology
04/05/10 - Stylistic Economies, Reenactments, and Choreographic Regimes
Catherine Sullivan
Jane Farver, moderator
Catherine Sullivan‘s works engage a variety of media—theater, film, video, photography, writing and sculpture. Sullivan will discuss the numerous layers of collaboration and reference apparent in her work, and the anxious and unresolved political and social sensibility that it gives rise to. Catherine Sullivan is a Professor of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago. Jane Farver is a curator and the director of the MIT List Visual Arts Center.
04/12/10 - Where’s the Passion
Yvonne Rainer
Joan Jonas, moderator
Yvonne Rainer made a transition to filmmaking following a fifteen-year career as a choreographer/dancer. “Where‘s the Passion“ is a lecture in which notions of self-expression, impersonation, and the politics of looking and being looked at are examined, accompanied by documentations of two of her recent performances. Rainer is currently a professor of Studio Art at the University of California, Irvine. Joan Jonas is a pioneer in video and performance art and a professor in the MIT Program of Art, Culture and Technology.
04/26/10 - Text: Free and Indirect. A Future Perception.
Eva Meyer
Ute Meta Bauer, moderator
Eva Meyer, a writer and filmmaker based in Berlin, will screen and discuss Sie könnte zu Ihnen gehören/She Might Belong to you, a 37 minute film Meyer created with artist Eran Schaerf in 2007 for Skulptur Projekte Münster. Meyer describes the film: “With the passing of time she has become clairvoyant….She could go beyond the perceptive and sensitive states of experience and entrust sensations surpassing them to a future perception.” Ute Meta Bauer is a curator and director of the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology.
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DIRECTIONS
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MIT Bartos Theater is located on the ground floor of the Wiesner Building on MIT campus (20 Ames Street, Building E15, Cambridge) in close proximity to Kendall Square.
By Public Transportation
Take the MBTA red line to the Kendall/ MIT stop, follow Main Street west to Ames Street, turn left, walk the distance of about one block to the crosswalk and the Wiesner Building (E15) is on your left.
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SAVE THE DATE
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03/13/10
Max Wasserman Forum on Contemporary Art Parody, Politics, and Performativity Saturday, March 13, 3PM, Stata Center, presented by the MIT List Visual Arts Center.
04/15/10
The MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) is celebrating its official inauguration with an Open House and day of activities in Buildings E14 and E15 presenting various projects by our current SMVisS graduate students, ACT fellows and affiliates, the launch of new ACT website and the release of Engaged a DVD celebrating 20 years of the MIT Visual Arts Program in collaboration with Aspect: the Chronicle of New Media Art featuring works by VAP faculty and alumni. More details TBA.
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