Select Past Public Programs and Events
EVENT SPACE@TEMPLE GALLERY
Ossatura
May 15, 2009 8pm
Temple Gallery, 259 N. Third Street, Old City Philadelphia
Ossatura, an experimental music and media ensemble from Rome, features Elio Martusciello (electronics and video), Fabrizio Spera (percussion and electronics), and Luca Venitucci (accordion and electronics). Their music encompasses standard and unconventional practices and their performances incorporate notated and improvised music. Their approach to sound and structure is creates a powerful and sensuous experience. For this performance they will joined by Gene Coleman (bass clarinet) and Evan Lipson (double bass). Produced in collaboration with Soundfield. Ossatura's concerts in the USA are promoted by Federazione CEMAT (SONORA), supported by the Italian Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Ministry for Cultural Affairs - Department for Performing Arts.
"Publics Stimulus Packages, Talk 1"
May 2, 2009 4 - 6 pm
Temple Gallery, 259 N. Third Street, Old City Philadelphia
In a panel moderated by Philip Glahn, Assistant Professor at Tyler School of Art, speakers Aaron Levy, Executive Director of the Slought Foundation; Scott Shall, Assistant Professor of Architecture at Tyler School of Art and artist whose city-wide installation, "Public Projections" opens at AIA on May 1; and Lily Yeh, Founding Director of Barefoot Artists, will discuss artistic public interventions and the ways in which they stimulate unpredictable relations and the participation of new and different audiences. This event is a collaboration with the International design Clinic and Working Arts Laboratories and has been funded by the Provost's Commission on the Arts/Office of the Provost, Temple University.
Act/Artefact
May 1, 2009 7 pm
Temple Gallery, 259 N. Third Street, Old City Philadelphia
This salon and exhibition feature images, language and performance constellated around the concept of "Artefact: the displaced elements of a technological age." The evening uses art to forge a multidisciplinary discourse on the ways meanings are manufactured, refracted and distorted through technological constructions. Participants include artists and writers of Working Arts Laboratory and others in the Temple University community who are exploring multimedia, multicultural and polyvocal approaches to the predicaments of our time. With Danny Snelson, Ellen Zweig, Rod Coover, Sarah Drury and special guests. Funded in part by Working Arts Laboratories.
Termite TV Installations
April 22 - 25, 2009 11 am - 6 pm
Temple Gallery, 259 N. Third Street, Old City Philadelphia
These installations will present recentselections from the collective's collage style TV shows and video installations of web projectsWalk PhillyandLife Stories. Walk Philly isa mobile media project with video walking tours that can be downloaded onto Ipods or Iphones for viewersto follow along in the actual location.Life Storiesfeatures people across the country telling their life story in five minutes. Installations designed by: John Petit, Sara Zia Ebrahimi, Deborah Rudman, Anula Shetty, Michael Kuetemeyer, Laura Deutch, Laska Jimsen, JoannaRaczynska, Dorothea Braemer, Carl Lee, Q Quintero & Meg Knowles.
Refuge/Refugee: Readings, Slide Shows, Soundscapes, and Performances
April 18, 2009 2 pm
Temple Gallery, 259 N. Third Street, Old City Philadelphia
A book launch for Refuge/Refugee, edited by Jena Osman. Poet/essayist Emily Abendroth will speak about the Lake Mattamuskeet Wildlife Refuge in North Carolina; artist Amze Emmons will present visual research on refugee architecture. Jena Osman will introduce with comments on the John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge at Tinicum.
Chai Found Music Workshop (Taiwan) with Ensemble Naomnesia (Philadelphia)
April 17, 2009 8 pm
Temple Gallery, 259 N. Third Street, Old City Philadelphia
This program features Chai Found Music Workshop in collaboration with Ensemble Noamnesia for the performance of Gene Coleman's "Future City", a work that creates a portrait in sound and vision of a virtual city. Chai Found Music is a Chinese Music Ensemble that performs and promotes traditional Chinese music, music and other musical forms, including contemporary music and media compositions by artists from Asia, the US and Europe. Ensemble Noamnesia is a group of ten musicians who work on a project-by-project basis playing new and experimental music in Philadelphia, Chicago, and New York.
Soundfield and Perpetual Movement and Sound
April 3, 2009 9 pm
Temple Gallery, 259 N. Third Street, Old City Philadelphia
An evening of music, movement and projected imagery, this sound art event presents some of Philadelphia's best interdisciplinary artists. The artists featured include the musicians Helena Espvall and Audrey Chen (cellos), Gene Coleman (bass clarinet) and Alban Bailly (guitar), and the members of Perpetual Movement and Sound: Emily Sweeney, Rebecca Patek, Zornitsa Stoyanova and Jil Stifel (movement), Bilwa and Mikronesia (microphones and electronics) and John J.H. Phillips (video projections).
STUDENT PROGRAMS
Produce Exhibitions: Lecture with Nick Paparone and Jamie Dillon
April 2, 2009, 11 am
Tyler School of Art, Lower Level B04
FIELD REPORTS: DOCUMENTS AND STRATEGIES FROM LAND ARTS OF THE AMERICAN WEST PUBLIC PROGRAMS
Land Arts Film Series
"Wednesday, February 25, 2009 6 pm
Tyler School of Art, Lower Level South, B04
Introduction by Jenna Price and Sarah Muehlbauer, participants from Performing Land Arts: The
Philadelphia Experiment.
ROBERT SMITHSON
Spiral Jetty
1970, 35 min, color, sound
NANCY HOLT
Sun Tunnels
1978, 26:31 min, color, sound, 16 mm film on video
"Monday, February 23, 2009 6 pm
Tyler School of Art, Lower Level South, B04
Introduction by Dr. Laura Toran, Weeks Chair in Environmental Geology, Temple University Department of Earth and Environmental Science
ART FROM A CHANGING ARCTIC
Directed by David Hinton, 2005, 60 minutes
"Thursday, February 19, 2009 6pm
Tyler School of Art, Lower Level South, B04
Introduction by Sandra McDade, Director, Office of Sustainability
CYNTHIA HOOPER
Opportunistic Vistas: 3 Videos About Industry
HEATHER ROGERS
Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage
2002, 19 minutes
A Lecture by Winifred Lutz
Tuesday, February 17, 2009 6 PM
Tyler School of Art, 2001 N. 13th Street, Room B004, Philadelphia
Winifred Lutz has created major site-integrated sculptural installations and permanent public works in the United States and Europe. Lutz has been the recipient of numerous awards and her work is represented in museum and private collections nationally.
Measures of Time, Travel, and Space: Exploring Land Arts of the American West
A Lecture by Chris Taylor
Wednesday, February 4, 6 PM
Temple University, Engineering Architecture Building, 1947 N. 12th Street, Room 126, Philadelphia
Chris Taylor is a Harvard-trained architect and the director of Land Arts of the American West at Texas Tech University, a program he has developed with Bill Gilbert of the University of New Mexico since 2002.
A Lecture by Kate Wingert-Playdon
Monday, January 12, 6pm
Temple Gallery, 259 N. Third Street, Philadelphia
Kate Wingert-Playdon is an architect with research and design areas addressing overlaps of architecture, site, and settlement. Her current work includes both research and on-site work focused on the role of community, the underlying cultural manifestation of place and the particularity of site.
Interpreting Anthropogeomorphology:
Programs and Projects of the Center for Land Use Interpretation
A Lecture by Matthew Coolidge
Friday, January 9, 6 PM
Matthew Coolidge, Founder and Director of Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI) in Los Angeles, will talk about the current and recent activities of CLUI, and will discuss the methodology of examining culture by describing the physical features of the landscape.
Cosponsored by Temple University's Department of Geography and Urban Studies.
A Lecture by Thaddeus Squire
December 4, 6pm
Temple Gallery, 259 N. Third Street, Philadelphia
A curator, writer, scholar, conductor, sound artist, producer and Director and Founder of Peregrine Arts, Thaddeus Squire will discuss art and place, including transferable art practice, revising historical site-specific works, and the impact of site-specific works.
VOLUME ATTEMPTS: THE SPACE OF BOOKS PUBLIC PROGRAMS
Making the Book: A Documentary by Mélanie Scarciglia
Thursday, October 16, 7 pm
Temple Gallery
Join Temple Gallery for an informal talk on book design and publishing practice with Volume Attempts organizer Conny Purtill, a partner in the design firm Purtill Family Business. Recent projects by Purtill include the Whitney Biennial 2006 catalogue, and the publication series Matthew Ritchie: Incomplete Projects 01-07, which won the category of graphics in I.D. Magazine's 53rd Annual Design Awards for 2007. Clients include the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, Matthew Marks Gallery and more. Following the talk, Temple Gallery will premiere the documentary Making the Book. Created and produced by onestar press co-founder Mélanie Scarciglia, Making the Book 2002-2008, documents the projects by some of the artists that comprise the collection of onestar press.
Making the Book: A Documentary by Mélanie Scarciglia, 2002-2008
Wednesday, October 15, 7 PM
Tyler School of Art, President's Hall, Elkins Park
In conjunction with the exhibition Volume Attempts: The Space of Books, Temple Gallery is proud to premiere the documentary Making the Book. Created and produced by onestar press co-founder Mélanie Scarciglia, Making the Book documents the projects by some of the artists that comprise the collection of onestar press.
Inside Artist Books: the Collection of Paley and Tyler School of Art Libraries
Tuesday, October 7, 2008 6 PM
Temple Gallery
Presented in collaboration with Volume Attempts: The Space of Books at Temple Gallery, Tom Whitehead, Paley Library's Curator of Special Collections, and Andrea Goldstein, from Tyler School of Art Library will talk about significant books from their collections, and lead a discussion about the form and its history.
The Blessed Mutation and other zines: A Lecture with William Pym
Thursday, September 17, 6 pm
Temple Gallery
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Distribution of zines at Megawords Storefront
11th and Cherry Sreets
Art writer, curator and artist William Pym will speak on the zine, examining the physicality and assemblage of these publications, as well as the life they lead with their readers. Pym will present his own work, The Blessed Mutation, an examination of the force of male adolescent hormonal needs and the young zine writer. The event will continue at Megawords Storefront, located on the corner of 11th and Cherry Streets, where Max G. Morton, author of Indestructible Wolves of the Apocalypse Junkyard, and Matthias "Wolfboy' Connor, Life's Too Long, will distribute their own zines.
Matthew J. Bakkom: "Collective Investigation"
Saturday, June 7, 2008, 3 PM
Temple Gallery
Performed at various venues, including the Walker Art Center, "Collective Investigation" is a project that allows audiences to develop a collective method of looking at texts and select interesting or unusual bits of text or images, ending with a semi-guided group presentation.
Matthew Bakkom, an artist who lives and works in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has exhibited internationally and presented performances since 1995. A participant in the Whitney Independent Study Program in 1999, he has had solo exhibitions at the Queens Museum of Art and Artists Space, and has participated in group exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia and at The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.
Pierre Leguillon: SLIDESHOW/SOIKETHPW/BOOKSTOPS
Friday and Saturday, June 6 and 7, 2008, 8 and 5 pm
Temple Gallery
Pierre Leguillon is an artist and critic based in Paris, France. He has screened Diaporama since 1993 around the world, including at La Maison Rouge, Paris; Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam; Kunst-Werke, Berlin; and Future Academy, Vistar, Bangalore, India.
MFA 2008 THESIS EXHIBITIONS PUBLIC PROGRAM
Ali Subotnick
April 3rd, 2008, 6 pm
Tyler School of Art, Presidents Hall, 7725 Penrose Avenue, Elkins Park, PA.
In conjunction with the MFA Thesis Exhibitions, Ali Subotnick, Associate Curator at LA's Hammer Museum, will participate in a Q&A. Her many accomplishments include cofounding the Wrong Gallery in New York, curating the 4th Berlin Biennale and founding editor of Charlie magazine, as well as contributing to Frieze, Parkett, Art News, and more.
DAMIAN MOPPETT: AFTER THE FALL PUBLIC PROGRAMS
A Conversation with Damian Moppett and Philip Glahn
Tuesday February 12th, at 5:30 PM
Presidents Hall at Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park, PA
Damian Moppett is an artist based in Vancouver, Canada. He has shown his work extensively throughout Canada as well as internationally. His investigations encompass a wide array of modern, late modern and postmodern artistic practices. Both playfully and with considerable intellectual rigor, his studio-based projects have proposed an unlikely, handmade nineteenth-century antecedent. Philip Glahn is Assistant Professor of Critical Studies and Aesthetics in the Department of Painting, Drawing and Sculpture at Tyler School of Art.
STUDENT PROGRAMS
Produce Exhibitions: Zoe Strauss lecture
November 1, 2007
Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park
RE:PRINT RE:PRESENT RE:VIEW PUBLIC PROGRAMS
Exhibition Opening & Panel Discussion: Homage to Love and Memory
A Site-Specific Installation by Rachid Koraïchi
Saturday, October 13th, 1 - 3 pm
Church of the Advocate, 1801 W. Diamond Street, Philadelphia, PA
Panel includes: Salah Hassan, Curator; Kellie Jones, Art Historian; Rachid Koraïchi, Artist; Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Artist. Moderated by: Helen Shannon, Director of the Museum Education Program at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia. In conjunction with Philagrafika.
Reception & Jazz Performance: Corner/Opera. Rethinking a Site.
A Site-Specific Installation by Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons
Saturday, October 13th, 4 - 8 pm
Paul Robeson House, 4951 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA
An intimate musical performance surrounded by Campos-Pons' installation. A jazz quartet will perform an original composition by Neil Leonard along with interpretations of songs by Paul Robeson.
Gallery Talk with Pepón Osorio
Saturday, October 20th, 2-3pm
Temple Gallery, 259 N. 3rd Street, Old City, Philadelphia, PA
Join artist Pepón Osorio as he reflects on Re:Print Re:Present Re:View and uses the exhibition as a springboard for a larger discussion of art, culture and his own artistic practice. Pepón Osorio is an award-winning artist and a professor at Tyler School of Art. His art is rooted in his experiences as a boy growing up in Puerto Rico, as a social worker in the Bronx and, now, as an artist living in Philadelphia.