Temple Contemporary: CURRENT AND UPCOMING PROGRAMS
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2013 PROGRAMS
Score For A Dinosaur
Ander Mikalson
Tuesday, February 12,
6-8 pm
A rubber ball creates the sound of a rainstorm, a can of hairspray makes the sound of a flare gun, a blender becomes a Tyrannosaurus' roar. Join us for Ander Mikalson'sScore for a Dinosaur where we'll scream, stomp, smash twenty glass vases and use a food processor to make both sound and hummus. We'll blow bubbles in a tub of water and ask, "where's the goat?". Everyone gets a lab coat to wear and a score to play. Together we'll create sounds with the instruments in the room, spontaneously generating the soundtrack to a video.
Ander Mikalson's work transforms passively consumed media into collective creative action. In Score for a Dinosaur, audience members become performers, spontaneously creating the soundtrack to a scene from popular cinema using everything from cinder blocks to yogurt.
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Image courtesy of G. Sturchio
Build Your Own Cell Phone with Hive76
Monday, February 11,
6-8pm
In response to our Advisory Council's inquiry, “Can we use technology to build community?” we’ve invited the folks from Hive76 to conduct an innovative cellphone building workshop. As a group of makers and crafters who collectively invent, collaborate, and share skills, Hive76 members merge community and technology on a daily basis.
Space for this event is extremely limited, and registration is required.
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Image courtesy of Julie Frey
The Letter As It Was Found
Jen Bervin
Thursday, February 7, 7-8:30 pm
Within her practice, poet and artist Jen Bervin demonstrates a seamless integration of conceptual art, critical thinking, creative writing, and art making. During her lecture at Temple Contemporary for the Second Annual DuPlessis Lecture in Poetry and Poetics, Bervin will discuss her own work, and her experiences curating exhibitions and publishing books of Emily Dickinson’s manuscripts and poems. Her recent publication displays her investment in textual scholarship as a useful component of practice in both visual and written arts.
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Image courtesy of Jen Bervin
The World Game of Life
Joseph del Pesco
Tuesday, Feb 6, 6-8pm
Two classic American board games created more than 100 years apart - Milton Bradley’s The Checkered Game of Life, and Buckminster Fuller’s The World Game - both represented, dialectically, key tensions in contemporary life at the time. Curator Joseph del Pesco has convened a group of ten artists to collectively produce a third game that borrows mechanics and aesthetics from each of these classics. Come play the new game with us, and leave with a free copy of the game board in hand.
The Checkered Game of Life was invented by lithographer Milton Bradley in Springfield Mass. in 1860. It was widely distributed as a travel game to soldiers during the American Civil War. The World Game was invented by Buckminster Fuller in 1961 as an attempt to collectively imagine the total distribution of resources on "spaceship earth" resulting in the end of scarcity, poverty and war.
The two games represent, dialectically, a key tension of contemporary life. On one hand, the Checkered Game of Life presents a competitive individualistic narrative that combines chance and choice. On the other the World Game presents a cooperative think-tank where a radical shift in meta-level perspective might lead to a utopian balance of power, reuniting the total "human family." Today we each face the complexity of understanding and integrating the individual and the collective, the self and society, or as it's more often phrased spatially: the local and the global.
Joseph del Pesco the director of the San Francisco branch of the Kadist Art Foundation. His practice as a curator, writer and media producer is marked bya collaborative working approach and a pursuit of experimental institutional strategies.He has previously held positions at the Nelson Gallery at UC Davis, and Artists Space and participated in residencies at the Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada andFondazione Sandretto ReRebaudengo in Torino, Italy. He has also realized numerous independent projects in the Bay Areaincluding the Pickpocket Almanack at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the CollectiveFoundation at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and the Secret Society at the Berkeley ArtMuseum. His writing has appeared in numerous publications including the recent catalog for the exhibition Six Lines of Flight at SFMOMA, and the journals Fillip, Manifesta Journal, Mousse, Art in America's website, Utne Reader, X-Tra, Flash Art, and NERO.
* Participating artists include: Al McElrath, Christian Nagler, Jason Fulford, Stephanie Syjuco, Amy Franceschini, Anthony Discenza, Kristina Lee Podesva, Rhonda Holberton, Jacob Wick, Justin Limoges
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Image courtesy of Joseph del Pesco
Women Making Activist Art In Public Spaces
Phoebe Bachman
Monday February 4, 6-8:30pm
As a socially engaged female artist herself, Phoebe Bachman seeks different modes of artistic practice that expand beyond the traditional gallery format. For Women Making Activist Art in Public Spaces, Bachman will lead conversational tours highlighting transcripts from artists’ mentoring sessions, documentation of her dinner parties for female activist artists, and works on display by Swoon, Sandra de la Loza, and Mierle Ukeles Laderman. Guided-tours commence every half hour.
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Image courtesy of Russell Edling
Anthony Campuzano
Stars: Even The Sun With All Its Warmth Is Detached
Saturday February 2, 6-8pm
Join us for a launch party to celebrate the Philadelphia debut of Anthony Campuzano’s latest book, Stars: Even The Sun With All Its Warmth Is Detached. Campuzano, a Tyler alumnus andPew Fellow, is collaborating with Temple Contemporary and Portland’s Publication Studio to publish this book of collages. The make-and-take (and buy) event will be accompanied by his recent works, with live music by Steve Gunn and Paul Sukeena Band.
Anthony Campuzano is known for distilling found language into succinct phrases that express a particular mood, or capture the essence of an important headline. His work has been exhibited widely including solo exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia; Churner and Churner, New York; and White Columns, New York. Campuzano received his BFA from Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, and is a 2009 recipient of the Pew Fellowship in the Arts.
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Image courtesy of Russell Edling
On The Waterfront
Andrea Grover and Daniel Fuller
Thursday, January 31st, 7pm
Like many maritime cities, Philadelphia’s waterfront has gone through substantial economic, cultural, and social change. Curators Andrea Groverand Daniel Fuller will be collaborating with students from Tyler School of Art to reconsider the Delaware River’s waterfront which is currently lined with big box stores like IKEA, strip clubs, and a casino. Through this public collaboration our goal is generate an understanding of the built environment and the consequences of its perpetual flux.
Andrea Grover is Curator of Programs at the Parrish Art Museum. Grover is well known for her innovative media arts exhibitions and pop-up cinema events produced as founder of the nonprofit cinema, Aurora Picture Show. She is a 2013 Fellow of the Center for Curatorial Leadership.
Daniel Fuller is the Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art and is the co-Director of Publication Studio Portland. He has written for numerous publications including Art in America, Art:21, Afterall, ArtAsiaPacific, and Art on Paper.
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Image courtesy of Russell Edling
Delanie Jenkins
Raveling in the New Year
Friday January 25,
11am-5pm
Silence Through Feb 16
Pittsburgh artist Delanie Jenkins will be performing and recording the process of unraveling rope. Jenkins is interested in the ways that the historical domestic labors of women – the undervalued repetition of attentive dedication in the choreography of the hands – are similar to those of agriculture and industry. With Raveling in the New Year, Jenkins presents the rope as a multi-layered metaphor to show the transformational potential - and silence - of labor.
Image courtesy of Delanie Jenkins
João Maria Gusmão + Pedro Paiva
Those animals that, at a distance, resemble flies
Through February 16
The Portuguese artist duo João Maria Gusmão + Pedro Paiva themselves call their work “recreational metaphysics”. Using optical devices and obscure experiments the artists inquire into the logic of illustration while also reflecting on the complexity of image productions. They use this principle of illusion to produce imaginary images that evoke both scientific and dream worlds.
Film still, image courtesy of APT Berlin