Events & Programs

Public Opening
Thursday, October 1, 6 - 8 pm
Temple Gallery, 12th and Norris Streets, Philadelphia

Lecture by Prize Winner
Friday, October 23, 1 pm
Tyler School of Art, Lower Level B04, Philadelphia
Space is limited; RSVP at myowlspace.com

Docent Tours
Every Friday in October at 12pm
Join Stacey Wujcik, a Tyler Master of Arts & Art History candidate, for an in-depth look at the Wolgin Prize Exhibition artworks and each artist's practices. Meet at the front desk of Temple Gallery. The guided tour is approximately 20 minutes.

SANFORD BIGGERS: FILM SERIES
Sanford Biggers selected four films to be screened in conjunction with his Temple Gallery exhibition. These films approach African American identity in American history, from the 1930s through the present day, through cultural mediums including music, dance, film and religion. Screenings take place Wednesdays at 7pm and are free.

September 30
Strange Fruit, 2002 (57 minutes)
Temple University, Paley Library, Lecture Hall
Introduction by Diane Turner, Curator of the Charles L. Blockson Collection, Temple University
The documentary Strange Fruit explores the history and legacy of its namesake song made famous by Billie Holiday. The film follows this influential protest song's evolution and tells the story of America's radical past and the forces that would lead to the Civil Rights Movement.  

October 7
How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (and Enjoy It), 2006 (85 minutes)
Temple University, Paley Library, Lecture Hall
Introduction by Diane Turner, Curator of the Charles L. Blockson Collection, Temple University
How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (and Enjoy It) is a documentary chronicling the life and career of Melvin Van Peebles, who is best known for his film "Sweet Sweetback's Badasssss Song" (1971). This biography shows him as father, lover, political provocateur, artist, businessman, trickster and intellectual. It is a record of American racism and one man's crafty, angry and resourceful responses to it.  

October 14
Elevator to the Gallows (Ascenseur Pour L'echafaud), 1957 (92 minutes)
Tyler School of Art, Lower Level, B04
Cohosted by STOOP, Tyler School of Art
Louis Malle's Elevator to the Gallows or Ascenseur Pour L'echafaud is a "film noir" suspense thriller set to a Miles Davis soundtrack. A man who has fallen in love with his boss' wife plans a murder to look like suicide so he can be with his love, but nothing goes as planned.  

October 28
Kim Ki-duk's Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring, 2003 (103 minutes)
Temple University, Paley Library, Lecture Hall
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring from writer, director and star Kim Ki-duk, tells a story about the human spirit using each season to represent a stage in the main character's life, moving from innocence, through love and evil, to enlightenment and finally ending with rebirth.  

P.opular S.ky (section ish):
PANEL DISCUSSION ON THE WORK OF RYAN TRECARTIN
Wednesday, October 7, 5:30 pm
Temple University, Paley Library, Lecture Hall
Ryan Trecartin's artwork advances understandings of post-millennial technology, narrative and identity. The combination of assaultive, nearly impenetrable avant-garde logics and equally outlandish, virtuoso uses of color, form, drama and montage produces a sublime, stream-of-consciousness effect in his films that feels bewilderingly true to life. Discussed from a variety of perspectives, scholars and artists will examine issues of social media and networks; gender and aesthetic themes in video art; and more. Participants include Temple University's Gerard Brown, Chair of Foundations, Tyler School of Art (moderator); Scott Gratson, Director of the Communications Program and SCT Undergraduate Studies; Aaron Smuts, Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy; Elisabeth Subrin, Assistant Professor in the Department of Film and Media Arts; and Andrew Suggs, Executive Director of Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia.

The invisible enemy should not exist:
PANEL DISCUSSION ON THE WORK OF MICHAEL RAKOWITZ
Thursday, October 15, 5:30 pm
Temple University, Paley Library, Lecture Hall
Michael Rakowitz's practice is characterized by its exploration of and symbolic interventions with problematic urban situations. The invisible enemy should not exist, the focus of Rakowitz's exhibition at Temple Gallery, is an intricate narrative discussing the objects stolen from the National Museum of Iraq, Baghdad in the aftermath of the US invasion of April 2003. Panel participants include Temple University's Susan Feagin, Research Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Temple University and Editor of The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism; Philip Glahn, Assistant Professor in the Department of Painting, Drawing and Sculpture, Tyler School of Art; Dustin Kidd, Assistant Professor, Sociology; and Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss, Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture, Tyler School of Art.

Program Locations

Temple Gallery
Tyler School of Art
12th and Norris Streets, First Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19122

Tyler School of Art
12th and Norris Streets, Lower Level B04
Philadelphia, PA 19122

Temple University Paley Library
Lecture Hall
1210 W. Berks Street, Lower Level
Philadelphia, PA 19122

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