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ARTISTS UP CLOSE:
Ingrid Mwangi
Thursday September 7, 1:00 pm & Saturday September 9
2:00 pm
Kenyan-born German based Media Artist, Ingrid Mwangi will discuss her work and offer a one-time-only performance in conjunction with the Blaffer Gallery exhibition, A Fiction of Authenticity: Contemporary Africa Abroad. More information about the artist can be found at
www.ingridmwangi.de
Lecture: Thursday, September 7, 1:00 pm
Mwangi will discuss her installation, video, sound and collaborative artworks.
Fine Arts Building, Room 110 School of Art University of Houston
Information: 713-743-5548
Performance: Saturday, September 9, 2:00 pm Dressed Like Queens by Ingrid Mwangi
Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston
Reception to follow performance
Information: 713-743-5548
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VISITING AUTHOR AND CRITIC
Raphael Rubinstein
Tuesday September 12
1:00 pm
Raphael Rubinstein has been writing about contemporary art since 1986, primarily for Art in America, where he is a Senior Editor. He has contributed essays to numerous exhibition catalogues and his poetry has appeared in many publications, including Grand Street, American Poetry Review and The Oulipo Compendium. In 2002, the French government presented him with the award of Chevalier dans l’Order des Arts et des Lettres.
Reading: Tuesday, September 12, 1:00 pm
Rubinstein will read selections from his book In Search of the Miraculous: 50 Episodes from the Annals of Contemporary Art
Dudley Recital Hall, Fine Arts Building University of Houston
Information: 713-743-5548
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MITCHELL CENTER VISITING SCHOLAR
Dick Hebdige
Tuesday October 3, 1:20pm
Wednesday October 4, 1:30pm
Tuesday October 10, 1:30 pm
Dick Hebdige is a cultural critic who has published books about contemporary music, art and design. Mr. Hebdige is currently the Director of the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center and teaches in the Art and Film Studies program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Prior to UCSB, he was the Dean of the School of Critical Studies and Director of MFA Writing Program at the California Institute of Arts. Hebdige has published the books Subculture: The Meaning of Style, Cut 'n Mix: Culture, Identity and Caribbean Music and Hiding in the Light: On Images and Things. Multimedia
Lecture/Performance Series:
Tuesday, October 3, 1:30 pm
Becoming Animal: Race, Terror and the American Roots Wednesday
Wednesday, October 4, 1:30 pm
Un-imagining Utopia: Framing the Sixties Tuesday
Tuesday, October 10, 1:30 pm The X Syndrome: Vertigo and Autobiography
All performance events will be held in Fine Arts Building, Room 110, School of Art, University of Houston
Information: 713-743-5548
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ARTISTS UP CLOSE
Siemon Allen
Thursday October 5
1:00 pm
South African artist Siemon Allen collects, organizes and archives common objects, such as stamps, to comment on the construction of individual and national identity. Allen will discuss his work in conjunction with the Blaffer Gallery exhibition, A Fiction of Authenticity: Contemporary Africa Abroad.
Lecture: Thursday, October 5, 1:00 pm
Fine Arts Building, Room 110 School of Art University of Houston
information: 713-743-5548
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PERFORMANCE
Tanks Under Trees
Wednesday October 11
7:00 pm
A performance by
Anne Waldman, poetry, spoken word
Douglas Dunn, choreography
Zohra Zaka and Ed Bowes, film
Max Dyer and Conrado “Charry” Garcia, music
Celebrated collaborators Anne Waldman and Douglas Dunn combine text, movement, sound and film, yielding a dynamic, fierce, moving, and unexpected performance. Drawn from Waldman’s critically acclaimed book Structure of The World Compared to a Bubble (2004), Tanks Under Trees intricately weaves established and improvised moments. Waldman and Dunn are Mitchell Center 2006 Artists-in-Residence.
Performance:
Wednesday, October 11, 7:00 pm
Quintero Lab Theater
Cynthia Woods Mitchell Building
University of Houston, Entrance 16 off Cullen Boulevard
FREE ADMISSION
Seating is Limited
Information and reservations: 713-743-5548
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Spring 2006 Season of Events
The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts hosted four separate visiting artist residencies during its Spring 2006 season of events. Each artist or group of artists interacted with University of Houston students enrolled in Theories of Collaboration: Intermedia Laboratory, a collaborative arts course sponsored by the Mitchell Center for the Arts. The visiting artists also produced site-specific collaborative projects that were displayed/performed at the University of Houston during each respective residency.
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