http://www.icaphila.org/events/ Calendar of events at ICA Philadelphia. en-US Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.zerodefectdesign.com/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Delve deeper into questions of abstraction within the history of painting and contemporary art as ICA’s exhibition Charline von Heyl concludes with a week-long series of events that shed new light on the artist’s working methods and contexts.]]> Delve deeper into questions of abstraction within the history of painting and contemporary art as ICA’s exhibition Charline von Heyl concludes with a week-long series of events that shed new light on the artist’s working methods and contexts.]]> February 10-19, 2012 Hear ICA’s interstitial spaces shaped by a polyphony of voices. This winter ICA hosts a unique performative event. Penn students will collaborate with students from HEAD - Geneva to continuously read a selection of textual artworks every day for a week in February. An exhibition to hear read proposes the notion of speech as material gesture, in which both the texture of the word and its spoken quality are inscribed in space and time through the act of reading. The vocal interpretation of these artworks constructs an abstract and ephemeral reality that can be said to sculpt the spaces in which it occurs. This ongoing investigation into the materiality of artwork as a question of word and speech is crystallized through a series of publications that act as both score and memory. This event at ICA is the fourth in a series of “volumes,” each presented at a different venue. An exhibition to hear read is organized by curator Mathieu Copeland and is realized in partnership with Kenneth Goldsmith, Penn’s Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing, HEAD (Haute école d’art et de design Genève / Geneva University of Art and Design), and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the USA. This fourth volume, hosted by ICA, is the first to be presented in the United States. The first volume was commissioned by the contemporary art center La Synagogue de Delme in France, a second in Geneva by HEAD’s curatorial institute Live In Your Head, and a third by the David Roberts Art Foundation in London. An exhibition to hear read will be performed by students from the yearlong seminar "Writing Through Art and Culture at Penn" and from the WORK.MASTER at Geneva University of Art and Design. This event is timed to coincide with Penn’s conference on abstraction (co-sponsored by ICA and the Department of the History of Art), An exhibition to hear read commences on February 10 and runs through February 19.]]> Friday, February 10 & Saturday, February 11 Terrace Room, Cohen Hall, University of Pennsylvania Might new paradigms and periodizations allow us to see abstraction differently? Kaja Silverman, Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Chair of Contemporary Art in the Department of the History of Art, convenes Penn colleagues and guest speakers including Elise Archias, Darby English, Briony Fer, Rachel Haidu, Daniel Marcus, Anne M. Wagner, and Margaret Werth.To register for this event go to http://www.kajasilverman.com/abstract-painting-and-beyond-conference.php]]> Explore the revolutionary potential of film and the cinematic archive with a series of screenings, discussions, and performances presented as part of the exhibition Living Document / Naked Reality: Towards an Archival Cinema. Screenings: Foreword to Guns for Banta and Domestic Tourism II (Dir. Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc, 2010, black-and-white, sound, 29 minutes) (Dir. Maha Maamoun, 2009, color, sound, 62 minutes) Retrace Third Cinema director Sarah Maldoror’s lost film through Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc’s Foreword to Guns for Banta and experience the complexities of a rapidly changing society in Maha Maamoun’s film Domestic Tourism II , composed of excerpts from Egyptian films that feature the pyramids. Followed by a conversation between Nora Alter, Professor of Film and Media Arts at Temple University, and Eve M. Troutt Powell, Associate Professor of History at Penn. @ International House (3701 Chestnut St.) In collaboration with International House and Penn Cinema Studies.]]>