Tristan Perich: 1-Bit Project (with Guest Artist Lesley Flanigan)

Three exhibitions and recitals of the work of New-York based composer and artist Tristan Perich.

Conservatory students Daniel Walden and Ryan Packard will perform Perich’s works for piano, percussion, and 1-bit electronics, amidst an exhibition of Perich’s visual art curated by student Georgia Horn, at three different locations across Oberlin and Cleveland.

1. Exhibition with interspersed musical performances + reception.

   6-8PM, April 29th
   Frank Lloyd Wright’s Weltzheimer-Johnson House in Oberlin, OH
   Performers include Austin Vaughn, Ryan Packard, + Daniel Walden

2. A full recital program + exhibition.

   6-8PM, April 30th
   SPACES Gallery in Cleveland, OH
   Additional performers include Austin Vaughn and Tristan Perich.

3. Double Act: Tristan presents his 1-Bit Symphony live, featuring video projections; sound sculptor and performer Lesley Flanigan presents “Amplifications,” a site-specific installation and performance that combines the acoustics of voice and speaker feedback, produced by hand-made musical instruments.

   9.30-10.30, May 1
   Fairchild Chapel, Oberlin OH

All events are free; funded by the support of the Oberlin Creativity Fund and the Meet The Composer’s MetLife Creative Connections Program.

Carpools for the SPACES event can be arranged by emailing daniel.walden@oberlin.edu, ryan.packard@oberlin.edu, or georgia.horn@oberlin.edu

 

Salomon Frausto lecture!

The final lecture of the Clarence Ward series is upon us!  Salomon Frausto, of The Berlage Institute in Rotterdam, will be here to discuss a unique, landmark project–a global survey of architectural and urbanist activity of all kinds–that will appear in print and on-line this year.  He is also the editor of one of the most widely read and exciting architectural journals around, Hunch, and an all-around architectural discourse machine!  I hope that you’ll be able to join us for what is sure to be an exciting lecture and discussion!

Salomon Frausto, Head of Architectural Broadcasting, The Berlage Institute, Rotterdam

“The Berlage Global Survey on the Culture, Education, and Practice of Architecture and Urbanism”

April 28, 6pm – Classroom I – Art Building ’37 Addition

Salomon Frausto develops the Institute’s public program of events, exhibitions, online interactivity, and publications with the aim of further expanding and complementing the research pursued at the Institute for presentation to a global architecture audience. An advocate for improved and diverse architectural literacy, Salomon Frausto teaches, publishes and lectures internationally to sharpen awareness of the contemporary built environment. He graduated with degrees in architecture from the University of Michigan and Columbia University. From 2001–2007 he coordinated the public and scholarly programs of the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University. He is coeditor, with Joan Ockman, of Architourism: Authentic, Exotic, Escapist, Spectacular published by Prestel in 2005. This volume of essays and projects by leading scholars, critics, artists, and architects explores the role of architecture in the contemporary tourist imagination. Trained as an architect, he is the editor of the Berlage Institute’s flagship publication Hunch.

 

The Reenactment

A Reenactment of a work by Chris Burden
by Oberlin senior Nicholas Bermeo
who has been training for three months.

8 PM May first to 2 AM May second
Hales Gymnasium
180 West Lorain Street
Oberlin, OH.

 

Jonathan Demme comes to Oberlin!

TONIGHT!
Academy Award winning director; Jonathan Demme will present his new documentary film about the Lower Ninth Ward after Hurricane Katrina “I’m Carolyn Parker”, followed by a Q & A with Jonathan Demme and Kyrah Julian. Free Admission
8pm
West Lecture Hall, Science Center

 

“Bound to Appear”

Please join us on May 3rd at 4:45 pm for a lecture by Huey Copeland,
“Bound to Appear” : A LECTURE sponsored by the BALDWIN LECTURE FUND.
May 3
4:45 pm
Allen Art Building, 1937 Addition, Classroom 1

In 1991, the artist Renée Green executed Mise-en-Scène, a complex
multimedia installation exploring the history of the transatlantic
slave trade in France’s Loire Valley. In his lecture, art historian
Huey Copeland charts the formal evolution and conceptual afterlives of
this project and situates it within an overlapping network of
political, artistic, and cultural contexts. Ultimately, he argues,
Green’s work and that of her contemporaries can be seen as modes of
radical critique that freshly make visible the significance of the
African diaspora in the shaping of the modern world.
Huey Copeland is Assistant Professor of Art History and Affiliated
Faculty in African American Studies, and Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation
Fellow at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African
American Research, Harvard University.

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“I’m Carolyn Parker”

TONIGHT!
Academy Award winning director;
Jonathan Demme
will present his new documentary film about the Lower Ninth Ward after
Hurricane Katrina
“I’m Carolyn Parker”
Monday April 25th, 8pm
West Lecture Hall, Science Center
followed by Q & A with the Jonathan Demme and Kyrah Julian
free

 

PIPO NAMED GUGGENHEIM FELLOW

The news is now official: the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has named Pipo Nguyen-Duy, Associate Professor of Art and Photography at Oberlin College, a 2011 fellow in creative arts.

The Guggenheim Foundation has recognized Pipo Nguyen-Duy for his body of work titled East of Eden: Vietnam, a series of staged, large-scale color photographs that explore hope and renewal 30 years after the Vietnam War.  Please read more through Oberlin‘s official article and visit Pipo’s homepage to view work from East of Eden: Vietnam.  (Also definitely check out the Pi(ng) Po(ng) project, which is my personal favorite of his works.)

Congratulations, Pipo!  Oberlin is proud of you.

 

Attraction is a Basic Instinct

Senior Show this weekend–Claire Lachow & Isabel Yellin!

When: Friday, April 29th, 2011
Where: Fisher Gallery, Oberlin, OH

Senior Studio Art majors Claire Lachow and Isabel Yellin present their Senior Show, Attraction is a Basic Instinct. Claire hails from Westchester, NY and studied art abroad in Italy last spring. Last summer she interned at MoMA’s P.S. 1 in New York City and hopes to pursue art once she graduates in the spring. Isabel is a senior studio art major with a focus on painting and sculpture. She comes from New York City and studied art abroad in Amsterdam. Last summer she assisted an artist in Uruguay and aspires to teach art while she also practices it professionally. See below for a description of the show, straight from the artists themselves.

“The imagery in my work is drawn from the ancient Greek ritual of arkteia; a rite of passage in which pubescent girls wore bear masks, in order to acknowledge their inherent ‘wildness’ before they could be tamed by marriage. The ritual condoned a short-lived lapse in the ‘good’ behavior expected of women. My work seeks to reconfigure this temporary inversion of the normative female role into a permanent and essential quality of humanity.

Drawing is a tactile and intellectual process for me. I am particularly interested in using techniques that balance both deliberate mark-making and chance operations. I work with media that I can manipulate in a sensuous manner- working directly on my images with my fingers and hands. I utilize water as agent of chaos in my work, allowing natural physical forces like diffusion and gravity to
take their course within the drawing.”

–Claire Lachow

“I arrived at this series of paintings through an array of experiments of different materials. These pieces are all different ways of combining glue and ink on plexiglass. By putting these two materials together I was able to create abstracted worlds on top of a transparent surface that call on our instinctual ability to associate unrecognizable things with what we already know. Working with these liquid materials helped me quickly gain an understanding of my insatiable curiosity for material manipulation.

I see the endless possibilities of the transformation and melding of things as a continuous challenge that pushes me to open new doors with my work. Beginning with acrylic paint as a young teenager ten years ago, I have since them breached anything from oil paint, to fabric, to latex, to thread, to pen + pencil, to watercolor, to metal, to wood, and to cray pas and so on and so forth. Through these materials I then invent my own processes which lead me either to successful results or to a new material to play around with. The finished result is only the product of my own desire to share the emotional qualities that I perceive through just a color on a textured surface.”

–Isabel Yellin

 

THE RETURN OF THE OBERLIN BYO.PPT

BYO.PPT: Esoteric Lightning Lectures!

Monday, April 25, 2011 @ 8pm
Fairchild Chapel

50 West Lorain Street

Oberlin, Ohio

This event is free and open to the public!

Co-presented by the Oberlin Film Co-op and Focus Group.

OBERLIN, Ohio – After debuting to a packed house in 2009, the BYO.PPT
(Bring Your Own PowerPoint) Event returns to Oberlin! Come and listen
to speedy, 6-minute illustrated presentations on such unusual and
diverse topics as the power of Friday, the powers of crystals,
exorcisms, invasive species, moral panic, nail polish art, cargo
shipping on the Great Lakes, and elementary school crushes (who later
became drug dealers), plus everything in between.

Presentations will follow two rules: 1) Maximum 20 slides, 20 seconds
for a slide, and 2) content of the presentations cannot be of the
presenter’s day job or main area of study.

Presenters include: Samantha Bass, David Burnham, Owen Campbell, Nasim
Chatha, Allison Chomet, Kelly Crimmins, Matthew Crothamel, Cubby
Dimling, Davey Field, Peter Freeman, Lily Gottschalk, Stephen Graves,
David Greenberg, Rose Hermalin, Liz Lagno and Isabel Yellin, Sarah
Michelson, Taylor Stanton, and Allison Swaim

ABOUT THE OBERLIN FILM CO-OP
The Oberlin Film Cooperative is a small, student-run organization
dedicated to promoting and facilitating film and video making at
Oberlin College and in the nearby community. In addition to supplying
equipment and film stock, and teaching 16mm film production, the Co-op
is a frequent sponsor of events like the BYO.PPT, the S.O.S. (Super8
Oberlin Showcase), and the Oberlin Film Festival.

ABOUT FOCUS GROUP

Focus Group is a roving, weekly screening series of student curated
film and video programs. Events take place on Wednesday evenings
(unless otherwise noted), at various locations throughout Oberlin.
Focus Group was formed in February 2011 by the members of CINE 323:
Exhibition Practices in the Media Arts, a Cinema Studies course at
Oberlin College. All screenings are free and open to the public, and
themed refreshments will typically be provided. More info at:

http://cine323focusgroup.tumblr.com

 

the most wonderful time of the year

Yes, it’s that time of year again–time to get down with our library’s founding father, Clarence Ward!  Here at the Art Library we’re celebrating Clarence’s memory in two ways: by hosting a weeklong party throughout the library, complete with unabashedly over-the-top decorations and lots of party favors, and by hosting our first-ever student staff art show, “Hidden Gifts.”

Back in his day, our patron was a big supporter of his students and their art endeavors.  Although Clarence Ward made an indelible difference on the Oberlin campus as the founder of the Art Library, as the chair of the Art History department, and as director of the Allen Memorial Art Museum, not to mention as an architect and pastor of the East Oberlin Community Church, he is perhaps best known for his work as an instructor.  A highly interactive teacher whose passions were Medieval and American architecture, Clarence taught a great number of art history students during his time as a teacher at Oberlin.  In particular he is remembered for having brought students into his home to work with his own professional modeling kits so that they might better understand the architecture of the buildings about which they were learning. 

It is in this spirit that we present the work of our very own student staff.  Each of our staff members hails from a different department at Oberlin, from Russian to Environmental Studies to Composition over at the Conservatory, and we’re proud to present the beautiful and varied work that they have been able to create over the course of their days at Oberlin.  On display you’ll find everything from hand-made artist books to embroidery to almost-invisible poetry, so we hope you’ll stop by the library and see the sort of secret talents our staff has been hiding from us all this time.  Students on display in “Hidden Gifts” include Stephanie Lo, Hannah Klein, Lauren Schwartzman, Tani Colbert-Sangree, Hazel Kozol, Frances Lee, Lauren Clark, Kristina Goldberg, Leah Brottman, Angie Garcia, and Katy Holihan.  The show will run from Monday, April 18th until Sunday, May 29th.

And remember to come over this week to partake in the excellence that is our birthday party for Clarence!  We’ve got streamers, balloons, transparent plastic unicorns, bears on bungee cords, temporary tattoos of cute leopards, and lots of bizarrely wonderful postcards, all for you to enjoy in honor of our dear Clarence.  Don’t forget to greet him at the door: he will be so happy to see you.