Carnegie Museum of Art theater (Oakland) – The Andy Warhol Museum

Symposium on the Cinema of George A. Romero

Charlene Bidula — Thu, 20 Sep 2018 20:28:31 +0000

In conjunction with the Romero Lives: Pittsburgh Celebrates George A. Romero city-wide tribute, The University of Pittsburgh hosts a symposium, featuring conversations about the work of Romero and his immense impact on horror, cinema, and popular culture. Speakers will examine Romero’s achievements in a series of panel discussions featuring distinguished filmmakers and scholars.

Panelists include the Guggenheim award-winning film and video artist Peggy Ahwesh, screenwriter and director Adam Simon (The American Nightmare, Salem), and scholars Tom Gunning (University of Chicago, recipient of the Distinguished Career Achievement Award from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies and author of such books as The Films of Fritz Lang: Allegories of Modernity), Joan Hawkins (Indiana University, author of Cutting Edge: Art-Horror and the Horrific Avant Garde), and Isabel Cristina Pinedo (Hunter College, author of Recreational Terror: Women and the Pleasures of Horror Film Viewing).

The symposium will also include a screening of the documentary The American Nightmare, an exploration of the radical horror cinema of the 1970s, directed by Adam Simon.

Sound Series: Rob Mazurek’s Farnsworth Scores

Charlene Bidula — Thu, 31 May 2018 15:50:00 +0000

Join us for a unique evening of experimental sound composition inspired by mid-century modern architecture, featuring composer, cornetist, and improviser, Rob Mazurek. Through a commission from the Graham Foundation, Mazurek has composed The Farnsworth Scores as an experimental film and musical composition in collaboration with filmmaker Lee Anne Schmitt, intended to capture the interaction between humans, nature, and architecture at Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s iconic Farnsworth House.

Mazurek has previously performed as part of The Warhol’s Sound Series with his ensembles São Paulo Underground and Black Cube SP, and also leads and composes for other ongoing ensembles, including Exploding Star Orchestra, Chicago Underground Duo, and Pharoah & The Underground (featuring Pharoah Sanders).

Production of The Farnsworth Scores was supported by a generous grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.

Doors open at 6 p.m.

My Perfect Body: John Giorno and Flaming Creatures screening

desi — Mon, 16 Jan 2017 21:04:30 +0000

In conjunction with the exhibition Andy Warhol: My Perfect Body, poet John Giorno speaks with Jessica Beck, The Warhol’s associate curator of art, and Eric Crosby, Carnegie Museum of Art’s Richard Armstrong curator of modern and contemporary art, about his relationship to Andy Warhol and New York’s 1960s underground film culture. Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures (1963, 45 minutes) is screened before the discussion.

Flaming Creatures is a seminal avant-garde film that created national controversy for its depiction of sexuality. Smith’s film, like many of Warhol’s, was about disrupting gender and sexuality norms and creating a new form of eroticism.

John Giorno is an artistic innovator who has been defying assumptions of poet, performer, political activist, Tibetan Buddhist, and visual artist since he emerged upon the New York art scene in the late 1950s. In the 1960s, he began producing multi-media, multi-sensory events concurrent with Warhol’s Exploding Plastic Inevitable. He worked with Rauschenberg’s Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T) in 1966 and with Bob Moog in 1967–68. His breakthroughs in this area include Dial-A-Poem, which was first exhibited in 1968 at the Architectural Society of New York and was additionally exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art’s Information exhibition in 1970. The first comprehensive retrospective of his work I LOVE JOHN GIORNO, curated by Ugo Rondinone, opened in fall 2016 at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris.

This event is co-presented with Carnegie Museum of Art.

Distribution: Film-Makers’ Cooperative

Sound Series: Jace Clayton – The Julius Eastman Memorial Dinner

desi — Mon, 16 Jan 2017 20:27:50 +0000

The Warhol welcomes back Jace Clayton, a.k.a. DJ /rupture, who leads an ensemble work conceived for twin pianos, live electronics, and voice, that brings fresh insight to the artistic legacy of Julius Eastman – the mercurial gay African American composer who mixed canny minimalist innovation with head-on political provocation. The Julius Eastman Memorial Dinner comprises new arrangements and interpretations of a selection of Eastman’s piano compositions. As Clayton uses his own custom-designed ‘Sufi Plug Ins’ software to live-process the pianos of David Friend and Emily Manzo, he also intersperses musical vignettes – performed by neo-Sufi vocalist Arooj Aftab – to lend context and nuance to the composer’s saga, which was cut short in 1990 at age 49.

The Julius Eastman Memorial Dinner has been performed at Bang on a Can Marathon, MoMA PS1 Liquid Music at St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Cincinnati Art Center, University of Texas Austin, REDCAT, and several other venues.

“This is a difficult, self-annihilating temperament to pay proper tribute to. On The Julius Eastman Memory Depot, Jace Clayton—better and more-often known as DJ/rupture —goes about it exactly the right way. . .The result honors the intentions behind Eastman’s trickster spirit to the point that Clayton and Eastman seem very much to be making this music together in real time”

– Jayson Greene, Pitchfork

“A captivating project that constitutes a powerful homage by one bold figure to another.”

– Ron Schepper, Textura