Wesleyan University's Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery presents
Passing Time
January 27–March 4, 2012
Exhibition to feature works by artists from Argentina, Australia, Luxembourg,
France, Germany, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States
Middletown, Conn., December 19, 2011— Passing Time, a new exhibition of recent works by fourteen international artists in a range of media, explores the multiple and converging meanings of the phrase “passing time." Organized by guest curators Ginger Gregg Duggan and Judith Hoos Fox of c2 curatorsquared, the exhibition will be on view in Wesleyan University’s Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, located at 283 Washington Terrace on the Wesleyan campus in Middletown, from Friday, January 27 through Sunday, March 4, 2012. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Sunday from Noon to 4pm. Gallery admission is free.
The public is invited to attend the opening reception on Tuesday, January 31, 2012 from 5pm to 7pm, with a gallery talk at 5:30pm by guest curator Judith Hoos Fox. The opening reception is free.
The various meanings of the phrase “passing time”—spending time, time to die—are explored in the evocative imagery of the works in Passing Time—video, photography, sculpture and works on paper. Some artists turn to sport, some to music; some refer to nature and its rhythms to explore concepts of time—short term, long term and terminating. Others partner with time itself in their making of art. Time is a concept that philosophers and physicists ponder. Time provides a framework that orders, measures and defines. We spend time, we waste it, we keep it; time flies, it drags. It is elastic in its perception—long when we are young, gaining momentum as we age. The Passing Time exhibition explores the relationship between the time of our life and the time of the eons.
Following the engagement at Wesleyan University, Passing Time will travel to the Richard E. Peeler Art Center at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana and other venues through the fall of 2013. In 2010, c2 curatorsquared organized the exhibition Connectivity Lost which addressed the ways we are estranged from each other and from the environment in which we live. Connectivity Lost was on view in the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery from September 11 through December 6, 2010.
"We are really glad to be back at Wesleyan for a second exhibition," said Ms. Fox. "We first identified Passing Time as a subject being explored by a great number of artists across the world and across media about four years ago. The Venice Biennale was particularly rich. That is where we saw the Shaun Gladwell Storm Sequence. Maybe it’s the speed at which we all live these days, on fast forward, that makes artists start to look at time. Maybe we were particularly aware of the subject because of things going on in our own lives – children growing up before our eyes; an older generation dying."
The artists, known and emerging, featured in Passing Time include Matthew Buckingham (United States), Jonathan Callan (United Kingdom), Luis Camnitzer (United States), Rineke Dijkstra (The Netherlands), Ken Fandell (United States), Shaun Gladwell (Australia), Felix Gonzalez-Torres (United States), Leandro Katz (Argentina), Katrin Korfmann (The Netherlands, Germany), Philipp Lachenmann (Germany), Stefana McClure (United States), Su-Mei Tse (Luxembourg, France), Siebren Versteeg (United States), and Bill Viola (United States).
"The North Gallery [of the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery is a wonderful place for a room-sized installation of video, and we are putting Siebren Versteeg’s dual projection live feed piece there. We really want to take advantage of the elegant glass link to that gallery, and are working on a way to install the Katrin Korfmann light box piece in this link. And Luis Camnitzer's Last Words should read powerfully when placed [on the far back wall]. Each work [in Passing Time] is there because of the particular voice it brings to the conversation," said Ms. Fox.
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Monday, January 2, 2012
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Things to Do or Ponder the Next 2 Days
Today November 19:Need an escape from the onslaught of 24-hour news cycles? Bemoaning the loss of the warmer weather? Bored? Today at 12noon, The Russell Library has the cure for the symptoms above and more. The "Gutter to Penthouse" Film Series presents "Gold Diggers of 1933", a movie musical extravaganza starring Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, Joan Blondell, and Ginger Rogers as well as a slew of dancers. Directed by Mervyn LeRoy, choreographed by the legendary Busby Berkeley, and songs by Harry Warren and Al Dubin (including "We're In The Money" and "Pettin' In The Park"), "Gold Diggers.." is truly a classic of early (talking) cinema and, for its day, fairly risque. Most of all, it's a "hoot" and worth spending time in the Hubbard Room. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, call 860-347-2528, extension 135.
Performance artists Eiko & Koma are the subjects of "Time is Not Even, Space is Not Empty", a retrospective of their (nearly) 4 decades of creating dace and theater pieces, works that often look at political, environmental and social issues. Eiko has been a fellow with the Center for Creative Research (CCR) and has served as a Visiting Instructor in Dance and East Asian Studies, as well as teaching Delicious Movement workshops in various curricular contexts for the past several years while maintaining an active performance and residency schedule. The retrospective is an ongoing installation in the Zilkha Gallery (today through December 20) and the artists presents an "Opening Reception" today at 5 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. To find out more about this fascinating couple, go to www.eikoandkoma.org/.
The Elia Kazan Centennial Celebration continues tonight at 8 p.m. at the Center for Film Studies at Wesleyan with "Splendor in the Grass." The 1961 film stars Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Pat Hingle and Phyllis Diller (yes, the comedienne as a sarcastic nightclub owner), the script written by William Inge and the score composed by David Amram. Set in Kansas in the late1920s, the plot revolves around a young woman (Wood) whose involvement with her boyfriend (Beatty) is quashed when he insists they have sexual relations. She refuses, he moves on, marries and she ends up institutionalized. There's more to it than that with issues around the Depression and life in the Mid-West. Steve Collins, Assistant Professor of Film Studies at Wesleyan, will introduce the film. The event, taking place in the Goldsmith Family Cinema, is free and open to the public. For more information, call 860-685-2220.Friday November 20:
Pianist Nicholas Luby, winner of the 2009 Elizabeth Verbeer Tischler Piano Competition and Wesleyan University Concerto Competition, is featured in a recital of works composed by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, and Shostakovich at 7 p.m. in Wesleyan's Memorial Chapel. Joining him o several pieces will be cellist Lucy Strother, a former Concerto Competition winner. This concert is free and open to the public.
The Buttonwood Tree presents a double bill of Connecticut-based singer-songwriters at 8 p.m. Frank Critelli (pictured) and Shandy Lawson both combine pithy lyrics with memorable melodies, songs that can touch your soul but also make you want to move your feet. The former leans more towards a "rock" feel in his music while Ms. Lawson blends acoustic country elements into her works. Her music has been described as "folk-noir." Call the music what you please, this should be a fun evening. For more information, call 860-347-4957.
Toussaint the Liberator & Buru Style brings its infectious "dub/funk" sound into Boney's Music Lounge for several sets of funk, reggae, and soul. The band, featuring Middletown-based drummer Bill Carbone, creates an infectious and extremely danceable sound for the smooth and soulful vocal stylings of the Liberator. Both Buru Style and Toussaint released CDs this past summer (the cover of the group's debut EP is pictured on the left) and you can find out more by going to http://toussaintandburu.com/fr_index.cfm. You can find how much fun their music is by going to Boney's - the music starts around 8:30 p.m. For more information, call 860-346-6000. Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Books, Blues and More (10/06 - 10/09)
Tuesday October 6:
Jorge Arevalo Mateus hosts the Latin Jazz Workshop tonight at 7 p.m. in MAC 650 Gallery, 650 Main Street. Mateus, GRAMMY winner and graduate student at Wesleyan, is a font of knowledge and can truly provide you with musical insights. To find out more, call 343-1516.
Broad Street Books' "First Tuesday Poetry Series" welcomes Kathryn Kelly for a 7 p.m. reading followed by an Open Mic. Kelly, an English teacher in Portland, has also taught poetry workshops around the state. The event is free and open to the public. Directly before the reading, WESU-FM's J. Cherry will host Ms. Kelly on his 6:30 show. Tune in to 88.1 FM or listen online at www.wesufm.org.
Wednesday October 7:
"Lunch & Learn", another fine program at The Russell Library, takes place in the Hubbard Room at 12noon. Kathleen and Bob Hubbard, authors and editors of "Images of America: Middletown", will discuss the research and writing of the book, a handsome volume that spans the development of the city over several centuries. Proceeds from the sale of the book go to benefit the Middlesex County Historical Society. Bring your lunch and the Library staff provides the beverages. The event is free and open to the public.
Ethan Bronner, Jerusalem Bureau Chief for the New York Times, will speak at 8 p.m. in Wesleyan's Memorial Chapel as part of the University's "Distinguished Writers' Series." Bronner, a Wesleyan graduate has been reporting from the Middle East for over 25 years and has been on the Times staff since 1997. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 2001 for his investigative work on al Qaeda. His talk is free and open to the public.
Thursday October 8:
"Soul of a People: Writing America's Story:", a joint project of Middlesex Community College Library and the Russell Library, presents the "Scholar Panel on the Connecticut Federal Writers' Project" at 7 p.m. in the Hubbard Room of the Russell Library. Panelists will include Tad Lincoln, Wesleyan Professor of English Sean McCann, and local historian Dr. Cecilia Bucki. For more information about this free event, call 343-4830 or go to www.mxcc.commnet.edu/library/.
The Elia Kazan Centennial Celebration at Wesleyan continues this week with a screening of "Viva Zapata" at 8 p.m. in the Goldsmith Family Cinema in the Center for Film Studies. The 1952 movie, starring Marlon Brando, Jean Peters, Anthony Quinn, Joseph Wiseman, and Mildred Dunnock, is a fictional account of the Mexican revolutionary who is portrayed (by Brando) as incorruptible and messianic. Introducing the movie, which is free and open to the public, will be Marc Longenecker. For more information, go to www.wesleyan.edu/filmstudies/specialevents.html.
Friday October 9:
The new exhibition opens on this day at the Cecile & Ezra Zilkha Gallery at Wesleyan. "Mike Disfarmer: Photographs" features the work of a man who abandoned his family and set up shop in a rural Arkansa town, staying there for the rest of his life. Born Mike Meyers, the sixth of seven children in a German immigrant family, Disfarmer rejected the Arkansas farming world and the family in which he was raised. He taught himself how to shoot and develop photographs and soon set up a studio in Heber Springs, Arkansas, where he worked in relative isolation from 1939 - 45. The resulting work is a fascinating look at a community in transition during a time of poverty and war.
The Opening Reception takes place from 5 - 7 p.m. and the works will be on display until October 25. For more information, go to www.wesleyan.edu/cfa. To learn more about the solitary photographer, go to www.disfarmer.com.
The Wesleyan Music Department, Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies and Center for the Arts are the co-sponsors of "Music from Japan", a concert featuring Yoko Hiraoka (shamisen, koto, voice, pictured) and Ralph Samuelson (shakuhachi) taking place at 7 p.m. in the World Music Hall. While the duo will play a number of pieces from the classical and traditional Japanese repertoire, they will also premiere a new work by contemporary American composer Ned Rothenberg, who blends jazz influences into his study of and writing for the shakuhachi (Japanese flute.) The event is free and open to the public.
Joe Flood, the singer/songwriter born in Portland and now living in Guilford, has had his songs recorded by Blues Traveler, Joan Osborne and The Band. His delivery and lyrical style hearkens back to country blues singers and he supports his songs with his fine guitar, mandolin and banjo work. He returns to The Buttonwood Tree for a 7:30 p.m. show - joining him will be bassist Andres Villamil. For more information, call 347-4957 or go to www.joeflood.net.
Boney's Music Lounge welcomes the Liviu Pop Band for an 8:30 p.m. gig. Joining the verstaile drummer will be guitarist Slam Allen. For more information, call 346-6000.
Jorge Arevalo Mateus hosts the Latin Jazz Workshop tonight at 7 p.m. in MAC 650 Gallery, 650 Main Street. Mateus, GRAMMY winner and graduate student at Wesleyan, is a font of knowledge and can truly provide you with musical insights. To find out more, call 343-1516.
Broad Street Books' "First Tuesday Poetry Series" welcomes Kathryn Kelly for a 7 p.m. reading followed by an Open Mic. Kelly, an English teacher in Portland, has also taught poetry workshops around the state. The event is free and open to the public. Directly before the reading, WESU-FM's J. Cherry will host Ms. Kelly on his 6:30 show. Tune in to 88.1 FM or listen online at www.wesufm.org.
Wednesday October 7:
"Lunch & Learn", another fine program at The Russell Library, takes place in the Hubbard Room at 12noon. Kathleen and Bob Hubbard, authors and editors of "Images of America: Middletown", will discuss the research and writing of the book, a handsome volume that spans the development of the city over several centuries. Proceeds from the sale of the book go to benefit the Middlesex County Historical Society. Bring your lunch and the Library staff provides the beverages. The event is free and open to the public.
Ethan Bronner, Jerusalem Bureau Chief for the New York Times, will speak at 8 p.m. in Wesleyan's Memorial Chapel as part of the University's "Distinguished Writers' Series." Bronner, a Wesleyan graduate has been reporting from the Middle East for over 25 years and has been on the Times staff since 1997. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 2001 for his investigative work on al Qaeda. His talk is free and open to the public.Thursday October 8:
"Soul of a People: Writing America's Story:", a joint project of Middlesex Community College Library and the Russell Library, presents the "Scholar Panel on the Connecticut Federal Writers' Project" at 7 p.m. in the Hubbard Room of the Russell Library. Panelists will include Tad Lincoln, Wesleyan Professor of English Sean McCann, and local historian Dr. Cecilia Bucki. For more information about this free event, call 343-4830 or go to www.mxcc.commnet.edu/library/.
The Elia Kazan Centennial Celebration at Wesleyan continues this week with a screening of "Viva Zapata" at 8 p.m. in the Goldsmith Family Cinema in the Center for Film Studies. The 1952 movie, starring Marlon Brando, Jean Peters, Anthony Quinn, Joseph Wiseman, and Mildred Dunnock, is a fictional account of the Mexican revolutionary who is portrayed (by Brando) as incorruptible and messianic. Introducing the movie, which is free and open to the public, will be Marc Longenecker. For more information, go to www.wesleyan.edu/filmstudies/specialevents.html.Friday October 9:
The new exhibition opens on this day at the Cecile & Ezra Zilkha Gallery at Wesleyan. "Mike Disfarmer: Photographs" features the work of a man who abandoned his family and set up shop in a rural Arkansa town, staying there for the rest of his life. Born Mike Meyers, the sixth of seven children in a German immigrant family, Disfarmer rejected the Arkansas farming world and the family in which he was raised. He taught himself how to shoot and develop photographs and soon set up a studio in Heber Springs, Arkansas, where he worked in relative isolation from 1939 - 45. The resulting work is a fascinating look at a community in transition during a time of poverty and war. The Opening Reception takes place from 5 - 7 p.m. and the works will be on display until October 25. For more information, go to www.wesleyan.edu/cfa. To learn more about the solitary photographer, go to www.disfarmer.com.
The Wesleyan Music Department, Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies and Center for the Arts are the co-sponsors of "Music from Japan", a concert featuring Yoko Hiraoka (shamisen, koto, voice, pictured) and Ralph Samuelson (shakuhachi) taking place at 7 p.m. in the World Music Hall. While the duo will play a number of pieces from the classical and traditional Japanese repertoire, they will also premiere a new work by contemporary American composer Ned Rothenberg, who blends jazz influences into his study of and writing for the shakuhachi (Japanese flute.) The event is free and open to the public.
Joe Flood, the singer/songwriter born in Portland and now living in Guilford, has had his songs recorded by Blues Traveler, Joan Osborne and The Band. His delivery and lyrical style hearkens back to country blues singers and he supports his songs with his fine guitar, mandolin and banjo work. He returns to The Buttonwood Tree for a 7:30 p.m. show - joining him will be bassist Andres Villamil. For more information, call 347-4957 or go to www.joeflood.net.
Boney's Music Lounge welcomes the Liviu Pop Band for an 8:30 p.m. gig. Joining the verstaile drummer will be guitarist Slam Allen. For more information, call 346-6000.
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Turned the Corner and Heading for a Busy Autumn
Labor Day's over, school has started, Wesleyan is revving up and Vecchitto's is closing (sigh...) but the local arts venues are already into their Fall season. Hopefully, you're checking out Oddfellows Playhouse "Around the World in 80 Days" promotion (as they say..."Brilliant!)
On Thursday evening (9/10), The Green Street Arts Centers offers 2 separate events, both at 7 p.m. It's the opening session for "Flash Forward Photography", an opportunity to meet to GSAC's Artistic & Education Coordinator Sarah-Jane Ripa and discuss the focus (no pun intended) and direction of the upcoming workshops. The other event taking place features Al Bower and Cocomo Rock as the co-hosts of "Writer's Out Loud: Literary Open Mic." Writers, essayists and poets have up to 10 minutes to present their works (excerpts are fine) and there will be time for feedback. For more information about both programs, call 685-7871 or go to www.greenstreetartscenter.org.
Also on Thursday, The Buttonwood Tree resumes its monthly Open Mic. Hosted by guitarist and vocalist Bob Gotta, musicians are welcome to try out new material in front of an appreciative audience. Sign-ups begin at 6:30 p.m. and the music at 7.
Friday September 1 is a busy day. The Friends of the Russell Library holds its "bag book" sale this weekend (Friday - Monday but not Sunday), an opportunity to find some great bargains on your autumnal reading. The sale goes on during regular Library hours. Call 347-2528, extension 135, for more information.
The Middlesex Institute for Lifelong Education (MILE) holds its Fall Orientation Program at 10 a.m. in Chapman Hall on the campus of Middlesex Community College, Training Hill Road. To find out more about this fine program for "Senior Adult Education", go to http://mileonline.org/id17.html.
The first exhibition of the Fall 2009 season at Wesleyan's Zilkha Gallery comes on the heels of the 4th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's deadly attack on New Orleans and the Gulf Coast region. "Emergency Response Studio" is the work of Paul Villinski and is based on his belief that artists should be deployed as "part of the mix of disaster workers, medical personnel, NGO’s, architects, and urban planners – those people charged with responding to, repairing, and re-envisioning disaster sites like New Orleans.” To that end, Villinski took a 30-foot Gulfstream Trailer, identical to the ones sent to the Gulf area replaced its innards with "entirely “green” technology and building materials, including recycled denim insulation, bamboo cabinetry, compact fluorescent lighting, reclaimed wood, and natural linoleum floor tiles made from linseed oil. It is powered by eight mammoth batteries that store energy generated by an array of solar panels and a “micro” wind turbine atop a 40-foot high mast. Not only practical, Emergency Response Studio is a visually engaging structure with an expansive work area featuring a wall section that lowers to become a deck. A ten-foot, elliptical geodesic skylight allows extra headroom and natural lighting in the work area." (the quotes are from an interview with the artist on the website, offcite.org - read the entire article at http://offcite.org/2009/01/08/paul-villinskis-emergency-response-studio.)
The trailer/studio will be set up on the lawn of the CFA Courtyard while, inside the Gallery, one can read about the project and about "green" technology. The opening reception takes place Friday at 5 p.m. and the Trailer will be in situ until November 8. For more information, go to www.wesleyan.edu/cfa.
Cathy Kreger, Marci Geller and Susan DeVita are 3 fine singer-songwriters who have banded together to form "Lucky 13" and they bring their show to The Buttonwood Tree this Friday evening at 7:30 p.m. Their music blends folk, rock, jazz, blues and pop influences imto an entertaining program filled with bright harmonies and sweet melodies. To find out more about the trio, go to www.lucky13.fm. To reserve a seat, call 347-4957.
Boney's Music Lounge presents the Liviu Pop Group with special guest Chris Vitarello (guitar) for a evening of powerful rock and funk. The music starts at 8:30 p.m.
We'll look at a very busy weekend in a future posting.
On Thursday evening (9/10), The Green Street Arts Centers offers 2 separate events, both at 7 p.m. It's the opening session for "Flash Forward Photography", an opportunity to meet to GSAC's Artistic & Education Coordinator Sarah-Jane Ripa and discuss the focus (no pun intended) and direction of the upcoming workshops. The other event taking place features Al Bower and Cocomo Rock as the co-hosts of "Writer's Out Loud: Literary Open Mic." Writers, essayists and poets have up to 10 minutes to present their works (excerpts are fine) and there will be time for feedback. For more information about both programs, call 685-7871 or go to www.greenstreetartscenter.org.
Also on Thursday, The Buttonwood Tree resumes its monthly Open Mic. Hosted by guitarist and vocalist Bob Gotta, musicians are welcome to try out new material in front of an appreciative audience. Sign-ups begin at 6:30 p.m. and the music at 7.
Friday September 1 is a busy day. The Friends of the Russell Library holds its "bag book" sale this weekend (Friday - Monday but not Sunday), an opportunity to find some great bargains on your autumnal reading. The sale goes on during regular Library hours. Call 347-2528, extension 135, for more information.
The Middlesex Institute for Lifelong Education (MILE) holds its Fall Orientation Program at 10 a.m. in Chapman Hall on the campus of Middlesex Community College, Training Hill Road. To find out more about this fine program for "Senior Adult Education", go to http://mileonline.org/id17.html.
The first exhibition of the Fall 2009 season at Wesleyan's Zilkha Gallery comes on the heels of the 4th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's deadly attack on New Orleans and the Gulf Coast region. "Emergency Response Studio" is the work of Paul Villinski and is based on his belief that artists should be deployed as "part of the mix of disaster workers, medical personnel, NGO’s, architects, and urban planners – those people charged with responding to, repairing, and re-envisioning disaster sites like New Orleans.” To that end, Villinski took a 30-foot Gulfstream Trailer, identical to the ones sent to the Gulf area replaced its innards with "entirely “green” technology and building materials, including recycled denim insulation, bamboo cabinetry, compact fluorescent lighting, reclaimed wood, and natural linoleum floor tiles made from linseed oil. It is powered by eight mammoth batteries that store energy generated by an array of solar panels and a “micro” wind turbine atop a 40-foot high mast. Not only practical, Emergency Response Studio is a visually engaging structure with an expansive work area featuring a wall section that lowers to become a deck. A ten-foot, elliptical geodesic skylight allows extra headroom and natural lighting in the work area." (the quotes are from an interview with the artist on the website, offcite.org - read the entire article at http://offcite.org/2009/01/08/paul-villinskis-emergency-response-studio.)The trailer/studio will be set up on the lawn of the CFA Courtyard while, inside the Gallery, one can read about the project and about "green" technology. The opening reception takes place Friday at 5 p.m. and the Trailer will be in situ until November 8. For more information, go to www.wesleyan.edu/cfa.
Cathy Kreger, Marci Geller and Susan DeVita are 3 fine singer-songwriters who have banded together to form "Lucky 13" and they bring their show to The Buttonwood Tree this Friday evening at 7:30 p.m. Their music blends folk, rock, jazz, blues and pop influences imto an entertaining program filled with bright harmonies and sweet melodies. To find out more about the trio, go to www.lucky13.fm. To reserve a seat, call 347-4957. Boney's Music Lounge presents the Liviu Pop Group with special guest Chris Vitarello (guitar) for a evening of powerful rock and funk. The music starts at 8:30 p.m.
We'll look at a very busy weekend in a future posting.
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