This Week at ICA
Free admission, Excursus, and the People’s Conference this week at ICA. . .
THIS WEEK AT ICA
ICA IS FREE FOR EVERYONE!
Free admission to the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania for the public is sponsored by the Amanda (C95) and Glenn (W87/WG88) Fuhrman Fund.
EXCURSUS: CINÉ TRACTS
Wednesday, February 22 @ 6:30
Join UC Berkeley PhD candidate Erica Levin for a screening and discussion of the revolutionary potential of image and text in short silent ciné-tracts produced in the wake of May 1968 by filmmakers such as Jean-Luc Godard, Chris Marker, and Alain Resnais.
Excursus is a new initiative at the ICA in which artists, designers, publishers, and other cultural producers are invited to create a platform for more intimate programming, alongside an online residency at icaphila.org/excursus.
PEOPLE’S CONFERENCE
February 24-25, 2012
ICA is pleased to host the People’s Conference in conjunction with the People’s Biennial exhibition currently on view at the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Whitehead Campus Center at Haverford College (370 Lancaster Avenue, Haverford) through March 2, 2012. This two-day conference has been organized to delve deeper into questions about regionalism, display, and structures of support for under-recognized artists in ways that push the boundaries of curatorial, artistic, and institutional innovation.
Participants include: Tom Finkelpearl, Harrell Fletcher, Jens Hoffmann, Paula Marincola, John Muse, Peter Nesbett, John Ollman, Renaud Proch, J. Morgan Puett, Julien Robson, Ingrid Schaffner, Andrew Suggs, Astria Suparak, Nato Thompson, Transformazium
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
Friday, February 24, 4:30-6:30pm
Haverford College, Sharpless Auditorium, KINSC (370 West Lancaster Avenue, Haverford)
People’s Biennial co-curators Harrell Fletcher and Jens Hoffmann reflect on the process of making the first People’s Biennial, as well as its potential for future iterations. Moderated by Renaud Proch, Deputy Director, Independent Curators International.
Saturday, February 25,11:00am-5:00pm
Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania (118 S. 36th Street, Philadelphia)
This day-long conversation proposes a question in two parts: How can one contextualize and display art that exists outside the norms of the mainstream art world in an innovative manner, and how can structures of display be transformed into ongoing systems of support for artists? Moderated by People’s Biennial co-curators Harrell Fletcher and Jens Hoffmann.
Visit the Independent Curators International site for a detailed schedule.Co-organized by Independent Curators International (ICI), Haverford College’s John B. Hurford ‘60 Center for the Arts and Humanities, and ICA. The People’s Conference is funded, in part, with a professional development grant from The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, through the Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative. The ICA thanks The Spiegel Fund to Support Contemporary Culture and the Visual Arts.
MIRANDA //THE ICA BLOG
Painting, abstraction, desire, frustration: This week Miranda recounts Charline von Heyl’s extraordinary artist talk on how she overcame burnout and started her new body of work. “When I went to Marfa last time,” Charline said, “I was totally burned out.”
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