Interdisciplinary Arts, Visiting Artists
Interdisciplinary Arts, Visiting Artists
Upcoming 2008:
Keith Hennessey
Friday, October 17, 7:30 p.m. – 10 p.m.
Saturday, October 18, 9:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Sunday, October 19, 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. (1 hr. graduate credit)
Note that Mr. Hennessy’s workshops take place at Hamlin Park Field House, at the Chicago Moving Company performance space: 3035 N. Hoyne
Keith Hennessy is an award-winning performer, choreographer, teacher and organizer. He was born in Canada, lives in San Francisco and tours internationally. His interdisciplinary research engages improvisation, spectacle, ritual and public action as tools for investigating and revisioning political realities. Hennessy directs Circo Zero, a contemporary circus, in intimate spectacles for stage and street. He was a member of the collaborative performance companies: Contraband (85-94), CORE (95-98), and Cahin-caha, cirque bâtard (98-02). His work is featured in several books and documentaries, including How To Make Dances in an Epidemic (David Gere, Univ of Wisconsin: 2004), Gay Ideas (Richard Mohr, Beacon: 1992), and Dancers in Exile (RAPT Productions, 2000). Hennessy is a co-founder of 848 Community Space/CounterPULSE a thriving performance and culture space in San Francisco. Recent awards include a Goldie (2007) and the Alpert/MacDowell Fellowship in Dance (2005). Keith’s 2005-08 teaching includes University of San Francisco, New College of California, JFK University, UC Davis, dance and improvisation festivals in Budapest, Seattle, Stolzenhagen (Germany), Zipfest/Orvieto (Italy), Moab, Vienna/imPulsTanz, Moscow/TSEH, the Aerial Dance Festival (Boulder), and grass-roots workshops in Arcata, Chicago, Toronto, Victoria BC, Madison, and Earthdance (Northampton MA). www.circozero.org
Alison Knowles
Friday, Oct. 31, 6:30 – 9:30 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 1, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Sunday, Nov. 2, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. (1 hr. graduate credit)
Alison Knowles is a genuinely interdisciplinary artist. One of the original members of the Fluxus group in the 1960s, she was a founder of Something Else Press (with her husband Dick Higgins), the source of numerous iconic publications connected to Fluxus. Her works have encompassed performances, sound, conceptual art, sculptural work incorporating found objects, pieces made from handmade paper, printmaking, and artists’ books. Her work is collected internationally, and she has an active career as a practicing artist and as a guest lecturer and teacher. In 2008 alone, she has done residencies in New York; Minneapolis; Durham, NY; London; Cologne; Cardiff, Wales; and Genova, Italy. After her visit to Columbia College, she will be performing in Berne and Zurich, Switzerland, and have an exhibition of her series “Rake’s Progress” in Berlin.
2007-2008
Arnold Dreyblatt
Arnold Dreyblatt is a Media Artist, and Composer. He studied Compostion and Ethnomusicology at Wesleyan University at Buffalo, New York. He now lives in Berlin, Germany, and he was voted to lifetime membership in the Akademie der Kunste (Academy of Art) Visual Arts Section, Berlin in 2007. He has exhibited extensively internationally and won many honors, including 1st Prize International Public Art Competition, Art Institute, Braunschweig in 2007.
http://www.dreyblatt.net
2006-2007
Margot Lovejoy
Margot Lovejoy is Professor of Visual Arts at the State University of New York at Purchase and author of Digital Currents: Art in the Electronic Age (Routledge 2004). Amongst many other honors, she is recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an Arts International Grant in India. Her web and installation work has been shown internationally and is in the collection of, among others, the Whitney Museum; the Museum of Modern Art; the Getty Institute; and the Neuberger Museum. Her website TURNS was featured on the Whitney Museum?s 2002 Biennial and was included in the inaugural exhibition of the Institute for Contemporary Art, Taiwan and Banquet at ZKM In Karlsruhe, Germany and the Media Lab, Madrid, Spain. She has published several visual bookworks: "Labyrinth"; "The Book of Plagues"; "paradoxic mutations"; and "manifestations?. She is at present under contract, (with other editors C. Paul and V. Vesna) with Minnesota Press for a new book to be published in 2007-- CONTEXT PROVIDERS: Conditions of Meaning in Media Arts.
http://www.margotlovejoy.com
2004 - 2005
Bill Viola
Bill Viola (b.1951) is considered a pioneer in the medium of video art and is internationally recognized as one of today's leading artists. He has been instrumental in the establishment of video as a vital form of contemporary art, and in so doing has helped to greatly expand its scope in terms of technology, content, and historical reach. For over 35 years he has created videotapes, architectural video installations, sound environments, electronic music performances, flat panel video pieces, and works for television broadcast. Viola's video installations, total environments that envelop the viewer in image and sound, employ state-of-the-art technologies and are distinguished by their precision and direct simplicity. They are shown in museums and galleries worldwide and are found in many distinguished collections. His single channel videotapes have been widely broadcast and presented cinematically, while his writings have been extensively published, and translated for international readers. Viola uses video to explore the phenomena of sense perception as an avenue to self-knowledge. His works focus on universal human experiences, birth, death, the unfolding of consciousness, and have roots in both Eastern and Western art as well as spiritual traditions, including Zen Buddhism, Islamic Sufism, and Christian mysticism. Using the inner language of subjective thoughts and collective memories, his videos communicate to a wide audience, allowing viewers to experience the work directly, and in their own personal way.
http://www.billviola.com
John Boesche
John Boesche (scenery and projections) is a former instructor of holography, laser sculpture and laser imaging at the School for the Art Institue of Chicago. His designs for theater include scenery and projections for Tannhauser at Austin Lyric Opera, live video projections for the world premiere of John Adams' The Death of Klinghoffer, projected scenery for the Lyric Opera of Chicago productions of Tannhauser and The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe, and projections for the world premiere of Dominic Argento's Valentino at Washington Opera. He designed projections for Emily Mann's Greenboro at the McCarter Theater, Henry IV directed by Joanne Akalitis at the New York Shakespeare Festival, On the Open Road, directed by Robert Falk at the Goodman Theater, Slaughterhouse Five adapted and directed by Eric Simonsen at Steppenwolf Theatre, and Libra, adapted and directed by John Malkovich, at Steppenwolf Theatre, and the 50th anniversary production of The Glass Menagerie at Broadway's Roundabout Theatre.
Mary Lucier
Exploring light and landscape as agents of visual perception and memory, Mary Lucier examines 19th-century art historical and literary traditions through the lens of technology. In elegant "pictorial-narrative" works, she investigates the American pastoral myth in "an ironic dialogue between past and present, mundane and poetic, real and ideal." Lucier's metaphoric use of light evokes transcendence and the sublime.
DEPARTMENTAL CONTACT INFORMATION
Department Chair: Michelle Citron
Graduate Contact: Kris Johnson
Office Information: 624 S. Michigan, Room 1100
Phone: 312-369-7669
Email: kjohnson@colum.edu
Keith Hennessey
Friday, October 17, 7:30 p.m. – 10 p.m.
Saturday, October 18, 9:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Sunday, October 19, 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. (1 hr. graduate credit)
Note that Mr. Hennessy’s workshops take place at Hamlin Park Field House, at the Chicago Moving Company performance space: 3035 N. Hoyne
Keith Hennessy is an award-winning performer, choreographer, teacher and organizer. He was born in Canada, lives in San Francisco and tours internationally. His interdisciplinary research engages improvisation, spectacle, ritual and public action as tools for investigating and revisioning political realities. Hennessy directs Circo Zero, a contemporary circus, in intimate spectacles for stage and street. He was a member of the collaborative performance companies: Contraband (85-94), CORE (95-98), and Cahin-caha, cirque bâtard (98-02). His work is featured in several books and documentaries, including How To Make Dances in an Epidemic (David Gere, Univ of Wisconsin: 2004), Gay Ideas (Richard Mohr, Beacon: 1992), and Dancers in Exile (RAPT Productions, 2000). Hennessy is a co-founder of 848 Community Space/CounterPULSE a thriving performance and culture space in San Francisco. Recent awards include a Goldie (2007) and the Alpert/MacDowell Fellowship in Dance (2005). Keith’s 2005-08 teaching includes University of San Francisco, New College of California, JFK University, UC Davis, dance and improvisation festivals in Budapest, Seattle, Stolzenhagen (Germany), Zipfest/Orvieto (Italy), Moab, Vienna/imPulsTanz, Moscow/TSEH, the Aerial Dance Festival (Boulder), and grass-roots workshops in Arcata, Chicago, Toronto, Victoria BC, Madison, and Earthdance (Northampton MA). www.circozero.org
Alison Knowles
Friday, Oct. 31, 6:30 – 9:30 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 1, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Sunday, Nov. 2, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. (1 hr. graduate credit)
Alison Knowles is a genuinely interdisciplinary artist. One of the original members of the Fluxus group in the 1960s, she was a founder of Something Else Press (with her husband Dick Higgins), the source of numerous iconic publications connected to Fluxus. Her works have encompassed performances, sound, conceptual art, sculptural work incorporating found objects, pieces made from handmade paper, printmaking, and artists’ books. Her work is collected internationally, and she has an active career as a practicing artist and as a guest lecturer and teacher. In 2008 alone, she has done residencies in New York; Minneapolis; Durham, NY; London; Cologne; Cardiff, Wales; and Genova, Italy. After her visit to Columbia College, she will be performing in Berne and Zurich, Switzerland, and have an exhibition of her series “Rake’s Progress” in Berlin.
2007-2008
Arnold Dreyblatt
Arnold Dreyblatt is a Media Artist, and Composer. He studied Compostion and Ethnomusicology at Wesleyan University at Buffalo, New York. He now lives in Berlin, Germany, and he was voted to lifetime membership in the Akademie der Kunste (Academy of Art) Visual Arts Section, Berlin in 2007. He has exhibited extensively internationally and won many honors, including 1st Prize International Public Art Competition, Art Institute, Braunschweig in 2007.
http://www.dreyblatt.net
2006-2007
Margot Lovejoy
Margot Lovejoy is Professor of Visual Arts at the State University of New York at Purchase and author of Digital Currents: Art in the Electronic Age (Routledge 2004). Amongst many other honors, she is recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an Arts International Grant in India. Her web and installation work has been shown internationally and is in the collection of, among others, the Whitney Museum; the Museum of Modern Art; the Getty Institute; and the Neuberger Museum. Her website TURNS was featured on the Whitney Museum?s 2002 Biennial and was included in the inaugural exhibition of the Institute for Contemporary Art, Taiwan and Banquet at ZKM In Karlsruhe, Germany and the Media Lab, Madrid, Spain. She has published several visual bookworks: "Labyrinth"; "The Book of Plagues"; "paradoxic mutations"; and "manifestations?. She is at present under contract, (with other editors C. Paul and V. Vesna) with Minnesota Press for a new book to be published in 2007-- CONTEXT PROVIDERS: Conditions of Meaning in Media Arts.
http://www.margotlovejoy.com
2004 - 2005
Bill Viola
Bill Viola (b.1951) is considered a pioneer in the medium of video art and is internationally recognized as one of today's leading artists. He has been instrumental in the establishment of video as a vital form of contemporary art, and in so doing has helped to greatly expand its scope in terms of technology, content, and historical reach. For over 35 years he has created videotapes, architectural video installations, sound environments, electronic music performances, flat panel video pieces, and works for television broadcast. Viola's video installations, total environments that envelop the viewer in image and sound, employ state-of-the-art technologies and are distinguished by their precision and direct simplicity. They are shown in museums and galleries worldwide and are found in many distinguished collections. His single channel videotapes have been widely broadcast and presented cinematically, while his writings have been extensively published, and translated for international readers. Viola uses video to explore the phenomena of sense perception as an avenue to self-knowledge. His works focus on universal human experiences, birth, death, the unfolding of consciousness, and have roots in both Eastern and Western art as well as spiritual traditions, including Zen Buddhism, Islamic Sufism, and Christian mysticism. Using the inner language of subjective thoughts and collective memories, his videos communicate to a wide audience, allowing viewers to experience the work directly, and in their own personal way.
http://www.billviola.com
John Boesche
John Boesche (scenery and projections) is a former instructor of holography, laser sculpture and laser imaging at the School for the Art Institue of Chicago. His designs for theater include scenery and projections for Tannhauser at Austin Lyric Opera, live video projections for the world premiere of John Adams' The Death of Klinghoffer, projected scenery for the Lyric Opera of Chicago productions of Tannhauser and The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe, and projections for the world premiere of Dominic Argento's Valentino at Washington Opera. He designed projections for Emily Mann's Greenboro at the McCarter Theater, Henry IV directed by Joanne Akalitis at the New York Shakespeare Festival, On the Open Road, directed by Robert Falk at the Goodman Theater, Slaughterhouse Five adapted and directed by Eric Simonsen at Steppenwolf Theatre, and Libra, adapted and directed by John Malkovich, at Steppenwolf Theatre, and the 50th anniversary production of The Glass Menagerie at Broadway's Roundabout Theatre.
Mary Lucier
Exploring light and landscape as agents of visual perception and memory, Mary Lucier examines 19th-century art historical and literary traditions through the lens of technology. In elegant "pictorial-narrative" works, she investigates the American pastoral myth in "an ironic dialogue between past and present, mundane and poetic, real and ideal." Lucier's metaphoric use of light evokes transcendence and the sublime.
DEPARTMENTAL CONTACT INFORMATION
Department Chair: Michelle Citron
Graduate Contact: Kris Johnson
Office Information: 624 S. Michigan, Room 1100
Phone: 312-369-7669
Email: kjohnson@colum.edu