In connection with the exhibition
"Personal Affects : Power and Poetics in Contemporary South African Art"
Organized by the Museum for African Art, NYC
Public Lecture: "An Inside Look at the Artists and the Exhibition"
by its Curator, Sophie Perryer
Wednesday - February 22 at 7:00pm
Screening of film: "The Luggage is Still Labeled"
Wednesday - March 1 at 7:00pm
Both events will take place at the UHM Art Building Auditorium
Sophie Perryer is a curator and also the editor of the catalogue for Personal Affects: Power and Poetics in Contemporary South African Art. She was formerly the editor of Art South Africa, a quarterly magazine on contemporary South African art. She trained as an arts journalist at the Weekly Mail/Mail & Guardian newspaper, and was appointed arts editor of the publication in 1995. She has since worked on a variety of print and internet publishing projects, including the website Artthrob.co.za. In May 2004 Perryer received the Design and Illustration award at the 14th Annual Mondi Paper Magazine Awards, which acknowledges and rewards groundbreaking work published in South African magazines.
co-sponsored with The Contemporary Museum
Stuart Kestenbaum (February 28 - March 3, 2006)
Public Lecture
Tuesday - February 28, 7:30 pm
"Art at the Center, Art at the Edges"
UHM Art Building Auditorium
Mr. Kestenbaum will give a talk about his poetry, and the intersections between it and his visual art practices, on Wednesday - March 1, 8:00 pm
Yap Conference Room A153, Hamilton Library Addition
Stuart Kestenbaum has been director of internationally recognized Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Deer Isle, Maine since 1988. He is in touch with some of the best artists working in art/craft media in the country, people whom he invites to teach at Haystack. Haystack provides exciting opportunities for artists in an intensive studio based program, a summer experience, working in an uninterrupted creative time/space.
With humor and compassion, Kestenbaum finds mystery in the mundane, and celebrates our shared humanity, “stained with those things that feed us while we are here”–the natural world, family, “the graffiti of dreams, the rust of education”. Kestenbaum is a writer and poet as well as an arts advocate and administrator with successful publication of his own creative work as well as a series of monographs on critical issues in the field. He has received the Maine Art Education Advocate of the Year Award and a Distinguished Service Award from Maine College of Art. He has served as a visual arts panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts and has juried exhibitions for the Smithsonian and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Ann Hamilton (March 18 - 26, 2006)
Public Lecture
Tuesday - March 21, 7:30 pm
"By Mouth and Hand"
UHM Art Building Auditorium
Hamilton is one of the premier American contemporary visual artists of our time. She creates temporal environments that are rich in accumulated materials and innumerable traces of the hand's mark. In 2000 she collaborated with Meredith Monk exploring her long-term interest in voice and uttered sound. Her most recent works, using a mouth-held pinhole camera, address the very edge of inside and out, just as her room-sized installations treat their planar linings as permeable membrane.
She has received wide critical acclaim and has won numerous awards including a MacArthur Fellowship, NEA Fellowships and a Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship. She represented the United States in 1999 at the Venice Biennale and in 1991 at the Sao Paolo Biennale. She has had solo exhibitions throughout the world including The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1988), The Museum of Modern Art, New York (1994), Dia Center for the Arts, New York (1993), The Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C. (1991), Akira Ikeda Gallery, Japan (2001), and the Wanas Foundation, Sweden (2002).
The genesis of Ann Hamilton's large-scale site responsive installation work often begins in the body scaled gestures of speech and touch and the formative acts of uttering a sound by mouth or shaping a word by hand. In this lecture Hamilton will survey her work over the last 15 years and will explore how these two gestures have formed and transformed her practice and approach to architectural space.
co-sponsored with the UHM Distinguished Visiting Scholar in Liberal Arts Program
Christine Christophersen (April 4 - 21, 2006)
Public Lecture: Tuesday - April 4, 7:30pm
UHM Art Building Auditorium
Christine Christophersen was born in Darwin, Australia. She is a member of the Murran Clan, Northwest Arnhem Land, of the Iwatja language group. She is a painter and film maker, working from an indigenous perspective. She gives credit for her knowledge from a lifetime of experience and learning from elders, from teachers and mentors.
Christophersen’s art grows out of her involvement in local and national Aboriginal concerns. She has had an artist-in-residence at Tranby Aboriginal Cooperative College and at the Burragorang International Artists workshop, sponsored by Triangle Arts Trust, London. She has served on the board of the Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Cooperative. She was a featured speaker and contributing artist at the International Artist Conference of the Year, Lillihammer, Norway. Christophersen was highly commended at the prestigious 2004 Telstra Arts. She received an Australia Art Council grant in 2005, and the 5th National Indigenous Heritage Art Award. Her paintings are in the permanent collection of the National Gallery and the Darwin Museum Art Gallery.
co-sponsored with Ala Kukui Retreat Center (Hana, Maui), Kamehameha Schools, and Kamakakuokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies
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