Past Programs
Matthew Day Jackson: The Immeasurable Distance
May 8 – July 12, 2009
(Hayden, Reference Galleries)
Bernadette: A Film by Duncan Campbell
May 8 – July 12, 2009
(Bakalar Gallery)
Opening Reception Thursday, May 7, 5:30-7:30PM
Saturday, May 9, 2PM, Bartos Theatre
Conversation with Matthew Day Jackson and David A. Mindell
Mindell is Dibner Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing, Professor of Engineering Systems at MIT, and author of Digital Apollo, MIT Press. Moderated by exhibition curator Bill Arning.
Wednesday, May 13, 12:30PM
Gallery talk with LVAC educator Mark Linga
Thursday, May 14, 7PM, Bartos Theatre
LVAC Film Night, organized by John Gianvito
Solaris, dir., Andrei Tarkovsky, (Soviet Union, 1972, 165 min.)
Thursday, May 21, 7PM, Bartos Theatre
Artist Talk by Duncan Campbell
Saturday, May 23, 2PM
Gallery talk with Mark Linga
Wednesday, June 3, 12:30PM
Gallery Talk with Mark Linga
Thursday, June 11, 7PM, Bartos Theatre
Talk by Dominic Hall, Warren Anatomical Museum
Hall is curator of the Warren Anatomical Museum, Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Wednesday, June 17, 12:30PM
Gallery Talk with Jane Farver, LVAC director
Thursday, June 18, 7PM, Bartos Theatre
LVAC Film Night, organized by John Gianvito
Contempt (Le Mépris), directed by Jean-Luc Godard, (France, 1963, 103 min.)
Wednesday, June 24, 6PM
Gallery Talk with exhibiting artist Matthew Day Jackson and curator Bill Arning.
Saturday, June 27, 2PM
Gallery Talk with Mark Linga
Wednesday, July 1, 12:30PM
Gallery Talk with Jane Farver
Melanie Smith: Spiral City & Other Vicarious Pleasures
(February 6-April 5, 2009)
Reference, Hayden, and Bakalar Galleries
Davis, Cherubini, in Contention
(February 6-April 5, 2009)
Hayden Gallery
OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday, February 5, 2009 6-8 PM
Conversation with artists Taylor Davis and Nicole Cherubini
5:30 PM, Bartos Theatre
Preceding the opening reception, List Center curator Bill Arning will moderate a discussion with artists Taylor Davis and Nicole Cherubini.
Saturday, February 7, 2009, 4-6 PM
In and Out of the Context of Contemporary Mexico City:
A Symposium on the Work of Melanie Smith
Harvard University David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
CGIS Building, Room: S-050/Concourse level
1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
This joint presentation of the MIT List Visual Arts Center and Harvard’s Latin American and Latino Art Forum at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies focuses on the work of Mexico City—based artist Melanie Smith. The Art Forum Speaker Series seeks to foster critical thinking and academic debate about the topics and issues relevant to the contemporary production and history of Latin American and Latino Art. Programmed by the Art Forum’s Curator and divided into two thematic sub-series, Art Lab and Artists on Their Art, the talks last one and a half hours, are conducted in English (unless noted otherwise) and follow the same format: an invited main speaker and a panel of commentators—usually composed by members of the Harvard or the Greater Boston community—engage in dialogue.
Panelists:
Melanie Smith
Born in 1965, in Poole, England, Smith has lived and worked in Mexico City since 1989. Smith’s work has recently been exhibited at the Tate Gallery, London, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. She has exhibited with Peter Kilchmann in Zurich, Switzerland; OMR Gallery in Mexico City, Mexico; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid, Spain; The Tamayo Museum of Contemporary Art in Mexico City; UCLA Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, California; and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts. Her work is featured in the exhibition Melanie Smith: Spiral City & Other Vicarious Pleasures, organized by Cuauhtémoc Medina, which is on view at MIT List Visual Arts Center (February 6-April 5, 2009).
Cuauhtémoc Medina
Medina is an art critic, curator and historian, who lives and works in Mexico City. He holds a PhD in Art History and Theory from the University of Essex, UK, and is a researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas at the National University of Mexico. Between 2002 and 2008, Medina was the first Associate Curator of Latin American Art Collections at the Tate Modern in London. He recently organized a historical show the Age of Discrepancy: Art and Culture in Mexico 1968-1997, in collaboration with Olivier Debroise, Pilar García and Alvaro Vázquez (shown at MUCA in Mexico City, MALBA in Buenos Aires, and Pinacoteca Do Estado in Sao Paulo). Among his recent publications are: Francis Alÿs (Phaidon, 2007), Melanie Smith: Spiral City & Other Vicarious Pleasures (México, A&R, 2006) and “‘The 21st century has just begun’… beyond the poetic and political divide”, published in: Out of the studio! (Hasselt, Z33 Art Centre, 2008).
Diane E. Davis
Davis is a Professor of Political Sociology at MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning. She is the author of Urban Leviathan: Mexico City in the Twentieth Century (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994).
Moderator:
James Oles
Oles is Assistant Professor of Art History at Wellesley College, who teaches the history of Latin American art, focusing on Mexico, and Adjunct Curator of Latin American Art, Davis Museum and Cultural Center at Wellesley College.
Respondents:
José Falconi
Falconi is Fellow/Curator of the Rockefeller Center’s Art Forum exhibitions and speaker series at Harvard University.
Bill Arning
Arning is curator for the MIT List Visual Arts Center in Cambridge, MA.
Gallery Talks:
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2PM
Mark Linga, LVAC Educator
Thursday, February 19, 6PM
Bill Arning, LVAC Curator
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2PM
Bill Arning, LVAC Curator
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 12:30PM
Jane Farver, LVAC Director
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 12:30PM
Mark Linga, LVAC Educator
SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 2PM
Mark Linga, LVAC Educator
Wednesday, April 1, 12:30PM
Bill Arning, LVAC Curator
Adel Abdessemed: Situation and Practice
(October11 - January 4, 2009)
Public Education Programs:
EXHIBITION OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2008 FROM 6–8PM
CONVERSATION WITH ARTIST ADEL ABDESSEMED AND CURATOR JANE FARVER
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 5:30PM, 45 CARLETON STREET, MIT BLDG. E25, ROOM 111
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 7:00PM, BARTOS THEATRE
LECTURE AND BOOK-SIGNING WITH PAUL D. MILLER AKA DJ SPOOKY THAT SUBLIMINAL KID
In Sound Unbound (MIT Press, 2008), Miller, author of Rhythm Science, asks
thirty-six artists to describe their work and compositional strategies. Contributors
include: Pierre Boulez, Dick Hebdige, Beryl Korot, Moby, Hans Ulrich Obrist,
Pauline Oliveros, Philippe Parreno, Ibrahim Quraishi, and Steve Reich. Miller's
lecture will feature historic texts, rare audio recordings, and films, to demonstrate
the complex relationship between text and art in a multimedia context.
THE 2008 MAX WASSERMAN FORUM ON CONTEMPORARY ART
EASTERN EUROPE TODAY AND THE ROLE OF ART IN TIMES OF CHANGE
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14 & SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15
This year’s forum will present screenings and discussions to consider the role
of art and culture after two decades of rapid and tumultuous political, social,
economic, and cultural changes in Eastern Europe.
ALGERIA IN FRANCE— A TALK BY PAUL SILVERSTEIN
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 7PM, BARTOS THEATRE
Silverstein, associate professor of anthropology at Reed College and Carnegie
Scholar, is author of Algeria in France: Transpolitics, Race and Nation (Indiana,
2004) and will discuss the complex relationship of Algeria to France, focusing
on the lives of Algerian immigrants in contemporary French culture.
GALLERY TALKS
Wednesday, October 15, 12:30PM Bill Arning, LVAC Curator
Saturday, October 18, 2PM Bill Arning
Wednesday, October 22, 12:30PM Jane Farver, LVAC Director
Wednesday, November 5, 12:30PM Jane Farver
Thursday, November 6, 6PM Bill Arning
Wednesday, November 19, 12:30PM Mark Linga, LVAC Educator
Wednesday, December 10, 12:30PM Mark Linga
Saturday, December 20, 2PM Mark Linga
MIT PUBLIC ART TOUR
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 12PM; RAIN DATE–SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12, 12PM
Check listart.mit.edu for weather updates. Tour departs from LVAC galleries.
FILM SCREENING
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 7:30PM, BARTOS THEATRE
Battle of Algiers, directed by Gillo Pontecorvo, (Italy/Algeria, 1966, 121 min.)
LVAC FILM NIGHTS, ORGANIZED BY JOHN GIANVITO
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, BARTOS THEATRE, 7:30PM
Pierre Bourdieu: Sociology is a Martial Art, directed by Pierre Carles,
(France, 2002, 146 min.)
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, BARTOS THEATRE, 7:30PM
Chronicle of the Years of Embers, directed by Mohamed Lakhdar-Hamina,
(Algeria, 1975, 175 min.)
Summer Films at the LVAC
Tuesday, July 29, 7PM, Bartos Theatre
Christmas in July (1940/USA) 67 min., dir., Preston Sturges
This 1940 screwball comedy film was written and directed by Preston Sturges based on his 1931 play A Cup of Coffee. The film stars Dick Powell and Ellen Drew. Powell plays Jimmy McDonald, an office clerk who loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune and marrying the girl he loves. His latest attempt is the Maxford House Coffee Slogan Contest. As a joke, some of his co-workers put together a fake telegram which says that he won the $25,000 grand prize. As a result, he gets a promotion, buys presents for all of his family and friends, and proposes to his girl. When the truth comes out, he's not prepared for the consequences.
Wednesday, July 30, 7PM, Bartos Theatre
Summer aka The Green Ray (1986/France) 98 min., dir. Eric Rohmer
Delphine played by Marie Rivière is the central character in Rohmer’s romantic comedy. The movie opens at the start of Delphine’s summer vacation. Her travel plans are suddenly thrown into disarray when her girlfriend ditches her and Delphine is left moping around Paris, depressed and self-pitying. The film follows Delphine’s misadventures as she seeks to find what she wants: happiness and true love.
“Much like Delphine, Summer initially seems slight, but it's a movie of uncommon sensitivity and emotional reserves. Delphine is no great philosopher. Yet she's a woman who uses her mind, if only, sometimes, to go in self-searching circles. As played by Miss Riviere, she's funny, gallant, irritating and terrifically romantic. Delphine is the archetypal Rohmer heroine, a character who could exist only in a film. She's a remarkable, collaborative composition of the director's vision, the actress's personality, the settings through which she moves and the sounds she hears, which, in addition to the words (not always kind) of her friends, include street noises, music, the passing of the occasional airplane, birds, even the wind in the trees.” – Vincent Canby, New York Times
Thursday, July 31, 7PM, Bartos Theatre
Rhapsody in August (1991/Japan) 98 min., dir., Akira Kurosawa
The themes of pacifism and memory in Kurosawa’s anti-war film unfold as a grandmother shares her stories on the bombing of Nagasaki with her grandchildren. These stories fascinate, confuse, and frighten the children, while their parents, the middle generation, want to forget the war and cash in on connections with American relatives.
This film program was organized by LVAC adjunct film curator John Gianvito.
CHANTAL AKERMAN: MOVING THROUGH TIME AND SPACE
(MAY 2-JULY 6, 2008)
THURSDAY, MAY 1
OPENING RECEPTION: 6-8PM
THURSDAY, MAY 1, 5:30-7PM, BARTOS THEATRE
Conversation between Chantal Akerman and curator Terrie Sultan with an introduction by Harvard University scholar Giuliana Bruno (co-sponsored with the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program)
THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 6PM, BARTOS THEATRE
Akerman in Her Many Contexts, this talk by LVAC curator Bill Arning provides an in-depth examination of Chantal Akerman’s work as a filmmaker and an artist.
Gallery Talks
WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 12:30PM
Jane Farver, LVAC Director
SATURDAY, MAY 10, 2PM
Mark Linga, LVAC Educator
WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 12:30PM
Bill Arning, LVAC Curator
SATURDAY, MAY 17, 2PM
Bill Arning
THURSDAY, MAY 29, 6PM
Claire Grace, Ph.D. candidate, Harvard University
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 12:30 PM
Mark Linga
SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 2PM
Claire Grace
SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 2PM
Mark Linga
MIT Public Art Tour
SATURDAY, MAY 17, 10AM
Patricia Fuller, LVAC Public Art Curator
RAINDATE: SUN., MAY 18, 10AM
FILM SCREENINGS:
LVAC Film Nights, organized by John Gianvito
THURSDAY, MAY 15, BARTOS THEATRE, 7:30PM
Four Corners (US/1997/80min.) dir., James Benning
FRIDAY, JUNE 27, BARTOS THEATRE, 7:30PM
Voyages (France/199/111min.) dir., Emmanuel Finkiel
The Films of Chantal Akerman
Presented by the Museum of Fine Arts Boston in conjunction with the MIT List Visual Arts Center’s exhibition Chantal Akerman: Moving through Time and Space. SCREENINGS TAKE PLACE AT THE MFA. For more information: www.mfa.org/film. For tickets, call the box office at 617-369-3306
WED, MAY 21
5:00PM Chantal Akerman by Chantal Akerman (2001, 64 min)
6:30PM Je Tu Il Elle (1974, 90 min)
THU, MAY 22
2:00PM Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1972, 200 min)
6:00PM Les Rendez-vous d’Anna (1977, 127 min)
SAT, MAY 24
10:30AM Chantal Akerman by Chantal Akerman (2001, 64 min)
12:00PM Je Tu Il Elle (1974, 90 min)
SUN, MAY 25
10:30AM Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1972, 200 min)
WED, MAY 28
5:40PM Les Rendez-vous d’Anna (1977, 127 min)
CineMental at the Brattle
Wednesday, June 18, 9:30PM, Brattle Theatre Cambridge
40 Brattle Street, Harvard Sq. Cambridge
9.30pm, $10, all ages
CineMental at the Brattle will be presenting short films inspired by the work of
Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman.
CineMental is co-directed by James Nadeau and Aliza Shapiro, who have been involved with programming for the Boston Gay and Lesbian Film/Video Festival for the past seven years. Along with other local programmers they have created a series that explores the fringes of queer film, video, and groundbreaking performative work with a decidedly alternative perspective.
For more info: http://www.truthserum.org or contact: Aliza Shapiro 617.288.8145 or James Nadeau:
cinemental.boston@gmail.com
David Claerbout (February 8-April 6, 2008)
Friday, February 8, 5PM, Bartos Theatre
Conversation betwen artist David Claerbout and LVAC curator Bill Arning
Wednesday, February 20, 12:30pm
Gallery Talk by Jane Farver, LVAC Director
Thursday, February 21, 6:30pm
Artist Talk by Mary Lucier, whose work, Arabesque, is on view on the Media Test Wall, (21 Ames St., Bldg. 56)
Bldg. 32 (Stata Center), Rm. 155
Saturday, March 8, 2pm
Gallery Talk by Bill Arning, LVAC Curator
Thursday, March 13, 6pm
Gallery Talk by Bill Arning, LVAC Curator
Thursday, March 13, 2008, 7:30pm
Film Nights, Bartos Theatre
Films by Ken Jacobs
Capitalism: Child Labor (USA/2006, 14 min.)
Capitalism: Slavery (USA/2006, 3 min.)
Flo Rounds a Corner (USA/1999, 6 min.)
Ontic Antics Starring Laurel and Hardy: By Molly (USA/2005, 90 min.)
Wednesday, March 19, 12:30pm
Gallery Talk by Mark Linga, LVAC Educator
Wednesday, March 19, 7pm, Bartos Theatre
David Joselit, Yale University art historian and author of Feedback-Television Against Democracy (MIT Press, 2007) in conversation with Caroline A. Jones, Professor in MIT’s History, Theory, Criticism section of the Department of Architecture
Friday, March 21, 7:30pm
Film Nights, Bartos Theatre
Short Works by Rebecca Meyers and James Herbert
how to sleep (winds) (USA/2000, 9 min.) dir. Rebecca Meyers
lions and tigers and bears (USA/2006, 3 min.) dir. Rebecca Meyers
Apalachee (USA/1974, silent, 13 min.) dir. James Herbert
Silk (USA/1977, 25 min.) dir. James Herbert
Saturday, March 22, 2pm
Gallery Talk by Mark Linga, LVAC Educator
Wednesday, April 2, 12:30pm
Gallery Talk by Bill Arning, LVAC Curator
Friday, April 4, 12pm
MIT Public Art Tour (departs LVAC galleries)
Rain date: Sunday, April 6
