Genius Loci
NEXT EVENT: MIRANDA LASH, CURATOR of CONTEMPORARY ART, NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM of ART THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 2012 6-7pm, Communication Arts Building 36 Rm 191
Poster design by UWF Department of Art Graphic Design students Chris Edgar and Zena Pirnot.
Miranda Lash is Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the New Orleans Museum of Art. Her lecture will address issues of curatorship and contemporary art. At NOMA, she manages the twentieth and twenty-first century permanent collection and the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden. She has curated thirteen exhibitions at NOMA, some of the more recent examples include Parallel Universe: Quintron and Miss Pussycat Live at City Park, Swoon: Thalassa, Wayne Gonzales: Light to Dark/ Dark to Light, and Dario Robleto: The Prelives of the Blues. Lash is a recipient of an Andy Warhol Curatorial Research Grant for her research on conceptual artist Mel Chin. Her exhibitions at NOMA aim to present art with an experimental thread, either debuting artists with their first solo museum shows, or revisiting more established artists’ work with a new perspective.
A native of Los Angeles, she received her bachelor’s degree in the history of art and architecture with honors from Harvard University. As an undergraduate, she was honored as a Fellow at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. She completed her master’s degree in art history at Williams College, where she was named a Clark Fellow for work on her Master’s thesis on Brazilian artist, Adriana Varejão. Before coming to New Orleans, Lash was a curatorial assistant at The Menil Collection in Houston, Texas.
Lash’s writings demonstrate an ongoing interest in Latin American art. She has lectured and published essays on the Latin American artists Frida Kahlo (for the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico, Roberto Matta (for Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics) and Adriana Varejão (for Baroque Tendencies in Contemporary Art). However, particularly since arriving New Orleans, her interests have expanded to include artists from or living in the American South, as demonstrated in her essays for the international biennial Prospect.2 exhibition catalog, and on artists such as Wayne Gonzales, Skylar Fein, and the New Orleans artist collaborative, The Front. In addition she is working on two books on the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden (a portable guide and a large hardcover), to be distributed by Scala Art Publishers in 2012.
Genius Loci events are free and open to the public. For more information, contact Amy Bowman-McElhone, Director, TAG UWF at artgallery@uwf.edu or 850.474.2696.
Genius Loci Visiting Artist Lecture Series is sponsored by The University of West Florida Department of Art, the Lefferts and Mabie Foundation and theUWF Student Government Association. The series is intended to both enhance the curriculum for students and engage the greater public through an open dialogue on contemporary art and ideas.
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Poster design by University of West Florida Department of Art Graphic Design students Matthew Pham and Amanda Merritt.
- Poster design by Matt Pham and Amanda Merritt, UWF Department of Art Graphic Design students.
The University of West Florida Department of Art, The Art Gallery (TAG) at the University of West Florida (UWF) and the SGA presents artist Craig Colorusso as part of the Genius Loci Visiting Artist Lecture Series. The lecture will take place on Thursday, March 8, 2012 from 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. in CFPA Bldg 82 rm 206. Mr. Colorusso will also install his temporary outdoor sound installation, Sun Boxes, on the CFPA Lawn on UWF’s campus from March 6, 2012 – March 8, 2012.
As part of a three-day residency, Mr. Colorusso will install his Sun Boxes on UWF’s campus and present a lecture on the project. According to the artist, Sun Boxes is a solar powered sound installation comprised of twenty speakers operating independently each powered by the sun via solar panels. Inside each Sun Box is a PC board with a recorded guitar note loaded and programmed to play continuously in a loop. These guitar notes collectively make a Bb chord. Because the loops are different in length, once the piece begins they continually overlap, slowly evolving over time. Participants are encouraged to walk amongst the speakers altering the composition as they move. “Sound Art is an evolving and exciting genre of contemporary art that explores the aesthetics of noise, silence, the act of listening and the encounters of space, time, city and nature. Sun Boxes and Mr. Colorusso’s visit is an amazing opportunity for students and community members to experience a work of art that engages sound, environment and visual art,” said TAG UWF Director Amy Bowman-McElhone.
Mr. Colorusso is a musician and artist from Mount Vernon, NY. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Colorusso was in touring bands and eventually started a record company. His music expanded to incorporate composition and improvisation resulting in the pieces Tagmusik, a 24-hour performance in Bethel, Connecticut and Maschine, a composition for instruments and off-set printing presses. Slowly, these explorations extended beyond music and became aesthetic and aural investigations of light, sculpture and sound. These investigations produced a number of projects including MB 89, and CUBEMUSIC, both of which have toured the US. His latest project, Sun Boxes premiered in June 2009 as part of the exhibition off the Grid at the Goldwell Museum in Rhyolite, Nevada. It has since toured the US and was the subject of a documentary film and series of field recordings by filmmaker Kevin Belli. For more information, visit sun-boxes.com.
Genius Loci events are free and open to the public. For more information visit our website, tag82uwf.wordpress.com or contact Amy Bowman, Director, TAG UWF at artgallery@uwf.edu or 850.474.2696.
Genius Loci Visiting Artist Lecture Series is sponsored by The University of West Florida Department of Art, the Lefferts and Mabie Foundation and the
UWF Student Government Association. The series is intended to both enhance the curriculum for students and engage the greater public through an open dialogue on contemporary art and ideas.
GENIUS LOCI SCHEDULE 2011//2012
SPRING 2012:
CHAD CURTIS, TAG UWF VISITING ARTIST – LECTURE THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 02, 5-6PM CFPA
KIANGA FORD, VISITING ARTIST – LECTURE THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 6-7pm Communication Arts Building 36 Rm 191 + FEB. 10-11 COMMUNITY MAPPING CHARETTE W/ STUDENTS + BELMONT ARTS CENTER EVENTS
CRAIG COLORUSSO, VISITING ARTIST – LECTURE, THURSDAY MARCH 8, 6-7PM TBA + OUTDOOR SOUND ART INSTALLATION MAR 6 – MAR 8 CFPA LAWN
MIRANDA LASH, CURATOR OF CONTEMPORARY ART, NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART – LECTURE, APRIL 19, 6-7PM, Communication Arts Building 36 Rm 191
FILM SCREENING: ARTIST FILM – TBA
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The University of West Florida Department of Art, The Art Gallery (TAG) at the University of West Florida (UWF) and the SGA presents visual artist Kianga Ford as part of the Genius Loci Visiting Artist Lecture Series. The event will take place on Thursday, February 9 from 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. in the Communication Arts, Building 36 on UWF’s campus.
Ms. Ford is visiting Pensacola as part of the development and research for her extended performance, Walking Home. This collaborative project is a cross-country walk during which the artist will be traveling from her current home in Los Angeles, California to her childhood home in Central Florida collecting the stories and reflections of members of local communities along her route. The recorded and archived stories will become the basis for a series of installation projects that explore the core ideas of migration, home, and travel. Ms. Ford is partnering with institutions that support her efforts to locate distinctive communities and populations along her project route. “As part of the development of the project, Ms. Ford, in collaboration with UWF Department of Art and the Belmont Arts Center, will also engage with local communities in Pensacola beyond the University campus. This is an exciting opportunity for students and community members to be part of a large scale art project that encourages us to re-experience our own sense of place as Pensacola residents,” said TAG UWF Director Amy Bowman.
Ms. Ford’s work combines installation and site-specific strategies that often highlight the intersections between media and space. Her work engages the inherent capacities of sound for creating immersive fields and technologies. Though her current concerns gravitate organically toward sound, her training, teaching, and practice have all focused on concept-directed forms. She continues to work across a broad range of media including video, performance and collaborations in mathematics and new architectural media. She has received grants to support new projects from the LEF Foundation, the Asian Cultural Council, the Harpo Foundation, California Community Foundation, and Creative Capital. The grant from Creative Capital supports her largest scale project to-date, Walking Home, a cross-country walk from Southern California to her childhood home in Central Florida that brings Kianga into direct conversation with communities across the U.S. Ms. Ford teaches at Parsons The New School for Design in New York City. Previously, she taught at Massachusetts College of Art as Assistant Professor in the Studio for Interrelated Media (SIM). She holds a M.A. and ABD from the University of California, Santa Cruz, a M.F.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a B.A. from Georgetown University.
Genius Loci events are free and open to the public. For more information visit our website, tag82uwf.wordpress.com or contact Amy Bowman, Director, TAG UWF at artgallery@uwf.edu or 850.474.2696.
Genius Loci Visiting Artist Lecture Series is sponsored by The University of West Florida Department of Art, the Lefferts and Mabie Foundation and the
UWF Student Government Association. The series is intended to both enhance the curriculum for students and engage the greater public through an open dialogue on contemporary art and ideas.
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THOMAS ASMUTH – LECTURE: 21st CENTURY MACRAME: OPEN SOURCE AND THE MAKER MOVEMENT
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17 5-6pm, CFPA Bldg 82 on UWF’s Campus
Followed by ROLL CALL: 2011 UWF Faculty Exhibition Reception in TAG
21st Century Macrame: Open Source and the Maker Movement
The re-emergence of the do-it-yourself culture as a social movement, cultural form, and genre.
Professor Thomas Asmuth discusses the cultural movement known today as the Maker Movement or the DIY Generation in relation to contemporary art. Asmuth addresses the beginnings of the movement, the politics of the contemporary Maker, as well as the shared values and lineage to the 1960′s Love Generation. The Genius Loci lecture is in conjunction with Asmuth’s installation 21st Century Macrame: Do-It-With-Others (DIWO) as part of ROLL CALL: 2011 UWF Faculty Exhibition, where Asmuth and his assistants will be leading a series of workshops, which transform the gallery into a laboratory for hands-on culture. You can sign up and view the workshop schedule by clicking here or sign up in person at TAG UWF.
WHAT IS THE MAKER MOVEMENT?
In the latter half of the 1960′s and throughout the 1970′s, a group of independent artisans and everyday people shared a moment of intense creativity that sought to return to the ‘handmade’. This group was motivated commercial culture; life had been subsumed by market, social, and industrial forms that arose post WWII. Heavily oriented around the then nascent Ecological Movement, this group sought to live closer to the earth, they encouraged the idea of sweat equity, and they desired to directly engage hands-on living. This generation spawned sewing circles, social justice movements, organic food co-ops, collectives, and communes around the globe following the Leary-ian mantra “Tune In, Turn On, and Drop Out”. The Foxfire series, the myriad inexpensive ‘how-to’ publications form the era, and magazines like Mother Earth News are some of the artifacts that evidence the a desire for life without corporate mediation.
Today a new generational movement is flowering with many of the same goals of the 1960′s and 1970′s Love Generation. They are known colloquially as The Maker Movement; this group is motivated by many many of the same wishes of the earlier generation. They are decidedly anti-specialization and hands on, but they approach it with a very different set of politics—shaped by an increasingly interconnected world. Oddly enough this generation has weaved a relationship with factorization and corporations to achieve similar goals. They are at ease with any means by which they may create. The contemporary DIY peerage can comfortably outsource a new design to be manufactured via the miracles of print on demand technologies, create Frankenstein mashups of existent products, reapply older to ancient technologies as an option, or even ingeniously hack a commonly available materials to cobble into new, cheap, and functional fixes. Many of this generation’s reverse engineers and hacks do this work as contemporary artists. -Thomas Asmuth
FALL 2011:
DEREK COTÉ, TAG UWF VISITING ARTIST – LECTURE THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 5-6PM CFPA MAINSTAGE THEATER TO BE FOLLOWED BY THE OPENING RECEPTION AT TAG UWF
THOMAS ASMUTH – LECTURE: 21st CENTURY MACRAME: OPEN SOURCE AND THE MAKER MOVEMENT, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17
SPRING 2012:
CHAD CURTIS, TAG UWF VISITING ARTIST – LECTURE THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 02
CRAIG COLORUSSO, VISITING ARTIST – OUTDOOR INSTALLATION AND LECTURE, FEBRUARY, TBA
MIRANDA LASH, CURATOR OF CONTEMPORARY ART, NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART – LECTURE, TBA
FILM SCREENING: ARTIST FILM – TBA
KIANGA FORD, VISITING ARTIST – LECTURE, TBA + COMMUNITY MAPPING CHARETTE W/ STUDENTS + BELMONT ARTS CENTER
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Check out these links to learn more about the work of Won Ju Lim:
Won Ju Lim interview with Marnie Weber – Video
Time-Lapse Video of Baroque Pet Shop Installation at Patrick Painter
Art In America Review of Won Ju Lim’s Baroque Pet Shop by Annie Buckley
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For more information on the artist visit, skylarfein.tumblr.com or www.jonathanferraragallery.com.
BEAUTIFUL LOSERS celebrates the spirit behind one of the most influential cultural moments of a generation.
In the early 1990′s a loose-knit group of outsiders found common ground at a little NYC storefront gallery. Rooted in the DIY (do-it-yourself) subcultures of skateboarding, surf, punk, hip hop & graffiti, they made art that reflected the lifestyles they led. Developing their craft with almost no influence from the “establishment” art world, this group, and the subcultures they sprang from, have now become a movement that has been transforming pop culture.
Starring a selection of artists who are considered leaders within this culture, Beautiful Losers focuses on the telling of personal stories. It speaks to themes of what happens when the outside becomes “in” as it explores the creative ethos connecting these artists and today’s youth. Features Harmony Korine, Mike Mills, Shepard Fairey, Barry McGee, Margaret Kilgallen and more…
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