SOMETHING is HAPPENING

Tripping the Protozoic

Sybil Wendler — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 08:11:49 +0000

Utilizing the connective structure of an Exquisite Corpse exercise, Sybil Wendler will ask the audience to illustrate, via drawings or performances, the participatory elements of being in a gathering, the dynamics of shared space, of shared observations, of moving like a large organism with multiple parts, synchronized and elemental in behavior. The group will be placed in pods of 3 people and should draw, or react, to verbal cues given by her. The drawings will be collected at the end.

Sybil Wendler’s Bio

Sybil Wendler — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 08:07:01 +0000

Sybil Wendler has been involved with the San Diego Museum of Art from 2002 to 2008. Ever curious and fortified with inexhaustible energy, she multi-tasked as guest curator, project manager, lecturer, docent and curatorial bottle-washer. She was involved in the organization of exhibitions that include “Inside the Wave,” “Josef Albers and his Students – Theory and Practice,” “Animated Painting,” and “The Art of Roberto Matta and Gordon Matta-Clark.” Recent published works include “Ring” (Aspect Magazine, 2008) and “Ann Lislegaard” (Animated Painting exhibition catalogue, 2007).

Arousing the Imagination

Niklaus Largier — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:43:33 +0000

Niklaus Largier will discuss the history of flagellation in terms of pornographic and sex practices, accompanied by a performative staging and an ‘arousal performance’ by members of The Public School.

Experiences of Mortality

Alphonso Lingis — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:39:24 +0000

Anxiety, Abandon, Suffering, Becoming a Corpse

Contact

Norman — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:23:06 +0000

Close contact: caresses. Contact over distance: tact.

Collaboration between Alphonso Lingis and Norman Bryson.

Outside

Alphonso Lingis — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 05:24:07 +0000

Humans and jellyfish. Just look at our feet: they are long and set parallel, made to move on

To Have Been Dangerous

Alphonso Lingis — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 05:18:52 +0000

We do not know what happens, what is, if we do not know great joys, great pains.

Zac Monday’s Bio

Zac Monday — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:34:52 +0000

Zac Monday is a recent graduate from the VCU Sculpture Department in Richmond, Virginia. He is currently seeking his MFA from the Visual Arts program at UCSD so he can take over the Art World. His work is specific to a new kind of museum/gallery experience; one in which the work is interactive and physical. His tasks are to analyze particular scenes in which the body is given a choice: to be aggressive or passive or even indecisive when encountering nameless, foreign obstacles. These presently take the form of hand-crocheted behemoths and other such mystical and shamanistic creatures. He is working to create- yet also to perceive his own knowledge of human interaction, and what pilots physical choice in emotional experiences.

Art Tap-Out

David — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:40:37 +0000

Art Tap Out is a live critique of four artists’ work in a ring that references forms of head to head combat such as boxing, Ultimate fighting and dog or cock fighting. Each artist has one twenty minute round against the critic/collaborator Kevin Freitas. Audience participation is strongly encouraged. As the ‘owner’ of the space I play the role of referee, keeping the discourse above the belt. See you at the fights!

Becoming Dragon

Micha Cardenas — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:37:04 +0000

Becoming Dragon questions the one-year requirement of Real Life Experience that transgender people must fulfill in order to receive Gender Confirmation Surgery (Sexual Reassignment Surgery), and asks if this could be replaced by one year of Second Life Experience to lead to Species Reassignment Surgery.