Past Events
João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva
Monday, March 8, 2010, 7:30 PM
Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue
www.anthologyfilmarchives.org
Described as "poetic philosophical fiction", João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva's 16mm films explore and interpret the uncanny through acts of magnetism, transference, and material transformation. Influenced by alchemy, science fiction, ethnography, and speculative philosophy, their silent films question the boundaries of the perceivable world through short, enigmatic scenarios. Having represented Portugal at last year's Venice Biennial, Gusmão and Paiva (collaborators since 2001) will present a selection of their highly suggestive meditations on the paranormal, including recently completed 35mm works.
Part of the SculptureCenter exhibition Leopards in the Temple, the filmmakers will be on hand.
SculptureCenter Armory Show Tour
Saturday, March 6, 2010, 11:00 AM
Member Event
This tour is now full, no further reservations can be accepted
Join SculptureCenter for an exclusive members-only tour of the Armory Show at Piers 92 and 94, on Saturday, March 6 at 11:00 AM. Led by ARTime co-founder and contemporary art historian Dorothea Basile, the tour will focus on sculpture, taking us from the Modern section at Pier 92 to this year's latest works on view at Pier 94's Contemporary section. If you are a SculptureCenter member and would like to RSVP, contact Erin Pierson at epierson@sculpture-center.org.
Morse Collection Visit
Tuesday, February 9, 2010, 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Member Event
Join us for a very special visit to the private collection of Barbara and Howard Morse. Barbara and Howard are passionate and informed collectors and patrons who were early supporters of Cady Noland, John Miller, Andrea Fraser and others. They rehang the collection in the Manhattan apartment regularly and this installation revolves around themes of seriality, appropriation, and representation and features work by Tom Burr, Ann Collier, Michael Krebber, Klara Liden, Josephine Pryde, and Seth Price among others.
Image: Tom Burr, propped perfume, 2008. Plywood, paint, steel hinges, steel thumbtacks, vintage magazine ads, steel cable, feather boa.
Silver and Salt
Monday, January 18, 2010, 7:30 PM
Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue
www.anthologyfilmarchives.org
Exploring the dissonance between object and image, Silver and Salt is a program of artists' films that avoid cinematic narrative. While narrative has become increasingly sophisticated and atomized within contemporary culture, this program presents alternative ways of relating to objects as images. From Nashashibi/Skaer's exploration of the Metropolitan Museum at night, Flash in the Metropolitan (2006), to the visual and linguistic interplay of John Smith's Associations (1975), this program highlights ruptures in the relationship between the filmed object and the image that it becomes. Marie Menken explores sculpture in four dimensions in Visual Variations on Noguchi (1945), Lois Rowe's Argument from Design (2006) constructs an absurdist monologue around a glass house, and Margaret Salmon's PS (2002) excavates the tensions of pastoral images and a sun-bleached suburbia.
Films selected by artist Lucy Skaer and curator Isla Leaver-Yap. A conversation with Skaer and Leaver-Yap follows the screening.
