Sunshine & Grease

This week at Sunshine & Grease and elsewhere. 1/06/10

By Pat.

Music improvised & otherwise:

Thursday June 3 at 8pm
Francis Plagne / David Palliser
2 Solos 1 Duo

Friday June 4 at 8 pm
Infinite Decimals – The sound of Numerals
Dylan Matorell – A little chaos
Eko Eko Azarak – Ritual
Dominic Kavanagh – Inventions.

Presented by Audio Actions

Saturday night, S&G will be attending the Branden W. Joseph lecture presented by RMIT school of architecture.

Saturday June 5 2010
Drinks: 6-6:30pm 8.12.01
Saturday night lecture 6:30-7:30pm 8.11.68 (Lecture Theatre)

BRANDEN W. JOSEPH
The Roh and the Cooked: Structural Film, Actionism, Paracinema

Branden W. Joseph will discuss the travels of Tony Conrad and Beverly
Grant throughout Europe in the early 1970s. Their itinerary, and the
transformations in Conrad’s work upon his return to the United States,
sheds light on the particular “crisis” of experimental cinema at the
time and the manner in which it was (temporarily) overcome. Revising
current understandings of the notion of there being “two
avant-gardes” (as Peter Wollen famously put it), an examination of
Conrad’s development and his interactions with Malcolm Le Grice,
Wilhelm and Birgit Hein, and Otto Muehl will outline another line of
avant-garde development. Drawn from Conrad’s personal archives and
other research, this talk covers material that is not included in the
author’s recent book, Beyond the Dream Syndicate: Tony Conrad and the
Arts after Cage.

Branden W. Joseph is Frank Gallipoli Professor of Modern and
Contemporary Art in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at
Columbia University and an editor of the journal Grey Room (MIT Press).

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