Featuring Work by Thomas Demand, Stan Douglas, Christian Marclay, and
Jeff Wall, with Performances by Sharon Hayes, Joan Jonas, and Tris
Vonna-
Michell and a Symposium on Performance June 17–18
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Exhibition: |
Haunted:
Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance |
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Location: |
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue, New York |
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Venue: |
Full Rotunda and all ramps; Annex Levels 5 and 7 |
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Dates: |
Rotunda: March 26-September 6,
2010 |
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(NEW YORK, NY – June 3, 2010) –– On June 4, the Solomon R. Guggenheim
Museum opens two additional galleries to complete its presentation of
the full-rotunda
exhibition Haunted:
Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance.
Newly featured works by Thomas Demand, Stan Douglas, Christian
Marclay,
and Jeff Wall as well as live performances by Sharon Hayes, Joan
Jonas, and
Tris Vonna-Michell extend the exhibition’s investigation into themes
of
memory, trauma, repetition, and appropriation through the use of
reproductive
media. Ongoing public programs including a symposium on performance
on
June 17–18 will complement the exhibition.
Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/ Performance is organized by Jennifer Blessing, Curator of Photography, and Nat Trotman, Associate Curator.
This exhibition is made possible by the International Director’s Council of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Additional support is provided by grants from The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation and the William Talbott Hillman Foundation. The Leadership Committee for Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video Performance is gratefully acknowledged.
The schedule for performances and summer public programs offered in
conjunction with Haunted is as follows:
The
Elaine Terner Cooper Education Fund
Conversations with Contemporary Artists
Stan Douglas
Wed, June 9, 6:30 pm
Artist Stan Douglas (b. 1960, Vancouver) will speak about his work.
Douglas
uses forms of popular entertainment—cinema and television—to
destabilize
narratives that depict society as a unified, homogeneous front with
one history,
one set of desires, and one value system. His film installation Der Sandmann
(1995), on view in Haunted, investigates the intersection of
history and
memory as witnessed against the backdrop of post–Cold War Germany.
Projected as two separate but intersecting 16mm films that show a
community
garden in use during the 1970s and as a construction site some 20
years later,Der Sandmann contemplates temporality and the
transformative effects of
history. Following the program, guests are invited to enjoy a private
exhibition
viewing and reception. Tickets are $10, $7 for members, and free for
students.
For tickets, visit guggenheim.org/publicprograms, or call
the Box Office at 212
423 3587.
Thinking
Performance at the Guggenheim
Artist Performance by Joan Jonas
Thurs, June 17, 8 pm
Symposium
Fri, June 18, 2 pm
Five years after the groundbreaking (Re)Presenting
Performance symposium
held at the Guggenheim Museum, artists, curators, and theorists
gather to
discuss issues manifested in recent performance-based work presented
at the
Guggenheim. Covering topics including site specificity, live action,
the place
of memory, and the role of the document, focused presentations
provide an
opportunity to think deeply about specific practices in contemporary
art. To
inaugurate the symposium, Joan Jonas (b. 1936, New York) re-presents
her
seminal 1969 performance Mirror
Piece I, newly expanded
specifically for the
Guggenheim’s Frank Lloyd Wright–designed rotunda. Symposium
participants
include Marina Abramović, Claire Bishop, Jennifer Blessing, Chrissie
Iles,
Joan Jonas, Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Susan Philipsz, Rebecca Schneider,
Nancy Spector, and Nat Trotman. Tickets are $30, $20 for members, and
$10 for
students. For tickets, visit guggenheim.org/publicprograms or call
the Box
Office 212 423 3587.
Artist
Performance by Sharon Hayes
Sat, July 24, 3–7:45 pm
Sharon Hayes (b. 1970, Baltimore) uses video, installation, and
performance to
delve into the politics of language, desire, and protest, as manifest
in both
personal and public realms. Through a practice of “respeaking,” her
work
highlights uncanny instances of resonance between recorded historical
texts
and our present political moment. As part of Haunted, Hayes will stage a
unique sonic event on the Guggenheim’s Rotunda floor in which she
will act as
a DJ, spinning vintage spoken-word records that refer to moments from
throughout the history of the twentieth century. Free with museum
admission.
Artist
Performance by Tris Vonna-Michell
Thurs, July 29, 7 pm and 8 pm
The performance work of Tris Vonna-Michell (b. 1982, Rochford,
England)
unleashes a barrage of words and images that mine the boundaries of
personal
memory and narrative fiction. His live, uninterrupted soliloquys,
accompanied
by 35mm slide projections from his personal archive, often take the
form of
erratic travelogues that rapidly plunge into alliteration and free
association,
intertwining history and autobiography. For Haunted, Vonna-Michell will
perform recent work in an intimate setting just off the museum’s
spiraling
ramps. Tickets are limited; further information to be announced soon.
Guggenheim
Forum: On Repeat
Mon, June 21–Fri, June 25
Live chat: Thurs, June 24, 3 pm
Guggenheim Forum is a continuing series of moderated online
discussions inviting visitors to Guggenheim.org to consider the opinions
of a panel of experts, engage in commentary, and participate in a live
chat session.
This installment of
Guggenheim Forum takes up repetition as cultural and artistic motif.
As
conventionally imagined, modernity is tied to the idea of invention.
But that
impulse has been counterbalanced by one toward repetition and a
return to
the past. Our panel asks whether modern times are
obsessive-compulsive;
whether our psyches really require us to reenact traumatic events;
why
reenactment has become an important device in contemporary art; and
how the
relationship to repetition varies across creative mediums. The
conversation will
be moderated by Simon During, author of Exit
Capitalism: Literary Culture, Theory and Post-Secular Modernity (2010). Panelists include Drew
Daniel,
author of 20 Jazz Funk Greats (2008) and member of
experimental-music
group Matmos; John Malpede, founder of the Los Angeles Poverty
Department; and Amy Taubin, contributing editor of Film Comment and Sight
and Sound, and author of Taxi Driver
(2008), a BFI Film Classics book. To
participate, visit guggenheim.org/forum.
Artist films presented for Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance will be screened every Friday in July and August in the New Media Theatre. For more information, visit guggenheim.org/publicprograms.
Additional educational programs including gallery tours and family activities are being presented under the auspices of the Sackler Center for Arts Education throughout the showing of Haunted. For updated information regarding programs, visit guggenheim.org/education.
VISITOR INFORMATION
Admission: Adults $18, students/seniors
(65+) $15, members and children
under 12 free. Admission includes an audio tour of Haunted,
available in
English, and of highlights of the Guggenheim’s permanent collection,
available
in English, Spanish, French, German, and Italian.
Museum
Hours: Sun–Wed, 10 am–5:45
pm; Fri, 10 am–5:45 pm; Sat, 10 am–
7:45 pm; closed Thurs. On Saturdays, beginning at 5:45 pm, the museum
hosts
Pay What You Wish. For general information, call 212 423 3500 or
visit guggenheim.org.
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June 3, 2010
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