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Francis Alys Sept 28, 1 of 3
Mexico City-based artist Francis Alÿs will present his animation Bolero, along with the 511 graphite drawings from which the animation is made, and Politics of Rehearsal, a 30-minute video that combines footage of a speech by President Truman, narration by critic Cuauhtémoc Medina, and a rehearsal for a striptease. Rehearsal parallels sociopolitical promises from Latin America with the tactics of a stripper—always leaving something to be desired.
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- Poetry Reading by Adam Zagajewski
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Sunday, November 22 at 2:00pm - Poetry Reading by Adam Zagajewski
The Renaissance Society at the Univ...
Sunday, November 22 at 2:00pm - Joe McPhee's Survival Unit
concert in Bond Chapel at 8, recept...
Monday, November 9 at 7:00pm - opening reception for Several ...
The Renaissance Society at the Univ...
Sunday, April 26 at 4:00pm - Concert by Ensemble Dal Niente...
Fulton Recital Hall, in Goodspeed H...
Tuesday, January 20 at 8:00pm - Concert by Teodoro Anzellotti ...
Bond Chapel (One building East of C...
Tuesday, December 9 at 8:00pm - Reception for Architect James ...
Kersten Physics Teaching Center at ...
Wednesday, November 19 at 3:00pm - Concert by Cellest Frances-Mar...
Bond Chapel (One building East of C...
Sunday, November 16 at 8:00pm - A lecture by John Cross
Cobb Hall room 409
Sunday, November 9 at 2:00pm - John Cage's "Speech"
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Wednesday, November 5 at 7:00pm
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- Chicago Reader's Best of 2009 12:29pm Feb 9
- Hyde Park - a google map by the Renaissance Society 2:14pm Oct 20
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Poetry Reading by Adam Zagajewski
Sunday Nov 22, 2009, 2 pm
Poet, novelist, essayist Adam Zagajewski, (born 1945) is considered one of the “Generation of ’68” or “New Wave” writers in Poland; his early work was protest poetry, though he has moved away from that emphasis in his later work. Writing of Zagajewski’s 1991 co...llection of poems, Canvas, poet and reviewer Robert Pinsky commented that the poems are “about the presence of the past in ordinary life: history not as chronicle of the dead, or an anima to be illuminated by some doctrine, but as an immense, sometimes subtle force inhering in what people see and feel every day—and in the ways we see and feel.” “Nothing could take the reader in a direction more contrary to today’s cult of the excitements of self than to follow Zagajewski as he unspools his seductive praise of serenity, sympathy, forbearance; of ‘the calm and courage of an ordinary life,’” wrote Susan Sontag.
Zagajewski has won the Prix de la Liberté as well as fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Berliner Kunstleprogramme. In 2004, he won the biennial Neustadt International Prize for Literature, often viewed as a precursor to the Nobel. He has taught at the University of Houston and the University of Chicago, among others. Zagajewski writes in Polish; many of his books of poetry and essays have been translated into English: Tremor (1985), Mysticism for Beginners (1997), and World Without End: New and Selected Poems (2002).
Time:2:00PM Sunday, November 22nd
Location:The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, 5811 South Ellis Avenue, Cobb Hall, 4th floor
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And while we're thinking about what the fall of the wall, read what Zizek has to say http://tinyurl.com/RSzizek and see d'Est by Chantal Ackerman at U of C Film Studies http://tinyurl.com/RSdesthttp:// and for more info www.filmref.com/directors/dirpages/akerm
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Critical analysis of landmark international and independent cinema-Chantal Akerman
The Renaissance Society Zagajewski: "Autumn is always too early. The peonies are still blooming, bees are still working out ideal states, and the cold bayonets of autumn suddenly glint in the fields and the wind rages...." reading on Nov 22, 2pm at The Renaissance Society
The Renaissance Society Renaissance Man of Sound: Joe McPhee’s Survival Unit III brings avant-garde jazz to Bond Chapel (pre-concert reception at The Ren at 7pm) http://tinyurl.com/RSjoenewcity
Renaissance Man of Sound: Joe McPhee’s Survival Unit III brings avant-garde jazz to Bond Chapel | Th
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Joe McPhee is a Renaissance man of sound. The 70-year-old horn and reed player’s versatility has made him one of the free music community’s most cherished
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The 8 pm concert will be preceeded by a reception in the gallery at The Renaissance Society, at 5811 South Ellis Avenue, 4th floor, from 7 to 8pm.
"We're all survivors, and perhaps the message here is that we need to get our individual voices heard and not become reticent when matters go awry. McPhee and his band mates... execute a spiritual cleansing process, teeming with vivid dialogues and multilayered textures. An eventful and undeniably persuasive listening experience it is."
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Concert and preconcert reception
Time:7:00PM Monday, November 9th
Location:concert in Bond Chapel at 8, reception at The Renaissance Society at 7pm
The Renaissance Society Mon Nov 9, 8pm Joe McPhee concert in Bond, pre-concert reception at The Ren at 7pm. As always, free. http://tinyurl.com/RSmcph
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The Renaissance Society will present an exhibition of new work by photographer Allan Sekula. This new series, titled Polonia and Other Fables, critically documents and examines the social impact of global economics. Always aiming to p...
The Renaissance Society RenSoc is joining http://www.britannica.com/blogs/ Look out for posts about contemporary art!
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Britannica Blog is a place for smart, lively conversations about a broad range of topics. Art, science, history, current events – it’s all grist for the mill. We’ve given our writers encouragement and a lot of freedom, so the opinions here are theirs, not the company’s. ...
The Renaissance Society Before tonight's concert by Hans Koch, drop by to see Allan Sekula's exhibit "Polonia..." from 7 to 8pm. http://tinyurl.com/RSnovevents
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The Renaissance Society will present an exhibition of new work by photographer Allan Sekula. This new series, titled Polonia and Other Fables, critically documents and examines the social impact of global economics. Always aiming to p...
The Renaissance Society film/discussion series on the 20th anniversary of the transitions marking the end of the Cold War http://tinyurl.com/cis1989RS
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The series is cosponsored by the International House Global Voices Program, Doc Films, and the Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies.
The Renaissance Society YANG FUDONG in Reversed Images: Representations of Shanghai and Its Contemporary Material Culture at MoCP until Dec 23 and http://tinyurl.com/fudongRS in 2004 at The Renaissance Society.
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Olivo Barbieri, Shanghai, 2001 from NSFE series, Courtesy of Howard Stein Joy of Giving Something and Yancey Richardson Gallery
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Sekula "What’s interesting is what one makes of the fact that the United States
is able to mobilize other countries to assist it in circumventing its
own laws and often in violation of the laws of the country that is
assisting, and all of this is happening in secret. The Polish
government doesn’t admit that any of this hap...pened, and the American
government admits it happens, but won’t say where. It exists in a gray
zone of acknowledgment and non acknowledgment—it’s part of the politics
of the moment."
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BW Your previous photographic work deals a lot with issues pertaining to globalization—photos of people that are explicitly and intentionally political. “Polonia” is different. I like to think that lately, ...
See MoreThe Renaissance Society Michael Zerang composed the music for Redmoon's Hunchback. Cool!Zerang plays with Joe McPhee's Survival Unit (Joe McPhee, saxophone; Fred Lonberg-Holm, cello; Michael Zerang, percussion) Mon, Nov 9, 20098:00 pm Bond Chapel (1050 East 59th Street) at the U of C Admission FREE
The Renaissance Society Katharina Grosse at the Denver Museum of Art http://tinyurl.com/DMAgrosse opens Nov14 (group show)
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The work of Dusseldorf-based artist Katharina Grosse (b. 1961, Germany) presses against or explodes the confines of the painterly tradition. Engaging a range of surfaces, including aluminum, canvas, paper, and existing architectural elements, Gr...
The Renaissance Society The new book about Katharina Grosse's installation at The Ren is available for purchase
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The work of Dusseldorf-based artist Katharina Grosse (b. 1961, Germany) presses against or explodes the confines of the painterly tradition. Engaging a range of surfaces, including aluminum, canvas, paper, and existing architectural elements, Gr...
