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4454 Woodward Ave. Detroit MI 48201
Saturday, November 28 at 7:00pm
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Prepping for short films tonight ... getting 'jazzed'. It's going to be delicious! Boob-Funk-Hydro-Heart-Sputnik-Ledo-Ix-So
Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD The schedule has been announced and this weekend's Shadowbox Cinema program, curated by the good people at the Ann Arbor Film Festival and MOCAD, promises to be an exciting one. $6 for a 90 minute international festival of short films is a fantastic bargain. Films begin at 7PM sharp! We hope to see you all then.
Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD Led by Davin Brainard and Sarah Lapinski
Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD Preparing for Family Day in 1 hour! Robots, Space Aliens and you! As led by Davin Brainard and Sarah Lapinski. FREE! Come on down from 12noon to 4PM.
Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD Getting 'jazzed' for this evening's poetry reading at 7PM! Hosted by Tyrone Williams, who curated this seasons series, tonight's reading features Brenda Iijima (of Brooklyn, NY) and Taylor Brady (of Sanfrancisco, Ca.) ... of course. MOCAD's fresh cafe opens for service at 6PM. This event is free and open to the public.
Paul Dennison
What is the meaning of this? I enjoy art, but the words modern and contemporary seem to have taken on a special meaning in the art world-- a world about which, I am embarrassed to say, I know very little.
Will someone provide clarity:
This isn't one of those museums that features 'art', where, for instance, a pile of di...rt on a mirror is considered a masterpiece? I don't subscribe to such snafus. I hope this is an art museum, not a snafu emporium. I love art museums and art in general, and Detroit could use more of itRead More
Will someone provide clarity:
This isn't one of those museums that features 'art', where, for instance, a pile of di...rt on a mirror is considered a masterpiece? I don't subscribe to such snafus. I hope this is an art museum, not a snafu emporium. I love art museums and art in general, and Detroit could use more of itRead More
Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD
Make your own robot costume or space man outfit, as Detroit artists Davin Brainard and Sarah Lapinski lead this costume workshop for children of all ages. MOCAD provides the materials and your children provide their own ideas to create the perfect space travel gear or a menacing, shiny robot. Recycled materials will be used and there will be plenty of space for your “aliens” to invade.
Admission is FREE!
Robots and Space Invaders!
Time:12:00PM Sunday, November 15th
Location:Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit
Tony Cejmer Looking forward to any and all information in the coming months from MOCAD.
Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD
hosted and curated by Tyrone Williams
MOCAD's Fall Poetry series begins next Saturday
Saturday November 14th at 7PM
Taylor Brady / Brenda Iijima
MOCAD cafe is open for service at 6PM
This event is free of charge.
Taylor Brady was born in Dunedin, Florida in 1972 and currently lives in San Francisco, where he is active in the... Nonsite Collective. His first chapbook, Is Placed/Leaves, appeared in 1996 from Meow Books in Buffalo. For the past five years he has been writing an extended serial poem, To Not, whose parts include lyric, prose poetry, a novel, and a series of short essays. Sections of this project have appeared in journals, and in the recent chapbook 33549 (Leroy Books, 2000). Microclimates is the first book-length section of the To Not project. Currently he is editing the collected essays of Will Alexander, and is working on a new novel entitled, The Block Party.
Brenda Iijima is the author of Animate, Inanimate Aims (Litmus, 2007) and Around Sea (O Books, 2004). She is currently the editor of Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs. She is editing a collection of essays by poets concerning poetry and ecological ethics titled )((eco (lang)(uage(reader). She is the art editor at Boog City - a newspaper and online source for artists and poets in East Village - and she is a visual artist. She lives in Brooklyn, New York and teaches at Cooper Union.
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MOCAD's Fall Poetry series begins next Saturday
Saturday November 14th at 7PM
Taylor Brady / Brenda Iijima
MOCAD cafe is open for service at 6PM
This event is free of charge.
Taylor Brady was born in Dunedin, Florida in 1972 and currently lives in San Francisco, where he is active in the... Nonsite Collective. His first chapbook, Is Placed/Leaves, appeared in 1996 from Meow Books in Buffalo. For the past five years he has been writing an extended serial poem, To Not, whose parts include lyric, prose poetry, a novel, and a series of short essays. Sections of this project have appeared in journals, and in the recent chapbook 33549 (Leroy Books, 2000). Microclimates is the first book-length section of the To Not project. Currently he is editing the collected essays of Will Alexander, and is working on a new novel entitled, The Block Party.
Brenda Iijima is the author of Animate, Inanimate Aims (Litmus, 2007) and Around Sea (O Books, 2004). She is currently the editor of Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs. She is editing a collection of essays by poets concerning poetry and ecological ethics titled )((eco (lang)(uage(reader). She is the art editor at Boog City - a newspaper and online source for artists and poets in East Village - and she is a visual artist. She lives in Brooklyn, New York and teaches at Cooper Union.
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Time:7:00PM Saturday, November 14th
Location:Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD)
Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD
READING:
Saturday, November 28, 2009 at 7PM
Fall ’09 literary series curated by Tyrone Williams
Arnold J. Kemp and Kim Hunter
This event is free and open to the public.
MOCAD cafe opens for service at 6PM
Artist and writer, Arnold J. Kemp has lived and worked in New York City, San Francisco and, most recently, in Portland, O...r. where he is Chair of the Master's of Fine Arts in Visual Studies program. His work has been collected and exhibited by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Studio Museum in Harlem and at the at the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art's Time-Based Art Festival, where he has also acted as a curator of exhibitions. Kemp was the Associate Curator at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts from 1993 - 2003. His writing has appeared in Callaloo, Three Rivers Poetry Journal, Agni Review, Mirage #4/ Period(ical), River Styx and Nocturnes.
Detroit born poet, Kim Hunter has been a factory worker, a security guard, a middle school teacher and a street-level, outreach worker. He has served as Poet-in-Residence in branches of the Detroit Public Library, Boysville (a facility for adjudicated youth) in Monroe, Michigan and Crosman Alternative High School in Detroit (under the auspices of the Inside/Out program). Hunter has read with such artists as Kathy Acker and Gil Scott Heron. His work has appeared in a variety of journals including Triage, Hipology, MetroTimes, Dispatch, Graffiti Rag and +R (Plus D'art). Past Tents Press published Hunter's first collection of poems, borne on slow knives, in 2001. Hunter makes his living by working for the man as a regional media team leader for the U.S. Census Bureau, and helps run the Woodward Line monthly poetry series.Read More
Saturday, November 28, 2009 at 7PM
Fall ’09 literary series curated by Tyrone Williams
Arnold J. Kemp and Kim Hunter
This event is free and open to the public.
MOCAD cafe opens for service at 6PM
Artist and writer, Arnold J. Kemp has lived and worked in New York City, San Francisco and, most recently, in Portland, O...r. where he is Chair of the Master's of Fine Arts in Visual Studies program. His work has been collected and exhibited by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Studio Museum in Harlem and at the at the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art's Time-Based Art Festival, where he has also acted as a curator of exhibitions. Kemp was the Associate Curator at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts from 1993 - 2003. His writing has appeared in Callaloo, Three Rivers Poetry Journal, Agni Review, Mirage #4/ Period(ical), River Styx and Nocturnes.
Detroit born poet, Kim Hunter has been a factory worker, a security guard, a middle school teacher and a street-level, outreach worker. He has served as Poet-in-Residence in branches of the Detroit Public Library, Boysville (a facility for adjudicated youth) in Monroe, Michigan and Crosman Alternative High School in Detroit (under the auspices of the Inside/Out program). Hunter has read with such artists as Kathy Acker and Gil Scott Heron. His work has appeared in a variety of journals including Triage, Hipology, MetroTimes, Dispatch, Graffiti Rag and +R (Plus D'art). Past Tents Press published Hunter's first collection of poems, borne on slow knives, in 2001. Hunter makes his living by working for the man as a regional media team leader for the U.S. Census Bureau, and helps run the Woodward Line monthly poetry series.Read More
Fall '09 literary series curated by Tyrone Williams with readings by Arnold J. Kemp (Portland, OR) and Kim Hunter (Detroit, MI)
Time:7:00PM Saturday, November 28th
Location:4454 Woodward Ave. Detroit MI 48201
Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD
FILM: the Ann Arbor Film Festival and MOCAD present Shadowbox Cinema
Admission: $6.00
MOCAD is proud to present the premiere screening of Shadbowbox Cinema, a hand-picked selection of short films spanning the wide-eyed world of new indie and underground cinema. Shadowbox Cinema will present “animated doses of disillusion...ment, experimental uppercuts of individualism, surreal excursions, and pulsating stories that may detonate upon contact. The AAFF& MOCAD co-curated this special program with recent films never-before-screened by the Ann Arbor Film Festival. All of the films will be strong contenders, but there will be only one champion as the audience decides which film wins a cash prize.
The entire program is 90 minutes and will be screened as follows
Films to be shown are as follows:
The Adventures of Ledo & Ix ~ Emily Carmichael ~ New York, NY ~ 5 minutes ~ 2008 ~ Machinima/Animation.
In many ways, Ledo and Ix are just like us. Sleeping under the stars makes them philosophical. Sometimes they wonder if they should have chosen different careers. They avoid dens of monsters when possible. But in one crucial way, they're different--they're fantasy adventurers in an extremely small-scale video game epic.
Heart Squared ~ Mizuho Endo ~ New York, NY ~ 9 minutes ~ 2007 ~ Experimental/Animation
A live-action cartoon and an experimental dance comedy. In a square world where everyone must know their angle; a copy shop worker named '4' finds that her shadow is dancing to the beat of a different drum.
Southern Exposure ~ Susan Chien ~ Boston, MA ~ 5 minutes ~ 2008 ~ Documentary/Animation
A young Chinese-American woman is forced by her family to go to pharmacy school, despite her lack of interest in pursuing medicine or science. To pay off her student loans she moves to a small rural town in the South and misunderstandings, both humorous and painful, unfold.
The Funk ~ Melanie Coombs ~ Fitzroy, Australia ~ 7 minutes ~ 2008 ~ Experimental/NarrativeJack woke up in a Funk one day. No one really knows how it started.
PAL/SECAM ~ Dmitry Povolotsky ~ New York, NY ~ 15 minutes ~ 2008 ~ NarrativeAt the dawn of Perestroika, little Boris, ravaged by hormones, seduces the neighborhood with his mother's VCR.
Terminus ~ Trevor Cawood ~ Vancouver, Canada ~ 9 minutes ~ 2007 ~ Experimental/Narrative
After inadvertently offending a strange entity that accosts him on his way to work, a 1970s businessman quickly finds himself in the midst of a bizarre predicament.
Hydro-Levesque ~ Matthew Rankin ~ Montreal, Canada ~ 16 minutes ~ 2008 ~ Experimental/Narrative
On the night of Rene Levesque’s sovereign victory in 1976, a deaf mute Catholic nun is drawn away from the jubilation by a paranormal cry for help from the faraway city of Winnipeg. Leaving her happy nation behind, she ventures forth to discover a crazed and inconsolable Winnpeg, festering on the brink of mass suicide.
Shor (Noise) ~ Krishna DK ~ India & USA ~ 14 minutes ~ 2008 ~ Narrative
On a train in India two boys steal the backpack of a sleeping man, and what they find inside the bag kindles a reckless attempt to dispose of the contents.
The Story of Sputnik ~ John Harden ~ Santa Rosa, CA ~ 7 minutes ~ 2008 ~ Performance/NarrativeOstensibly an educational film about the first artificial satellite, the film quickly derails into a stream-of-consciousness ramble on Russians, the cold war and Charlton Heston. May actually contain facts. Definitely contains some little cartoons.
Boob ~ Honest ~ New York, NY ~ 3 minutes ~ 2008 ~ Narrative
A doctor performs an experimental procedure designed to remotely enhance a woman’s breast size… when an unfortunate surge of electricity brings her boob to life! Run, Boob, run!
Total program runtime: 90 minutes.Read More
Admission: $6.00
MOCAD is proud to present the premiere screening of Shadbowbox Cinema, a hand-picked selection of short films spanning the wide-eyed world of new indie and underground cinema. Shadowbox Cinema will present “animated doses of disillusion...ment, experimental uppercuts of individualism, surreal excursions, and pulsating stories that may detonate upon contact. The AAFF& MOCAD co-curated this special program with recent films never-before-screened by the Ann Arbor Film Festival. All of the films will be strong contenders, but there will be only one champion as the audience decides which film wins a cash prize.
The entire program is 90 minutes and will be screened as follows
Films to be shown are as follows:
The Adventures of Ledo & Ix ~ Emily Carmichael ~ New York, NY ~ 5 minutes ~ 2008 ~ Machinima/Animation.
In many ways, Ledo and Ix are just like us. Sleeping under the stars makes them philosophical. Sometimes they wonder if they should have chosen different careers. They avoid dens of monsters when possible. But in one crucial way, they're different--they're fantasy adventurers in an extremely small-scale video game epic.
Heart Squared ~ Mizuho Endo ~ New York, NY ~ 9 minutes ~ 2007 ~ Experimental/Animation
A live-action cartoon and an experimental dance comedy. In a square world where everyone must know their angle; a copy shop worker named '4' finds that her shadow is dancing to the beat of a different drum.
Southern Exposure ~ Susan Chien ~ Boston, MA ~ 5 minutes ~ 2008 ~ Documentary/Animation
A young Chinese-American woman is forced by her family to go to pharmacy school, despite her lack of interest in pursuing medicine or science. To pay off her student loans she moves to a small rural town in the South and misunderstandings, both humorous and painful, unfold.
The Funk ~ Melanie Coombs ~ Fitzroy, Australia ~ 7 minutes ~ 2008 ~ Experimental/NarrativeJack woke up in a Funk one day. No one really knows how it started.
PAL/SECAM ~ Dmitry Povolotsky ~ New York, NY ~ 15 minutes ~ 2008 ~ NarrativeAt the dawn of Perestroika, little Boris, ravaged by hormones, seduces the neighborhood with his mother's VCR.
Terminus ~ Trevor Cawood ~ Vancouver, Canada ~ 9 minutes ~ 2007 ~ Experimental/Narrative
After inadvertently offending a strange entity that accosts him on his way to work, a 1970s businessman quickly finds himself in the midst of a bizarre predicament.
Hydro-Levesque ~ Matthew Rankin ~ Montreal, Canada ~ 16 minutes ~ 2008 ~ Experimental/Narrative
On the night of Rene Levesque’s sovereign victory in 1976, a deaf mute Catholic nun is drawn away from the jubilation by a paranormal cry for help from the faraway city of Winnipeg. Leaving her happy nation behind, she ventures forth to discover a crazed and inconsolable Winnpeg, festering on the brink of mass suicide.
Shor (Noise) ~ Krishna DK ~ India & USA ~ 14 minutes ~ 2008 ~ Narrative
On a train in India two boys steal the backpack of a sleeping man, and what they find inside the bag kindles a reckless attempt to dispose of the contents.
The Story of Sputnik ~ John Harden ~ Santa Rosa, CA ~ 7 minutes ~ 2008 ~ Performance/NarrativeOstensibly an educational film about the first artificial satellite, the film quickly derails into a stream-of-consciousness ramble on Russians, the cold war and Charlton Heston. May actually contain facts. Definitely contains some little cartoons.
Boob ~ Honest ~ New York, NY ~ 3 minutes ~ 2008 ~ Narrative
A doctor performs an experimental procedure designed to remotely enhance a woman’s breast size… when an unfortunate surge of electricity brings her boob to life! Run, Boob, run!
Total program runtime: 90 minutes.Read More
The Ann Arbor Film Fesival and MOCAD present Shadowbox Cinema
Time:7:00PM Saturday, November 21st
Location:4454 Woodward Ave. Detroit MI 48201
Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD Is everyone coming to tomorrow's event at MOCAD? Lac La Belle CD release with the Sugarcoats !!! It's gonna be awesome! Here's a nice article the MetroTimes wrote about it.
Source: metrotimes.com
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Model D photographer Marvin Shaouni braved a party pleasantly entitled "You're Gonna Die!" over the weekend. The annual Halloween fest at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit is visual feast of spectacular spectrals, and getting more popular each year. ...
