Perspicuous: Work on Space and Image

Exhibition


Perspicuous: Work on Space and Image

September 17-28 East Hall Gallery

Opening Reception and Artists' Talk: Monday, September 17th 6-8:30
Closing Reception and Student Presentations: Thursday, September 27th 5-8 pm

Sponsored by the Pratt Academic Senate and the Program in Critical and Visual Studies. Free and open to the public.

Download the exhibition poster at http://generality2.org/perspicuous/


"Perspicuous: Work on Space and Image," an interdisciplinary exhibition of work by current Pratt students and recent Pratt alumni, will open with an artists' talk and reception in the East Hall Gallery on Pratt's Brooklyn Campus on Monday, September 17, from 6:00-8:30 PM.
Curated by Kimberly Lamm, Assistant Professor of English and the
Program in Critical and Visual Studies, and designed by Charlotte
Noruzi, Adjunct Professor in Communications Design, the exhibition is
sponsored by the Academic Initiatives Committee of the Pratt Academic
Senate and the Program in Critical and Visual Studies.

The exhibition emerged from a series of conversations Michael Eng
organized and led as the Academic Initiatives Committee Chair during
the 2006-2007 academic year. Based on the idea of a "perspicuous
representation" by the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein,
Professor Eng invited Pratt faculty members, staff, and students to
articulate what concepts such as "communication," "space," "critical
thinking," and "image" mean, specifically, in their various fields and
disciplines. The exhibition "Perspicuous: Work on Space and Image" is
a conversation with and between Pratt students and their work, and
focuses on two of the concepts the AIC discussed the last academic
year: "space" and "image." The idea informing the exhibition is that
artwork not only represents space and image, but actually produces new
and singular ways in which these concepts can be thought and imagined.
In an earlier AIC discussion on "image" from this past spring
semester, Professor Eng described this practice as "keeping the future
of the concept open."

The exhibition runs until Friday, September 28. On Thursday, September
27 from 5-8 pm, there will be a closing reception that will feature
presentations by students from the Program in Critical and Visual
Studies and Pratt's Creative Writing Program. The exhibition and all
events associated with it are free and open to the public. A catalog,
designed by Charlotte Noruzi, will be available to exhibition
visitors.

For further information, contact Michael Eng (meng@pratt.edu) or Kimberly Lamm (klamm@pratt.edu)

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Michael Eng
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Program in Critical and Visual Studies
Department of Social Science and Cultural Studies
Pratt Institute

Mary Oliver, Performer, Multimedia Artist

Mary Oliver, performer, multimedia artist to Visit Pratt
November 13th Wednesday - NH 304
Amy Guggenheim's Time, Space, Drama Class 2-4:50

Faculty are warmly welcomed to stop by!

If interested in having your classes attend, or arranging Mary Oliver to present to your class, email Amy Guggenheim, by October 1st (and we will find a bigger venue!!)


“Wednesday, Wednesday”

In this double act Mary Oliver and ‘Mary Oliver’ perform a fast moving, visual comedy, which uses all the technical trickery of video, juxtaposed with the vaudevillian, wide-mouthed all singing all dancing character of traditional theatre. “Wednesday, Wednesday” was directly inspired by Auslander’s propositions on the collapse of the separation of live and mediatised forms of presentation and questions of presence, grotesque corporeality, and L'Oreal perfection versus the imperfect performer become a new source of humour. As the virtual Mary argues for her right to perform live, the real Mary has the ultimate power of the remote control.

UK based Mary Oliver has been a writer, director, and performer for over twenty years. Her solo career took off six years ago with her multimedia work “Mother Tongue” in which she simultaneously played all the members of her family.