Nam June Paik: Liner Notes

SFMOMA
November 30 - December 2, 2017

Public programs in conjunction with "Nam June Paik: In Character."

Join us for a look at Nam June Paik’s collaborative approach to and influence on art-making. Curators Rachel Jans and Tanya Zimbardo will give introductory remarks, Joan Rothfuss will highlight Paik’s work with Charlotte Moorman, and Ed Halter and Rudolf Frieling — both 2017 Thoma Foundation Arts Writing Award in Digital Art recipients — will track Paik’s traces today. The evening begins with a screening of Jud Yalkut’s video realization of Moorman and Paik performing John Cage’s 26’1.1499” for a String Player. Speakers follow at 7 p.m.

Participants

Rudolf Frieling, curator of media arts at SFMOMA
Ed Halter, critic, curator, and a founder and director of Light Industry
Rachel Jans, assistant curator of painting and sculpture, SFMOMA (introduction)
Joan Rothfuss, independent writer, curator, and educator
Tanya Zimbardo, assistant curator of media arts, SFMOMA (introduction)

White Box / Black Box

500 Capp Street
September 28, 2017

Guest panelist; Speakers: Darlene Tong (Board Secretary, La Mamelle / Art Com) for an evening with Nancy Frank (Artist Curator, La Mamelle), Tanya Zimbardo (Assistant Curator of Media Arts, SFMOMA) and Sharon Grace (Artist and Professor Emerita at the San Francisco Art Institute).

White Box / Black Box will explore the historical milestones in the development of artist telecommunication projects, in relation to La Mamelle / Art Com, as well as other creative practitioners in the Bay Area. The evening will also celebrate the 40-year anniversary of the 1977 landmark project, Send/Receive, a live two-way satellite broadcast between New York and San Francisco. This groundbreaking art event, of which Sharon Grace and La Mamelle were crucial in organizing on the West Coast, was the first transcontinental artist TV project in the United States.

Susan Mogul: Comedy as a Backup

Guest organizer of talk and conversation. CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts.

November 15, 2015.

Los Angeles-based artist and filmmaker Susan Mogul presents and discusses her performances and performance-based videos made in the seventies and eighties that borrowed from the strategies of stand-up comedy and cabaret. Mogul’s work in this period often spoke to the financial situation of artists and the anxieties and desire for recognition that that produces. The talk is called "Comedy as a Backup".

Andrea Fraser’s performance Men on the Line was originally commissioned as part of a performance series inspired by the Woman’s Building in Los Angeles. A key participant in the feminist art movement on the West Coast, Mogul was a member of the Feminist Studio Workshop at the Woman’s Building, the subject of her 2010 short documentary film commissioned by Otis College of Art and Design.

This was the fifth event in a year-long season about and around the work of Andrea Fraser.

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Zimbardo