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Lecture by Christine Hill
Presented as part of the Grad Fine Arts Satellite Lecture SeriesWednesday, February 15, 2012, 7–9 pm
When Christine Hill presented her Volksboutique in Kassel, Germany as part of Documenta X, she had already begun to develop a form of art practice that reflected on the condition of being an artist. Hill’s reappraisal of the artist’s role was based on a variety of other minor parts she adopted (she is listed in the Documenta catalogue as a masseuse, a concessions girl, a rock singer, a shoe shiner, a striptease dancer). Each new temporary identity is a service provider through which Hill investigates their potential as an art presence – an exploratory ground upon which Volksboutique was founded as a site where she could ‘deal with service, interaction, the portrayal and assumption of roles, the generation of conversation between individuals and the information therein.
Working out of the legacies of the ‘Happenings’ environment and its theatricality, Pop Art’s commodification of the art object and its space of consumption, and Joseph Beuys’ unification of art and life through his model of'social sculpture', Hill exceeds each. In the process she proposes new roles for viewers (as consumers, tourists, members of a television audience), redefines exhibition spaces (as stores, studios, catwalks) and reinvents a mobile artistic identity (whether as a show host, store owner or tour guide).
Hill has exhibited and lectured widely. Recent solo exhibitions include Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York; Galerie EIGEN+ART, Berlin; the Museum of Contemporary Art Leipzig; the MigrosMuseum in Zurich and the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin. She was included in documenta X in 1997, and has participated in numerous international group exhibitions. Her work has been reviewed extensively in publications such as Artforum, The New York Times, The Village Voice, Art in America and in significant international publications. The Volksboutique Style Manual is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. The Volksboutique project Minutes was included in the 2007 Venice Biennale under the curation of Robert Storr. A forthcoming review of Volksboutique sculptural work will be shown at the New Museum in Weimar, Germany in April 2012.
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Epiphanies in the Dark: Anne Colvin
Presented by Grad Fine Arts Satellite Lecture SeriesThursday, February 16, 2012, 6:30–9:30 pm
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Anne Colvin weaves together fragments from her video work--ripped apart film, dance and sound footage altered and transformed to create existential filmic experiences -- with spoken word and music into a collage of quiet and intense moments. Epiphanies in the Dark is a playlist, a performance, a meditation and an event. It includes amongst others her newest piece Miss Calpurnia, The Audition which was recently included in Long Play: Bruce Conner and the Singles Collection at SFMOMA and The Kids Play Russian from her fictional dance company Vladimar and Rosa.
Colvin will read Pasolini's Triumph of the Night, LA-based poet Stuart Krimko's The Forged Coupon (from a chapbook collaboration with Colvin) and her own Purple Stains the Heart. These words will be punctuated by strains of Steve Reich's It's Gonna Rain (Part11)', Go Away by The Raincoats and Bert Jansch's Angie.
Colvin is a Scottish artist based in San Francisco who works with the moving image and also explores the space between publishing and performance. Colvin's work has been shown internationally in museums, galleries and biennales such as SFMOMA, Gavin Brown's Enterprise (NYC), Mare Street Biennale (London), Matt's Gallery, London and Lowsalt Gallery (Glasgow).
Her curatorial and publishing projects have been presented at Berkeley Art Museum, NY Art Book fair (in conjunction with White Columns), Poetic Research Bureau (LA), Frieze Art Fair (with Owl Books), New Langton Arts (San Francisco) and at her own project space TART which she ran from 2004-2008. TART is included in Maurizio Cattelan's Charley Independents book No Soul for Sale.
Colvin has written for Frieze and Art Practical and is the Bay Area contributor for London-based moving image organization LUX. She is currently working on a piece inspired by Margaret Tait, the internationally renowned Scottish film-maker and poet and on a set for Valdimar and Rosa's new production Charlotte and Her Boyfriend.
Anne brings a great sense of hybrid artistic performance to any space...
– Rudolf Frieling, Media Curator, SFMOMA
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