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CULTURAL/EVENTS AGENDA
FEBRUARY 2009
This agenda presents a selection of French or French-related events in the Midwest.
For a complete calendar of events for the French and French-speaking associations
in your area, please visit their respective web sites.
Agenda culturel pour la région de Chicago / Cultural Agenda for the Chicago area: "LIAISON" |
February 20 at 7:00 pm. Les Lutins du Court Métrage
A short film competiton where more than 2,000 internationl cinema porfessionals vote to determine the 25 best films of the year. Les lutins du court métrage reveals the young directors, actors and actresses who will be making the award-winning films of tomorrow. For reservation information call the Alliance Francaise at 312.337.1070 |
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February 5 through June, 7 Art.
This witty, intelligent and often funny play by Yasmina Reza explores the power of art to engage the imagination and the enduring bonds of friendship. It explores the intricacies of a long-term friendship between three men. When one of them drops a fortune on a piece of modern art, his friends' surprising reactions touch off a series of personal confrontations.
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Through April 5, 2009: Expo Jean Luc Mylayne at Krannert Art Museum
Jean Luc Mylayne and his wife and co-collaborator, Mylène, have spent six months of each year since 2004 traveling throughout the Fort Davis, Texas area. A rugged and wild place nestled in the landscape of the Davis Mountains, it is a way station on the migration routes of animals and birds—specifically Eastern, Western, and Mountain Bluebirds. |
| Although Mylayne’s artistic practice involves capturing images of these birds, he is not by any means a conventional wildlife photographer: his art goes far beyond the simple documentation of various species and habitats. Rather, his work embodies a philosophical meditation on the nature of being in the world. This exhibition presents a ground-breaking look at the process of visual perception. Complete Information. |
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The Beethoven Project Trio performs
A BEETHOVEN WORLD PREMIERE
and two Beethoven American Premieres!
Sang Mee Lee, violin - Wendy Warner, cello - Geroge LePauw, piano.
Sunday, March 1st, 2009 - 6:30 p.m. at the Murphy Auditorium.
For more information click here. |
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Saturday, March 7th at 6 p.m. the Alliance Française in Chicago kicks off the
FESTIVAL DE LA FRANCOPHONIE 2009
A month of cultural programming with French music, food and fun. |
     
In celebration of the cultural and linguisitic diversity of the French speaking world which includes over 200 million people in over fifty countries.
For a detailed schedule please visit www.af-chicago.org |
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Friday, March 6th through Thursday, April 2nd the Gene Siskel Center hosts the 12th ANNUAL EUROPEAN UNION FILM FESTIVAL with more than 60 films being premiered this year representing 25 different European Countries.
The European Union Film Festival celebrates its twelfth year in 2009 and promises to be the Gene Siskel Film Center’s most popular annual film festival once again. Last year it drew more than 7000 attendees. More than 60 films will be premiered this year representing 25 European Union countries. |
MORE EVENTS
Agenda cuturel pour la région de Chicago / Cultural Agenga for the Chicago area: LIAISON
Evénements économiques / Economic Events: ECONOMIE/BUSINESS |
This is a FREE but ticketed event. Call the Ticket Office at 574.631.2800 to reserve tickets.
1848. Henry Dunant, born of a well-to-do Geneva family, is sent to Algeria on his first job as a fund manager for the company of Mr. Bourg-Thibourg. True to the open-minded spirit of tolerance he first embraced as a teenager, Henry wants to help improve the natives' living conditions. |
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| This inspires his great idea, the goal he will never stop fighting for - alone against the world, in spite of all the threats - the recognition of the neutrality of the wounded and medical staff alike. While crossing the enemy lines in a daring attempt to bring back the wounded, he creates a symbol that is now recognized worldwide: white flags with red crosses traced in the blood of the wounded. It is the willpower, the audacity and the conviction of this man that gave birth to the International Red Cross Convention. |
Saturday, February 21, 2009, at 9:30 pm and Sunday, February 22, 2009, at 3:00 pm: One Day You Will Understand (2007) Directed by Amos Gatai
New Perspectives in Holocaust Films |
As the trial of Lyon's Gestapo head Klaus Barbie plays out on television, French businessman Victor Bastien finds himself distracted from his work and increasingly obsessed with piecing together the truth about his family's history.
As he sorts through photographs, letters and memorabilia, the documents he discovers--including an Aryan declaration written by his father--tell of the fate that befell his parents during the war, and he is quick to rush to judgment. But to his frustration, his mother Rivka has shuttered away her past and refuses to share any memories with him. |
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February 13-15 at 7:30 pm. : Theatre Tartuffe by Moliere Translated by Richard Wilbur and Directed by Mark Fearnow at Parker Auditorium Hanover Theatre
Who could be more outwardly religious than Tartuffe? But do his actions match his words? And is Tartuffe a proper match for your young daughter? Watch out as a big phony, a gullible dad, and one clever maid, compete over love in this knockabout comedy by one of the world's greatest writers.
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February 28 at 9 pm. Pierre Bensusan Tour
Pierre Bensusan a French-Algerian guitarist whose family came from Spain, Spanish Morocco and French Algeria plays a genre of acoustic guitar music which is often characterized as Celtic, Folk, World music, New Age, or Chamber jazz.
Radio Radio, 6323 N. Ferguson St Indianapolis, IN 46220, $10/$15, t. 317 251-6957
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Juliette (Kristen Scott Thomas) has been estranged from her family for 15 years. Although life once violently separated them, Léa (Elsa Zylberstein),her younger sister, takes her into her home which she shares with her husband Luc, his father, and their little girls. "I've Loved You So Long" is a film about the strength of women, their capacity to shine forth, reconstruct themselves and be reborn. A story about our secrets, about confinement, about the isolation we all share. NOMINATED FOR 2 GOLDEN GLOBES |
Until February 5th : Fear(s) of the Dark - Directed by various filmmakers
The animated French anthology film that wowed audiences at Sundance 2008, makes its Iowa debut at the Bijou Theater. Though not your standard horror movie fare, FEAR(S) gets to the core of our everyday phobias, "deliver[ing] unsettling animated nightmares, light on explicitness and long on hard-to-shake creepiness." In fact, "you may want to go home and hide under the bed afterward" (BOSTON GLOBE). Please note: While FEAR(S) OF THE DARK is animated, it is not intended for children. |
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| Until February 5 th : JCVD Directed by Mabrouk El Mechri Between his tax problems, a custody battle, and Steven Segal horning in on his movie roles, Jean-Claude Van Damme (playing himself in a stunning, self-referential performance) has it rough these days. But when he finds himself in the middle of a hostage situation in his native Belgium, the fading star has an opportunity to rise above his celebrity and examine who he really is. A meta-action dramedy that critics have compared to BEING JOHN MALKOVICH, SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK, and THE WRESTLER, JCVD "is not only a Van Damme movie that will make you laugh - on purpose - it could very well make you cry" (MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE). |
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February 13-19 : Last Year at Marienbad Directed by Alain Resnais
Widely considered Resnais's masterpiece, LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD tells the story of three characters (each named by a single letter) who may or may not be involved in a perplexing dream-like love triangle spanning past, present and future. The NEW YORK TIMES raves, "Be prepared for an experience such as you've never had when you sit down to look at MARIENBAD, a truly extraordinary French film." Incomparably elegant in crisp black and white, this stunning new print promises to dazzle first-time and repeat viewers alike. |
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February 14 & 15, 2009 Opera The Pearl Fishers by Georges Bizet at the Witchita Grand Opera
A beautiful priestess with a mysterious past is pursued by a pair of strapping fishermen who happen to be the best of friends. Honor, jealousy, and communal duty jeopardize the lovers’ burgeoning bond with the threat of death at dawn; but they are freed from their fate by the revelation of a long-buried secret. |
February 13-19: I’ve Loved You So Long at the Salina Art Center
Juliette (Kristen Scott Thomas) has been estranged from her family for 15 years. Although life once violently separated them, Léa (Elsa Zylberstein),her younger sister, takes her into her home which she shares with her husband Luc, his father, and their little girls. "I've Loved You So Long" is a film about the strength of women, their capacity to shine forth, reconstruct themselves and be reborn. A story about our secrets, about confinement, about the isolation we all share. |
Until June 7 Expo at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art - Animalia: 19th and 20th Century European Prints and Drawings
Artists in the 19th century represented animals in both their tamed and untamed states such as Sir Edwin Landseer's whimsical painting of a prize farm pig and Eugène Delacroix's depiction of a lioness devouring a hare.Twentieth-century artists seek not to faithfully represent animals, but to reveal their interior states. Franz Marc's sleeping blue horse wraps in upon itself, to create a restful composition of rhyming curves, while Salvador Dalí's heroic steed rears up as its rider, St. George, slays a coiling dragon. |
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Through February 8, 2009 : A Secret directed by Claude Miller
From master French director Claude Miller (The Little Thief, The Accompanist) comes his most riveting work in more than a decade – a superbly crafted, supremely confident film that is equal parts family drama, dark mystery, and rich historical epic. Based on Phillipe Grimbert’s best-selling novel, A Secret begins in 1985, as a man (Mathieu Amalric of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly and A Christmas Tale) learns that his elderly father has gone missing. |
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His quest to discover the man’s fate is both physical and psychological, as he begins to piece together memories of his parents’ past during the Nazi occupation of France, when he was just a young teenager. The unexpected, quietly shattering result examines the consequences of our decisions, particularly in times of societal upheaval, and restores our faith in the ability of movies to use suspense to enrich as well as to entertain. Grand Prix, Montreal Film Festival.
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January 23 – March 22, 2009: Grand Rapids Art Museum André Kertész: On Reading
André Kertész: On Reading includes over seventy-five photographs spanning fifty years from 1925 to 1975, from his early years in Paris to his later work in the United States. Known as the creator of the photo essay, Kertész (1894-1985) photographed the poetry of everyday life. |
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| The exhibition focuses on the act of reading as a constant motif for a visual narrative. Kertész captured individuals immersed in reading, weaving in and out of public spaces – in parks, cafés, libraries, rooftops, trains, and street corners. The exhibition is an engaging and sometimes amusing study of the universal and captivating power of reading. |
Saturday, February 21st, 2009 : French Festival of Grand Rapids
West Michigan residents will be able to enjoy all things French during Fête de la Culture Française at the Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, at 41 Sheldon Blvd. in Grand Rapids.
French film, French food and wine, an art exhibit of selected French artists, an intensive French workshop, a French marketplace, give-ways and a silent auction are planned.
In addition to various departments at Grand Valley State University, festival sponsors include Calvin College, Aquinas College and Grand Rapids Community College. Other participating sponsors are local, regional and national companies such as Air France. Complete Information. |
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Opens February 20th : A Secret Directed by Claude Miller
This film is showing as part of the French Festival at UICA.
From master French director Claude Miller (The Little Thief, The Accompanist) comes his most riveting work in more than a decade – a superbly crafted, supremely confident film that is equal parts family drama, dark mystery, and rich historical epic. Based on Phillipe Grimbert’s best-selling novel, A Secret begins in 1985, as a man (Mathieu Amalric of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly and A Christmas Tale) learns that his elderly father has gone missing. His quest to discover the man’s fate is both physical and psychological, as he begins to piece together memories of his parents’ past during the Nazi occupation of France, when he was just a young teenager. The unexpected, quietly shattering result examines the consequences of our decisions, particularly in times of societal upheaval, and restores our faith in the ability of movies to use suspense to enrich as well as to entertain. Winner of the Grand Prix at 2007 Montreal Film Festival. |
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February 22 : Daughter of Keltoum by Mehdi Charef Part of Chiaroscuro Film Series (January 18–April 26)
For the last two years, Chiaroscuro has been pleased to offer, free of charge, one of the most comprehensive film events in West Michigan. |
| Again this season, on six Sunday afternoons, we’ll present an extraordinary selection of foreign films under the theme “Finding Home.” We initiate each event by screening a locally produced film followed by the main feature film, which will be later discussed by a group of experts during our 20-minute panel. After the event and thanks to Martha’s Vineyard and One Trick Pony, we’ll serve wine and snacks. Urban Institute for Contemporary Art . |
November 6 2008 – February 8, 2009: Spared from the Storm : Masterworks from the New Orleans Museum of Art
The Kalamazoo Institute of Art presents 89 treasures of American and European art from one of the finest art museums in the U.S. Spanning more than 300 years, you'll see works by Mary Cassatt, John Singleton Copley, Edgar Degas, Paul Gaugin, Alberto Giacometti, Wassily Kandinsky, Joan Miró, Claude Monet, Georgia O'Keeffe, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Auguste Rodin, John Singer Sargent, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Marie-Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun (the official painter to Marie Antoinette) and more!
Organized by the New Orleans Museum of Art to benefit its Katrina Recovery. |
Until August 2009 : "The French in North America / Les Français en Amérique du Nord - An Enduring Presence"
A series of symposia, lectures, and other public programs to be held in 2008-2009 at Western Michigan University. |
The French have left an enduring legacy in North America, beginning in the sixteenth century and continuing through today. The purpose of this series of events is to examine the motivations, conditions, and effects of French activities, policies, and practices in Canada, the United States, and the Caribbean. Perspectives will be drawn from multiple disciplines in order to frame a fuller understanding of the French place in contemporary economic, political, social, and cultural relations. Co-sponsored by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy - Chicago - Complete information.
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Through April 5, 2009: Expo Expanding the Boundaries: Selected Drawings from the Yvonne and Gabriel P. Weisberg Collection
Cargill Gallery 103 - Minneapolis Institute of Arts |
Minneapolis collectors Gabe and Yvonne Weisberg have collected drawings for more than 30 years. This exhibition will include nearly 50 drawings, watercolors, and pastels from their collection. The collection focuses on realist and naturalist artists working in France and Belgium in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Many of these artists are unknown to present-day museum visitors; thus, the exhibition will introduce them to the excellent work of Adolphe Appian, François Bonvin, Jules Breton, Edgar Chahine, Louis Weldon Hawkins, Auguste Lepère, Léon Lhermitte, Charles Milcendeau, and Thèodule Ribot. FREE
Henri Gervex, Study for “The Civil Marriage,” 1881
, black and white chalk on tan wove paper, collection of Yvonne and Gabriel P. Weisberg |
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Through June 14, 2009: Expo From Rembrandt to Matisse: Selected Works on Paper
Galleries 315 and 316 - Minneapolis Institute of Arts
This exhibition presents more than sixty outstanding European and American prints and drawings, from the seventeenth to the twentieth century, featuring works by Rembrandt van Rijn, Francisco de Goya, Camille Pissarro, Maurice Denis, and Henri Matisse. Drawn primarily from the MIA’s permanent collection, the selection will highlight recent acquisitions and some important loans. - FREE |
Through February 1, 2009: Opera Faust by Charles Gounod
The Minnesota Opera
The aging Dr. Faust makes a deal with the devil to regain his youth and win the young Marguerite. Based on the Goethe classic, this tale of good and evil brims with Gounod's unforgettable melodies and opera's favorite villain. This new Doug Varone production is the first Minnesota Opera staging of Faust in a decade.
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February 13 - 28: Theatre Caligula by Albert Camus, translated by David Greig, directed by Amy Rummenie
A regional premiere of this all powerful, flawlessly logical, barking mad play by Camus
A young and heartbroken Roman Emperor holds dominion over the known world. Using vicious logic and deliberate cruelty, he tests the limits of absolute power. Has he really found the impossible: the meaning of life? This play by renowned French philosopher and Nobel winner Albert Camus is given a lush new translation by British playwright David Greig. |
| French artist Aurélien Froment’s diverse range of work includes films, photographs, manuals, and other object-based installation. Addressing our ability to process the image-saturated world that surrounds us, Froment uses a careful balance of revelation and concealment to confuse our recognition of images and their combined associations. Employing the spectacle of magic, Theatre de Poche (2007) addresses the constant reshuffling of our field of vision, and reveals the trickery behind the image making process. |
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Opens February 6th : The Class by Laurent Cantet
Don’t miss the winner of the presitgious Palme d’Or at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival which takes the viewer in to the intimate and fascinating setting of a French high school classroom and follows the struggles of a young teacher as he tries to communicate with culturally diverse students from a tough neighborhood. Complete information. |
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Friday, Feb 6 - Thursday, Feb 12 : I've Loved You So Long Directed By: Philippe Claudel Zylberstein is deeply touching as a woman who doesn't know what to do in the face of the older sister she partially fears and unconditionally loves. Claudel, making an uncommonly impressive debut in films, gives the story the psychological underpinnings of a play by Anton Chekhov, the Russian author whose works famously presented major emotions in a minor key, finding hard nuggets of truth in the small details of everyday life. |
Friday, Feb 20 - Thursday, Feb 26 : The Class Directed By: Laurent Cantet
Winner of the Palme d'Or at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, master French director Laurent Cantet's The Class is an absorbing journey into a multicultural high school in Paris over the course of a school year. François Begaudeau--an actual teacher and the author upon whose work the film was based--is utterly convincing as François, an open minded teacher in charge of a classroom of youngsters from a wide variety of backgrounds. Of course, the mere fact that he's older and in a position of authority causes his students to challenge him on many occasions. |
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Friday February 27, 7:00 pm & Sunday March 1, 1:30 pm at the Cleveland Museum of Art: One Day You'll Understand Directed by Amos Gitai with Jeanne Moreau, Hippolyte Girardot, and Emanuelle Devos The 1987 trial of Klaus Barbie prods a French businessman to look into his Jewish parents' conduct during WWII. |
| Six of the world's most renowned comic and graphic artists—Blutch, Charles Burns, Marie Caillou, Pierre Di Sciullo, Lorenzo Mattotti, and Richard McGuire—relate subterranean tales of fear and anxiety in this wildly inventive and visually dazzling animation collection. A Japanese schoolgirl is haunted by the ghost of a samurai swordsman, a bug lodges itself in the body of a young woman, bloodthirsty hounds go on a rampage. The chills are heightened by each segment’s rendering in stark, gorgeous black & white. “A visually exhilarating trip through the darker regions of the subconscious.” –Film Threat. Cleveland premiere. Subtitles. 35mm. 85 min. |
February 7 to March 1: French Crime Wave Series
It was the French who first used the term film noir (black film) to describe the dark, amoral, existential American crime films of the 1940s and 1950s. But France’s appreciation of good crime movies does not end there. Independent of Hollywood, though sometimes influenced by it, the French have produced their own superb thrillers for decades. This series, inspired by a much larger retrospective at New York’s Film Forum last fall, includes seven of the best French crime movies of the past 50 years, all in 35mm prints, many in print from France that are here only temporarily. Criminal-masterminds like François Truffault, Henri-George Clouzot, and Bertrand Tavernier are represented.
Supported in part by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, New York. |
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Saturday, February 7, at 7:20 pm & Sunday, February 8, at 6:45 pm: A Secret by Claude Miller
Mathieu Amalric, Ludivine Sagnier, and Julie Depardieu star in the ravishingly photographed new film by veteran French helmer Claude Miller, |
| one of the most acclaimed movies of 2008. Set in post-WWII Paris, the film focuses on a Jewish teenager who stumbles upon some skeletons in his family’s closet—transgressions that link them to the Holocaust. “A remarkable film with an unusual story.” –Boxoffice. French, Yiddish, and German with subtitles. 35mm. 105 min. |
Thursday, February 12, at 7:00 pm & Sunday, February 15, at 6:30 pm : Jeanne Dielman by Chantal Akerman
Here’s the first new 35mm print in many years of a seminal film that “changed the face of contemporary European cinema” (J. Hoberman). Rarely screened due to its extreme length and minimalist aesthetic, Chantal Akerman’s masterpiece zeroes in on a middle-aged Belgian woman (Delphine Seyrig) living in a modest, tidy apartment. We watch as she matter-of-factly tackles her daily chores: cooking, cleaning, shopping—and receiving one man who pays her for sex every day. Jeanne’s quotidian life advances like clockwork, and she remains placid, unruffled, and efficient—until a break in routine triggers a descent into disorder and worse. Never released on DVD. Cleveland revival premiere. |
Thursday, February 19, at 7:00 pm &Friday, February 20, at 9:20 pm Six in Paris various directors
New 35mm Color Print!
Six French New Wave filmmakers—including Claude Chabrol, Jean-Luc Godard, Eric Rohmer, and Jean Rouch—each tell a story set in a different district of Paris in this classic omnibus film that was shot in 6mm, in liberating cinéma-vérité style. Godard (working with Albert Maysles) visualizes an anecdote from his feature A Woman Is a Woman. Rohmer amuses with a vignette about a salesman who fears he has murdered a tramp. But Chabrol steals the show with his darkly comic account of an endlessly-bickering bourgeois couple (played by Chabrol and his then-wife Stéphane Audran) who drive their child to distraction. Cleveland revival premiere. |
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Friday, February 27, at 7:30 pm & Saturday, February 28, at 5:15 pm The Wild Child / L’enfant Sauvage François Truffaut
In one of his loveliest and most humane films, François Truffaut plays an 18 th-century French scientist who takes in a feral boy found in the woods one day; he attempts to civilize and educate him. The movie addresses a host of issues and ideas: nature versus nurture, the individual versus society, Rousseau’s conception of the “noble savage.” Based on a true case from 1798. New 35mm print! Cleveland revival premiere. |
February 25-April 25, 2009 : Of Other Spaces
Mary Jo Bole, Michael Brown, Alain Bublex, Robert Buck, Gregory Crewdson, Dan Graham, Candida Höfer, Guillaume Leblon, Laura Lisbon, Gordon Matta-Clark, Eva Meyer and Eran Schaerf, Laurent Montaron, Marylène Negro, TJ Norris with Scott Wayne Indiana, Sarah Schönfeld, Maya Schweizer, Suzanne Silver, Christian Tomaszewski, Clemens von Wedemeyer, Jane & Louise Wilson
Curated by James Voorhies
Of Other Spaces explores how the origins and functions of spaces shape human behavior. It considers the ways in which places become charged with socio-cultural authority to act in service and in suppression of our activity. Taking Michel Foucault’s 1967 essay "Of Other Spaces" as a basis for this examination, the exhibition considers how distinct sites--or heterotopia as Foucault calls them--control action, activate memory, provide insight and stimulate imagination in places founded and operated under the influence of deeply engrained socio-cultural circumstances. |
February 25-April 25, 2009 : The New Normal
Sophie Calle, Mohamed Camara, Hasan Elahi, Eyebeam R&D/Jonah Peretti & Michael Frumin, Kota Ezawa, Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher, Guthrie Lonergan, Jill Magid, Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, Trevor Paglen, Corinna Schnitt, Thomson & Craighead, Sharif Waked
Curated by Michael Connor
The New Normal brings together works by an international group of artists who mine the private sphere--domestic spaces, bodies, thoughts, communications and behaviors--for raw material and subject matter. Using information as diverse as leaked documents, Internet websites and home videos to create videos, photographs, and computer installations with web components, the exhibition offers intimate portraits of individuals who internalize invasive conditions of surveillance. While the artists in this exhibition question these conditions, they also raise ethical and political issues about decisions and transactions that lead people to expose their personal information to the world.
The New Normal is a traveling exhibition co-organized by Independent Curators International, New York and Artists Space New York, and circulated by iCI. Bureau for Open Culture at Columbus College of Art & Design
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February 26 at 8 pm. Pierre Bensusan Tour
Pierre Bensusan a French-Algerian guitarist whose family came from Spain, Spanish Morocco and French Algeria plays a genre of acoustic guitar music which is often characterized as Celtic, Folk, World music, New Age, or Chamber jazz.
Grounds for Thought, 174 S Main St Bowling Green, OH 43402, Free to the Public, t. 419 354-3266. |
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February 27 at 10:15 pm. Pierre Bensusan Tour
Pierre Bensusan a French-Algerian guitarist whose family came from Spain, Spanish Morocco and French Algeria plays a genre of acoustic guitar music which is often characterized as Celtic, Folk, World music, New Age, or Chamber jazz.
Canal Street Tavern, 308 E. First St. Dayton, OH 45402, t. (937) 461-9343, $15
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Saturday, February 14, 7:30 p.m.: Remembrance of Things to Come (Le Souvenir d'un avenir), directed by Chris Marker
Master essayist Chris Marker uses the photography of Denise Bellon as a springboard for a rangy contemplation of Paris before and after World War II. Characteristically digressive, incisive, and witty, this spry photo-montage recalls Marker's earlier masterworks Sans Soleil and La Jetée. |
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| Sénégal, Burkina Faso, Algeria, Martinique and Québec as well as France. This year's festival features 12 films which will be shown at the Union Theatre, second floor, 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd. To read the press release click here |
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February 23, 1 - 5 p.m.: Pierre Bensusan a French-Algerian guitarist whose family came from Spain, Spanish Morocco and French Algeria plays a genre of acoustic guitar music which is often characterized as Celtic, Folk, World music, New Age, or Chamber jazz. Guitar workshop & masterclass, UWM Peck School of Arts, Kenilworth Square East, 1925 East Kenilworth Place, Milwaukee, WI 53202, Tel. 612 387-2456. |
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