This Thursday at Temple University in Philadelphia:
Mendi + Keith Obadike
8:00, Room 222, Temple Center City Campus, 1515 Market
All events are free and open to the public.
Temple University Poets & Writers Series
Public readings by Recognized and Emerging Authors
The Poets & Writers Series is sponsored by the Temple University Graduate Creative Writing Program, with the assistance of the Richard Moyer Fund. Each year a number of poets and fiction writers are invited to speak (usually on Thursdays) to members of both the Temple community and the local Philadelphia arts scene. Joining each invited writer is a writer from Temple's graduate program in Creative Writing.
MENDI & KEITH OBADIKE make music, art, and literature. The Washington Post calls their work daring, funny and innovative. A series of Mendi and Keiths media works are featured in the anthologies Re: skin and in the forthcoming Sound Unbound (both from M.I.T. Press). In a 2001 performance work they offered Keiths blackness for sale on eBay with a list of benefits and warnings. In 2004 Mendi's book of poetry Armor and Flesh (Lotus Press) received the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Prize and Keith received a Connecticut of Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Sound Design for work at the Yale Repertory Theatre. Recently they completed Big House/Disclosure, a 200 hour house song/sound installation about slavery for Northwestern University for which they received a Pick-Laudati Award. Keith is an assistant professor in the College Arts and Communication at William Paterson University. Mendi is a Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton University.
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Keith @ the New Museum
Vito Acconci (with Sarina Basta and Daniel Perlin), Anthony Burdin, Trisha Donnelly, Paul Elliman, Andy Graydon, Language Removal Services, Ulrike Müller, Nautical Almanac, Keith Obadike, Pauline Oliveros, Susan Philipsz, Seth Price, & Stefan Tcherepnin.
Unmonumental is an exhibition about fragmented forms, torn pictures and clashing sounds. Investigating the nature of collage in contemporary art practices, Unmonumental also describes the present as an age of crumbling symbols and broken icons. The third part, The Sound of Things: Unmonumental Audio (February 13, 2008 March 30, 2008), carries the theme of unmonumentality into the realm of sound. Audio collages by thirteen artists, reflecting diverse techniques including found recording, spoken text, and manipulated noise, will play throughout three of the Museums galleries. The compositions are broadcast at three-minute intervals, transforming the experience of Unmonumental into one in which sounds and images dramatically mix and overlap. The New Museum is located at 235 Bowery (at Prince Street between Stanton and Rivington Streets, one and a half blocks south of Houston)
Subway: 6 to Spring Street or N/R to Prince Street.
2.13.08-
3.30.08
2.21.08
The New Museum (NYC)
Temple University Poets & Writers Series (Philly)
3.04.08 Tribeca Performing Arts Center (NYC)
4.25.08 The Ringing Ear at New York University (NYC)
Mendi + Keith Obadike
8:00, Room 222, Temple Center City Campus, 1515 Market
All events are free and open to the public.
Temple University Poets & Writers Series
Public readings by Recognized and Emerging Authors
The Poets & Writers Series is sponsored by the Temple University Graduate Creative Writing Program, with the assistance of the Richard Moyer Fund. Each year a number of poets and fiction writers are invited to speak (usually on Thursdays) to members of both the Temple community and the local Philadelphia arts scene. Joining each invited writer is a writer from Temple's graduate program in Creative Writing.
MENDI & KEITH OBADIKE make music, art, and literature. The Washington Post calls their work daring, funny and innovative. A series of Mendi and Keiths media works are featured in the anthologies Re: skin and in the forthcoming Sound Unbound (both from M.I.T. Press). In a 2001 performance work they offered Keiths blackness for sale on eBay with a list of benefits and warnings. In 2004 Mendi's book of poetry Armor and Flesh (Lotus Press) received the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Prize and Keith received a Connecticut of Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Sound Design for work at the Yale Repertory Theatre. Recently they completed Big House/Disclosure, a 200 hour house song/sound installation about slavery for Northwestern University for which they received a Pick-Laudati Award. Keith is an assistant professor in the College Arts and Communication at William Paterson University. Mendi is a Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton University.
***
Keith @ the New Museum
Vito Acconci (with Sarina Basta and Daniel Perlin), Anthony Burdin, Trisha Donnelly, Paul Elliman, Andy Graydon, Language Removal Services, Ulrike Müller, Nautical Almanac, Keith Obadike, Pauline Oliveros, Susan Philipsz, Seth Price, & Stefan Tcherepnin.
Unmonumental is an exhibition about fragmented forms, torn pictures and clashing sounds. Investigating the nature of collage in contemporary art practices, Unmonumental also describes the present as an age of crumbling symbols and broken icons. The third part, The Sound of Things: Unmonumental Audio (February 13, 2008 March 30, 2008), carries the theme of unmonumentality into the realm of sound. Audio collages by thirteen artists, reflecting diverse techniques including found recording, spoken text, and manipulated noise, will play throughout three of the Museums galleries. The compositions are broadcast at three-minute intervals, transforming the experience of Unmonumental into one in which sounds and images dramatically mix and overlap. The New Museum is located at 235 Bowery (at Prince Street between Stanton and Rivington Streets, one and a half blocks south of Houston)
Subway: 6 to Spring Street or N/R to Prince Street.
2.13.08-
3.30.08
2.21.08
The New Museum (NYC)
Temple University Poets & Writers Series (Philly)
3.04.08 Tribeca Performing Arts Center (NYC)
4.25.08 The Ringing Ear at New York University (NYC)
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