Open mic night

This Thursday,(tomorrow!) October 1st, the Arts & Letters Learning community is offering a really cool event:

Open Mic Night like you may never have seen before-

Bring your work (anything past/present/in progress), talk about your work, get people to ask questions. Awesome. Good practice for your critique/senior thesis defense!

Thursday, 8pm, Trollinger House

Questions: Joanna Patterson-jpatterson9@elon.edu

Adventures in Illegal Art: Creative Media Resistance, Free Speech and Negativland

Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Yeager at 7:30

“Adventures in Illegal Art” is a 90-minute video and storytelling presentation by Mark Hosler, founding member of Negativland, with Q and A to follow. No lawyers were harmed in the making of these events!

Pranks, media hoaxes, media literacy, the art of collage, creative activism in a media saturated multi-national world, file sharing, intellectual property issues, evolving notions of art and ownership and law in a digital age, artistic and funny critiques of mass media and culture, so-called “culture jamming”.... even if you've never heard of Negativland, if you are interested in any of these issues we think you’ll find this presentation worth your time and attention.

Is Negativland a “band”? Media hoaxers? Activists? Artists? Musicians? Filmmakers? Culture jammers? Comedians? An inspiration for the unwashed many? A nuisance for the corporate few? Decide for yourself in this presentation that uses films and stories to illustrate the many creative projects, hoaxes, pranks and "culture jamming" that Negativland has been doing since 1980.

Most famous for getting sued for their “U2” single, Negativland has had many years of experience being a tiny thorn in the side of the corporate media and entertainment biz. This presentation touches on a number of issues that are very much in public view these days - creative anti-corporate activism, media literacy, intellectual property issues and evolving notions of ownership and law in a digital age, the art of collage, artistic and funny critiques of mass media and culture, pranks and media hoaxes.

Tri-State Sculptors Exhibition 8/24 - 10/3

Closing Reception, Arts West Gallery, Saturday, October 3rd, 6:00-7:30 pm

The Tri State Sculptors Association, with 300-plus members, exhibit works that range from realistic to conceptual; in scales from architectural to intimate throughout Elon’s campus. Some locations include the Isabella Cannon Room and Patio, Arts West Gallery, and the Sculpture Walk.

Exhibition runs from Monday, August 24th-Saturday, October 3^rd.

Finders Keepers

A Room of Our Own

Friday March 13th from 2 - 4

Opening reception in the Spence Pavilion Lobby (the building in the Academic Village where Philosophy and Religious Studies are located) for "A Room of Our Own."

Located in the two women's restrooms in Spence Pavilion, the exhibition, which features art from the Elon Collection and is part of Alaina Pineda's College Fellows' project, explores issues of gender construction and space. Among other things, the installation highlights the fact that neither WGS nor the Elon Art Collection have "rooms of their own."

The exhibition continues through March 20th.

“And I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse perhaps to be locked in ...” Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

Chicago painter John Bakker

Artist talk Monday March 9th, 5:00, Arts West Gallery

On his work: Recent trends in art have shifted the focus from the artist and the artwork to the viewer’s response to the work. Bakker’s large scale, multi-paneled, recent works place the audience in a position to reveal their aesthetic by asking: “Does the artist’s intention matter? Does the viewer’s understanding of the artist’s intention structure the meaning of art?” Bakker’s work poses questions about competing interpretative frameworks for art, politics, and theology. Exhibition continues through April 15^th.

Art History Speaker Series

Barbara Abou-El-Haj
What's the Matter with Pilgrimage Studies? History, Historiography, Hagiography and the Camino de Santiago

POSTPONED due to weather

Yeager Recital Hall

Barbara Abou-El-Haj (Associate Professor and Chair of Studies in the History and Theory of Art and Architecture at SUNY- Binghamton) will present: “What's the Matter with Pilgrimage Studies? History, Historiography, Hagiography and the Camino de Santiago" in Yeager Recital Hall at 6:00 p.m.

Abou-el-Haj’s lecture will examine the role of pilgrims and pilgrimage, fundamental to the historiography of Santiago de Compostela, to ask what is overlooked and who is excluded in a history that concerns itself almost entirely with the consumption, not the production, of the cult of Saint James.

She will review the production of the cult in the twelfth century, the documentary sources for Santiago and their modern asymmetrical circulation. She will then trace the centerpiece of pilgrimage studies, the history of the Camino de Santiago (Route or Way of Saint James), its revival in the nineteenth century and its role in political ideology and cultural capital in the twentieth century from Franco’s Spain to its incarnation as an icon for European unity and a premier destination in the trans regional heritage industry.