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UPCOMING EVENTS / PAST EVENTS MOCAD hosts musical, literary and artistic events throughout
the year. Check back often or contact us at info@mocadetroit.org if
you would like to be kept up to date on upcoming events. Follow MOCAD's upcoming events and announcements :
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MUSIC and PERFORMANCE: Caroliner Rainbow Odure Curl Occupying the Cake Boxis an art project: an intricate mesh of an art collective at the epicenter of the wildest elements of San Francisco’s underground performance and art scene. They present themselves as an ongoing art project, masquerading as a band, with a foggy history of nonsensical nom de plumes, improbable tales and insane half-truths, all swathed in brightly colored Day-Glo. Informed in part by the long line of strange and bizarre musical/performance acts from the Bay Area that came before them, Caroliner - aka Caroliner Rainbow … - are self-described as "industrial bluegrass," which may capture, in part, their idiosyncratic sound. Their songs reference 19th-century Americana and the sort of primitive folk found on the Harry Smith Anthology, but wrapped in a thick cloud of stumble and fuzz. Their idiosyncratic worldview is presented as deadpan dadaist humor, earnestly imbued with a naïve sentimentality for a time they can only imagine. Their records are just as likely to recall musique concrète or early industrial as country, folk, and bluegrass; everything in between was fair game as well, from early jazz to Eastern music to electronics. Their arrangements lean toward the minimal -- usually centered around banjo, violin, organ, and bass -- but often veer into chaotic noise-rock while retaining a propensity for elaborate orchestrations. Often presented through a miasma of tape-altered voices and inhuman shrieks, Caroliner lyrics are continually peppered with pioneer and western imagery, as re-imagined through a lunatic filter. Their live performances are intense theatrical extravaganzas with elaborate, kinetic costumes and luminous Day-Glo staging. The results have been compared to fellow Bay Area eccentrics like the Residents, Sun City Girls and the Thinking Fellers Union 282. In their singularity and their ability to craft and cultivate a recognizable, continuously evolving sound, Caroliner stand them firmly aside the pantheon of sonic pioneers such as Captain Beefheart, Sun Ra, and John Cage. The evening will also feature a special robotic sound and art performance by Detroit’s ApeTechnology. Saturday, September 12th at 12PM Alexander Gutke and Chris Sharp in Conversation Admission: Free Curator Chris Sharp and artist Alexander Gutke discuss the exhibition on view at MOCAD, as well as the artist's interests in the in the projected image and his work. Saturday, September 12th at 2PM Ann Lislegaard and Elizabeth Brown in Conversation Admission: Free Chief Curator of the Henry Art Gallery Elizabeth Brown discusses with artist Ann Lislegaard the exhibition on view at MOCAD, as well as the artist's continued interest in science fiction literature and recent projects. |
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MUSIC: Saturday, September 19th from 2PM to 1AM New Music Detroit and MOCAD present Strange and Beautiful Music III Admission: $12.00 | $8.00 after 8PM The third installment of New Music Detroit’s annual festival will feature the best in contemporary chamber, avant-garde classical and experimental music of all forms from Detroit and around the country. This year’s festival promises new works by New Music Detroit favorites, Marc Mellits and Virgil Moorefield. Erik Romark and the NMD string quartet will present a new piece by Scott McAllister for saxophone and strings. Plus there will be stirring presentations of classics by Bela Bartok, John Cage, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, some electronic music, free jazz/noise, and some artful techno. Please return for more information about the schedule of performers and performances for this event. |
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DANCE PARTY:
Saturday, September 26, 2009 from 8PM to 2AM GOLD II AT THE WHITNEY Admission: $65.00 in advance, $75 at the door includes open and hors d’oeuvres from 8PM to 12AM | $5.00 after 12AM with cash bar | 21+ MOCAD’S New Wave committee hosts this second annual dance party to benefit MOCAD exhibitions and programs. This year the party is co-sponsored by the Whitney restaurant, who have kindly provided their sumptuous home and garden. Having the run of the home has allowed MOCAD to create three floors of fun and exploration with some of the city’s finest deejays, in the garden, on the main floor and upstairs in the Ghost Bar. Dj Dez of Slum Village, Brad Hales of Peoples Records, Keep on Trash Dj’s Dave Buick and Johnny Hentch, Monty Luke of Planet E and Scott Z of the Macho City crew will come together for one exciting night of hardcore dancing fun. Tickets available in advance at www.neptix.com |
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SCREENING and DISCUSSION:
Friday, October 2, 2009 at 7PM Art Detroit Now, Art21 and MOCAD present The PREMIERE of season five of Art21 – Art in the 21st Century Admission: FREE MOCAD, in collaboration with Art21 and Art Detroit Now, will premiere an episode from the new season of this Peabody winning documentary series. The hour long episode will be followed by a panel discussion moderated by Rebecca Mazzei Assistant Dean of the College for Creative Studies, and will feature journalist Mark Stryker (art critic, Detroit Free Press), art critic and scholar Lane Relyea (recently Appointed Critical Studies Teaching Fellow at Cranbrook Academy of Art) and artist Susan Goethel Campbell. EPISODE 3: Transformation Yinka Shonibare MBE was born in London and spent his early years in Nigeria. Working in multiple mediums, including painting, sculpture, photography and film, Shonibare draws upon his bicultural upbringing, European literary classics, 18th and 19th century history, and current events to create tableaus of dazzling color and patterns that provoke re-consideration of stereotypical colonial narratives. Art21 filmed Shonibare creating a new drawing “dedicated to the architects of the current economic crisis.” Cindy Sherman is well known for her photographic series in which she creates a myriad of characters, metamorphosing herself from Hollywood starlet to clown to society matron in her photographs and early films. Working alone in her studio, she draws inspiration as much from contemporary tabloids, TV and movies, as from fairy tales and canonical works of art history. Paul McCarthy has created works of video, installation, sculpture and performance throughout his career. His video-taped performances and multimedia installations satirize polite society, ridicule authority, and bombard the viewer with a sensory overload of spectacular imagery. His works, which riff on cultural icons ranging from Hummel figurines to Disney characters, from George Bush to Queen Elizabeth, are often controversial and aim to subvert tradition. |
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MOCAD is proud to present two evenings with legendary German art rock ensemble, Faust. Formed 1969 in Hamburg, Germany and considered the inventors of 'Kraut Rock', iconoclasts extraordinaire Faust are key figures in 20th Century music. In the early 70's, along with Can and Kraftwerk, they re-invented pop music as a specifically European art-form. In their own studio they were able to revolutionize the whole process of musical production; they improvised with industrial noise, generated bizarre hypnotic grooves, indulged in shockingly willful studio-based collages, and dabbled with every conceivable musical genre, sometimes simultaneously. Every now and then they found time for a burst of satirical pop or waves of delicate ambience. Amongst those Faust have strongly influenced we can include Brian Eno, Joy Division, Cabaret Voltaire, Test Department, Neubauten, My Bloody Valentine, Julian Cope, Sonic Youth and a host of Industrial and Techno groups. The music on their classic recordings has lost none of its immediacy or relevance - it sounds as if it was recorded last week, not last decade. Faust has performed and collaborated with Nurse with Wound, Ulan Bator, Henry Cow, Tony Conrad, Pascal Comelade, and Jim O'Rourke among many others. Faust’s early outré experiments with studio techniques and their pioneering use of electronics have become a major influence on many of the most progressive acts of the 1970’s in Germany and abroad as a result opening the gates for today’s most progressive sounds. The touring members of this 2009 US Faust tour are original members Jean-Herve Peron and Werner "Zappi" Diermaier, along with James Johnston (Gallon Drunk, Lydia Lunch, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds) and visual/video artist, painter and musician Geraldine Swayne. The workshop’s objective is the creation of an interactive, dynamic situation for exploring communication and exchange via live musical presentation, improvisation, and discussion, the ultimate goal is "liberating and enhancing creativity" as well as "reducing established patterns of control". The workshop relies heavily on audience participation; the active participants are encouraged to bring small or pared-down instruments (e.g. no huge amplifiers, not too many effects pedals, etc). The workshop begins with an open discussion between Faust and all attendees, which transitions into an improvisational exchange between the members of Faust and the participating audience members using sound-making devices/instruments. The workshop structure is fluid and open to the influence of circumstance and of each individual participant. The end result of the Faust workshop will be a completed piece of music, which has evolved from the collaborative inputs of all active participants. |
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FAMILY DAY:
Sunday, October 18, 2009 from 12PM to 4PM Have an Eye for Sci-Fi with Cedric Tai Admission: Free Created and facilitated by Kresge Foundation Fellowship winner Cedric Tai this multi-media workshop allows kids to construct an interactive environment with their family. Stations will be set out that will encourage and challenge kids and parents to make extraordinary, color-filled spaces. MOCAD will provide mirrors, projectors, environmental images, and sounds that visitors can use to create just the right mood for Sci-Fi adventures! |
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PANEL DISCUSSION and READING:
Saturday, October 24, 2009 MOCAD and Regions of Practice present PANEL at 3PM: Cross Border Politics and the Arts READING at 5PM: Laura Solórzano, Dolores Dorantes and Jen Hofer Admission: Free This panel discussion will revolve around the topic of cross-border politics, with a focus on the position of the arts in such a hot button issue. The panel will feature Dolores Dorantes, Elena Herrada (Fronteras Norteñas, Detroit), Laura Solórzano and Jen Hofer. The panel discussion will be followed by a bilingual poetry reading, beginning with Dolores Dorantes and Laura Solórzano reading their own work in Spanish and followed by Jen Hofer reading her translations of the works of both women in English. Dolores Dorantes was born in Córdoba, Veracruz in 1973, and has lived in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua for the past 20 years. Her published books include sexoPUROsexoVELOZ (Lapzus and Oráculo, 2004), Lola (cartas cortas) (Fondo Editorial Tierra Adentro, CONACULTA, 2002), Para Bernardo: un eco (MUB editoraz, 2000) and Poemas para niños (Ediciones El Tucán de Virginia, 1999). She is founding director of the border arts collective Compañía Frugal, which supports autonomous projects in the arts and counts among its activities publication of the poetry broadside series Hoja Frugal, printed in editions of 4000 and distributed free throughout Mexico. Her op-ed pieces, criticism and investigative texts have been published in Mexican newspapers such as Día Siete (Mexico City), Política (Xalapa, Veracruz), La Crónica (Mexico City), La Jornada (Mexico City), Síntesis (Tlaxcala) and Diario de Juárez, where she worked as an editor. Jen Hofer’s translations of her poems into English have been published in 1913, Action Yes online, Counterpath online, kenning, Tampa Review War and Peace and Women’s Studies Quarterly, as a Seeing Eye chapbook, and in the anthology Sin puertas visibles (ed. and trans. Jen Hofer, University of Pittsburgh and Ediciones Sin Nombre, 2003). Laura Solórzano was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco in 1961. She is the author of Un rosal para el señor K (Universidad de Guanajuato, 2006) Boca perdida (bonobos, 2005), lobo de labio (Cuadernos de filodecaballos, 2001) and Semilla de Ficus (Ediciones Rimbaud, 1999). Jen Hofer’s en face translation of lobo de labio was published as lip wolf by Action Books in 2007. Laura is on the editorial board of the literary arts magazine Tragaluz, and currently teaches writing at the Centro de Arte Audiovisual in Guadalajara. Translations of her poems into English have been published in the online magazines Action, Yes; Counterpath; and HOW2 and in the print publications Aufgabe, Calque, Kadar Koli and Vanitas, as well as in the anthology Sin puertas visibles (ed. and trans. Jen Hofer, University of Pittsburgh and Ediciones Sin Nombre, 2003). Jen Hofer’s recent publications include The Route, an epistolary and poetic collaboration with Patrick Durgin (Atelos, 2008), a translation of books two and three of Dolores Dorantes by Dolores Dorantes (Counterpath Press and Kenning Editions, 2008), lip wolf, a translation of Laura Solórzano’s lobo de labio (Action Books, 2007), and Sin puertas visibles: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by Mexican Women (University of Pittsburgh Press and Ediciones Sin Nombre, 2003). Her forthcoming books are from the valley of death (Ponzipo), Laws (Dusie Books) and a book-length series of anti-war- manifesto poems titled one (Palm Press). She lives in Los Angeles, where she teaches in the MFA Writing Program at CalArts and in Goddard College’s low-residency BFA Program, and works as a Spanish-language interpreter with the Los Angeles County Superior Courts and as a social justice interpreter with various regional non-profits. |
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FILM:
Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 7PM The American Romanian Festival and MOCAD host a special film screening of the films of director Nicolae Margineanu Admission: Free Nicolae Margineanu was born September 25, 1938 in Cluj, Romania. He graduated from the Cameraman Section of the Theatre and Film Institute in Bucharest. He was director of photography on nine films and director on 12 features. His feature directorial debut This Above All (1978) won Best Direction at the Romanian National Film Festival, Somewhere in the East (Undeva în Est, 1991) was included in the Berlinale, and 1999's The Famous Paparazzo ("Faimosul paparazzo," 1999) has been seen worldwide to great acclaim. Architecture and Power (1993) Political power always betrays its intentions through architecture, in this history of Bucharest as seen through the context of remnants of that historic city’s totalitarian architecture. Bran Castle (2005) This castle represents much more than the legend of the enigmatic Count Dracula, it represents history, past and present. This film examines the history of the castle alongside that of Romanian king Vlad Dracul, the primary inspiration for Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Visit the American Romanian Festival website for more information. |
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Saturday, October 31, 2009 at 8PM You’re Gonna Die! Is the second annual dance party hosted by MOCAD’s young professionals auxiliary committee, the New Wave. This year’s party promises to be a blood feast of dynamic proportions. With rabid Wolfmen, vampire rats and two thousand maniacs, soaking the dance floor with sweat and gore, all while sucking the life out of the artful environs of the museum. Also Featuring: Tickets now $10 only available at the door |
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READING:
Saturday, November 28, 2009 at 7PM Fall ’09 literary series curated by Tyrone Williams Arnold J. Kemp and Kim Hunter Artist and writer, Arnold J. Kemp has lived and worked in New York City, San Francisco and, most recently, in Portland, Or. where he is Chair of the Master's of Fine Arts in Visual Studies program. His work has been collected and exhibited by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Studio Museum in Harlem and at the at the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art's Time-Based Art Festival, where he has also acted as a curator of exhibitions. Kemp was the Associate Curator at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts from 1993 - 2003. His writing has appeared in Callaloo, Three Rivers Poetry Journal, Agni Review, Mirage #4/ Period(ical), River Styx and Nocturnes. Detroit born poet, Kim Hunter has been a factory worker, a security guard, a middle school teacher and a street-level, outreach worker. He has served as Poet-in-Residence in branches of the Detroit Public Library, Boysville (a facility for adjudicated youth) in Monroe, Michigan and Crosman Alternative High School in Detroit (under the auspices of the Inside/Out program). Hunter has read with such artists as Kathy Acker and Gil Scott Heron. His work has appeared in a variety of journals including Triage, Hipology, MetroTimes, Dispatch, Graffiti Rag and +R (Plus D'art). Past Tents Press published Hunter's first collection of poems, borne on slow knives, in 2001. Hunter makes his living by working for the man as a regional media team leader for the U.S. Census Bureau, and helps run the Woodward Line monthly poetry series. |
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NOEL NIGHT Saturday, December 5, 2009 from 5PM to 9PM MUSIC at 6PM: Frontier Ruckus with The Brownstown Gals Admission: Free MOCAD and the UCCA will partner again for the 37th annual Noel Night, a night of family fun, seasonal artistry, warm tidings and music … beautiful, regional music. This year MOCAD is very proud to present two of Detroit’s most promising young stars, Frontier Ruckus and The Rise of the Peace Balloon. Performing at 6PM, hailing from suburban Detroit, will be the happy-go-lucky folk rock sound of The Brownstown Gals. Terrible Twos/Mahonies member Craig Brown creates heart-rending love songs, countrified ballads and drunken odes to loss, in the spirit of the Carter Family. Performing at 7PM will be Frontier Ruckus, an American indie folk band from Michigan. The project is centered on the songs of Matthew Milia, and was formed by Milia and banjo player David Winston Jones while living in Metro Detroit. The band combines wistful balladry with a vaguely arty take on country and pop music. Their debut LP “The Orion Songbook” has garnered them much press and praise, as well as several celebrated appearances in the US and in Europe.
Visit the Noel Night website. |
 Frontier Ruckus  Brownstown Gals |
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INSTALLATION and PERFORMANCE: Saturday, December 12, 2009 to Sunday, December 20, 2009 MOCAD is proud to present the 10th anniversary of Christian Marclay: The Sounds of Christmas First organized in 1999, The Sounds of Christmas is a seasonal work presented during the month of December in a different city every year. The project consists of 1200 Christmas LPs made available to the public for consultation and to local DJs on scheduled events. The installation also comprises six videos, which document the album covers, while a video projector shows documentation of past performances at other venues. During the one-week installation noted DJs create remixes of their own selection from Marclay's Christmas records. Part community project, part art installation, this work provides an impressive and exhaustive archive of Christmas music to DJs and turntablists for live performances which disturb the dismal and hackneyed holiday season soundscape. The installation has appeared at the Tate Modern (London), Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain (Geneva), Museum of Contemporary Art (Miami), DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art (Montreal) and The New Museum of Contemporary Art/Media Z Sat. Dec. 12th at 7PM - Christian Marclay + everyone Thurs. Dec. 17th at 8PM - Jon Moshier and Ed Special Fri. Dec. 18th at 8PM - Ian Clark / Perspects Sat. Dec. 19th at 7PM - Jeff Karolski |
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PRESENTATION and DISCUSSION: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 at 6PM MOCAD, Net Impact and the Model D Speaker Series present Green Initiatives Detroit! Admission: Free This evening, organized by MOCAD and Model D Media, will feature several Visit Model D to sign up for this event, it is not necessary to sign up to For more information visit the websites of |
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FAMILY DAY: For more information on the Detroit Evolution Lab visit their website. |
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