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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 Mon. July 19th at 7PM Crofoot and MOCAD present Lightning Bolt with Wolf Eyes and Human Eye Admission: $8 in advance all ages Lightning Bolt are one of the wonders of our modern age. Playing live for over a decade to countless, awed audiences, they have influenced a generation, spawned countless clones, rip-offs and half-hearted tributes to their earthshaking art-metal-noise. Using drums, bass and extreme volume as a tool for art, the duo of Brians who make up Lightning Bolt have carved a significant mark in modern music with their mind-numbing, soul rumbling sounds. Joining them on this night will be local noise rock maniacs, Wolf Eyes, who have carved their own respective niche in the annals of contemporary rock with their idiosyncratic electronic noise, cranked out throughout the course of the past decade on countless self-released recordings and various evolving art projects. |
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FAMILY DAY Sun. July 18th 12PM to 4PM Let's Make a Mural! with artists Kathy Liesen and Taurus Burns Join for a collaborative Family Day in which kids and parents can team up with local artists to beautify parts of the grounds outside of MOCAD's building. You will be working with two experienced artists and muralists, Kathy Leisen and Taurus Burns, who will facilitate the project, transforming a fence just outside of MOCAD's building into a piece of community art to be celebrated! Kathy Leisen is an artist, musician and curator based in Detroit, MI. She received her BFA in Painting from Eastern Michigan University in 1999 and in 2007 she was the recipient of a fellowship from the Edwin Austin Abbey Mural Fund to participate in a Public Art Workshop at the New York Academy of Fine Arts in New York City. Her artwork has been shown nationally at various galleries and art spaces. Her work has been featured in New American Paintings. She works seasonally at the Ox-Bow School of Fine Art and Artists Residencies in Saugatuck, MI, and runs an experimental outdoor art space in Detroit called The Lot. Kalamazoo native Taurus Burns is well regarded for his various community painting projects. He has been named "Best Local Artist to Collect" by Hour magazine and has been featured in exhibitions statewide. Don't miss out on this opportunity for you and your kids to interact with local artists on this special outdoor Family Day at the MOCAD! |
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ARTIST PRESENTATION
Saturday, July 10th at 3PM Design 99: Too Much of a Good Thing in Context Design and art duo, Mitch Cope and Gina Reichert, initially formed Design 99 as a storefront design studio and artisan created-boutique cum gallery/project space. Through a natural process that show space transformed into their current Power House project that has drawn much attention to them in the international press for their connection to the purchase of the famed "$100 house." Their community-based art projects and installations will be given context in this multi-media presentation by the Design 99 collective. |
 Sketch for The Neighborhood Machine, 2010 Courtesy of the artists |
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MUSIC Fri. July 2nd at 8PM Times New Viking + Child Bite Admission: $7 all ages Times New Viking are energetic and young, which makes them ample fodder for jaded hipsters to worship and revile. The choice is theirs. The sickly sweet, sing-song melodies infect your heart and mind. The primitive scraping guitars and tinny, fragile keyboards allude to Wire, the Fall and other post punk greats, while retaining the punk D.I.Y. attitudes of hardcore and indie rock. They've toured successfully with college rock acts like Yo La Tengo and with noise-pop bands from the new lo-fi underground. Their lovely primitivism, their propensity for pop with a leaning towards noisy punk fuzz leaves them floating in a nebulous zone between willful art rock and mindless pop art fun. On this night Times New Viking will be joined by local art punks and prog-rockers, Child Bite, whose own tendency for noisy, high energy rock has left them something of a local Detroit legend for the frantic and raucous dance-off styled live shows. |
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OPENING RECEPTION Wed. June 23rd from 6PM to 9PM Focus: Hope and MOCAD present Excel: Teen Reflections On A Photographic Journey Artful color photographs reflecting on students' year journey in Focus: HOPE's Excel Photography Program will be featured in a special exhibit held at MOCAD opening June 23 and running through June 27. The opening reception for the Excel photography exhibit in addition to a graduation ceremony will be held from 6 to 8:00 p.m. on Wednesday June 23 for the students, the professional photographers who mentor them, and the public. This program, lasting from December 2009 through June 2010, allowed high school students who reside in the neighborhood surrounding Focus: HOPE and those who attend Central High School to learn technical photographic techniques along with artistic aesthetics using black & white and color photography with point and shoot and 35mm SLR film and digital cameras. Program sessions took place during non-school hours on Focus: HOPE's campus, however most knowledge was imparted through educational field trips and photo shoots to diverse locations throughout the tri-county area. Each student worked toward the creation of a photographic group exhibition and a digital portfolio. The program is made possible with a grant from The Youth Development Commission and the generous support of the College for Creative Studies Photography Department and MOCAD. The Community Arts programs are among several initiatives Focus: HOPE uses to bridge the racial divide in southeast Michigan. Focus: HOPE was founded with a mission of using "intelligent and practical action to fight racism, poverty and injustice." It offers a food program that assists 42,000 women, children and senior citizens each month; education and training programs in the areas of engineering, manufacturing and information technology; a child care center, and neighborhood revitalization initiatives. |
 Photo by Baaqar Ellis  Photo by Daijah Mallet |
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FAMILY DAY Sunday June 20th from 12-4PM Exposed and Enclosed: Sun Prints and Living Art Terrariums Plus raw food workshops with Stephanie Sowards + Hitoko Sakai of Hello Kitchen Cast a silhouette of plants using the sun; create a lasting print of how our friend the sun reflects a design you and your parents create. Use plants and flowers to create intricate and distinct outlines on paper. Take home an original work of art that the whole family can take part in! Plus, don't miss out on the chance to test your landscaping skills in creating a Living Art Terrarium from reclaimed and recycled materials. Have fun with this workshop, combining different living plants with non-living trinkets and miniatures to create a little world of your own conception. As an additional bonus, we will be joined on this day by two raw food experts, Hitoko Sakai and Stephanie Sowards, who will do two brief presentations on the benefits and different methods of preparation of raw foods at 1PM and at 3PM. |
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MUSIC & PERFORMANCE Sat. June 19th at 8PM The 12th annual Allied Media Conference with special guests Miz Korona, Jessica Care Moore, Dj Rimarkable vs. Durandy, Stereoluxxx and more TBA. Admission: Free for registered AMC participants / $10.00 (suggested donation for non-AMC attendees) The Allied Media Conference advances strategies for using media arts to investigate, illuminate, and develop visionary solutions to the crises faced by our communities. Through the AMC, held every summer in Detroit, the worlds of media, art, technology, education, and social justice are united. In all AMC sessions, participants build on their knowledge and develop relationships that continue to grow throughout the years. Since its founding in 1999, the AMC has inspired hundreds of new leaders, showcased dozens of innovative popular education tools, incubated cross-sector collaborations, and fostered critical dialogue on a host of social justice issues. For artists and activists who return year to year, the Allied Media Conference presents a vehicle for the evolution of their theories and practices towards genuine social change. Live acts for the night Miz Korona began rapping on the bus ride to school. Free-styling was her breakfast, lunch and dinner. Since her early days she has continued to polish her skills as an inventive lyricist with a riveting stage performance. Her reputation grew after notable performances at Detroit underground hip-hop clubs, including seminal rap showdowns at Detroit's famed St. Andrews Hall. Miz Korona's notoriety grew after appearing in the critically acclaimed Curtis Hanson film 8 Mile, alongside legendary rap artists Eminem and Xzibit. Selected by the Detroit Music Awards as "Best Female Hip-Hop" artist several times over, and having built her rep through guest spots on the albums of U.S. and international artists, Miz Korona is now readying the release of her solo debut, The Injection. Jessica Care Moore is an internationally renowned poet/publisher/activist/rockstar/playwright/actor. She is a five-time Showtime at the Apollo winner; has featured on hip-hop mega-star, Nas' "Nastradamus" album and was a returning star of Russell Simmon's HBO Series, Def Poetry Jam. After her legendary win on the Apollo stage, jessica Care moore was approached by several book publishing companies, but in 1997, she paved her own path and launched a publishing company of her own - Moore Black Press, which has released her books: "The Words Don't Fit In My Mouth," "The Alphabet Verses The Ghetto," and "God is Not an American." DJ Rimarkable VS. Durandy is an instant musical kinship found between vocalist, percussionist & composer Christelle Durandy and music producer & DJ, Mariaelena "RiRi" Garcia aka DJ Rimarkable(TM). DJ Rimarkable VS. Durandy is an ensemble, melodically armed with strong beats and harmonies, and enchanting vocals. No statement is done! The spirited thread of the ensemble is the vision of a sound, filled with the colors of dances and voices within all of us. Based in Flint, one of the most dangerous cities in the U.S., Stereoluxxx are trying to positively represent their community and have created one of the most innovative music projects to come out of Michigan in years. Exploring themes of love, lust, heartbreak, insanity, euphoria, and suspicion, bandmates Tunde Olaniran and Brian Preczewski (Controller) create thumping basslines and urgent choruses with musical roots in electronica, hip-hop, R&B, new wave, and dance. More information on live performances TBA. |
 Miz Korona Jessica Care Moore Dj Rimarkable vs. Durandy Stereoluxxx |
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FILM Fri. June 18th at 7PM Green Garage & MOCAD present Jane Jacobs: Urban Wisdom Writer, urban activist and conceptualist, Jane Jacobs was one of the most influential and progressively minded commentators on the topic of city planning that our century has seen. Without professional training, she was able to write well regarded and insightful books on urban planning that are now required reading among students of the still evolving theories behind what has come to be known as Urbanism. In the program Urban Wisdom, through interviews with the woman herself, coupled with scenes from diverse cities from across North America that illustrate her points, the progression of her ideas are traced from their genesis as observations from a woman living in what she viewed as a mixed up society to ideas embraced by leading social reformers of our day. By understanding and embracing her ideas, society is only just now beginning to be able to transform it's thinking about the nature of urban life. |
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PANEL DISCUSSION Thurs. June 17th at 7PM MOCAD and The Detroit Agriculture Network present Urban Farming: Fiction, Fable and the Facts This incisive discussion on this charged, hot-button issue seeks to dig up some of the facts buried beneath the romantic fictions surrounding the controversial and trendy topic of Urban Farming. The discussion will feature the expert and active voices of participants culled from within the city's many, vital community gardening initiatives, including Greg Willerer (Brother Nature), Patrick Crouch (Earthworks), Mark Covington (Georgia Street Garden), Ashley Atkinson (Greening of Detroit / Garden Resource Program), Kathryn Underwood (City of Detroit, City Planning Commission), Charity Hicks (Detroit Black Community Food Security Network) and moderated by Dr. Monica White (Wayne State University/Detroit Black Community Food Security Network). |
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WORKSHOP Sat. June 12th 2PM to 5PM Detroit Digital Justice Coalition and MOCAD present DiscoTech: Discovering Technology Join the Detroit Digital Justice Coalition for an afternoon at the "DiscoTech". Learn more about the impact and possibilities of technology within our communities. Take part in interactive, multimedia workshops designed to demystify, engage and inform the community about issues of Internet use and ownership, providing the tools allowing communication to be more easily recognized as a fundamental human right. This event is free and all ages are welcome. This day-long free drop-in workshop, run by Detroit's Digital Justice Coalition, will feature opportunities for area residents to interact with technology as they build their own synthesizers, learn how to repair a PC-style computer with salvaged parts and to pick up informative literature on digital justice and technological resources throughout the Metro Detroit region. Plus, catch a screening of The Internet is Serious Business and learn about the impact of technology on your communities and the possibilities that that technology presents. The Detroit Digital Justice Coalition is comprised of leaders from several local organizations who are committed to empowering people of all ages, genders, cultures and social and economic backgrounds with free and universal access to digital media and the technology that leverages communication into greater knowledge, problem solving skills and increased creative productivity. |
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CURATOR TALK Thurs. June 10th at 6PM Luis Croquer, MOCAD Director and Chief Curator, will lead a contextualizing walk through the three current MOCAD exhibitions, Jef Geys: Woodward Ave, Design99: Too Much of a Good Thing and LaToya Ruby Frazier: Mother May I, providing crucial insight into each exhibition for the public from the curator himself. |
 Design 99 Hood Cat Camo, 2010 Courtesy of the artists |
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FILM Sat. June 5th at 8PM Images Festival and MOCAD present House of Sound MOCAD and Toronto's Images Film Festival are thrilled to be collaborating on an evening of short experimental films culled from recent festival presentations, alongside classic avant-garde shorts. This salon-style screening will highlight experimental short works by film and video artists from around the world who are pushing the boundaries of the medium in form and/or content. Whether the instigator of a melodramatic moment, a vessel of history or the materialist marker of time, the presence of recorded music throughout the films and videos presented in House of Sound are all united by the role of sound as harbinger of change. The musical selections found in these contemporary and historical works by Keren Cytter, Maya Deren, Nelson Henricks, Laida Lertxundi, Vanessa Renwick and Nikolai Ursin merge the popular and the perplexing: the songs playing back into each house mark control gained, control lost. Portrait #3: House of Sound Behind Every Good Man Four Seasons My Tears Are Dry Failure Meshes of the Afternoon Established in 1987, The Images Festival is the largest festival in North America for experimental and independent moving image culture, showcasing the innovative edge of international contemporary media art both on and off the screen. From Super-8 and hand-tinted celluloid to the latest video art, Images has presented thousands of films and media based projects in their 23-year history. Images is committed to an expanded concept of film and video practice: alongside film and video screenings, the festival presents groundbreaking live performances, media art installations in local galleries and new media projects by many renowned Canadian and international artists. Annually, they go out of their way and over the edge to provide Toronto with an annual extravaganza of the very best in image making. Through strategic collaborations the Images Festival is able to share this vision with numerous agencies and exhibition spaces throughout the world. To view their full exhibition archive since 1988, please visit imagesfestival.com |
 My Tears Are Dry (Laida Lertxundi, 2009) Four Seasons (Keren Cytter, 2009) |
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LECTURE Saturday May 29th at 3PM Ina Vandebroek: Ethnobotany as a tool to understand the usefulness and importance of plants for people. Ethnobotanist and long-time Jef Geys collaborator, researcher Ina Vandebroek will lecture on the human health benefits of the flora growing wildly along Woodward Avenue. The information and images Ina gathered form much of the core from which the exhibition Jef Geys: Woodward Ave was created. Ethnobotany is the science that studies how people perceive, use and manage plants for food, medicine, construction, fire, rituals, spiritual events, social life, dyes, textiles, and tools. Many ethnobotanical studies are being conducted worldwide in collaboration with indigenous and local communities whose contemporary knowledge about plant use is still being put into practice on a daily basis. These studies can contribute to our understanding of global biological and cultural diversity and help halt the loss of our planet's natural resources. They also offer us a glimpse into the traditional medical practices that exist in many indigenous and local communities around the globe. Surprisingly, a rich ethnobotanical knowledge of medicinal plants also exists in urban centers and plays an important role in many immigrant communities who continue to carry on with the tradition of using plants for self-medication that originated in their home countries. Research has shown that this traditional system of using medicinal plants and traditional healers for treating illnesses exists in parallel with Western biomedicine and often represents the first choice of healthcare for immigrants. The NYTimes called this traditional medical system "healthcare in the shadows" and recently devoted an article to this issue (May 10, 2008). This lecture will explore contemporary plant use in remote tropical and rural areas as well as in "asphalt" urban settings, with a special focus on the importance of medicinal plants for community healthcare. |
 Phytolacca americana, 2010Courtesy of the artist |
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OPENING NIGHT Thurs. May 27th 8:30PM PERFORMANCE: LaToya Ruby Frazier Artist LaToya Ruby Frazier presents a performance narrative with slide show 9PM MUSIC: Japanther w/ Tyvek admission: $6.00 All ages Brooklyn Based duo, Japanther has spent the better part of the past decade making what many would describe as punk-pop, or dance punk, or post punk. Whatever tired nomenclature is used, using drums, bass and tape recorded beats, sounds and pop culture snippets, Japanther, as a unit, create a sound instantly iconic. They are punk, as in the approach, the simplicity and the sincerity, and they are pop, as in the sing-a-long melodies of the Ramones and the Shangri-Las, but Japanther's peculiar mash-up of punk rock, hip hop, and politicized anthems and a house party attitude make them an entity well outside the trappings of your average dance punk band. Japanther invites everyone to join the party! Tyvek, from Detroit, are one of the darlings of the new pop underground. Having toured successfully with Jack White's Dead Weather, been featured on an MTV special about the new "Lo-Fi" movement and releasing two critically lauded albums on pioneering underground labels Siltbreeze and In The Red. Come, witness and enjoy their brilliant, primitive pop scrawls and enjoy one of those rare, pre-anticipated "I was there when" moments. |
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MUSIC: Hailing from the rustbelt capitol of Cleveland, Ohio, the incomparable Baby Dee presents the most shockingly, unique, intense and personal take on the American songbook since Tom Waits held relevance and Will Oldham re-introduced American indie rock to country and folk blues. Upon initial listening her idiosyncratic vocal approach and sincerity may be found to be somewhat discomfiting but, like all of the most rewarding listens, it's incredible depth of spirit gives you more and more with each successive return. Baby Dee uses harmonium, piano and harp, accompanied by minimal string arrangements from dual cellists, Matthew Robinson and John Contreras – whose own history performing with legendary UK psychedelic folk wanderers Current 93 holds an interest all it’s own - to produce rich and beautiful chamber pop, for lack of a better descriptor. Neo-baroque vaudeville may describe elements of it, if such concepts could be crushed against the bawdiest tunes of Cole Porter and creepy songs about teeth, bones and childhood nightmares. Detroit's Prussia are one of the finest and most innovative acts the city has produced in some time. A group of multi-instrumentalists, bravely blending elements of world music, art rock and indie pop to make strange and eerie intelligent dance music, removed from any electronics, and fit for pondering. |
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FAMILY DAY: Workshops run by MOCAD and Cranbrook Art Academy Students. |
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OPENING RECEPTION: Member and Guest preview: Public opening: Valet parking will be available throughout the evening for $5 |
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MUSIC: Grupo Escobar, Detroit’s very own Latin-salsa sensation, will provide the soundtrack to the celebratory end of the Blind Man… exhibition, where attendees will be able to help smash & trash Mariana Castillo Deball’s Piñata! Stop being a passive participant! Come in, dance and destroy part of the exhibition away! |
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WORKSHOP: Artist David Reinfurt is one half of the art duo David William. Reinfurt will be on hand to facilitate children and their families in playing the conceptual “game” that he and William Holder (the William half of David William) have developed for the Blind Man … exhibition. The nature of the game itself changes over time, as the show travels to different venues. The game begins with an investigation into the traditional view of the fourth dimension: time in relation to the other three dimensions. As yet, this game has no rules, and David William have merely provided potential players with objects with which to engage. Players of all ages are invited to intuit an improvised structure in this fun, free form family activity. |
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READING:
David-Baptiste Chirot is an eccentric artist and writer, currently residing in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His creative output combines visual and audio collage, chalk and charcoal rubbings and intense prose, examining contemporary art, society and politics in his own, highly individualistic style. |
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SMASH ART:
This wild, Duchamp-ian activity promises to be a rollicking experience for all participants. Artists, collectors and hangers-on are invited to come to MOCAD bearing at least one piece of original art each. Participants will then be encouraged to collectively smash, mutilate and destroy the works that they brought. Everyone will then be encouraged to work together to create a new and different, monumental art piece as a collective with all of the remnants of the smashed works. Art works and the tools to destroy them will not be provided by MOCAD. We request that no glass, dangerous materials or any hazardous products be used. |
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FAMILY DAY:
Create and decorate your own piñatas and traditional confetti-filled “Cascarones” on this fun and interactive Family Day. All materials will be provided free of charge. |
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MUSIC:
This legendary art-jazz ensemble from San Francisco comes to Detroit for the first time ever in their 30+ years of performing idiosyncratic free jazz. A precocious group of musicians with a fondness for mixing post-bop, free jazz, avant-rock and 20th century chamber music, while simultaneously drawing inspiration from traditional and popular styles of Africa, Asia, Europe and the early primitive music of the United States. The group will perform two distinctly different hour-long sets on this night. |
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READING:
K. Silem Mohammad is a modern outlaw, a controversial figure crafting art, in the form of poetry and prose pieces, from stolen moments of conversation, fragments of advertisements and procured bits of arcane apocrypha. One of the leaders of the “Flarf” poetry movement, K. Silem Mohammad’s work has succeeded in reigniting interest in the form by inviting equal amounts of praise and scorn for it’s use of phrases and terms culled directly from Google searches and the lowliest of cultural forms. Blogs, chat rooms, and long-since forgotten and discredited texts become finely rendered anti-forms in the hands of the craftsman, Mohammad. Lara Glenum, if she were to be understood solely through her work, is a gothic southern belle bathed in slime and ichor, a withering creature, reaching with tendrils into the penumbra. The darkest sensibilities are explored in Glenum’s poetic deconstructions, in which illogic and senselessness straddle the horrific otherworldly, ‘creature-feature’ worlds of David Cronenberg and H.P. Lovecraft. |
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This short film, the first collaboration by the playful Swiss duo of Fischli and Weiss , presents an offset, noir-ish Los Angeles, in which two animal partners (Rat and Bear), become embroiled in a murder mystery that brings to question the nature of art and crime. |
 Still from The Point of Least Resistance © Peter Fischli / David Weiss, Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery, New York. |
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SPECIAL EVENT: “Comic Jam” is an event held regularly by Green Brain Comics in Dearborn, in which participants are encouraged to partake in the creation of spontaneous, improvised comics and free form drawings with other artists and illustrators. For one night only the Comic Jam will move to MOCAD, where stations with the materials for various collaborative drawing opportunities will be set up. Paper and other materials provided, participants are encouraged to bring their drawing tool of choice. The public is encouraged to come at the end of the party to witness the results of the session before Jeffrey Brown’s lecture. |
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ARTIST TALK:
Comic artist and Michigan native, Jeffrey Brown has gained much renowned for his trio of books dedicated to past relationships, the self-published Clumsy (2003), Unlikely (2003) and AEIOU: An Easy Intimacy (2005), as well as more recent comic works The Incredible Change-bots (a Transformers parody) and his most recent work Funny Misshapen Body: A Memoir. His work is simultaneously wry and sincere, crude yet beautiful and emotional. His simple, sweet, illustrated novels, composed of snippets and snapshots of everyday life, have drawn attention to Brown from established comic icons like Chris Ware (Jimmy Corrigan, Acme Novelty Datebook) and Daniel Clowes (Eightball, Ghost World), and more mainstream praise from Ira Glass and his This American Life program on National Public Radio on which Brown has appeared to discuss his work. Jeffrey Brown will present a lecture about his own work and about the fumbles and foibles of being an independent comic artists/illustrator today. |
 _Jeff_Brown_FMB.jpg) Top: Panel from Clumsy by Jeffrey Brown (2002) Bottom: Panel from Funny Misshapen Body by Jeffrey Brown (2009) |
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FAMILY DAY: Kids can creatively challenge their parents to see how the pieces fit together on this fun-filled Family Day with stuffed toy re-assembly, make-your-own collaged puzzles, and more crafty weirdness! All materials are provided free of charge. |
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READING: The preeminent Cuban poet of his generation and one of the most influential poets from Latin America, Jose Kozer, comes to MOCAD for an intimate bilingual reading of selected poems from his book Stet. Kozer will read his own works in Spanish and Detroit poet, activist and educator Marilynn Rashid will read Mark Weiss’ English translations of the same works. The readings will be followed by a brief question and answer session with Mr. Kozer. |
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SPECIAL EVENT: The First New Wave dance party in celebration of the most romantic night of the year! Party it up with the one(s) you love with all-night-long party music from superstar DJ’s Frankie Bank$ and Johnny Saco. Cash bar. Please note: tickets will not be sent via mail, the purchasers name will be on a will call list at the door. |
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SUPPORTING OUR COMMUNITY: Danialle Karmanos’ Work it Out -- the non-profit program that features a yoga- based approach to preventing childhood obesity -- will hold a fundraiser at MOCAD to help expand its activities in 2010. Tickets are $50 per person, $75 for VIP champagne reception with photographer Brad Ziegler, whose captivating images of DKWIO participants will be featured. The evening at MOCAD will include wine and appetizers from D’Amato’s of Royal Oak, music by DJ Urban Kris and a chance to explore MOCAD's current exhibition. For more information or to purchase tickets, please visit: www.dkwio.org/events/eveningout |
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SCREENING: LOST LANDSCAPES OF DETROIT; an eclectic montage of rediscovered and rarely-seen archival film clips exhibiting life; cityscapes, labor and leisure from ‘vanishing Detroit’, as captured by amateurs, newsreel cameramen and industrial filmmakers from the 1920’s to the 1960’s. Lost Landscapes aims to offer Detroiters imagery of Detroit's past, free from any sense of nostalgia, in an attempt to provide subject for contemplation as the people of the city build towards a new future. Unlike most film screenings, Lost Landscapes relies on audience participation for the soundtrack – interaction with the films is encouraged, as questions are shouted out, observations are shared and mysterious locations are identified. “How we remember and record the past reveals much about how we address the future” points out archivist Rick Prelinger, who will be on hand to preface the screening with a brief talk on the value of ephemeral films, on the changing nature of historical memory, and what consequences will arise from the emerging massive matrix of personal records. Prelinger began collecting ephemeral films -- advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur works -- in 1983. In 2002, his collection of over 200,000 items was acquired by the Library of Congress; many key films are available online at the Internet Archive. In 2004 Rick and spouse Megan opened the Prelinger Library in downtown San Francisco, which includes over 60,000 pieces of print ephemera, books, periodicals, maps and zines and is open to the public. |
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CURATORS TALK: The Chief Curator of the Contemporary Art Museum of St. Louis, or the Blind Man curator, Anthony Huberman gives a special lecture about his approach to making exhibitions. Within the context of the current show, For the blind man..., Huberman presents artists, artworks, and ideas that have inspired the way he thinks about art in general. |
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MUSIC: Shooting Spires is the solo-project of Brooklyn-based art rock ensemble Parts and Labor bassist/keyboardist, BJ Warshaw. The sound of this one-man-band hearkens the earliest Eno-inflected releases by Roxy Music, with a rich layering of keyboards, drum machines, over-driven guitars and voice, accented by occasional blasts of saxophone and random synthesizer loops. The resulting songs are simple, hook-laden pop buried under a sonic cloud reminiscent of My Bloody Valentine, Animal Collective and Brian Eno’s exploratory rock albums. Deastro is the product of Randolph Chabot, a very productive kid from the outer reaches of suburban metro-Detroit. For several years Chabot has kept his Deastro persona alive through a series of home-recordings and internet releases. His early sound brought together a mash of retro-80’s, Nintendo inspired synth-pop and celebratory prog-rock, all performed by Chabot alone in various guises (drums along with pre-programmed synths, singing and playing synthesizer along to pre-programmed rhythms, etc.). On this evening, having just released their ‘Moondaggers’ LP on the internationally renowned Ghostly International label, Deastro will premiere its newest incarnation as a full band. |
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