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UPCOMING EVENTS / PAST EVENTS / VIDEOS 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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OPENING NIGHT
Friday, May 11 Post-Industrial Complex / Vertical Urban Factory with music by Omar S, Melvin Davis & United Sounds and Passalacqua Exhibition Opening: 7 to 9PM, Free Performances: 9PM, $6 | Free for members Fresh, young and eccentric Hip Hop duo, Passalacqua will open up a night of eclectic Detroit music with a distinctly Detroit-bred brand of funky, eclectic sound. Legendary 1960s rhythm and blues vocalist Melvin Davis will continue on the night with some true-to-life Northern Soul. Omar S will close the night with some of the finest, most futuristic techno sounds the City has to offer. MOCAD will also feature The Regurgitator by Ryan C. Doyle in the back parking lot. Post-Industrial Complex is an exhibition and source book that celebrates the ingenuity and adaptivity of the Detroit community. This multidisciplinary exhibition, comprised of locally made objects and recorded interviews with makers, proposes a conversation about the meaning and value of personal labor in Detroit. Vertical Urban Factory features the innovative design of factory buildings that are both urban — located in cities or shaping cities — and vertical — multistoried and dense. Included are significant examples from around the world, spanning the Modern era to the present. By examining the significance of these spaces, this project points to the impact of global economies on local industries and aims to stimulate ideas for the sustainable reintegration of the factory into the urban fabric. Vertical Urban Factory is an independent project and exhibition curated by architectural historian and critic Nina Rappaport. |
 Omar S  Melvin Davis. Photo by Margaret White.  Passalacqua |
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DEPE SPACE RESIDENCY
May 11 to May 20 Alison Pebworth’s Beautiful Possibility Tour ARTIST TALK Alison Pebworth’s Beautiful Possibility and other thoughts Thursday, May 17, 7 to 8PM Admission: Free Alison Pebworth lectures about her recent research project which is comprised entirely of discussions with the general public while traveling across the United States. Beautiful Possibility, by Alison Pebworth, is a traveling exhibition and research project that takes the nomadic experience of itinerant explorers and traders and the traveling culture of Medicine and Wild West Shows as inspiration for engaging others about what it means to be American. The first segment of the project launched from Southern Exposure in San Francisco, CA in April 2010. For the seven months that followed, Pebworth toured an exhibition of painted banners, map and survey station to venues from California to the Dakotas and southern Canada, accompanying the show in a small travel trailer for the duration of her solo journey. Select tour stops on Part II of her Tour in 2012 include the Lakota Sioux Nation, Pine Ridge, SD; Wormfarm Institute, Reedsburg, WI; SPACES, Cleveland, OH; Unsmoke Systems, Braddock, PA; Sabbath Day Lake Shaker Residency, Glouchester, ME; and Space Gallery, Portland, ME. Find out more about the project at beautifulpossibilitytour.com |
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FARMER'S TALK
Motin presents a DIY Maple Syrup Workshop Saturday, May 19, 2 to 3PM Admission: Free Mr. Motin, a local urban farmer living in Detroit, presents a workshop and discussion about DIY maple syrup production made with sap from trees in your own yard or neighborhood! The workshop will cover materials, techniques, how to install and care for your trees and sap-collection system, how to boil syrup and storage techniques. |
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ART OPENING AND GRADUATION CEREMONY
Focus:HOPE Community Arts Department and MOCAD present Focus:HOPE Excel Photography Exhibition 2012 Wednesday, May 23, 6 to 9PM Admission: Free Over the course of the past two years, high school students from the community surrounding Focus: HOPE began a journey into self-expression and awareness through the art of photography. This weekly after-school program offered a progressive curriculum coupled with hands-on classroom instruction, educational field trips to cultural institutions, and exciting photographic shoots to diverse locations throughout the metropolitan area. Participants learned the foundations of black & white and color photography. Professional photographers served as mentors to guide students through this educational experience. During their commitment, students began to unleash their creativity while simultaneously cultivating knowledge, self-awareness, and leadership skills. Please join us for this remarkable photography exhibition documenting the journey of these dedicated and insightful young men and women. The exhibition will be on display at the Museum from May 23 through 27 in the Woodward Gallery. |
 Photo by Cobb S. |
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PERFORMANCE POTLUCK
Storytelling Potluck Thursday, May 24, 6 to 8PM Admission: Free Participants in the storytelling potluck register to bring a food item that has a personal story behind it. It may be a story about your grandmother and her travels. It may be a tale about the very first recipe you learned to cook and where you were in your life when you mastered it. Each participant will add an item to the menu and randomly chosen participants will present their story while their contribution is enjoyed. Seating is limited and registration before May 19 is required. Registered participants will be informed of the number of participants by May 20. |
 Storytelling Potluck |
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OFF-SITE PROJECT
Youthville Detroit and MOCAD present Youthville Radio May 26 through July 29 87.9 FM Youthville Radio is an off-site MOCAD project debuting some of Detroit’s finest young electronic musicians in an innovative sound project: a radio-based audio collage created collaboratively by Mike Huckaby. Huckaby, his music students at Youthville, MOCAD’s New Wave Committee and MOCAD’s Department of Education and Public Engagement, Youthville Radio is a multi-transmitter radio installation broadcasting continually on on 87.9 FM, running May 26 through July 29 and located on the airwaves between Hart Plaza and Campus Martius. |
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FOOD FAIR
The Dunch Club and MOCAD present DIY Food Fair Friday, June 1, 6 to 8PM Admission: $12 The DIY Food Fair is a Science Fair-style symposium of young, food entrepreneurs presenting their wares in an educational Round Robin of food and color. |
 Dunch Club |
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CURATORS TALK AND PANEL DISCUSSION
Nina Rappaport on Vertical Urban Factory Jon Brumit and Katie McGowan on Post-Industrial Complex Saturday, June 2, 1PM Admission: Free *Tours of Vertical Urban Factory offered at 12 and 2 PM by curator Nina Rappaport. Nina Rappaport is a New York-based architectural historian, curator and critic. She is a professor of urban design theory at Syracuse University School of Architecture/New York City Program and the Publications Director at Yale School of Architecture, where she edits the bi-annual magazine Constructs and a series of architecture books. Author of the book, Support and Resist: Structural Engineers and Design Innovation (The Monacelli Press, 2007), she has curated exhibitions on Swiss infrastructure and industrial photography. Rappaport has contributed to numerous international architecture magazines. She is chair of Docomomo-New York/Tri-State. MOCAD’s Jon Brumit and Katie Grace McGowan will discuss Post-Industrial Complex, followed by a panel discussion with all three curators. |
 Fiat factory Lingotto, engineer Giacomo Matte-Trucco, completed 1926, Turin, Italy. Courtesy of the Fiat Company. |
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FILM AND ARTIST TALK
I’ve Always Been A Dreamer Directed by Sabine Gruffat 78 minutes Saturday, June 2, 7PM Admission: $5 (free for members) I Have Always Been A Dreamer is a documentary travelogue and film portrait of two cities in contrasting states of development: Dubai and Detroit. Within the context of a boom and bust economy, the film questions the collective ideologies that shape the physical landscape and impact local communities. Though these cities represent two different economic eras (Fordist and Post-Fordist), both cities vividly illustrate the effects of economic monocultures and the arbitrary consequences of geopolitical advantage. The film serves as a visual documentation of these two cities as indexes of political, cultural and economic change while tracing the ways each city’s development is tied to technologies of communication, production, labor, and consumption. The film was shot in Detroit, MI and Dubai, UAE, exploring their landscape through various modes of transport, and includes interviews with local historians, scholars, and artists. The film was produced between 2007 and 2011. http://www.sabinegruffat.com/ |
 I've Always Been A Dreamer |
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MUSIC
Omar Souleyman with DJ R E L A X E R & special guest Friday, June 8, 8PM Admission: $8 Syrian pop sensation, Omar Souleyman returns after a triumphant performance at MOCAD during the Summer of 2011. With countless albums released as part of a Middle Eastern tape underground, Souleyman blends a myriad of influences, sounds and spirits with traditional Syrian folk songs to create a hybrid of street music and club bangers accompanied by Souleyman’s distinct voice and style. A rising international star, he has shared stages and songwriting credits with Björk and numerous other superstars of the Coachella, Pitchfork and Sonar Festival circuits. A vital force of creativity just cresting his 50s, Souleyman has spent the past several years knocking the progressive musical voices of the day on their collective ears by by entrenching himself firmly in a particular musical tradition while producing the most hyper-progressive sounds heard today. |
 Omar Souleyman |
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DEPE SPACE RESIDENCY
The Nationwide Museum Mascot Project June 11 through 18 The Nationwide Museum Mascot Project (NWMMP) is a Los Angeles-based group of mascots and kind-hearted pranksters. Taking their cue from sports-team mascots, NWMMP promotes museums by surprising visitors, community and staff with crowd-pleasing antics, handshakes, high-fives, hugs and a host of other activities. “In general, we feel that art museums are not always friendly places for people who are not already familiar with the culture and rhetoric. NWMMP seeks to bridge this gap, and in the process, pull down the institution’s pants a little,” says NWMMP co-founder Brian Dick. “Although we are often invited to mascot an institution, for the summer tour, we (NWMMP) just might take the liberty of inviting ourselves,” says co-founder Sperry-Garcia... |
 NWMMP |
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MOCAD ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE
The Hinterlands present Voice of The City June 13 through July 22 MOCAD is pleased to present its premiere artists in residence, The Hinterlands. This Detroit-based company creates original, multidisciplinary performance works, explores the art of performance through ecstatic training and play, and engages their community through direct collaboration and exchange. The Hinterlands will slowly amass the setting for a new performance exploring American subculture and Vaudeville, which translates as the “voice of the city,” to be showcased at MOCAD. Through the course of their month-and-a-half-long stay, they will be on site during regular public hours, rehearsing the piece for all visitors to observe inside the spacious Woodward Gallery. The project will also include a series of off-site performance interventions at locations TBD as well as a two-week intensive summer camp with Detroit teens, which concludes in a live Vaudeville-style performance. The Hinterlands residency is supported with a matching grant from the National Performance Network Creation Fund, while the summer camp is supported by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Dates to remember for The Hinterlands programs while in residence: OPEN TRAINING SESSION Sunday, June 24, 2 to 5PM Admission: Free SPECIAL IN-PROGRESS PERFORMANCE The Hinterlands make a rare in-progress presentation of Voice of The City Saturday, July 21, 8PM Admission: $15/person |
 The Hinterlands. Image by Carrie Morris, courtesy of PuppetArt and The Hinterlands. |
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MUSIC
Baby Dee with special guests Scavenger Quartet Friday, June 15, 8PM Admission: $8 Baby Dee’s musical career has seen her perform worldwide with musical connoisseurs such as Will Oldham (who co-produced Safe Inside the Day with Matt Sweeney), Antony Hegarty, Marc Almond, Alex Neilson, Andrew WK (who produced her Regifted Light album) and David Tibet of Current 93 (with whom Dee has recorded extensively). When not performing across the globe, Dee resides in Cleveland with her many cats, harp and her Steinway D piano. On this tour Baby Dee will be presenting solo harp performances. Frank Pahl ’s Scavenger Quartet will open the show performing stunning compositions on guitar, euphonium, saxophone, bass, percussion and automatic instrumentation. |
 Baby Dee  Scavenger Quartet |
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NEIGHBORHOOD BBQ AND TRADING POST LAUNCH
Saturday, June 16, 12 to 5PM Admission: Free Don’t miss this super custom hybrid BBQ and Trading Post launch event in the back lot of MOCAD. The BBQ event features the custom-made BBQ Grill + Pipe-Bender Hybrid created by Dozer, of Dozer Cycles, currently on display within the Post-Industrial Complex exhibition. And in the spirit of the exhibition, Detroit-based and metro-area specific edibles will be cooked and served. Bring special foods to grill and share, as well as objects to give away or trade, all in celebration of the opening of MOCAD’s Trading Post, running until July 29. |
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FAMILY DAY
Midtown Detroit, Inc. presents The Nationwide Museum Mascot Project Movement Workshop Sunday, June 17, 12 to 4PM Admission: Free Kids and parents are invited to help develop a new movement vocabulary with our new MOCAD mascot. Join this mysterious creature for dancin’, singin’ n’ clownin’. Young children will find this Family Day particularly engaging. |
 NWMMP |
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MULTIMEDIA ARTIST TALK
Danielle de Picciotto on The Beauty of Transgression Thursday, June 21, 7PM Admission: $5 American artist, Danielle de Picciotto moved to Berlin in 1987. She was cofounder of the popular electronic dance music festival, Love Parade and infamous clubs such as Tresor and EWerk. For decades she witnessed and influenced the creative upheaval in Berlin as its underground developed from postpunk to techno and on to the mixed experimental practices of today. She experienced, firsthand, that culture’s influence as it successfully brought a war-ravaged city back to life. In this multi media performance Danielle de Picciotto will read from her Berlin memoir, The Beauty Of Transgression. The book brings together her accounts of musicians, DJs and club owners as well as other artists and their milieus, with unique firsthand descriptions of milestone places and events. During the reading Danielle projects original Super 8 film clips of Berlin. Alexander Hacke, founding member of Berlin cult band Einstürzende Neubauten, will be composing and performing live electronic soundscapes. This presentation will be followed by a Q&A about Berlin, Einstürzende Neubauten and the Love Parade. |
 Danielle & Alexander |
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DEPE SPACE EXHIBITION
Ruth Ellis Center and MOCAD present Ruth Ellis Center Photography Exhibition RECEPTION: Friday, June 22, 6 to 8PM Admission: Free Following a month-long collaboration with MOCAD’s Department of Education and Public Engagement, Ruth Ellis youth will exhibit the fruits of their photography workshop focusing on identity construction and portraiture from June 22 through July 29. |
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FILM
“Images” from Detroit’s Cass Corridor Directed by Kathryn Brackett Luchs and Shaun Bangert Saturday, June 23, 8PM Admission: Free During the late 1960s and through the 1970s, some artists living in Detroit explored alternative, inventive and personal approaches to making art. These artists shared their personal vision by being in geographical proximity to one another, making works that mark an era in Detroit’s history that is now regarded as being highly significant. The film is a tense visual montage combining original silent footage with new information and bringing to light the mood and art of the time. Artists presented in the movie include: John Egner, Steve Foust, Michael Luchs, Nancy Mitchnick, Gordon Newton, Ellen Phelan, Paul Schwarz and Robert Sestok. Original music by Mick Vranich accompanies this illuminating documentary. |
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SUMMER CAMP
The Hinterlands Youth Workshop June 25 through July 6 Enrollment: Call (313) 832-6622 for details Youth performance on Saturday, July 7, 2 to 4PM Admission: Free The Hinterlands residency project at MOCAD includes a two-week intensive theater camp wi th Detroit teens, concluding in a live performance. Individuals of all physical capabilities are welcome to participate in the workshop. |
 The Hinterlands. Image by Carrie Morris, courtesy of PuppetArt and The Hinterlands. |
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MUSIC & PERFORMANCE
The 14th Annual Allied Media Conference wsg TBA Saturday, June 30, 8PM to 2AM Admission: Free for registered AMC participants / $10 (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. |
 Allied Media Conference |
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DRIVE-IN RADIO THEATER
Presented in the MOCAD parking lot Wednesday, July 11, 8 to 10PM Admission: $5 per car Join us for another installment of hyper-local electromagnetism at this season’s Drive-In Radio Theater in the MOCAD parking lot. This evening of live performances is hosted and curated by Jon Brumit, MOCAD’s Curator of Public Engagement, and features a disparate program inspired by and diverging from the Post-Industrial Complex and Vertical Urban Factory exhibitions on view in the museum. Starting every 20 minutes, the performances are lit by your headlights, with audio transmitted to your car radio. Attendees can stay for the whole evening or catch a few acts before heading out. |
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LECTURE
Jerry Herron on Detroit: America’s First Un-City Thursday, July 12, 7PM Admission: Free Jerry Herron is Professor of English and Founding Dean of the Irvin D. Reid Honors College at Wayne State University. His publications include two books, Universities and the Myth of Cultural Decline, and AfterCulture: Detroit and the Humiliation of History. His essays and critical articles have appeared in South Atlantic Quarterly, Raritan, Social Text, Representations, Georgia Review, Antioch Review, and Harper’s. He has also written for the London Times Higher Education Supplement, Detroit News, Hour Detroit, the MetroTimes, and Playboy. He is currently finishing a book about Americans’ sense of the past: Living With Detroit: An All-Purpose History of American Forgetting. Herron was born in Abilene, Texas; he received his BA at the University of Texas in Austin, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa. He holds MA and PhD degrees from Indiana University. Since 1982 he has been a resident of downtown Detroit, a city which has provided him with a great subject to write about and an exceptional place to live. |
 Jerry Herron |
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FAMILY DAY
The Hinterlands’ Family Vaudeville Day! Sunday, July 15, 12 to 4PM Admission: Free Spend an afternoon with The Hinterlands to uncover your own family vaudeville routine. Taking inspiration from classic vaudeville of the early 20th century, The Hinterlands will teach the basics of physical comedy, presentation, and style in this drop-in workshop. Create that family band you’ve always wanted! Build that father-daughter comedy routine! Sculpt an acrobatic act that includes everyone from grandma to baby! We’ll play, laugh, and be astonished as we perform for each other. Some costumes provided, but feel free to bring your own! |
The Hinterlands. Image by Carrie Morris, courtesy of PuppetArt and The Hinterlands. |
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FREE SWAP MEET
Saturday, July 21, 1 to 3PM Admission: Free Upcycle! You’re invited to come get some new-to-you duds from this big ‘ol swap meet. The only thing missing is the price tags. Donate! Trade! Collect! Unwanted clean clothing items will be accepted from 12 to 2:30 PM the day of the event. Leftovers will be donated to charity. |
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The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit is a non-profit, tax-exempt organization supported through invaluable contributions from individuals and members. The Richard and Jane Manoogian Foundation provides leading support for the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit since 2006. General operating support is generously provided by The Kresge Foundation, Masco Corporation Foundation and the Taubman Foundation. Major funding for MOCAD's exhibition and public programs is provided by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and The Andy Warhol Foundation for The Visual Arts. Additional funding for institutional growth, capacity building and educational initiatives is provided by the McGregor Fund, Erb Family Foundation and Edith S. Briskin/Shirley K. Schlafer Foundation. Valuable in-kind support is provided by Dykema. The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit is also supported, in part, by Leveraging Investments in Creativity, in partnership with the Ford Foundation and ArtPlace, a collaboration of top national foundations, the National Endowment for the Arts and various federal agencies to accelerate creative placemaking across the U.S.
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