Special Events IAWIS/AIERTI 7th International Conference on Word & Image Studies: Elective Affinities Philadelphia, 23-27 September, 2005

Friday, Saturday, Monday & Tuesday, 23, 24, 26 & 27 September, 9:00 a.m. -5:00 p.m.

Exhibit:  John Hubbard: Cover Design in the Digital Age
Houston Hall, Second Floor

The "Cover Design in the Digital Age" presentation invites the viewer to consider the dramatic change in a cover designer's work since the advent of desktop design. Using a series of recent book covers, Penn Press's cover designer John Hubbard visually walks the viewer through the creative process. For each cover, he points out how digital photography and design programs have been used to tell each book's story and have given him - and all designers - the ability to realize their visual ideas more easily and accurately.

 

Friday, September 23, 2005, 5:30 p.m.

Reception and Exhibition Opening

“Mapping the Pacific Coast: Coronado to Lewis and Clark”
The Quivira Collection (September 24, 2005-January 8, 2006)

Antique maps, books, and prints (1544 to 1801) illustrate the fantasies and early discoveries involved in exploration of California by sea leading to Jefferson's decision to commission the overland Lewis and Clark Expedition, which reached the west coast in 1806.
From the collection of Henry and Holly Wendt in cooperation with the Sonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa, California.

Arthur Ross Gallery
220 South 34th Street
web: www.upenn.edu/ARG  
phone: 215-898-2083 (general info)
215-898-1479 (Gallery front desk)

Dr. Dilys Winegrad
Director/Curator

Hours:
Tues.-Fri., 10 AM-5 PM
Sat. and Sun., Noon-5 PM
Closed Mondays

The Gallery is free and open to the public

Saturday, 24 September, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Reception and Exhibition Opening

The Rare Book Room of van Pelt Library hosts a reception marking the opening of an exhibit curated by John Dixon Hunt entitled “From Book to Garden and Back: Works of Ian Hamilton Finlay.”

This largely loan exhibition of concrete poetry, pamphlets, books and garden projects explores the creative world of the Scottish poet Ian Hamilton Finlay.  It highlights a series of his recurrent themes and media: concrete poems, emblems, inscriptions, metamorphosis, the sea, the French Revolution, two earlier garden makers, their gardens and writings – William Shenstone and the Marquis de Girardin, and a series of garden projects Finlay has devised along with examples of their publication in book form as built work.  A fully illustrated and annotated catalog, also containing four essays on words and images in Finlay’s work, is available as a special issue of Word & Image, and copies will be available for sale or order at the exhibition.

Monday, 26 September, 6:00 p.m.

Talk and Reception for Younger Scholars
Penn Humanities Forum, 3619 Locust Walk
Prof. Wendy Steiner, Director of the Penn Humanities Forum: “The Idea of the Model”

Monday, 26 September, 6:00-8:00 p.m.

Silicon Gallery hosts a reception for conference participants
http://www.silicongallery.org
139 North 3rd St., Philadelphia, PA 19106

During the month of September, Silicon Gallery will present a selection of artists books printed at Silicon and published by Granary Books including recent collaborative works by Jerome Rothenberg and Susan Bee, Lyn Hejinian and Emilie Clark, and John Yau and Archie Rand. Other Granary Books on display will include work by Johanna Drucker, Kenneth Goldsmith, Bob Perelman and Francie Shaw, and Mimi Gross and Charles Bernstein among others.

Monday, 26 September, 8:00 p.m.

Concert by Tempesta di Mare with soprano Julianne Baird
http://www.tempestadimare.org
Hall of Flags, Houston Hall

Flaming Rose offers a musical glimpse into George Frideric Handel’s expressions of spirituality through some of his most intimate chamber arias. The texts come from Heinrich Barthold Brockes’s Iridisches Vergnügen in Gott (Earthly Pleasure in God), a collection of devotional poems that employ such vivid imagery as “flaming rose” and “glittering garden” to symbolize spiritual ideals. Soprano Julianne Baird joins the Tempesta di Mare Chamber Players for a program that also includes instrumental chamber music that complements the mood of the songs. The group will record this program for Chandos in March 2006. Co-sponsored by Departments of Music and Germanic Languages and Literatures. Free for conference participants and Penn faculty and students.  Others: $5:00.

Tuesday, 27 September, 6:00 p.m.

Art Spiegelman: “Comix 101”
Irvine Auditorium, 3401 Spruce Street

To attend this lecture only, call the Box Office (Annenberg Center) at 215-898-3900 or register online at http://humanities.sas.upenn.edu
Tickets will also be available at the door of Irvine Auditorium two hours before the event: $8 ($5 students).

Book Exhibition
Friday, 23 September and Saturday, 24 September, 8:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
        The Scholar’s Choice will exhibit books in the Brachfeld Room, Houston Hall.

Other events and exhibitions on and around the Penn campus.

Institute of Contemporary Art
118 South 36th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
215.898.7108 | http://www.icaphila.org
Exhibition:
Rodney Graham:  A Little Thought

Slought Foundation
Aaron Levy, Executive Director
4017 Walnut Street | Philadelphia, PA 19104
215.222.9050 | Slought.org

Book Launch

William Anastasi's Pataphysical Society: Philadelphia Launch
Featuring William Anastasi, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Aaron Levy
Free. Friday, September 23, 2005; 5:00-6:00pm
http://slought.org/content/11304/

William Anastasi, the editors, and select contributors will all be in attendance. This new publication engages work by conceptual artist William Anastasi in relation to literary and artistic predecessors and contemporaries including Jarry, Joyce, Duchamp, and Cage.

Exhibitions

Comicology: The New Magical Real
Featuring Charles Burns, Others
Free. Opening Saturday, September 24, 2005; 6:30-8:30pm
On Display through October 22, 2005
http://slought.org/content/11301/

Slought Foundation presents “Comicology: The New Magical Real,” an exhibition of innovative and critically inflected comic art curated by Judith Stein and Gabe Greenberg.
An emerging wave of underground comic artists are telling stories which are as disturbing and surreal as they are funny and mundane, as wildly metaphysical as they are obsessively detailed. Following 60's underground heroes like R. Crumb and Harvey Pekar, many contemporary comic artists rejected the flavor of mainstream comics and opted instead for a "realist" approach to the medium--filling their panels with life-like stories and a passion for everyday or historical detail. But the artists featured in this show are on the vanguard of a very different trend. They have revived some of mainstream comics' stranger roots by populating their stories with talking animals, supernatural events, and cosmological surprises. Drawing in part from the absurdist logic of superhero serials, Sunday morning cartoons, horror comics, and Newspaper strips, these creators have persisted in telling bizarre, other worldly, and humorous tales.

Paper Architecture / Architecture de Papier
Featuring Marjorie Welish, Olivier Gourvil
Free. Opening Saturday, September 24, 2005; 6:30-8:30pm
On Display through October 22, 2005
http://www.slought.org/content/11302/

Slought Foundation, a non-profit organization rethinking contemporary art, presents “Paper Architecture / Architecture de Papier," a dialogue through working drawings by Marjorie Welish and Olivier Gourvil. In 1999, face-to-face conversations led to the idea of exchanging titles with which these painters might provoke one another to imagine conceptual architecture.
Marjorie Welish will be present for the reception.

Vera’s Room
Featuring Maria Chevska, Hélène Cixous
Free. On Display through October 22, 2005
http://slought.org/content/11300/

Maria Chevska’s work, drawing on both painting and sculpture, examines a number of interrelated issues, including the implications of language upon the visual world and the narrative dimension of the visual. In the installation on view at Slought Foundation, her interest in collectivity and narrative informs an exploration of displacement and exile and comments on the figure of the stranger in contemporary life.