Upcoming Events and Lectures

Events and Lectures

Video Playlist: Speechless

February 29, 2012 | Details

Curated by Eric Fleischauer, Speechless is a one-night public screening of video work in conjunction with the MoCP’s Limits of Photography exhibition. The artists featured in this screening locate limitations inherent within the medium of video, subverting and usurping these…
Limits of Digital Photography: A W.J.T. Mitchell Lecture

March 20, 2012 | Details

W.J.T. Mitchell is a scholar and theorist of media, visual art, and literature associated with the emergent fields of visual culture and iconology (the study of images across the media). This lecture argues against the view that digital photography does…
Survival Techniques Film Screening: Before Ai Weiwei and Enemies of the People

April 13, 2012 | Details

This screening pairs two documentary films that address ways humans interpret and cope with government oppression. For her film Before Ai Weiwei, director Daria Menozzi interviewed artist Ai Weiwei in 1995, and created a rare, intimate portrait of China’s most…
Aide-Mémoire: A lecture-performance by artist Uriel Orlow

April 25, 2012 | Details

Survival Techniques artist Uriel Orlow presents Aide-Mémoire, a lecture-performance that was first executed at the 54th Vince Biennale. During the program, Orlow will weave together salvaged film clips to create new narrative configurations that merge visions of the past and…