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Events and Lectures in September

Lecture: Mary Ellen Mark

September 7, 2004

When: Thursday, October 7, 6 pm
Where: Ferguson Theater - 600 S. Michigan Ave

Mary Ellen Mark will discuss her two projects on view Twins and Falkland Road: Prostitutes of Bombay. During August of 2001 and 2002, Mark set up an elaborate portable studio tent on a
volley ball court during the annual Twins Day Festival in Twinsburg, Ohio and employed a
Polaroid 20 × 24 view camera to capture in extraordinary detail the minute similarities and differences between sets of twins. After ten years of attempting to photograph in Falkland Road, a congested quarter of Bombay, India marked by prostitution and desperate poverty, in 1978 Mark began to slowly gain acceptance among the prostitutes and for the next thirteen months documented the intimate details of their everyday lives.

Lecture: Natasha Egan, Associate Director - Double Vision: Twins and Photography

September 9, 2004

When: Thursday, September 9, 6pm
Where: Museum of Contemporary Photography

In reference to Mary Ellen Mark’s series Twins and the exhibition Ditto:Multiples from the Collection (both currently on view) Egan, a twin herself, will discuss various photographic representations of twins. Presented as exotic objects of desire, used as a curious attraction by advertisers, and clinically examined as subjects of science, twins have contributed to the history of photography in fascinating, often hilarious ways.

Artist’s Talk - Haley Newman

September 18, 2004

When: Monday, October 18, 2004, 6 pm
Where: Conaway Center, 1104 S. Wabash Ave.

Hayley Newman will discuss her work to date, including her Connotations series of fictional performances and the photo “documents” that accompany them. Newman will be an artist-in-residence at Columbia College as part of Tic Toc, an ongoing performance art and installation project created by C-Spaces, the student centers and galleries of Columbia College Chicago.

Every Picture Tells a Story: An Evening of Performance and Music

September 28, 2004

When: October 28, 2004, 7:30 pm
Where: Hothouse — 31 E. Balbo, corner of Wabash
Cost: $10.00, $7.00 for museum members and students with ID

Inspired by old photos from his own family album, performance artist David Kodeski spins witty stories based on personal memory, family lore and conjecture, as many of the subjects and situations of the pictures will remain forever unidentified as the older generations of his family pass away.

With singer/songwriter Jason Tractenburg on keyboards and vocals, his wife Tina Piňa Tractenburg on slide projector and their ten year old daughter, Rachel, on drums, the critically acclaimed Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players turn the lives of anonymous strangers into pop-rock musical exposés based on slides found at estate sales and thrift stores.

Following Every Picture Tells a Story, Mikle Maher and Colm O’Reilly of Theater Oobleck will perform Maher’s Hunchback Variations. Theater Oobleck is presented by Performing Arts Chicago as a preview of this Spring’s PAC/edge Performance Festival.

Performance: Slow Journalism, Hayley Newman

September 29, 2004

When: Friday, October 29, 2004, 7 pm
Where: Glass Curtain Gallery, 1104 S. Wabash Ave.

Hayley Newman
Slow Journalism

Hayley Newman, together with select Columbia College students, will present Slow Journalism, a performance that takes its name from the Italian Slow Food movement and advocates a slowed down, reflective relationship with information in the world around us.