Sentences with phrase «practice artist theaster»

Among the highlights will be the social practice artist Theaster Gates singing his own rendition of «God Bless America,» «The Battle Hymn of the Republic» and other traditional patriotic tunes; the filmmaker Arthur Jafa presenting his lauded short movie about racism, «Love Is the Message, the Message Is Death»; the artist Shirin Neshat showing films about violence against women; the composer David Lang performing and also speaking about «danger and honesty in both pop and classical music»; the poet Elizabeth Alexander reading her own work; and the artist Hank Willis Thomas presenting and discussing his film «A Person Is More Important Than Anything Else» (2014) on James Baldwin.

Notable participants include: choreographer and dancer Kyle Abraham; poet Elizabeth Alexander; performer Eric Berryman; performance and installation artist Tania Bruguera; urban revitalization strategist Majora Carter; innovator James Burling Chase; actress and playwright Eisa Davis; architect Elizabeth Diller; The Met's Kimberly Drew; photographer John Edmonds; juvenile justice reformer Adam Foss; writer and performance artist Malik Gaines; social practice artist Theaster Gates; filmmaker Tony Gerber; FLEXN dance pioneer Reggie (Regg Roc) Gray; trombonist, painter, and composer Dick Griffin; dancer and choreographer Francesca Harper; trombonist Craig Harris; vocalist Nona Hendryx; playwright Branden Jacobs - Jenkins; cinematographer Arthur Jafa; artist and cultural worker Shani Jamila; trumpeter JAWWAAD; gaming pioneers Navid and Vassiliki Khonsari; NYU Professor and musician Jason King; philosopher Gregg Lambert; composer and Bang on the Can co-founder David Lang; novelist, filmmaker, and curator Ernie Larsen; Wooster Group founding member and director Liz LeCompte; Harvard Professor Sarah Lewis; journalist Seamus McGraw; poet Aja Monet; jazz pianist and composer Jason Moran; performance studies professor Fred Moten; visual artist Shirin Neshat; playwright Lynn Nottage; professor of contemporary rhetorical theory Kendall Phillips; doctor Jeremy Richman; poet Carl Hancock Rux; performance artist Alexandro Segade; writer and activist Tanya Selvaratnam; guitarist and composer Marvin Sewell; playwright and actress Anna Deavere Smith; conceptual artist Hank Willis Thomas; performance artist Carmelita Tropicana; puppeteer Basil Twist; theater director Roberta Uno; vocalist and composer Imani Uzuri; and Wooster Group founding member and actress Kate Valk, among others.

In partnership with VO2 Networx, the University of Memphis Department of Art, Memphis College of Art, and Rhodes College Art Department, Crosstown Arts is pleased to welcome internationally - recognized installation and social practice artist Theaster Gates for a public lecture and panel discussion at Sears Crosstown on the evening of Saturday, November 16.

Not exact matches

* BURNAWAY STAFF PICKS MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 Deer Bear Wolf Magazine # 4 Release Party Mammal Gallery / 8 - 11 pm THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 * Talk: Roger Stahl, «Staring Down a Barrel: Art and Activism in the War on Terror» GSU Troy Moore Library / 6 - 9 pm * Opening: Jill Frank, Working Artist Project MOCA GA / 6 - 9 pm * Talk: Theaster Gates, «Social Practice and Social Justice»...

Likewise, there's nary an art fair nor biennial free of performance offerings — even from artists whose practices aren't focused on the medium, like conceptual practitioner Rashid Johnson's recent restaging of the grandfather of midcentury performance art Allan Kaprow's 1970 Sweet Wall, or even social - practice popularizer Theaster Gates's recent in - situ pottery presentation at the Istanbul Biennial.

But the Power 100 does include numerous individuals from a range of backgrounds worthy of attention, and who are working with issues of race and inequality in their practice (see: Chicago - based artist Theaster Gates, number 16).

Founded and led by artist Theaster Gates, Rebuild is part of a network of sister organizations, including Arts + Public Life, Place Lab, and the Space Fund, that collaborate to extend the social engagement of Gates» studio practice to the South Side of Chicago and beyond.

Chicago - based artist Theaster Gates has developed an expanded practice that includes space development, object making, performance and critical engagement with many publics.

BOOKSHELF «Theaster Gates» is the first monograph documenting the practice of the Chicago - based artist whose work «includes space development, object making, performance and critical engagement with many publics.»

In this excerpt from his lecture / performance, artist Theaster Gates reflects on the last 10 years of his art practice through the medium of his 60,000 - piece glass lantern slide collection, given to him by the University of Chicago's art history department.

They are not the only artistic - types whose practice is based in social activism and regeneration - the American conceptual artist Theaster Gates is a prime mover in this sphere - but they are going about their business with impressive verve and dedication.

Join Theaster Gates and Kerry James Marshall for a two - hour discussion that connects the professional creative practices of artists and acts of education that happen outside of the classroom.

IMA art conservator Richard McCoy talks with artist Theaster Gates about Thornton Dial in relations to Gate's art practice in

I think of the Goodwill t - shirt rack as a small scale gesture in the spirit of artists like Theaster Gates and Rick Lowe, who knit their respective communities together via «social practice» initiatives.

Taking on some eighty years» worth of food - related experiments, Feast introduces a broad range of practices, beginning with the Italian Futurists» «Manifesto for Futurist Cooking,» and tracing the line all the way through to contemporary meals, culinary interventions, and community - building dinners by artists and collectives like Michael Rakowitz, Red76, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Theaster Gates, and others.

«Theaster Gates by Tom McDonough» Bomb Magazine Tom McDonough engages Chicago artist and urban visionary Theaster Gates in a conversation about the many activities that define his robust, less - than - a-decade old practice.

The artist Theaster Gates, an innovator in the field of social practice and a professor at the University of Chicago, speaks with current exhibition artist Carrie Mae Weems about artistic practice, community, and the politics of urban development.