Dia News

February 2012

 

 

February 2 - Community Information Session on the Spiral Jetty in Salt Lake City
February 11 - Gallery Talks at Dia:Beacon: Lori Zippay on Circa 1971
February 12 - Gallery Talks at Dia:Beacon: Christian Rattemeyer on Franz Erhard Walther
February 13 - Last Chance: Franz Erhard Walther, Work as Action, at Dia:Beacon
February 23 - Readings in Contemporary Poetry: Anne Waldman and Lee Ann Brown
February 25 & 26 - Yvonne Rainer, performances at Dia:Beacon
February 27 - Artists on Artists Lecture: Mario Garcia Torres on Alighiero e Boetti

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Spiral Jetty

Panel Discussion
The Future of the Spiral Jetty:
Community and Collaboration
Thursday, February 2, 2012, 7 pm

Main Library Auditorium, Salt Lake City Public Library
210 E 400 S, Salt Lake City, Utah 84111

Free admission
 

In January 2012, Dia announced its collaboration with the Great Salt Lake Institute and the Utah Museum of Fine Arts as part of ongoing stewardship of Robert Smithson's monumental Earthwork, the Spiral Jetty (1970). Join the directors of each institution for a panel discussion moderated by Jennifer Napier-Pearce of Salt Lake City radio station KCPW. For more information, click here.

 

 

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EAI

Gallery Talks at Dia:Beacon
Lori Zippay on Circa 1971:
Early Video & Film from the EAI Archive
Saturday, February 11, 2012, 2 pm

Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries
3 Beekman Street Beacon New York 12508

Free with admission. Reservations recommended.
For reservations, click here.
 

Lori Zippay is the Executive Director of Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York, a nonprofit resource for moving image art, and guest curator of Circa 1971: Early Video & Film from the EAI Archive. Active in media arts exhibition, distribution, and preservation for over 25 years, Ms. Zippay developed EAI's internationally recognized collection of 3,500 media artworks, its pioneering preservation program, and extensive online resources at www.eai.org.

For more information on Gallery Talks at Dia:Beacon, click here.

 

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Franz Erhard Walther

Gallery Talks at Dia:Beacon
Christian Rattemeyer on Franz Erhard Walther
Sunday, February 12, 2012, 2 pm

Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries
3 Beekman Street Beacon New York 12508

Free with admission. Reservations recommended.
For reservations, click here.
 

Christian Rattemeyer is the Harvey S. Shipley Miller Associate Curator in the Department of Drawings at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, where he has curated the exhibitions Lines, Grids, Stains, Words (2007) and Compass in Hand: Selections from the Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection (2009). From 2003-07, Rattemeyer was the curator at Artists Space, New York. He has contributed regularly to art magazines including Parkett, Texte zur Kunst, and Artforum, and his most recent book is Exhibiting the New Art: 'Op Losse Schroeven' and 'When Attitudes Become Form' 1969 (2011).


For more information on Gallery Talks at Dia:Beacon, click here.

 

 

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Franz Erhard Walther

Last chance to see Franz Erhard Walther, Work as Action
Closes Monday, February 13, 2012

Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries
3 Beekman Street Beacon New York 12508

This presentation of works by Franz Erhard Walther features a selection of Handlungsst�cke (Action Pieces) from the early 1960s, including the complete presentation of 1. Werksatz (First Work Set), 1963-69 from Dia's collection. Acquired in 1978, 1. Werksatz comprises fifty-eight fabric elements, or "instruments," that draw attention to the body as material form and can be activated by visitors.

For more information about Franz Erhard Walther, Work as Action, click here.

 

 

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Anne Waldman and Lee Ann Brown

Readings in Contemporary Poetry
Anne Waldman and Lee Ann Brown
Thursday, February 23, 2012, 6:30 pm

Dia:Chelsea
535 West 22nd Street 5th Floor New York New York 10011

Dia members ($3); general ($6); students, seniors ($3)
For reservations, click here.

 

Anne Waldman was born in Millville, New Jersey, in 1945. Recently deemed a "counter-cultural giant" by Publishers Weekly, Waldman is a poet, performer, professor, editor, and cultural activist. From 1966-78, she ran the St. Mark's Poetry Project in New York, and in 1974, together with Allen Ginsberg, co-founded the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. She has written more than 40 books and has concentrated on the long poem as a cultural intervention. Her recent collaboration with artist Pat Steir, CRY STALL GAZE, will be published by Brodsky Center, Rutgers University in 2012. Waldman is the Artistic Director of the Summer Writing Program at Naropa University, the first Buddhist inspired university on the North American continent, and divides her time between Boulder and New York City.

Lee Ann Brown was born in Tokyo, raised in Charlotte, North Carolina, and received her MFA in poetry from Brown University. She is the author of Polyverse, The Sleep That Changed Everything, and The Voluptuary Lion Poems of Spring, and is the publisher of Tender Buttons press, publishing experimental poetry by women. Brown has held fellowships with Teachers & Writers Collaborative, Yaddo, Djerassi, the MacDowell Colony, the Howard Foundation, and the International Center for Poetry in Marseille, France. She currently divides her time between New York City, where she teaches poetry at St. John's University, and Marshall, North Carolina, where she founded and directs the French Broad Institute (of Time & the River).

For more information about Readings in Contemporary Poetry, click here.

 

 

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Yvonne Rainer

Yvonne Rainer
Second performances in retrospective series
Saturday, February 25, 12 and 2 pm
Sunday, February 26, 12 and 2 pm


Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries
3 Beekman Street Beacon New York 12508

Dia members ($24.50); general ($35); students, seniors ($28)
Tickets include admission.
To purchase tickets, click here.

 

Dia's retrospective celebrates the depth of Rainer's contributions to dance and includes early works of choreography from the 1960s, as well as compositions from the last twelve years. The February program features Three Satie Spoons (1961), Three Seascapes (1962), and Spiraling Down (2008).

For more information on Yvonne Rainer, click here.

 

 

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Alighiero e Boetti

Artists on Artists Lecture Series
Mario Garca Torres on Alighiero e Boetti
Monday, February 27, 2012, 6:30 pm

Dia:Chelsea
535 West 22nd Street 5th Floor New York New York 10011

Dia members ($3); general ($6); students, seniors ($3)
For reservations, click here.

 

Mario Garc�a Torres (b. 1975, Monclova, Mexico) received an MA from the Universidad de Monterrey and an MFA from the California Institute of Arts. Through interventions, slide projections, films, and installations, Garc�a Torres presents personal narratives, often fictional, that illuminate forgotten paths within conceptual art history. He has participated in exhibitions including the Venice Biennale (2007), the Panama Biennial (2008), and the Yokohama Triennale (2008). He has had recent solo exhibitions at BAM/PFA, Berkeley (2009); Jea de Paume, Paris (2009); Jan Mot, Brussels (2009); and White Cube, London (2008).

For more information about Artists on Artists Lecture Series, click here.

 

 

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Images (in order of appearance): Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty, 1970. Long-term installation in Rozel Point, Box Elder County, Utah. Photo: Nancy Holt, 1995. Joan Jonas, Vertical Roll, 1972. Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York. Franz Erhard Walther, Zentriert, 1967. Photo: Paula Court. Franz Erhard Walther, installation view of "Franz Erhard Walther: Work as Action." Photo: David Allison. Anne Waldman. Photo: HR Hegnauer. Lee Ann Brown. Yvonne Rainer, Trio A Pressured (In the Midnight Hour), 1999-2011. Performers: Pat Catterson, Emmanu�le Phuon, Emily Coates, and Keith Sabado. Photo: � Paula Court. Alighiero e Boetti, Mappa, 1972.

 

 

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