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Suicide Narcissus
September 15 – December 15, 2013
| Sun, Sep 15, 2013 | 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm |
Opening Reception
Location: The Renaissance Society
Admission: FREE
Concert
Improvised music, solo and duet sets
Birgit Ulher, trumpet
Eric Leonardson, electronics, assorted devices
Location: Bond Chapel, 1025 East 58th St.
Admission: FREE
Ulher and Leonardson are seasoned improvisers, with restraint being a key part of each of their repertoires. Her stark compositional sensibility will be set against the delightfully faceted tinkering of Chicago-based performer and composer Leonardson.
Concert
Sendai Transmissions
Gene Coleman and Ensemble N_JP
Location: Bond Chapel, 1025 East 58th St.
Admission: FREE
featuring
Ko Ishikawa (sho)
Naomi Sato (sho)
Naoko Kikuchi (koto)
Yoko Reikano Kimura (koto)
Teddy Rankin-Parker (cello)
Alex Wateman (cello)
Nick Millevoi (electric guitar)
Toshimaru Nakamura (live electronics)
Audio and video composition by Gene Coleman
Sendai Transmissions is Coleman’s recent foray into music compositions in which live performances are set to video projection, the visuals for this score being based on the architecture of the Sendai Mediatheque, a building designed by Toyo Ito.
Conversation
Solveig Øvstebø in conversation with Hamza Walker
Location: Film Studies Center, 5811 S Ellis Ave, 3rd Floor
Admission: FREE
Concert
Salvatore Sciarrino’s flute opera
Lisa Goethe, flute
Location: Bond Chapel, 1025 East 58th St.
Admission: FREE
Concert
Shamisen
Yumiko Tanaka, Yoko Reikano Kimura
Location: Bond Chapel, 1025 East 58th St.
Admission: FREE
In its 400-year history, the shamisen, a sister to the banjo, has been subject to neo-refinement. With chops to burn, this duo will seamlessly span the depths of tradition and the heights of experimentation.
Artist Talk
Paul Petritsch and Lucy Skaer
Location: Kent Hall Room 120
Admission: FREE
Hamza Walker will lead a discussion with Paul Petritsch and Lucy Skaer, two artists featured in the current exhibition, Suicide Narcissus.
Lecture
The Six Extinctions
Joe Masco, Professor of Anthropology and Social Sciences in the College, University of Chicago
Location: Swift Hall, Room 106 - 1025 East 58th S
Admission: FREE
Masco is the author of The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico (Princeton University Press, 2006). Through a series of articles, his interest in science and technology, U.S. national security culture, political ecology, mass media, and critical theory have led him to chart the socio-political and socio-psychological transition from nuclear to natural holocaust. This lecture will focus on topics raised through the work in the exhibition.
Reading
Cyrus Console, poet
Location: Cobb Hall, Rm 409
Admission: FREE
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