Cozy Fall at MOCAD: Poetry, Films and Family Days

READING: FALL '09 LITERARY SERIES Curated by Tyrone Williams with readings by Taylor Brady and Brenda Iijima Saturday, November 14, 2009 at 7PM Admission: Free Taylor Brady was born in Dunedin, Florida in 1972 and currently lives in San Francisco, where he is active in the Nonsite Collective. His first chapbook, Is Placed/Leaves, appeared in 1996 from Meow Books in Buffalo. For the past five years he has been writing an extended serial poem, To Not, whose parts include lyric, prose poetry, a novel, and a series of short essays. Sections of this project have appeared in journals, and in the recent chapbook 33549 (Leroy Books, 2000). Microclimates is the first book-length section of the To Not project. Currently he is editing the collected essays of Will Alexander, and is working on a new novel entitled, The Block Party. Brenda Iijima is the author of Animate, Inanimate Aims (Litmus, 2007) and Around Sea (O Books, 2004). She is currently the editor of Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs. She is editing a collection of essays by poets concerning poetry and ecological ethics titled )((eco (lang)(uage(reader). She is the art editor at Boog City - a newspaper and online source for artists and poets in East Village - and she is a visual artist. She lives in Brooklyn, New York and teaches at Cooper Union. The MOCAD cafe will be open for service at 6PM Images above, left to right: Brenda Iijima, Taylor Brady READ MORE FAMILY DAY: Robots and Space Invaders! Sunday, November 15, 2009 from 12PM to 4PM Admission: Free Make your own robot costume or space man outfit, as Detroit artists Davin Brainard and Sarah Lapinski lead this costume workshop for children of all ages. MOCAD provides the materials and your children provide their own ideas to create the perfect space travel gear or a menacing, shiny robot. Recycled materials will be used and there will be plenty of space for your "aliens" to invade. Image above by Davin Brainard READ MORE FILM: SHADOWBOX CINEMA presented by the Ann Arbor Film Festival and MOCAD Saturday, November 21, 2009 at 7PM present Admission: $6.00 MOCAD is proud to present the premier screening of Shadbowbox Cinema, a hand-picked selection of short films spanning the wide-eyed world of new indie and underground cinema. Shadowbox Cinema will present "animated doses of disillusionment, experimental uppercuts of individualism, surreal excursions, and pulsating stories that may detonate upon contact. The AAFF& MOCAD co-curated this special program with recent films never-before-screened by the Ann Arbor Film Festival. All of the films will be strong contenders, but there will be only one champion as the audience decides which film wins a cash prize. Stills above from the following films: Hydro-Levesque (Dir. Matthew Rankin), Heart Squared (Dir. Mizuho Endo) CLICK HERE to watch an animated introduction to Shadowbox Cinema READING: FALL '09 LITERARY SERIES Curated by Tyrone Williams with readings by Arnold J. Kemp and Kim Hunter Saturday, November 28, 2009 at 7PM Admission: Free Artist and writer, Arnold J. Kemp has lived and worked in New York City, San Francisco and, most recently, in Portland, OR where he is Chair of the Master's of Fine Arts in Visual Studies program. His work has been collected and exhibited by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Studio Museum in Harlem and at the at the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art's Time-Based Art Festival, where he has also acted as a curator of exhibitions. Kemp was the Associate Curator at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts from 1993 - 2003. His writing has appeared in Callaloo, Three Rivers Poetry Journal, Agni Review, Mirage #4/ Period(ical), River Styx and Nocturnes. Detroit born poet, Kim Hunter has been a factory worker, a security guard, a middle school teacher and a street-level, outreach worker. He has served as Poet-in-Residence in branches of the Detroit Public Library, Boysville (a facility for adjudicated youth) in Monroe, Michigan and Crosman Alternative High School in Detroit (under the auspices of the Inside/Out program). Hunter has read with such artists as Kathy Acker and Gil Scott Heron. His work has appeared in a variety of journals including Triage, Hipology, MetroTimes, Dispatch, Graffiti Rag and +R (Plus D'art). Past Tents Press published Hunter's first collection of poems, borne on slow knives, in 2001. Hunter makes his living by working for the man as a regional media team leader for the U.S. Census Bureau, and helps run the Woodward Line monthly poetry series. The MOCAD cafe will be open for service at 6PM Images above, from left to right: Arnold J. Kemp, Kim Hunter READ MORE INSTALLATION and PERFORMANCE: 10th anniversary of Christian Marclay: The Sounds of Christmas Saturday, December 12, 2009 to Sunday, December 20, 2009 First organized in 1999, The Sounds of Christmas is a seasonal work presented during the month of December in a different city every year. The project consists of 1200 Christmas LPs made available to the public for consultation and to local DJs on scheduled events. The installation also comprises six videos, which document the album covers, while a video projector shows documentation of past performances at other venues. During the one-week installation noted DJs create remixes of their own selection from Marclay's Christmas records. Part community project, part art installation, this work provides an impressive and exhaustive archive of Christmas music to DJs and turntablists for live performances which disturb the dismal and hackneyed holiday season soundscape. The installation has appeared at the Tate Modern (London), Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain (Geneva), Museum of Contemporary Art (Miami), DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art (Montreal) and The New Museum of Contemporary Art/Media Z Lounge (NYC). Credit for above images: Christian Marclay The Sounds of Christmas all photos courtesy of Paula Cooper Gallery READ MORE