The Italian Cultural Institute and the University of Toronto present the lecture
The Sculptures of Gian Lorenzo Bernini in Rome, Toronto and New York by Evonne Levy (Associate Professor at the University of Toronto).
Thursday, April 26, 2012 — 6:30pm
Istituto Italiano di Cultura — 496 Huron St., Toronto
Free admission
Infoline: 416.921.3802 ext. 221
This general introductory lecture on Baroque architect and sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) will pay particular attention to the two works by Bernini at the AGO (the bronze Corpus of Christ and the Bust of Gregory XV) and Bernini’s amazing terracotta sketches (bozzetti) that are to be the focus of a major once-in-a-lifetime exhibition of them opening October 2012 and running through January 2013 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City (click here for more details).
Evonne Levy is Associate Professor at the University of Toronto where she has taught since 1996. A specialist in Baroque art trained at Princeton University, she is author of Propaganda and the Jesuit Baroque. On the subject of Bernini she co-edited a book entitled Bernini’s Biographies: Critical Essays and a special issue of the Sculpture Journal on the portraits of Bernini.
http://www.iictoronto.esteri.it/IIC_Toronto/webform/SchedaEvento.aspx?id=654
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Prof Meghan Sutherland’s essay on Guy Debord’s Society of the Spectacle appears in The Guardian as part of The Big Ideas series
To read “What Debord can teach us about protest,” visit:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/apr/02/guy-debord-society-spectacle-protest
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Dr. Christof Migone's Hit Parade to be performed at this year's Witney Biennial in New York City.
For more information visit: http://whitney.org/Events/ChristofMigoneHitParade
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You're invited to………..
The Department of Visual Studies & the DVS Students' Society end-of-year social for students, staff, and faculty.
Student Centre Presentation Room
Wed April 4, 2012
{5:30-7:00pm}
Wine and Cheese
{7:00-11:00pm}
CMYK Themed Dance Party (Cash Bar)
The Department of Visual Studies and the DVS Student Society invites students, faculty, and staff to a wine and cheese reception in the Presentation Room on the first floor of the Student Centre. At 7:00pm the DVSSS brings you a CMYK themed dance party. Join us in celebrating the close of another successful school year. The DVSSS has a number of free drink tickets to give away so be sure to come early!
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The Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto,
Presents a public lecture by PROFESSOR JOHN PAUL RICCO
The Securitized Footprint
and The Economy of the Eve
Date: Tuesday, April 17th, 2012
Time: 4:30 p.m.
Location: Victoria College, Room 206
University of Toronto
John Paul Ricco’s work on social-sexual ethics lies at the intersection of art history, continental
philosophy, queer theory, and architecture. He is the author of The Logic of the Lure (University of
Chicago Press, 2002) and The Decision Between Us: art & ethics in the time of scenes (forthcoming,
Chicago, 2012). He is currently working on a third book, Non-consensual Futures. He is also the
editor of a special issue of the journal Parallax on the conceptual theme of “Unbecoming,” and coeditor
of a special issue of the Journal of Visual Culture on “Jean-Luc Nancy and the sense of the
visual.”
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Reanimating Ararat
Two Perspectives on Mordecai Noah's Jewish Homeland
April 16, 2012, 4-6pm
Jackman Humanities Building, 170 St. George St, Room 318
Reanimating Ararat: Two perspectives on Mordecai Noah's Jewish Homeland
"Noah's Ark on the Niagara: The Intellectual History of Mordecai Manuel Noah's Territorialism"
Adam Rovner, University of Denver
"Mapping Ararat: Envisioning a Virtual Jewish Homeland"
John Craig Freeman, Emerson College Boston; Louis Kaplan, Chair, UTM Visual Studies; and, Melissa Shiff, Department of Art
This event features two presentations that review and speculate about the plans to create a Jewish homeland on Grand Island New York. It will bring Professor Rovner's historical analysis of Ararat and its links to Jewish territorialism into dialogue with the Mapping Ararat project that uses cutting-edge digital media to reanimate this alternative Jewish homeland.
This event is free and open to the public. For further information, please contact the UTM Department of Visual Studies at (905) 569-4352.
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Out of Joint: Voices on Mentoring – Part 2
DVSSS is pleased to present "Out of Joint: Voices on Mentoring - Part 2"
on Fri March 23, 10am-2pm in the Presentation Room of the Student Centre.
This mini-conference is free and includes lunch.
ABOUT:
"Out of Joint" refers to the Art & Art History Program - a joint
undergraduate program between Sheridan & University of Toronto
Mississauga. This program, the first of its kind between a college and
a university, celebrated its 40th Anniversary this year and was
focused in the Blackwood Gallery exhibition Viva Voce. Working with
the Blackwood as their mentors, DVSSS takes on Part II of this
conference to facilitate ongoing discussions on mentoring, networking,
and collaboration in the arts, but more importantly on campus at UTM.
SPEAKERS:
Allison Rowe is a Toronto based artist, educator, and administrator
specializing in socially engaged artistic practice. She has an MFA
from California College of the Art and HBFA from Ryerson University,
and has recently exhibited at the Harbourfront Centre, the Ghetto
Biennale in Port-au-Prince.
Elizabeth Underhill is a curator and arts educator, who received her
HBA from the University of Toronto and currently works for Oakville
Galleries. Underhill has worked on projects across the GTA, including
The Three Tongues, a curated series of free knowledge exchanges.
William Huffman is the Associate Director of the Toronto Arts Council;
has worked with a number of visual arts organizations (the Blackwood
Gallery, Arts Toronto, and The Power Plant) and his curatorial
initiatives include several exhibitions that toured
internationally.
Nancy Nowacek is an artist focused on the use of the body as relates
to labor, architecture, the practice of space, and the everyday. Her
practice considers movement at the center of all the systems that
engender, effect and affect these relationships.
David Poolman teaches Drawing at Sheridan College and sits on the
board for Mercer Union and Trinity Square Video. MFA University of
Windsor graduate, he works in drawing, video, print media, and
installation, has exhibited nationally and internationally.
Gina Badger is the editorial director of FUSE magazine. She holds an
M.S. in Visual Studies from MIT and is a member of the Montreal-based
Artivistic Collective. She has presented work internationally, and has
recently published in journals No More Potlucks, Scapegoat and Public.
Amber Landgraff is an artist/curator who uses community and political
engagement in her practice. She has an MFA in Criticism and Curatorial
Practices, has worked on Building Together, FEAST Toronto and Toronto
Free Gallery's The Bridge series and is the current director of XPACE
Cultural Centre.
CAMPUS SHOWCASE:
Dan Cedric Areval The creator of FourthDraft, an online portfolio
system for artists and designers alike. He is currently studying at
the UTM and Sheridan College in the interdisciplinary Communication,
Culture and Information Technology (CCIT) program.
Christof Migone is the curator of the Blackwood Gallery on campus at
UTM. Christof will inform attendees of the Running with Concepts
project occurring this summer: Part-workshop, part-conference,
part-crit session, part-masterclass, part pechakucha (but longer),
part ignite (but longer still).
DVS Student Society is a student academic society on campus at UTM,
who share a dedication to building arts to enrich the experience
of students by providing support, resources, and events that promote
academic, professional, personal, and social development.
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THE FEELING OF LIFE
An Argument With Reference To Derrida
Alexander García Düttmann
Thursday, March 1, 2012 at 4:30pm
East Common Room, Hart House, University of Toronto (St. George Campus),
7 Hart House Circle, Toronto
Is there a feeling of life, and if so, can deconstruction contribute to its elucidation? What is a deconstructionist's "feeling of life"? The lecture will show that there is a feeling of life precisely because life is traversed, and sustained, by a tension: everything happens only once and yet, precisely because it happens once, everything also happens more than once.
Alexander García Düttmann is Professor of Philosophy and Visual Culture at Goldsmiths College, London, UK. He is author of numerous books, including Visconti: Insights into Flesh and Blood (2008), Philosophy of Exaggeration (2007), Between Cultures: Tension in the Struggle for Recognition (2000), and At Odds with AIDS (1997), among others.
This free public lecture is made possible by the Department of Visual Studies at the University of Toronto Mississauga and the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery at Hart House. All are welcome.
Hart House is accessible by the West Entrance. Contact accessibility@harthouse.ca for accessibility inquiries.
For further information on this event, contact the Department of Visual Studies at joanna.sheridan@utoronto.ca.
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Prof. Louis Kaplan will be participating in the Art With Insight Panel Discussion Curating and Collecting Photography on Friday March 2, 2012, 5-7pm, in University College Room 140. Reception to follow at UTAC 15 King’s College Circle. RSVP: 416-978-1838 or utac.rsvp@utoronto.ca. The event is being held in conjunction with the exhibition “Photography Collected Us”: The Malcolmson Collection.
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Prof. Brian Price will be introducing Robert Bresson's Arthurian legend, Lancelot du Lac on Monday, February 20, 2012 at 6:30pm at TIFF Bell Lightbox. For more information, visit:http://tiff.net/filmsandschedules/tiffbelllightbox/2012/5500001169
Prof. John Ricco Leads Workshops on Jean-Luc Nancy's book "On the Commerce of Thinking: Of Books and Bookstores" at G Gallery
PURE BLOCK, TRANSPARENT
Multi-session workshop on Jean-Luc Nancy's
On the Commerce of Thinking: Of Books and Bookstores,
as facilitated by John Paul Ricco. Realized in coordination
with the exhibition Sediment at G Gallery, Art Metropole
and Of Swallows, Bookshop.
The three sessions of this workshop will cumulatively
involve a close and direct reading of this short book by
Jean-Luc Nancy. Each session will begin with 3-4 sections
of On the Commerce ... being read aloud by workshop
participants with subsequent group discussion of the text,
led by John Paul Ricco.
Details for the three sessions are as follows:
Session 1:
January 26 2012 at G Gallery, 7-9pm (sections 1-3)
On the Commerce of Thinking, Of Books and Bookstores
The Idea and Character of the Book
The Book's End in Itself
Session 2:
February 2 2012 at Art Metropole, 7-9pm (sections 4-6)
The People of the Book
Interminable Reading
The Publication of the Unpublished
Session 3:
February 16 2012 at Of Swallows, Bookshop, 7-9pm (sections 7-10)
Book Open and Closed
The Scents of the Bookstore
The Commerce of Thinking
The Matter of Books
Those interested in attending the workshop are asked to
RSVP as soon as possible as there will be a limited number
of spots. Individuals that wish to RSVP are asked to
do so with the intention of attending all three sessions in
order to provide continuity and depth to the discussions.
To RSVP and for other information, please contact
Shane Krepakevich at skrepakevich(at)gmail(dot)com
