Wednesday, March 06, 2013; 6:30-8:00pm
at Slought, 4017 Walnut Street

http://slought.org/content/11511/

Slought Foundation is pleased to announce Ciné-Cat: Marking the City, a street art project across Philadelphia beginning in March 2013. In the film The Case of the Grinning Cat (2004), Chris Marker becomes intrigued by the sudden appearance of painted grinning yellow cats on the streets of Paris. Documentation of these images and personal commentary throughout the film are joined by discussion of political events of the time.

Join us for a public workshop at Slought on Wednesday March 6th from 6:30-8pm to make meaning of the grinning yellow cat. The workshop, led by Slought Fellow Rachel Heidenry, will begin with a brief discussion of Chris Marker’s work, followed by an overview of street art practices and hands-on stenciling demonstrations. Templates and supplies will be provided in the workshop. Following the workshop, participants will be invited to add their grinning cat to Philadelphia’s built landscape.

Rules for Ciné-Cat Participants
– Be creative. The templates are only guides. We encourage you to adapt the grinning cats to your individual style and medium.
– Please document your street art creations and send us your grinning cats at: info@sloughtfoundation.org
– All public works must be executed in adherence to the City of Philadelphia laws.
– We encourage the use of non-permanent materials, such as chalk, removable spray, washable paint, and tape when creating in public places.
– Permanent materials, such as industrial paints and aerosol sprays, may only be used on condemned structures or with formal consent of property owners.
– Slought and its affiliates are not responsible for any participant who does not adhere to these rules or the law.
– Celebrate Chris Marker!

Recommended Street Art Templates
Grinning Cats Template #1
Grinning Cats Template #2

Wednesday, March 13, 2013; 6:00-7:30pm
at Meyerson Hall B1, University of Pennsylvania

http://slought.org/content/11514/

Slought is pleased to announce a public conversation with Agnès Varda and Molly Nesbit on March 13, 2013 from 6-7:30pm in Meyerson Hall at the University of Pennsylvania (210 S. 34th St).

Agnès Varda is one of the leading filmmakers of our time. Her self-funded debut, the 1956 fiction-documentary hybrid La Pointe Courte is often considered the unofficial first New Wave film. In 1962, she released the seminal nouvelle vague film Cléo from 5 to 7. Over the coming decades, Varda became a force in art cinema, conceiving many of her films as political and feminist statements, and using a radical objectivity to create her unforgettable characters. She describes her style as cinécriture, and it can be seen in audacious fictions like Le bonheur andVagabond as well as revealing autobiographical documentaries like The Gleaners and I and The Beaches of Agnès.

Molly Nesbit is Chair and Professor in the Department of Art at Vassar College as well as a contributing editor ofArtforum. Since 2002, together with Hans Ulrich Obrist and Rirkrit Tiravanija, she has tri-curated Utopia Station, an ongoing book, exhibition, seminar, website and street project.

This program is made possible thanks to the generous support of University of Pennsylvania’s Cinema Studies Program, Department of Fine Arts, Emily and Jerry Spiegel Fund to Support Contemporary Culture and Visual Art, Slought Foundation, and Temple University’s Department of Film and Media Arts. Additional support has been provided by University of Pennsylvania’s Department of French Studies, Department of English, Penn Humanities Forum, and School of Arts and Sciences. We also acknowledge the collaboration of the International House of Philadelphia and Scribe Video Center.

Jointly organized by Nora M. Alter, Timothy Corrigan, Nicola Gentili, Aaron Levy, and Jean-Michel Rabaté.

Thursday, March 14, 2013; 5:30-7:00pm
at Slought, 4017 Walnut Street

http://slought.org/content/11516/

Slought Foundation is pleased to announce Total Installation, Public Project: Ilya and Emilia Kabakov in Conversation, a public conversation with artists Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, on Thursday, March 14, 2013 from 5:30-7pm. The event will be introduced and moderated by Matthew Jesse Jackson, and has been organized by Kevin M.F. Platt and Christine Poggi.

Ilya and Emilia Kabakov create large-scale environments, “total installations,” that orchestrate elements of the Everyday within an atmosphere of the Extraordinary. While rooted in their experience of life in the Soviet Union, the Kabakovs’ art strives to reach a plane of transcultural significance, to penetrate to the core of the desires and fears that mold our present world. An ever-changing, ambitious project designed to reintegrate contemporary art into the public imagination, the Kabakovs’ art challenges its viewers to become utopians without any allegiance to any utopia.

Ilya Kabakov was born in Dnepropetrovsk, Soviet Union, in 1933. He studied art in Moscow, and began his career as a children’s book illustrator during the 1950’s. He was part of a group of Conceptual artists in Moscow who worked outside the official Soviet art system. In 1985 he received his first solo show exhibition at Dina Vierny Gallery, Paris, and he moved to the West two years later. His installations speak as much about conditions in post-Stalinist Russia as they do about the human condition universally. Emilia Kabakov (nee Kanevsky) was born in Dnepropetrovsk, Soviet Union, in 1945. She studied in Irkutsk and Moscow, immigrating to Israel in 1973, and moved to New York in 1975, where she worked as a curator and art dealer. In 1988, Ilya and Emilia began their collaborative projects together. Their work has been shown in such venues as the Museum of Modern Art, the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington DC, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Documenta IX, at the Whitney Biennial in 1997 and the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg among others. In 1993 they represented Russia at the 45th Venice Biennale with their installation The Red Pavilion. This program is made possible in part through the generous support of the Sachs Programming Fund and the Departments of the History of Art and Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pennsylvania.

Friday, March 15 to Saturday, March 16, 2013
at Slought, 4017 Walnut Street

http://slought.org/content/11510/

Slought Foundation is pleased to announce Things That Quicken the Heart- Chris Marker: a Symposiumon March 15-16, 2013.

Organized by the Department of Film and Media Arts at Temple University, the Cinema Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania, and Slought Foundation, the symposium will explore the work of the late French filmmaker Chris Marker, who passed away in July 2012 at the age of 91 and is widely acknowledged as one of the most prolific and inventive media artists in the history of cinema. Working continually since the 1940s, Marker directed some of the most important films in the history of world cinema, including La jetée (1962), A Grin without a Cat (1997), Sans Soleil (1982), and multi-media projects Level 5 (1996) and Immemory (1998, 2008).

The symposium will feature a variety of speakers in conversation, including Agnès Varda, Raymond Bellour, Bill Horrigan, Sam Di Iorio, Lynne Sachs, Hito Steyerl, Renée Green, Dominique Blüher, Rick Warner, Christa Blümlinger, and Gertrud Koch.

It will be accompanied by an exhibition of photographs by Chris Marker documenting political protests and friends who shared Marker’s political leanings (Courtesy of Mari and Peter Shaw).

Symposium Schedule

Reservations recommended but not required:
http://chrismarker.eventbrite.com/

Friday, March 15th, 2013 
Panel 1: Cats
Marker Forever
Opening Remarks by Nora M. Alter and Timothy Corrigan
Moderated by Molly Nesbit; Presentations by Raymond Bellour and Agnès Varda
5:30-7pm
Reception to follow

Saturday, March 16th, 2013 
Panel 2: Elephants
An Auteur without an Image: Marker in History
Moderated by Louis Massiah; Presentations by Dominique Blüher, Sam Di Iorio, and Rick Warner
10-12pm 

Panel 3: Owls
Remembrance of Films to Come: Marker and Future Media
Moderated by Timothy Corrigan; Presentations by Christa Blümlinger, Gertrud Koch, and Bill Horrigan
1:30-3:30pm 

Panel 4: Wolves
The Cinema Rolls On: Filmmakers Under the Influence
Moderated by Rea Tajiri; Presentations by Renée Green, Lynne Sachs, Hito Steyerl
4-6pm

Other Screenings and Events

March 14, 1-4pm at Scribe Video Center (4212 Chestnut Street, 3rd Fl)
Master class with Agnès Varda

March 16, 5pm at International House, 3701 Chestnut St
Screenings of Chris Marker’s Early Collaborations:
Walerian Borowczyk, Les Astronautes (1959, 12 min)
Alain Resnais and Chris Marker, Toute la mémoire du monde (1956, 21 min, French w/ English subtitles)
Alain Resnais and Chris Marker, Les Statues meurent aussi (1953, 30 min, French w/ English subtitles)
Alain Resnais, Night and Fog – Nuit et brouillard (1955, 31 min, French w/ English subtitles)

Acknowledgements

This program is made possible thanks to the generous support of University of Pennsylvania’s Cinema Studies Program, Department of Fine Arts, Emily and Jerry Spiegel Fund to Support Contemporary Culture and Visual Art, Slought Foundation, and Temple University’s Department of Film and Media Arts. Additional support has been provided by University of Pennsylvania’s Department of French Studies, Department of English, Penn Humanities Forum, and School of Arts and Sciences. We also acknowledge the collaboration of the International House of Philadelphia and Scribe Video Center.

Jointly organized by Nora M. Alter, Timothy Corrigan, Nicola Gentili, Aaron Levy, and Jean-Michel Rabaté.