UPCOMING EVENTS

UAM@noon Evening Edition
Ulrich Krieger Gallery Talk
Thursday, March 1 | 7:00 - 8:00 pm
University Art Museum

Gather round, as Ulrich Krieger, an experimental music composer and member of the band, Metal Machine Trio, gives visitors an inside look into the production of the UAM Project Room Arup SoundLab Installation, Metal Machine Trio: The Creation of the Universe.

Ulrich Krieger is a composer and performer based in Southern California. His experimental pieces are widely performed by ensembles in Europe and the USA. He is professor for composition, experimental sound practices, and contemporary saxophone at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts).

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Visiting Artist Lecture: Yvonne Rainer
Wednesday, March 7, 2012 | 5:00 - 6:45 pm
University Theatre, CSULB

Yvonne Rainer is a central figure in both American postmodern dance and experimental, political filmmaking. Her choreographies continue to be cited, re- performed and reproduced as iconic examples of contemporary dance. Rainer studied with Martha Graham, as well as Anna Halprin and Merce Cunningham before foregrounding the innovations of the Judson Dance Theatre. The choreographies Rainer created in the 1960s and early 1970s utilized minimalist concepts that changed the viewer/performer relationship. In 1970, Rainer co- founded the dance collective Grand Union with fellow Judson dancer, Trisha Brown. Since the mid-1970s, Rainer has focused primarily on film, though which she addressed social and political feminist issues. Her pieces are in the permanent collection of The Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY); The University of the Arts (Philadelphia, PA) and The J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, CA). She is also the recipient of various awards including the Guggenheim, MacArthur and Rockefeller fellowships. Rainer currently teaches at University of California, Irvine.

UAM@noon
Drs. Pauline Dunican and Roxanne Senton CSULB Dance Department Lecture
Tuesday, March 13, 2012 | 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm
University Art Museum

Gallery Performance: Trio A by Simon Leung and Sara Wookey
Thursday, April 12, 2012 | 6:30 - 7:30 pm
University Art Museum, CSULB

Don't miss an intimate performance by Sara Wookey and Simon Leung—two of only twelve individuals to whom Yvonne Rainer has taught her seminal postmodern dance, Trio A. Wookey and Leung will revisit the dance as a duet.

Wookey is a Los Angeles-based dancer, choreographer and curator. Her work emphasizes spatial awareness of both her body, as a dancer and that of the viewer. Currently she is in the process of organizing educational workshops where she experiments with movement and its relationship to its surroundings, often re-visiting the choreographies of the 60’s Judson Dance Theatre. In 2011, Wookey spoke out against Marina Abramović's participation in MOCA’s annual gala, an event for which she had auditioned as a performer.

Leung is a contemporary artist whose practice focuses on larger artistic practices and via social, cultural and ethical issues. His multi-media installations have been exhibited at: Third Guangzhou Triennial (2008); the Venice Biennale (2003); the Luleå Summer Biennial (2005); among other well regarded sites. Leung is a professor of Studio Art at University of California, Irvine.

Visiting Artist Lecture: Kelly Nipper
Wednesday, May 2, 2012 | 5:00 - 6:45 pm
University Theatre, CSULB

Kelly Nipper works in photography, installation and film, often combining all three mediums. Although not a choreographer, Nipper draws her subjects from the dancing body and the live event. For her, the dancer becomes an aesthetic object—an androgynous, anonymous subject for her work. Based in Los Angeles, Nipper earned her M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts in 1995, where she worked with Allan Kaprow. Her work has been shown both nationally and internationally including at The Orange County Museum of Art (Newport Beach, CA); Performa07 (New York, NY); Art Statements (Basel, Germany); The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA); Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, NY); Centre Pompidou (Paris, France) and Kunsthaus Zürich (Zurich, Switzerland). Nipper received the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award in 2007 and a grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation in 2010.