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FMCA EVENTS Calendar 2009-10
October 22 (Thursday)
FMCA Annual Meeting
5:30–8:30 p.m., Woodward Entrance
Free to FMCA members (Guests $45)
5:30 p.m. FMCA Annual meeting
6:00 p.m. Cocktail reception in honor of Gilbert B. and Lila Silverman
Viewing: Fluxus: It’s an attitude
Join Friends and invited guests in celebration of Fluxus: It’s an Attitude, the installation of the recent gift of Fluxus art from the Gilbert B. and Lila Silverman Fluxus Foundation. The event is in honor of the Silverman’s gift which puts the DIA among an elite group of institutions with significant Fluxus holdings. Jon Hendricks, the curator of this major of the Silverman’s private collection, will join us to explain the importance of this major gift. Annual reports of FMCA activities for the past year will be presented prior to the reception.
Sponsored by Jeffery Antaya and Robert Moroni in honor of Lila and Gilbert Silverman
 November 19 (Thursday)
3 x 3: artistspacetime
6–8:30 p.m.
John R Entrance
Free and Open to the Public
Cash concession for food and beverages available
Building on the success of previous FMCA events staged in the permanent collection galleries, performance artist Melanie Manos joins Becky Hart to curate a series of three performances staged in the contemporary galleries. This evening features regional artists recognized internationally for their excellence in performance art. Guests can wonder the galleries throughout the evening to observe the various living works.
An anthology of performances by artists with Detroit connections will be screened in Rivera Court. The video exhibition Action Reaction will be open in the Rivera Galleries.
This evening's events are free and open to the public.
Make your reservation here.
Reservations will close at capacity.
Sponsored by Molly and Mark Valade
 AFTER BEFORE THE REVOLUTION
Performance
Danielle Abrams
Danielle Abrams is New York-based African-American and white Jewish artist who performs Borscht Belt “schtick” wearing a tuxedo and a mask of borscht. Eleanor Antin is a California-based artist who in 1979 performed as a Eleanora Antinova, a dancer in Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, who wore brown-skin makeup and a leotard. For After Before, Abrams has struck up a conversation with Antin to guide her re-performance of Antin’s revolutionary work. Abrams will recall Antinova’s position in the Ballet Russe as a “Black face in a snow bank.” Like Antin, Abrams raises the barre in awareness about racial taboos in the history of Western culture. Although Abrams and Antin are distanced by the stretch of America, and their performances span three decades, the artists both enact personae in historical genres as a means to resist social hierarchies in the contemporary Western world.
 I AM RUNNING and SWOON AND DRENCH
Performance
Amanda Krugliak
The collection of monologues “Swoon and Drench,” represents a time of tremendous change and transition. Being thrown off balance, off the beam, forces us to see things in a new way, and perhaps be reconstituted in the process.
In the signature performance piece "I Am Running,” Krugliak takes the audience on a well-worn path from childhood relays around the block to returning to a college town in the middle of her life, with no assurance as to what lies ahead. The work leads us to the completely outrageous and unexpected in an uncanny reveal, and as Krugliak literally runs in place for the duration, versions of self past and future seem to be gaining momentum right over her shoulder.
FLICK FLICKER
Performance
Russ Orlando
Fluorescent lights, electrical wires, interrupters, cushion and self
I use Detroit often as the conceptual genesis for my performances. Most of my work deals with my reconciliation with the city. This piece recreates the experience I felt when I came upon a fluttering fluorescent light illuminated from a lifeless city structure. How could this light still exist? Why was there still power flowing to a building seemingly in ruins? Could there still be a pulse here? I found this moment a metaphor for the city.
 January 13, 2010 (Wednesday)
Reva K. Stocker Memorial Lecture
Matthew Barney in Conversation
Lecture: 7 p.m.
Detroit Film Theater Auditorium: John R Entrance
Free and open to the public
Matthew Barney is producing a performance and its film record – Khu – a Detroit based chapter of his newest project loosely based on Norman Mailer’s 1983 novel, Ancient Evenings. REM, the first chapter, was performed in Los Angeles in 2007. The artist / filmmaker updates Mailer’s plot from an ancient Egyptian narrative to a present day account of reincarnation and rebirth set in an American landscape. The seven chapters of this tale will take place in seven cities and correspond to the seven stages of the soul’s departure from the body according to Egyptian mythology. Barney’s retelling replaces the body of a man with the remains of a car featured in Cremaster 3. The Motor City proudly welcomes Mr. Barney as he builds an epic story that conflates our histories with Egyptian lore.
March 18, 2010 (Thursday)
Fluxus with Tools (or Bon Appetit)
Alison Knowles and Hannah Higgins
Lecture: 7 p.m.
Detroit Film Theater Auditorium: John R Entrance
Free and open to the public
Artist Alison Knowles joined Fluxus near its inception in the early 1960s and continues to embrace its spirit. She and her scholar-daughter Hannah Higgins present a free-wheeling lecture / performance. Initially conceived for a venue in Berlin, Fluxus with Tools has been performed twice since.
May 16, 2010 (Sunday)
Nick Cave: Lecture
Soundsuits
2 p.m.
Nick Cave often works with used and recycled materials to create colorful, fantastic fabric sculptures which he calls “Soundsuits” because they make sounds when worn by dancers in his performance art projects. These richly varied sculptures reflect his interest in fashion and culture, ritual and ceremonial concepts, as well as politics.
Sponsored by the Friends of African and African American Art and the Friends of Modern and Contemporary Art
FMCA sponsors Rebecca and Alan Ross
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