SCULPTUREX SYMPOSIUM #3: THE STATE OF EXPANDED MEDIA IS OPEN FOR PRE-REGISTRATION
Pre-registration required - click here. Please include your name, email address, school affiliation (if any), phone, and number of people attending. Your pre-registration will be acknowledged.
SculptureX Symposium #3: The State of Expanded Media
The discipline once known as sculpture is no longer bound to serve as a producer of architectural elements, nor is it any longer contained by the historical narratives that once determined its form. Sculpture as a contemporary practice is a condition of space - it is interactive and participatory and relationally claims no singular territory. Multidimensional in nature, sculpture in its most expanded form generates a nexus where narratives, materiality, and medium unfold, refold, and co-mingle in an indeterminate social and cultural arena. SculptureX3 will focus upon sculpture's emerging identity in the age of post-media. Free and open to the public.
The discipline once known as sculpture is no longer bound to serve as a producer of architectural elements, nor is it any longer contained by the historical narratives that once determined its form. Sculpture as a contemporary practice is a condition of space - it is interactive and participatory and relationally claims no singular territory. Multidimensional in nature, sculpture in its most expanded form generates a nexus where narratives, materiality, and medium unfold, refold, and co-mingle in an indeterminate social and cultural arena. SculptureX3 will focus upon sculpture's emerging identity in the age of post-media. Free and open to the public.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2012
Cleveland Institute of Art
Joseph McCullough Building
11601 Euclid Ave, Cleveland
Cleveland Institute of Art
Joseph McCullough Building
11601 Euclid Ave, Cleveland
| 9:00 AM | Registration opens |
| 9:45 | Welcome by Ann Albano, Executive Director + Chief Curator, The Sculpture Center, and Barry Underwood, Chair of Sculpture, Cleveland Institute of Art |
| 10:00 | Mel Chin, Keynote Speaker |
| 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:15 | Sculpture Speed Dating for MFA students and 2012 MFA graduates |
| 11:45 - 1:00 PM | Lunch at CIA |
| 1:15 - 3:00 | Afternoon Consecutive Panels
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| 3:00 - 3:30 | Closing summary remarks by David Norr, Chief Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland |
| 4:00 | Reception at The Sculpture Center, 1834 E. 123 St., Cleveland Exhibitions on view: Procession: Song for the Underground Railroad, a new installation by Johnny Coleman, Oberlin College head of the art department and African-American studies professor. |
This symposium, a program of SculptureX, is generously sponsored by the Cleveland Institute of Art; The Cleveland Museum of Art, David Franklin, Director, The Sarah S. and Alexander M. Cutler Chair; The Contemporary Art Society of the Cleveland Museum of Art; Edinboro University Provost and Vice-President for Academic Affairs, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Art Department, and Art Department Graduate Committee; the School of Art at Kent State University; and The Sculpture Center. This Sculpture Center educational program is also supported by the Kulas Foundation and the John P. Murphy Foundation and receives public funding from the Ohio Arts Council and Cuyahoga Arts and Culture.
The MFA Sculpture Speed Dating session is a juried event at SculptureX Symposium #3 providing 10 current or recent MFA graduates (spring 2012) from our greater region (OH, MI, IN, KY, WVA, western PA, western NY, and Ontario, CN) an opportunity to give a 2 minute presentation of his or her work. Contact the Speed Dating Chair Angie Seykora, Edinboro University of PA MFA student, to apply. If you want to get involved with organizing this student run session, let Angie know.
SCULPTURE SPEED DATING CLOSED
BEHIND THE SCENES TOUR OF THE BRAND NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART CLEVELAND is available the evening before, October 19 @ 5 PM, for 20 people. Sign up here with the number of people, email, and phone number. If you'd like to stay on at MOCA Cleveland for an evening of music, Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR): Gilgamesh on the Crooked River, buy tickets here.
MOCA TOUR CLOSED
about the artist Mel Chin
Mel Chin was born in Houston, Texas in 1951. Chin's art, which is both analytical and poetic, evades easy classification. He is known for the broad range of approaches in his art, including works that require multi-disciplinary, collaborative teamwork and works that conjoin cross-cultural aesthetics with complex ideas. Chin also insinuates art into unlikely places, including destroyed homes, toxic landfills, and even popular television, investigating how art can provoke greater social awareness and responsibility. His projects are consistent with a conceptual philosophy, which emphasizes the practice of art to include sculpting and bridging natural and social ecology. Chin's work was documented in the popular PBS program, Art of the 21st Century, and he has received numerous awards and grants. Mel Chin, Cabinet of Craving, (2012), white oak, antique bone ware, steel, pigmented dye, shellac, 9 x 14 x 14 ft. Image courtesy of the artist. |  Mel Chin, The Funk & Wag from A to Z, (2012), printed paper from The Universal Standard Encyclopedia, archival water-based glue, paper, 524 collages, varying from 8 x 11 in. to 17 x 23 in. installation variable. Image courtesy of the artist.  Mel Chin, Shape of a Lie, (2005), bronze, catlinite (Native American pipestone), 70 x 29 x 54 in. Image courtesy of the artist. |
above images and text recopied from the Sculpture Center website.
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