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Storytelling: History, Myth, and Narrative

Storytelling is a central part of every society and the power, importance and energy of oral, written, visual and enacted story lies at the heart of culture. From early childhood through adulthood the power of narrative to seduce, cajole, convince and transform is one of the common experiences shared globally. Stories help to construct our understanding of the world around us and to connect us to our own and others’ histories.

Lecture ticket prices: $5 general public, $2.50 students & seniors. Workshop pricing as indicated.

APRIL | MAY | JUNE | JULY | AUG | SEPT | OCT | NOV | DEC

Alicia Miller
Reading and Book Signing
Monday 4/17, 6pm, Tipton Hall, College of Santa Fe

Miller will read from her new novel about family entanglements "My Life on Mars." Miller is a Santa Fe resident and book critic and a fabulously funny, scathingly smart, woman. Book signing and reception to follow.

APRIL

Anu Mathur and Dilip da Cunha
Lecture and Workshop
Traversing Terrains / Imagining Landscapes
Monday 5/8, 6pm, Tipton Hall, CSF
Workshop Dates: 5/9 - 12, $500

Anu Mathur and Dilip da Cunha will lecture on their award winning work as landscape architects, exploring the intersection of man and nature. Mathur is Assistant Professor of Landsacape Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania and daCunha is a professor of Architecture at Parsons in NYC. May 9-12 they will present an intensive workshop "Reading the Landscape." MORE>

MAY

Robert Rich
A solo concert of organic electronics and sonic surrealism with visual stimulation.

Thursday 5/18, Concert 7 pm, Tipton Hall, CSF
Lecture 5:30, Reception 6:15

Robert Rich will perform a solo concert of instrumental electronic music, incorporating instruments such as flutes and lap steel guitar along with analog modular synthesizer, keyboards and computers. In a continuous set of approximately 90 minutes, Rich will perform selections from among his many recordings, including his latest CD "Electric Ladder," woven together with improvisations and new material. Computer generated motion graphics by Daniel Colvin will accompany Rich's music, along with custom laser projectors.

With almost 30 albums, Robert Rich has helped define the genres of ambient music, dark-ambient, tribal and trance. His distinctive sound comes from the use of home-made acoustic and electronic instruments, microtonal tunings, computer-based signal processing, chaotic systems and feedback networks. Rich has released critically acclaimed collaborations with Steve Roach, Ian Boddy, Alio Die and Brian Lustmord, and has performed in caves, cathedrals, planetaria, art galleries and concert halls throughout Europe and North America.

Gerry Snyder
Lecture and Workshop
Monday 6/5, 6pm, Tipton Hall, CSF
Workshop Dates: 6/6 - 9, $400

Snyder’s surreal paintings are the multi layered articulation of story and its proliferation in our contemporary society. Snyder creates mutant, cartoonish creatures that inhabit landscapes familiar through cultural markings, yet elevated to a dystopic version of themselves. Snyder is professor at the College of Santa Fe, and has been included in the Whitney Biennial, and the Biennial of Pancevo, Serbia. MORE>

JUNE

Juan Manuel Echavarria
Lecture "Speaking Truth Through Image: Death and the River"
Monday 6/26, 6 pm, Tipton Hall, CSF

Born in Columbia Echavarria, a writer of short stories, turned to photography in 1993 to better express the condition of his country in the face of the violence between the army, left wing guerillas and the drug cartels. The death of thousands of Columbian peasants, and the haunting loss of his country is captured through both black and white photos and video. Echavarria takes these minimal yet charged images from a car as he drives through his country. Echavarria’s work has been exhibited in Columbia, the US and internationally. MORE>

STORIES Exhibition
7/8 - 8/11
Monday through Friday, 9 - 5pm

Storytelling is a central part of every society and the power, importance and energy of oral, written, visual and enacted story lies at the heart of culture. Join us for an exhibition with the following artists: Debbie Fleming Caffery, Gary Hill, Alfredo Jaar, Juan Manuel Echavarria, Anu Mathur and Dilip da Cunha, Adrian Piper, Anri Sala, Gerry Snyder

JULY

Gary Hill
Lecture and Workshop
Monday 7/24, 6 pm, Tipton Hall, College of Santa Fe
Workshop Dates: 7/25-28, $400

Hill has been a prolific creator of video installations since the early 1970’s. His work uses large, sculptural elements combined with text to investigate the relationship that exists between words and electronic images. Hill has been included in many exhibitions including the Hirshorn Museum, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco. MORE>

Anri Sala
Lecture and Workshop
Monday 8/14, 6pm, Tipton Hall, CSF
Workshop Dates: 8/15-18, $400

Anri Sala, originally from Albania, is one of the newest voices in contemporary video. Sala explores through video and sound the quiet ways in which media can blur the boundaries between fiction and reality through politically and socially charged video. One of his newest installations is a video of someone impersonating the sound of a tomahawk missile, its flight and explosion, Naturalmystic. He has shown at the Venice Biennale, Documenta and many other venues.

AUG

Debbie Fleming Caffrey
Lecture and Workshop
Monday 9/11, 6pm Tipton Hall, CSF
Workshop Dates: 9/11-15

Caffrey is a Southern photographer who has been capturing images of her native Lousiana since the 1970’s. She uses black and white images that are almost abstract to speak to the poetic nature of the struggle and perseverance of people and place. Caffrey’s most recent work investigates the destruction (physical, emotional and social) left in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

SEPT

Martha Collins Reading
9/25, from 6pm, Tipton Hall, CSF.
Tickets $5, students and seniors $2.50

Martha Collins will read from her her new book-length poem, Blue Front. Collins began Blue Front while in residence at SFAI with a grant from the Witter Bynner Foundation. The Lannan Foundation also provided support for Blue Front with a residency grant in Marfa, Texas.

In Blue Front, her fifth book of poetry, Collins describes the brutal, frenzied lynching of a black man and, as an afterthought, a white man, both of them left to the merciless violence of the participants. The book patches together an arresting and sometimes conflicting array of evidence—newspaper articles, census data, legal history, postcards, photographs, and Collins’s speculations about her father’s own experience. The resulting work, fragmented and hallucinatory, is a bold and honest investigation into hate, mob mentality, culpability, and what it means to be white in a country still haunted by its violently racist history. Blue Front, part lyric and part narrative, is an extraordinary book and presents Collins working in important new ways.

Lucy Lippard
Lecture: “Imagine Being Here Now: Stories in the Landscape”
Monday 10/16, 6pm, Tipton Hall, CSF

Lucy Lippard is an author and activist. She is a former art critic for The Village Voice and Z magazine. She is a co-founder of the Heresies Collective, Printed Matter, PADD and other activist organizations Since1966, she has published 20 books on feminism, art, politics and place and has received numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship. "The art world never turned me on much," she says, "but I liked writing about art because of the challenge; it's almost impossible to put the visual into words." She has also curated over 50 exhibitions, done performances, comics, guerrilla theater. She has edited several independent publications, including El Puente de Galisteo. MORE>

OCT

Adrian Piper lecture
Monday 11/13, 6pm, Lensic Performing Arts Center
Intensive Studio Workshop: 11/14, SFAI

Piper, a philosopher and visual artist, has used objects, installations, performances, videos and sound works over her 35 year career as an artist to create direct, active relationships between the artist and spectator. Her work has frequently focused on her in-between status in terms of race, as in Self portrait exaggerating my Negroid features (1981) and Self portrait as a nice White lady (1995). Piper’s work involves the viewer in these speculations on race and identity. Her work has been labeled confrontational, but ultimately brings about thought and change in terms of stereotyping, and subconscious treatment of individuals based on race. Piper has shown at the Hirshorn Museum, the Whitney and Andy Warhol Museum. MORE>

NOV

Alfredo Jaar lecture
Dec 4th, 6 pm Tipton Hall, College of Santa Fe
Workshop Dates: 12/5 - 8

Alfredo Jaar is an artist, architect and filmmaker who lives and works in New York. His work has been shown extensively around the world. He has participated in the Venice, São Paulo, Johannesburg, Sydney, Istanbul and Kwangju Biennales as well as Documenta in Kassel. Major solo exhibitions include the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, the Whitechapel in London, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Pergamon Museum in Berlin and the Moderna Museet in Stockholm. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1985 and was chosen a Mac Arthur fellow in 2000.

DEC