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A ROSE HAS NO TEETH: BRUCE NAUMAN IN THE 1960S: |
Exhibition Audioguide Audioguides for A Rose Has No Teeth are available free of charge at the Bancroft admissions desk. They offer comments on work in the exhibition by Senior Curator for Exhibitions Constance Lewallen, New York–based multimedia artist Meredith Monk, media writer and curator Robert Riley, Dean of the Yale School of Art Robert Storr, artists Paul Kos and William Wiley, and UC Berkeley graduate students Jeremy Melius, Kris Paulsen, and Benjamin Young. You can also download the audio tour to your own MP3 player from http://bampfa.berkeley.edu/conversations/. THU JAN 18 2007 Guided Tours UC Berkeley graduate students will offer guided tours of A Rose Has No Teeth on selected Thursdays and Sundays. Tour guides are Sarah Hamill (History of Art), Jeremy Melius (History of Art), Kristina Paulsen (Rhetoric and New Media), and Benjamin Young (Rhetoric). Tour Schedule Thursday, February 22, 12:15 and 5:30 p.m. Sunday, February 25, 2 p.m. Thursday, March 1, 12:15 and 5:30 p.m. Sunday, March 4, 2 p.m. Thursday, March 8, 12:15 and 5:30 p.m. Saturday, March 10, 1:30 p.m. Sunday, March 11, 2 p.m. Thursday, March 15, 12:15 and 5:30 p.m. Sunday, March 18, 2 p.m. Thursday, March 22, 12:15 and 5:30 p.m. Thursday, April 5, 12:15 and 5:30 p.m. Sunday, April 8, 2 p.m. Thursday, April 12, 5:30 p.m. Sunday, April 15, 2 p.m. THU FEB 1 2007, 7:00 Lecture by Anne Wagner Nauman's Body of Sculpture Museum Theater As Bruce Nauman has famously described it, the radical innovations of his 1960s work emerged from a particular context: his San Francisco studio. With no money for materials, he was “forced” to examine, he said, “myself and what I was doing there.” One thing Nauman was doing was NOT making the sculpture he had been trained to produce. Instead, he undertook a thoroughgoing examination of this medium so as to engineer his decisive turn to the body and self. In her lecture, Anne Wagner will treat both Nauman's best-known work and lost objects—studio experiments that only briefly saw the light of day. Wagner, professor of art history at UC Berkeley and author of a catalog essay for A Rose Has No Teeth, has published widely on nineteenth-and twentieth-century art. In addition to her many essays, which include studies of Jasper Johns's Flag, Eva Hesse's titles, and Dan Flavin's spaces, she is the author of the books Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux: Sculptor of the Second Empire; Three Artists (Three Women); and Mother Stone: The Vitality of Modern British Sculpture. SAT MAR 10 2007, 3:00 Symposium: The Bay Area Concept: Bruce Nauman and the Late Sixties Museum Theater Who and what contributed to the formation of Bruce Nauman's uncommonly original and influential art? The exhibition A Rose Has No Teeth establishes where—Northern California—and when: the late sixties. This symposium will explore the artistic and intellectual activity that made up the creative context in which Nauman's art and thought developed. Senior Curator for Exhibitions Constance Lewallen will begin with a presentation about the artist's early work. Looking at how the Bay Area art scene of the time influenced Nauman, James Melchert, UC Berkeley professor emeritus in art practice, will also consider Nauman's impact upon his fellow artists. Robert Riley, media curator and writer, and founding curator of media arts at SFMoMA, will discuss Nauman's early video and film. Hans Sluga, UC Berkeley professor of philosophy, will talk about the importance of Ludwig Wittgenstein's writings (from which the exhibition title derives) in the 1960s and, in particular, for Nauman. The artist's relation to performance will be addressed by noted multimedia artist Meredith Monk. Exploring the importance of language in Nauman's work, Craig Douglas Dworkin, associate professor of English at the University of Utah, will focus on the influence of Samuel Beckett and Vladimir Nabokov. Following the presentations, Constance Lewallen will moderate a discussion and question-and-answer session. THU APR 12 2007, 12:00 Gallery Talk by Anne Walsh Gallery 1 Anne Walsh, an artist who works in sound, video, and print media, will present an informal gallery talk focusing on Nauman's pioneering sound and video work. Many of her own works share an affinity with Nauman's explorations of embodied language, physical expression, and nomenclature. Anne Walsh is assistant professor of video and new genres in UC Berkeley's Department of Art Practice. Her works have recently been presented at the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; and on public radio worldwide. She frequently collaborates with artist Chris Kubick as ARCHIVE. Public programs presented in association with A Rose Has No Teeth: Bruce Nauman in the 1960s are supported in part by Rena Bransten and Robin Wright. |
