We’re heading to Tokyo to begin working on a project with good friends of our Matthias Wermke and Mischa Leinkauf. While we are there, we’ll be collaborating with Booklet Library to do a small release party for the current issue of Megawords at the Shibaura House.
If you are in Tokyo, please join us!
Saturday, February 25
13:00 – 17:00
www.shibaurahouse.jp/information/
Beginning in January 2012, Megawords will call the Philadelphia Museum of Art home for three months. As part of Zoe Strauss: Ten Years we will create a publishing studio and bookshop in the museum, program music performances, host a panel discussion about what belongs in a city, conduct workshops and classes, screen films and hold office hours in the museum. We will also publish a new issue of Megawords and an original edition of artists books.
WHENEVER WEDNESDAY
PechaKucha(ish) Night: Duos
Wednesday, July 20
8-11pm (doors open at 8, talks will be from 9 – 10, then reception afterwards until 11)
Absorb the work of artists from One is the loneliest number and other creative duos in a format loosely based on PechaKucha, the Japanese-originated “20 slides in 20 seconds” method of quickly sharing visual information. Participants discussing their work and process include Gary Fogelson and Phil Lubliner, Julien Bismuth and Lucas Ajemian, Matthew Suib and Nadia Hironaka, Anthony Smyrski and Dan Murphy, Rebekah and Sara Maysles, Big Brad and Rachel, and more. Big Brad and Rachel will provide music before and after the talks, and refreshments will be served!
TAKE TWO: A COLLECTION OF COLLABORATIVELY MADE FILMS
Whenever Wednesday, May 18, 8pm
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
Here is a map for directions: http://tinyurl.com/42q54zb
Take in a screening of films by Megawords’ international network of filmmakers, featuring work from the Maysles Brothers, Adams & Itso, Matthias Wermke and Mischa Leinkauf, and the Temple University Libraries, Urban Archives collection.
Wermke and Leinkauf’s short films are thought provoking documentations of their interactions with cities and architecture. Through their unusual and daring performances, they confront our preconceptions of public and private space, and how we approach the concrete and mental layout of the city each day.
In a similar subtly provocative manner, Adams and Itso’s work documents the illegal construction and habitation of a small dwelling inside the Copehagen central train station. The film is a fascinating look into the imaginative use of overlooked space within an the walls of Denmark’s busiest train station.
The Maysles brothers need no introduction, and we are happy to show a 30 minute reel of select clips from various films created by the fraternal duo including Salesman, Gimme Shelter, early footage from Russia, footage of Christo and more. A great introduction to the Maysles oeuvre for the newcomer, and a pleasant reminder of the breadth of the brothers talent for familiar fans.
We discovered “Graffiti” in the Temple University Urban Archives. The short made for TV documentary was created in 1976 by WPVI, a local broadcasting station in Philadelphia. It documents citizens initial reactions to the explosion of graffiti in the city, and raises questions about artistic expression in public space. Learn more about the Urban Archives here: www.facebook.com/pages/Urban-Archives-Paley-Library-Temple-University/83447331003
Save the Date! Rebekah Maysles is doing a noon-time lecturing at Rutgers Camden on March 30!
The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Kelly Writers House, the Common Press, and the Philadelphia-based collaborative Megawords are offering a free zine making workshop for Penn students.
Participants receive instruction in zine making and letterpress printing, and will create multiple copies of their own zine. The workshop will conclude with a zine swapping pizza party at Kelly Writers House.
All zines will be on view as part of the ICA exhibition One is the loneliest number, April 21-August 7, 2011
The workshop will take place in four sessions over two weekends: April 2, 3 and April 9, 10 from 10-5 pm
Limited to 20 students.
To reserve your place, please send an email to RSVPICA@lists.upenn.edu
NOVEMBER 17 @ PAFA – FOR YOUR PLEASURE
We’re giving a talk as part of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Art at Lunch lecture series. Join us for a discussion of the importance of independent viewpoints and collaborations when making art. Delve into the Megawords project history and the stories of our own creative processes, alternative means of communication and dissemination of ideas.
Please join us!
Wendesday, November 17, 2010
Noon to 1pm
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
118 North Broad Street
Directions here:
www.pafa.org
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