[Reader-list] [Announcements] George Quasha Presentation

[Amitabh Kumar]

George Quasha
Presentation and Discussion on Poetry and Visual Art

Saturday, 21st April, 2007.
3:00 p.m

Seminar Room,
Sarai-CSDS,
29 Rajpur Road,Civil Lines,
Delhi.

You are invited to an interaction with George Quasha, an artist and poet
based in New York, and be part of his work in progress, 'Art is..?'.
There will be a presentation by the artist about his work and this will be
followed  by a question & answer session.The artist will then interview
people who see themselves as 'artists' and are willing to answer what 'Art'
is.

Art is.. ?:Speaking Portraits, is an open-ended video art work in
portraiture,which registers artists in the act of saying what art is.
 George Quasha has so far filmed artists in six countries and for the Art
is..?/India-Pakistan version he is collaborating with Mamta Murthy, a Bombay
based filmmaker.

Art is can be seen as a work of documentary quality with the axial
principle as
its basis — it works on an intentionally open axis. Here at least the
field of
all possible art saying emerges in the present moment. A record of artists
across the world, across media, articulating their connection to their art.


George Quasha (born 1942) is an artist and poet based in New York. He works
across mediums to explore principles in common within language, sculpture,
drawing, video, sound, installation, and performance. He is currently in the
country
for the India-Pakistan version of his Art is video series.

Combining his poetry and art works, his presentation will deal with how the
same principle can work for both in his particular use of the
Axial principle.

Since the 70s, Quasha has collaborated in performances featuring video,
language and sound with video artist Gary Hill and poet Charles Stein. His
'axial stones' and 'axial drawings' have been exhibited in New York's
Chelsea at Baumgartner Gallery and ZONE Chelsea Center for the Arts, and are

featured in the book, Axial Stones: An Art of Precarious Balance (North
Atlantic Books: Berkeley). In 2006 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in

video art. His 14 books include poetry (Somapoetics, Giving the Lily Back
Her Hands, Ainu Dreams [with Chie Hasegawa], Preverbs), anthologies and
writing on art. He has taught at Stony Brook University (SUNY), Bard
College, the New
School, and Naropa University.


Admission  on a first-come-first-served basis.

-- 
www.amitabhkumar.blogspot.com
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