Intimate Collaborations
Thursday, January 17, 2013 – Saturday, January 19, 2013
6:00pm
@ University of Pennsylvania
INTIMATE COLLABORATIONS CONFERENCE
Intimate Collaborations, a conference held on the occasion of the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s exhibition, Dancing Around the Bride: John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Marcel Duchamp, will address the strange and complex intimacies that emerge when relationships between artists take form through the process of art-making.
Dancing Around the Bride is the first exhibition to explore the interwoven lives, works, and experimental spirit of Duchamp and Cage, Cunningham, Johns and Rauschenberg. Intimate Collaborations seeks to conceptualize and expand upon the possibilities set in motion by these artists for thinking the category of collaboration more broadly. How do we best describe the intimacies that are born through works of art? How do the intimate collaborations among the artists featured in Dancing Around the Bride compare to those among other artists of that period, or in our own moment? What do such intimate collaborations bring into view or fail to make visible? What do distinct modes and forms of artistic collaboration yield (or at the very least promise) aesthetically, philosophically, or even politically? And finally, how does the work of theorizing artistic intimacy ultimately impact the way we think about art history as a practice or a discipline? What does such intimacy require of us as scholars, critics, lovers, and producers of art? These are just a few of the questions that animate Intimate Collaborations, a conference which itself looks to foster new modes of intimate exchange between art, artists, and historians of art on the occasion of a momentous exhibition of some of the richest artistic collaborations of the second half of the 20th century.
Dancing Around the Bride: John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Marcel Duchamp
Cage: Beyond Silence Festival
THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 2013
6:00 pm | 110 Amado Recital Hall, Irvine Auditorium, First Floor, University of Pennsylvania, 3401 Spruce Street
Performance/ Discussion
by Alicia Hall Moran: the motown project
with Thomas Flippin (Guitar,Theorbo) and Steven Herring (Baritone)