January
2 – February 2, 2007
MYX: Multicultural
Youth eXchange
Female Gender
Stereotypes in North America and South Africa
In July 2006, local
nonprofit, MYX: Multicultural Youth eXchange, taught a five-week
summer school course to 50 ninth and tenth graders as part of
Philadelphia Youth Network’s Summer Development Institute. During
the course, students used film, poetry, study articles and dialogue
to compare and contrast the ways in which the stereotyping of
females negatively affects girls and women in North American
and South African society.
While the students
discovered that female gender stereotyping leads to major problems
in the United States, including eating disorders among teenage
girls, job discrimination among women and even date rape, they
found out that the stereotypical treatment of women is South
Africa has far worse consequences – namely the ongoing aggressive
spread of HIV/AIDS.
For their final project,
each student worked on a beaded fabric panel illustrating a
positive emotion or action that can help society rise above
these harmful attitudes towards females. The panels were then
assembled into an amazing 8’ x 9’ quilt which will be donated
in 2007 to Cape Town Child Welfare, a grass roots organization
in South Africa that aids children and families affected by
HIV/AIDS.
January
11 – February 2, 2007
The Listening
Station Project
The Listening
Station: artist’s statement
a Listening Station
is an object for two people to sit on it is designed so that
the two people must sit close to one another, and facing each
other it is not a very comfortable seat it is not meant for
lounging, eating lunch, or reading the paper
(although in its public
installation it may end up to be used for these activities)
the Listening Station
is meant to be used by two people who take turns listening to
each other for equal amounts of time. The Listening Station
is a public participatory art project conceived and presented
by Philadelphia artist Zoe Cohen and is an on-going project
in conjunction with the artist’s residency at the 40 th Street
Studios Artist-in-Residence program.
Contact Zoe Cohen
and share your thoughts at the Listening Station blog - listeningstation.blogspot.com.
February
21 – March 9, 2007
MULTIPLE
EYE: Ted Knighton’s Moving Images
An Exhibition
of Art and Film
This
exhibit includes paintings, drawings and a monitor playing two
short films, Six Insects and Testing, running together in a
loop, with a sculptural moving image project as the centerpiece.
The central installation, EYE-POD, is a sculptural “living geode”
containing a non-narrative motion art piece comprised of sequential
images, each hand-drawn like an animation cell.
Knighton
has worked as a commissioned muralist, visual artist, illustrator
and unique independent filmmaker for 20 years. He sees beauty
and wonder in insects, alien forms, and curious creatures –
those strange oddities that others might dismiss as negligible
– and places their sometimes-awkward features on prominent display
in an apparent act of glorification. He explores human behavior,
making reference to our animal nature in what might be called
a parallel insect universe. In his words, “It is surprising
that the animals who most resemble us, at least when it comes
to social structure, are not apes or any sort of warm blooded
mammal, which we tend to think of as our closer relatives, but
these tiny, steely, six legged little beings. Their societies
are highly organized like nations or corporations, with workers,
soldiers, farmers, and queens.” Knighton’s films are non-narrative
and visually compelling, recording moving light, capturing fleeting
images and preserving events in time that make for a truly cinematic
experience.
Please visit www.multipleeye.com
for more information.
Six
Insects
dir.
Ted Knighton, 1999, USA, 23 mins, DVD, b/w
Six Insects
was shown in the 2000 Philadelphia Fringe Festival and at the
Institute of Contemporary Art in 2001 as part of their open
video call project.
Testing
dir. Ted Knighton,
2005, USA, 19 mins, DVD, color
Testing
was shown in the 2006 Philadelphia Film Festival, where it received
an award for Best Experimental Short Film, and was also shown
at the Ann Arbor Film Festival in Michigan.
March
12 – April 9, 2007
Love,
Loss and Longing: The Impact of US Travel Policies on
Cuban-American Families
The Philadelphia –
Cardenas Sister Cities Association is proud to bring to Philadelphia
this photo exhibit, which shows the cruel human impact of rules
impeding contact between Cuban-Americans and their loved ones
in Cuba. The photos represent 20 Cuban-Americans, from different
walks of life, who can no longer visit their families in the
island. Their stories, succinctly told in the text that accompanies
the photographs, describe the painful effect these arbitrary
restrictions have had, and are having, on each one of these
individuals and their families.
Photos by Cuban-American
photographers Nestor Hernandez and Juan Si Gonzalez. Text by
Drs. Jeanne Lemkau and David Strug. Organized by the Latin America
Working Group Education Fund and the Washington Office on Latin
America.
With
Cinema Cubano - Lucia Presented
in collaboration with Institute of Contemporary Art at the University
of Pennsylvania
May
4 – June 1, 2007
From Home:
The Women of International House
Mary Gaston, International
House’s 2006-2007 Photojournalism Fellow, presents an exhibit
of portraits created during her residency. The uniqueness of
each International House resident – details of background, studies,
dreams and plans – fall away amid the common circumstance of
being away. From Home: The Women of International House combines
images and text that represent conversations over tea at the
kitchen table, the faces of women as they talk about their favorite
neighborhood fruit stand, the power and security of a community
of neighbors, how much they miss their mothers, and much more.
The images and accompanying text are funny, natural, beautiful
– an embrace of the universal in the mundane, the transcendent
in small comforts. Mary Gaston is a freelance photographer.
April
16 – July 16, 2007
Argentine Adventures
A collection of work
from Argentina focussing on the two main regions of Argentina:
Buenos Aires and Patagonia.
Photographer Patrick
Esmonde will be exhibiting a collection of work from Argentina
which will focus on the two main regions of that country: Buenos
Aires and Patagonia. Originally from the suburbs of Philadelphia,
for the past eight years Mr. Esmonde has made the city his home
He was first introduced to photography at the tender age of
seven and has continued to grow and learn since then. He was
not formally trained in photography beyond the technical skills
of printing and processing. This he considers a strength; without
the exposure and guidance from certain schools of thought, his
work is less biased towards a particular style or pedagogy.
His work is a direct response to what he sees and shoots it
as such. Please visit www.esmophoto.com
for more information and photographs.
Friday,
August 17 + Saturday, August 18, 2007
Immemory
Immemory is the first
CD-ROM project by French filmmaker Chris Marker. Marker's recent
works have explored computers, multimedia, and non-linearity,
traversing the passages between documentary and fiction. In
Immemory, Marker charts a haunting journey through memory, cinema,
photography, war and literature, tracing an itinerary or map
of an imaginary country. This voyage takes us from the "Madeleine"
at the intersection of Proust and Hitchcock through an archive
of image and text, and culminates as a self-portrait. Marker
states that his object was to "present the 'guided tour' of
a memory, while at the same time offering the visitor a chance
for haphazard navigation."
Immemory was conceived
and directed by Chris Marker. Producers: Centre Georges Pompidou
and Les Films de l'Astrophore, Paris. Editor: Centre Georges
Pompidou. Production Partners: Nosferatu, Helsinki; Centre pour
l'Image Contemporaine de St Gervais, Geneva.
Click
Here for Directors in Focus: Chris Marker.
Immemory was provided
by Electronic Arts Intermix. Founded in 1971, EAI is one of
the first nonprofit organizations dedicated to the support of
video as an art form.
August
6 - August 24, 2007
MYX: Multicultural
Youth eXchange
Art with Global
Impact
This exhibition is
a culmination of the work created during the MYX: Multicultural
Youth eXchange Summer Development Institute, in partnership
with Philadelphia Youth Network. Student interns first researched
female gender stereotypes in United States mass media and the
issues they perpetuate such as teenage pregnancy, self-esteem
and violence against women. Then students worked in teams to
compare US stereotypes to those present South African culture
and examined the link between the social roles of women and
the AIDS epidemic, inequality in the workplace and domestic
abuse. The artwork created combines criticism of the mass media
portrayal of women and an exploration of traditional African
crafts into original prints and wearable art. All proceeds from
the sale of the artwork will benefit an AIDS organization and
further MYX's mission to promote tolerance among young people
worldwide.
August
31 – October 26, 2007
InLiquid.com
Video Installation
Vernacular
Spectacular - Curated by Colette Copeland
Vernacular Spectacular,
an international selection of video works curated by Colette
Copeland, is the inaugural exhibition for Inliquid's new video
gallery in partnership with International House. The everyday
meets the sensational as 18 video artists look at the pervasive
sharing of technology and how the moving image captures our
current cultural miasma. Artists include John Aasp, John Allen
and Nathan, Denise Burge and Elaine Lynch, Colette Copeland,
Lissa Corona and Milana Braslavsky, The Dozens, Lynn Estomin,
Gretchen Hogue, Louis Libitz, Brian Liloia, J.Makary, Shana
Moulton, Reverend Billy, Robert O’Connor, Stafford Smith, Justin
Strawnand, Delmira Valladares and Jan Wadrag.
IHP is excited to
announce this new Art@ partnership with InLiquid.com. The
project showcases new
and selected video works by artists from InLiquid's Film
and Video category.
New artists will be presented on a bi-monthly basis.
August
31 – September 28, 2007
Multicultural
Youth eXchange
YPhilly Identity
Mural
Closing Reception with
musician Baris Kaya, playing traditional and contemporary Turkish
music with traditional Turkish instruments
This is the 4th year
MYX has created the YPhilly Identity Mural and the first year
Philadelphia youth will receive an Identity Mural in return.
The murals, completed by Philadelphians, will hang along side
Identity Murals painted by Turkish students. Both pieces of
art depict what it means to be a young person these two divergent
cultures. After the exhibition at International House, the YPhilly
murals will be sent to their permanent home in Turkey.
October
5 – October 26, 2007
PAFA Student
Works
Students of the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts, who lived at International House during
the fall and spring semester of 2006-2007, display current oil
paintings, drawings and prints. The exhibit showcases talented
students entering their second and third year and emphasizes
the Academy's long tradition of highly skilled and creative
artists.
November
2 – November 30, 2007
Lost in the
Pines
Photographer Daniel
Hackett was born in Philadelphia but grew up in South Jersey
on the edge of the Pine Barrens, leading to his appreciation
of the nature and biology of the region, as well as the history.
The series Lost in the Pines , depicts the beauty and isolation
of the 1.1 million acre New Jersey Pine Barrens. After receiving
his first camera in high school, Daniel found work in photo
labs, learning from the mistakes of others. He shoots 35mm film
for all his important projects, rather than use digital technology.
“I just think film
is a better media” - Daniel Hackett
November
2 – December 28, 2007
InLiquid.com
Video Installation
Four by Four
Four by Four is a
series of video works by Anita Allyn, Sinae Lee, James Rosenthal
and Jody Sweitzer. The selected artists utilize humor, performance,
the narrative, abstraction, and collage to explore themes of
the body, cultural and personal identity, status and popular
culture.
December
7, 2007 – January 4,
2008
Julia
Blaukopf
Kenya
In
2006, Julia Blaukopf traveled to Kenya to work on a reforestation
project, living for a month with a family in a farming community
at the foot of Mt Kenya, where she discovered a completely different
standard of living. Her images of intimate moments between families,
strangers in the city and local workers are aimed at creating
an alternative documentary. Another objective was to make the
imperfect appear beautiful. Anticipated accidents develop into
a means for creative solutions. A pallid sky becomes a chemical
explosion. Moments of clarity stream into hazy borders. Tree
branches form drooping silhouettes, veins on a white, cloudy
canvas. Seen through the lens, the subject changes into
a
matter of extremes.
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