January
2 – February 2
MYX Gallery
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
MYX Gallery
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
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
Multicultural
Youth eXchange's 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
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
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
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 – January 4
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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