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Project Website (with 93 min. multimedia recording): http://slought.org/content/11192/
This public conversation between conceptual artist William Anastasi and Joyce scholar Jean-Michel Rabaté, Senior Curator at Slought Foundation and Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, will discuss the work of James Joyce, Alfred Jarry and Marcel Duchamp. The Rosenbach Museum & Library of Philadelphia is the holder of the fair copy manuscript of James Joyce's novel Ulysses, and will host this collaborative event with Slought Foundation on Saturday February 28th, 2004, from 2-4pm. It will take place at the Rosenbach Museum (2008-2010 DeLancey Place; Ph: 215-732-1600).
This event has been scheduled in conjunction with “me altar's egoes,"
an exhibition at Slought Foundation by William Anastasi from January 31-March 31, 2004. The exhibition consists of two works spanning more than 2000 handwritten sheets of paper, "me innerman monophone” and “Du Jarry,” installed with the artist on the walls of Slought Foundation. The project engages the art of interpretation and the interpretation of art through recourse to James Joyce, Alfred Jarry, and Marcel Duchamp. More information on the exhibition online at: http://slought.org/content/11179/
This Slought Foundation exhibition will subsequently travel to Dublin (June 10 – August 28, 2004) as part of the Royal Hibernian Academy exhibition "Joyce in Art: Visual Art Inspired by James Joyce," curated by Patrick T. Murphy and Dr. Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes.
Considered to be among the first "classical" conceptual artists, William Anastasi is known for rediscovering the radical through painting, sculpture, collage, photography and drawing. Anastasi has, since the early 1960s, grounded his work in the ideology of chance. Anastasi's "unsighted" works, begun in 1963, attempted to separate artistic creation from conscious thought. In his Subway Drawings, begun in 1968, Anastasi closed his eyes, allowing the vibrations of a subway train to move his hands, recording the train's motion in a collection of completely random lines on paper. In a 1990 interview about Anastasi’s modus operandi vis a vis Surrealism’s Automatism, John Cage made a clear distinction: ”It’s not psychological; it’s physical.” Similarly, critic Pamela Lee has argued that “it is an art object that expresses the physicality of its making.”
His work is in the permanent collections of NY institutions including The Museum of Modern Art, The Guggenheim Museum, The Whitney Museum, The Metropolitan Museum, The Brooklyn Museum, and The Jewish Museum, as well as The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, The National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., The Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, Staatsgalerie fur Kunst in Denmark, and The Kunstmuseum Dusseldorf in Germany, to name but a few. (Born 1933, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Lives in New York)
Jean-Michel Rabaté, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania since 1992, has authored or edited twenty books on Modernism, Joyce, Pound, Beckett, Lacan, Derrida, psychoanalysis and literary theory. Among these, Lacan in America (2000), Jacques Lacan: Psychoanalysis and the subject of literature (2001), James Joyce and the Politics of Egoism (2001), and The Future of Theory (2002). He is the editor of the Cambridge Guide to Jacques Lacan (2002). He recently edited, with Aaron Levy, Of the Diagram: The Work of Marjorie Welish (2003).
This program is made possible in part through the generous sponsorship or support of The Rosenbach Museum & Library
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James Joyce (Courtesy of the Rosenbach)