Events

Fluxus | Film Symposium

Carolee Schneemann's <em>Meat Joy</em> (1964)

When:
May 5, 2017 - May 6, 2017, Daily, 12:00am - 12:00am
Description:

This symposium will expand the defining attributes of Fluxus film by addressing the problematic role of documentation within Fluxus practices, the documentation of performances as material film objects and the performativity of media, and the politics of presence in Fluxus film and performance. Includes a screening of films by Wolf Vostell, Carolee Schneemann, Eric Andersen, David Katzive, George Brecht, George Maciunas, and Yoko Ono, among others.

For a full schedule, please visit fluxusandfilm.wordpress.com

Presented by the Department of Art History, Department of Cinema and Media Studies, and the Film Studies Center. Additional funding and program support has been generously provided by the Goethe-Institut, and the University's Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory (3CT), Humanities Division, Franke Institute for the Humanities, Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry, and the Counter Cinema/Counter Media Project at the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality.