To Reed or not to Reed? Abramović, Spooky to Appear

DJ Spooky, Joan Schirle, and internationally acclaimed performance and installation artist Marina Abramović will all appear at Reed College March 2–7. Keep reedin' for details.

March 3
Theatre and dance performance: Joan Schirle, Second Skin
In a dynamic and original physical theatre piece, Second Skin, Joan Schirle employs movement, music, masks, and dance to embody a cast of 15 wildly diverse characters bound together by their individual links to one young woman who believes she possesses the living soul of Marilyn Monroe. Schirle is artistic director of Dell’Arte International, an internationally acclaimed playwright and director, and distinguished professor of drama. Tickets: $5–7, available online through the Reed Bookstore, or by calling 503/777-7758 (Monday–Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.); free to current Reed students, and faculty and staff members. For more information, visit the RAW website.

8 p.m., Kaul Auditorium.

March 4
Lecture: DJ Spooky, “Rhythm Science”
DJ Spooky is the best-known manifestation (“constructed persona,” in his words) of Paul D. Miller, a New York conceptual artist, writer, and musician. Working across an incredible breadth of genres and media, DJ Spooky both mixes and composes originally. Tickets: $10; available online through the Reed Bookstore, or by calling 503/777-7758 (Monday–Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.); free to current Reed students, and faculty and staff members. For more information, visit the RAW website.

March 7
Lecture: Marina Abramović, internationally acclaimed performance and installation artist
Since the early 1970s, Marina Abramović has pioneered the use of performance as a visual art form. The body has served as her subject and medium, and the parameters of her early works were determined by her endurance. Exploring the physical and mental limits of her being, she has withstood pain, exhaustion, and danger in the quest for transformation. In a recent performance series at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, Abramović presented Seven Easy Pieces, a series in which she reenacted seminal performance works by her peers dating from the 1960s and 1970s. The project is premised on the fact that little documentation exists for most performances from this critical early period; one often has to rely upon testimonies from witnesses or photographs that show only portions of any given piece. Seven Easy Pieces examines the possibility of redoing and preserving an art form that is, by nature, ephemeral. Sponsored by the Reed College departments of anthropology and art, the Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, and the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA).

7 p.m., Vollum lecture hall.

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