Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 12:29:44 EDT
Subject: David & Eleanor Antin-- Day Long Event



EVENT ON MAY 7, 1998 
MAKING ART
SUNY STONY BROOK
STONY BROOK NEW YORK
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On May 7 the Humanities Institute at SUNY Stony Brook, in conjunction 
with the departments of Comparative Literature, Philosophy, Theatre, and 
Art, and with additional support from the Dean of the School of Arts & 
Sciences will host a lecture, talk-piece, and film-screening presented 
by David and Eleanor Antin. 

MUSIC LESSONS, the centerpiece of the event, is a quirky 46 minute 
narrative film which tells the story of a girl who is haunted by a 
demon. Jeannie Quinn, a beautiful anorexic from a working class Southern 
family, dreams of being a model and a violinist. Unable to afford music 
lessons, she invokes the glamourous Genevieve, who comes to haunt her 
mirror and bring her to the brink of musical virtuosity and physical 
annihilation.

Shot in Winston-Salem, North Carolina with grant support from SECCA (the 
Southeast Center for Contemporary Art) the Rockefeller Foundation, UCSD, 
and with equipment support and a crew hired in large part from the North 
Carolina School of the Arts, the work was written, directed, and 
produced by the Antins with editing assistance from Ila von Hasperg.

The event will take place on May 7 in the Humanities Institute seminar 
room, Melville Library E4340 following the schedule below:

11:30: "Making History." Eleanor Antin will deliver a lecture and 
documentary slide show concerning her work-- particularly focusing on 
the evolution from her early collage style environmental portraits 
through her movement into performance art and finally concluding with 
her recent gallery situated filmic installations and movies.

1:45: Break

3:30: MUSIC LESSONS film screening.

4:30: "Making Movies." Following the film, poet and art critic David 
Antin will provide one of his famous "talk pieces"-- this one described 
as a philosophical meditation upon the processes involved in generating 
narrative concepts and issues from the essentially collage structured 
matter of the filmic medium.

6:00: Reception

David Antin is an internationally renowned poet and art critic, and a 
sort of amateur philosopher of language, as his three major collections 
of talks, TALKING AT THE BOUNDARIES (1976), TUNING (1984), and WHAT IT 
MEANS TO BE AVANT-GARDE (1993) demonstrate. His SELECTED POEMS were 
published by Sun & Moon press in 1991, and his SELECTED ESSAYS are being 
prepared for publication by the University of Chicago Press. He is 
Professor Emeritus at the University of California at San Diego where he 
teaches Art History, Art Criticism, and Experimental Writing. 

Eleanor Antin is a major figure in the art world. Her various 
performance pieces, installations, and films have received critical 
attention in Henry Sayre's THE OBJECT OF PERFORMANCE, Broude and 
Garrard's massive THE POWER OF FEMINIST ART, and many other scholarly 
works. Articles on her film installations VILNA NIGHTS and MINETTA LANE, 
A GHOST STORY appear in recent issues of PERFORMING ARTS JOURNAL and 
MILLENNIUM FILM JOURNAL. She is also the author of BEING ANTINOVA, 
published by Astro Artz, and ELEANORA ANTINOVA PLAYS, published by Sun & 
Moon Press. She is a professor at the University of California at San 
Diego where she teaches Art History and Performance. 

For more information contact: 
Bruce Stater: BStater-AT-aol.com 
or Robert Harvey: rharvey-AT-ccmail.sunysb.edu

For more information about the Humanities Institute go to:
http://www.sunysb.edu/humanities/index.htm

For more information about SUNY Stony Brook go to:
http://www.sunysb.edu/


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