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Panel Discussion – Photography NOW
Rolf Goellnitz, Stacey McCarroll Cutshaw, Mei Xian Qiu, Brian Doan

The panel will be discussing Photography in the new millennium.
The conversation mainly focuses on photography as an increasingly vital part of contemporary artistic practice, the art market, and the developing technologies and how these change the medium, why the art world embraces the photograph as never before and much more.

Audiences can send their questions to the panel during the conversation.

Mei Xian Qiu (Artist)
(aka Cindy Suriyani) is a Los Angeles based artist. She was born in the town of Pekalongan, on the island of Java, Indonesia, to a third generation Chinese minority family. At birth, she was given various names in preparation for societal collapse and variant potential futures, a Chinese name, an American name and an Indonesian name given by her parents, as well as a Catholic name by the local priest. In the aftermath of the Chinese and Communist genocide, the family immigrated to the United States. She was moved back and forth several times between the two countries during her childhood – her parents initial reaction to what they perceived as the amorality of life in the West countered with the uncertainty of life in Java. Partially as a result of a growing sense of restlessness, her father joined the U.S. Air force and the family lived all across the country, sometimes staying in one place for just a month at a time. She has also been based in Europe, China, and Indonesia as an adult.

Stacey McCarroll Cutshaw (Photography historian, Curator)
Photography historian, curator, and educator, Stacey McCarroll Cutshaw is editor of Exposure the journal of the Society for Photographic Education. Previously Director and Curator at the Boston University Art Gallery, she organized several exhibitions on photography and visual culture including In the Vernacular: Everyday Photographs from the Rodger Kingston Collection (2004-2005) and California Dreamin’: Camera Clubs and the Pictorial Photography Tradition (2004). She has contributed to Afterimage, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, The Chronicle Review and The Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Photography; and has taught history of photography, art history, and museum studies courses in California and Massachusetts since 1994. She now lives in Downtown Los Angeles.

Rolf Goellnitz (Artist, gallerist, art collector)
Born in Aachen, Germany.  Rolf studied and earned an advanced degree in Design at the University for Applied Sciences, Faculty Design, in Aachen, Germany.  Following his studies, Rolf worked internationally for almost 20 years as a Creative Director for Europe’s largest fashion retailer as well as other clients in Germany and the USA. His work has gained recognition through numerous national and international awards in both Europe and the USA.  As an Associate Professor he taught several years at the University for Applied Sciences, Faculty Design, in Aachen, Germany.  In 1999 he founded the OMC Communication LLC, a company offering Creative Service and the OMC Gallery for Contemporary Art.  He has curated more than 60 Exhibitions and cooperates with 30 artists worldwide.

Mediator: Brian Doan

6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
LAC Campus Room K143

4901 E. Carson St.
Long Beach, CA 90808

 

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Won First Prize LACDA Competition

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4.2012

First Place Winner

MEI XIAN QIU

Mei Xian Qiu’s title for her exhibit “Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom,” a series of photographs portraying a Chinese takeover of the United States, is a popular Western mistranslation of the Chinese poem  “Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom, Let a Hundred Schools of Thought Contend.” Mao used this poem to proclaim a great society where arts, academia, and “a hundred schools of thought contend.”  As a result, artists and academics came out of hiding and there was a brief flowering of culture at that time.

In Qiu’s photographs, hidden political dangers are suggested and must be addressed urgently, but are put aside momentarily, subsumed to the romance of what she calls “the beautiful idea.”  The costumes she uses are discarded U.S. military uniforms and Chinese mock ups taken from a Beijing photography studio, specializing in outfits for foreign tourists to re-enact Cultural Revolution Propaganda imagery. This body of work engages the constitution of the future, specifically with respect to globalism, the identity of the self and self view, the social landscape, post-colonialism, and that of the larger national body politic.

Jurors:

Nancy Meyer, LACMA
Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art, L.A. County Museum of Art

Rex Bruce, LACDA
Director and Senior Curator, L.A. Center for Digital Art

Kinsey Exhibit IN

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The Kinsey Institute Gallery

Man as Object: Reversing the Gaze

April 13 – June 29, 2012
Man as Object presents works of art that examine the visibility of men and masculinity from female/feminist/transgender perspectives. By surveying the ways men are represented in contemporary art by women, this exhibition opens new dialogues regarding the myriad of ways women view men in today’s culture and society. It marks an important development in feminist art, which has long concentrated on images of women meant to challenge stereotypical notions of womanhood. A gallery filled with works depicting men, created by women, actively resists the prevalence of the male gaze in art. This traveling exhibition will be accompanied by a selection of artworks by female artists depicting men that is drawn from the permanent collection of The Kinsey Institute.

Man as Object: Reversing the Gaze was organized by Karen Gutfreund, Priscilla Otani, and Brenda Oelbaum for the Women’s Caucus for Art with Tanya Augsburg, Assistant Professor, San Francisco State University, as Juror. Prior to coming to Bloomington, it was shown at the SOMArts Cultural Center in San Francisco.

An opening reception will be held at The Kinsey Institute on Friday, April 13, from 5:00 to 7:00 pm. This event is free and open to the public, and refreshments will be provided.

A panel discussion, A Dialog with the Artists on Man as Object: Reversing the Gaze, will be held prior to the show opening, April 13, from 4:00 to 5:00, in Morrison 007 (ground floor).

 

The Kinsey Institute
Morrison Hall, Room 302
1165 East Third Street
Bloomington, IN 47405
Ph: 812/855-7686; Fax: 812/855-8277
Email: kinsey@indiana.edu

PLAY ME, I’M YOURS for the Los Angeles Music Center (collaborative public art project)

 

 

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PLAY ME, I’M YOURS  for the Los Angeles Music Center (collaborative public art project)

part of British artist Luke Jerram global music project.

a.k.a.  Cindy Suriyani

See link:  http://streetpianos.com/la2012/pianos/chinatown-central-plaza/

 

 

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Reversing the Gaze

 

 

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Man as Object: Reversing the Gaze Opening at SOMArts Main Gallery Friday, November 4th: 6-9:00 p.m. San Francisco, CA

WOMEN ARTISTS LOOK AT MEN AND MASCULINITY

ART EXHIBITION RE-ENVISIONS GENDER, SOCIETY AND THE POLITICS OF EXPOSURE

PLEASE JOIN US…

for our ART OPENING!

Friday, November 4th 6-9:00 p.m.

SOMArts Cultural Center

Main Gallery

934 Brannan Street

San Francisco. CA

www.somarts.orgMan as Object: Reversing the Gaze is an exhibition that re-envisions gender, society and the politics of exposure. With a gallery filled with men stripped naked, this body of work exposes women’s cheeky, provocative and sometimes shocking commentaries on the opposite sex. The exhibition’s contemporary scope encompasses all the ways that women view Man-as-Object, reversing the traditional view of male artists objectifying women. Its diverse perspectives on masculinity come from straight, transsexual, transgender, lesbian and multi-cultural artists through a spectrum of media, from paintings to sculpture, installations to performance, video to social media. The show’s extensive collection of male adoration, male impersonation and male appendages may make the viewer squirm a little. But that is precisely the point. The more than 100 women artists in the exhibition unapologetically reveal how they really see men. Through this public display at SOMArts Cultural Center, the show’s organizers aim to equalize the gaze between the sexes.Featured Artists: Juana Alicia, Nancy Buchanan, The Guerrilla Girls on Tour!, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Jill O’Brian, ORLAN, Carolee Schneeman, Silvia Sleigh, Annie Sprinkle, Beth Stephens, May Wilson and Melissa P. Wolf. AND 105 Selected Artists!

Mel Ahlborn, Roberta Ahrens, Olga Alexander, Zina Al-Shukri, Juliane Backmann, Hazel Bartram-Birchenough, Joanne Beaule Ruggles, Jasmine Begeske, Tracy Brown, Della Calfee, Brie Castell, Christine Cianci, Katie Commodore, Nicole Craine, Tristan Crane, Tristan Crane, Arabella Decker, Rosemary Giusti Dillon, Liz Dodson, Betsyann Duval, Merrilyn Duzy, Lynn Friedman, Linda Friedman Schmidt, Michal Gavish, Judy Gelles, Ingeborg Gerdes, Christine Giancola, Lisolette Gilcrest, Pallavi Govindnathan, Chanel Matsunami Govreau, Corinne Greenberg, Gail Gurman, Karen Gutfreund, Tania Hammidi, Laura Hartford, Trudi Chamoff Hauptman, Marlene Hawthrone Thomas, Katty Ryan Hoover, Aisjah Hopkins, Annette Isham, Patricia Izzo, Lahib Jaddo, Tammy Kinsey & Jean Kusina, Judy Johnson-Williams, Christy Kelly-Bentgen, Ellen Kieffer, Karen Lance Klaber, Susan Kraft, Allison Leach, Evie Leder, Lee Lee, Sharon Leong, Lynn Elliott Letterman, Amelia Lewis, Lory Lockwood, Michelle Lopez, Jacalyn Lopez Garcia, So Yoon Lym, Cat Lynch, Sita Mae, Kristina Martino, Karen Mathews, Jeanette May, Kristine Mays, Shilo McCabe, Erika Meriaux, Carol Morris, Janice Nesser, Molly Marie Nuzzo, Brenda Oelbaum, Beth Olds, Colleen O’Donnell, Priscilla Otani, Heather Pilapil, Karen Purdy, Xian Mei Qiu, Nora Raggio, Lynda A. N. Reyes, Judith Roth, Clara Saprasa, Elinore Schnurr, Centa Schumacher, Judith Segall, Shizue Seigel, Sal Sidner, Bonnie J. Smith, Priscilla Smith, Madelyn Smoak, Colette Standish, Erika Swinson, Yuriko Takata, Patricia Terrell-O’Neal, Lynne Todaro, J Toffic, Cristina Velazquez, Christina Renfer Vogel, Susan von Gries, Theresa Walloga, Ruth Waters, Jennifer Weigel, Corinne Whitaker, Tamara White, Sheila Winner, Nanette Wylde, Emily Yost, Karen Zack EXHIBITION COMMITTEE: Tanya Augsburg, Juror, Karen Gutfreund, Director, Priscilla Otani, Curatorial Committee, Brenda Oelbaum, Curatorial Committee, Jessica Gee, Publicity. OTHER EVENTS: Friday, Nov 4 2011, 6:00 P.M. – 9:00 P.M. Opening Reception, Artwork Dedication, & Performance

6:30 P.M. Artwork Dedication of Sylvia Sleigh’s work,

Lawrence and Susan Delgado, to Mills College.

 

7:30 P.M. Performance artist Chanel Matsunami Govreau will performher new work Hapa Bruthas. This performance will explore Hapamale and Asian male sexuality, brotherhood, and the effects of interracial dating in Asian American communities from a mixed-Asian woman’s perspective.

Sunday, Nov 13, 2011, 12:00 P.M. – 3:00 P.M. Peepshow Drawing Circle & PerformanceReprise of Chanel Matsunami Govreau’s performance, Hapa Bruthas.Peepshow Drawing Circle: this event features live nude male model placed in the gallery’s “hole,” which will be converted into a man-cave. The male model will be drawn by the public and all drawings will be exhibited onsite for the event, then taken home by the artists. Wednesday, Nov 30 2011, 6:00 P.M. – 9:00 P.M. Closing Reception, Screening & Discussion Panel 6:15 & 6:30 P.M. Screening of Fuses, historic feminist film by Carolee Schneemann in SOMArts theater 7:00 P.M. Looking at Men: Then & Now, panel discussion with Annie Sprinkle, Carolee Schneemann and Tanya Augsburg.

 

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