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Carnegie Museum of Art presents Sound and Vision,
an evening with Life on Mars artist Barry McGee, music by Japanther, Extreme Animals, and Centipede E’est, and videos by Paper Rad
July 18, 2008
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania…On July 24, Carnegie Museum of Art moves from talk to rock in a free evening event held in the museum’s Sculpture Court. At 8:30 p.m., Carnegie International curator Douglas Fogle teams up with Life on Mars artist Barry McGee for a conversation about the artist’s work, his influences, and how he responds to the phrase “life on Mars.”
Music follows at 9:30 p.m., with Brooklyn-based noise-rock duo Japanther; Extreme Animals, the Pittsburgh/San Diego party dance band for Paper Rad; and Pittsburgh’s Centipede E’est. Videos by Paper Rad will also be a part of the evening, plus music by DJs Cutups and Edgar Um. Refreshments will be available for purchase.
Um, who produced the event with Carnegie Museum of Art, says that on a scale of ten, the evening portends to be a definite “ten.”
Barry McGee
In his work in the Carnegie International,San Francisco native Barry McGeeconverted his gallery space—a ramped hallway—into a subversive, non-institutional, urban street. The walls bounce with the chaotic energy of bold color and geometric shapes, and sculptures of spray painters reflect McGee’s beginnings in the graffiti culture of the 1980s. McGee has exhibited nationally and internationally in galleries, museums, and art fairs, including the Venice Biennale and Liverpool Biennial.
Japanther
Japanther (Ian Vanek on drums, cassettes, and vocals and Matt Reilly on bass, a Casio SK-1, and vocals) was described by Artforum magazine as “springing life,” by Rolling Stone as “a scruffy mess,” and by Arthur magazine as a “lean slam boogie machine with no time for boredom.” Japanther has collaborated with Aquadoom, a synchronized swimming group; appeared in the independent documentary B.I.K.E., which premiered at Slamdance 2006; and worked with Dan Graham, Rodney Graham, Laurent P. Berger, and Tony Oursler on a video installation in the 2006 Whitney Biennial.
Extreme Animals and Paper Rad
Extreme Animals, the musical duo of Jacob Ciocci and David Wightman, has been described as “no doubt meets dasFX meets ‘push it’ meets teletubby jam band in the forest.” Extreme Animals spins out from the artist collective Paper Rad, which features brother and sister Jacob and Jessica Ciocci and Ben Jones, and makes low-tech art in mixed media that include comics, zines, videos, and internet work.
Centipede E’est
Featuring Sam Pace, Caulin Kress, Jim Lingo, and Nick Fallwell. Pittsburgh City Paper says that in the course of an evening, this band’s music can veer from “straight-ahead groovage to mind-blowing improvisation.”
DJ Cutups
Justin Hopper, music critic for Pittsburgh City Paper calls DJ Cutups one of Pittsburgh’s foremost proponents of late-90s drum’n’bass formalism’s hybrid descendents.
DJ Edgar Um
DJ Edgar Um is an artist, DJ, event producer, curator, and improvising musician.
The Carnegie International
First organized by the industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie in 1896, the Carnegie International is the oldest exhibition of global contemporary art in North America. Celebrating its 55th installment, this year's exhibition explores the question of what it means to be human in the world today through the varied perspectives of 40 artists, spanning generations and continents. Works are presented in a diverse range of media from painting, sculpture, and drawing to animation, film installation, and performance.
Support
Major support for the 2008 Carnegie International has been provided by the A.W. Mellon Charitable and Educational Fund, Friends of the Carnegie International, The Henry L. Hillman Fund, The Fine Foundation, and the Jill and Peter Kraus Endowment for Contemporary Art. Major gifts have also been provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield, Bayer Corporation, the Henry L. Hillman Foundation, the Juliet Lea Hillman Simonds Foundation, the Kraus Family Foundation, the Dimitris Daskalopoulos Collection, Greece, The Fellows of Carnegie Museum of Art, The Pittsburgh Foundation, and the Woodmere Foundation. Additional support for the exhibition is provided by Heika Burnison, The Broad Art Foundation, the William Talbott Hillman Endowment for Photography, the Mondriaan Foundation, Amsterdam, Maja Oeri and Hans Bodenmann, William I. and Patricia S. Snyder, the Alexander C. & Tillie S. Speyer Foundation, the Buncher Family Foundation, Sibyl Fine King, Wendy Mackenzie and Alexander Cortesi, the National Endowment for the Arts, Kathy and Richard Fuld, Jr., the Morby Family Charitable Foundation, Erica and Eric Schwartz, The Associates of Carnegie Museum of Art, the Beal Publication Fund, the Dedalus Foundation, the Dobkin Family Foundation, The Grable Foundation, the Harpo Foundation, the LLWW Foundation, the James H. and Idamae B. Rich Exhibition Fund, and the Trust for Mutual Understanding.
Carnegie Museum of Art
Located at 4400 Forbes Avenue, in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum of Art was founded in 1895 by industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. One of the four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, it is nationally and internationally recognized for its distinguished collection of American and European works from the 16th century to the present. The Heinz Architectural Center, part of Carnegie Museum of Art, is dedicated to the collection and exhibition of architectural representations and to the study of all aspects of the built environment. For more information about Carnegie Museum of Art, the public may call 412.622.3131 or visit www.cmoa.org.
Contact:
Tey Stiteler
Carnegie Museum of Art
stitelert@carnegiemuseums.org
412.688.8690
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