Fall 2012

LECTURE

Gregorio Luke Censorship – the Art You Were Never Meant to See.

Thu, Sep 20 at 7pm, Carpenter Center

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Choreographer Bill T. Jones talks about his artistic process and experiences with censorship

Fri, Sep 21 at 1pm, Carpenter Center

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NEA 4 - Panel discussion on government censorship of the arts with Professor Karl Manheim, Dr. Craig Smith and Carol Sobel, guests Karen Finley, Holly Hughes and Tim Miller

Thu, Sep 27 at 1pm, Carpenter Center

Related Readings: The New Religious Right vs the National Endowment for the Arts

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EXHIBIT

Karen Finley – Sunset on Yom Kippur: Atonement, Abstraction and Improvisation

Looking at the current exhibit, From the Vault, Finley will focus on the lens of abstraction as a pathway to a spiritual connection, speaking to specific works and artists in the exhibit such as Krasner and Gottlieb. Accompanying Finley will be jazz flutist Paul Nebenzahl who will improvise on the traditional musical themes from the Yom Kippur service and improvise to artworks in the exhibit.

Wed, Sep 26 at 7pm, University Art Museum

PERFORMANCE
Members of the NEA 4 (Karen Finley / John Fleck / Holly Hughes / Tim Miller) will each perform in their own individual shows.

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Thurs, Sept. 27, 2012 at 8pm

Get set for an evening of outrageous satire, unrestrained passion, and unapologetic viewpoints as performance artists Holly Hughes and Tim Miller each share their latest contemplations on contemporary society—shaking audiences out of their complacency and provoking movement and thought.

In Sapphic Sampler Platter, Hughes unleashes her experiences—from being a poster child for the cultural wars and a fellow traveler at the WOW café (a home for wayward girls), to a feminist cooperative for feminists who were kicked out of other feminist groups for having the wrong haircut and her misadventures in academia. It’s a middle life crisis in the key of canine, shot through with poetry and biting wit.

In Sex/Body/Self, Tim Miller shares excerpts from his work and speaks about the role performance plays in constellating identity in this highly stimulating, fiercely funny, and opinionated rant with performance about identity, the culture wars and queer strategies for the future.

Carpenter Performing Arts Center

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Fri, Sept. 28, 2012 at 8pm John Fleck takes the audience on a hair-raising roller coaster ride with a pair of Mad Women: Judy Garland & John Fleck's mother, Josephine. Buckle up and hold on tight as they twist, wind & sing their way through the cultural mindset of the late 1960s! Plus Catch 23: Broken Negative, a work in progress by Karen Finley where she uncovers and reveals the desperation of making meaning out of trauma creatively. The piece—part memory, part emotional individuation, part research and discovery—revisits the inspiration of her earlier iconic works that confronted subjects such as abuse, female rage, violence, homophobia and the outsider.

Carpenter Performing Arts Center

ARTS TICKET OFFICE | (562) 985-7000
6200 Atherton Street, Long Beach, CA 90815

DANCE

Students from the CSULB Dance Dept. will perform "Reading, Mercy, and The Artificial Nigger" under the direction of members of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Co.

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Internationally renowned choreographer Bill T. Jones joins the Carpenter Center and CSULB Department of Dance for the Southern California premiere of his landmark piece, Reading Mercy and the Artificial Nigger—a work inspired by a Flannery O’Connor short story—that transcends boundaries as it mixes dance, literature and race.

The finest dancers from the CSULB Department of Dance have been selected to perform the work, in an evening that kicks off three premiere works by noted CSULB faculty choreographers—Gerald Casel, Sophie Monat, and Andrew Vaca.

Carpenter Performing Arts Center

ARTS TICKET OFFICE | (562) 985-7000
6200 Atherton Street, Long Beach, CA 90815