MAIRA KALMAN: VARIOUS ILLUMINATIONS (OF A CRAZY WORLD)
January 15 - June 6, 2010
Walkthrough with Maira Kalman and curator Ingrid Schaffner
The ICA presents Maira Kalman: Various Illuminations (of a Crazy World), the first major museum survey of the work of Maira Kalman. An illustrator, author and designer, Kalman illuminates contemporary life with a profound sense of joy and unique sense of humor. Like a gift, her work appears to lift the spirits, no matter how ordinary or overwhelming circumstances may be. This exhibition features a selection spanning thirty years of original works on paper and design production, along with less widely seen aspects of Kalman's work in photography, embroidery, textiles, and performance.
This exhibition is one of the Independent Projects affiliated with Philagrafika 2010, a city-wide festival celebrating print in contemporary art.
VIDEO ART: REPLAY, PART 2. EVERYDAY IMAGINARY
January 15, 2010 - March 21, 2010
Walkthrough with artist Rob Carter and curator Lucy Gallun
Animation may conjure fantasy and make-believe. Everyday Imaginary, however, takes a close look at recent work that explores everyday lived experience—reality—either through animation or in dialogue with its techniques and imagery. Underlying these works is the idea of the "social imaginary," according to which, the way we conceive of ourselves—our nationhood, our cultural identity, our political affiliations—is constructed and therefore imaginary, although it has very real effects on our lived experience. Everyday Imaginary presents work that explores—both technically and thematically—the shifting boundaries between the real and the imagined.
DANCE WITH CAMERA
Through March 21, 2010
Dance with Camera explores a crossover between artists and dancers who make choreography for the camera. Unlike the stage, the camera allows close-ups that bring us nearer the performer, while also expanding the notion of dance as time based. The exhibition features film, video, and still photography and is accompanied by a cinema program of iconic dance films. Spanning seventy years, the work of over thirty artists and filmmakers exemplifies the way in which dance compels artists to record bodies moving in space.
"No comparable show displaying works that effectively marry the potentials of the camera and dance has been seen anywhere else."
— Lisa Kraus, Philadelphia Inquirer