FREE 24 Hour Event at the Guggenheim on the Concept of Time: January 6-7, 2009

[Emily]

Hi Everybody,

There's a FREE 24 hour event next week at the Guggenheim on the Concept of Time. It runs from January 6-7, 6 p.m.- 6 p.m.

On the occasion of the exhibition theanyspacewhatever, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum will present a 24-hour event concentrating on the concept of time in its myriad philosophical, psychological, biological, sociological, poetic, aesthetic, and economic manifestations. Constituting a multi-disciplinary approach to the subject, the program will bring together artists, architects, scientists, philosophers, historians, engineers, filmmakers, musicians, and other cultural producers.

Select New York participants include: Vito Acconci, David Albert, Julieta Aranda, Kevin Birth, Katherine Brinson, Angela Bulloch, Simon Critchley, Drew Daniel, Verne Dawson, Lisa Dennison, Luke DuBois, Li Edelkoort, Eiko and Koma, Makram El-Kadi, Douglas Futuyma, Liam Gillick, Andrew Ginzel and Kristin Jones, Amy Herzog, Paul Horwich, Tehching Hsieh, Helen Hsu, Florian Idenburg, Chrissie Iles, Marc Kushner with Matthias Hollwich, Sanford Kwinter, Thomas Leeser, Joseph LeSauter, Nate Lowman, Ronald Mallet, Richard McGuire, Don Melnick, Shamim Momin, Molly Nesbit, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Philippe Parreno, Nicholas Rennie, Matthew Ritchie, Danny Rubin, Saskia Sassen, Ted Sider, Slowfood USA, Agathe Snow, Nancy Spector, Mark Taylor, David van der Leer, Marianne Weems, Robert Weston (with Paul Stephens), and Lebbeus Woods.

Hope to see you there!

[Emily]

Here's more info about this event and some notable guest speakers:

-Douglas Gordon,  24–hour psycho back and forth and to and fro Jan 6, 10 am-Jan 7, 10 am Rotunda floor Deploying time as a medium, Gordon’s new iteration of the work 24 Hour Psycho (1993) slows down the 1960 Hitchcock thriller to a full-day cycle on a split screen installation, running the film both forward and in reverse.

-Drew Daniel lives in Baltimore, where he teaches in the Department of English at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Twenty Jazz Funk Greats, a book about the English industrial band Throbbing Gristle. Drew is one half of the electronic band Matmos, with his partner M.C. Schmidt

-R. Luke DuBois is a composer, artist, and performer who developed “time-lapse phonography.” He currently performs as part of Bioluminescence, with vocalist Lesley Flanigan, and in Fair Use, with Zach Layton and Matthew Ostrowski, which looks at our accelerating culture through electronic performance and remixing of cinema.

-David van der Leer is Assistant Curator Architecture & Design for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. He is currently working with Thomas Krens and the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation on the exhibition Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward that will open on May 15th 2009.

-Ronald L. Mallet received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in physics from Pennsylvania State University. In 1975, he joined the physics faculty at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, where he has been a professor of theoretical physics ever since. Professor Mallett’s recently published memoir Time Traveler has been translated into Korean, Chinese, Japanese, and is to be made into a feature film by Spike Lee.

-Richard McGuire is a regular art contributor to the New Yorker magazine. He recently directed part of an animated feature film called Fears of the Dark, and is known to cult music fans as the founder and bass player of the 'no wave' band Liquid Liquid.

-Matthew Ritchie has worked prolifically in painting, sculpture, digital art, and installation since the mid 1980s. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art and numerous other institutions worldwide, including a permanent large-scale installation at MIT.

-Danny Rubin’s screen credits include Hear No Evil, S.F.W., and Groundhog Day, for which he received the British Academy Award for Best Screenplay and the Critics' Circle Award for Screenwriter of the Year, as well as honors from the Writers Guild of America and the American Film Institute. He is currently the Briggs-Copeland Lecturer on Screenwriting at Harvard University.