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    Auditorium
    Thursday, April 21, 2016, 7:00 PM — 8:30 PM

    Directions for a cloud-crowd

    Directions for a cloud-crowd is a performance with artists Anne Walsh, Jim Melchert, and Michael Swaine. Beginning with the assertion that life is divided between things given and things taken, the artists give and take instructions throughout this performance prompting further actions and interactions from one another. These actions create a chain of connections between people and ideas, illuminating the cloud-crowd of consequences. Throughout the performance, the audience will both bear witness to these actions and be an unwilling participant in the event. The performance reflects upon the history of instruction-based art, a major strategy used by conceptual artists such as Sol Lewitt, Allan Kaprow, and Yoko Ono.
    Directions for a cloud-crowd, organized by Michael Swaine, UW Assistant Professor in 3D4M, is a re-staging and variation of three performances created for San Francisco’s Southern Exposure in 2015.
    Anne Walsh produces works in video, performance, audio, photography, and text. For the better part of a decade she has been producing visual and literary adaptions of The Hearing Trumpet, a visionary text by the late Surrealist painter Leonora Carrington. Walsh has had solo exhibitions at Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles and Martina}{Johnston, Berkeley. Her works and performances have been shown at Artists Space, New York; Royal College of Art, London; and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Walsh is Associate Professor in the Department of Art Practice at University of California, Berkeley, where she teaches new genres, video, and creative writing.
    Jim Melchert received his undergraduate degree in art history at Princeton, as well as degrees in painting at the University of Chicago and ceramics at the University of California, Berkeley. He directed the Visual Art Program at the National Endowment for the Arts, and served as the Director of the American Academy in Rome, 1984–88. His work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum and the Museum of Art and Design, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Museums of Modern Art, San Francisco; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; and Documenta 5, Kassel, Germany.

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    Free with museum admission

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    PROGRAM PARTNERS

    Directions for a cloud-crowd is presented in collaboration with the Henry with support from the Dean's Office for the College of Arts and Sciences, the UW School of Art + Art History + Design, the Wyckoff Milliman Endowment for Faculty Excellence, and the UW Simpson Center for the Humanities.

    ACCESS
    This event is public.
    ACCESSIBILITY
    Henry Art Gallery is accessible to all visitors. Please notify the staff of any special needs or concerns when planning to attend this event.

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    Directions for a cloud-crowd: a conversation with Anne Walsh and Jim Melchert, led by Adair Rounthwaite

    April 23, 2016