Press release for "Performing the Grid"

              Ise Gropius and Andreas Weininger, the last remaining performer from the original Bauhaus Stage Workshop. Hailed by the New York Times as a “tour de force” of research and performance and as “prophetic,” the dances premiered at The Kitchen in New York in 1982 and The Solomon R Guggenheim Museum in conjunction with a Kandinsky exhibition in 1984. After sold-out tours of the US, Europe and Japan, McCall's reconstructions returned to the original Dessau Bauhaus in 1994, presenting the dances on that stage for the first time in sixty-five years. For more info about the Bauhaus Dances:
www.bauhausdances.org.
Tuesday, March 8, 2016, 7pm, Otis Forum | Free Lecture | Hannah Higgins: The Grid Book
Hannah Higgins, Professor and Chair of the Department of Art History at the University of Illinois at Chicago, lectures on her 2009 MIT Press publication, The Grid Book, which examines the history of ten grids that changed the world: the brick, the tablet, the gridiron city plan, the map, musical notation, the ledger, the screen, movable type, the manufactured box, and the net. Sunday, April 10, 2016, 5pm, Otis Forum | Free Lecture | MPA: Interrupting the Grid MPA is an artist who has explored a range of meditative, durational, theatrical, and actionist modes of performance to engage "the energetic" as a potential material in live work. Enriched with ritual, MPA's performances and installations critically examine behaviors of power in individual and social spaces. She has proposed questions on the global arms race, patriarchy as governance, and the dysfunctional union of art with capitalist commodity. MPA lives in Twentynine Palms, CA, and is currently at work on a solo exhibition THE INTERVIEW: Red, Red Future that questions the colonial implications of possible past and future life on the planet Mars. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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L-R: Rudolf Laban, Labanotation: Space Harmony of Movement, 1950, Ink on vinyl; David Haxton, Cube and Room Drawings, 1976-1977, Vintage 16mm film transferred to video, 15 mins; Rebecca Morris, Untitled (#09-15), 2015, Oil and spray-paint on canvas, 52 1/4 x 52 1/4 x 2 inches.