Jen & Ira & You at the MCA Meet Buckminster Fuller Meeting the Hippies in Golden Gate Park : A Re-Performance
SUNDAY, JULY 5th
2-4:30pm
4th-floor lobby
220 East Chicago Avenue
DURATIONAL PERFORMANCE
instigated by Jennifer Karmin & Ira S. Murfin
This is a performance of a transcript of the video Buckminster Fuller Meets the Hippies in Golden Gate Park. You are invited to watch this performance for as long or as briefly as you like. You are also invited to be a performer in it. You may participate for as long or as briefly as you like, and return as often as you wish.
FINAL DAY OF EXHIBIT
Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe is a fascinating mix of utopian vision and organic pragmatism, combining models, sketches, and other artifacts -- many on view for the first time -- represent six decades of the artist's integrated approach to housing, transportation, communication, and cartography. The exhibition features numerous models of Fuller's projects including his famous geodesic dome. Fuller's extensive connections with Chicago are also highlighted through photographs and documents from his years spent living, teaching, and working in the city.
JENNIFER KARMIN is the author of the text-sound epic Aaaaaaaaaaalice (Flim Forum Press, forthcoming 2009). She curates the Red Rover Series and is a founding member of the public art group Anti Gravity Surprise. Her multidisciplinary projects have been presented nationally at festivals, artist-run spaces, and on city streets including: Betalevel (CA), Links Hall (IL), the Poetry Project (NY), the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts (MI), and Woodland Pattern Book Center (WI). The recipient of numerous grants and residencies, Jennifer teaches creative writing to immigrants at Truman College and works as a Poet in Residence for the Chicago Public Schools. Recent poems are published in the journals Cannot Exist, MoonLit, Otoliths, and anthologized in Come Together: Imagine Peace (Bottom Dog Press), Not A Muse (Haven Books), and The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century (Cracked Slab Books).
IRA S. MURFIN is a writer, educator, and theatre maker. His writing has appeared in Requited, elimae, Fiction at Work, Lark(!), Mobius, and the book The Mind Garden, among other places. Ira is Co-Artistic Director of the Laboratory for Enthusiastic Collaboration and a founding member of the Laboratory for the Development of Substitute Materials, two devised theatre collectives. His solo and collaborative writing and performance work has been presented at venues including the Chicago Cultural Center, Links Hall, Version Fest, The Neo-Futurists, Prop Thtr, the Chicago Calling Festival, by Walkabout Theater at the Peter Jones Gallery, and the Red Rover, Powells North, Quickies, and Reconstruction Room reading series. Ira is also the former Head of the Soleri Book Initiative at the urban design project Arcosanti. He lives in Chicago and teaches writing at North Park University, St. Augustine College, and with Urban Gateways.
