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southwestNET: film & video; Looking Through the Other End of a Telescope
Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth
Seriously Funny
Radical Lace & Subversive Knitting
Flip a Strip
Car Culture
southwestNET: Melinda Bergman
Lyle Ashton Harris: Blow Up
Behind the scenes at SMoCA
Architecture and Public Art at SMoCA
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southwestNET: film & video; Looking Through the Other End of a Telescope
on view August 29, 2009 - January 24, 2010 |
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Hear from the artists: |
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- Aaron Rothman
- Why are these photographs singled out? (not available yet)
- Jennifer West
- How did West make a film of a sunset using marmalade?(not available yet)
- Why did she soak her film in a hot spring?(not available yet)
- Jon Fisher and Jeff Shore
- What were Fisher and Shore doing when they were 15 and skipping school?(not available yet)
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Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth
on view July 30 - November 29, 2009 |
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- Whose job is it to brush the
sculptures’ hair?
- How many people did it take to put the Polar Bear in place?
- How long does it take to
make a Soundsuit?
- How does a Soundsuit stand upright?
- Why use human hair?
- How does ceremonial dress
influence Nick Cave?
- How does it feel to dance
in a Soundsuit?
- How do buttons communicate with sound?
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Seriously Funny
on view February 14 - May 24, 2009 |
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- Alejandro Diaz Naked Artist Inside
- Alejandro Diaz Make Your Own Damn Tortillas
- Kjellgren Alkire's "artist crush" on Alejandro Diaz's Make Your Own Damn Tortillas
- Kjellgren Alkire
- Martin Kersels Headache
- Martin Kersels on Nina Katchadourian's The Genealogy of the Supermarket
- Nina Katchadourian The Genealogy of the Supermarket
- Nina Katchadourian Monument to the Unelected
- Nina Katchadourian on Dan Perjovschi's The Arizona Drawing
- Lara Taubman, independent art critic and curator, on Dan Perjovschi's work
- Dan Perjovschi
- Dan Perjovschi on Maurizio Cattelan's Frank and Jamie
- Arlene Shechet
- Arlene Shechet talking about her sculpture technique
- Arlene Shechet on Amy Sillman's paintings
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Radical Lace & Subversive Knitting
on view September 20, 2008 - February 1, 2009 |
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- Why is this artwork in such an unexpected place?
- How is the red rubber on the floor actually a portrait?
- Why does the artist think of this piece as a drawing?
- How is art-making also often a social comment?
- How is this crocheted grid inspired by midtown Manhattan?
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Flip a Strip
on view October 5, 2008 - January 18, 2009 |
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Hear from the curator: |
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- Why is an art museum doing an exhibition on strip malls?
- Why is urban farming a hot issue today?
- Hear about the competition that led to Flip a Strip.
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Hear from Aptum Architecture, Zurich and Urbana-
Champaign, Illinois: |
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- How might cities become friendlier?
- Can an old strip mall be a chance for a new suburban
landscape?
- How can weird, unused spaces become transformational?
- How did the Plaza Reial in Barcelona inspire this project?
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Hear from cityLab/Roger Sherman Architecture &
Urban Design, Los Angeles: |
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- Why piggyback on existing architecture?
- Can you shop and enjoy nature at the same time?
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Hear from Gould Evans, Phoenix: |
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- Why did the designers collaborate with a banker?
- What should you do with this free notebook?
- Why did the architects embrace pop culture?
- Why should the strip mall stay stripped down?
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Hear from Marlene Imirizian & Associates, Architects,
Phoenix: |
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- Why do we love strip malls?
- Is divert architecture or just a marketing plan?
- How does this design let you meet your neighbors?
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Hear from the Miller Hull Partnership, Seattle: |
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- Can strip malls help save the planet?
- How would this crop canopy grow?
- neighborhood?
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Hear from Studio Luz, Boston: |
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- Why put a big roof over the strip mall?
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Hear from AEDS Ammar Eloueini, New Orleans,
Louisiana: |
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- How about using robotic parking in the suburbs?
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Hear from Architecture-Infrastructure-Research, Inc.,
Scottsdale, Arizona: |
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- What is The B-Side and what does it offer you?
- space to hang out?
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Hear from MOS, New Haven, Connecticut: |
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- Why use algae?
- How does Urban Battery promote “urban healthfulness”?
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Hear from Avery Architecture & Design, Chicago: |
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- Is the strip mall sustainable architecture?
- Why leave a building “unfinished”?
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Car Culture
on view January 18 - April 27, 2008 |
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Hear from the artists: |
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- Margarita Cabrera
- Amy Stein
- how she finds people stranded on the side of the
road to photograph
- the special story of a young girl named Peri
- Liz Cohen
- what major mechanical modifications she made
to her low-rider
- why she wanted to turn a Trabant into an El Camino
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Hear from the collaborators: |
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- Don Barsellotti, owner, Elwood Body Works
- Salvatore Seno, sales manager, AAA Yellow Cab Arizona
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| Click here to download the compiled podcast for Car Culture. |
southwestNET: Melinda Bergman
on view January 30 - April 27, 2008 |
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Listen as the artist describes: |
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- her story
- her title, Every way in is a way out
- walking in Phoenix
- her unexpected use of materials
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| Click here to download the compiled podcast for southwestNET: Melinda Bergman. |
Lyle Ashton Harris: Blow Up
on view February 8 - May 27, 2008 |
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Hear from the artist about: |
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- Michael Stewart, who inspired the artwork,
St. Michael Stewart
- where the flour sacks from Untitled (Blow Up Painting)
came from and why
- how the horrific crimes of Jeffery Dahmer inspired
"The Watering Hole"
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Hear from the author Sarah Lewis about: |
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- what art has to do with love and war
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| Click here to download the compiled podcast for Lyle Ashton Harris: Blow Up. |
Behind the scenes at SMoCA: |
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Listen as SMoCA staff describes: |
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- SMoCA's history
- SMoCA's mission
- SMoCA's board of directors
- contemporary art
- why you should be a member of SMoCA
- how the community shapes SMoCA
- what you can do to help the Museum protect art
- how a docent can help me navigate contemporary art
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| Click here to download the compiled podcast for Behind the scenes at SMoCA. |
| Architecture and Public Art at SMoCA: |
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Hear about Scrim Wall by James Carpenter Design Associates and James Turrell's mesmerizing skyspace: |
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- how Scrim Wall casts rainbows
- what you will see in Knight Rise
- why light is poetic for Turrell
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SMoCA's cell phone tours are generously made possible by N. Bud and Beverly Grossman, Nancy and Art Schwalm and Karen and John Voris.
For additional information, please contact smoca@sccarts.org.

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