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2001-2002 Lectures on Contemporary Art Momoyo Torimitsu October 3, 2001 Wednesday, 7:30 pm Momoyo Torimitsu has lived and worked in New York since 1996, when she participated in PS1's studio program. Her work, which reexamines the distortion of fiction and reality, includes video, photography, and sculptural installation. She is well known for her performance video "Miyata Jiro," in which she traveled with a Japanese businessman robot. She has recently finished an experimental project involving collaboration with family-run factories in the east of Tokyo. November 7, 2001 Zarina Wednesday, 7:30pm Zarina's art is about place, space and the poetic musings of the mind. She has investigated in her installations, drawings, and woodblock prints the boundaries, both real and imaginary, that define the sense of self and question the notion of home. Zarina studied in Paris, India, London, Germany and Japan before coming to the United States, where she worked with Heresies on the Third World Women Artists' issue. Her work is in the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris. A retrospective of her work, Mapping a Life, will be at the Mills Art Museum from November 3 to December 23, 2001. February 6, 2002 Komar & Melamid Wednesday, 7:30pm Komar & Melamid have been collaborating since the '60s, including their most recent work, American Dreams. New York City has been their base since they left the Soviet Union in the late '70s. "Let's speak about the concept of different styles. We believe that the idea of collaboration is behind it. You can preserve your individuality, your 'first name' so to speak, while working within a recognizable style, the 'surname'. For us it is very important to collaborate." -The artists, from an interview with Amy Ingrid Schlegel for "Komar & Melamid's American Dream," Philadelphia Art Alliance, 2001 March 6, 2002 Jim Melchert Wednesday, 7:30pm Jim Melchert is that rare combination of gifted artist and exceptional administrator. As an artist working in clay, he has been a major force for the last four decades. Combining literary, pop and conceptual approaches, he has created a body of work among the most intelligent and engaging in the ceramic idiom. His work has been exhibited and collected in major museums around the world. Among his recent title pieces was a commission for a 220-foot long mural at M.I.T. He has been chair of the art department at UC Berkeley as well as director of the visual arts program at both the National Endowment for the Arts and the American Academy in Rome. All lectures in Lucie Stern Hall Room 100 Free MILLS
