the Cooper Union School of Art Interdisciplinary Seminar

Jay Sanders

Motore Immobile: Object, Performance, NYC, etc.

This lecture took place on November 18th, 2008 at 7:00 pm in the Wollman Auditorium at the Cooper Union

Lecture introduction

A screening and a discussion around object-based performance of the 1970’s, particularly of Richard Foreman’s Ontological-Hysteric Theater, Stuart Sherman, Michael Smith, Maurico Kagel, Guy de Cointet, John Zorn, and Mike Kelley.  Sanders will discuss a genre that never really happened: Structural performance? Hermetic theater? Visual Music? or?

About Jay Sanders

Jay Sanders is a curator, writer and Gallery Director at Greene Naftali. Recent projects include the upcoming White Columns Annual, a film/video series curated with Paul Chan for the 2008 Lyon Biennale, and a dialogue with Jim O’Rourke published in the book “Arcana II.” He is a member of the performance collaborative “Grand Openings” which participated in the 2006 Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial in Niigata, Japan and recently performed at MUMOK (Vienna) and Seattle’s Bumbershoot Festival. He has written for Texte zur Kunst, Artforum, and BOMB. Sanders is currently producing a DVD of the plays of Richard Foreman, to be released in January on John Zorn’s Tzadik imprint. He has organized screenings and performance events at many New York venues including Anthology Film Archives, The Stone, Tonic, and the Whitney Museum at Altria.

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