Feast of Astonishments at Northwesternã¢ââ¢s Block Museum of Art
A Feast of Astonishments: Charlotte Moorman and the Avant-Garde, 1960s–1980s
i/xvi/2016 - vii/17/2016
Main Gallery
This exhibition replaces the indelible image of Charlotte Moorman (1933-1991)—playing the cello topless save for a pair of strapped-on miniature television sets—with a more than complex but equally powerful portrait of the girl from Little Stone, Arkansas, who metamorphosed into a seminal and bulwark-breaking figure in performance art and an impresario of the postwar avant-garde.
For three decades beginning in 1960, the Juilliard-trained Moorman'southward dedication to a radically new mode of looking at music and art took many forms, some farthermost, from playing the cello while suspended by helium balloons over the Sydney Opera House to performing on an "water ice cello" in the nude.
"I have asked myself why Charlotte Moorman is largely missing from the narratives of 20th-century fine art," says Lisa Corrin, the Cake Museum'due south Ellen Philips Katz Director and curator of modern and contemporary fine art. "She is mainly remembered as a muse to Nam June Paik, but she was much more than. In calorie-free of her influence on contemporary operation and her office every bit an unequaled popularizer of the avant-garde it is long overdue for her to exist appreciated as a seminal figure in her own right."
Reflecting Moorman'south delivery to finding ways to bring new art to the broadest possible public by literally taking the avant-garde into the streets of New York, A Feast of Astonishments presents a marvelous assortment of artworks, motion-picture show clips, music scores, audio recordings, documentary photographs, snapshots, performance props and costumes, ephemera, and correspondence. The vast bulk has never before been exhibited. Together they offer fresh insights into Moorman'south improbable career in the eventful decades of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.
A Feast of Astonishments benefits from a number of loans from private collections, including that of Yoko Ono, too as from unfettered admission to the Charlotte Moorman Archive at Northwestern University Libraries. A companion exhibition, entitledDon't Throw Anything Out, organized solely in conjunction with the Block's presentation, frames the scope of the archive with a selection of objects and media ranging from Moorman's double-barreled, heavily notated Rolodex to sound recordings of greetings and voice messages saved from her telephone bulletin machine.
During the exhibition catamenia, the two-story Cake Museum is given over to A Feast of Astonishments and Don't Throw Anything Out, with its basis flooring gallery transformed into a double viewing room for screenings of videos, including rare footage from the Charlotte Moorman Archive shown for the get-go time. The exhibition also spills out onto the Northwestern University campus and the campuses of other universities in Chicago in related courses and public programs.
The exhibition has been curated past a collaborative team: Lisa G. Corrin, Director, Cake Museum; Corinne Granof, Curator of Academic Programs, Block Museum; Scott Krafft, Curator of the Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern University Libraries; Michelle Puetz, Pick-Laudati Curator of Media Arts, Cake Museum; Joan Rothfuss, consulting curator and writer of Topless Cellist: The Improbable Life of Charlotte Moorman; and Laura Wertheim Joseph, Consulting Curatorial Associate. Exhibition design by Dan Silverstein, Associate Managing director of Collections and Exhibitions Management.
A Feast of Astonishments will travel in fall 2016 to New York Academy's Grayness Art Gallery in Manhattan and to the Museum der Moderne Salzburg in bound 2017.
Sponsorship
A Feast of Astonishments is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Fine art at Northwestern University, in partnership with Northwestern University Libraries. The exhibition is supported past major grants from the Terra Foundation for American Art, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional generous support is provided by the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation; the Alumnae of Northwestern University; the Colonel Eugene E. Myers Foundations; the Illinois Arts Council Agency; Dean of Libraries Discretionary Fund; the Charles Deering McCormick Fund for Special Collections; the Florence Walton Taylor Fund; and the Block Museum Science and Technology Endowment.Image: Charlotte Moorman performs Nam June Paik's TV Bed, Bochumer Kunstwoche, Bochum, West Deutschland, 1973. Photo © Hartmut Beifuss.
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Source: https://www.blockmuseum.northwestern.edu/view/exhibitions/past-exhibits/2016/a-feast-of-astonishments.html
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