In conjunction with our current exhibition Lina Bo Bardi: Together, the Graham Foundation, with Arper, is pleased to host the U.S. launch of the Bardi’s Bowl Chair. Join us on Monday, June 15, for a reception featuring opening remarks by Susan Szenasy, Editor-in-Chief of Metropolis, and Claudio Feltrin, CEO of Arper.

Originally designed by Lina Bo Bardi in 1951, Bardi’s Bowl Chair has been produced by Arper, in partnership with the Instituto Lina Bo e P. M. Bardi in Sao Paulo, in a limited edition of 500.

Photo by: Marco Covi.

Related Links
Bardi's Bowl Chair
http://bardisbowlchair.arper.com/
Arper
http://www.arper.com/en

For more information on the exhibition, Lina Bo Bardi: Together, click here.

Australian drummer and percussionist Will Guthrie will present his powerful solo percussion work in a rare U.S. appearance at the Graham Foundation on Saturday, June 13.

Will Guthrie is an Australian drummer and percussionist living in France. He works in many different settings of music: live performance, improvisation, and studio composition, using various combinations of drums, percussion, objects, junk, amplification, and electronics. In addition to his solo work, Guthrie plays in The Ames Room (with Jean-Luc Guionnet and Clayton Thomas), Elwood & Guthrie (with Scott Stroud), and Thymolphthalein (with Anthony Pateras, Natasha Anderson, Clayton Thomas and Jérôme Noetinger).  He also runs Antboy Music—the experimental improvised CD label—and is part of the collective CABLE#. Regular collaborators past and present include Jean-Philippe Gross, Julien Ottavi, Jérôme Noetinger, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Keith Rowe, David Maranha, and Anthony Pateras.

This performance is presented in partnership with Lampo. Founded in 1997, Lampo is a non-profit organization for experimental music and intermedia projects. Visit www.lampo.org.

Please Note: RSVP is required, and event entry is on a first-come, first-serve basis, so please plan to arrive early. Doors will open at 7:30PM.

On May 27, the Graham Foundation will announce its 2015 Grants to Individuals with a public presentation and reception at 6pm CDT at the historic Madlener House in Chicago. During this special program, which will be broadcast online via live streaming, we will announce over $490,000 in grants to individuals around the world to support new and challenging ideas in architecture. The event will also include presentations by a selection of our new grantees about their Graham-supported work in progress.

Join us in Chicago or via Live Streaming!
6pm CDT Awards Announcement
7-8pm CDT Reception

Watch the program on YouTube Live by clicking here.

MAS Context, in collaboration with the Graham Foundation, is pleased to present a screening of the film Josep Lluís Sert: A Nomadic Dream.

The documentary, written and directed by Pablo Bujosa Rodríguez, tells the story of Josep Lluís Sert, a talented architect, city planner, and contemporary of Miró, Calder, and Picasso, and his indelible impact on the course of American architecture. Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design from 1953 to 1969, Sert fled Spain during the Civil War and immigrated to the United States where he lived for almost forty years. Sert had a connection to Chicago as he was part of the Graham Foundation Advisory Board when the institution was founded in 1956.

The film features never before seen archival footage as well as interviews with contemporaries of Sert including Rafael Moneo (architect), Robert Campbell (architect, journalist, 1996 Pulitzer Prize winner, and former colleague of Sert), Robert Gardner (filmmaker, former Director of the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts at Harvard University, and personal friend of Sert), and Gerald & Nina Holton (personal friends of Sert and current owners of the Sert home in Cambridge).

Related Links
Josep Lluis Sert / A Nomadic Dream
www.jlsertfilm.com

On May 16, Swedish composer and artist CM von Hausswolff will perform a 4-channel solo electronics work using a multi-wave oscillator, microphone for voice, and computer. Recognized for his complex electornic drone compositions, von Hausswolff draws on wide-ranging recording devices, including camera, tape recorder, radar, and sonar, to produce intuitive studies of frequency, distorted electricity, and churning feedback.

Carl Michael von Hausswolff is a Swedish composer and visual artist. Since the late 1970s, his audio work has explored digital and analog recording devices, and his conceptual art practice has combined performance art, light- and sound installations, and photography. von Hausswolff has performed throughout the world, solo and with collaborators, including Russell Haswell, Pan Sonic, the Hafler Trio, Erik Pauser, and John Duncan. In 2012, he received a Prix Ars Electronica award for Digital Musics. His major exhibitions and performances include Documenta (1997, 2012); Johannesburg Biennial (1997); Hayward Gallery (2000); Biennale di Venezia (2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2011, and 2015); Portikus (2004); The Land Foundation (2005); The Morning Line, Thyssen-Bornemisza (2010); Stedelijk Museum (2013); and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (2014), among others. von Hausswolff’s first Lampo appearance dates back to February 2001, when he performed Circulating Over Square Oceans. In August 2003 he screened two films for Lampo—Hashima, Japan (2002) and Pan Sonic Plays Kurenniemi (2002). During that 2003 visit, he also began work on a special project for Lampo and WhiteWalls, published as Red Empty (Chicago, 2003) and the audio work There Are No Crows Flying around the Hancock, which he premiered in March 2005.

This performance is presented in partnership with Lampo. Founded in 1997, Lampo is a non-profit organization for experimental music and intermedia projects. Visit www.lampo.org.

PLEASE NOTE: RSVP is required, and event entry is on a first-come, first-serve basis, so please plan to arrive early. Doors will open at 7:30PM.

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