"Future on Pause," 2010 © Luis Urculo

Madrid-based architect Luis Urculo will discuss his recent work. This talk is presented in partnership with Mas Context.

Luis Urculo's work is characterized by an unusual portrayal of architecture  in the form of illustrations, animations, installations, and interiors. He studied at the ETSAM Madrid, at the Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago and at the Institute of Design and has collaborated with Alberto Campo Baeza, Mansilla-Tuñon and Izaskun Chinchilla. In 2006, he opened his own studio developing ephemeral architecture projects, stage designs and video-installations for Conde Nást, Philippe Starck and Sybilla, among others. His work has been exhibited at the XI Bienale di Architettura di Venezia, Montevideo Bienial, COAM Foundation and other locations. He also works as a teacher with Jaime Hayón for Master of European Design Labs at  Instituto Europeo di Design, Madrid.

Join us the evening of December 15th for refreshments and a book sale!  All books will be discounted at least 15%, with some titles up to 60%.  The Graham bookshop is a perfect place to find gifts for that architecture lover in the family (or for yourself!).

Book titles include:

Tomás Saraceno: Cloud Cities
The current exhibition catalog, Nancy Holt: Sightlines
G: An Avant Garde Journal of Art, Architecture, Design and Film
Clip/Stamp/Fold, ed. Beatriz Colomina
The Power of Pro Bono
Reveal: Studio Gang Architects
Living Archive 7: Ant Farm
The complete Words series from the Architectural Association in London
Schlepping Through Ambivalence: Essays on an American Architectural Condition by Stanley Tigerman
Bertrand Goldberg: Architecture of Invention
Architecture in Uniform: Designing and Building for the Second World War
The Complete Architecture of Louis Sullivan
+ more

Periodical selection includes:

Log Journal
Grey Room
Abitare
Mark
Detail
Design Quarterly
Monocle
Icon
Damn
Apartamento
+ more

Hope to see you there!

Photo: Susanna Bolle

Lampo and the Graham Foundation are pleased to present Greg Kelley with his premier of Soft Delete/Purgative Dryness, a two-part piece exploring themes of philosophical and aesthetic absence, including the potential absence of meaning and content. The solo work will feature amplified but otherwise acoustic trumpet, in addition to other pre-recorded electronic elements.

Greg Kelley (b. 1973, Boston) began studying the trumpet at age 10. He attended the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore where, in addition to studying the conservatory curriculum, he immersed himself in the study of avant-garde and experimental music – eventually coming to the conclusion that his musical focus fell outside of the academic sphere. Kelley moved back to his native Massachusetts and inserted himself into the local avant-garde circles. Soon after, he commenced a period of intense travel and collaboration; bringing him across the United States and through Europe, Japan and South America.

Kelley has appeared on over 60 albums and plays in a number of groups including Nmperign (as abstract improvisatory duo and as horn section for ex-Galaxie 500-ers Damon & Naomi), Heathen Shame, the Undr Quartet and the BSC. Other collaborators have included Jandek, Keiji Haino, Donald Miller (Borbetomagus), Anthony Braxton, Kevin Drumm, Christian Wolff, Pauline Oliveros, Joe McPhee and Lionel Marchetti. In addition to playing the trumpet, he also has recorded music using electronics and musique concrète elements.

Kelley serves as the Minister of Fanfares for the Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland, a so-called digital monarchy run by Leif Elggren that includes all areas of no-man's land, territories between national boundaries on both land and sea, digital and mental spaces.

This performance is presented in partnership with Lampo. Founded in 1997, Lampo is a non-profit organization for experimental music, sound art and intermedia projects. For information and to add your name to the Lampo list, visit http://www.lampo.org.

Image: Angeline Evans

Lampo and The Graham Foundation are pleased to present a performance by Leif Elggren as he makes his first Chicago appearance in nearly five years, performing new work for voice and live electronics.

Active since the late 1970s, Leif Elggren (b. 1950, Linköping, Sweden) is a writer, visual artist, art book publisher, stage performer and composer based in Stockholm. His varied and prolific output routinely involves dreams, subtle absurdities and social hierarchies turned upside-down. His audio work, both solo and with the Sons of God (with Kent Tankred), is often created as the soundtrack to an installation or experimental stage performance, and has been released on Ash International, Touch, Radium and his own Firework Edition.

Elggren also is co-monarch (with Carl Michael von Hausswolff) of Elgaland-Vargaland, a so-called digital monarchy that includes all areas of no-man's land, territories between national boundaries on both land and sea, digital and mental spaces.

This performance is presented in partnership with Lampo, and made possible through support from the Graham Foundation, and the American-Scandinavian Foundation. Founded in 1997, Lampo is a non-profit organization for experimental music, sound art and intermedia projects. For information and to add your name to the Lampo list, contact info@lampo.org or visit http://www.lampo.org.

Detail: Karthik Pandian, *Unearth*, Whitney Museum of American Art, 2010

Graham Foundation grantee and artist Karthik Pandian will reflect on the series of 16mm films and sculptural exhibitions that he produced out of his research at the Cahokia Mounds, a complex of pre-Columbian earthen edifices that dot the landscape east of St. Louis, IL, and the ancient Midwestern modernism he found buried there.

Karthik Pandian’s practice seeks to unsettle contradictions — universal and contingent, sacred and profane, proximate and distant — at the heart of the monument. Concerned in particular with the way in which history lurks in matter, Pandian uses 16mm film to excavate sites for fragments of political intensity. The sculptural works that support, enshroud and sometimes obscure his film projections are produced from materials drawn from his site research and often assume the form of architectural constructions. Through moving image, sculpture and syntheses of the two, his work imagines freedom in relation to the impositions of architecture.

Pandian has had solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis; White Flag Projects, St. Louis; Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles; and Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna. His work has been the subject of numerous published writings, including a feature in Artforum and a catalogue essay by anthropologist Michael Taussig. Pandian's exhibitions have been supported by grants from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts and the Durfee Foundation amongst others. He received his MFA from Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA and his BA from Brown University, Providence, RI.

Related Links
Midway Contemporary Art
http://www.midwayart.org/exhibitions/10_05_karthik_pandian/
Karthik Pandian: Unearth, Whitney Museum of American Art
http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/KarthikPandian
Related Grant: Before the Sun
http://grahamfoundation.org/grantees/3785-karthik-pandian-before-the-sun

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