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Project Website: http://slought.org/content/11238/
Slought Foundation, an organization rethinking contemporary arts, presents “Wiliam Anastasi's Pataphysical Society,” a symposium on Saturday, December 11, 2004 critically engaging William Anastasi's work in relation to literary and artistic predecessors and contemporaries including Jarry, Joyce, Duchamp and Cage. This one-day symposium, sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania Research Foundation, features presentations by and conversations with a variety of noted critics and academics including Thomas McEvilley, Steve McCaffery, Joseph Masheck, William Anastasi, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Alison Armstrong, and Ian Hays. For documentation and audio recordings from past Slought Foundation projects with William Anastasi, visit: http://slought.org/search/anastasi/
Symposium Schedule for Saturday, December 11, 2004*
10:00-10:15am Osvaldo Romberg: "Diogenes in the Art Market" (Introduction)
10:15-10:55am Thomas McEvilley: "Art and Cognition"
11:00-11:40am Jean-Michel Rabaté: "Joyce and Jarry Joyeux"
11:45-12:25pm Joseph Masheck: "Jarry-Joyce-Duchamp in an Anastasian Illumination"
12:30-02:00pm Lunch Break
2:00-2:40pm Ian Hays: "Joyce and Duchamp: Our Accumulation of the Trivial"
2:45-3:25pm Alison Armstrong: "Deja Dit et Deja Vue: the Already Said, the Already Seen"
3:30-4:00pm Coffee Break
4:00-4:40pm Steve McCaffery: "The 'Pataphysics of
Auschwitz"
4:45-5:30pm William Anastasi
*Each 30-minute presentation will be followed by 10 minutes of Q&A.
Writings by Anastasi relevant to the symposium proceedings from Tout-Fait, The Marcel Duchamp Studies Online Journal, include:
Alfred Jarry and l'Accident of Duchamp
| Jarry, Joyce, Duchamp and Cage
| James Joyce and Marcel Duchamp
Thomas McEvilley is Distinguished Lecturer in Art History at Rice University, where he has been on the faculty since 1969. He holds a Ph.D. in classical philology. In addition to Greek and Latin, he has studied Sanskrit and has taught numerous courses in Greek and Indian culture, history of religion and philosophy, and art. He has published countless scholarly monographs and articles in various journals on early Greek poetry, philosophy, and religion as well as on contemporary art and culture. He has been a visiting professor at Yale University and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, among others. He was the recipient of a Fulbright Grant in 1993 and has been awarded an NEA critic’s grant and the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Distinction in Art Criticism by the College Art Association. He lives in New York City.
McEvilley has been a contributing editor of Artforum and has published hundreds of articles, catalogue essays, and reviews in the field of contemporary art, as well as monographs on Yves Klein, Jannis Kounellis, and Pat Steir. His recent books include Art and Discontent, Art and Otherness, and The Exile's Return: Toward a Redefinition of Painting for the Post-Modern Era.
Steve McCaffery is the David Gray Professor of Poetry and Letters and Director of the Poetics program at SUNY Buffalo. He is the author of fifteen books of poetry and one novel, and has twice received the Gertrude Stein Award for Innovative American Poetry, in 1993-94 and 1994-95. In 1973 he co-founded with the late bp Nichol the Toronto Research Group. He has performed his poetry world-wide and his work has been translated into French, Spanish, Chinese, and Hungarian. He contributed "'To Lose One's Way': The Radical Labryinths of Constant and Arakawa/Gins" to the Summer Issue (No. 21, Vol. 1) of the journal Interfaces.
Joseph Masheck studied art history under Meyer Schapiro at Columbia and proceeded to the doctorate under Rudolf Wittkower and Dorothea Nyberg. A former editor-in-chief of Artforum, (1977-80), he has taught at Columbia, where he was also a member of the Society of Fellows in the Humanities, and at Harvard and Hofstra. Masheck recently completed an M.Litt. in aesthetics at Trinity College Dublin, and is working on a cluster of essays on Adolf Loos. Recent books and parts: Building-Art: Modern Architecture Under Cultural Construction (Cambridge, 1993); Van Gogh 100 (ed.; Greenwood, 1996); centenary ed. of Arthur Wesley Dow's Composition (California, 1997); 'The Vital Skin: Riegl, the Maori and Loos,' in Richard Woodfield, ed., Framing Formalism: Riegl and the History of Art, Critical Voices in Art, Theory and Culture (G+B Arts International, 2001); Marcel Duchamp in Perspective (ed.; 1975), repr. (DaCapo, forthcoming). Recent articles: 'On a Crypto-Corbusianism in Breton's Nadja,' Annals of Scholarship, 13 (1999); 'A Pre-Bretonian Case of Automatic Drawing: Spare and Carter's "Automatic Drawing" (1916),' Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics, no. 38 (Autumn 2000); 'Karel Teige: Functionalist and Then Some,' Art in America, December 2001.
William Anastasi, considered to be among the first "classical" conceptual artists, is known for rediscovering the radical through painting, sculpture, collage, photography and drawing. His work is in the permanent collections of NY institutions including The Museum of Modern Art, The Guggenheim Museum, The Whitney Museum, The Metropolitan Museum, The Brooklyn Museum, and The Jewish Museum, as well as The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, The National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., The Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, Staatsgalerie fur Kunst in Denmark, and The Kunstmuseum Dusseldorf in Germany, to name but a few. At Slought Foundation, he recently exhibited me altar's egoes, a project engaging Jarry, Joyce, and Duchamp. (Born 1933, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Lives in New York)
Jean-Michel Rabaté, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania since 1992, has authored or edited twenty books on Modernism, Joyce, Pound, Beckett, Lacan, Derrida, psychoanalysis and literary theory. Among these, Lacan in America (2000), Jacques Lacan: Psychoanalysis and the subject of literature (2001), James Joyce and the Politics of Egoism (2001), and The Future of Theory (2002). He is the editor of the Cambridge Guide to Jacques Lacan (2002). He recently edited Of the Diagram: The Work of Marjorie Welish (2003), with Aaron Levy, and the Summer Issues (No. 21/22) of the journal Interfaces addressing work by artists and architects Arakawa+GIns.
Alison Armstrong is the author of numerous articles and reviews of literature and art, a founding editor (1979) of James Joyce Broadsheet (UK), and contributing editor (since 1982) to Irish Literary Supplement (USA). Her two books are: "The Herne's Egg": The Manuscript Materials (Cornell Univ. Press, 1992) and The Joyce of Cooking: Food & Drink of James Joyce's Dublin (Station Hill Press, 1986). She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature (NYU), an M.Litt.(Oxford Univ., UK), and an M.A. in English (Ohio State Univ.) and currently teaches at The New School and at School of Visual Arts in New York City.
Ian Hays is a lecturer at the Coventry School of Art and Design, Coventry University. Current visual and textual work revolves around the enterprise of reading Joyce reading Duchamp.
He recently presented at the James Joyce Bloomsday Symposium (Dublin, June 14th 2004).
This program is made possible in part through the generous sponsorship or support of University of Pennsylvania Research Foundation and the French Institute for Culture and Technology
 
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