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Caption: Detail, Detail, "du jarry" series, 2004

"Introducing William Anastasi"
Featuring Osvaldo Romberg

Slought Foundation | Saturday, December 11, 2004; 10:00 - 10:15 pm
Free admission (Reservation not required)

Organized by Jean-Michel Rabaté, Aaron Levy
Anastasi Symposium Series



Project Website (with 10 min. multimedia recording): http://slought.org/content/11284/

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/


Osvaldo Romberg was born in Buenos Aires. He is currently Professor at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia and a Senior Curator at Slought Foundation. Select exhibition venues include: Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna, Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Sudo Museum, Tokyo, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, The Jewish Museum, New York, and the XLI Venice Biennial, Israel Pavilion. He recently curated shows on Faith at the Aldrich Museum and on Urbanism at White Box, New York. At Slought Foundation, he has organized exhibitions on a variety of artists and themes including William Anastasi and Hermann Nitsch.

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