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A symposium exploring William Anastasi's work in relation to literary and artistic predecessors including Jarry, Joyce, Duchamp, and Cage
Slought is pleased to announce "Wiliam Anastasi's Pataphysical Society," a symposium at Slought on Saturday, December 11, 2004 that will critically engage 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.
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).
"[T]he more I remedially review the contribution of William Anastasi to art and the general morale of art in his generation... the more fully I comprehend an uncommonly perspicacious neo-Duchampianism that now in a surprisingly Joycean way, with Jarry as provocateur to both, persists in sustaining the great game that is art."
-- Joseph Masheck
"If it should happen that Anastasi's hypothesis proves untestable, it will hang in the air as a living web of thought that waits tantalizingly for a resolution that never comes-a ghostly presence of the avant-garde of the twentieth century, a haunting memory that seems both ancient and somehow still alive in its appeal."
-- Thomas McEvilley
10:00am: Osvaldo Romberg
Diogenes in the Art Market
10:15am: Thomas McEvilley
Art and Cognition
11:00am: Jean-Michel Rabaté
Joyce and Jarry Joyeux
11:45pm: Joseph Masheck
Jarry-Joyce-Duchamp in an
Anastasian Illumination
2:00pm: Ian Hays
Joyce and Duchamp:
Our Accumulation of the Trivial
2:45pm: Alison Armstrong
Deja Dit et Deja Vue:
the Already Said, Already Seen
4:00pm: Steve McCaffery
The 'Pataphysics of Auschwitz
4:45pm: William Anastasi
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. McEvilley has been a contributing editor of Artforum and has published hundreds of articles, catalogue essays, and reviews in the field of contemporary art. 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.
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. Recent books and parts: Building-Art: Modern Architecture Under Cultural Construction (Cambridge, 1993) and Marcel Duchamp in Perspective (ed.; 1975), repr. (DaCapo).
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. In 1973 he co-founded with the late bp Nichol the Toronto Research Group.
Jean-Michel Rabaté, is a Senior Curator at Slought and Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania since 1992. He has authored or edited twenty books on Modernism, Joyce, Pound, Beckett, Lacan, Derrida, psychoanalysis and literary theory.
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). She 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.
Dr Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes is a Lecturer in Historical and Theoretical Studies in Visual Art at the University of Ulster's School of Art & Design in Belfast. She has published Joyce in Art: Visual Art Inspired by James Joyce, Dublin 2004 and curated the major art exhibition Joyce in Art for the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin.