Coordinated by the Open Practice Committee at the University of Chicago, threewalls will host Pedagogy of the Periphery on February 10th from 4:00 - 7:00 pm, a special workshop style event to compliment the Radical Caucus for Art's Autonomizing Practices panel at this year's College Art Association meeting.

In conjunction with AREA Chicago's ninth issue, Peripheral Vision, Pedagogy of the Periphery will focus on the history, practice and theory of radical pedagogy inside and outside institutions. Together, educators and students will discuss pedagogical practices, broadly defined— their optimism, obstacles, methods, pleasures, and frustrations—with both short informal presentations and time for group discussion. Some discussion questions will be submitted in advance by students, however there will be flexibility to address current events as needed (such as, campus uprisings happening in California, Europe, and elsewhere).

This free event allows people not attending the conference to benefit from a sampling of visiting speakers. It is not conceived as anti-CAA, but happens alongside the conference to illustrate the fact that some conversations are easier to hold outside the professional machine.*

Presenters: Dara Greenwold, Eve Ewing, Nicole Marroquin, Gregg Sholette, Bert Stabler and Liz Mason-Deese and Tim Stallmann of the Counter Cartographer's Collective

*For more information and to pre-register, please contact Zachary Cahill, Lecturer & Open Practice Committee coordinator at zcahill@uchicago.edu.

This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Art History and the Open Practice Committee in the department of visual art.

Friday, February 26^th, 2010.

Doors at 6pm, Program starts at 7pm

Suggested Donation: $10.00

Chasing Two Rabbits is a special event curated by Sonia Yoon and Shannon Stratton that pairs animators with live performances by sound artists and musicians. Inspired by the experimental films of Norman McLaren, who combined abstract imagery (including scratching and painting into the film stock in earlier work, as well as paper cut-outs and live action and dance) with imaginative music and sound, Chasing Two Rabbits, acts to pair artists in both genres to produce a unique event where, rather than leaving art to illustrate a story, perhaps sound and vision will illuminate each other.  

The program for the evening will include animations by Gracen Brilmyer, Peter Burr, Tom Burtonwood, Dana Carter, Jodie Mack, Tracy Taylor, and Rebecca Schoenecker with sound by The Chicago Phonographers, Chris Hammes, Eric Zeigenhagen, Steve Lacy, Frank Van Duerm, Kotoka Suzuki, Cait Stevens, George Monteleone and Broken Chooser.

                                                “If you chase two rabbits, both will escape.”

WE REGRET THAT WE HAVE HAD TO CANCEL THIS EVENT.

Saturday, February 27^th, 2010

Doors at 6pm, Program starts at 7pm