Lynn Marie Kirby & Glenn Phillips on Oracular Transmissions

Co-hosted by X Artists’ Books and Hopscotch Reading Room, Berlin

8pm CEST/11am PST

Event will be on Zoom.

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Join us on October 24th for a virtual conversation with artist Lynn Marie Kirby and curator Glenn Phillips about Oracular Transmissions. Oracular Transmissions, published by X Artists’ Books, weaves together materials from three of Etel Adnan and Lynn Marie Kirby’s creative exchanges: Back, Back Again to Paris (2013); Alhambra Exchange (2016); and Transmissions (2017). 

In the spirit of exploring our new Zoom reality, this discussion calls upon the format of the ’80s classic Mystery Science Theater 3000 to present a new way to webinar. The talk will be followed by a Q&A moderated by Alexandra Grant of X Artists’ Books and Siddartha Lokanandi of Hopscotch Reading Room.

BIOS:

LYNN MARIE KIRBY works in a variety of time-based forms, including film, public installations and performance, engaging our relationship to place, often with text, often with collaborators. Lately, she has performed site interventions outside and alongside established art systems enlarging the idea of the exhibition and its relation to the public. Kirby is a Professor of Fine Arts and Film at California College of the Arts.

GLENN PHILLIPS is Curator and Head of Modern and Contemporary Collections at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. Prior to working at the GRI, he was Assistant Curator for Special Projects at the Whitney Museum of American Art, where he worked on the 1997, 2000, and 2002 Whitney Biennial exhibitions, as well as The American Century: Art & Culture 1900-2000. Phillips was a member of the core organizational team for Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980, a series of over sixty concurrent exhibitions that were held across Southern California from fall 2011 to spring 2012.  

HOPSCOTCH READING ROOM is a new-ish space in Berlin whose aim is to expand and deepen the experience of the non-western world in the realms of discourse and literature. Hopscotch offers an extensive and constantly growing selection of books and paper and other material from the various publishing centers that originate and flourish outside the Western orbit. They complement this with an extensive program of events: readings, discussions, screenings, and workshops that draw upon the vibrancy and cosmopolitan texture of this unique city. They are guided by a vision of a world rich in fugitive visions and mongrel tongues; resplendent, unbidden.

You can purchase a copy of Oracular Transmissions from X Artists' Books with a special 15% discount using the promo code MYSTERYSCIENCE3000 until 10/31/2020.