[inter/meta/trans] event submission

[Glenn Phillips]

History of Close Radio

John Duncan, Paul McCarthy, Nancy Buchanan, Paul Vangelisti

Friday, July 13, 4:00 p.m.
The Getty Center
Harold M. Williams Auditorium

Close Radio was a weekly series of experimental radio broadcasts on Los
Angeles station KPFK from 1976 to 1979. Founded by artists John Duncan
and Neil Goldstein, the program was primarily organized by Duncan and
Paul McCarthy, with Nancy Buchanan and Linda Frye Burnham also
participating as organizers at various points in the program's history.
Duncan and McCarthy are joined on the panel by video artist Buchanan and
Paul Vangelisti, founding chair of the graduate writing program at Otis
College of Art and Design, and cultural affairs director at KPFK from
1974 to 1982. They examine the history of Close Radio through their
individual and collective histories and their experiences of the
evolution, meaning, and impact of Close Radio in relation to the broader
environment of contemporary art culture. The panel is moderated by Glenn
Phillips, curator of the exhibition Evidence of Movement. 

Admission to this event is free, but reservations are required. Parking
is free with your reservation. Make your reservation online or call
(310) 440-7300. 

This panel is presented by the Getty Research Institute in conjunction
with Evidence of Movement (July 10–October 7, 2007). 
 
       
E X H I B I T I O N          
Evidence of Movement 

July 10–October 7, 2007
The Getty Center
Getty Research Institute Exhibition Gallery

In the collecting and display of art, performance has posed strong
challenges to established notions of both the art collection and the
archive. Unlike painting or sculpture, performance-based art exists
without an original, tangible, and self-contained object. Because of
this, archival material such as documentary photography, film and video,
and artists’ notes and sketches are often studied, collected, and
exhibited as works of art. Nearly every medium imaginable has been used
by artists to document performance work, including photographs, videos,
audio recordings, notes, drawings, paintings, scores, posters, prints,
books, objects, and sculptural remnants. Drawn primarily from the
collections of the Research Library at the Getty Research Institute,
this exhibition surveys the great variety of creative means by which
artists have used durable and traditional media to document
performance-based art. These attempts to transpose the dynamic and
experiential qualities of performance into documentary and archival
media have influenced the field of art as a whole, and have opened vital
avenues of exploration. Artists featured in the exhibition include John
Baldessari, Gunther Brus, Allan Kaprow, Mike Kelley, Suzanne Lacy, Paul
McCarthy, Hermann Nitsch, Robert Rauschenberg, Carolee Schneemann, Tony
Oursler, Yvonne Rainer.

The exhibition is on view from July 10 through October 7, 2007

Starting on July 10, visit www.getty.edu or subscribe to our podcast to
listen to Close Radio, a weekly series of experimental radio for
artists, listeners, and political groups, broadcast on Los Angeles
station KPFK from 1976 to 1979.


 


Glenn R. Phillips
Senior Project Specialist and Consulting Curator
Department of Contemporary Programs and Research
Getty Research Institute
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688

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