100 Years of Beuys
October 21 - October 22,2021
To view the upcoming discussion on October 21, 2021, go here. To view the upcoming performance on October 22, 2021, go here. From Project Row Houses: "This conversation will bring together artist and co-founder of Project Row Houses Rick Lowe, founding Executive Director of the Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University Alison Weaver, and life-long artist advocate and former-Executive Director of Project Row Houses Linda Shearer. Rick Lowe is a Houston-based artist who has worked both inside and outside of art world institutions by participating in exhibitions and developing community-based art projects. In 1993, Rick founded Project Row Houses alongside James Bettison (1958-1997), Bert Long, Jr. (1940-2013), Jesse Lott, Floyd Newsum, Bert Samples, and George Smith. Alison Weaver was a Director of Affiliates for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York where she oversaw many international traveling exhibitions. Her academic research focuses on post-war dialogues between the United States and European artists, including Joseph Beuys. She is currently the Executive Director of the Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University. Linda Shearer has spent the last 40 years in art museums and artist organizations, including as a director of the Artist’s Space in New York, curator at the Museum of Modern Art, and as an art history professor at Williams College as well as Rice University. Shearer is also a former Executive Director of Project Row Houses. The second 100 Years of Beuys program is a special musical tribute to Joseph Beuys performed by experimental musicians Damon Smith and David Dove. The first piece, “Variations on Double Bass, 1961,” will be interpreted by Damon Smith. This piece was created by Benjamin Patterson, a contemporary of Joseph Beuys and the only Black founding member of the Fluxus art-movement. The second piece, titled “Ausfegen” (Sweeping Up) was conceived by Damon Smith as a musical tribute to Joseph Beuys’ own performance action of the same name which took place following the 1972 Worker’s Day Demonstrations in Karl-Marx-Platz in West-Berlin. In this action, Joseph Beuys along with two foreign art students, took brooms in hand and swept up the debris left behind by the previous day’s demonstrations. David Dove will join Damon on the trombone."
Conversation: October 21, 2021 | 6-7 pm
100 Years of Beuys: In conversation with Linda Shearer, Rick Lowe, and Alison Weaver
Performance: October 22, 2021 | 6-7 pm
100 Years of Beuys: A Musical Tribute with Damon Smith and David Dove.
