Visual Studies Gallery at UB ART GALLERY, Center for the Arts presents:YOKO ONO FAN CLUB Thursday, February 27 through March 29 5 to 7 pm, 2014/ Buffalo New York state
Buffalo, N.Y.—The University at Buffalo Art Gallery, Center for the Arts and UB’s Department of Visual Studies are excited to present Yoko Ono Fan Club, an exhibition including but not limited to: objects, manifestos, wordplay, installations, interventions, disruptions, scores, documentation, instructions, happenings, performances, and invitations for participation.
The exhibition opens with a public reception in the Visual Studies Gallery on Thursday, February 27, 2014 from 5 to 7pm. Some of the artists will be in attendance.
Buffalo, N.Y.—The University at Buffalo Art Gallery, Center for the Arts and UB’s Department of Visual Studies are excited to present Yoko Ono Fan Club, an exhibition including but not limited to: objects, manifestos, wordplay, installations, interventions, disruptions, scores, documentation, instructions, happenings, performances, and invitations for participation.
The exhibition opens with a public reception in the Visual Studies Gallery on Thursday, February 27, 2014 from 5 to 7pm. Some of the artists will be in attendance.
Yoko Ono Fan Club is conceived in the spirit of Fluxus, in the belief that absurdity, play, arbitrariness, and randomness (among other qualities) are forms of resistance to and negation of one-dimensionality—marked by an elevation of Reason above all—as described by Herbert Marcuse in One-Dimensional Man. While the text was published in the 1960s and the forces in play have evolved, we still believe the paths mentioned above to be viable and useful in the present day. The exhibition is conceived, organized, and curated by Visual Studies MFA candidate Julie M Rozman.
Selected artists hail from locations in Western New York, across the United States, and internationally:
Michael Basinski, Volodymyr Bilyk, Katrina Boemig, Shannon Ciston, Laura Collins, Robert Ladislas Derr, Jenna Efrein, Jas W Felter, Luc Fierens, Benjamin Grosser, Claire Gustavson and Sarah Keeling, Bernard Klevickas, Marissa C. Lehner, Elizabeth Leister, Amy Lemaire, Frans van Lent, Alicia Marván, Gerald Mead, Dao Nguyen, Gardiner Funo O’Kain, Yoko Ono, Klaus Pinter, Jess Printup, Warren Quigley, Leyla Rodriguez and Christian Straub, Harumo Sato, Catherine Schwalbe, Priscilla P Stadler, Alison Starr, Juliann Wang, Devin Wilson, Wooden Cities, and BuffFluxus.
Saturday, March 29, 2014
The exhibition closes with a performance evening by BuffFluxus and Wooden Cities: doors open at 6pm, begins at 6:30pm, approximately 2 hours. In the spirit of both YOFC and Fluxus, the evening will include performances inviting participation and otherwise shifting and questioning performer/audience boundaries, as well as offering more traditional forms of presentation. Wooden Cities presents You Our Sound: texts and scores by Pauline Oliveros and Yoko Ono. BuffFluxus presents events and scores by Fluxus artists such as Dick Higgins, Alison Knowles, Jackson Mac Low, Yoko Ono, Nam Jun Paik, Emmett Smith, and others.
All events are free and open to the public.
The UB Art Gallery, Center for the Arts is open Tuesday through Friday, 11 AM to 5 PM; Saturday 1 to 5 PM. For information, please call 716-645-6913. The exhibition, which is free and open to the public, will be on view in the Visual Studies Gallery, located on the second floor of the Center for the Arts, through March 29, 2014.
The UB Art Gallery is located in the Center for the Arts on the North Campus just north of the I-290 on Millersport Highway. Traveling east or west on the I-290 take exit 5B to Millersport Highway North. Turn left onto the campus at the Coventry entrance. As you enter the campus, the Center for the Arts is a high gabled white building directly ahead of you.
After 3 PM and on weekends, parking is free and a permit is not required. During all other times, guests must park in metered spaces, visitor parking lots, or obtain a parking permit from UB Art Gallery staff. In order to obtain a parking permit, temporarily park in the circle in front of the Center for the Arts and see a gallery attendant inside.
The UB Art Gallery is funded by the UB College of Arts and Sciences, the Visual Arts Building Fund, and the Seymour H. Knox Foundation Fine Arts Fund.
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