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MOCA Summer Series 2008 coming soon
2 February through April 26 2008
Arid Zones/Zones Arides
Curated by Patrice Joly
Olivier Mosset, John M. Armleder, Mathieu Mercier, Morgane Tschiember, Anne-Marie Jugnet + Alain Clairet, Aurelien Froment, & Wilfrid Almendra
Long fascinated with the Sonoran Desert, many European artists and musicians have been inspired by time spent here as both visitors and residents. Over the last five years, each of the artists included in Arid Zones/Zones Arides has spent time in Tucson and its surrounding desert, creating sculptures, drawings, photographs, videos, and site specific installation pieces in direct response to the environment, reflecting on the myth and mystery of our landscape, and participating in a creative exchange which bridges languages, cultures, and identities. Initially presented in a major exhibition in Paris and Nantes, France, last year, Arid Zones/Zones Arides comes to life in another iteration at MOCA on The Plaza in Tucson and completes a portion of the larger cross-cultural exchange originally conceived of by Mosset in his inception of this unique artmaking process.
Installation of Arid Zones/Zones Arides in Tucson overseen by Beth Weinstein.
Free for members, $5 non-members
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Vik Muniz & Janaina Tschäpe
Meet-the-Artists Booksigning & Presentation
April 19 3pm
Free
In conjunction with MOCA’s Artist-in-Residence (AIR) Program, meet internationally renowned artists Muniz, two artists whose innovative work places them at the vanguard of contemporary art. Tschäpe's 2006 video Blood, Sea (from the Centre Pompidou's permanent collection) will screen and Tschäpe will share footage of her current production filmed in the Sonoran Desert during her residency at MOCA this month. Muniz will premiere an original text on Tschäpe's work and a selection of their out-of-print, hard to find, highly collectible (and increasingly valuable) monographs and exhibition catalogues will be available for purchase at the booksigning. These include Incomplete Work (out of print), Seeing is Believing (out of print), Reflex (second edition), Melantropics, and 100 Little Deaths (out of print). Prices for books range between $30 and $600. Attendees are invited to bring their own copies of Muniz and Tschäpe books for signature as well.
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MOCA Design Lab Presents
D Co*op's BLOCK Play
26 April Saturday 12-5pm
Free
Coinciding with the always delightful Madonnari Chalk Festival at Jacome Plaza (www.tucsonmadonnari.com), MOCA Design Lab will host a free open house style public participation charette entitled BLOCK Play dedicated to imagining increased density in central Tucson. Members of the general public are invited to bring their curiosity and to re-imagine central Tucson starting with a typical midtown block and whole bunch of Legos. Guided by members of D Co*op, a dynamic design cooperative currently working as artists-in-residence at MOCA – Beth Weinstein, Kelle Brooks, Dale Clifford, Erin Moore, Bill Mackey, and Jason Oliver Vollen – BLOCK Play asks participants of all ages and backgrounds to get creative in imagining ways to sustain a vital central Tucson by embracing smart growth principles.
Special Note
On Saturday, April 26, MOCAshop will hold its twice annual CLEARANCE SALE with discounts of up to 80% on one-of-a-kind design items, books, paper goods, and t-shirts.
The exhibition of Arid Zones/Zones Arides at MOCA on The Plaza is supported in part by Etante Donnés/FACE, CulturesFrance and an anonymous Tucson patron.
The Warhol Initiative
MOCA has been selected to participate in The Warhol Initiative, a major capacity-building grant program from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., which includes technical and strategic consulting and $100,000 in capital support.
MOCA is one of only 12 organizations nationwide to be accepted into the third and final phase of this extraordinary program.
MOCA is generously supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The Arizona Commission on the Arts, and the Tucson Pima Arts Council.
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