March 2011
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Curious Matter Joins Proteus Gowanus In Paradise
Curious Matter: Sunday, April 3 – May 15
Proteus Gowanus: Friday, April 16 – July 16
Curious Matter, the exquisite Jersey City gallery, has joined Proteus Gowanus in the search for Paradise, mounting a parallel exhibit, [continue reading…]
Paradise Sermons
Sunday, April 3rd at 4pm
Four lay scholars and artists preach from primary sources as they search for Paradise accompanied by the Baroque harp. Harpist Christa Patton joins Nicola Masciandaro, Amy Melson, Karl Steel and Dominic [continue reading…]
Proteus
A Film about Artist and Biologist Ernst Haeckel
Friday, April 1, 7 pm and 9 pm
A screening of the film, Proteus, followed by a Q and A with Director David Lebrun. [continue reading…]
John Burroughs On Film
Thursday, March 31, 8 pm
John Burroughs will be featured in two short films, one early 20th C early color film and one by James Walsh shot from hand-colored lantern slides.
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Utopian Strategies:
Artists Anticipate Their Audiences
Saturday, March 26 at 7 pm
Artists are increasingly engaged in dialogues about how artworks, performances, interventions, and events relate to their audiences and how their audiences interact with their work. [continue reading…]
The Cruise
A Documentary Film that Tours the Paradise/Inferno: NYC
Sunday, March 13 at 5pm
Kicking off our new partnership, Proteus Gowanus and The New Inquiry present a screening of the documentary film, The Cruise, by Bennett Miller. The film follows Timothy “Speed” Levitch on his unorthodox Gray Line [continue reading…]
Paradise and Destiny:
The Fate of Four Georgian Modern Artists
Thursday, March 10 at 7 pm
Artist Vladimir (Lado) Pochkhua will show rare images of Georgian art from his collection of slides, and discuss the Republic of Georgia’s utopian moment of freedom from May 1918 to February 1921 before the [continue reading…]
Paradaisos/Paradoxon
Saturday, March 5 at 8pm
Paradaisos/Paradoxon by Damian Young and Welker White is a staged reading of a work-in-progress, exploring one man’s thwarted passion for a perfect world. As part of our yearlong exploration of Paradise, Young and [continue reading…]
Cyborg Paradise
Monday, February 25 at 8pm
Cyborg Paradise, a talk with designer-theorist Tom Klinkowstein will explore a future that seems like a utopian paradise for some and for others, sounds more like hell: the cyborgization of humankind. Tom asks, “When we [continue reading…]
No Longer in Paradise: Co-creating Freedom
Friday, January 21 at 8pm
Writer, theorist, and media artist Svetlana Boym, argues in her most recent book, Another Freedom: The Alternative History of an Idea that since “Fortunately, paradise has already been lost”, the time has come to co-create freedom [continue reading…]
