This Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, author of The Virgin Suicidesand Middlesex, is joined by local novelist Claire Vaye Watkins in a discussion of Fresh Complaint, his new collection of short stories about characters that range from a failed poet who turns to embezzlement to a high school student whose drastic decision upends the life of a middle-aged physicist.
7 p.m., Michigan Union Ballroom. Tickets $28.62 (includes a copy of the book) in advance at brownpapertickets.com/event/3080004. 585-5567.
Literati is excited to host a panel discussion of the new book #exstrange: A Curatorial Intervention on Ebay
About #Exstrange
#exstrange: a curatorial intervention on eBay presents the #exstrange exhibition project, which transformed one of the largest marketplaces on the web — eBay — into a site of artistic production. This book documents artworks, reveals the aftermath of auctions and correspondences between artists and bidders, and features essays by lead curators Marialaura Ghidini and Rebekah Modrak, cultural critic Mark Dery, journalist Rob Walker, media and material culture scholar Padma Chirumamilla, guest curator Gaia Tedone, and artist and writer Renee Carmichael.
Over 80 contemporary artists and designers created “artworks as auctions” for #exstrange between January 15 and April 15, 2017, each using the elements of the auction listing–descriptive text, images, pricing, and categories–as tools of production.
Works include artist Lucy Pawlak’s collaboration with the Beat Officer to sell a series of clay objects as missing evidence from unexplained events in Mexico; IOCOSE’s sale of instant protests in the category “Specialty Services” where buyers chose the protest mantras, and outsourced performers demonstrated; and Susanne Cockrell & Ted Purves’ offering of a stick-gun with the memory of their son’s play in “Entertainment Memorabilia.”
Panel Participants:
Rebekah Modrak, Co-curator of #exstrange, and Associate Professor, Stamps School of Art & Design, University of Michigan.
Sophia Brueckner, #exstrange artist, and Assistant Professor, Stamps School of Art & Design, University of Michigan.
Masimba Hwati, #exstrange artist, and MFA candidate, Stamps School of Art & Design, University of Michigan.
Fred Feinberg, #exstrange guest curator, and Professor of Marketing and Statistics, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan.
Padma Chirumamilla, wrote the essay “Guarantees and Ghosts: Breakdowns in Everyday Life” for the #exstrange book, and PhD candidate, School of Information, University of Michigan.
Talk by this Peabody- and Emmy-winning international journalist and broadcaster, former global correspondent for ABC News and NBC News, who was the only American network correspondent to cover the communist takeover of Saigon and who reported from Beijing on Tiananmen Square. The program begins with lunch.
11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Michigan Union Ballroom. $45 (members, free). jill@thefairchilds.net, 417-0816.
Former U-M planner Fred Mayer, a founding member of the Society for College and University Planning, discusses his 2015 book. In conjunction with the Clark Library exhibit Creating a Campus: A Cartographic Celebration of U-M’s Bicentennial, which runs through Dec. 20 on the 2nd floor of the Hatcher Grad Library.
6 p.m., 100 U-M Hatcher Grad Library Gallery, enter from the Diag. Free. 647-0646.
AADL director Josie Barnes Parker, AADL storyteller Kayla Coughlin, and AADL youth librarian Laura Pershin Raynor, a former National Storyteller of the Year, tell funny, touching stories, interspersed with guitar-and-banjo tunes by local musicians Betsy Beckerman and Sara Melton Keller.
7-8:30 p.m., AADL multipurpose room (lower level), 343 S. Fifth Ave. Free. 327-4555.
This 2016 Democratic presidential candidate discusses her new book, What Happened.
Hill Auditorium, 7 p.m. Tickets $62-$112 in advance at hillaryclintonbooktour.com.
Helen Fox is Lecturer Emerita in RC Social Theory and Practice.
Ann Evans Larimore is Professor Emerita, Geography and Women’s Studies, RC Social Theory and Practice.
Frederick Peters is Lecturer in RC Arts and Ideas in the Humanities Program
Martin Walsh, Lecturer and Program Head, RC Drama,
Charlie Bright, Former Director of the RC, Professor Emeritus, RC Social Theory and Practice Program, Peter Ferran, Professor Emeritus, Rochester Institute of Technology, Head, RC Drama Program 1973-1983
