The Interdisciplinary Arts Department is excited to announce visiting artist Walter Kitundu and visiting curator Jordan Stein public lecture Thursday April 9, at 6:30 p.m. in the Raw Space on the second floor of 1104 S Wabash.
Kitundu’s commission by the Oakland Museum of California for their exhibition Vinyl: The Sound and Culture of Records.
Kitundu is sound artist, installation artist, and inventor of original musical instruments that navigate the boundary between live and recorded performance. He has also made hand-built turntables that interact with the wind and rain, fire and earthquakes, birds, light, and the force of ocean waves. Hi work has been exhibited and performed at such national and international venues as the Singapore Science Centre, the Gunnar Gunnarsson Institute, Iceland; the Walker Art Center, the Museum of Craft and Folk Art, and the Aukland Arts Festival in New Zealand. In 2008 he became a MacArthur Fellow.
Lutz Bacher, The Present Moment, 2014. Installation at Philip Johnson’s Glass House.
Jordan Stein is an independent curator and collaborator with a keen interest in expanded models and methods of exhibition making, history as medium, and the practice of research. He is currently the Curator of Centennial Projects at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, where he is organizing a host of historically-minded actions in the fall of 2015, including an archival exhibition and related events. Stein is a co-founder of Will Brown, a para-curatorial/artist-run experiment that explores exhibition making as a critical practice without actually showing, selling, or insuring any artwork. He received a BA from the Residential College at the University of Michigan and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute.
