Los Angeles Times interview with Theaster Gates
Gray Center Advisory Council Member Theaster Gates interviewed in Los Angeles Times on the occasion of his recent exhibition at Regen Projects.
Seth Brodsky
Gray Center Advisory Council member Seth Brodsky releases new book, From 1989, or European Music and the Modernist Unconscious, published by University of California Press.
Zachary Cahill named new Curator at Gray Center
The Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry is thrilled to announce the appointment of Zachary Cahill as our new Curator.
Read more »Tania Bruguera runs for President of Cuba
Tania Bruguera, one of the summit artists for What is an Artistic Practice of Human Rights?, announces she will run for President of Cuba.
Jacqueline Stewart named Director of the Gray Center
We are delighted to announce that Jacqueline Stewart, Professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies and the College, will succeed David Levin as the Director of the Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry.
Read more »Garland Martin Taylor's Conversation Piece, Chicago Reader
Gray Center Mellon Fellow Garland Martin Taylor and his traveling sculpture project, Conversation Piece, featured in the Chicago Reader.
Ellen Tracy: 2015-16 Gray Center Intern
The Gray Center welcomes third-year undergraduate Ellen Tracy as the 2015-16 Gray Center Student Intern.
Read more »Jacqueline Stewart named Interim Director of the Gray Center
Jacqueline Stewart, professor in Cinema and Media Studies and the College, has been named interim director of the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry. Stewart, who has served on the Gray Center Advisory Council, will lead the collaborative arts center from July 1, 2015 to June 30, 2016 while the Gray Center’s current director David Levin is on leave as a Faculty Fellow at the Franke Institute for the Humanities.
Recent press for Garland Martin Taylor
Recent press coverage of Garland Martin Taylor's public sculpture project Conversation Piece.
Read more »Garland Martin Taylor interview on NPR
Garland Martin Taylor (Gray Center Mellon Fellow 2014-15) was the subject of a recent on-air interview on Chicago's NPR affiliate to discuss Conversation Piece.
Read more »Afterword featured in Downbeat
Afterword, the multimedia opera being created by Mellon Fellows George Lewis, Sean Griffin and Catherine Sullivan is featured in the current issue of Downbeat.
The Portal/The Sandbox in Hypperrhiz
Prof. Patrick Jagoda (English) and graduate student Peter McDonald co-author The Portal/The Sandbox: An Alternate Reality Game Archive as Electronic Literary Narrative in Hyperrhiz. The article emerged from Alternate Reality: A Pervasive Play Project, a 2012-13 Mellon Collaborative Fellowship for Arts Practice & Scholarship project with Jagoda, Sha Xin Wei (Arizona State University) and Montreal's Topological Media Lab.
Unsuspending Disbelief in Newcity
Pat Elifritz of Newcity on the Unsuspending Disbeleif symposium.
UChicago News: An evening with Kate Bornstein
An evening with Kate Bornstein caps yearlong project on queer theory and trans representation.
Read more »George Lewis in the New York Times
Gray Center Mellon Fellow George Lewis featured in New York Times article on the role of race amongst composers.
UChicago News: Gray Center to continue bold collaborations between artists, scholars
In its first three years, the Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry has made possible everything from a conference featuring the world’s leading cartoonists in dialogue with each other and a cross-section of faculty; to a monthlong alternate reality game involving students, a professor of English and an experimental phenomenologist from Montreal; to a yearlong collaborative exploration of low-level light undertaken by a distinguished physicist and an award-winning architect.
Read more »Afterword receives Map Fund Award
Gray Center Mellon Fellowship project Afterword is one of 39 projects funded by the MAP Fund, a program of Creative Capital. Read more here: FOR ITS 25TH ANNUAL GRANT ROUND, THE MAP FUND AWARDS $1.5 MILLION TO PERFORMANCE PROJECTS ACROSS THE UNITED STATES.
2014 Urban Forums exhibition at Gray Center Lab reviewed
Jann Ingmire of UChicago News reviews Neighborhoods: The Measure and Meaning of an Urban Ideal.
UChicago News: Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry brings out playful side of scholars, artists
Drew Messinger-Michaels writes on the Play As Inquiry practicum for UChicago News: “It was the opening night of Play as Inquiry, a practicum co-curated by Sha Xin Wei and Patrick Jagoda, both Mellon fellows at the Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry. Posters featuring cartoon ducklings (or maybe rubber duckies) lined the walls of the Performance Penthouse at the Logan Center. There were ushers doling out cards, wearing white gloves and communicating only through pantomime...”
South Side Weekly: An Animate Archive
“The boilerplate image for “#FOLLOWUS,” a collaborative multimedia installation on display at the University of Chicago’s Gray Center, is a still from the original short film “Urban Renewal.” Focusing the shot on the intersection of 55th Street and Lake Park Avenue, a hand behind the camera reaches forward and holds a photo print over the view ...” Read article here.
The Chicago Maroon: For one week only, Gray Center presents Universitys #PAST
As the final product of a two-quarter archival dig through documented history of the school, the group exhibit found its origins within 10 independent narratives that recreate and repopulate the institutional legacy of the University. In handling material from 1893 and 2013, #FOLLOWUS hopes to open up space to populate the field with multiple perspectives.
Read more »Newcity: Eye Exam: Dancing About Art
“...thanks to Ghoulish and longtime collaborator Lin Hixson, ephemeral art need not be so intangible. Their performance group, Every house has a door, is reviving nine pieces originally performed at Randolph Street Gallery.” Jason Fourmberg writes about the recent performance at the Gray Center Lab for Newcity.
Chicago Reader: Gender Under the Knife
Joynt and Bryson tell these stories in "Resisterectomy," which juxtaposes their experiences of gender-reassignment surgery and cancer surgery. But beyond detailing the routine indignities that trans and genderqueer people confront, the show takes those challenges much further, into a complicated and complicating series of musings, both textual and visual, about the narratives that bind us to gender.
South Side Weekly: Gendered Bodies
This is Chase Joynt and Mary Bryson’s “Resisterectomy,” a four-part multimedia installation that, in Joynt’s own words, “juxtaposes the narrative of trans sex-reassignment surgeries with the narrative of cancer surgeries—mastectomy and hysterectomy.” Read more here.
The Chicago Maroon: In new experimental space, artists probe the gendered body
The Maroon sat down with artist Chase Joynt, who underwent surgical procedures for his gender transition and brings his newest autobiographical work to the Gray Center.
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