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The Institute of Contemporary Art | Boston

SEE HEAR KNOW Public Programs · Spring 2006

Encounter leading minds in museums and

STILL

ANDREA FRASER’S MUSEUM

PEOPLE BEHIND

design with three dynamic programs at the ICA this spring.

MOVING DESIGN February 23

M HIGHLIGHTS March 15

D DESIGN April 5

STILL MOVING DESIGN In partnership with the Boston Chapter of AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts), the ICA presents writer, curator, and graphic designer Ellen Lupton in conversation with Bill Stewart and Gian Pangaro, two designers from the award-winning firm IDEO. Together they will discuss the function of design in a society where people, objects, and media are constantly in motion.

Thursday, February 23, 6:30 pm

Ellen Lupton is the director of the graduate program in graphic design at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore and a curator of contemporary design at Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York. She and husband Abbott Miller were named one of I.D. Magazine’s “Power Couples” in January 2005; together they wrote Design Writing Research: Writing on Graphic Design. Lupton has received several awards, including the Chrysler Design Award and the 1996 New York Magazine Award.

IDEO’s Bill Stewart has designed interiors for Amtrak’s Acela high-speed train, a modular office furniture system, people movers for public spaces, and a clinical device for tooth whitening. Interaction designer Gian Pangaro has worked on projects including consumer and enterprise software design, medical devices, automotive interfaces, service design, and mobile technologies. IDEO, with offices in Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, and Europe, is known for its innovations in consumer products as well as consumer experiences, including developing the mouse for Apple Computer, improving patient-provider service at the Mayo Clinic, and designing interactive dressing rooms for the Rem Koolhaas-designed Prada store in New York.

Tickets: $25 general admission and $5 for ICA and AIGA members, students and seniors. For more information, please call 617-927-6635 or e-mail efernandez@icaboston.org.

Ellen Lupton photo: Abbott Miller / Bill Stewart and Gian Pangaro photos: Dirk Ahlgrim

ANDREA FRASER’S MUSEUM HIGHLIGHTS Performance artist Andrea Fraser will read from and talk about her newly published book Museum Highlights (2005, MIT Press), in which she turns the art museum inside out with incisive and witty deconstructions.

Wednesday, March 15, 6:30 pm

Andrea Fraser is known for her humorous yet pointed critiques of the art world, from museums to patronage, through performance, video, and publications. Fraser’s writings form an integral part of her artistic practice.

Museum Highlights draws together a collection of her texts written between 1985 and 2003, including the performance script for the docent’s tour that gives the book its title, in which she describes the men’s room in the same elevated language that she uses to describe 17th-century Dutch paintings. The book includes essays that trace the development of critical “artistic practice” as cultural resistance; performance scripts that explore art institutions and the public sphere; and texts that explore the ambivalent relationship of art to the economic and political interests of its time.

Tickets: $8 general admission and $5 for ICA members, students and seniors. For more information, please call 617-927-6635 or e-mail efernandez@icaboston.org.

PEOPLE BEHIND DESIGN Exploring the idea of human mobility over time, this panel discussion examines the social aspect of design innovations. Panelists from a variety of disciplines will examine why and how individuals have moved in the past, how that compares to the ways people move today, and how design innovations help people to adapt to a transitory lifestyle.

Wednesday, April 5, 6:30 pm

Panelists include: David Harvey is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. His areas of research interest include geography and social theory, architecture and urban planning, cultural geography, and cultural change. He is the author of Paris, Capital of Modernity, The New Imperialism, and the forthcoming Cosmopolitanism and the Geographies of Freedom.

Cheryl Shanks is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Williams College, Williamstown, MA. Her research focuses on fluidity in population and territory, and she has published Immigration and the Politics of American Sovereignty, 1890–1990, as well as articles on tourism, anti-immigration movements, and international organizations.

Monica Ponce de Leon is a principal partner of Office dA, a Bostonbased design firm whose work ranges from furniture to urban design and infrastructure, with a focus on architecture. She is also Professor of Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where she has taught since 1996.

Bennett Simpson is Associate Curator at the ICA and organized the only U.S. presentation of the exhibition Living in Motion: Design and Architecture for Flexible Dwelling. His writing has appeared in Artforum, Frieze, Texte zur Kunst, and Purple.

Tickets: $8 general admission and $5 for ICA members, students and seniors. For more information, please call 617-927-6635 or e-mail efernandez@icaboston.org.

EXHIBITION Don’t miss Living in Motion: Design and Architecture for Flexible Dwelling, an exhibition bringing together more than 150 objects, as well as films and more than 500 illustrations, from the realm of architecture and design to address flexibility and mobility in contemporary domestic life. The exhibition is on view from February 1 through May 7, 2006, and will be open before the events.

GENERAL INFORMATION The Institute of Contemporary Art 955 Boylston Street Boston, Massachusetts 02115 617-266-5152 www.icaboston.org Gallery Hours Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday, noon–5 pm Thursday, noon–9 pm Saturday and Sunday, 11 am–5 pm Admission $7 adults $5 students and seniors FREE children 12 and under and ICA members FREE Thursday after 5 pm Access Separate wheelchair entrance is available; ring bell at front entrance for assistance. Most of the ICA’s galleries and the restrooms are wheelchair accessible.

Parking and Public Transportation Discounted parking is available to ICA visitors at the Auditorium Garage, 50 Dalton Street.

Take the Green Line B, C or D train to the Hynes Convention Center/ICA stop.

The ICA is funded in part by a grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency, and the Boston Cultural Council, a municipal agency supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

Hotel accommodations provided by Royal Sonesta Hotel Boston, the official hotel of the Institute of Contemporary Art.

Wes Jones, “Pro/Con Package Housing System,” model from 2000 · Courtesy Jones, Partners: Architecture, Los Angeles Eduard Böhtlingk, “Markies,” 1986–1995 · Copyright: Eduard Böhtlingk · Photo: Roos Aldershoff Livio Castiglioni and Gianfranco Frattini, “Boalum,” 1969 · Courtesy of Vitra Design Museum · Photo: Andreas Sütterlin Marcel Breuer, “Three nesting tables,” 1936 · Courtesy Vitra Design Museum · Photo: Thomas Dix

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