Faculty members, Stephen Berens and Micol Hebron, are participating in “Immaterial and Proposals” which is a reading of artworks that exist in description only and is Inspired by the Artist’s Project in the new winter issue, the editors of X-TRA. The evening’s readings will be a mix of historical and contemporary works: outlined ideas and proposals for imagined objects, images, events, or exhibitions that remain text only – scripts, descriptions or proposals that could never be or intentionally have never been realized in other forms. The event will be Thursday, Dec. 8 at 8pm at Human Resources in Los Angeles. 


Some of the readings:
Edward Kienholz’s Concept Tableau, Ant Farm’s Dolphin Embassy, Leslie Dick’s RULES FOR DREAMING, Chris Burden’s The Moon Piece, Tom Marioni’s Predictions ’78, Harold Gregor’s Everyman’s Infinite Art.

About the Artist’s Project:
The new issue of X-TRA features a reproduction of Harold Gregor’s 1966 project, Everyman’s Infinite Art.

Everyman’s Infinite Art contained thirteen works that were meant to minimize the functions of the gallery, artist, and critic while challenging the prevailing assumptions of what works of art entailed. The gallery, in fact, was closed for the two weeks that the exhibition took place, thus making its catalog with its written descriptions of the art the art itself. In this issue of X-TRA, we present a reprint of the catalog along with an interview with Gregor by Damon WIllick and an essay by Lane Relyea.

For more information about the project: http://x-traonline.org/artproj.php