Events
Oct 9: Greater New York: Performances by Guido van der Werve and Debo Eilers and Open Studios with robbinschilds
Saturday, October 9, 2010
12:00 PM to 6:00 PM
12:00-2:00pm
robbinschilds, Open Studios
The artist duo will hold open studios in Room N307 on the 3rd Floor.
2:00-6:00pm
Debo Eilers, Professor Eilers: 4 Hour Fundamental
Artist Debo Eilers performs a new work Professor Eilers: 4 Hour
Fundamental where he leads a team of students who will present their
semester-end projects. The classroom will include Jake Borndal as TA, and the following
students: Phyllis Ma, Corey Stanton, Juan Antonio Olivares, Sara Ziff, Tsugumi Takashi (TKS), Holly Stanton, Mia Tramz, Stewart Uoo, Aiko Shimada, Harrison Owen, Seung Eun Lee, Airi Kohata.
Guest Lecturers:
Ronnie Bass, Gandalf Gavan.
The performance
will take place in basement-level Education Room S0 07
12:30pm
Guido van der Werve, Lecture and Effugio no1 Chamomile, Russia's national flower or
running to Rachmaninov
Guido van der Werve, known for making numbered performance based film works,
will give a lecture at 12:30pm in the 1st Floor Painting Gallery.
In his new performance, Effugio no 1 Chamomile; Russia's National Flower or
Running to Rachmaninov, van der Werve will run from MoMA PS1 starting
at 1:30 pm to upstate New York
to place a chamomile flower on Rachmaninov's grave at Kensico, a total of 29
miles.
A symbolic performance, Effugio no 1 Chamomile represents
the following:
The number one: It represents beginnings and the primal cause. It is
a symbol of creation and the human species and is depicted in the standing stone, the
upright staff and the erect phallus. It also symbolizes the oneness to which all living
things must return. A symbol of beginning, the self and loneliness.
Chamomile: Used for hysteria and nervous diseases, prevention of
gangrene, for breaking up typhoid and in combination with bittersweet for bruises, sprains,
calluses and corns, this flower possibly is one of the most important central European remedies.
Running: A definite relationship exists between exercise and depression.
Exercise promotes new cell growth in the brain. If depression is a form of cell death,
then exercise is the best strategy against this kind of neural paralysis.
Prolonged and intense running releases endorphins or brain chemicals that
produce a sense of elation. These endorphins are probably the reasons behind the
proverbial runner's high.
While jogging, the body releases phenylalamine (PEA), a neurotransmitter that stimulates mental alertness; it also releases neurotransmitters like dopamine
and serotonin (most commonly associated with antidepressants) that affect the mind
in a positive way.
Rachmaninov: In 1892 at the age of 19, Rachmaninov composed his first
Piano Concerto No. 1 in F-sharp minor. The reception of the piece was dreadful
spiraling Rachmaninov down into a nervous breakdown which was followed by a three year depression in which he wrote virtually no music.
Rachmaninov was cured through hypnotherapy and dedicated his second piano concert, which was a big success, to his therapist. After the Russian
revolution Rachmaninov moved to the United Stated.
