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July 25, 2003
SITE SANTA FE TO PRESENT LECTURE BY GUGGENHEIM CURATOR NANCY SPECTOR FOLLOWED
BY A SCREENING OF MATTHEW BARNEYS CREMASTER 3
THE SCREEN AT THE
COLLEGE OF SANTA FE Saturday, August 16, 2003 Lecture at 11am-Film Screening
at 2pm
Santa Fe, NM - SITE Santa Fe will present a lecture by Nancy Spector, on Saturday,
August 16 at 11am, followed by a screening of Matthew Barney's film CREMASTER
3 at The Screen, The College of Santa Fe, 1600 St. Michael's Drive, Santa
Fe, at 2pm. The event is part of SITE Santa Fe's Art & Culture series.
General Admission, $8; students, seniors, and SITE Santa Fe Members at Friend
and Family levels, $4; SITE Santa Fe Members at Supporter level and above,
Free. Seating is limited; advance purchase is strongly recommended. Ticket
holders for the lecture will receive free admission to the film screening.
General admission to the screening is $7.50; seniors and students $5.
Nancy Spector is curator of Contemporary Art at the Solomon R. Guggenheim
Museum in New York, where she has curated numerous exhibitions, including
those on conceptual photography, Robert Rauschenberg, and Felix Gonzalez-Torres.
At the Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin, she initiated commissions by Hiroshi Sugimoto,
Lawrence Weiner, and Andreas Slominski. She was an adjunct curator of the
1997 Venice Biennale and co-curator of the first Berlin Biennial in 1998.
Most recently, Nancy Spector has organized Matthew Barney: The Cremaster
Cycle (1994-2002), an exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum (February 21
- June 11, 2003) that will bring together the interconnected components--films,
sculptures, drawings, and photographs--of Barneys five-part cycle.
During her illustrated lecture, Nancy Spector will provide an overview of
the CREMASTER cycle by discussing the major themes and their manifestation
in each installment of the project. Specific attention will be paid to the
final film of the cycle, CREMASTER 3, which will be screened at The Screen
at The College of Santa Fe as part of this event. SITE Santa Fes Art &
Culture series is supported in part by Dottie and Dick Barrett, Bobbie
Foshay-Miller and Chuck Miller, Katherine and James Gentry, Emily Fisher Landau,
LLWW Foundation, and Barbara and Michael Ogg. This announcement is partially
funded by the City of Santa Fe Arts Commission and the 1% Lodgers Tax.
The Screen will be showing the entire five-film cycle of CREMASTER from August
16 through August 28. For schedule information, please call The Screen at
473-6494, or visit www.thescreen.csf.edu.
Concurrent with the event is Uneasy Space, an exhibition of works by
twelve internationally known artists which will be on view at SITE Santa Fe
through November 23, 2003.
SITE Santa Fe is located at 1606 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Exhibition
hours are Wednesday through Sunday, 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 pm; Friday, 10:00 am
-7:00 pm. Admission is $5.00 for adults and $2.50 for students and seniors;
members are free. Free admission is offered on Fridays, made possible by a
grant from The Brown Foundation, Inc., Houston. Free guided tours are offered
on Fridays at 6:00 pm and Saturdays and Sundays at 2:00 pm. Tours in Spanish
are by appointment. SITE Santa Fe gift certificates are available. Call 505.989.1199
for more information. This announcement is partially funded by the City of
Santa Fe Arts Commission and the 1% Lodgers Tax.
Contact: Press Office
Tel: 505.989.1199
Fax:505.989.1188
email: press@sitesantafe.org
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