FATE CONFERENCE PROGRAMMING @IMA
Thursday, March 26th
6pm – 10pm
Join the IMA for a night of performances, talks and unique experiences. The galleries will be free and
open all evening and food and drinks will be available in the café.
Cerebrum: Memories Reanimated
KNOW NO STRANGER
6pm – 7pm
7:30 – 8:30pm
Classrooms 1 & 2 (First Floor)
Indianapolis’s Know No Stranger is excited to introduce a unique sensory art experience at the 2015 FATE
conference. Cerebrum: Memories Reanimated aims to connect its audience in a shared reminiscence
experiment, rebuilding individual life memories through sight, smell and sound with the use of shadow
puppetry, aroma and other media. The result will be a communal reliving of participants’ pasts to
discover common ground by nostalgic triggers.
Bringing Cerebrum: Memories Reanimated to this year’s conference will require help from attendees. A
call for submissions suggesting scenarios and events to rebuild can be answered with the following
survey. Interested contributors are encouraged to plumb the depths of their memories for moments of
comfort, joy, fear and humor. A selection of these submissions will be mined by Know No Stranger to
stage live interpretations for conference visitors.
Please take a few minutes to complete the survey to have your memory considered for the event.
Here's that survey link: https://knownostranger.typeform.com/to/celRL3
Your Own Personal DJ
5pm – 9pm
Pop-Up Park
Listen to a track specifically selected for you by a personal DJ’s Scott Stulen, Chris Kallmyer, Annie
Skinner, Michael Kauffmann, Michael Drews, Jon Rodgers, Emmet Sandberg, Andy Ducett and more…
Artist Talk: Chris Kallmyer
7pm
Toby Theater
Chris Kallmyer is an artist and curator who works with sound installation, composition, performance and
electronic music. His work makes connections between music and contemporary art, and often engages
sound through touch, taste, participation and process. Kallmyer will give a talk in conjunction with the
Foundation in Art: Theory and Education conference hosted by IUPUI’s Herron School of Art + Design.
Performance: Chris Kallmyer
7:45 pm
Meet in Efroymson Entrance
Limited to 20 participants
Join Chris Kallmyer for sonic exploration of the IMA's galleries. Kallmyer will lead a small group of
listeners through the IMA's public spaces in a 20-minute work using the IMA as an echo chamber.
Participants will hear the way that distance changes sound as they reflect on their day and let go.
The Office of Art Grievances
6pm – 9pm
First Floor (outside café)
The Office of Art Grievances is a project by the Audience Experience and Performance team at the
Indianapolis Museum of Art. The Office provides a system for the public to formally file a complaint
against “Art,” either generally or specifically. The formal complaint is then processed and forwarded to
the Office of Art Resolutions, where an official will attempt to remedy the art-related issue (allow 9-12
weeks). The project creates a feedback loop between audience and institution, and an opportunity to
examine the things about art that cause us distress and angst. #grievanceoffice
Erwin Wurm: Euclidean Exercises
Become a work of art for one minute! Internationally recognized Austrian artist Erwin Wurm challenges
the traditional notion of sculpture as static and unchanging. With his irreverent One Minute
Sculptures presented at the IMA, Wurm invites you to complete his artworks. On empty platforms, the
artist provides instructional drawings, along with props to be used in different poses. Each of these One
Minute Sculptures, as enacted by a different visitor, becomes an entirely unique and fleeting portrait of
the individual holding a specific pose. Visitors are invited to share photos of their realized One Minute
Sculptures on social media using the hashtag #IMAWurm. Some of the One Minute Sculptures presented
at the IMA are from a new series called “Euclidean Exercises,” inspired by Euclid, the revered
mathematician from Greco-Roman antiquity considered the father of geometry. In other locations
throughout the IMA, such as the Clowes Pavilion and various galleries, visitors will encounter other works
by Wurm including photos, video as well as "static" sculptures. By experiencing Wurm’s contemporary
works in selected historical galleries, viewers are reminded that all art was once contemporary.
http://www.imamuseum.org/exhibition/erwin-wurm-euclidean-exercises
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Know No Stranger is a collective of artists with various creative focuses working together as
collaborators and friends toward a common goal and aesthetic. The group first appeared in late 2009
with its inaugural “Optical Popsicle” variety show: the creators’ endeavor to highlight the lesser-known
cultural and artistic assets their native Indianapolis could offer. Now an annual event, Optical Popsicle
combines original visual performances by Know No Stranger in addition to providing a showcase for
other Midwestern artists including musicians, dancers, animators, storytellers and filmmakers.
KNS may be visited on the web at knownostranger.com.
Andy DuCett is from Winona, MN and currently lives and works in Minneapolis. He received his MFA
from the University of Illinois and currently teaches at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. His
work has been shown in galleries in Chicago, San Francisco, New York City, Milwaukee and Honolulu, as
well as many Minneapolis locations. He has been published in multiple textbooks and hardbound
international books, as well as ARTFORUM, New American Paintings, The Daily Beast, Art Puluse
Magazine, ApartmentTherapy.com, DailyServing.com, as well as publications in Toronto, Berlin, Tokyo,
and London. He recently completed a solo show at the 12,000 square foot Soap Factory in Minneapolis,
entitled Why we do this, which was named one of the top shows of 2012 by the Walker Art Center's
Executive Director Olga Viso. He received a 2009 Minnesota Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant, allowing
him to travel to Tokyo, Japan and was featured on the television series from Twin Cities Public
Television, MN Original, as well as interviewed by PBS. Additional information and full CV can be found
at http://andyducett.com
Chris Kallmyer is an artist and curator who works with sound installation, composition, performance and
electronic music. His work makes connections between music and contemporary art, and often engages
sound through touch, taste, participation and process. Kallmyer will give a talk in conjunction with the
Foundation in Art: Theory and Education conference hosted by IUPUI’s Herron School of Art + Design.
Erwin Wurm was born in Bruck an der Mur in Styria, Austria in 1954, Wurm studied at Gestaltungslehre
University of Applied Art and the Academy of Fine Art, Vienna, Austria. Wurm has been featured in solo
exhibitions at the Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany (2014), Museum of Contemporary Art, Krakow,
Poland (2013), CAC Malaga, Spain (2012), Dallas Contemporary, Texas (2012), Bass Museum of Art,
Miami (2011), Middleheimmuseum, Antwerp, Belgium (2011), Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany (2010),
Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China (2010), Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland (2008),
among many others since 1999. In 2011, Erwin Wurm’s Narrow House was installed at the Palazzo Cavalli
Franchetti as part of Glasstress 2011, a collateral event of the 54th Venice Biennale. Works by Wurm are
represented in museum collections around the world, including Albertina, Vienna, Austria; Vancouver Art
Gallery, Canada; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, France;
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany; Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, Italy; CAC Malaga, Spain; Kunsthaus
Zurich, Switzerland; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, among others. Wurm currently resides in Vienna, Austria.
The artist is represented by Lehmann Maupin, New York and Hong Kong.