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Psychedelic Light Shows and the New Left Politics
Thursday, October 6, 2011
12:30 PM
A psychedelic light show is a form of neurological art: flashing lights, sounds, and filmographic images stimulate never activated cerebella, which then lift what Aldous Huxley once famously described as socially imposed “valves.” By expanding human consciousness, this multimedia spectacle could alter human behavior and result in social change. This talk examines the relationship between the 1960s psychedelic light shows and the dissent politics of the New Left, focusing on the works of Yayoi Kusama, Timothy Leary, Otto Piene, Aldo Tambellini, Andy Warhol, and Joshua White.
Midori Yamamura (PhD, ABD, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York) is a specialist in post–World War II art from a feminist and a global perspective. She has curated numerous exhibitions in Japan and New York, and published various essays on art in Asia, Europe, and the United States. She is one of the authors of a forthcoming Yayoi Kusama retrospective exhibition catalogue (London: Tate Modern, 2012).
MoMA Talks: Brown Bag Lunch Lectures (81)
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The Concrete and Neo-Concrete Movements in Argentina, Brazil, and Venezuela
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Photographs by JoAnn Verburg
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Q&A
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From Pavel Tchelitchew's Hide-and-Seek to Andrew Wyeth's Christina's World
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The Creative Dialogue of the Leaders of the Russian Avant-Garde
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Geometry and the Birth of Modern Painting
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European Geometric Tendencies and the Impact of the Cold War
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Think with the Senses/Feel with the Mind. Art in the Present Tense
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Art Spiegelman, Rachel Whiteread, Christian Boltanski, and Others Remember the Holocaust
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The Drawings
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The Work of Anselm Kiefer
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A Tribute to Sol LeWitt (1928–2007)
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The Origins and Development of Japanese Kankyo
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The Futurist Exhibitions at the Venice Biennale under Fascism, 1928–42
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Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today
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documenta 12: Exhibiting Education
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Commerce and Pop, 1950–68
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Design and the Elastic Mind
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The History of Public Art at Rockefeller Center
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Painting and Film. A Preview
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A User's Guide to the Architecture of the Beijing Olympics
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Olafur Eliasson
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Fabricating the Modern Dwelling
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Kirchner and the Berlin Street
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Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night
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The Contemporary Artist's Book
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Art and Dementia
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East and West in the World of Alighiero e Boetti
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Homage to New York: Jean Tinguely's Destructive Art
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Building an Audience for Modern Art
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Painting and Anti-Painting 1927–1937
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The High Rise and Decline of Low-Income Housing in America
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Collecting and Museums as Art
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Joan Miró's Influence on Graphic Design
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León Ferrari and Mira Schendel
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Sol LeWitt
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Measuring Your Own Grave
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Chagall’s Nomadic Modernism
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Viennese Architecture and Design Between the Two World Wars
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Photography's Image of the American West
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Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in New York
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Gabriel Orozco
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Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series
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Monet’s Water Lilies
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Jackson Pollock, John Cage and William Burroughs
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Five Themes
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Seven Projects by Peter and Alison Smithson
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The Playground Movement in Chicago
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Radical Invention 1913–1917
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Luigi Ontani’s 1970s Painted Photographs
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New Architectures of Social Engagement
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Tim Burton
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The Modern Century
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New Activist Practices in Environmental Art
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The Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today
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Design and the Modern Kitchen
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The Universal Exposition of 1889 and the Art of Edvard Munch, Paul Gauguin, and Henri Rousseau
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Abstract Expressionist New York
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On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century
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Loie Fuller and the Convergence of Dance and Art
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Talk to Me: Design and the Communication between People and Objects
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Psychedelic Light Shows and the New Left Politics
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The Magic of Plywood
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Ossip Zadkine and Naum Gabo in Rotterdam
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Performing the Past: Italian Art and Cinema of the 1960s and 1970s
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Labarlabolab! Performing Translation in the Museum
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Duck Duck Goose
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Are Games Art?
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Wholeschooling, with Paul Bartow and J. Morgan Puett in conversation
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Architecture, Popular Culture, and Communication
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Variations on a Theme Park
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Swarming and Self-Organization, with Brian Conley
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Whole Schooling
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Lived, Constructed, and Imagined in the work of On Kawara, Alighiero e Boetti, and Yoko Ono
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The Art of Sahrawi Cooking
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Walter De Maria, Michael Heizer, Robert Smithson, James Turrell, and Others
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Interrogating the Changing Artwork
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Artistic Research Science Fair
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The Art of Agnes Denes, Mona Hatoum, and Richard Long
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On Meat and Mortality
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Space, Time, and Architecture
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