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The Hammer wants your BIKE SHORTS!

The Hammer Student Association is currently looking for bicycle-related short films to be screened at the Hammer Museum's third annual, "Bike Night at the HAMMER!" happening April 14, 2011.

Film Criteria:
We welcome all interpretations of the theme “bike-related”
Length of 10 minutes or less

Submissions Instructions:
Send two copies of your film

Label each copy with the following:
1. Name
2. Email address
3. Phone
4. Film title
5. Run time in minutes
6. Mail your submission to:
Bike Night Films
c/o Sue Yank
Hammer Museum
10899 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90024

Films MUST BE received by April 4, 2011.

Accepted Media Formats: VHS, DVD, Mini DV & Mini HDV Super 8mm, 8mm, and 16mm film
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UTOPIAN HOSPITALITY
By Ana Prvacki
How to visually represent welcoming and greeting gestures? These gestures, when performed with intent and with generous emotion easily turn into socialist imagery. Images of unbridled joy and utopian hospitality such as seen in Chinese propaganda posters attempt to encourage a democratic and integrated sense of belonging, there is no air-kissing, only firm handshakes, welcoming smiles and open arms. However, it is important to note that there is a tendency to be suspicious when greeted with a smile and acceptance. What could the smiling person holding a door for us possibly want?!



Images taken from Chinese Propaganda Posters, published by The Pepin Press, www.pepinpress.com

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INTERVIEW WITH IRINA ARISTARKHOVA
BY ANA PRVACKI

Irina Aristarkhova's article "Hospitality and the maternal" published in the Hypatia journal has been an important resource for the Greeting Committee project. I have been very fortunate to be able to engage in a dialogue with her on the topic of hospitality and contemporary art. Irina Aristarkhova, PhD, writes and lectures on comparative feminist theory, new media aesthetics, and contemporary art. She is currently Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies and Visual Art at the Pennsylvania State University. personal.psu.edu/ixa10

Here is the beginning of our discussion.

AP: In your text, Hospitality and the maternal, referencing Derrida and Levinas you write about the innate ability of the feminine to host and to welcome the other in the most radical of ways. How does this ability present itself in etiquette practices and in socialization?

IA: Thank you for your question. In the text

Still from Hibiscus, 2007.
Video, color. 43 seconds.
Courtesy of the artist and Pepin Moore, Los Angeles.

A collection of four video works by Emilie Halpern will be on display in Cafe Hammer, February 28, 2011 - April 10, 2011.

Emilie Halpern (b. Paris, France) is an artist living and working in Los Angeles. She holds a BA from the University of California Los Angeles and MFA from Art Center College of Design. Halpern’s work has been exhibited at Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles; Art Palace, Houston; Blum & Poe, Los Angeles; Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles; and Leo Koenig, New York, among others, and is represented by Pepin Moore, Los Angeles.
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ABOUT GREETING COMMITTEE
Einstein thought the most important question facing humanity should be, “Is the universe a friendly place?” and Kurt Vonnegut asked that we practice “A little less love, and a little more common decency.” Greeting Committee, by Ana Prvacki, considers these ideas by magnifying and zooming in on the protocols and customs of basic hospitality routines, such as greetings, salutations and welcoming. For her project at the Hammer, visitors are invited to observe or participate in interventions encouraging gestures of welcoming in the Wilshire lobby Thursday, April 7 through Sunday, April 10 from 12-4pm each day.
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