For Does It Fold?, multi-disciplinary artist David Scher appears alongside special guests for three evenings of performances. Nightly poetry readings, film screenings, and musical performances take place in dialogue with a pop-up exhibition of Scher’s sketchbooks and musical scores. Discussions focus on the dreamlike landscapes, figures, and follies that fill the more than 1200 sketchbooks Scher has created over nearly six decades of drawing. While giving life to the symbols and storylines that crisscross Scher’s sketches, Does It Fold? celebrates the impulse to draw and Scher’s own stream-of-consciousness practice that beclouds boundaries between the real world and the imaginary.
To accompany Does It Fold?, David Scher has published a collection of artist sketchbook entries, poetry manuscripts, and found sketchbooks and scrapbooks. More information about the publication is available at doesitfold.com
Image: David Scher, Excerpt from sketchbooks. Courtesy of the artist.
Thursday, September 7, 2017
Musical performances by Sean Eden and O.N.E.M. with film screenings by Mike Ballou, Stefan Bohnenberger, and David Scher
6:30-8pm
Friday, September 8, 2017
Artist talk by David Scher with musical performances by Sean Eden and a performance by O.N.E.M., which references Scher’s hand-drawn scores
6:30-8pm
Saturday, September 9, 2017
Poetry readings by Jeff Dolven and Aaron Kunin with a poetry reading and film screening by Brian Dewan and musical performances by Sean Eden and O.N.E.M.
6:30-8pm
Sean Eden is a guitarist, composer, producer, and sound designer, who is also a founding member of the New York band Luna.
David Scher, his brother Paul Scher, and Timothy Kane have been performing together as the band O.N.E.M. since 1969.
Mike Ballou is a multidisciplinary Brooklyn-based artist and the founder of Four Walls Slide and Film Club.
Stefan Bohnenberger is a Brussels-based artist and filmmaker known for his provocative, performative approach to drawing and sculpture.
Filmmakers Yoshitaka Kametani (based in London); Douglas Henderson (based in Berlin); Carter Gunn (based in Los Angeles); and Chris Rush (based in San Francisco) have created animated versions of David Scher’s drawings.
Jeff Dolven is a poet and literature scholar whose work focuses on the English Renaissance, New York School, and the relationship between poetry and education. He is currently the Behrman Professor in the Humanities Council at Princeton University.
Aaron Kunin is a poet and literature scholar who has published five books of poetry, including Cold Genius: A Book of Poems, 2014, and The Mandarin, 2008. He is currently an Associate Professor of English at Pomona College where he teaches early modern literature.
Brian Dewan is a multimedia artist whose work spans poetry, painting, film, furniture design, and musical instrument design. He has released a series of short films, entitled I-CAN-SEE Filmstrips, and is one half of the electronic music duo Dewanatron.