Concert and Conversation
Family/Beuys and Everyone
![Joseph Beuys Buecher Joseph Beuys Buecher](/resources/files/jpg1091/beuysmusik-formatkey-jpg-w320m.jpg)
Concert and Conversation
As the 100th anniversary of the birth of Joseph Beuys nears its final days, we present an evening devoted to the question of Beuys and the universal—the “everyone” in Beuys’s famous and endlessly debated claim that “everyone is an artist.” The evening begins and ends with the world premiere of a new work, “Family,” for fixed media and speaker by University of Chicago composer/artist Andrew Stock, in between which will unfold a conversation between artist Theaster Gates (professor at the University of Chicago in the Department of Visual Arts and the College), Dieter Roelstraete (curator at the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society), and Mechtild Widrich (Associate Professor of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at SAIC), moderated by Gray Center Director Seth Brodsky.
Reservation required
If you can't make it in person you can watch the live stream here:
![Andrew Stock Andrew Stock © (c) Andrew Stock Andrew Stock](/resources/files/jpg1092/1000stock-formatkey-jpg-w320m.jpg)
![Mechtild Widrich Mechtild Widrich © (c) Mechtild Widrich Mechtild Widrich](/resources/files/jpg1092/mw_2021-formatkey-jpg-w320m.jpg)
Widrich is Associate Professor in the art history department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and author of Performative Monuments (2014).
![Dieter Roelstraete Dieter Roelstraete © (c) Moritz Kuestner Dieter Roelstraete](/resources/files/jpg1092/1000mority-kuestner-formatkey-jpg-w320m.jpg)
From 2012 until 2015 he was the Manilow Senior Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, where he organized Goshka Macuga: Exhibit, A (2012); The Way of the Shovel: Art as Archaeology (2013); Simon Starling: Metamorphology (2014); The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music 1965 to Now(2015, co-curated with Naomi Beckwith); and Kerry James Marshall: Mastry(2016, co-curated with Ian Alteveer and Helen Molesworth).
![Theaster Gates 1 Theaster Gates © (c) Sara Pooley Theaster Gates 1](/resources/files/jpg1094/1000tg-sara-pooley-formatkey-jpg-w320m.jpg)
Gates' international exhibitions include these exhibitions in Germany: Haus der Kunst, Munich (2019), Sprengel Museum Hannover, Germany (2018) and dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, Germany (2012).
In 2010, Gates created the Rebuild Foundation, a nonprofit platform for art, cultural development, and neighborhood transformation that supports artists and strengthens communities through free arts programming and innovative cultural amenities on Chicago’s South Side. Gates is a professor at the University of Chicago in the Department of Visual Arts and serves as the Senior Advisor for Cultural Innovation and Advisor to the Dean at the Harris School of Public Policy.
![Seth Brodsky Seth Brodsky © (c) Seth Brodsky Seth Brodsky](/resources/files/jpg1092/1000brodsky-formatkey-jpg-w320m.jpg)
For a discussion of the genesis of Andrew Stock's work Family please listen to this podcast
Details
Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry
929 E. 60th St., Set 112
Chicago
USA
Language: English
Price: Free Admission, Registration required
This is an in-person event. Masks must be worn by all in attendance. Guests over the age of 12 must provide either proof of vaccination, a negative COVID-19 test within 72 hours of the event, proof of a positive COVID-19 test within 14-90 days of the event with affirmation that you are not experiencing any symptoms, or a valid University of Chicago ID (UCID). Additional information about UChicago Arts COVID-19 safety protocols can be found here: https://arts.uchicago.edu/logan-center/visit/covid-19-updates