From The Quay Brothers retrospective “On Deciphering the Pharmacist’s Prescription for Lip-Reading Puppets,” Museum of Modern Art, NYC
A collection of short animated films curated and presented by SVA’s Thyrza Nichols Goodeve
Date: Thursday, October 18th
Time: 8:00
Admission: $10
Presented by Morbid Anatomy and Oxberry Pegs
Although The Brothers Quay are a union of imagination completely their own, they have-as explored in the wonderful retrospective now on view at the Museum of Modern Art-also been influenced by specific Eastern European animators. On October 18th, SVA’s Thyrza Nichols Goodeve will present a selection of films from Walerian Borowczyk, Jan Lenica, Priit Pärn, Yuri Norstein, and Igor Kovalyov followed by various animations from the Polish and Zagreb school who might sit happily, albeit covered with dust, inside a Quay-esque universe.
Thyrza Nichols Goodeve is a writer and interviewer active in the field of contemporary art and culture. She is on the School of Visual Arts faculty, active in the MFA Art Writing and Criticism Program, the art history program, and the masters computer art and film programs. She teaches also in the MFA Digital + Media Program at the Rhode Island School of Design and is the program co-ordinator for the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) “MICA in NYC (DUMBO)” Summer Intensive program in Brooklyn, New York. She has published in Artforum, Parkett, Art in America, Artbyte, Guggenheim Magazine, The Village Voice, The Brooklyn Rail and Camerawork.