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Fri, Oct 24, 2008
In conjunction with Andy Warhol Other Voices, Other Rooms, now on view at the Wexner Center, indie darlings Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips will perform 13 Most Beautiful... Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests on Thursday, November 20 at 8 pm in the Wexner Center Performance Space. Husband and wife team Dean Wareham (of Galaxie 500 and Luna fame) and Britta Phillips (also formerly of Luna) and currently recording and performing as Dean & Britta, have composed new music for a special selection of Warhol’s famous Screen Tests, which they will accompany live with their band in a multimedia show.
The Screen Tests—4-minute black-and-white silent film portraits from the 1960s—were used as part of the light show for Warhol’s multimedia happening the Exploding Plastic Inevitable, which showcased the radical art rock of the Velvet Underground. Dean & Britta (who also scored the acclaimed feature film The Squid and the Whale) probe the subtle nuances of mood reflected in the Screen Tests’ portraits, lyrically and musically illuminating the shadowed psyches of the candidates for Factory Superstardom who willingly submitted to Warhol’s cool cinematic gaze.
13 Most Beautiful…Songs for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests is commissioned by the Andy Warhol Museum and Pittsburgh Cultural Trust for the Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts 2008. More info on Dean & Britta: http://www.deanandbritta.com/.
Tickets are $14 for the general public; $12 for members and Warhol Club cardholders, and students (614 292-3535, ticketmaster.com or wexarts.org). A ticket to this show grants visitors admission to the galleries that day and evening.
PANEL DISCUSSION
Come earlier that evening for Peel Slowly and See: Warhol, Music, and Image, a free panel discussion in the Wexner Center Film/Video Theater at 5 pm. The panel’s title comes from the instructions that accompanied Andy Warhol’s iconic album cover for The Velvet Underground and Nico (which Warhol also produced). Join us for a lively discussion about the intersection of pop art and popular music with musician Dean Wareham; Mark Richardson, critic and managing editor of indie music bible Pitchfork; and Barry Shank, professor of Comparative Studies at Ohio State. Stay after the discussion for a booksigning in our café.
EVENT SUPPORT
Major support for the Wexner Center’s 2008–09 performing arts season is generously provided by Huntington Bank and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
Accommodations are provided by The Blackwell Inn.
All performing arts programs and events also receive support from the Corporate Annual Fund of the Wexner Center Foundation and Wexner Center members, as well as from the Greater Columbus Arts Council, The Columbus Foundation, Nationwide Foundation, and the Ohio Arts Council.
