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Saturday, October 7Members’ Preview | 7:00 - 8:00pmPublic Reception | 8:00 - 9:00pm

The Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson (MOCA Tucson) is pleased to present three exhibitions exploring the realities of living and working along the U.S.-Mexico border. Using the borderwall as a metaphor to explore theliminal spaces that we occupy, thesepresentations will discuss shiftingidentities, the movement of people andgoods, and the collapse of space andtime that occurs in our increasingly globalizing world, specifically in the transnational region wherethe first and third worlds collide.

MOCA Tucson’s fall exhibitions include: Paul Turounet’s Estamos Buscando A; Nothing to Declare: Transnational Narratives curated by Ginger Shulick Porcella; and ByNowWeAreThere, acollaboration between artist David Taylor and ten students creating work on a road trip between Tucson and Tijuana.

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All exhibitions will run through December 31.

exhibitionsPaul Turounet’s Estamos Buscando A, is a multi-faceted series that explores and contemplates the migrant experience along the U.S.–Mexico border through a large site-specific installation in MOCA’s Great Hall.

The series started as a site-specific, public art installation with intimate photographic portraits of migrants waiting to cross that were printed on large-scale steel plates and installed on the border wall in Tijuana between the Pacific Ocean and the San Ysidro Port of Entry. By permanently affixing the steel plate photographs to the border wall in Mexico, the retablos served not only as signs of respect and as homage to those photographed, but also as spiritual signs for other migrants who would come upon them while making their own enduring journeys.In 2005, sections of the original border wall that had been constructed in the mid-1990’s were salvaged with the demolition and rebuilding of the wall at Friendship Park/El Parque de la Amistad at Border Field State Park between Tijuana, Mexico and San Ysidro, California. These salvaged sections of the border wall will be used for a large scale, immersive gallery installation at MOCA Tucson through the construction of a 12’ x 64’, free-standing wall to encompass both sides of the border experience, complete with dirt and rocks, various ephemeral objects left behind in the desert, and a series of aluminum-plate photographic portraits of migrants and the border landscape created by Turounet. The U.S. side of the installation will be based on preliminary conceptual approaches to an RFP issued by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection in the Spring of 2017.

Nothing to Declare: Transnational Narratives.Each year, millions of people cross the border from Nogales, Mexico into Arizona. With 11.8 million people living along the U.S.—Mexico border, the wall has become an important symbol of both freedom and restriction on both sides. Nothing to Declare: Transnational Narratives is a multi-disciplinary exhibition that explores the real-world aspects surrounding border issues. This exhibition will engage in dialogue with and activate the community to explore the complexity of issues

surrounding immigration and global borders, not limited to those that are physical but also psychological, while simultaneously considering other architectures and means of oppression. The exhibition documents the historic struggles of this problematic region and the ongoing resistance by contemporary artists to confront the past and shape the future, while digging deep into environmental and human rights issues, labor, and the use of language as a form of subversion and unity along the border. By exploring seemingly disparate places, themes emerge, such as the proliferation of fear and the decline of reason in our current political climate.

Participating Artists: Lana Z. Caplan, Saulo Cisneros, Wesley Fawcett Creigh, Miguel Fernández de Castro, Einar & Jamex de la Torre, Blane de St. Croix, Francisco Eme, Louis Hock, Khaled Jarrar, Haydeé Jiménez, PANCA, Omar Pimienta, Marcos Ramirez ERRE

Curated by Ginger Shulick Porcella

Paul Turounet | Estamos Buscando A

Geographer Yi Fu Tuan explains that space becomes place when it is invested with meaning. By that logic, we make place–it is a product of our understanding and perception. But if not intrinsic, then place can be, literally, everywhere–an idiosyncraticassignment of meaning.

Driving from the United States into Mexico at the Andrade Port of Entry on the morning ofNovember 9, 2016, eleven people were bound for the Pacific coast of Mexico in a University of

ByNowWeAreThere: a series of locations connected by the logic of curiosity

Arizona van. If you asked them what makes a place as they crossed the border into Los Algodones the answer might have been shared experience.

Participating Artists: Isan Brant, Stephanie Burchett, Conor Elliott Fitzgerald, Wren Gardiner, Hellen Gaudence, Jonathan Marquis, Nassem Navab, Karoliina Paatos, Dustin Shores, Galen Trezise, David Taylor

Third ThursdaysLaunching October 2017, MOCA will be open for FREE to the public from 6pm-8pm every THIRD THURSDAY. These themed nights will feature different performances, music, and artmaking activities, aswell as a cash bar.

October 19 6:00 - 8:00pmBring your pups down to the museum for a special “yappy hour” with cocktails for adults and treats for dogs. Bring your pooch in a Halloween costume and enter to win prizes. Proceeds will benefit S.A.F.E.(Saving Animals from Euthanasia)

Yappy Hour

Join MOCA Tucson for an evening of music with local cumbia band Vox Urbana. Creating music from interviews with immigrants, these transnational narratives merge Latin-based sounds with a rich variety of electronic textures.

November 166:00 - 8:00pm

Celebrate the holidays with Brian Black and Ryan Bulis, performance art duo simply known as Brian & Ryan. Help these merry pranksters ring in the nondenominational holiday of KITSCHMAS by drinking egg nog and decorating Gingerbread Mutants. Don’t forget to wear your ugliest sweater…the worst one wins the bestprize!

December 216:00 - 8:00pm

Kitschmas with Brian & Ryan

Vox Urbana

Fall Fundraiser | Factory @ MOCA

Celebrate the Legend of Andy Warhol’s Iconic Factory at MOCA Tucson’s Fall Fundraiser. Explore the lesser known areas of MOCA’s Brutalist architecture with site-specific, interactive installations, art happenings, andperformances on the top two floors of MOCA. *note, some areas are not fully accessible

* Interactive Projections & Video Installations* TV Party and Scott & Gary Show* Performance Art Happenings by Sugar

Beast Circus, Natalie Brewster Nguyen,Angela Jennings, and Brian & Ryan

* Live Screenprinting by Cream

* Beausoleil Voyeur Spins 60s/70sPsychedelic!

* Drag Sensations Lucinda Holiday andTempest DuJour

* VENUS in LUCIFER perfom the VelvetUnderground

* Live Tattoos by Black Rose* Paddle8 art auction and more!

Paddle 8 AuctionPaddle8 online auction launches on September 15 to benefit MOCA Tucson's 20th Anniversary with worksavailable by 40 renowned contemporary artists including: Kenny Scharf, Liliana Porter, Max Estenger, Olivier Mosset, Kadar Brock, Robert Melee, and Victoria Fu.

Friday, September 157:00 - 11:00pm

Come dressed in your best mod, psychedelic, disco, drag, or 80s street wear!

Tickets start @ just $50 (includes food, cash bar available) Purchase tickets at www.moca-tucson.org/program/ factory

Art Now! gives you the opportunity to engage with wildly disparate practices collectively known as “the art of our time” during this playful lecture series. All lectures are FREE for MOCA members, non-members $10. Admission includes light snacks and refreshments.

Tuesday, September 19 6:00 - 7:00pm

Dr. Paul Ivey

Dr. Paul Ivey is Professor of Art History teaching Modern andContemporary Art. He researches the built environments and compounds of alternative & esoteric American religious and communal groups. He is the author of Radiance from Halcyon: A Utopian Experiment in Religion and Science and Prayers in Stone: Christian Science Architecture in the

United States, 1894-1930. His research interests include metaphysical, Eastern, and esoteric religions in the United States that evolved during the Progressive Era. He studies the art & architecture; class & institutional structures; theology; therapeutic ideals; and political & representational strategies of these related &indigenous religious/philosophical/therapeutic groups. For this lecture, Dr. Ivey will discuss Junk Art, Dadaists, Surrealists, Nouveau, Realists, YBR’s, and more!

Tuesday, September 26 6:00 - 7:00pmChuck Nanney will discuss his work currently on view at MOCA Tucson, as well as his longtime friendship with Tucson-based artist Olivier Mosset.

Sunday, October 8 10:00 - 11:00amPaul Turounet will discuss the continued evolution of his multi-faceted Estamos Buscando A project which will be on view in The Great Hall through the end of 2017.

Thursday, October 12 6:00 - 7:00pmAs the haunting season nears, ponder ghosts as you haven't before. Author and occult expert Dr. Paul Koudounaris narrates the history of animal ghosts and apparitions, presenting a slideshow based around fully documented cases. Phantom animals have been known throughout history, and deserve to be as much a part of ghost lore as their human counterparts. Some search for their masters, like Rudolph Valentino's dog Kabar, appearances of whom are still claimed. Others appear out of nowhere to do good deeds, like the ghostly dog that appeared in a New Mexico train station to prevent an impending accident. Others seem intent on wreaking havoc, like a phantom cat that once terrorized an Irish estate. And then there are those that are just bizarre, like the ghostly talking mongoose that was once famous on the Isle of Man.

Dr. Paul Koudounaris has a PhD in Art History from UCLA. An award winning author and photographer, he is best known for a series of three books on the visual culture of death, Empire of Death, Heavenly Bodies, and Memento Mori.

Art Now! Fall Lecture Series

Chuck Nanney in Dialogue with Olivier Mosset

Paul Turounet

Dr. Paul Koudounaris | Tails From the Crypt: Animal Ghosts and Apparitions

Tuesday, October 24 6:00 - 7:00pmThis lecture will consider the changing impressions and interpretations of Aztec culture from the epic encounter with Europeans to the present, through the art and documentation that formed each point of view.

Joanne Stuhr | Aztec Two-Step: Images of a Culture

Sharon Louden | The Artist as Culture ProducerThursday, October 266:00 - 7:00pm

For this event, Sharon Louden will present different models for cultural production as explored in her book “The Artist as Culture Producer” which is the second in a series of “Living and Sustaining a Creative Life” books pub-lished by Intellect Books and distributed by the University of Chicago Press. She will discuss how artists extend their practices outside of their studios, the roles artists play as change agents in the creative economy, models of sustaining creative lives in the public realm, redefining who a contemporary artist is today, and exploringwhat success means to different artists.

Professors from the University of Arizona’s School of Art discuss their forthcoming anthology that addressesthe do-it- yourself (DIY) ethos of maker and crafter movements, and the politics of cultural change thatundergird them into artistic and educational environments. The presenters will discuss teaching sites as pivotalto cultural change and address arts and education teaching communities invested in art, craft, and social design in the contexts of DIY and social justice.

Renowned contemporary glass artists Einar & Jamex De La Torre will discuss their collaborative process and their work on view at MOCATucson through the end of 2017.

Dr. Elizabeth Garber, Dr. Lisa Hochtritt, and Dr. Manisha Sharma | Makers, Crafters, Educators: Working for Cultural Change

Einar & Jamex De La TorreTuesday, November 28 6:00 - 7:00pm

Thursday, November 9 6:00 - 7:00pm

Thursday, December 146:00 - 7:00pmTucson-based artist Violet Kasser-Pirzadeh will discuss experiential and community-based art.

Violet Kasser-Pirzadeh

Friday, September 226:00 - 7:00pmLocated just outside Rio de Janeiro, Jardim Gramacho, Brazil, is the world's largest garbage landfill. Artist Vik Muniz works with the catadores – the men and women who pick through the refuse – to create art out of recycled materials. Muniz selects six of the garbage pickers to pose as subjects in a series of photographs mimicking famous paintings.

Film Screening with The Loft | Wasteland

Saturday, October 21 8:00 - 10:00pm

Sunday, November 26Members’ Access 9:00- 10:00am10:00am - 5:00pmJoin us on MOCA’s Cox plaza to get a head start on your holiday shopping and celebrate Museum Store Sunday! Featuring the local makers, designers, and vendors of the MOCAshop, the market highlights items that are available year round. Members enjoy mimosas and early-bird access to the market, with food trucks and a coffee pop-up throughout the day.

Minor MutinyThursdays3:30 - 5:00pmFREE for teens 13 and upHigh school students are welcome at MOCA for Minor Mutiny, a safe, fun, and inspiring afterschool program. Hang out, make a zine, watch an art video, get homework help - this unstructured “lounge” is supervised by artist/mentors with a wide range of expertise to offer teens.

Young Fauves

Join MOCA for an interdisciplinary, conceptual arts collaboration among local artists, educators, and youth groups to explore in-depth, the themes of MOCA’s fall exhibit: Nothing to Declare: Transnational Narritives. During MOCA’s weekly after-school program for 8-11 year olds, students will collaboratively create an animated video exploring the themes of borders, identity, and cross-cultural pollination.

TuesdaysSeptember 5 - November 14 4:00 - 6:00pm

MOCAshop Holiday Market

In this original, unedited version of the 1973 classic horror film, Sergeant Howie arrives on the small Scottish island of Summerisle to investigate the report of a missing child. A conservative Christian, the policeman observes the residents' frivolous sexual displays andstrange pagan rituals.

Film Screening with The Loft | The Wicker Man

This project will culminate in a public presentation showcasing an experimental collaboration across agegroups tackleing complex border issues.

MOCA SatelliteMOCA Satellite brings museum staff and teaching artists to Title 1 Schools across Pima County, including rural communities for this mobile arts program. MOCA Satellite explores themes and mediums relevant to contemporary artists and visual culture by bringing trained teaching artists to your classroom to facilitate an art activity supplementing English, Math, and Science curriculum. The program is provided by MOCA Tucsonfree of charge to qualifying Title 1 Schools.For more information visit www.moca-tucson.org/program/moca-satellite

Fridays

Virginia Overton

Yoga @ Moca Wednesdays5:30 - 6:30pmFREE for Members $8.00 for Non-Members

Free 2nd Sundays For CyclistsSeptember 10 | October 8 | November 12 | December 10Bike to MOCA, show us your helmet and recieve FREE admission to the Museum.

Free Last Sunday of the Month

At a GlanceSeptember09.10 Free 2nd Sunday for Cyclists09.15 Fall Fundraiser09.19 Art Now! with Dr. Paul Ivey09.22 Film Screening: Wasteland09.23 Museum Day Live! 09.24 Free Day09.26 Art Now! Chuck Nanney in diologue with Olivier Mosset

October10.07 Fall Exhibitions Opening10.08 Art Now! with Paul Turounet 10.08 Free 2nd Sundays for Cyclists10.12 Art Now! with Dr. Paul Koudounaris10.19 Third Thursdays: Yappy Hour10.21 Film Screening: The Wicker Man10.24 Art Now! with Joanne Stuhr10.26 Art Now! with Sharon Louden10.29 Free Day

November11.09 Art Now! Working for Cultural Change11.12 Free 2nd Sundays for Cyclists11.16 Third Thursdays: Vox Urbana11.26 MOCAshop Holiday Market11.26 Free Day11.28 Art Now! Einar & Jamey de la Torre

December12.10 Free 2nd Sundays for Cyclists12.14 Art Now! with Violet Kasser-Pirzadeh12.21 Third Thursdays: Kitschmas

**Weekly Yoga Wednesdays 5:30pm**Minor Mutiny, Thursdays 3:30pm**Young Fauves, Tuesdays 4:00pm

Nourish your mind, body, and soul practicing yoga among inspiring works of art.

September 24 | October 29 | November 26 Free Admission to MOCA every last Sunday of the month! (Closed in December)

Museum Day Live!

Museum Day Live! is an annual celebration of boundless curiosity hosted by Smithsonian magazine. Participating museums and cultural institutions across the country provide entry to anyone presenting a Museum Day Live! ticket. The objective of Museum Day Live! goes beyond getting visitors through our doors. This effort is meant to empower and help advance the hopes and ambitions of the public, particularly middle schoolers, high schoolers, and those in their early 20’s. More than being a token field trip, museums and cultural institutions can provide that spark for young people that lives on past their visit.

Saturday, September 2312:00 - 5:00pm