Address
319 North 11th Street, 2nd Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Hours
By Appointment
Saturday + Sunday 12:00-5:00pm
Saturday, 1 May, 8:00 – 10:00pm
DISCUSSION
The notion of postmodernism gained prominence in the 1970s and 1980s as an attempt to historically delimit a new set of artistic practices that seemed out of joint with modernism's chiefly formal concerns. However, it remains unclear to what extent postmodernism names a break with […]
Saturday,
March 20 , 8:00 – 10:00pm
At Marginal Utility's new location: 319 North 11th Street, 2nd Floor
DISCUSSION
Extending the Machete Groups interest in the contested legacy of modernism, this meeting shall focus on the dispute between Theodore Adorno and Peter Bürger concerning the critical significance of the historical avant-garde […]
Saturday, healing 20 February, link 8:00 – 10:00pm
DISCUSSION
Furthering the Machete Group's interest in framing and reframing the present by articulating modes of thought and practice that run counter to the dominant images of modernity, patient we propose to start our second series of workshops with an […]
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ÉTIENNE DOLET, viagra sale Margin of Utility/ AVI ALPERT, Untitled (Notes on the Graphic Unconscious)/ THEODORE TUCKER, Limits of Triviality/ ALEXI KUKULJEVIC, Let us Not Pine After an Absent God/ GUEST WRITER The Poor Rich/ MIKE VASS, Michael Haneke and The White Ribbon/ MACHETE (GABRIEL ROCKHILL) […]
3 SEPTEMBER – 25 OCTOBER 2009
Marginal Utility is a non-profit gallery that presents the work of locally and internationally recognized emerging and established artists.
INVITED DISCUSSANTS
Participants include Zach Rockhill (video and performance artist based in NYC) and Geoff Sobelle (actor and artistic director based in Philadelphia).
The event will include an introduction […]
Thinking the Present
Part 1: Cutting into the Present
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7 October 2009, 8:00 to 10:00 PM
INTRODUCTION TO MACHETE GROUP
Including two brief presentations by Alexi Kukuljevic and Gabriel Rockhill on the contemporary relevancy of past attempts to “think the present” (Foucault, Baudelaire, Bayard, […]