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Purnell Center for the Arts
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Pittsburgh, PA 15213

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Tues.–Sun., 12–6pm
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NOV. 14 EVENTS

5pm:
How To Be A Yes Man
Workshop + Movie Clips
@ Miller Gallery at
Carnegie Mellon University

6-8pm:
KEEP IT SLICK: Infiltrating Capitalism
with The Yes Men
Business Casual Reception
@ Miller Gallery at
Carnegie Mellon University
Purnell Center for the Arts
5000 Forbes Ave.
Oakland/Shadyside/Squirrel Hill

8pm:
Disinformation
by Reggie Watts
@ The Warhol: Off The Wall
117 Sandusky St, Northside
- Visit the Memorial to Reggie the Janitor
in the Keep It Slick exhibition @ Miller Gallery

8-10pm:
PREDRIVE: After Technology
Opening Reception
@ Mattress Factory
500 Sampsonia Way, Northside

5:30-8pm:
Opening Receptions
@ Pittsburgh Center for the Arts
6300 Fifth Ave, Shadyside

JOIN US NOV. 13 + 14

After debuting to a tremendous crowd in Portland, Oregon, the first-ever survey exhibition of renowned activist-artists The Yes Men opens Friday, Nov. 14th at the Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Kicking off the East Coast debut of Keep It Slick: Infiltrating Capitalism with The Yes Men is a "How To Be A Yes Man" Workshop with sneak peaks of their upcoming film, The Yes Men Fix The World. Then ease into our Business Casual Reception with Yes Men Mike Bonanno and Andy Bichlbaum, from 6–8pm.

Following weeks of stellar press reviews and years of crisscrossing the nation, Julia Christensen (also known to be a Yes Man) will present a lecture and sign copies of her new book, Big Box Reuse, on Thursday, Nov. 13th at 4:30pm. Meet the artist and check out her related solo exhibition, Your Town, Inc., at the Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University.

THURS. NOV. 13

YOUR TOWN, INC.:
Big Box Reuse with
Julia Christensen
Curated by Astria Suparak >>>
On view through Nov. 23, 2008

EVENT

Nov. 13, 4:30–6pm:
Big Box Reuse Presentation + Book Signing
by Julia Christensen
Sponsored by the Carnegie Mellon University Lecture Series, School of Art Lecture Series, + the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry.

PRESS

Interviews with Julia Christensen:
NPR's All Things Considered, NPR's On Point, MIT Press Podcast.

Reviews + book excerpts in current issues of:
ReadyMade, Architect Magazine, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Blueprint Asia.

RELATED

Nov. 7, 5:30–7pm:
Reception for Society for Photographic Education Mid-Atlantic Region Conference at the Miller Gallery.

Through Jan. 18, 2009:
Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes at the Heinz Architectural Center, Carnegie Museum of Art, two blocks West of the Miller Gallery. Christensen’s work is included in this group exhibition.

FRI. NOV. 14

KEEP IT SLICK:
Infiltrating Capitalism
with The Yes Men
Curated by Astria Suparak >>>
Nov. 14, 2008–Feb. 15, 2009

EVENTS

Nov. 14, 5pm:
How To Be A Yes Man Workshop + Film clips from their upcoming movie. Miller Gallery, 2nd floor.
Sponsored by the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry + School of Art Lecture Series.

6–8pm:
Business Casual Reception. Miller Gallery, 3rd floor.
Please bring offerings for the dearly departed Reggie the Janitor.

The Yes Men are among the most visible and effective activist-artists of our time, reaching countless people through websites, newspapers, and television broadcasts. Over the past decade they have fearlessly taken on the world’s biggest corporations and bureaucracies. Infiltrating the elite realm of the influential and the moneyed, cloaked in the sheerest layer of authority–thrift-store suits, quick-print business cards, forged press releases–these social activators urge us to question where ethics belong in our capitalist-driven society.

This survey represents the first-ever solo exhibition of The Yes Men. Here you can walk into a re-creation of their past exploits in the Conference area, witness a comically apocalyptic future, and pay your respects to a janitor who generously donated his body to satisfy our insatiable energy needs. In the Executive Board Room, you may browse through The Yes Men’s personal office items and orate along to their absurd PowerPoint presentations
Keep It Slick was organized by the Feldman Gallery at Pacific Northwest College of Art + Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University.

RELATED

Dec. 4, 8pm:
The Yes Men Movie @ Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Melwood Screening Room.