Love versus Duty: A Conversation about Mark Morris's 'Dido and Aeneas'. Queen Dido of Carthage is forsaken by her love, the Trojan Prince Aeneas, when he is reminded of his duty to establish a new city in Italy. From its origins in Greco-Roman myth, through Virgil's epic poem, to Henry Purcell's opera, the story of Dido and Aeneas, with its them...
Cracks in the Walls: 25 Years After Berlin On November 9th, 1989 the Berlin Wall cracked open and unleashed a problematic ahistorical narrative of celebratory re-unification. This narrative makes less visible contradictions around the wall's pre-Cold War history as anti-fascist protection. Thus, while walls can materialize ideological separation...
Cracks in the Walls: 25 Years After Berlin On November 9th, 1989 the Berlin Wall cracked open and unleashed a problematic ahistorical narrative of celebratory re-unification. This narrative makes less visible contradictions around the wall's pre-Cold War history as anti-fascist protection. Thus, while walls can materialize ideological separation...
Social Space: Designing for Civic Dialogues. Session 2. The Conference on Public Art and Democracy is occasioned by the confluence of four important events affecting the Twin Cities: Speaking of Home, artist Nancy Ann Coyne's photographic public artwork exploring the meaning of home, acculturation, and alienation for new Americans in the Twin Ci...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Kohn, Margaret; Kuftinec, Sonja; Strolovich, Dara
Created:
2008-09-27
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Social Space: Designing for Civic Dialogues. Session 2. The Conference on Public Art and Democracy is occasioned by the confluence of four important events affecting the Twin Cities: Speaking of Home, artist Nancy Ann Coyne's photographic public artwork exploring the meaning of home, acculturation, and alienation for new Americans in the Twin Ci...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Kohn, Margaret; Kuftinec, Sonja; Strolovich, Dara
Created:
2008-09-27
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Discussion 5: Expression and Anonymity. Join world-renowned Finnish architect Juhani Pallasmaa and American playwright Leigh Fondakowski for a series of thought-provoking discussions as they explore their fields, unearthing surprising commonalities. Artistic thinking freely ranges across the philosophical and experiential ground of the arts from...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Fondakowski, Leigh; Kuftinec, Sonja; Pallasmaa, Juhani
Created:
2010-04-19
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Performing Arts as/and Cultural Diplomacy. How does the role of cultural ambassador influence the artistic process? How do differing artistic practices cross-pollinate and inspire new work? Join Elizabeth Coker, Co-Artistic Director and Dancer in the Seán Curran Company in considering the company's new work Dream'd in a Dream, which was created ...