Symposium C6

Press release: Symposium C6 Debuts April 26-28, 2007

Nick — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 18:00:35 +0000

The inaugural, by-invitation Symposium C6, entitled The Art World Is Flat: Globalism—Crisis and Opportunity, takes place April 26 – 28, 2007 at the Pritzker Pavilion designed by Frank Gehry in Chicago’s Millennium Park.

Symposium C6 Highlights: Keynote speech by world-renowned theatre director Peter Sellars; the premiere Chicago screening of Strange Culture, Lynn Hershman Leeson’s film, said at this year’s Sundance Film Festival to be a “brilliant statement on artistic freedom and the dangers it faces”; and Let Me Down Easy, a one-woman performance by award-winning playwright and actress Anna Deavere Smith.

Download the press release (PDF)

Lynn Hershman Leeson’s Strange Culture at Berlinale 2007.

travis — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 17:33:37 +0000

Following its recent premier at Sundance and on Second Life, Lynn Hershman Leeson’s Strange Culture has been selected to open the Panorama Dokumente section of Berlinale 2007. The Hollywood Reporter says the film “speaks volumes about where free expression stand today in the U.S. in its ceaseless combat with forces of repression.”

Hear Lynn speak on Thursday regarding Interdisciplinary Artists and Unconventional Interventions or get a preview of Strange Culture at Spiegel Online International.

Ed Gillespie of Futerra asks “can art change the climate of opinion on climate change?”

Nick — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 18:01:16 +0000

“My hope is that art, culture and those ‘happy accidents’, in conjunction with the appropriate information, can engage the public emotionally as a precursor to action,” writes Ed Gillespie of Futerra Sustainablity Communications in his article “Melting Into The Mind” in Green Futures. “ Looking at ecologically minded art, in particular Cape Farewell, Gillespie says “The impetus for change is, after all, manifold – robust science, market forces and art are all part of the same matrix.”

Ed will be speaking during Saturday’s session I panel discussion: Creating a Sustainable Future.

Stephen Burks featured in The New York Times

travis — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 17:32:02 +0000

“The Tatu collection from the housewares company Artecnica is as good for South African artisans as it is for your patio,” says Tim McKeough in The New York Times. Developed by Stephen Burks, a New York Designer, in collaboration with a wire weaver from one of Cape Town’s poorest townships, the steel wire tables and stools unite contemporary design with African handiwork.

Hear more from Stephen during the Friday panel discussion Challenging Cultural, Political and Formal Boundaries, or read more at The New York Times.

Peter Sellars and Bill Viola collaborate on a new production of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde

Nick — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 21:51:28 +0000

The Tristan Project, “visually reimagined for the 21st century” by Peter Sellars and Bill Viola, will make its U.S. premiere at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles in mid-April. It will appear at New York’s Lincoln Center in the first week of May. Reviewing the performances at the Opera Bastille, in Paris, The New Yorker’s Alex Ross said “leave it to director Peter Sellars to make ‘Tristan’ mind-bending once again…[I] came away in something like a state of dazed bliss.”

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Thursday, Peter Sellars will give the Keynote Address: Globalism - Crisis and Opportunity.