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.
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Posted in Press
February 7, 2007
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.
Posted in Press
February 5, 2007
“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.
“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.
Posted in Press
February 1, 2007
Symposium C6 runs concurrent with 