Performance – Museum of Art

Landscape Rap

�ֲ��ý College — Fri, 21 Sep 2018 18:31:03 +0000

We are rapping about landscape this week. Students wrote poetry that made them think about colors in a landscape. How does a color taste, feel like, smell like? We all started with a piece of paper with a color listed at the top. In a round robin exercise we then passed the paper to the left after thinking of a phrase that related to the color. For example, “Grey as an old man’s teeth” After doing two complete rounds of this, students were asked to think of rhyming words and objects for their color. Next week students will bring in music they like and we will put words together from these lists in a rap, I hope! Check back next week to see what they come up with!

DJ Spooky's Rebirth of A Nation

�ֲ��ý College — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 20:26:12 +0000

Saturday, February 2, 2008 at 8pm at the Lewiston Middle School

Performance Followed by Discussion with DJ Spooky: Mark Bessire (Museum Director), Dale Chapman (Assistant Professor, Music), Charles I. Nero (Associate Professor, Rhetoric)

DJ Spooky’s Rebirth of A Nation was commissioned by The Lincoln Center Festival, Festival D’Automne à Paris, Spoleto Festival USA and Wiener Festwochen (Vienna). Additional support was provided by the American Center Foundation and Mass MOCA.

Tickets:

*$10 General Public seats available at *A limited number of free tickets are available to �ֲ��ý students.
For reservations or more information: 207-786-6135 or olinarts@bates.edu

�ֲ��ý Sponsors: Multicultural Center, Museum of Art, Department of Music, Dean of the Faculty Office, Department of Theater and Rhetoric, Student Activities Office, Harward Center for Community Partnerships, Office of Admissions, �ֲ��ý Dance Festival, and Program in Environmental Studies.

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Performance: Wenda Gu's Wedding Life #6

�ֲ��ý College — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 19:47:21 +0000

Saturday, October 9, 2004 at 7:30 PM, Olin Arts Center

Wenda Gu’s Wedding Life #6 is an important new chapter in a series of performances, most recently held at the opening of the Guangzhou Triennial last year at the Guangdong Museum of Art, China.

The artist believes that eventually the “biological millennium” will bring all races together into one mixed group, thus ending cultural conflict. In each of his previous performances he has symbolically wed a partner from another culture or ethnicity. This concept probably will become a reality but at present he is interested in creating a discussion around this concept through his installation at the �ֲ��ý College Museum of Art.Wenda Gu and his bride will enter the museum space from a white limousine, as young people dressed in red welcome them from the car to the museum. The couple will then exchange wedding vows under the guidance of a Justice of the Peace, performed by museum director Mark Bessire. Each participant will consider the creation of vows and then write the program together. Using huge ink brushes and sheets of paper spread on the floor, the bride and groom will write or draw important aspects of their life leading up to the marriage. After the vows are exchanged, they will draw together their aspirations for the future.

The performance will be presented around and under united nations – 7561 kilometers installed in the �ֲ��ý College Museum of Art, which conceptually reflects the aspirations of Wenda Gu’s Wedding Life #6. The installation is a collection of hair from around the world brought together into a monument that symbolizes the unification of cultures, to be further intertwined through science and the “biological millennium”.

Wenda Gu in 2000 performance at the Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Japan.