Where: Building 20 Level 2 Rehearsal Room
Description
Contemporary artist Rachel Sussman will share her creative process, and challenge students to reframe the concepts of "personal time" and "cosmic time," to provide a forum for a dynamic, perspective-shifting exchange of ideas. This workshop was conceived to offer participants an informal foray into transdisciplinary thinking around the concept of deep time. Art experience not required.
Assignment: research and select two distinct artworks that embody and contextualize two different kinds of time. For example, pairing the Clock of theLong Now (also called the 10,000 year clock) with Felix Gonzales-Torres' Untitled (Perfect Lovers), illustrating geologic time and deeply personal time, respectively. Non-artworld projects like the Pitch Drop Experiment can be used, as can particpant’s personal artwork. Please bring paper print-outs of the two works you select to the seminar.
Background Preparation: Participating students are asked to prepare for the seminar by viewing a short film and reading a brief article.
1. Watch Charles and Ray Eames Power of Ten (1977), (9 minutes)
2. Read article from New Yorker: The Secret Life of Time by Alan Burdick
3. Bonus watching: TED "Time Warp" playlist (7 talks; 90 minutes total)
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Rachel Sussman
Rachel Sussman is a contemporary artist based in Brooklyn. She is a Guggenheim, NYFA, and MacDowell colony fellow, and two-time ted speaker. Her critically acclaimed, decade-long project "the oldest living things in the world" combines art, science, and philosophy into a traveling exhibition and New York Times bestselling book. In 2014, she began developing new installation work deepening her explorations of personal and cosmic time, the universe, nature, philosophy, and beauty. With the support of the Lacma lab, and working with Spacex, NASA, and CERN, her new work can be found at MASS MoCa, the new museum Los Gatos, and the Des Moines Art Center. She is currently an artist in residency with the SETI institute. Her exhibition record spans more than a decade in museums and galleries in the US, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.
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