Opening reception and performance (at 5pm) for Inaction, a new sculptural and performance-based installation by Brendan Fernandes.
Photography by Rich Marinelli
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Fall Photos: Taylor Mac – CFA Theater (9/21/19)
Taylor Mac performs the Connecticut premiere of the highly immersive and outrageously entertaining two-hour abridged version of A 24-Decade History of Popular Music highlighting various musical styles and artistic voices.
Photography by Sandy Aldieri of Perceptions Photography
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Fall Photos: Artist talk with Marc Babej and William Wylie – Ring Family Performing Arts Hall (9/19/19)
A presentation and conversation with Marc Erwin Babej and William Wylie, the artists featured in the exhibition “Urban Space, Roman Couture, and A Living Past: Views of Pompeii and Pantheon,” curated by Wesleyan Professor Andrew Szegedy-Maszak.
Photography by Sandy Aldieri of Perceptions Photography
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Fall Photos: Opening: The Imperial Ghost – College of East Asian Studies Gallery at Mansfield Freeman Center (9/18/19)
The Central Intelligence Agency’s efforts to purge sites of communism was a global operation—and East Asia was no exception. Key officials from the agency described acts of espionage and strategic coordination in the 1950s and ’60s that ranged from the mobilization of controlled media and mafia groups to the violent suppression of socialist movements. With its title alluding to mind-body dualism, The Imperial Ghost in the Neoliberal Machine (Figuring the CIA) contends with past machinations that are still corporeally present, albeit camouflaged in other forms of manipulation and continuing to shift control and coerce power under new terms.
The exhibition features works by artists Minouk Lim, Yoshua Okón, and Royce Ng, whose works react to anti-communist rhetoric that has suppressed and repressed intellectuals since the 1950s. To ground this narrative within the exhibition, declassified accounts of covert operations by the CIA are displayed as archival documentation.
The CIA’s clandestine activities succeeded in transforming economic policies, sovereign histories, and global perception, irrevocably altering the world’s cultural and political landscape. The exhibition considers the incarnations and reverberations of their strategies, and how they continue to infiltrate today’s political imagination.
The Imperial Ghost in the Neoliberal Machine (Figuring the CIA) was organized by Asakusa and curated by Koichiro Osaka—a curator, writer, producer and the founding director of Asakusa. Asakusa is a 40-square-meter exhibition venue and project space in Tokyo, committed to advancing curatorial collaboration and practices. The space intends to serve as a platform through which to engage with art-historical research and independent exhibition projects, making possible various approaches to work both with public institutions and private initiatives.
The exhibition was previously on view at e-flux, New York, from April 30 to June 15, 2019.
On display at Wesleyan through Sunday, December 8, 2019.
Photography by Sandy Aldieri of Perceptions Photography
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Spring Photos:Reception: Senior Thesis Showcase in Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery (5/25/19)
Zilkha Gallery showcases the work of the Class of 2019’s thesis students in the Department of Art and Art History’s Art Studio Program from 2pm to 4pm. The exhibition is curated by two students, Cara Blumstein’20 and Emma Frohardt ’20, who will comment on the exhibition at 3:30pm. The exhibition presents a work by each of the seniors from their Senior Thesis Exhibition. Works shown are in drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture, mixed media, and architecture. Co-sponsored by University Relations.
Exhibition on display from Tuesday, May 7 through Saturday, May 25, 2019.
Photography by Sandy Aldieri of Perceptions Photography
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Spring Photos: Annual Organ Romp in Memorial Chapel (5/9/19)
This year’s concert will include special guest Wil Smith, as well as a parting cameo by Artist in Residence and University Organist Ronald Ebrecht, who retires at the end of the month after 30 years of teaching at Wesleyan.
Photography by Sandy Aldieri of Perceptions Photography
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Spring Photos: Jim McNeely Tentet
On Saturday, April 27, 2019 Jim McNeely’s acclaimed ten-piece jazz ensemble performed a selection of music from their album Group Therapy during their New England debut. GRAMMY Award-winning pianist/composer Jim McNeely has performed with the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra (now the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra), the Stan Getz Quartet, the Phil Woods Quintet, Bob Brookmeyer, and David Liebman, among other artists. The New York Times has called his writing “exhilarating,” and DownBeat has said that his music is “eloquent enough to be profound.”
Photos by Sandy Aldieri of Perceptions Photography. Click here to view the full album on Flickr.
Spring Photos: inDANCE: SKIN
On Friday, April 26, 2019 and Saturday, April 27, 2019 Associate Professor of Dance Hari Krishnan presented his company inDANCE and Wesleyan students in an evening of dance, transgressing the boundaries of culture, race, gender, and sexuality during the Connecticut premiere of SKIN during the Spring Faculty Dance Concert.
inDANCE featured an international cast of stellar dancers from Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, and China; including Eury German ’16 in his first season with the company. He first learned to dance when he came to Wesleyan, and is currently a professional dancer working in New York City, performing in the works of several well-known choreographers. These performances of SKIN also included six Wesleyan students: Mickey Kieu ’19, Amira Leila ’20, Gita Ganti ’21, Aditi Mahesh ’21, Luna Mac-Williams ’22, and Spenser Stroud ’22.
Photos by Sandy Aldieri of Perceptions Photography. Click here to view the full album on Flickr.
Spring Photos: Cynthia Novack in Memoriam Lecture: “THAT’S SO QUEER! THAT’S SO ETHNIC! THAT’S SO FOREIGN!”
On Wednesday, April 24, 2019 inDANCE’s Roney Lewis, Xi Yi, Paul Charbonneou, and Eury German ’16 spoke about the Spring Faculty Dance Concert, SKIN, and its inherent aesthetic and socio-political representations about queer sexuality and cultural appropriation as part of the Cynthia Novack in Memoriam Lecture. The lecture was in the format of a conversation moderated by Associate Professor of Dance Hari Krishnan. The speakers also embodied this conversation with movement demonstrations.
Photos by Sandy Aldieri of Perceptions Photography. Click here to view the full album on Flickr.
Spring Photos: Korean Drumming and Creative Music Ensemble and Taiko Drumming Ensemble
On Wednesday, April 24, 2019 Wesleyan’s Taiko Drumming Ensemble performed the thunderous and thrilling rhythms of Japanese kumi daiko drumming under the direction of Adjunct Instructor in Music Barbara Merjan. Beginning students of the Korean Drumming and Creative Music Ensemble played a variety of mesmerizing rhythmic patterns derived from tradition and new creative sounds on various instruments under the direction of Adjunct Professor of Music Jin Hi Kim and in collaboration with Visiting Artist-in-Residence and master dancer Pamardi Tjiptopradonggo from Indonesia.
Photos by Sandy Aldieri of Perceptions Photography. Click here to view the full album on Flickr.
