Updates and reflections from Wesleyan's Center for the Arts in Middletown, Connecticut
lcrodriguez Thursday, November 7, 2019 at 4:30pm
Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery
A talk by poet, essayist, translator, and cultural critic Lewis Hyde, who has a particular interest in the public life of the imagination.
Photography by Richard Marinelli.
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Thursday, November 7, 2019 at 8pm
Smith Reading Room, Olin Library, 252 Church Street, Middletown
Writer, director, visual artist, and vocalist Laurie Anderson addressed how to prepare for the 2020 election cycle and the tumultuous year ahead in the United States in this free talk.
Photography by Richard Marinelli.
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Saturday, October 26, 2019 at 10pm
Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery
Part performance, part dance party, the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery transformed into a night club in this event choreographed by artist Brendan Fernandes.
Photos by Richard Marinelli.
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Sunday, October 13, 2019 at 3pm
Crowell Concert Hall
GRAMMY Award-nominated sarod (19-stringed instrument) master Amjad Ali Khan is joined by his sarod-playing sons Amaan Ali Bangash and Ayaan Ali Bangash to conclude the Navaratri Festival at Wesleyan.
Photos by Richard Marinelli.
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Saturday, October 12, 2019 at 4pm
Crowell Concert Hall
Dr. Yashoda Thakore balanced the practice of the art of dance with research in her Connecticut debut during the Navaratri Festival at Wesleyan. She has enthralled audiences around the world—from England and Greece to Dubai and Bangladesh—with her flawless artistry.
Photos by Richard Marinelli.
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Thursday, October 10, 2019 in the Davison Art Center
Opening reception for exhibition of miniature artworks—drawn entirely from the Davison Art Center collection—featuring objects made across several centuries, including pieces by Rembrandt van Rijn and Henri Matisse.
Photos by Richard Marinelli.
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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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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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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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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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