Dedicated to showcasing the achievements of contemporary creative minds, Artspeaks offers an intimate setting for public presentations and insightful conversations with acclaimed artists. The series artists also engage in workshops with the University of Chicago community, offering students and facu…
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Award-winning Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman, director of Golden Globe winner "Waltz with Bashir" (2008), discusses his cinematic imagination with David Levin, professor of Germanic Studies, Cinema & Media Studies, and Theater and Performance Studies at the University of Chicago.
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. The David Wax Museum performs at Mandel Hall, putting the audience and band on one shared level for a concert unlike anything ever experienced in the 109-year-old auditorium's history. The band's unique fusion of Mexo-American folk music and storytelling, and brand of togetherness, music, and conversation engage everyone in the room.
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Multiple Journeys: the life and work of Gómez-Peña invokes text and historical photographs to chronicle the performance art practice of post-Mexican writer, artist and activist Guillermo Gómez-Peña.By tracing his family life as well as his past 30 years in visual and literary forms, the artist discusses his work in context to the larger evolution of the field as well as to the main political and social events of the times.
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Called a "wizard of language" by the Chicago Tribune and praised as "one of the handful of great performance artists in America today" by director Peter Sellars, Gomez-Pena will showcase his uniquely subversive style's blend of acidic Chicano humor, hybrid literary genres, rapidly shifting personaes, theatricalizations of post-colonial theory and multilingualism (from English to Spanglish to Nahuatl).A frequent National Public Radio commentator and the 1991 recipient of the MacArthur Foundation's Genius Prize, Gomez will focus on identity, race, sexuality, pop culture and the impact of new technologies in the post-9/11 era in his performance, which some have described as "Chicano cyber punk."Gomez-Pena's Mandel Hall performance is part of his University of Chicago Artspeaks fellowship. The Artspeaks series, developed in conjunction with the Court Theatre, the University of Chicago Presents and the Smart Museum of Art, showcases the University's vision of converging artistic theory and practice.
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR) in discussion with Kotoka Suzuki, Assistant Professor of Music at U of C, moderated by Shauna Quill, executive director of University of Chicago Presents.
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. The 2008 University of Chicago Artspeaks Fellows Program presents Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR),Composer/Violinist/Multi-media artistProgram to include: etudes4violin&electronix (aka Sonata for Violin & Turntables) with DBR & Elan Vytal aka DJ Scientific followed by a talkback moderated by Travis Jackson, Associate Professor of Music and the Humanities.
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. The University of Chicago Artspeaks Fellows Program and the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture presents a discussion between Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR) and Bakari Kitwana, hip-hop scholar in residence at the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture.