Artspeaks (video)

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. 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. Provocative choreographer and dancer Bill T. Jones gives a presentation entitledThe Persistence of Questions.Jones, who was named anirreplaceable dance treasureby the Dance Heritage Coalition, will also enters a public conversation with WBEZ's Gretchen Helfrich on the questions that he continues to mull as both an artist and thinker, such as the meaning of the dance company, the nature of style and how the discourse of an era influences a companys work.

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. Choreographer and dancer Bill T. Jones participates in a workshop examining genealogies of black, gay, male dance to students in the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture; the Center for Gender Studies; and the Lesbian and Gay Studies Project. Contributing in the workshop are Waldo Johnson, Associate Professor in the School of Social Service Administration and Director of the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture, and George Chauncey, Professor in History and interim Director of the Center for Gender Studies.

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.