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Located on the University of Chicago's Hyde Park campus, the Smart Museum of Art houses a permanent collection of over 10,000 objects, spanning five millennia of both Western and Eastern civilizations. The scope of its permanent collections, combined with groundbreaking special exhibitions, a focus…

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smART Explorers: Art Programs for South Side Elementary Schools

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2012 2:55

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 Smart Museum's smART Explorers program for South Side fifth graders is a cornerstone of the museum's educational initiatives. Students are led by docents and professional teaching artists, who introduce them to methods of looking at and communicating about works of visual art.

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Suzanne Lacy: Boycott Performance

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 29, 2012 2:51

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. Suzanne Lacy discusses her 1980s "Boycott Performance", a multi-layered project that used a series of potlucks and banquets in New Orleans to rally support for the Equal Rights Amendment.

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Ana Prvacki: The Greeting Committee

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 28, 2012 3:05

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. Ana Prvacki talks about The Greeting Committee, a social performance where visitors to a museum are offered a taste of slatko, a traditional Serbian gesture of welcome.

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Tom Marioni: The Act of Drinking Beer

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 28, 2012 4:07

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. Tom Marioni talks about The Act of Drinking Beer with Friends is the Highest Form of Art...and does some stand-up.

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Michael Rakowitz: Enemy Kitchen Chicago

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 28, 2012 3:48

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. Michael Rakowitz talks about his mobile art project, Enemy Kitchen (Food Truck), which serves Iraqi cuisine with US veterans acting as servers and sous-chefs.

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Lee Mingwei: The DIning Project

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 28, 2012 4:33

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. Artist Lee Mingwei discusses the history of The Dining Project, an ongoing project where he hosts meals in a zen-like installation within museums and galleries.

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Lee Mingwei: Origins of Hospitality

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 28, 2012 2:40

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 Lee Mingwei discusses hospitality and family history.

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Suzanne Lacy: International Dinner Party

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 28, 2012 3:42

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. Suzanne Lacy discusses her 1979 participatory performance International Dinner Party, where the artist engaged with women around the globe through some 200 dinners that took place over 24 hours across Africa, Asia, Europe, and North and South America.

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Laura Letinsky: Inspiration

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 28, 2012 3:21

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. Laura Letinsky talks about her interest in still life painting and other inspirations for her photographs.

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Lee Mingwei: Fill Out Your Card

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 28, 2012 1:06

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. How to participate in Lee Mingwei's The Dining Project.

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Alison Knowles: Identical Lunch

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 28, 2012 4:09

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. Alison Knowles discusses the history of the Identical Lunch and her plans for an Identical Lunch Symphony.

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Ana Prvacki: Inspiration

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 28, 2012 2:05

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. Ana Prvacki recounts her family story about slatko, and the inspiration for her social performance The Greeting Committee.

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Alison Knowles: Fluxus Event Scores

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 28, 2012 2:57

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Mella Jaarsma: I Eat You Eat Me

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 28, 2012 3:20

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. Mella Jaarsma discusses her ongoing project I Eat You Eat Me, a wearable table for two or six people.

Mella Jaarsma: Pribumi Pribumi

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 28, 2012 2:46

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. Mella Jaarsma talks about a performance in Indonesia where participants fried and ate frog legs on the street to generate dialogues across ethnic groups.

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Laura Letinsky: Artist's Lunch

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 27, 2012 2:22

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. Laura Letinsky hosts a lunch with her fellow Feast artists and talks about how cooking is like composing a new photograph.

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Michael Rakowitz: Saddam's Plates

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 27, 2012 2:33

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. Michael Rakowitz talks about Saddam Hussein's chinaware and the different ways he has included the plates in his art.

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Sonja Alhäuser: Flying Buffet

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 27, 2012 4:07

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. Artist Sonja Alhäuser talks about using a recipe drawing to create a "catering performance" for Feast.

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Theaster Gates: Soul Food Pavilion

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 27, 2012 4:54

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. Theaster Gates talks about the idea behind his Soul Food Pavilion—a space for interactions and conversations around the foods of black people.

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Theaster Gates: Soul Food Starter Kit

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 27, 2012 2:20

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. Theaster Gates talks about his Soul Food Starter Kit—part fancy bento box, part big country pantry.

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Theaster Gates: Dorchester Projects

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 27, 2012 2:54

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. Theaster Gates talks about Dorchester Projects and the role these once-abandoned homes play in Feast.

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Mary Ellen Carroll: Itinerant Gastronomy

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 27, 2012 4:07

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. Mary Ellen Carroll discusses the history of her Itinerant Gastronomy project, where she hosts site-specific meals.

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Marina Abramović: Performance

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 27, 2012 3:24

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. Marina Abramović discusses her 1979 performance with Ulay, Communist Body/Fascist Body.

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Marina Abramović: Communist Body/Fascist Body

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 27, 2012 4:05

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. Marina Abramović talks about performance art and many of her own influential performance pieces.

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