Architecture and monuments hold space and attention, projecting myth, legend, and authority into the public sphere. Yet, recent uprisings and protests across the world suggest a rejection of what these structures represent.
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“I'm a potter in the morning, a painter in the noon, I’m a bureaucrat in the night time, and I am a lover when the moon is bright, whoa de whoa de whoa.”
On July 31, interdisciplinary sculptor and DoVA Professor Theaster Gates delivered a performance that marked the conclusion of the Gray Center’s online exhibition, Another Idea, as well as their Gray Sound Sessions series.
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"Yes. The vaccine is incomplete. I share these books in the hopes that through study and conversation exchange occurs. Germs are swapped. Maybe we need more than one vaccine. Maybe I need your vaccine and you need mine. The thing is resistance. Resistance is the thing.”
-Human_3.0 Reading List Manifesto, Cauleen Smith
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The Moon has long been a muse for artists, poets, and lovers. Yet, might we also find the Moon a site for temporary retreat and respite away from the cruelties of Earth? Away from COVID-19? Away from capitalism? Perhaps the Moon’s frozen terrain offers fertile ground for revolutionary ideas to sprout and new ways of being to blossom.
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As museums across the world transfer their programming efforts onto virtual platforms, museum “goers” are finding themselves in online viewing rooms, watching video tours, and downloading coloring book pages. Some conceptual art forms do not need to undergo this transformation and are more presciently suited to this moment.
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Susan Hiller’s Dream Screens is among several works featured in the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry’s Another Idea, an actual conceptual art exhibition. Jad Dahshan reflects on the pioneering artist’s virtual exhibition and the visions it creates.
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Though the current public health situation has scattered UChicago students around the globe, many RSOs (Registered Student Organizations) have carried on remotely. UChicago has a vast range of artistic student activities and the dedicated members of these organizations have found innovative ways to do what they love despite necessary physical limitations. Dancers, singers, and creatives of all creeds have utilized technology to stay connected with their peers and create collaborative art.
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If you need more proof of the vast diversity of artistic interests at UChicago, look no further. In addition to singing, dancing, and visual arts, students take physical performance to the next level in the Le Vorris and Vox Circus.
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About the inspiration behind Reyes’s puppet production Manufacturing Mischief, performed at the Logan Center January 2019.
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