Following the lecture, Caycedo and collaborators will perform Beyond Control, a choreography of movements which evoke the visual and theoretical relationships that exist between the construction of dams, the containment of bodies of water, and the physical, legal and psychological control of the social body.
Join IAS undergraduate interns for "Activist Art and Local Histories," a curated tour of Collective Museum featuring sites in the campus-wide art installation which delve into the history of political engagement and activism at UC Santa Cruz.
Leonardo Art & Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) is an international program of evening gatherings that bring artists, scientists, and scholars together for informal presentations and conversations. Join us at 6:30 for a reception followed at 7 p.m. with presentations by Peter Weiss-Penzias, A. M. Darke, Angus Forbes, and Susan Schwartz.
Glenn Ligon is one of the most celebrated American artists of his generation. Throughout his career, Ligon has pursued an incisive exploration of American history, literature, and society across a body of work that builds critically on the legacies of modern painting and more recent conceptual art. He is best known for his landmark series of highly textured text-based paintings, which draw on the writings and speech of diverse figures such as Jean Genet, Zora Neale Hurston, Gertrude Stein, Walt Whitman and Richard Pryor.
