Mark Dion: Inspired by the City that Lit the World
When: Thursday,
October 12, 2017
6:00 PM
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8:00 PM
Where: > Other on campus location, contact host
Description: Thursday, Oct 12, 2017
6-8 PM
Inspired by the City that Lit the World: New Bedford Native and Internationally Celebrated Artist Mark Dion Reflects on His Creative Process
LOCATION: New Bedford Whaling Museum, Cook Memorial Theater
18 Johnny Cake Hill, New Bedford, MA 02740
6-6:30 PM: Pamela Karimi - The Artist and the American Post-Industrial Landscape
6:30-7:30 PM: Mark Dion - Space, Nature, and Materiality in New Bedford and Beyond
7:30-8 PM: Caroline A. Jones - Commentary and Q&A
The symposium--Artifacts of the Future: Artists Interventions in the Environment-- takes place in conjunction with Mark Dion's survey exhibition Misadventures of a 21st-Century Naturalist at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston. Since the 1990s, Dion has employed the methods of fieldwork, excavation, and cultivation to consider the history and cultural uses of nature. Taking these methods as a starting point, the symposium brings together leading artists to share their work at the interface of natural and cultural environments. Artifacts of the Future explores how landscapes index the past, present, and future, revealing histories that are inclusive of the contemporary and illuminating the complex temporality of our ecological moment.
The symposium begins at the New Bedford Whaling Museum, in Mark Dion's hometown, where the artist will deliver a keynote speech. It continues the next day at the ICA.
For questions, contact Professor Pamela Karimi: pamela.karimi@umassd.edu
6-8 PM
Inspired by the City that Lit the World: New Bedford Native and Internationally Celebrated Artist Mark Dion Reflects on His Creative Process
LOCATION: New Bedford Whaling Museum, Cook Memorial Theater
18 Johnny Cake Hill, New Bedford, MA 02740
6-6:30 PM: Pamela Karimi - The Artist and the American Post-Industrial Landscape
6:30-7:30 PM: Mark Dion - Space, Nature, and Materiality in New Bedford and Beyond
7:30-8 PM: Caroline A. Jones - Commentary and Q&A
The symposium--Artifacts of the Future: Artists Interventions in the Environment-- takes place in conjunction with Mark Dion's survey exhibition Misadventures of a 21st-Century Naturalist at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston. Since the 1990s, Dion has employed the methods of fieldwork, excavation, and cultivation to consider the history and cultural uses of nature. Taking these methods as a starting point, the symposium brings together leading artists to share their work at the interface of natural and cultural environments. Artifacts of the Future explores how landscapes index the past, present, and future, revealing histories that are inclusive of the contemporary and illuminating the complex temporality of our ecological moment.
The symposium begins at the New Bedford Whaling Museum, in Mark Dion's hometown, where the artist will deliver a keynote speech. It continues the next day at the ICA.
For questions, contact Professor Pamela Karimi: pamela.karimi@umassd.edu
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