EVENT DESCRIPTION:
Known as “the artist among architects,” Luis Barragán is among the world’s most celebrated architects of the 20th century. Upon his death in 1988, much of his work was locked away in a Swiss bunker, hidden from the world’s view. In an attempt to resurrect Barragán's life and art, boundary redefining artist Jill Magid creates a daring proposition that becomes a fascinating artwork in itself - a high-wire act of negotiation that explores how far an artist will go to democratize access to art.
EVENT SCHEDULE:
4:30 – 6:00pm // Screening of The Proposal , Bartos Theater, MIT Wiesner Building
6:00 – 7:30pm // Panel Discussion, ACT Black Cube, MIT Wiesner Building
Professor Caroline A. Jones will introduce Jill Magid and moderate a discussion between Magid and Professors Ana Miljacki and Timothy Hyde on the subjects of copyright, architecture, activism, and performance
7:30pm // Reception, Ground Floor Lobby, MIT Wiesner Building
8:00 – 9:30pm // Screening of The Proposal , Bartos Theater, MIT Wiesner Building
This event is part of the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT)'s Spring 2020 Lecture Series, in collaboration with the MIT Alumni Association, MITArchA, and the Transmedia Storytelling Initiative.
Free and open to the public. Online registration ends on Friday, February 7. Registration encouraged; Walk-ins are welcome.
Note: Registration will be handled through Eventbrite.
ABOUT MIT PROGRAM IN ART, CULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY:
ACT explores art, in its broad, complex and global history and in its contemporary forms, in conjunction with its relations to culture, science, technology, and design. This investigation occurs in ACT’s academic offerings and public programs and is buttressed by research of faculty, fellows and guests of ACT.
Bridges between MIT discipline groups and departments are another facet of these encounters. Research manifests itself in individual and collaborative forms and includes work that investigates, creates and bridges practices involving time, movement and space: cinema, video, sound, performance, photography, experimental media and new genres, conceptual and spatial experiments with architecture and design, writings and publications.
Critical thinking, knowledge mining, and creative engagement, along with explorations of changing public and private spheres are of particular relevance. “Art on a civic scale,” can now be understood as encompassing many subjectivities and forms of migratory thinking and action to engage a critically transformative view of the world. The Program in Art, Culture and Technology is part of the Department of Architecture, within the School of Architecture + Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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