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Family Day at the Wende: Make Your Own Zine!
Sunday, January 26, 2020
11 a.m. - 4 p.m. 

Join us for special all-ages activities all day on Sunday, January 26, in conjunction with our 
Historical Witness Project Live Interview event. Participants will be invited to create artworks and zines in the spirit of Samizdat, the clandestine copying and distribution of literature banned by the state. Free, all materials will be provided.
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Historical Witness Project Live Interview with Tomas Osinski
Sunday, January 26, 2020
2 p.m.: Reception
3 p.m.: Interview

To shed light on the ways Cold War history impacted human lives, the Fiona Chalom and Joel Aronowitz Historical Witness Project gathers oral histories from people who lived in the Eastern Bloc during the period from 1945 to 1991. This event will be a live interview conducted at the Wende Museum with Tomas Osinski, a Polish artist, architect, and former dissident. 

The Wende recently acquired Osinski's significant personal collection of materials from the Polish opposition during the Soviet era. Moreover, Osinski organized and facilitated a large donation of documents, pamphlets, and photographs from other Polish collections. This live interview by actor and podcast host Mark Valley (Boston LegalThe Live Drop) will revisit Osinski's memories of the Polish underground.

Sponsored by Fiona Chalom and Joel Aronowitz
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wasteLAnd Presents Collective Creation 
February 7, 2020
7 p.m.: Museum tour and reception
8 p.m.: Concert 

This event is now at capacity.
To join the waitlist, please email info@wendemuseum.org

wasteLAnd presents music driven by collective action and creation, both in the act of composition and in community-based realization. The program features world premieres by Richard Barrett and Nicholas Deyoe in addition to radical works by Raven Chacon, George Lewis, Pauline Oliveros, Sarah Reid, and Wilfrido Terrazas. These works explore degrees of improvisation, highlighting the necessity of communal action and negotiation in these collective creations while also reflecting on grassroots political collectivism. 

Program
  • Richard Barrett – Codex (2019)
  • Raven Chacon – Round  (2007) 
  • Nicholas Deyoe – Everyday-Life Human Efforts (2019)
  • George Lewis – Artificial Life (2007)
  • Sarah Reid – Disonillum (2015) 
  • Pauline Oliveros – Heart of Tones (1999)
  • Wilfrido Terrazas – Torre del Norte (2018)

About wasteLAnd
wasteLAnd is a Los Angeles-based ensemble and concert series presenting avant-garde and experimental music, focusing on local performers and living composers. With an emphasis on recent and under-performed compositions, wasteLAnd concerts are an experience of unique curation, dedication, and quality—an open atmosphere in which listeners encounter engaging programs and tenacious performances.

About Music at the Wende
Now in its second season, Music at the Wende is a new music series in which esteemed musical organizations present free concerts at the Wende Museum, with musical programs inspired by the Wende collection and mission. For the full schedule, click 
here
 

Series supported by the Music at the Wende Donor Group.

Special Offer for Culver City Residents and E-Newsletter Subscribers

The Wende Museum has 5 pairs of tickets to give away on a first come, first served basis. To reserve, please email
info@wendemuseum.org with your full name and zipcode. 
History, Cultures, Identities: Lezley Saar, Sichong Xie, and Chelle Barbour discuss their works in the exhibition The Medea Insurrection: Radical Women Artists Behind the Iron Curtain
Sunday, February 16, 2020
2 p.m.: Reception 
3 p.m.: Panel with Q&A 

Hear from Chelle Barbour, Lezley Saar, and Sichong Xie, the Los Angeles-based contemporary artists in the exhibition The Medea Insurrection: Radical Women Artists Behind the Iron Curtain. The panel will be moderated by the Wende’s Chief Curator and Director of Programming Joes Segal. 
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FREE Morning Yoga in the Wende Garden 
Taught by Jennifer Winther
Wednesdays, 9 a.m.

Culver City yoga teacher Jennifer Winther offers a FREE 50-minute yoga class in the Wende Sculpture Garden, with just the right amount of movement to strengthen a bit, get the blood flowing, stretch out the stress, and get centered. 

Please bring water and a mat (if you have one). Free and open to all. 

Medea: controversial archetype of female strength and passion from the East. In the years before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, East European writers and painters often turned to ancient mythology to express their discontent with authoritarian rule. Their interpretations of mythological figures like Medea, Cassandra, and Penthesilea were crucial in shaping contemporary images for women, and sometimes they were straight-up punk. Working under the radar of the accepted art establishment, the artists in this exhibition provoked, protested, played with fire, and experimented while refusing socialist and bourgeois stereotypes. The Medea Insurrection was conceptualized and curated by Susanne Altmann for the Albertinum (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden). It has been adapted by the Wende Museum for its Culver City appearance. 

The Medea Insurrection: Radical Women Artists Behind the Iron Curtain is part of Wunderbar Together: The Year of German-American Friendship 2018/19, an initiative funded by the German Federal Foreign Office, implemented by the Goethe-Institut, and supported by the Federation of German Industries (BDI).


Running Man

Stas Orlovski’s Running Man transforms the Eva and Brian Sweeney East German Guardhouse from a symbol of surveillance and oppression into a magic lantern where disparate histories merge, intermingle and collide. Orlovski occupies the guardhouse with 3 projected, stop-motion animations that explore themes of loss, memory and migration. Drawing on the structure's Cold War past and its current proximity to Sony Picture Studios, the work references Russian children's books, Soviet era animation, Malevich’s Suprematism, Hans Richter’s experimental films and Eadweard Muybridge’s early motion pictures. 


On view through April 5, 2020

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