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Sunday, March 15, 2020
2 p.m.: Reception
3 p.m.: Discussion
Historian Ellen Carol DuBois explores the links between the women's suffrage movement—starting in the pre-Civil War years with foremothers Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Sojourner Truth—to the abolition of slavery. After the Civil War, Congress granted freed African American men the right to vote, but in a crushing disappointment did not extend that right to women, neither white nor African American. In her book Suffrage: Women's Long Battle for the Vote, DuBois shows how suffrage leaders persevered through the Jim Crow years into the reform era of Progressivism. She affirms the legacy of champions Carrie Chapman Catt and Alice Paul, who brought the fight into the 20th century. She shows how African American women, led by Ida B. Wells-Barnett, demanded voting rights even as white suffragists ignored them.
DuBois will be interviewed by Jessica Millward (Associate Professor of History, UC Irvine) and Meghan Sahli-Wells (Mayor of Culver City).
Ellen Carol DuBois is a distinguished research Professor Emeritus at the History Department of UCLA, where she has served for over thirty years. She is one of the leading historians of women's suffrage in the US and internationally.
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Stas Orlovski and Holly Willis in Conversation at the Wende Museum
Friday, March 27, 2020
7 p.m.: Reception
8 p.m.: Discussion
Please join artist Stas Orlovski and scholar Holly Willis for a conversation about Orlovski’s work in conjunction with his installation, Running Man currently on view at the Wende Museum Guardhouse.
Running Man transforms the guardhouse from a symbol of surveillance and oppression into a magic lantern where disparate histories merge, intermingle and collide. Orlovski's Running Man 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. Orlovski and Willis will discuss the artist’s use of projection and stop-motion animation and delve into ideas about collective memory, forgotten history, and psychological space.
Stas Orlovski is a Los Angeles-based visual artist whose work includes painting, drawing, sculpture, and animation. Orlovski was born in Kishinev, Moldova, in 1969. When he was a child, his family fled the Soviet Union to Tel Aviv, then Paris and eventually settled in Toronto, Canada. Orlovski has exhibited widely in galleries and museums throughout the United States.
Holly Willis is the Associate Dean of Research in the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California, where she also serves as a Professor in the Media Arts + Practice Division. She is the author of Fast Forward: The Future(s) of the Cinematic Arts and New Digital Cinema: Reinventing the Moving Image, as well the editor of both The New Ecology of Things, a collection of essays about ubiquitous computing, and David O. Russell: Interviews.
Free with RSVP.
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Family Day at the Wende - Let's Dance: Self Expression of the Body
Sunday, March 29, 2020, 12 p.m. - 3 p.m.
Join us for Family Day and partake in Let's Dance: Self Expression of the Body, a dance workshop taught by Los Angeles based dancer and choreographer, Danielle Kay. Participants will warm-up, learn a dance set to upbeat Eastern European music of the Cold War era, and perform what they have learned at the conclusion of each workshop. There will be one dance workshop that will run from 12-1 p.m. and another that will run from 2-3 p.m. Presented in conjunction with The Medea Insurrection: Radical Women Artists Behind the Iron Curtain.
The workshop is at a beginner level, and recommended for ages 6 to 12— younger and older children are welcome to attend as well. Participants must have an adult chaperone with them to attend, and the event is free for all. Moveable clothing and tennis shoes recommended.
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Dog Star Orchestra Presents Green Hour or Gray Future
April 3, 2020
7 p.m.: Museum tour and reception
8 p.m.: Concert
A program of experimental music from the United States and Eastern Europe will draw a connection between the near-miss nuclear apocalypse of the Cold War era and the present threat of environmental apocalypse.
Program
- Tomasz Sikorski - Diario (1987)
- Morton Feldman - Jackson Pollock (1951)
- Samuel Beckett -The Lost Ones (1971)
- Tatjana Kozlova-Johannes - Nildiostad/Crews (2015)
- Laura Steenberge - Transition (2019)
- Michael Pisaro - Nature, Obscured (2019)
About Dog Star Orchestra
Dog Star Orchestra is an ensemble and a once-a-year festival of experimental music, started in 2005 by composer Michael Pisaro as a way of playing recent experimental music by young composers and classic pieces from the experimental tradition. Described as “messily exceptional” by the Los Angeles Times, Dog Star events happen throughout the Los Angeles area and often feature offbeat performances in out-of-the-way places, alongside more traditional concert settings. Dog Star Orchestra is one of the main presenters fostering and documenting the strong local experimental music scene, as well as presenting work that would otherwise not be heard in the U.S.
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.
Free with RSVP.
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Closing Screening Program for The Medea Insurrection
Sunday, April 5, 2020
2 p.m.: Reception
3 p.m.: Screening
To mark the closing of The Medea Insurrection: Radical Women Artists Behind the Iron Curtain, guest curator Susanne Altmann presents a film program in conjunction with the exhibition.
Program
Geta Bratescu, Automatism, 2017, 2:07 minutes
Gabriele Stötzer, Prison Cell 5, 1990, 11:00 minutes
Gabriele Stötzer, Broken, 2015, 7:00 minutes
Dora Maurer, Timing, 1973-80, 10:00 minutes
Natalia LL, Consumer, 1972-74, 7:35 minutes
Magdalena Abakanowicz, Abakany, 1968-70, 13:00 minutes
Geta Bratescu, Ludus – Studio Play, 2004, 3:43 minutes
Free with RSVP.
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FREE Morning Yoga in the Wende Garden
Taught by Jennifer Winther
Wednesdays, 9 a.m.
Please note that due to a special event, there will be no yoga on Wednesday, March 18.
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.
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Take a closer look at the current exhibition The Medea Insurrection: Radical Women Artists Behind the Iron Curtain. Video produced by Lucy Birmingham.
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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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