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Beth Morrison Projects Presents Nueva Canción: Songs of Protest and Resistance
March 6, 2020
7 p.m.: Museum tour and reception
8 p.m.: Concert
Nueva Canción: Songs of Protest and Resistance is a new, music-based multimedia event created by Sandra Powers and Timur, and performed by the glam rock band Timur and the Dime Museum. Produced by Beth Morrison Projects, the concert is rooted in the Latin American song movement that began in the 1960s and criticized political oppression and spurred sociopolitical change. These songs told multilayered stories about the unequal distribution of wealth, corrupt politics, and abuses of power, evolving from folk to incorporate electronic, classical, and rock influences. Nueva Canción focuses on the songbook of Mercedes Sosa, the driving force behind the movement. In addition, Timur’s memories of being raised under communism and then witnessing the collapse of the Soviet Union will provide a personal perspective on the complexity of political regimes. Nueva Canción: Songs of Protest and Resistance is a National Performance Network/Visual Artists Network (NPN/VAN) Creation and Development Fund Project co-commissioned by Beth Morrison Projects in partnership with Miami Light Project and NPN.
About Beth Morrison Projects
Beth Morrison Projects (BMP) identifies and supports the work of emerging and established composers and their multi-media collaborators through the commission, development, production, and touring of their works, which take the form of music-theatre, opera-theatre, multi-media concert works, and new forms waiting to be discovered.
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.
Due to the overwhelming popularity of this event, seating can no longer be guaranteed but the Wende welcomes all to attend with the possibility of viewing the concert from the standing room area. To join the guest list, please email RSVP@wendemuseum.org.
Series supported by the Music at the Wende Donor Group.
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In Search of Our Times Panel Discussion: Roads and Shortcuts to Utopia
Sunday, March 8, 2020
2 p.m.: Reception
3 p.m.: Panel Discussion
The twentieth century has seen the devastating effects of a blind belief in ideological blueprints, from fascism and national socialism to “real existing” socialism. But can we survive without utopian ideas? Do we need an inspiring vision and sense of direction to take care of ourselves and our environment? How much dreaming is needed to shape our world?
Featuring Thomas Small, a member of the Culver City Council, architectural writer, and chair of the Board of Jacaranda Music; journalist Christopher Hawthorne, a former LA Times architecture critic and the first Chief Design Officer of Los Angeles; Enrique Martinez Celaya, a painter, sculptor, author on art and philosophy, and physicist, whose artworks are exhibited and collected by museums around the world; and acclaimed author Cornelia Funke, a writer of children's fiction with more than 20 million books sold worldwide.
Free with RSVP.
In Search of Our Times is presented as part of Wende Conversations: A Discussion Series Supported by Susan Horowitz and Rick Feldman.
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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, and 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 Historian at 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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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.
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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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