coming up oct 14: postcards and panel
Sam put up nice pics from our Flushing outing.
Wasn't the VP debate fascinating? Biden criticized McCain as only a longtime colleague can, and then, to top it off, he pulled a Hillary there at the end. For her part, Palin for at least a couple moments came dangerously close to unhinged, before quickly getting back on script. Somebody needs to diagram her syntax. I swear you'd be able to actually see where the script comes in.
My blogging's been a little off, really, ever since before the Art of This show. (And, I know, it's never really been on.) Things are a little too busy right now for catching thoughts. History is on the move. I have to say, keeping busy at the personal level is a good way to cope, because then your life and History seem to travel at the same speed. Funny how globalization brought on the multicultural assault on a Eurocentric human narrative, but in the end does in fact bind all on the planet (through climate change, for example) in a single unfolding story which we may as well now call History. Though there is a strong case to be made for simply sidestepping the baggage that comes with the word History, and beginning to think of our time and story as the earth scientists do: this is the unfolding of the Anthropocene. Is that a reasonable thought? If not, please, I invite you to make the case.
An event highlighting the Raising Questions postcards project is coming up on October 14, 2008. It should be fun. The event title may smack of heroism, but it's not meant that way–the line is from a great Gwendolyn Brooks poem "Boy Breaking Glass." For details, check out The Public Square's website.
"I Shall Create" with Chicago artists Toufic El Rassi, Coya Paz, and Dan S. Wang Tuesday, October 14 at 6:00-8:00PM
Hyde Park Art Center
5020 South Cornell Avenue
Chicago
This program is free and open to the public. Reservations are recommended and can be made online, by e-mail at events@prairie.org, or at 312.422.5580.Join us this evening to explore the intersection of art and struggle with three amazing Chicago artists: Toufic El Rassi, Coya Paz, and Dan S. Wang. In a conversation moderated by Daniel Tucker, editor of AREA Chicago, these artists will discuss their creative work and how we can use the arts to create and imagine a more just world.
This program is co-sponsored by The Public Square, Neighborhood Writing Alliance, dropping knowledge international, Egan Urban Center at DePaul University and Hyde Park Art Center. Thank you to the Civic Knowledge Project for their support in making this program possible.
