Craving some art and culture? UCLA Arts has these suggestions
In these uncertain times, the arts remain the fabric that can hold us together. Many of us are feeling anxious, distracted and worried about the COVID-19 pandemic. Museums and performance venues are temporarily closing, schools and offices are emptying out, and people are practicing social distancing and self-quarantine. Chances are you are looking for things to do to pass the time and keep your mind off the news. We’ve got you covered. Here’s a curated list of content from across the arts at UCLA that you can enjoy from home. We are in this together and the gift of art will keep us moving forward.
"What Is A Body?" from UCLA’s 10 Questions series
As we think about body and illness, check out this 10 Questions discussion on the question, "What is A BODY?" Participants include choreographer and scholar Susan Foster; environmental engineer Jennifer Jay; molecular, cellular, and developmental biologist Tracy Johnson; and architect Greg Lynn.
"Through Positive Eyes" video interviews with people around the world living with HIV and AIDS
The Fowler Museum recently exhibited Through Positive Eyes, a global photographic collaboration with HIV-positive individuals around the world, award-winning photographer Gideon Mendel, and the UCLA Art & Global Health Center. Here you can find some of the video interviews featured in the exhibition.
Toshi Reagon - Whole World's Gone Crazy
The musician and composer Toshi Reagon is a big fan of science-fiction writer Octavia Butler's works and her themes of Afrofuturism. She and Bernice Johnson Reagon adapted Butler’s novel “Parable of the Sower” into a rock opera and performed it at Royce Hall for UCLA's Center for the Art of Performance. Here’s one song from that opera, “Whole World's Gone Crazy.”
Matmos: Queer Assemblages
Matmos is an experimental electronic music duo originally from San Francisco but now residing in Baltimore. Much of their work could be classified as a pop version of the musique concrète genre. They recently gave this performance and talk for the UCLA Department of Design Media Arts.
Removing the Negative from HIV+: David Gere at TEDxGateway 2013
There are artists who paint or dance or write, and artists who make things happen. David Gere seems to be both. "There's something about brainstorming and concept building and communication that is part of my creative personality," says the UCLA professor in the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance, former performing arts critic, and creator of Make Art/Stop AIDS.
UCLA 14th Annual All-Star Concert - Sophia Su, piano
Sophia Su plays the piano and Maxim Kuzin conducts this Mendelssohn concerto at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music.
UCLA Student Films
Watch films made between 1949 and 1973 by students at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. These films, among many others, were restored and presented by UCLA Film & Television Archive (a division of UCLA Library) at the 40 years of UCLA Student Filmmaking series celebration.
UCLA Danst Rosas
In 1983, choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and her company Rosas debuted a new, strikingly original piece, "Rosas danst Rosas." On the 30th anniversary of the work De Keersmaeker broke down a portion of the choreographic sequences and posted them online—inviting the world to "make their own dance remixes." Hundreds of students across the UCLA campus participated in the Remix Project, here were our top picks.
An Afternoon of Nothing: Mundane Moments by Anna Drewitz and Andy Kim
A student project developed as part of a year-long post-professional IDEAS Entertainment Studio "The Tuvalu Studio (dot.tv)" led by Jimenez Lai with David Jimenez Iniesta and Kevin Pazik from the UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design.
Patrick Jagoda & Ashlyn Sparrow on games for social justice
The Hammer Museum at UCLA presents hundreds of programs online every year, including panels on politics and current events; literature and poetry readings; and conversations with artists. Here’s a recent one on how games can create deep and meaningful encounters with important human questions and the future. Patrick Jagoda, Professor of English and Cinema & Media Studies at the University of Chicago, joins Weston Game Lab director Ashlyn Sparrow to discuss a series of the lab’s innovative—and effective—digital and analog game projects. These include games with implications for learning and social justice.
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