COD to Host Series of 'ART21' Documentaries Screenings in October
College of DuPage will host a series of four free pre-screening events for the PBS series ART21 throughout the month of October. All screenings will be held on Thursdays at 2 p.m. in the McAninch Arts Center, Room 153, on the College's main campus, 425 Fawell Blvd., in Glen Ellyn.
These screenings are free and open to the public.
Presented in partnership with Americans for the Arts, the National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture and the YMCA, ART21 Access '14 is an international free screening initiative created to increase knowledge of contemporary art, spark dialogue, and inspire creative thinking through hundreds of free public screenings and events. Since premiering in 2001, ART21 has established itself as the preeminent chronicler of contemporary art and artists through its Peabody Award-winning biennial television series, "Art in the Twenty-First Century."
The program is now broadcast in more than 50 countries worldwide and is the only series on U.S. television to focus exclusively on contemporary visual art and artists.
Following is a schedule of upcoming screenings:
Thursday, Oct. 9, Episode 1: "Investigation." Artists Leonardo Drew, Thomas Hirschhorn and Graciela Iturbide use their practices as tools for personal and intellectual discovery, simultaneously documenting and producing new realities in the process.
Thursday, Oct. 16, Episode 2: "Secrets." Artists Elliot Hundley, Trevor Paglen and Arlene Shechet artists share some of the secrets that are intrinsic to their work.
Thursday, Oct. 23, Episode 3: "Legacy." Artists Tania Bruguera, Abraham Cruzvillegas and Wolfgang Laib use life experiences and family heritage to explore new aesthetic terrain.
Thursday, Oct. 30, Episode 4: "Fiction." Artists Omer Fast, Katharina Grosse and Joan Jonas explore the virtues of ambiguity, mix genres, and merge aesthetic disciplines to discern not simply what stories mean, but how and why they come to have meaning.
For more information on these free screenings, please contact COD Art History Professor David Ouellette at (630) 942-2586 or ouelletted@cod.edu.
Click here for more information on ART21.