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Joanna Malinowska: Fieldwork

Friday, April 13, 2012  7:30 PM

Lower Gallery

Joanna Malinowska’s sculptures, performances, and video-based projects are often inspired by her interest in cultural anthropology. She has said that she considered becoming an anthropologist, but “eventually decided that what interested [me] was not so much the research that aspires to scientific objectivity, but rather the sense of relativity of a cosmic order of one’s own culture in comparison to other possible systems.” Join Malinowska and the Hungry March Band as they stage a performance in which two marching bands converge. This program, inspired by composer Charles Ives, will re-imagine how rituals are charged with meaning in different contexts, from transcendentalism to the Native American Ghost Dance.

Free with Museum admission, which is pay-what-you-wish on Fridays from 6–9 pm; there are no special tickets or reservations.

Joanna Malinowska, Charles Ives and the Ghost Dance Crows, 2012. Photo collage. Courtesy the artist

Joanna Malinowska, Charles Ives and the Ghost Dance Crows, 2012. Photo collage. Courtesy the artist