Ulla von Brandenburg will explore the forgotten or overlooked histories of literature, theater, architecture and cinema in deeply engaging works that bring historical moments into contemporary contexts. In the upcoming Carpenter Center exhibition The Way We Live Now, Modernist Ideologies at Work, von Brandenburg will reconfigure her installation Singspiel or “song play” for the Le Corbusier building. Originally produced for the 2009 Venice Biennale, Singspiel is a 16-mm film and labyrinthine installation of cloth panels that draws on the history of another Le Corbusier work—Villa Savoye—to explore aspects of staging and theater in connection to the built environments of the famed architect.
Talk, 13 November, 6 pm
The Way We Live Now
5 February – 5 April 2015
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
Harvard University
24 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
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