Perhaps, in the last few months, you have witnessed some strange, unexplained phenomena around campus. Perhaps you crossed paths with an itinerant Victorian funeral procession mourning the death of an abstract ideal. Perhaps your dinner was interrupted by a cavalcade of shadow puppets, or maybe you were simply handed a flyer inviting you to a mysterious event with no known time or date.
Now some of these mysteries can be solved--and others compounded. For the next week in Dittmann 205 (The Print Study Room) Art 240 "Creating Spectacle" is exhibiting materials and documents created during their recent performances. This semester, our students made magic with plywood, steel, butcher paper, concrete poetry, packing peanuts, accordions, elaborate state of the art sound systems, gallons of paint, miles of ribbon, saxophones and trumpets, tons of tulle, lots of spray paint, and soaker hose. But also, it must be said, the chief ingredient was inspired play.
What some critics have said about the show:
"The avant-garde is reborn for the new millennium. The use of Tyvek is nothing short of a revelation." --Peter Sheldahl, The New Yorker
"This Cabinet of Wonders will provide the perfect study break for any student during finals week. Oh, and it honors my legacy very well." --the ghost of Guy Debord
To find the exhibit, enter Dittmann Center from the East, and turn right at the hearse!
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