Gagik Aroutounian—Kiss the Ground : Gallery Talk
Garthwaite Center for Science and Art - Thompson Gallery - TG
Please join us for a Gallery Talk and Reading of Elliot Baker's Play at CSW's Thompson Gallery.
Kiss the Ground is a three part exhibition series that examines and celebrates contemporary Armenian art, one hundred years after the 1915 Armenian Genocide. The first exhibition in the series showcases the assemblage sculptures, paintings and time-based media works of Armenian born, Chicago-based Gagik Aroutiunian, whose art explores identity, memory and the displacement of family.
World premier presentation of Elliot Baker's The Past Is Not Past by CSW students:
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World premier presentation of Elliot Baker's The Past Is Not Past by CSW students:
“THE PAST IS NOT PAST” is initially set in 1950 in Watertown, Massachusetts.
A couple who survived the 1915 Armenian Genocide conceals their “secret” from their fifteen year old son. The mother suffers from nightmares; the father from anxieties. In playing checkers with his father, the boy touches a checker but does not move it. The father rages because the child did not think ahead, something that still could be dangerous even in this world. His outburst prompts the mother to reveal and relive the horrors of “the long march.” The boy vows to never forget.
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