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Performance

Quartet for the End of Time: Earth Day at the Neubauer Collegium

04.22.2023 02:00 PM

Event Summary

Michael Zerang activating Jenny Kendler's sculpture Whale Bells, made in collaboration with Andrew Bearnot. Photo by Abel Arciniega.

In honor of Earth Day, the Neubauer Collegium presented an afternoon of programming inspired by The Chicago Cli-Fi Library, on view in our gallery through June 11. A screening of Alain Renais’s documentary film Le chant du Styrène (1958; 13 min.) offered a poetic meditation on the plastic industry which resonated with Dan Peterman’s sculptural installations Archive for 57 People and Archive (One Ton). A performance of How Does the World End (for Others)? featured a dramatic reading of a score the artists Geissler and Sann composed for the exhibition, which included fragments from classic “climate fiction” (“cli-fi”) texts. The reading was followed by a musical performance in which Chicago-based percussionist Michael Zerang animated Jenny Kendler’s sculpture Whale Bells, made in collaboration with Andrew Bearnot.