Performance
Quartet for the End of Time: Earth Day at the Neubauer Collegium
Event Summary
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.