Hansel and Gretel, a collective tribute to Pope.L by DoVA alumni
@ Hutchinson Courtyard, The University of Chicago
1131 E 57th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, May 4th, from 1PM - 3PM
Unless he was on sabbatical, Pope. L created a theater work with Department of Visual Art (DoVA) MFA students each year between 2011 and 2023 as a required component of their curriculum.
“So over a period of ten weeks we read fairy tales,” he reflected, “looked at operas of fairy tales, read essays about the writing, politics and history of fairy tales, discussed the intersecting layers of human practice and intention that produce fairy tales and eventually created a live production of a fairy tale in the tenth week. It was a lively time and the students did a great job.”
In this Hansel and Gretel Theater Workshop, students were required to write scripts and to direct, design, and perform each other’s material. The results were totally distinct works of theater attributable to the individual and collective voices within the group combined with Pope. L’s ever present direction and instigation.
Wishing to celebrate this remarkable pedagogical encounter with its alumni, artist and DoVA faculty member Catherine Sullivan invited them to revisit Hansel and Gretel on or near the For Events platform.
The afternoon will include ambient works on view in no particular duration, video documentation of H and G and a program of improvised and scripted works which reflect on the substance and experience of The Hansel and Gretel Theater Workshop.
Artists:
Crystal Beiersdorfer
Jan Brugger
Maggie Crowley
Ceyhun Firat
Eli Greene
MaymayJumsai
Stacee Kalmonovsky
Chichan Kwong
Cristen Leifheit
Franny Levitin
Max Li
Cameron Mankin and d. Wright
Ben Nicholson
Brandon Sherrod
Paul Somers
Brett Swenson
Danny Volk
Miao Wang
Tianjiao Wang
Tina Wang
Qiuchen Wu
Exhibition Website: https://www.loganexhibitions.uchicago.edu/exhibitions/stockholder-events
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Tags: Ben Nicholson, Brandon Sherrod, Brett Swenson, Cameron Mankin, Catherine Sullivan, Ceyhun Fırat, Chicago, Chichan Kwong, Cristen Leifheit, Crystal Beiersdorfer, d. Wright, Danny Volk, Eli Greene, Franny Levitin, Hutchinson Courtyard, Hyde Park, Jan Brugger, Jessica Stockholder, Jessica Stockholder: For Events, Maggie Crowley, Max Li, MaymayJumsai, Miao Wang, Paul Somers, Pope.L, Qiuchen Wu, Stacee Kalmonovsky, The University of Chicago, Tianjiao Wang, Tina Wang, University of Chicago
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