The Witte de With | Center for Contemporary Art presents The Humans by Alexandre Singh on view 26 April–28 October 2012.
Over the upcoming six months, visual artist and writer Alexandre Singh transforms the exhibition space into an artist’s studio, a script room, and a display area allowing visitors to witness the development of The Humans. Set before the Earth’s beginning in a proto-world populated by spirits, gods, artisans, and men of clay and plaster, The Humans—with ‘creation’ as its central theme—is modeled after the ancient Greek plays of Aristophanes. The project includes the on-site production of an ambitious play to be performed in the spring of 2013, along with monthly Causeries, informed by and shaping Singh’s script and props.
The Humans – Causeries
The Causeries are a monthly series of informal conversations between an expert in a given field, and a novice. The expert is invited to sit down and explain to the listener the very basic facts and questions of the topic: an overview of the subject to someone that is literate and curious yet who doesn’t have more than a popular knowledge of the given topic. The first of the Causeries titled The Creation: On Cosmogony and Cosmology will take place on Saturday 2 June 2012, with participants including Alexander Verpoorte (Lecturer, Archeology, University of Leiden); Bernadette Leclercq-Neveu (Senior Lecturer, History of Religion, École Normale Supérieure); Jessica Frazier (Research Fellow, Hindu Studies, University of Oxford); and Andrew Jaffe (Lecturer, Astrophysics, Imperial College London) and is organized in collaboration with critic and writer Donatien Grau.
Additional Causeries will explore key themes such as Aristophanes; Dance in Drama; Pictorial Satire; Literary Satire; The Voice and The Chorus; and more.
Witte de With | Center for Contemporary Art
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