d14 Sessions: d14 Sessions #5
with Monika Szewczyk and Irena Haiduk

MAY
27
2 pm
Papiercafé, Nordbau, Kunsthochschule Kassel, Kassel

d14 Sessions #5, Monika Szewczyk, Curator documenta 14 and Irena Haiduk, artist, Papiercafé, Kunsthochschule Kassel, May 27, 2016, photo: aneducation

The future of Europe as a present. During this session, students are invited to make a present together. A present for the composer Fredric Rzewski in the form of a recorded conversation. Rzewski is an expert in melding voice and music, and his 1974 composition Attica is used to tune in to a conversation in which special guest Irena Haiduk, founder of the non-aligned oral corporation Yugoexport and teacher at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, is present as “a voice and nothing more.” Finally, as a way of shifting to the night, we toast the future of Europe.

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