“Where Art Thou” is a weekly guide to interesting and notable lectures, events, and performances for the literary/musically/theatrically-inclined

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Nonfiction Dialogues: Kerri Arsenault

  • Wednesday, February 7, 7:30 pm, Dodge Hall 501
  • Writer Kerri Arsenault will explore her work in conversation with Writing Program Professor Liz Harris. Arsenault is a literary critic, co-founding director of The Environmental Storytelling Studio at Brown University; Democracy Fellow at Harvard’s Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History; fellow at the Science History Institute in Philadelphia; contributing editor at Orion magazine; and author of the award-winning and bestselling book, Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains.

Film Screening and Discussion: “Ivan and Marta”

  • Wednesday, February 7, 6:30 pm, International Affairs Building
  • Join the Ukrainian Film Club for a screening of Serhii Bukovsky’s “Ivan and Marta” (2023), introduced by Yuri Shevchuk. The story centers around the love story of prominent Ukrainian intellectual Ivan Dziubsa and his wife Marta, and the political conflict their lives coincided with.  

Composer Portraits: Carola Bauckholt

  • Thursday, February 8, 8 pm, Miller Theatre
  • German Composer Carola Bauckholt is known for using unconventional means to create “noisy sounds” that blur the boundaries between artistic disciplines. The International Contemporary Ensemble will perform a few of her works at the Miller Theatre that span 20 years of composing. The performance is anchored in Oh, I See, written for clarinet, violin, cello, video, and two balloons.

The Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter Lecture: Arthur Jafa

  • Thursday, February 8, 7:30 pm, The Lantern
  • Renowned artist and filmmaker Arthur Jafa will discuss a few recent works with art historian and curator Kellie Jones, Hans Hoffman Professor of Modern Art and Chair of the African American and African Diaspora Studies Department. Jafa’s innovative style asks questions about the particular articulations of Black being. 

Music, the Climate Crisis, and the Haitian Drum

  • Thursday, February 8, 3 to 5pm, Fayerweather Hall 513
  • Musician Gaston Jean-Baptist, Laura Boulton Associate Professor of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University Rebecca Dirksen, and Director of Ecoculture Kevin C. Grady will consider the role that music’s relationship to combating global anti-Black structures might have in novel approaches to the climate crisis.

Directing Thesis: A Hunger Artist

  • Thursday, February 8-11, 8 pm and 2 pm, Lenfest Center for the Arts
  • Directed by current student Yibin Wang, this production of A Hunger Artist is a dramatic reimagining of Kafka’s short story about a man who fasts in a cage. Set in the online streaming world, it examines questions of what artistic value and attention mean in the modern world.

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