The Washington Sculptors Group and The Center for HellenicStudies are pleased to jointly present this panel discussion in conjunction
with the U.S. opening of the Micro-Monuments
exhibition at the CHS campus after its international launch at the Salzland Museum
in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. The panel includes Paul M. Farber, Artemis
Herber, Kenneth Lum, Sven
Schipporeit, Svenja Müller-Schipporeit, and Elsabé
Dixon, Moderator.
ABOUT
THE PANELISTS:
Paul
M. Farber,
PhD is a scholar and curator based in Philadelphia. He is currently a
Postdoctoral Writing Fellow at Haverford College. Farber is also a founding
co-curator and director of “Monument Lab: Creative Speculations for
Philadelphia,” which premiered last year at Philadelphia's City Hall.
Artemis Herber completed her MFA at the University of Paderborn in Germany.
Herber is currently the President of the Washington Sculptors Group, and works
as an artist and curator for Transatlantic Projects.
Kenneth Lum resides in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where
he is a Professor in the School of Design, at the University of Pennsylvania.
Lum has exhibited widely, including in the São Paulo Biennial (1998), Shanghai
Biennale (2000), Documenta 11 (2002), the Istanbul Biennial (2007), the Gwangju
Biennale (2008), Moscow Biennial 2011, and the Whitney Biennial 2014.
Sven Schipporeit, PhD, Heidelberg University, teaches at the University of
Vienna. A Classical Archaeologist, his main focus lies on the interaction
between religion, imagery, architecture, urban development and society, from
archaic Greece to early Imperial Rome.
Svenja
Müller-Schipporeit, PhD, received her degree from Heidelberg University, and
studied Classical Archaeology, Greek Philology, and Ancient
History in Berlin and Heidelberg. She teaches at Vienna
University. Her research interests lie in the relation
of topography, urban and rural landscape, religion and cults, mentality and
social structures in ancient societies.
ABOUT THE MODERATOR: Elsabé
Dixon is
a conceptual artist working primarily with live organisms. Dixon has
participated in artist presentations at the Textile Museum as well as the
Smithsonian, Freer, and Sackler Museums in Washington, D.C. Dixon received her
BFA in Art from the University of Averett, and her MFA from George Mason
University. She is Vice-President of the Washington Sculptors Group.
ABOUT
THE EXHIBITION: The
concept of “Micro-Monuments” conveys a global perspective through
miniaturization as a symptom of our times that derived from diverse cultural
backgrounds of the exhibiting artists.
The
exhibition explores the omnipresence of monuments as a universal idea in art
within a trans-disciplinary and trans-cultural context of today. As an exhibition
returning from Germany to the United States and its place of origin, the city
of Washington, D.C., the Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS) creates an even more
interconnected field between cultures, societies, and time through a
cross-cultural collaboration.
Participating Artists: Julia Bloom, Greg Braun, Elsabe Dixon, Stephanie
Firestone, Felicia Glidden, Carol B. Goldberg, Tom Greaves, Edel Gregan, Jonathan Guyer, Kelly
Lorraine Hendrickson, Jin Lee, Leigh Maddox, Jaqueline Maggi, James
Mallos, Kass McGowan, Elizabeth Miller McCue, Jim Paulsen, Tatyana Schremko,
Mike Shaffer, Lynda Smith-Bugge, Garret Strang, Lawrence S. Watson,
Fabiola Alvarez Yurcisin.
Juried by Anne Reeve, Curated by Artemis Herber.
"Micro-Monuments" will be on view from
May
27 – October 15, 2016 at the Center for Hellenic Studies.
Open Monday – Friday 10am – 12pm / 2-4pm and by
appointment
