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Town & Country This session's focuses on the complex relationship between the city and the countryside by investigating the place the rural world occupies in the projections, fantasies, economy, and antagonism of the cosmopolitan set. This dialectic is responsible for a cultural production as diverse as the invention of Adirondack style, the formation of 60's communes. "Urban Cowboy" and the new urban garden movement. Town & Country is a session that will 'celebrate, examine, parody and understand the inherent contradictions in our new attempts at Bohemian life and the attend history of these attempts.'* We will be making a deep study of Henry David Thoreau and the Transcendentalist Movement as Fellows of this session will collaboratively fold into every aspect of an upcoming project for Boston's Tufts University Art Center Exhibition, MILDRED'S LANE: RENOVATING WALDEN, (September 9-November 14, 2010) and with exchanging field trips to and from "HUMANUFACTORY", a project with J. Morgan Puett at The Queens Museum of Art in New York.
The goal of this session is to critique and move beyond the cultural illusions which promote the city and the country as disconnected realms of experience. Reading seminars will include Thoreau's "Walden", Also, reading Raymond Williams' "The Country and the City", and Alexander Wilson's "The Culture of Nature". Additionally, during this session, we will participate in the infamous One Minute Film Festival at Moyra Davey and Jason Simon's Barn just down river (July 10, 2010). * Josiah McElheny,"The Museum on the Conflict between Cosmopolitan and Pastoral Life And the Conflict between Industry and Nature": a proposal for Mildred's Lane.
Featured speakers, visiting artists, seminar leaders, field trips and other guests include: Public Events, Session Lectures and Supportive Presentations
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