Artwork, meaning, and connecting to our lives: Feverish World symposium

This weekend the University of Vermont is hosting a symposium Feverish World
about the questions:

"How can we draw on the creative imagination of the arts, the wisdom and critical insight of the humanities, and the know-how and know-what of science and technology to develop practices for collective coexistence and even flourishing in the climate-destabilized world of our likely future?"

I will have a work on display in the Tentworks area.

Since 6th graders and some 7th graders are dealing directly with this question in their Climate Creative pieces, I've brought this into the classroom.  I had an opportunity to work with the artist, Nele Azevedo on her "Minimum Monument," which students and I used Visual Thinking Strategies to talk about the work and it's meanings.

NSTALLATION/EVENT: MINIMUM MONUMENT

2:00 pm and on, City Hall Park, Burlington

Azevedo has installed variations of Minimum Monument at many locations around the world. This will be a Vermont premier. To be installed on the back steps of City Hall in time for a 2:00 pm unveiling.

NELE AZEVEDO

Néle Azevedo is a Sao Paolo-based sculptor and video and installation artist best known for her “Minimum Monument” ice sculptures -- ephemeral urban space interventions of “melting men” that have been exhibited in cities around the world. Adopted by environmentalists as visual metaphors for climate change, the monuments are intended to “invert” the canons of the public monument: as Azevedo describes it, “in the place of the hero, the anonym; in the place of the solidity of the stone, the ephemeral process of the ice; in the place of the monument scale, the minimum scale of the perishable bodies.”

Some process photos:

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