Arts and Music (Audio)
253 episodes - English - Latest episode: 23 days ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsMusic and art have the power to evoke emotion in us. This collection features artists, musicians and their work. Visit: uctv.tv/arts
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Conversation with Filmmaker Paul Espinosa
September 07, 2022 21:00 - 33 minutes - 15.9 MBPaul Espinosa, an award-winning filmmaker and producer, is the President/CEO of Espinosa Productions, specializing in films focused on the U.S.-Mexico border region. He has been involved with producing films for over 35 years and is professor emeritus in the School of Transborder Studies at Arizona State University. He has worked with public television stations in San Diego and Dallas as a Senior Producer and Executive Producer and has produced, directed, written and hosted numerous programs ...
Conversation with Ellas
September 06, 2022 21:00 - 24 minutes - 11.5 MBEllas is a new trio that performs an exciting blend of mariachi, jazz, country, and various other styles. Series: "Critically Human" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 38284]
The Art of Change: Michael Chemers
September 02, 2022 21:00 - 19 minutes - 8.96 MBIn this episode, Michael Chemers, Chair of the Department of Performance, Play & Design, and Theater Arts professor at UC Santa Cruz, discusses his wide ranging plans for the newly formed Department of Performance, Play and Design and how it is incorporating DEI issues and concerns. Series: "The Art of Change" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 38223]
Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars in Concert
August 30, 2022 21:00 - 59 minutes - 28.1 MBSierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars have risen like a phoenix from the ashes of war and enflamed the passion of fans across the globe with their uplifting songs of hope, faith and joy. From their humble beginnings in West African refugee camps, Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars have performed on some of the world’s most prestigious stages and matured into one of Africa’s top touring and recording bands. Series: "Critically Human" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 38277]
LADAMA in Concert
August 23, 2022 21:00 - 59 minutes - 27.7 MBLADAMA is a group of four women, virtuosic musicians, and educators— Lara Klaus, Daniela Serna, Mafer Bandola and Sara Lucas— from different countries and cultures of the Americas, who are sisters in song, rhythm and spirit. Harnessing music from their respective countries of origin — Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela and the United States — the group uses traditional and nontraditional instruments from across the Americas, but with a modern twist to produce Latin Alternative music. Series: "Critic...
Triton Talks: Life Without Earlids - Learning To Listen To the World
July 27, 2022 21:00 - 22 minutes - 10.5 MBWhat does it mean to have no earlids? According to Steven Schick, conductor and music professor at UC San Diego, it means we have no way of removing ourselves from the sounds that are all around us. The world-renown percussionist talks about the nature of sound and how to listen as he creates music through common clay flower pots. Series: "Triton Talks" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 38074]
The Art of Change: Don Williams
July 25, 2022 21:00 - 23 minutes - 11.4 MBUC Santa Cruz drama lecturer Don Williams talks about how he founded, in 1991, UCSC's African American Theater Arts Troupe, or "AATAT" as it’s often called. The theater group has had a profound and lasting effect on countless numbers of African American students throughout the years. His students have a deep appreciation and love for his willingness to address head on not only what it means to be Black on the UCSC campus, but also the importance of exposing African American students, and all ...
The Art of Change: Celine Parreñas Shimizu
May 09, 2022 21:00 - 24 minutes - 11.5 MBIn this inaugural episode of The Art of Change, filmmaker, film scholar and Dean of Arts at UC Santa Cruz, Celine Parreñas Shimizu, talks about her personal history as well as her vision for the Arts Division at UCSC. She is well known for her work on race, sexuality and representations, and is the first Asian American female arts dean in the UC system. The daughter of political refugees from the Philippines who immigrated to the U.S. when she was a teenager, Dean Celine (as she likes to be c...
Still We Rise: Celebrating American Diversity in Music
May 01, 2022 21:00 - 1 hour - 39.1 MB"Still We Rise" is a concert celebrating American diversity in music and the legacy of UC San Diego Professor Emeritus and pianist Cecil Lytle. This year’s program celebrates both the 25th anniversary of the Lytle Scholarship and the establishment of the Cecil Lytle Endowed Chair in African and African American Music. The concert features music and poetry from the African American experience. Series: "Rebecca Lytle Memorial Concerts" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 37564]
The Art of Change: Karlton Hester
April 26, 2022 21:00 - 28 minutes - 13.6 MBUC Santa Cruz Professor of Music, Director of Jazz Studies, and Director of the Digital Arts and New Media program Karlton Hester talks about being appointed as UCSC’s first Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Arts. Professor Hester began his career as a composer and recording artist in Los Angeles where he worked as a studio musician and music educator, performing both flute and saxophone. He received his Ph.D. in composition from the City University of New York Graduat...
Let's Jam: Poet Thomas Dooley
April 17, 2022 21:00 - 8 minutes - 3.97 MBOur series of artists and educators connecting arts and humanities to medicine continues continues with Thomas Dooley, poet-in-residence at the Center for Compassionate Communication at UC San Diego's Sanford Institute for Empathy and Compassion. Series: "Let's Jam: The Arts in Medicine" [Health and Medicine] [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 37987]
Let's Jam: Improv with Robert Cochrane
April 14, 2022 21:00 - 23 minutes - 11 MBOur series of artists and educators connecting arts and humanities to medicine continues with UNLV Ph.D. candidate Robert Cochrane's talk on how improv can help Parkinson's patients. Series: "Let's Jam: The Arts in Medicine" [Health and Medicine] [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 37988]
Michael Asher: Untitled - Stuart Collection at UC San Diego
March 30, 2022 21:00 - 2 minutes - 1.38 MBThis functional, polished, granite drinking fountain is an exact replica in granite of commercial metal fountains typically found in schools, business offices and government buildings. Instead of its usual context as interior office furniture, the fountain is placed monument-like on a grass island in the center of UC San Diego's Town Square. The siting of his work is fundamental to its meaning; it is counter posed with a tall American flag and a granite marker commemorating Camp Matthews, a W...
John Baldessari: Read Write Think Dream - Stuart Collection at UC San Diego
March 28, 2022 21:00 - 2 minutes - 1.34 MBJohn Baldessari decided first to transform the main doors of UCSD’s iconic Geisel Library and then to incorporate the entire lobby space, choosing students as his subject. The existing clear glass of the doors was replaced with glass in primary colors, perhaps suggesting primary sources of information. As the doors open and close, the colored panes cross over each other, visually mixing into new colors. Above the doors the words READ, WRITE, THINK and DREAM echo the exhortation Baldessari g...
Jenny Holzer: Green Table - Stuart Collection at UC San Diego
March 25, 2022 21:00 - 2 minutes - 1.27 MBIn 1992, for the Stuart Collection, Jenny Holzer created "Green Table," a large granite picnic or refectory table and benches inscribed with texts. Holzer's table and benches monumentalize an ordinary and functional set of objects. Like all tables, Holzer's work serves as an informal gathering place for students and faculty to eat, study, or play. But the various attitudes Holzer adopts in her writings – from humorous commentary to politically charged criticism – also create a site for quest...
Stuart Collection at UC San Diego - Jenny Holzer: Green Table
March 25, 2022 21:00 - 2 minutes - 1.27 MBIn 1992, for the Stuart Collection, Jenny Holzer created "Green Table," a large granite picnic or refectory table and benches inscribed with texts. Holzer's table and benches monumentalize an ordinary and functional set of objects. Like all tables, Holzer's work serves as an informal gathering place for students and faculty to eat, study, or play. But the various attitudes Holzer adopts in her writings – from humorous commentary to politically charged criticism – also create a site for quest...
Stuart Collection at UC San Diego - Elizabeth Murray: Red Shoe
March 24, 2022 21:00 - 2 minutes - 1.38 MB"Red Shoe" has brought to life a formerly forgotten corner of campus. It is an alluring place for children to climb, its smooth exterior giving way to a roughly hull-like interior, hinting at the enclosure of a nest or fort. Narratives come to mind as fantasy evokes the resonance of childhood rhymes and tales. In the words of Robert Storr, Dean of the Yale University School of Art, "Reason presides over universities; it remains for artists to give substance to those areas of consciousness ...
Kiki Smith: Standing - Stuart Collection at UC San Diego
March 24, 2022 21:00 - 2 minutes - 1.3 MBThe female figure atop "Standing" calls forth thoughts of human strength and frailty, and both the power and the limits of medicine. Serene and ageless, she stands in a Madonna-like pose that is both vulnerable and generous. Ribbons of water - the source of life - flow from her hands into the rock-lined pond below, with a soothing sound. The skin surface of the body itself is violated to reveal the musculature and tendons of arms and calves, reflecting Kiki Smith's interest in such anatomica...
Stuart Collection at UC San Diego - Kiki Smith: Standing
March 24, 2022 21:00 - 2 minutes - 1.3 MBThe female figure atop "Standing" calls forth thoughts of human strength and frailty, and both the power and the limits of medicine. Serene and ageless, she stands in a Madonna-like pose that is both vulnerable and generous. Ribbons of water - the source of life - flow from her hands into the rock-lined pond below, with a soothing sound. The skin surface of the body itself is violated to reveal the musculature and tendons of arms and calves, reflecting Kiki Smith's interest in such anatomica...
Elizabeth Murray: Red Shoe - Stuart Collection at UC San Diego
March 24, 2022 21:00 - 2 minutes - 1.38 MB"Red Shoe" has brought to life a formerly forgotten corner of campus. It is an alluring place for children to climb, its smooth exterior giving way to a roughly hull-like interior, hinting at the enclosure of a nest or fort. Narratives come to mind as fantasy evokes the resonance of childhood rhymes and tales. In the words of Robert Storr, Dean of the Yale University School of Art, "Reason presides over universities; it remains for artists to give substance to those areas of consciousness ...
Do Ho Suh: Fallen Star - Stuart Collection at UC San Diego
March 18, 2022 21:00 - 4 minutes - 2.04 MBDo Ho Suh’s work explores the notions of home, cultural displacement, one’s perception of space and how one builds a memory of it. What is home, after all? A place? An idea? A sentiment? A memory? A small cottage has been picked up, as if by some mysterious force, and “landed” atop Jacobs Hall at UC San Diego, where it sits crookedly on one corner, cantilevered out over the ground seven stories below. A lush roof garden of vines, flowers and vegetables, frequented by birds and bees, is a smal...
Stuart Collection at UC San Diego - Do Ho Suh: Fallen Star
March 18, 2022 21:00 - 4 minutes - 2.04 MBDo Ho Suh’s work explores the notions of home, cultural displacement, one’s perception of space and how one builds a memory of it. What is home, after all? A place? An idea? A sentiment? A memory? A small cottage has been picked up, as if by some mysterious force, and “landed” atop Jacobs Hall at UC San Diego, where it sits crookedly on one corner, cantilevered out over the ground seven stories below. A lush roof garden of vines, flowers and vegetables, frequented by birds and bees, is a smal...
Stuart Collection at UC San Diego - Jackie Ferrara: Terrace
March 14, 2022 21:00 - 2 minutes - 1.24 MBJackie Ferrara designed a series of three distinct spaces at UCSD's Cellular and Molecular Medicine Facility. Each area is paved with a similar linear pattern of green, red, and black slate and surrounded by compacted gravel. Each has a unique character, but the terraces flow into one another becoming one continuous space. She has placed Australian willows and benches in lines that echo the grid of the slate and the lines of the low walls. The cloistered intimacy of the terraces, with their ...
Jackie Ferrara: Terrace - Stuart Collection at UC San Diego
March 14, 2022 21:00 - 2 minutes - 1.24 MBJackie Ferrara designed a series of three distinct spaces at UCSD's Cellular and Molecular Medicine Facility. Each area is paved with a similar linear pattern of green, red, and black slate and surrounded by compacted gravel. Each has a unique character, but the terraces flow into one another becoming one continuous space. She has placed Australian willows and benches in lines that echo the grid of the slate and the lines of the low walls. The cloistered intimacy of the terraces, with their ...
Mark Bradford: What Hath God Wrought - Stuart Collection at UC San Diego
March 11, 2022 21:00 - 2 minutes - 1.3 MBA 199-foot tall metal flag-pole-like sculpture is mounted with a flashing light which playfully spells out “What Hath God Wrought” in Morse Code. The titular phrase is notably the first message Samuel Morse tested and transmitted across 41 miles in 1844. The sculpture reflects both the origins of the university as well as the origins of present-day communications: Morse Code is at the root of our contemporary era of information exchange, where communication travels instantaneously. Morse’s go...
Stuart Collection at UC San Diego - Mark Bradford: What Hath God Wrought
March 11, 2022 21:00 - 2 minutes - 1.3 MBA 199-foot tall metal flag-pole-like sculpture is mounted with a flashing light which playfully spells out “What Hath God Wrought” in Morse Code. The titular phrase is notably the first message Samuel Morse tested and transmitted across 41 miles in 1844. The sculpture reflects both the origins of the university as well as the origins of present-day communications: Morse Code is at the root of our contemporary era of information exchange, where communication travels instantaneously. Morse’s go...
Bruce Nauman: Vices and Virtues - Stuart Collection at UC San Diego
March 07, 2022 21:00 - 2 minutes - 1.36 MBBruce Nauman's "Vices and Virtues" for the Stuart Collection at UC San Diego consists of seven pairs of words superimposed in blinking neon, which run like a frieze around the top of the Charles Lee Powell Structural Systems Laboratory. Seven vices alternate with seven virtues: FAITH/LUST, HOPE/ENVY, CHARITY/SLOTH, PRUDENCE/PRIDE, JUSTICE/AVARICE, TEMPERANCE/GLUTTONY, and FORTITUDE/ANGER. The virtues flash sequentially clockwise around the building at one rate; and the vices circulate coun...
Stuart Collection at UC San Diego - Bruce Nauman: Vices and Virtues
March 07, 2022 21:00 - 2 minutes - 1.36 MBBruce Nauman's "Vices and Virtues" for the Stuart Collection at UC San Diego consists of seven pairs of words superimposed in blinking neon, which run like a frieze around the top of the Charles Lee Powell Structural Systems Laboratory. Seven vices alternate with seven virtues: FAITH/LUST, HOPE/ENVY, CHARITY/SLOTH, PRUDENCE/PRIDE, JUSTICE/AVARICE, TEMPERANCE/GLUTTONY, and FORTITUDE/ANGER. The virtues flash sequentially clockwise around the building at one rate; and the vices circulate coun...
Terry Allen: Trees - Stuart Collection at UC San Diego
March 04, 2022 21:00 - 2 minutes - 1.33 MBTerry Allen's diverse talents and experiences are highlighted in his first outdoor project, "Trees," for the Stuart Collection. He remarks upon the continual loss of natural environment at UC San Diego by salvaging three eucalyptus trees from a grove razed to make way for new campus buildings. Two of these trees stand like ghosts within a eucalyptus grove between the Geisel Library and the Faculty Club. Although they ostensibly represent displacement or loss, these trees offer a kind of compe...
Stuart Collection at UC San Diego - Terry Allen: Trees
March 04, 2022 21:00 - 2 minutes - 1.33 MBTerry Allen's diverse talents and experiences are highlighted in his first outdoor project, "Trees," for the Stuart Collection. He remarks upon the continual loss of natural environment at UC San Diego by salvaging three eucalyptus trees from a grove razed to make way for new campus buildings. Two of these trees stand like ghosts within a eucalyptus grove between the Geisel Library and the Faculty Club. Although they ostensibly represent displacement or loss, these trees offer a kind of compe...
Stuart Collection at UC San Diego - Ian Hamilton Finlay: UNDA
March 01, 2022 21:00 - 2 minutes - 1.27 MBFinlay created a one-word poem installed at one edge of the north playing field at UC San Diego. "UNDA" consists of five stone blocks into which are carved, in various sequences, the letters U, N, D, A, and an S-like mark which is the editor's notation for "transpose these letters." The letters on each block in the sequence carry out the transpositions indicated by this curved mark so that regardless of the order of the letters, each block ultimately spells out UNDA. In the course of the mult...
Ian Hamilton Finlay: UNDA - Stuart Collection at UC San Diego
March 01, 2022 21:00 - 2 minutes - 1.27 MBFinlay created a one-word poem installed at one edge of the north playing field at UC San Diego. "UNDA" consists of five stone blocks into which are carved, in various sequences, the letters U, N, D, A, and an S-like mark which is the editor's notation for "transpose these letters." The letters on each block in the sequence carry out the transpositions indicated by this curved mark so that regardless of the order of the letters, each block ultimately spells out UNDA. In the course of the mult...
Barbara Kruger: Another - Stuart Collection at UC San Diego
February 25, 2022 21:00 - 2 minutes - 1.29 MB"Another" is in the vast atrium of the UC San Diego Price Center East. The large interior wall bears a massive double image of clocks which is punctuated by terrazzo-like areas that contain phrases. Two LED displays show live current news, adding another level of interest, as well as meaning, and suggesting how our lives are, to some degree, culturally inflected, constructed and contained. This combination of graphic image and moving text creates a space which functions on both a pictor...
Stuart Collection at UC San Diego - Alexis Smith: Snake Path
February 25, 2022 21:00 - 2 minutes - 1.34 MBSnake Path consists of a winding 560-foot-long, 10-foot-wide footpath in the form of a serpent, whose individual scales are hexagonal pieces of colored slate, and whose head is inlaid in the approach to UC San Diego's Geisel Library. The tail wraps around an existing concrete pathway as a snake would wrap itself around a tree limb. Along the way, the serpent's slightly crowned body circles around a small "garden of Eden" with several fruit trees including an apple, a fig and a pomegranate. T...
Alexis Smith: Snake Path - Stuart Collection at UC San Diego
February 25, 2022 21:00 - 2 minutes - 1.34 MBSnake Path consists of a winding 560-foot-long, 10-foot-wide footpath in the form of a serpent, whose individual scales are hexagonal pieces of colored slate, and whose head is inlaid in the approach to UC San Diego's Geisel Library. The tail wraps around an existing concrete pathway as a snake would wrap itself around a tree limb. Along the way, the serpent's slightly crowned body circles around a small "garden of Eden" with several fruit trees including an apple, a fig and a pomegranate. Th...
Stuart Collection at UC San Diego - Barbara Kruger: Another
February 25, 2022 21:00 - 2 minutes - 1.29 MB"Another" is in the vast atrium of the UC San Diego Price Center East. The large interior wall bears a massive double image of clocks which is punctuated by terrazzo-like areas that contain phrases. Two LED displays show live current news, adding another level of interest, as well as meaning, and suggesting how our lives are, to some degree, culturally inflected, constructed and contained. This combination of graphic image and moving text creates a space which functions on both a pictor...
Stuart Collection at UC San Diego - William Wegman: La Jolla Vista View
February 21, 2022 21:00 - 2 minutes - 1.36 MBFor the Stuart Collection at UC San Diego, William Wegman created his first major outdoor permanent sculpture: he installed a scenic - or nonscenic - overlook at one edge of the campus, near the location of the university's theater and dance complex. The site commands a view not of the Pacific Ocean, but of La Jolla's suburban sprawl. Wegman's overlook makes a simple cartoon-like connection between Southern California's still-picturesque natural scenery and its booming economic growth/develo...
William Wegman: La Jolla Vista View - Stuart Collection at UC San Diego
February 21, 2022 21:00 - 2 minutes - 1.36 MBFor the Stuart Collection at UC San Diego, William Wegman created his first major outdoor permanent sculpture: he installed a scenic - or nonscenic - overlook at one edge of the campus, near the location of the university's theater and dance complex. The site commands a view not of the Pacific Ocean, but of La Jolla's suburban sprawl. Wegman's overlook makes a simple cartoon-like connection between Southern California's still-picturesque natural scenery and its booming economic growth/develo...
Stuart Collection at UC San Diego - Tim Hawkinson: Bear
February 17, 2022 21:00 - 2 minutes - 1.07 MBA bear constructed of boulders. Eight granite stones, together they make a bear 23.5 feet high with a total weight of 180 tons. Bear pushes the bounds of credibility. Questions arise. Where did they find these rocks? How did they get them here? Are they real? How are they held together? On one hand, the sculpture is massive, permanent, thoroughly engineered. At the same time, it has a form (a toy bear) that one knows to be soft and cozy - a form that one associates with childhood, play, and s...
Tim Hawkinson: Bear - Stuart Collection at UC San Diego
February 17, 2022 21:00 - 2 minutes - 1.07 MBA bear constructed of boulders. Eight granite stones, together they make a bear 23.5 feet high with a total weight of 180 tons. Bear pushes the bounds of credibility. Questions arise. Where did they find these rocks? How did they get them here? Are they real? How are they held together? On one hand, the sculpture is massive, permanent, thoroughly engineered. At the same time, it has a form (a toy bear) that one knows to be soft and cozy - a form that one associates with childhood, play, and s...
Robert Irwin: Two Running Violet V Forms - Stuart Collection at UC San Diego
February 11, 2022 21:00 - 3 minutes - 1.41 MBFor the Stuart Collection, "Two Running Violet V Forms," Robert Irwin was drawn to the eucalyptus groves so characteristic of the UC San Diego campus. Irwin installed two fencelike structures in V-forms amidst the trees. The "fences" are blue-violet, plastic-coated, small gauge chain-link fencing supported by stainless steel poles that average twenty-five feet in height. At no point is the fence an obstacle; rather it acts as a screen reflecting the changes in light throughout the day and t...
Stuart Collection at UC San Diego - Robert Irwin: Two Running Violet V Forms
February 11, 2022 21:00 - 3 minutes - 1.41 MBFor the Stuart Collection, "Two Running Violet V Forms," Robert Irwin was drawn to the eucalyptus groves so characteristic of the UC San Diego campus. Irwin installed two fencelike structures in V-forms amidst the trees. The "fences" are blue-violet, plastic-coated, small gauge chain-link fencing supported by stainless steel poles that average twenty-five feet in height. At no point is the fence an obstacle; rather it acts as a screen reflecting the changes in light throughout the day and t...
Same Old Paradise by Alexis Smith - Stuart Collection at UC San Diego
February 09, 2022 21:00 - 2 minutes - 1.36 MBSame Old Paradise, a mural painted by Alexis Smith, was commissioned by Brooklyn Museum in 1987 as a temporary installation and then remained rolled-up for thirty years. Alexis worked with Lucia Vinograd to develop the five-point perspective of the orange grove and the colors in the scales of the snake that turned into a paved road. Alexis loved to drive, and when you drive and look out the window you are experiencing something akin to her work—an ongoing visual collage. You see one thing aft...
Stuart Collection at UC San Diego - Same Old Paradise by Alexis Smith
February 09, 2022 21:00 - 2 minutes - 1.36 MBSame Old Paradise, a mural painted by Alexis Smith, was commissioned by Brooklyn Museum in 1987 as a temporary installation and then remained rolled-up for thirty years. Alexis worked with Lucia Vinograd to develop the five-point perspective of the orange grove and the colors in the scales of the snake that turned into a paved road. Alexis loved to drive, and when you drive and look out the window you are experiencing something akin to her work—an ongoing visual collage. You see one thing aft...
Stuart Collection at UC San Diego - Nam June Paik: Something Pacific
February 05, 2022 21:00 - 2 minutes - 1.3 MBNam June Paik's "Something Pacific" at UC San Diego relates specifically to its site, which includes outdoors, where the work features several ruined televisions embedded in the landscape. In striking contrast to this video graveyard, the lobby of the UCSD Media Center houses Paik's lively interactive bank of TV monitors. Viewers are able to manipulate sequences of Paik's own tapes and broadcast TV. "Something Pacific's" outdoor and indoor sections use the video medium to contrast two very di...
Nam June Paik: Something Pacific - Stuart Collection at UC San Diego
February 05, 2022 21:00 - 2 minutes - 1.3 MBNam June Paik's "Something Pacific" at UC San Diego relates specifically to its site, which includes outdoors, where the work features several ruined televisions embedded in the landscape. In striking contrast to this video graveyard, the lobby of the UCSD Media Center houses Paik's lively interactive bank of TV monitors. Viewers are able to manipulate sequences of Paik's own tapes and broadcast TV. "Something Pacific's" outdoor and indoor sections use the video medium to contrast two very di...
Niki de Saint Phalle: Sun God - Stuart Collection at UC San Diego
February 01, 2022 21:00 - 2 minutes - 1.35 MBNiki de Saint Phalle (1930-2002) is best known for her oversized figures that embrace contradictory qualities such as good and evil, modern and primitive, sacred and profane, play and terror. De Saint Phalle's "Sun God" was the first work commissioned by the Stuart Collection and was her first outdoor commission in America. Sun God has become a landmark on the UC San Diego campus, with the annual springtime Sun God Festival as the largest event sponsored by the UCSD Associated Students. The...
Stuart Collection at UC San Diego - Niki de Saint Phalle: Sun God
February 01, 2022 21:00 - 2 minutes - 1.35 MBNiki de Saint Phalle (1930-2002) is best known for her oversized figures that embrace contradictory qualities such as good and evil, modern and primitive, sacred and profane, play and terror. De Saint Phalle's "Sun God" was the first work commissioned by the Stuart Collection and was her first outdoor commission in America. Sun God has become a landmark on the UC San Diego campus, with the annual springtime Sun God Festival as the largest event sponsored by the UCSD Associated Students. The...
Stuart Collection at UC San Diego - Niki de Saint Phalle: Sun God
February 01, 2022 21:00 - 2 minutes - 1.35 MBNiki de Saint Phalle (1930-2002) is best known for her oversized figures that embrace contradictory qualities such as good and evil, modern and primitive, sacred and profane, play and terror. De Saint Phalle's "Sun God" was the first work commissioned by the Stuart Collection and was her first outdoor commission in America. Sun God has become a landmark on the UC San Diego campus, with the annual springtime Sun God Festival as the largest event sponsored by the UCSD Associated Students. The...
John Luther Adams: Wind Garden - Stuart Collection at UC San Diego
January 31, 2022 21:00 - 2 minutes - 1.33 MBFor the Stuart Collection at the UC San Diego, Adams created a musical composition with and within the signature landscape of the campus: the eucalyptus grove. There are no pre-recorded elements, everything that occurs in "The Wind Garden" is driven by the wind and the light conditions on the site, in real time. This work never repeats itself. Hidden in the trees are 32 small loudspeakers and 32 accelerometers that measure the movements of the trees in the wind. As the velocity of the wind c...