3:15pm, Jan. 23: Solveig Nelson, “‘We March with Selma!’ Ken Dewey’s Selma Last Year (1966), the Happening, and the emergence of video as art”

Please join the Contemporary Art Workshop and Theater and Performance Workshop next Monday for a special joint event: Solveig Nelson (Graduate Student in Art History, University of Chicago) who will present her talk, “‘We march with Selma!’: Ken Dewey’s Selma Last Year (1966), the Happening, and the emergence of video as art.” Nelson’s talk explores the interplay between artist Ken Dewey’s sight and sound visual happening portrait, Selma’s Last Year, and the aesthetic strategies of the Selma movement for voting rights. Kenneth Sawyer Goodman Dewey (1934-1972) was a ‘happening’ or ‘intermedia’ artist with a background in theater who worked primarily in Scandanavia before returning to the U.S. in the mid-1960s. There is no pre-circulated paper.

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