Minimum Monument: Art as Emergency
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Brazilian artist Néle Azevedo brings her internationally known “Minimum Monument” event to Middlebury. With help from students, faculty, staff and members of the Middlebury community, she will install 300+ ice sculptures (little men and women) outside Davis Library. And then we will leave them to melt… or will we? A visual metaphor for climate change, Azevedo’s work challenges the traditional meaning of the public monument: “in the place of the hero, the anonym; in the place of the solidity of the stone, the ephemeral process of the ice.” A community event not to be missed.
Location: Steps outside Davis Family Library.
Sponsored by Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs; Studio Art; Spanish and Portuguese; Environmental Studies; Franklin Environmental Center; Office of the Vice-President for Academic Affairs; and the Mahaney Center for the Arts
- Sponsored by:
- Mahaney Arts Center; Studio Art; Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs; Environmental Studies; Spanish Department; Academic Affairs; Portuguese
Contact Organizer
Medeiros, Claudio
cmedeiro@middlebury.edu
802.443.2358