FEVERISH WORLD 2018-2068:
Arts and Sciences of Collective Survival
October 20-22
Free and Open in and around Burlington and UVM
www.feverishworld.org
Explore strategies for flourishing in a world growing more and more "feverish"by the day.
3 full days of symposium and festival events featuring over 50 artists and scholars working in visual and media arts, technology and design, cultural history, music and dance, theatre and performance, and other fields.
Some Highlights:
Minimal Monument, a melting ice sculpture by Brazilian sculptor Nele Azevedo, will be placed by community members and passersby Burlington's City Hall Park on Saturday at 2pm. This iconic piece has been made in 22 cities around the world. Burlington is the first site for the work in the U.S. in part because of leadership as the first U.S. city to be powered entirely by renewable resources, and working toward net-zero energy.
A riddle-solving urban wilderness walk with site-specific performances by Pauline Jennings. Her exhibition Becoming Human is currently at the BCA.
Sunset ceremony and parade. A procession of the arts leading to the ceremony. Performances by Paula Higa and dancers, pastoral chorography by Nancy Winship Milliken. David Neiweem's church bell compositions will be heard at various churches and times over three feverish days, including during the parade and sunset ceremony. The sunset ceremony will feature members of the Missisquoi Abenaki Nation.
A "Tent City" of artist made structures on UVM's campus by regional and global artists, providing places of contemplation. The deep history of western Ndakinna (aka Vermont) from Abenaki historian and archaeologist Frederick Wiseman. Truth Tango on Sunday evening led by artist-engineer and eco-agent-provocateur Natalie Jeremijenko.
Workshops on deep listening and public engagement in a feverish world by theatre and musical artists Thom Sokoloski, Jenny Anne McCowan, and Anne Bourne.
Lectures and Roundtables: "Fever Dreams: Nature, Art, Music" and "Complexity, Mutualism, and Ecopolitics" featuring clarinetist, and 'interspecies musician' David Rothenberg, eco-artist and critic Linda Weintraub, Vermont poet laureate Chard deNiord, digital artist Jonathan Harris, eco-artist Aviva Rahmani, cetacean ecologist Laura May-Collado, data visualization artist Jane Adams, many other great thinkers and doers, and much more.
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