Bringing culture outdoors
The idea of “The City as Canvas” is to bring art — what one might experience behind the doors of museums and cultural institutions — into public spaces. On Friday, Loeb Fellow Helen Marriage led a conversation on that topic as part of the series “The Power of Cultural Disruption” at the Graduate School of Design. Jim Lasko, a Loeb Fellow and co-artistic director of Chicago’s Redmoon Theater Company, and Elizabeth Streb, a prominent choreographer, joined Marriage in the discussion. Lasko said that his commitment to public space and the “narrow band of the public” who actually experience art in traditional venues have driven his work into everything from Chicago’s most crime-infested neighborhoods to the plaza and façade of the Museum of Contemporary Art. Lasko said his work focuses on “incorporating the many into the experience of what art is” as “a mechanism for illuminating humanity in a public space.” “Public space symbolizes how...