Aya Saleh’s father gave her a play to read when she was 13 years old. Now, Saleh is directing the same piece as her senior thesis within the theater department. Read more...
Photo: Graduate student Aya Saleh will direct “Scorched” for her senior thesis, a play she first read when she was 13. The story follows twin siblings, Janine and Simon, who travel from Canada to Lebanon to find their father and brother. (Courtesy of Aya Saleh)
Curators usually chide visitors for touching an artistic installation. But in “An Unreal Unity,” interaction is key. The ongoing exhibition featuring work from graduating design media arts students will be displayed in the New Wight Gallery in Broad Art Center through Thursday. Read more...
Photo: Graduate student Sam Congdon featured male performers and plaster objects as part of the opening showing of “An Unreal Unity.” His project, part of the design media arts exhibition, is titled “Buddy Party (Propositional Un-memberment for a Brighter Future).” (Kanishka Mehra/Daily Bruin)
Pinar Yoldas challenged her gallery attendees to an interactive yoga session in a dark, hot room. The necessary heat radiated from a glowing red sign reading “GLOBAL WARMING.” Alumna and artist Yoldas discussed her 2016 installation, “Global Warming Hot Yoga Studio,” in UCLA’s Counterforce Now lecture series Thursday entitled, “Causality is Broken: Can We Fix It With Art and Design?” Her installations use sensory experiences to highlight the relationship between everyday behavior and environmental harm, she said. Read more...
Photo: In alumna and artist Pinar Yoldas’ 2016 installation “Global Warming Hot Yoga Studio,” attendees were challenged to do yoga while the words “GLOBAL WARMING” radiated heat into the room. She said her art helps connect the cause-and-effect relationships between actions and climate change. (Courtesy of Pinar Yoldas)
This post was updated on May 23 at 12:59 p.m. Over two thousand childbirth photographs covered the walls of New York’s Museum of Modern Art in 2018. Read more...
Photo: To avoid misconceptions surrounding childbirth, Carmen Winant said she used intimate photos of women at various points in the birthing process in her collage work “My Birth.” Winant said she wanted to convey the women’s shocking yet beautiful emotions through the her installation. (Courtesy of Luke Stettner)
Sometimes, a multimillionaire satanist magician can be the answer to one’s prayers. The concept might not be realistic, but Jeffrey Limoncelli used it as a means to explore past sins and revenge. Read more...
Photo: Theater students Oscar Revelins and Frank Demma play a cold caller and a satanic magician whose fates become intertwined in “The Answer to Your Prayers,” an upcoming play. (Sim Beauchamp/Daily Bruin)
This post was updated on May 23 at 1:31 p.m. Art, the universal language, can transcend space and time to reach a diverse audience. We hear this all the time, but do we truly feel the weight of these words? Read more...
Photo: Ina Conradi, an Art|Sci Center resident and associate professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, created “Elysian Fields,” a short digital media film meant to honor her late father for his military service. The film features fighter planes and a depiction of the afterlife. (Courtesy of Ina Conradi)
Gods and goddesses will rule over destruction and chaos from campus this week. An event titled “An Evening of Devised Works,” running Thursday through Saturday in Melnitz Hall, will catalogue their actions. Read more...
Photo: Graduate students of acting, directing and playwriting will present “A Creation Myth,” a play that will run Thursday through Saturday and focuses on a group of gods who rule over order and chaos in the human world. (Lauren Man/Daily Bruin)
