- Title: Opening Reception for Art Exhibition - 'In-Running, Out-Flowing Web,' mixed-media installation
- Host Department:
Institute for the Humanities
- Date: 03/02/2004 - 03/02/2004
- Time: 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
- Location: Osterman Common Room, 0520 Rackham Building, 915 E. Washington, Ann Arbor
- Contact Information: Nicola Kiver
734 936 3518
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- Description: Jim Cogswell, Art + Design
- Detailed Information: Jim Cogswell revisits the collaborative work, The Ariel Web. First developed in 1999, this “creative conversation” among University of Michigan faculty Cogswell, Mead, Sparling, Bookstein, and Tillinghast began in the art studio, as a response to Jim Cogswell’s sculptures and was later presented as a notable film and a live production of the same name, culiminating in a dance/mixed media performance at the Power Center for the Performing Arts, Ann Arbor, Michigan in June of 2000.
The current exhibit re-enters the “Web,” chronicling this collaborative journey. The overview charts the sheer expansiveness of the project, further accentuated by the passage of time. Cogswell’s sculptures, made from wax and sticks, wire and found objects, appear almost biomporphic, like specimens at a natural history museum. Digital graphing of Sparling’s dance movements grid the wall like a map of another world, and Tillinghast’s lyrical words read like fragments from a lost civilization. This last stop for reflection documents a process, and excavates the boundless energy that is human—the need to create, to make marks, to announce one’s self, and inevitably to connect and participate in our ongoing collective conversation.
