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CCA Wattis Presents: Moby-Dick
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Wednesday Sep 30, 2009 (5–6pm)
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Small Talks connect the artistic practices and research concerns of CCA faculty with the themes of the exhibition and the novel Moby-Dick.
About the Exhibition: Moby-Dick
An eclectic group of 32 international artists, including Damián Ortega, Angela Bulloch, Paulina Olowska, and Richard Serra, working across multiple media, from sculpture to film, video, drawing, and photography, present works related to Herman Melville’s epic novel.
More than half of the participating artists have created new works specifically for this show in response to the novel's wide-ranging and evocative themes. The exhibition will also feature numerous historical artifacts and documents.
Moby-Dick is the second show in a trilogy of Wattis Institute exhibitions that are based on canonical American novels. All three have major themes related to exploration and (self-)discovery, and the corresponding exhibitions function as metaphorical journeys through which the audience experiences various notions of America’s reality, both contemporary and historic.
