Event Listing - Theater, Museums, Literary Arts
Thu Sep 18 - Sun Feb 8

Bending the Word: Martha Colburn, Patricia Esquivias, Olivia Plender, Tris Vonna-Michell

Performance by Tris Vonna-Michell


Tel. 510.643.4547
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Location
Date and Time
UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
2626 Bancroft Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 map
cross street: between Bowditch and College
district: Berkeley

Thu Sep 18 (11am-5pm)
Fri Sep 19 (11am-5pm)
Sat Sep 20 (11am-5pm)
Sun Sep 21 (11am-5pm)
Wed Sep 24 (11am-5pm)

Description
Each story told is an act of shaping the world. Bending the Word brings together four artists who employ a range of media—including video, live performance, installation, drawing, and small-scale publications—to actively reinterpret larger shared narratives, ranging from ancient fables and religious texts to official histories and current events.

Tris Vonna-Michell’s performances capitalize on the energy of a live situation to shape each telling and retelling of a narrative. hahn/huhn, evolving since 2004, is delivered rapidly and densely, with slides, photographs, and props, to weave intricate fusions and confusions of identity in the biographies of three individuals in postwar Germany: Reinhold Hahn; Reinhold Huhn; and Otto Hahn.