William Kentridge: Listening to the Image -- Neubauer Collegium Inaugural Lecture at the UChicago

South African artist William Kentridge delivered the inaugural lecture of the Nuebauer Family Collegium for Culture and Society to a full house at Mandel Hall on October 3, 2013. The lecture was a fitting tribute to the collaborative, interdisciplinary work of the Neubauer Collegium at the University of Chicago.
Mr. Kentridge spoke on the practice and theory of making meaning in the studio, through an exploration of the relationship of sound and image. The lecture focused on a current project, Schubert's song cycle, "Winterreise", for which he is making films to be performed at the Vienna Festival next year.
Mr. Kentridge was joined by The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center music director and pianist Craig Terry and tenor John Irvin.
Opening Remarks were given by President Robert J. Zimmer and David Nirenberg, Roman Family Director of the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society.
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[@emre28oz79]

I really like the films, it's almost like giving a confronting therapy to our collective human mind, saying we are part of this material universe but we are not it. Great work, speech, many thanks to the artist for all humans beings.

[@natolinas]

"the idea of the screen as a membrane. as an emblematic membrane of something halfway between the world and us"

[@petranochka]

He is brilliant.

[@albertoballocca]

Act 4, disarmed Kendridge enlights minds 🙏🏻

[@JoeWillardR]

13:37

[@JoeWillardR]

46:20

[@Icreatemore]

Wonderful...thank you for sharing. William Kentridge is assessable, whereas John Gage wasn't.

[@savoirgai]

Kentridge is a truly wonderful artist but this is middlebrow culture at its most emotionally and philosophically reductive, there is pretty well no known attempt at setting this music to images that does not inevitably end up with a cheap remake of Disney's Fantasia.