
LAKEPORT, Calif. – On Thursday, March 21, at 7 p.m. the Soper Reese Theatre will screen the third in a four-part series chosen from the award winning “Art In the Twenty-First Century” – or “Art21” – program produced by PBS.
Viewers will travel the world to meet the leading creative visual artists of our time who draw upon their relationships with the locations and people where they live and work.
The March show visits Berlin, a city still in the midst of a post–Cold War cultural and economic rebirth, a free zone where experimentation, individual expression, and international influences converge.
From creating large-scale public projects to intimately personal ones, the artists in this episode demonstrate the diversity of the German capital, expose its complicated history of war and migration, and convey hopes for finding systems that foster a better tomorrow.
Featured artists are Olafur Eliasson, who uses simple elements – light, color, water and movement – to alter viewers’ sensory perceptions; Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg, who create absurd and bawdy clay-animation films and installations; Susan Philipsz, whose work explores the psychological and sculptural dimensions of sound; and Hiwa K, who uses video to tell stories of our ongoing global crises: war, migration, and the effects of neoliberalism and colonialism.
The series is sponsored by Michael Adams and by an anonymous donor. Donations gratefully accepted at the door.
The Soper Reese Theatre is located at 275 S. Main St., Lakeport.
For more information visit www.soperreesetheatre.com or call 707-263-0577.