SYMPOSIUM: Memento Mori: 2014 Manning Clark House Day of Ideas
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Often translated from the Latin as ‘remember you must die’ or ‘remember your mortality’, memento mori serves as a symbolic representation of the inevitability of death. The term ‘memento mori’ first entered English in Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1 (1598) and was immediately accepted into common usage through visual representation. In contemporary society the concept of memento mori has taken on different aspects of representation, including digital.
The 2014 Day of Ideas will provide talks and discussion on the ephemeral nature of life. The symposium will finish with a private viewing including the Allegoria Sacra video installation by the Russian Collective AES+F, a talk by Nick Mitzevich, Art Gallery of South Australia, and the official opening of the Memento Mori exhibition at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.
Memento Mori Exhibition | 18 October - 13 December 2014 | Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery UWA.
Memento Mori are artworks that prompt us to ponder on the emptiness and transience of earthly pleasures and reassess our moral progress as we move toward the certainty of death. The extraordinary video work Allegoria Sacra by the Russian collective AES+F is an evocation of Purgatory as an international airport and together with selected works from UWA's art collection, the Cruthers Collection of Women’s art and commissioned works by contemporary Western Australian artists the exhibition exhorts viewers to contemplate their own mortality.
Artistry! Innovation | 18 October 2014, 7.30pm | Winthrop Hall UWA.
This concert will feature the late Australian composer Peter Schulthorpe's monumental work 'Memento Mori' and the world premiere of 'Lament', his specially commissioned piece for the UWA School of Music, made possible by a gift from a generous donor.
Fees: Symposium - $75
(**Attendees can purchase tickets for the Artistry Innovation Concert at a discounted price of $15**)
Visit http://www.ias.uwa.edu.au/conf/doi14 to find out more and to register.
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