The Culture of the Structure

FILMS ON ART

The Culture of the Structure

Director: Konstantia Kontaxis Anna Valentina Murch,
artist, in person THE CULTURE OF THE STRUCTURE documents the design and installation of public art projects at the Carnival Center for the Performing Arts in Miami. Architect Cesar Pelli provides the structure. As we witness its construction, we see the Center as a stage for five remarkable artists, whose work adorns both its exterior and interior. Outside the Center, Gary Moore's "Pharaoh's Dance" becomes a stage upon which Miami's citizens can recreate themselves. Inside, concertgoers feel the anticipation of performance in Cundo Bermudez's mural "Ways of Performing" as they walk along José Bedia's terrazzo lobby floor design towards the magnificent "Peacock Curtain" by Robert Rahway Zakanitch. Meanwhile, Anna Valentina Murch's inviting Exterior Plaza Installation, entitled "Water Scores," with its wave-patterned ramps and semi-circular benches, beguiles even the most casual of passersby. (2007, 48 min., in English and Spanish with English subtitles.)
Showing: May 19, 1:30pm, MTC