| DOCA Does Denver - DNC Style |
| Written by Ken Hamel | |
| Monday, 11 August 2008 | |
 Minsuk Cho's Air Forest The Denver Office of Cultural Affairs recently announced a slate of events for the Democratic National Convention later this month as part of a program branded "Dialog:City." Curatorial and educational outreach duties are being handled by ex-MCA/Denver staffers Seth Goldenberg and Liz Newton and they have put together a program that dwarfs last year's Denver Arts Week; just goes to show what a $370k budget can do for an event. I guess the Mayor's office is getting some much needed practice for Denver's Biennial of the Americas scheduled for summer 2010. - KLH Dialog:City events are scheduled from Thursday August 20th to Friday the 29th and highlights include (cut and paste from the dialogcity.org website): Terra Nova: The Antarctica Suite Opening Performance Ellie Caulkins Opera House Aug. 24, 7pm Terra Nova: The Antarctica Suite by DJ Spooky, aka Paul Miller. Multimedia performance work will be an acoustic portrait of a rapidly changing continent. The Antarctic Suite transforms Miller's first person encounter with the harsh, dynamic landscape into multimedia portraits with music composed from the different geographies that make up the land mass. Miller's field recordings from a portable studio, set up to capture the acoustic qualities of Antarctic ice forms, reflect a changing and even vanishing environment under duress. Coupled with visual material from Getty Images' vast collection, The Antarctic Suite is a seventy minute performance, creating a unique and powerful moment around man's relationship with nature. [No word on the website as to how one obtains tickets, but safe to assume it's sold out to the hoi polloi.] Air Forest at City Park, Aug. 26-29, 10am-6pm Minsuk Cho's temporary architectural pavilion. This one-of-a-kind architectural piece is designed as a pneumatic hot air balloon-like structure that levitates by the compression of air. Located in City Park, behind the Denver Museum of Nature & Science [with the picture postcard view of Downtown Denver in the background, this should make for the ultimate Dialog:City photo op.] "O", Opening Performance on the 16th Street Mall, Aug. 25, 10am-2pm Ann Hamilton launches her collaborative work with Denver-based choirs, choreographers, and composers celebrating the historic moment through movements along 16th Street in Downtown Denver. This newly composed song is drawn from the phrases, pace, and spirit of Ralph Waldo Emerson writings imagining the new American voice. Live Denver choirs and pre-recording sound will lead this unique movement through several stages in downtown. [Note to Ann: watch out for the Mall Shuttle, those buses go fast.] The full program of events is online at http://dialogcity.org.
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