The questions run the gamut from mundane to poetic. Children, teens and adults from across the state, as well as visitors to the Town Center at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, “answer” a 25-question survey using 2”x4” LEGO ® blocks of various colors from a standard LEGO set that will become an installation. “What Color is _?” takes place during the 2018 Wisconsin Science Festival. “What Color is _?” – Hands-on activities and window installation Guest artists Marcia Miquelon and Jacob Mills speak about their lives as performers, educators and founders of the Wild Rumpus Circus. Margaret H’Doubler Performance Space, Lathrop Hall
5 | 3:30 p.m.ĭance Department Friday Forum with Marcia Miquelon and Jacob Mills Flack was one of the contributing collaborators and will be at the post-performance talkback sessions. The Wisconsin Union Theater welcomes The Seldoms, a Chicago-based dance and theater company, as they perform “ RockCitizen” –an immersive sonic, visual and kinetic environment that recalls counter cultural spaces of the 1960s and connects them to a larger history of people pursuing breakthroughs and transformations in their lives and worlds. Informal lunch hour talk with Stuart Flack and guest artist Adrian Danzig about 500 Clown, a Chicago-based physical theater company, and Danzig’s career as a performer. Wisconsin School of Business, Room 3190 Grainger Hall 13 | noon-1 p.m.īolz Center Lunch & Learn: The Serious Business of Clowning Around: Work and the Creative Process
Public Events | go./flackĪll the events are free and take place in Madison, Wisconsin unless noted otherwise. Guest artists Adrian Danzig, Founder and Creative Director of the Chicago-based 500 Clown, and Marcia Miquelon and Jacob Mills, co-founders of the Wild Rumpus Circus in Mazomanie, Wisconsin, will lead workshops in physical theater and performance as part of the residency course. Angela Richardson, Aesthetics and Business Project Coordinator at the Bolz Center for Arts Administration, serves as residency lead.ĭuring his residency at UW–Madison, Flack will teach “Performing Information Exploring Data through Live Performance” where students will engage in analysis of data and information techniques along with workshops to apply and test their thinking. Faculty and staff from the Bolz Center for Arts Administration along with Associate Professor Kevin Ponto of the Design Studies Department will support Flack’s residency.
The UW–Madison Division of the Art’s Interdisciplinary Arts Residency Program brings innovative artists to campus to teach semester-long, interdepartmental courses and to publicly present their work for campus and community audiences. Flack’s longer biography and photo is further below. From 1990–2007, he was a partner at the global consulting firm of McKinsey & Company.
He is also developing a performance piece with the Invisible Institute, a Chicago-based community action group which monitors and disseminates data on police misconduct.Īs a producer, he ran the Chicago Humanities Festival, the largest festival of arts and ideas in the United States from 2007 through 2012.
Flack is currently a Senior Fellow at the Environmental Law & Policy Center where he is leading The Community-Based Environmental Monitoring and Public Health Advocacy Project. Flack’s award-winning work includes productions at many of the leading theaters in the United States. The University of Wisconsin–Madison Division of the Arts (presenter – and formerly the Arts Institute) and the Wisconsin School of Business Bolz Center for Arts Administration welcome playwright, producer and social entrepreneur Stuart Flack as the fall 2018 Interdisciplinary Artist in Residence.