Cambridge Science Festival – Guided Tour of Public Artworks by Julian Charrière
Date: Friday, September 27, 2024 Time: 5:30 - 6:30pm Location: Building 55 Atrium | Tina and Hamid Moghadam Building | MIT Campus, Cambridge, MAJoin the List Visual Arts Center and MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) for a walkthrough of the permanent artwork by conceptual artist Julian Charrière entitled Everything Was Forever Until It Was No More.
This guided tour features artworks hidden in plain sight or viewed on occasion as one of the newest public installations in MIT’s Percent-for-Art Program. Known for exploring themes of transformation, the natural world, deep time, and the environment, Charrière’s commission comprises of three interrelated works in dialogue with the newly completed Tina and Hamid Moghadam Building. Designed by AW-ARCH, the glassed-in atrium of the Moghadam Building connects with and enhances the iconic I.M. Pei-designed Cecil and Ida Green Building, creating a new gateway and headquarters for EAPS, the Environmental Solutions Initiative, and the MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography and Engineering. Alongside the three permanent artworks, Charrière’s related film Towards No Earthly Pole will be screened on the atrium’s media wall.
The Percent-for-Art Program, administered by the List Visual Arts Center, allocates up to $500,000 to commission art for each major renovation or campus construction project.
This program is free, but registration is required.
About the Organizer
The List Visual Arts Center is a creative laboratory that provides artists with a space to freely experiment and push existing boundaries.
As the contemporary art museum at MIT, the List Center has three gallery spaces where curators present a dynamic program of six to nine contemporary exhibitions annually. Typically, the List Center offers an artist their first museum solo presentation. Exhibitions are accompanied by a broad range of educational programs for the public and the MIT community, special events, and scholarly publications.
The galleries and all programs are free and open to the public.
Beyond exhibitions and programs, the List Center also maintains MIT’s permanent art collection which includes the Institute’s Public Art Collection, the Student Lending Art Collection, and the Campus Loan Art Collection.