Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum
600 South Gregory
Urbana
Introduction by special guest Hearty White
Inspired by a 1941 Jorge Luis Borges short story, The Library of Babel (2024) explores themes related to the complex interplay of infinity, knowledge, and the cosmic fabric, presented through the metaphor of a vast, seemingly infinite library. In the story, the librarians are isolated, focused on an almost religious or existential…
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600 South Gregory
Urbana
GAM Visiting Artist Monique Mojica (Guna and Rappahannock) and University of Illinois Professor of Anthropology Brenda Farnell’s recent book, Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way: Mapping Indigenous Embodied Performance (2023) chronicles a story of collaborative embodied exploration, land, and archival research mobilized to serve an Indigenous dramaturgy. What emerges is an…
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