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The inaugural Symposium C6 explored how the forces of globalism are challenging traditional cultural hierarchies, redistributing capital, creating powerful collaborations, and generating new hybrid cultural practices. It took place April 26-28, 2007 at the Pritzker Pavilion designed by Frank Gehry in Chicago’s Millennium Park and was produced by Merchandise Mart Properties, Inc.
C6 featured keynotes, presentations, panel discussions, and performances by an international group of innovative and socially engaged artists, entrepreneurs, technologists, writers, designers, curators, patrons, and collectors. Topics discussed during the three-day conference included Green World: Art for a Sustainable Ecological Consciousness; New Capital(s): Hegemony and Resistance in the Global Cultural Economy; and No Borders Here? Cultural Hybrids, Nomads and Refugees.
Conference highlights included a keynote by Peter Sellars, world-renowned theatre director and professor of World Arts and Culture at U.C.L.A.; a private screening of Lynn Hershman Leeson’s film Strange Culture; and a special closing presentation by award-winning playwright, actress and MacArthur Foundation fellow Anna Deavere Smith.
video: Excerpt from Peter Sellars’ keynote address.