{"id":33311,"date":"2024-03-27T10:52:21","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T14:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/?p=33311"},"modified":"2024-04-04T13:44:09","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T17:44:09","slug":"freedom-expression-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/freedom-expression-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Peek Inside the Galleries at AAP’s Freedom of Expression Show"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The exhibition of works by students, faculty, alumni, and others is a highlight of the University’s 2023\u201324 theme year<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Beth Saulnier<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A wooden “mobile library” showcasing banned books. A brightly hued fabric installation that evokes the Latinx experience, on the Hill and beyond. A piece of silent performance art comprising live writing on a blank white canvas by its two creators. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

These and many other thought-provoking works have been on display in the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning’s galleries during the month of March for the Cornell Council for the Arts’ Freedom of Expression Exhibition<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Viewers take in Reflexiones<\/em> by architecture student Osiel Aldaba \u201926. (Jason Koski \/ Cornell University)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Mounted in various galleries in AAP, the show is among the major events of the University’s first-ever theme year: “The Indispensable Condition: Freedom of Expression at Cornell<\/a>.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Other events have included a fashion exhibit<\/a> in Human Ecology and a performance of the opera Scalia \/ Ginsburg<\/em>\u2014inspired by the friendship, despite stark ideological differences, between Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg \u201954. Currently underway: a competition to create a theme-year ice cream<\/a> flavor!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tim Green \u201924 (left) and Milan Taylor \u201924 present their performance art piece Memorandum of Understanding<\/em> during the exhibition’s opening reception. The piece consists of them communicating via writing on canvas\u2014for hours at a time\u2014while visitors observe. (Jason Koski \/ Cornell University)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The show features more than a dozen works by students, faculty, alumni, and other contributors\u2014drawn from nearly 50 submissions\u2014in a variety of media including painting, fabric, video, 3D printing, and performance art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Bookmark for Freedom Pages<\/em>, a wooden sculpture doubles as a shelf displaying banned books on a variety of topics\u2014both commenting on the danger of book bans and suggesting a practical way to defy them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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