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...Huyghe??s project details the events in a 24-minute short film, “Huyghe + Corbusier: Harvard Project.” The puppet opera, with its soundtrack of DJ scratches, depicts both the major players behind the creation of the Carpenter Center and contemporary art connoisseurs. Harvard is represented in a catch-all character named Harvard Dean of Deans, who physically mirrors both Darth Vader and a flying beetle. Linda Norden, associate curator at the Fogg Art Museum, describes the puppet opera as illustrating “Harvard’s relationships to living...
Norden is represented in the show as the lone female marionette. The mysterious egg-like structure beneath the Carpenter Center ramp served as the site of Huyghe??s live performance last month. VES concentrator William A.W. Parker ’07 says “the show was more of an experience. The enclosed space created a kind of lucid dreamscape for the fairy tale to take form...
...anniversary celebrations mark the passage of time, Huyghe??s project provides the opportunity to look anew at the Carpenter Center’s position in the university—especially in terms of its role as the focus and birthplace for the instruction of the visual arts. In his filmed puppet show, Huyghe makes what may be one of the strongest statements in his presentation of a modern allegory of the artist and his institutional patron, bound by the strings of inflexible bureaucracy...
Again, the parallels between Huyghe??s project and Corbusier’s experience at Harvard are germane. The result of a good deal of friction between architect and institution, the Carpenter Center, along with several of Sert’s own projects such as the Science Center and Peabody Terrace, ruffled enough conservative feathers that the University has since become less willing to engage in high-profile commissions involving cutting-edge architecture. In Huyghe??s film, playing opposite to the cherubic features of and jointed arms of Corbusier and Huyghe??s marionette likenesses...
While the artistic accomplishment of Huyghe??s work may become apparent when the film is premiered this evening, the narrative of its commission may constitute the project’s greatest success. Like Le Corbusier, Huyghe has succeeded in turning the University’s rigidity into creative impetus. For the sake of future generations of Harvard students, one hopes that it doesn’t take another 40 years before Harvard is bold enough to once again play the role of patron...