Word: huygheã
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...impending identity crisis, the University has thrown the concrete building a series of birthday celebrations. Following on a recent historical exhibition about the building is this “puppet opera,” which weaves together narratives of the building’s commission with Huyghe??s own experience working with a university patron given to bureaucratic excesses...
...minute film version of that production—complete with Hollywood-style special effects—will be screened in the auditorium during the opening night. It will then continue its run in the upstairs Sert Gallery until April 17 of next year. A multifaceted and unusual project, Huyghe??s film is the result of a similarly complex and atypical interfaculty collaboration involving the Harvard University Art Museums, Graduate School of Design, and the Visual and Environmental Studies department...
...addition to Huyghe??s archaeology of these “missing pieces” is an “architectural extension” of the existing building to provide a new, if temporary social space. Emerging from the building’s unused courtyard is, a glowing, moss-covered polycarbonate theatre designed by a professor at the Graduate School of Design. It is, in itself, a powerful and sculptural meditation on the architectural innovations the Carpenter Center has witnessed over the previous 40 years. Perhaps the result of a seed brought by the little bird at Corbusier?...
While the layered references of scale in Huyghe??s film are at times dizzying (at one point even the puppets are wielding their own marionette puppets), Huyghe??s meta-narratives of realization may be the most compelling aspect of the project. In previous works—including his most famous, Third Memory, based on the 1975 Sidney Lumet film Dog Day Afternoon—Huyghe has utilized the cinematic device of the jump cut to fold into a linear whole quite disparate points in time and space...
Given the medium (marionettes) and the class transgressions present Huyghe??s previous projects—employing forms that include adult Japanese graphic novels, fireworks, Walt Disney characters and figure skating in the service of high art—it is inevitable that snide references will be made to the other puppet-movie now playing in Harvard Square, the satirical Team America: World Police. Because Huyghe??s context is not just the academy, but no less Harvard, his challenge may be greater: as Princeton Professor Cornel R. West ’74 and University President Lawrence...