Hugo House hosts a Annual Cultural Inquiry , a concentrated event to explore a big topic. Throughout the weekend-long symposium, writers, historians, artists and cultural thinkers participated through readings, conversations, visual art, music and video. In art, things disappear and return as something else. Through erasure, we come to know the residue of what's left.
Writers make language arise from a heap of words.
Painters layer and erase until they find landscapes, and musicians blend sounds to find narrative in music. In the shifts and splinters of culture, we lose our origins and try to reassemble them. Disappearances . . . In parts which find and repeat themselves and restate the argument until it loses its reasonable edge and hopefully becomes a sort of cadence. The same October day will happen, as it never can in real life, over and over again.