A Conversation with Resident Artist Mike Durkin and Dr. Shannon Walsh
Thursday, April 6, 2023
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
How
can
a
sport
impact
a
player,
a
fan,
a
neighborhood,
a
city?
How
can
we
utilize
athletics
in
artmaking?
These
are
some
of
the
questions
that
the
Cynthia
Woods
Mitchell
Center
Resident
Artist
Mike
Durkin
asks
when
creating
S-P-O-R-T-S-P-L-A-Y:
A
Performative
Tailgate
Installation,
which
will
be
presented
on
the
UH
campus
at
the
end
of
April.
This
program
will
bring
Durkin
into
conversation
with
Theatre
and
Performance
scholar
Dr.
Shannon
Walsh
whose
edited
volume
Sporting
Performance:
Politics
in
Play
examines
the
intersections
between
theatre,
and
sport
and
physical
culture
in
different
geographic
and
historical
contexts.
A
reception
will
follow.
The
project
has
been
funded
by
the
Cynthia
Woods
Mitchell
Center
for
the
Arts.
Talk:
4:30-5:30pm
Reception:
5:30pm
-
6:00pm
- Location
- Lyndall Finley Wortham Theatre Lobby
- Cost
- Free
- Contact
- Elizabeth
Coen
emcoen@central.uh.edu