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Project Website (with 44 min. multimedia recording): http://slought.org/content/11194/
Slought Foundation, a non-profit organization rethinking contemporary art, presents a performance by Lenore Malen on The New Society for Universal Harmony. The performance will take place on Saturday, February 28, 2004 at 6:00pm, in conjunction with the opening of an installation by Malen that reinvents in contemporary terms La société del’harmonie universelle, established in Paris in l783 by followers of Franz Anton Mesmer.
The New Society examines our own culture’s yearning for the perfect cure; what the members undergo is darkly funny and impossible, pointing to our often-illusive search for spiritual harmony. The utopian dream remains unfulfilled.
The New Society for Universal Harmony by Lenore Malen will be co-published by Granary Books, Inc. and Slought Foundation, forthcoming in Fall 2004. A one-day symposium will be held on Saturday, April 3rd, 2004 at Slought addressing the history of Mesmerism in l8th, l9th, and 20th-century literature, political and social philosophy, medicine, and dynamic psychotherapy. Information on the symposium online: http://slought.org/content/11184/ . Exhibition information: http://slought.org/content/11177/
 Read More About this Project (PDF Download)
Lenore Malen is an artist and writer. In the l990s she was executive editor of Art Journal, published by the College Art Association. Her work has been show nationally and internationally. Currently she teaches cultural studies in the MFA Painting and Sculpture Program at Parsons School of Design, a division of the New School University.
Internal Links:
http://www.thenewsociety.org/
This program is made possible in part through the generous sponsorship or support of Granary Books, Inc.
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