What do award-winning actor Alfre Woodard, NYT's David Brooks, drag queen Sasha Velour, NASA’s mission head to Jupiter, and one of the world’s leading cancer surgeons have in common? They all know something that makes them hopeful for the future. Come find out what at this one-of-a-kind event in one of the most beautiful buildings on the National Mall.
The Long Conversation is an epic creative marathon between artists, scientists and other big thinkers that’s guaranteed to leave you feeling better about the future. Once a year, NASA astronauts, Grammy-winning musicians, tech CEOs, poets, inventors and more converge in the historic Arts & Industries Building for a lively 8-hour relay race of surprising conversations around the best ideas on the horizon.
Plus, incredible performances; pop-ups from James Beard Award-winning chef Spike Gjerde of Rake’s Progress at the Line Hotel, drinks from DC’s small-batch, women-owned distillery Republic Restoratives; art installs from Julia Buntaine Hoel, Phaan Howng, McCormack and Figg, and Gabriel Mellan; and the rare chance to explore the soaring halls of America’s first National Museum.
Sound crazy? It is—also uplifting, surprising, and a ton of fun.
Artists:
Niagara, Phaan Howng
Using large-scale landscape paintings, sculptures, and installations, Baltimore-based Phaan Howng cinematically stages the beauty of a post-human earth in order to initiate dialogues about the current crises of world ecology. Phaan will be adding swaths of color to AIB with her newest installation Niagara. The work will feature a vibrant focus painting, as well as three free-standing sculptures that represent the naturescape of a far future earth. (Visit website, follow @phaanlove)
Optical Optimism, Gabriel Mellan
Focusing his art making on interactive sculpture and installations involving sound, motion, light and technology, Mellan’s work is fueled by material process and minimalistic forms.
With “Optimist Wall,” he invites you to refrain from taking things at surface value by revealing what is universal and inside us all. (Visit website, follow @gabrielmellan)
Zero dot Zero dot Zero, McCormack and Figg
Jenn Figg and Matthew McCormack began collaborating in 2009, after recognizing mutual interests in energy, technology and the environment. They use a variety of materials including glass, textiles, metal, sound, video, and electronics to investigate the connections between ecology, industry, science and identity.
McCormack & Figg will be illuminating this year’s central stage with a massive site-specific kinetic light sculpture, bringing a new energy for the future to the 140-year old space. (Visit website, follow @dr.jennfigg)
Wave(s), Julia Buntaine Hoel
Julia Buntaine Hoel is a conceptual artist, director of SciArt Center, and editor in chief of SciArt Magazine. She also teaches, consults, curates, and frequently writes about the intersection between art and science, and is currently the Innovator-in-Residence at Rutgers University. With her 3D brainwave sculptures, Hoel's artwork serves as a fascinating physical representation of the ideas in the room. (Visit website, follow @JuliaBuntaine)
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