A Course In Minerals

A COURSE IN MINERALS
Des Cours in partnership with the AIA

200 PEOPLE AT ONE TABLE IN ST ROCH

Minerals act in nature as constants. They are predecessors to life, the material with which all life is composed, and the remnants upon its conclusion. As witness to the passing epochs of biological empires, minerals may be seen as holders of information on the temporal nature of form. Here we recognize their passage through various states, from rock and crystal structure, to primordial soup, to body, blood, and beyond.

SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY PANEL
Mathematician David Walsh (Tasmania)
Cellular Biologist Kevin Sullivan (Ireland)
Institute for Figuring Twins Margaret + Christine Wertheim (The Mandelbrot Set)
Molecular Geneticist (Emeritus) William Murphy (USA)

FROM THE VOID
Hors d’ œuvers
Dust and Light Explosion / Hyperbolic Space
A Twins Twins collaboration: Margaret + Christine Werthelm and Ryan + Trevor Oakes
Apéritif
Louisiana Rainwater and Crystal Formations
Crystals Suspended in Native Ice | Crystal Properties Selected by Shannon Brinkman, Energetic Charge by Judy Bolton

ENTER LIFE
Soup
Fungi and the Single-celled Organisms
Field / Activated Field Mushroom Soup
Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Organisms by Cellular Biologist Kevin Sullivan + Artist Deborah Luster
Salad
Plant Life and The Subterranean
Mel Chin on Pharma - Mytho – Cultural Relationships
Small Plate
Calciferous Structures and Aqueous Life
Architect Colman Coker on Radial Symmetry and Salt Formations
Entrée / Observation
The Vertebrates and Blood Production (Hematopoiesis)
Artist Edward Bekkerman

DEATH
Savory Treat / Little Death
The Metals and The Death of the Sun
Or Sacrificing the Sun for Gold
Mexican Historian Sarah Borealis, Mexican Architect Enrique Norton
Grateful Dead Lyricist John Perry Barlow, Jewelry Mogul Coleman Adler

AND BEYOND
Coffee and Dessert
Cloudforms and The Afterlife
Artists Panacea Theriac and Jessica Bizer on Meringue and Suspended Interstellar Particles

6pm at KKProjects
December 9 2007
2448 n villere st

between music and arts
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