October 7, 2019
Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago
"Getting Changed"
A Deborah Goodman Davis and Gerald Davis Lecture
The Department of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago invites and welcomes Martin Creed to deliver our 2019 Deborah Goodman Davis and Gerald Davis Lecture.
Martin Creed is known for winning the Turner Prize in 2001 with The Lights Going On And Off, and over the following years for many works involving live music, dance and the use of words —in the form of word-sculptures, talks and songs. Most recently he has been working on a new one-person show, “Getting Changed”, which is part-talk, part-concert, part-cabaret. It is the follow-up to the show “Words & Music” which he did at the Edinburgh Festival in 2017 and has played around the world. Some of the themes of the new show are borders both personal and national, communication in the form of clothes, and words as clothes for feelings, all put together live in Martin's responsive freestyle way.
Established in 2018, through the generosity of Deborah Goodman Davis, the Deborah Goodman Davis and Gerald Davis Lecture Series brings vibrant voices to the University of Chicago’s Department of Visual Arts and the greater university community.