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Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park Memorabilia
Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park
2009
Our House (Divided)
Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park
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Our House (Divided)
The Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park at Governors State University
Mission Statement
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Set within the prairie landscape of Governors State University, the Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park serves its
constituency with distinctive educational outreach and original programming - encouraging an interdisciplinary
understanding and appreciation of sculpture and art in contemporary life.
Board of the Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park
Geoffrey Bates Director and Curator
Susan Ormsby President
Josephine Ferguson Vice-President
Jacqueline Lewis Secretary
Arthur Bourgeois
Leona Calvin
Nina Corazzo
Ruth Crnkovich
Bob Emser
Debra Hooks
Red Riding Hood
Elise Dalleska, violin
Jennifer Lowe, violin
Nora Williams, viola
Erica Lessie, cello
Bob Lukens
Susan Rakstang
Beve Sokol
Al Sturges
Paul Uzereau
Ex Officio
Lewis Manilow
Elaine Maimon President, Governors State University
Gebe Ejigu Executive Vice President
Joan Vaughan Vice President, Institutional Advancement
For information on how to become a member of the Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park,
contact [email protected] or call 708.534.4486
The program is made possible, in part, by donor members of the Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park and funding from the Illinois Arts
Council, a state agency. The Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park gratefully acknowledges the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education
Center for its assistance in arranging for Ms. Brown’s participation. This event would not have been possible without generous technical and logistical assistance from Governors State University’s Center for Performing Arts, Burton Dikelsky, Executive Director and
the expertise of Michael Krull, Technical Director. Many thanks to the Governors State University administration, Elaine G. Maimon,
President, the Board of the Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park, and its docent corps for their support in mounting Our House (Divided).
Magda Brown, Volunteer, Illinois Holocaust
Museum and Education Center
Marshall Titus, Orator
Pictured: House Divided; 1983; Bruce Nauman; cast
concrete; Commissioned by the Nathan Manilow
Sculpture Park, GSU Foundation; Collection of the
Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park; 1981.
...the nature of sculpture
The Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park
at
Governors State University
presents
Our House (Divided)
West Side Story ................................................................. Leonard Bernstein
Tonight
America
Somewhere
Introduction
Geoffrey Bates, Director and Curator, Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park
Hungary and Poland
Magda Brown
The Terezin Collection: Music for String Quartet, with poetry interspersed
The Butterfly (poem) . .................................................... Pavel Friedmann
Praeludium ........................................................................... Viktor Kohn
The Little Mouse (poem) ............................. M. Kosek, H. Lowry, Bachner
Gavotte ..................................................................................Egon Ledec
The Garden (poem) ................................................................Franta Bass
Uv’tzeil K’nofecho ...................................David Grunfeld/Zikmund Schul
To Olga (poem) ..................................................................Alena Synkova
Lied Ohne Worte .................................................... Frantisek Domazlicky
Quartet in D major, Op. 44, No. 1 (Menuetto)................... Felix Mendelssohn
Intermission
Hungarian Dance No. 1 . .................................................... Johannes Brahms
The United States of America
Magda Brown
Io son ferito si ...........................................................................Sulpitia Cesis
“A House Divided” (excerpts) .............................................. Abraham Lincoln
Marshall Titus
Appalachia Waltz ........................................................... Mark O’Connor
Ashokan Farewell ......................................Jay Ungar/arr. Matt Naughtin
What’s Goin On . .........................................................................Marvin Gaye
Postlude
Don’t Tread on Me or My String Quartet .................................Russell Peck
Please, no flash photography.
Red Riding Hood is a string quartet with Elise Dalleska and Jennifer Lowe on
violin, Nora Williams on viola, and Erica Lessie on cello. Formed in 2007, the quartet
is based in Chicago, Illinois and performs throughout the region.
Magda Brown lives in Skokie, Illinois, and is an active volunteer at the Illinois
Holocaust Museum and Education Center.
Marshall Titus is a singer, songwriter, producer, and actor whose music, style, and attitude redefines what soul music is and can be. His Cd’s are available on iTunes,
www.cdbaby.com/cd/titus, and www.marshalltitusonline.com.
House Divided 1983
Bruce Nauman
cast concrete
Commissioned by the Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park, GSU Foundation
Collection of the Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park
1983.02
Born in Evansville, Indiana in 1941, Bruce Nauman attended the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the University of California, Davis, receiving his MFA in 1966. House
Divided is his first large outdoor artwork. The piece is an enigmatic, yet ultimately
illustrative, example of the way he works. Nauman draws on Midwestern roots for the form of this sculpture. The viewer is
confronted with a large white building—typical of Midwestern farming sheds. When
we step inside we are surprised to find the structure has, in fact, been divided in half,
diagonally. Three entries to the outside create an uncomfortable space with no corners.
Fully half of the structure has been rendered useless. The very private artist, he lives with
his wife on a remote ranch in New Mexico, has observed that sometimes sculptures
are created that appear to have a function, but when examined, don’t. Ultimately, the
object’s function is for the viewer to ponder. When visiting the campus in 1983, Nauman said he, “. . . wanted to make some kind
of art statement, and social statement – at the same time not be overbearing, to force
people into something they don’t want to have to do with.” By associating the piece through its title with Abraham Lincoln’s House Divided
speech, delivered in 1858 to the Illinois Republican convention in acceptance of the
nomination for U.S. Senatorial election, the artist forces the visitor to consider the
significance of this unassuming work on a new level. In the end, Nauman challenges
the passerby to address their curiosity, visit his House Divided, and confront their own
expectations of where architecture ends and sculpture begins.