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This talk revisits the contested visual legacy of Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1972 documentary Chung Kuo, Cina by placing it within a broader network of Cold War–era encounters between Western filmmakers and a carefully stage-managed People’s Republic of China. Connecting Antonioni’s state-sanctioned visit with projects by Shirley MacLaine, Jean Painlevé, and Canadian(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
22 January 2026, 6pm to 7:30pm
Screening of film excerpts and live annotation: Antonioni’s Chung Kuo, Cina (1972)
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This talk revisits the contested visual legacy of Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1972 documentary Chung Kuo, Cina by placing it within a broader network of Cold War–era encounters between Western filmmakers and a carefully stage-managed People’s Republic of China. Connecting Antonioni’s state-sanctioned visit with projects by Shirley MacLaine, Jean Painlevé, and Canadian(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
American Remediation
This exhibition revisits a series of documentaries produced by the U.S. Department of the Interior in the 1950s that portray the transformational role of infrastructure in reshaping landscapes according to U.S. American values.
Octagonal gallery Keyword(s):
landscape, resources, nature, infrastructure, cold war, extractivism, propaganda, imaginary
1 October 2026 to 3 January 2027
American Remediation
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This exhibition revisits a series of documentaries produced by the U.S. Department of the Interior in the 1950s that portray the transformational role of infrastructure in reshaping landscapes according to U.S. American values.
Octagonal gallery Keyword(s):
landscape, resources, nature, infrastructure, cold war, extractivism, propaganda, imaginary
CCA Founding Director Phyllis Lambert and Elizabeth Diller of Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) present their 2013 publications Building Seagram and Lincoln Center Inside Out and discuss architecture and public space in New York.
Paul Desmarais Theatre
13 May 2013, 6pm - 8pm
In conversation: Phyllis Lambert and Elizabeth Diller
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CCA Founding Director Phyllis Lambert and Elizabeth Diller of Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) present their 2013 publications Building Seagram and Lincoln Center Inside Out and discuss architecture and public space in New York.
Paul Desmarais Theatre