People Talking: On Art and Gardens

Thursday, January 29, 3:30 – 6:30pm
$35; $20 members

This two-part program is composed of a screening of Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf followed by a conversation between Thomas Piper, the film’s director, and Taylor Zakarin, the associate curator of High Line Art, New York. Tickets include gallery access before the event.

3:30 – 4:45pm: Screening
5 – 6:30pm: Conversation

Piper and Zakarin will engage in a cross-disciplinary dialogue on the living nature of art. In the spirit of Oudolf’s transformative work here at Calder Gardens, the conversation will bridge the gap between landscape design and the curation of performance, questioning how we engage with art that is designed to change, fade, and bloom.

Thomas Piper
Piper is an award-winning filmmaker specializing in documenting contemporary artists and designers. His documentary Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf won the Polly Krakora Award for Artistry in Film at the 2018 Environmental Film Festival in the Nations Capital and was in global theatrical release for over two years. Piper was most recently director of production for the Checkerboard Film Foundation.

Taylor Zakarin
Zakarin is the associate curator of High Line Art, the program that curates, commissions, and produces the rotating public art program for the New York park. She works closely with nearly 30 international artists annually to realize ambitious, site-specific sculptures, video installations, performances, billboards, and murals.

People Talking is a series of conversations that expand on themes relevant to Calder Gardens and contemporary culture. These programs center storytelling and interdisciplinary dialogues.

Programming at Calder Gardens is supported by the Calder Foundation, Michael Sternberg, Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz, and Donna Green.