Olafur Eliasson delivers public lecture, “Holding hands with the sun,” 2014. Credit: L. Barry Hetherington.
Olafur Eliasson delivers public lecture, "Holding hands with the sun," 2014. Credit: L. Barry Hetherington.
Olafur Eliasson addresses the audience in MIT Lecture Hall 10-250, 2014. Credit: L. Barry Hetherington.
MIT Associate Provost Philip S. Khoury introduces Olafur Eliasson, 2014. Credit: L. Barry Hetherington.
MIT Associate Provost Philip S. Khoury introduces Olafur Eliasson, 2014. Credit: L. Barry Hetherington.
Olafur Eliasson at MIT: Holding hands with the sun.
Olafur Eliasson demonstrates Little Sun, a solar powered lamp, at a pubic lecture, "Holding hands with the sun," 2014. Credit: L. Barry Hetherington.
Christine Reif and Margaret McDermott at 2014 McDermott Award Recipent Olafur Eliasson’s Public Lecture. Credit: L. Barry Hetherington.
Christine Reif and Margaret McDermott at 2014 McDermott Award Recipent Olafur Eliasson's Public Lecture. Credit: L. Barry Hetherington.
Through a general introduction to his wide-ranging work, Olafur Eliasson addressed the question of where an idea begins and the process of an idea becoming embodied in the world. For Eliasson, art is a reality machine. Creativity is not located in the artist’s choice of an individual color; it has to do with the extent to which the artist succeeds in being in sync with the world in making this choice. Creativity is the passage by which the choice becomes ethical and political.
Olafur Eliasson: Holding hands with the sun
Thursday, March 13, 2014 / 5:00 pm
MIT Building 10 Lecture Hall 250
77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA
The event was free and open to the public