Art & Film at CIS

	Flow: For Love of Water Film Screening at the Knickerbocker Theatre Monday, October 5, 7:30 pm Discussion to follow the film: moderated by Joel Toppen Click here to visit the film's web site.
Irena Salina's award-winning documentary investigates what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century - The World Water Crisis.  Salina builds a case against the growing privatization of the world's dwindling fresh water supply with an unflinching focus on politics, pollution, human rights, and the emergence of a domineering world water cartel.  Interviews with scientists and activists intelligently reveal the rapidly building crisis, at both the global and human scale, and the film introduces many of the governmental and corporate culprits behind the water grab, while begging the question "CAN ANYONE REALLY OWN WATER?" Beyond identifying the problem, FLOW also gives viewers a look at the people and institutions providing practical solutions to the water crisis and those developing new technologies, which are fast becoming blueprints for a successful global and economic turnaround.
	Until the Last Drop: Tales from El Salvador's Agua-Apocalypse Film Screening: Latin American Film Series Tuesday, October 6, 3:00 pm Fried-Hemenway Auditorium, Martha Miller Center 135 Click here to visit the film's web site.
The battle over how to manage El Salvador’s water could reverberate throughout Latin America, where water is becoming ever more scarce. Today’s conflicts over this vital resource could lead to tomorrow’s wars. While the debate over water management rages worldwide, Until the Last Drop examines opposing visions of water management as they clash in El Salvador.
	River Fugues: Margaret Cogswell DePree Art Center and Gallery Gallery Hours: Monday-Saturday 10 - 5 pm Sunday 1 - 5 pm Click here to learn more about Margaret Cogswell. Click here to navigate to the DePree Art Gallery web page.
INTERNATIONALLY KNOWN ARTIST and 2009 Guggenheim Award recipient Margaret Cogswell uses space, sound, video, and sculpture to explore the interaction between the great rivers of North America and post-industrial American culture. In his Musices poeticae praeceptiones of 1613, Johannes Nucius defined a fugue as the frequent and definite recurrence of the same theme in various parts which follow each other in spaced intervals. RIVER FUGUES is a series of individually unique site-specific installations which utilize this musical structure of a fugue to weave together video and audio components into site-specific installations which explore the interdependency of people, industry and rivers in post-industrial cities. All River Fugues entail regional research, recording images and narratives with video and audio which are later edited into fugues and integrated into installations. RIVER FUGUES is an ongoing project exploring the vital and increasingly politicized role of water in our world today. The harnessing of a river’s water power for the development of industry and commerce uncomfortably links the idealized rural landscape with urban industry and technology. Dreams of prosperity become mixed with disillusionment as terms are redefined and both river waters and climate are compromised. Ms. Cogswell will be installing a composite of these Fugues, original for our space, at the DePree Gallery.  The exhibition will be open throughout the symposium.