Open Invitations
Workshop & Conversation with Joe Dumit, Mary-Helen Immordino Yang, and Dorte Bjerre Jensen, moderated by Andreas Roepstorff

Are you OPEN to experience? Are you OPEN to seeing differently? Are you OPEN to share? MOCA invites you to explore the themes of OPEN through a workshop and conversation facilitated by leading researchers, scholars, and friends of Olafur Eliasson.

ASL interpretation for the panel provided by Pro Bono ASL.

Andreas Roepstorff is a co-founder of Experimenting, Experiencing, Reflecting (EER) with Olafur Eliasson. He is a Professor in Cognition, Communication, and Culture at Aarhus University, Denmark, Dept. of Clinical Medicine and School of Culture and Society. He is also the Founding Director of the Interacting Minds Center at Aarhus University. He works at the intersection of anthropology and clinical medicine, originally trained in social anthropology.

Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, Ed.D., is the Fahmy and Donna Attallah Professor of Humanistic Psychology and a professor of education, psychology, and neuroscience at the University of Southern California. She is the founding director of the USC Center for Affective Neuroscience, Development, Learning and Education, or CANDLE. Immordino-Yang has pioneered novel approaches to the study of social-emotional and brain development with implications for educational practice and policy.

Dorte Bjerre Jensen is a dancer/performer, researcher, therapist, teacher and organizer, and she is deeply interested in bodily movement and expression as an art form both in practice and in theory. As an artist she creates, directs and performs. Dorte holds a 2-year postgraduate education for professional dancers: Dance partnership; research, performance/dance and facilitation, at the Danish National School of Performing Arts.

Joe Dumit is an anthropologist of passions and performance, brains and games, AI and computers, contact improvisation and slownesses, drugs and facts. He is Chair of Performance Studies, and Professor of Science & Technology Studies, and Anthropology at University of California Davis. He's a core member of the Experiencing, Experimenting, Reflecting grant with Aarhus University and Studio Olafur Eliasson. His books include Picturing Personhood: Brain Scans & Biomedical America and Drugs for Life: How Pharmaceutical Companies Define Our Health. He likes lichen and speculation.

This program is organized by Justen Leroy, Director of Public Programs and Community Outreach, and Alitzah Oros, Public Programming Associate, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.