{"id":40802263483,"date":"2022-03-24T10:50:08","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T14:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/?p=40802263483"},"modified":"2022-03-31T01:08:23","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T05:08:23","slug":"prof-dzenko-performs-in-social-practice-artist-sheryl-orings-i-wish-to-say-at-the-washington-national-cathedral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/prof-dzenko-performs-in-social-practice-artist-sheryl-orings-i-wish-to-say-at-the-washington-national-cathedral\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Dzenko Performs in Social Practice Artist Sheryl Oring\u2019s \u201cI Wish to Say\u201d at the Washington National Cathedral"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Corey Dzenko, Ph.D., associate professor of art history in the department of Art and Design, recently performed in the Washington National Cathedral as part of social practice artist Sheryl Oring\u2019s ongoing project I Wish to Say. <\/em>Taking place on Sunday, March 13, this performance was part of the Cathedral Choral Society\u2019s (CCS) event \u201cI Have Something to Say.\u201d In celebration of the anniversary of the 19th<\/sup> Amendment, the CCS commissioned new choral works from Lisa Bielawa, Jessie Montgomery, and Augusta Read Thomas, three of today\u2019s leading composers who are women. The CCS also performed past works by women composers that history had largely erased from public memory.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Prof. Corey Dzenko and artist Wabwila Mugala typing as part of Sheryl Oring’s social practice project “I Wish to Say” at the Washington National Cathedral, March 13, 2022. Photo credit: Christian Carter-Ross.<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Oring began I Wish to Say<\/em> in 2004 out of a desire to make sure all voices are heard. For this series, she travels and sets up banks of 1960s typists, and then invites the public to dictate postcards to the president. Her secretaries make a copy of each postcard by typing with carbon paper. Oring sends the original card to the White House and keeps the copy for her exhibitions. The recent event in the National Cathedral was Dzenko\u2019s sixth time typing as part of Oring\u2019s project.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The CCS invited Oring to participate in the concert because Bielawa used text from Oring\u2019s project in her composition. Oring\u2019s typists collected messages to the president before and after the CCS concert and during the intermission. A typist also joined the CCS on stage during Bielawa\u2019s piece, highlighting the sound of a typewriter as a sound-making instrument.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

In 2016, Dzenko brought Oring and I Wish to Say <\/em>to Monmouth University during the presidential election season as part of campus\u2019 visiting artist series ArtNOW: Performance, Art, and Technology<\/a>. Monmouth\u2019s community dictated postcards to the presidential candidates from the patio of the Student Center. The Guggenheim Library displayed the postcards from Monmouth before they were mailed to the White House.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Learn more<\/a> about Oring\u2019s I Wish to Say <\/em>project and check out her book, Activating Democracy: The <\/em>I Wish to Say Project<\/em> (2016), for which Dzenko wrote the introduction.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Sheryl Oring (center, holding typewriter) with her typists for “I Wish to Say,” performed at the Washington National Cathedral, March 13, 2022. Photo credit: Christian Carter-Ross.<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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One of the many postcards collected from Sheryl Oring’s I Wish to Say<\/em> at the Washington National Cathedral, March 13, 2022. This card is from Prof. Dzenko’s young son. Oring will mail all of the postcards collected to the White House.<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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