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(04/16/15 12:57pm)
My journal is full of observations, doodles, quotes, autographs, snippets of writing, taped-in ticket stubs, folded foreign currency, post-it notes, postcards, metro cards, discarded brochures, worn wristbands, half-stuck stickers, clipped-out magazine recipes, discarded photos and lists—lists of what I did with any given day, what I’ve watched in any given week, what I’ve read in any given month. My journal is an obsessive, compulsive daily act of literature. Obsessive because my habit now spans three journals full of collected details and moments. Compulsive because I journal almost daily; if I have nothing thoughtful to put down, I’ll put down food I ate, the weather that day and any memorable conversations.
(03/18/15 7:26am)
Leslie Jamison is an American novelist and essayist known for her award-winning collection of essays, The Empathy Exams. This week, she will visit campus to give a public reading from her collection, as well as to participate in a panel discussion on how to document, inhabit and care for the pain of others. In anticipation of Jamison’s visit to campus, Recess editor Katie Fernelius interviewed Jamison. Over the course of a few days, they emailed back and forth, discussing the timeliness of conversations about empathy, the role of writers in conversations about injustice and the power of the stories shared with children.
(02/12/15 9:32am)
Last month, I attended a dance performance choreographed by Tony Johnson, a local dancer and friend of mine. The piece explored black identity in America through both historical and contemporary movements. In one particularly powerful section, Tony stands teary-eyed before the audience as Martin Luther King Jr.’s voice bellows throughout the room recounting his entrance into the civil rights movement.
(01/29/15 10:35am)
Here we are – 2015! We made it! As we move forward into the unknown of this new, exciting year, Recess sat around our crystal ball and summoned forth some predictions for what to expect in 2015. Whether the predictions have to do with the rise of television, the wealth of new movies being released, or seemingly random artist collaborations, Recess has you covered. Read on to see what our staff members think.
(01/08/15 9:38am)
January always makes me uneasy. Perhaps it’s because the season compels me to re-orient myself temporally: I am now in 2015. The year of millennium development goals. The future in Back to the Future. Only one year shy of graduation. Perhaps I am uneasy because at this time of year we commit to the change the occasion celebrates, acknowledging that nothing is constant but rather always in a state of flux.
(12/04/14 10:44am)
This past week, A.O. Scott of The New York Times curated a conversation between a group of nine contemporary artists ranging from rapper J. Cole to poet Patricia Lockwood in order to ask the question: is our art equal to the challenges of our times? In his piece introducing the conversation, Scott was less interested in what constitutes the challenges of our times and more interested in what he calls “the political economy of art,” that is “how artists are affected by changes in the distribution of wealth and the definition of work.”
(11/20/14 10:22am)
This weekend, the Duke University Dance Program will host its annual fall dance showcase in Reynolds Industries Theater. The concert will feature work by both faculty and student choreographers in the Dance Program, highlighting contemporary ballet, jazz, African dance and modern dance.
(10/30/14 8:32am)
I have mental illness, generalized anxiety to be exact, which means that sometimes my heart rate races, my stomach churns, and my mind is rendered incoherent out of some terror that is impossible to name. Other times, my anxiety manifests itself in muscle tension throughout my body, sporadic insomnia that throws off my sleep schedule or in overwhelming difficulty with starting or doing something that makes me nervous, like writing this Editor’s Note. More often than not, I consider myself functional, healthy and happy, but I am mindful of the ways in which my mental illness influences how I operate in the world—what hesitations consume me, what joys I disallow myself.
(10/23/14 9:57am)
If you, like me, are often in search of new and exciting modes of procrastination, then likely you have found yourself in the positive feedback loop of watching movie trailers on YouTube. You begin with wanting to just catch a glimpse of the new Hunger Games trailer and, before you know it, you’re watching the trailer for the next Nicholas Cage film destined to flop.
(10/02/14 9:13am)
This Saturday, community members will have the chance to celebrate ten years of Girls Rock North Carolina as well as to help fundraise for upcoming years at the Girls Rock NC Rally in Carrboro, NC. The rally, co-presented with Merge Records, includes three different events spanning three different venues over the course of 14 hours, including the ArtsCenter, Cat’s Cradle and The Station.
(09/25/14 8:21am)
At the start of this school year, Emma Sulkowicz began carrying a standard, blue, extra-long twin mattress around Columbia University’s campus. Her endeavor is part of a performance art piece called “Carry That Weight/Mattress Performance” that seeks to bring attention to her university’s mishandling of her sexual assault case. Picasso once stated “art is an instrument in the war against the enemy;” Emma’s work as both an artist and activist seems to emulate this notion. In the weeks since she started the piece, students have begun to help her carry the mattress as she lugs it across campus, each grabbing a corner so the burden is shared rather than hers alone.
(09/11/14 8:40am)
On Saturday, Sep. 13, Duke Performances will host acclaimed Malian singer and guitarist Vieux Farka Touré in Reynolds Industries Theater. The performance is part of a worldwide tour for Touré that began in the Netherlands and ends in Asheville, N.C.
(09/02/14 8:45am)
This November, the Duke University Wind Symphony will welcome renowned composer Frank Ticheli to guest conduct a concert of his own works in Baldwin Auditorium. Ticheli is currently a Professor of Composition at the University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music. Previously, he was a Composer in Residence of the Pacific Symphony. He received the 2012 “Arts and Letters Award” from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
(07/01/14 2:00am)
Listen to Katie's playlist on her personal Spotify account!
(07/01/14 2:00am)
On an airplane, I will always request the window seat. I like a better view than the back of someone else’s seat inches from my face; I always slide up the window shade and crane my neck in the slightest to peek out. Admittedly, I most enjoy descending in an airplane in the evening; from my modest window seat, I can see a vast expanse of lights stretching above and below me. The city and night sky reflect each other as I sit sandwiched between the two lucent landscapes. Glancing out, I can’t help but daydream constellations between the lights.
(04/17/14 9:35am)
Thursday, April 24 in the Fitzpatrick Center, Nigerian-American author Teju Cole will present to the Duke and Durham community for the annual Kenan Distinguished Lecture. The lecture is co-sponsored by Duke’s Center for African & African American Research, Center for Documentary Studies, English Department, Forum for Scholars & Publics, Franklin Humanities Institute and the Office of the President.
(03/20/14 6:34am)
“Where is your voice in the dialogue surrounding sexuality, academics, joy, effortless perfection, friendship, race, family, privilege, hardship and whatever else impacts your life? Where is your voice to describe the complex humanity behind the female Duke student, staff or faculty member?”
(02/27/14 9:21am)
“The project originated about three and a half years ago at the end of the Jazz Loft Project because I was ready to document something contemporary, something happening now,” Sam Stephenson, North Carolina native and director of the Jazz Loft Project and Bull City Summer, said. “Durham Bull games are one of the few places you can go where you can see all walks of life from a 50-mile radius in a single structure.”
(02/20/14 8:44am)
The first edition of “Leaves of Grass” was published in 1855 and did not include the author’s name on the cover page, but rather a frontispiece of Walt Whitman in working-class garb and a titled hat, hands tucked into his pockets. This claim of authorship answers the question, “Who wrote this?” not with a formal name, but with a semblance of tangibility. Later editions would include his name on the cover, but always his nickname, “Walt,” as opposed to his birth name, “Walter.” Whitman attempted to undermine the social constructions for labeling his own identity in relation to his work, and, in doing so, created a new iteration for the role of the poet.
(02/20/14 10:00am)
The first edition of “Leaves of Grass” was published in 1855 and did not include the author’s name on the cover page, but rather a frontispiece of Walt Whitman in working-class garb and a titled hat, hands tucked into his pockets. This claim of authorship answers the question, “Who wrote this?” not with a formal name, but with a semblance of tangibility. Later editions would include his name on the cover, but always his nickname, “Walt,” as opposed to his birth name, “Walter.” Whitman attempted to undermine the social constructions for labeling his own identity in relation to his work, and, in doing so, created a new iteration for the role of the poet.
