Joseph Tanke with my written example of Robert Barrys Marcuse Piece behind him, right Joseph Tanke speaking before an audience.

On October 18, 2008 the philosopher Joseph Tanke stood on the grass mound, behind a redwood colored podium and spoke about the philosopher Herbert Marcuse’s The Aesthetic Dimension. Below you will find my brief introduction to the event, describing a speech/action I preformed prior to Joseph’s presentation, an audio recording podcast of Josephs talk, followed by a text interview between Joseph and I on the subject of Marcuse’s protest and art. This talk was the sixth and final event that I produced as part of A Grass Mound (With Kind Regards to Utopia).

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As a way of introducing philosopher Joseph Tanke and to tie the subject of Marcusian Aesthetics, to utopia and art or the gallery - in which this event was taking place, I wrote the following words on the gallery wall with a marker.
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