Installation

A Maritime Haunting

A Maritime Haunting

November 7, 2024 - December 10, 2024

A Maritime Haunting is an immersive sound installation that explores loss from Mediterranean border policies through vocal elements and sea sounds. Performers act as a Greek chorus, creating a collective elegy for lives lost during migration. Free and open to the public; no reservations required.

Seeds of Light Lantern Walk

Seeds of Light Lantern Walk

October 29, 2024

Join Gowri Savoor for a magical lantern festival, celebrating seeds and light. Participants can bring lanterns and join the parade. Hot apple cider will be served around a bonfire afterwards.

Lantern Making

Lantern Making

October 28, 2024

Join visual teaching artist, Gowri Savoor, for a fun and unique workshop to learn how to make a magical star-shaped lantern using bamboo, paper, and LED lights.

Día de los Muertos Ofrenda

Día de los Muertos Ofrenda

October 10, 2024 - November 7, 2024

Honor the dead with a Day of the Dead altar piece, at Duke Chapel that pays homage to the rich cultural heritage and sacred traditions of Día de los Muertos. This event is free and open to the public. No reservations are required.

As Water Falls

As Water Falls

September 3, 2024 - September 16, 2024

This large-scale installation is a virtual interactive waterfall from Montreal-based digital art studio Iregular. This exhibition is free and open to the public. No reservations are required.

Cyclical Navigations: In the In Between

This work is an interdisciplinary installation that focuses on the ways embodied storytelling can function as a historical care practice. This installation aids in the creation of a nonlinear archive based on the stories, memories, and lived experiences of Black folks in America.

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Social Video Art

This program brings together works by Pedro Lasch that are as varied as their settings. Projected in large scale at museums and galleries, all works have been meticulously co-edited with Michael Blair to become video art in its own terms—as opposed to simply documenting Lasch’s social and site-specific art.

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Sinewaves in the Triangle

Sinewaves in the Triangle is an immersive multimedia installation that uses technology to express the artistic mind and the creative process to illicit an emotional and physical reaction in the viewer.

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Antoine Williams’s “Othered Suns”

Antoine Williams used the Rubix as canvas for his work “Othered Suns,” a wheat paste and sound installation. Williams is a mixed-media artist and educator who uses art to explore his cultural identity.

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The Rubix

The Rubix is a temporary experimental structure created for visual and installation art research. Faculty in the Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies are exploring the question: What is public art and how is it made? Future projects in and on this structure will attempt to answer this question.

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Dust of the Zulu

This immersive installation incorporating sound, photography, and video brings twenty-five years of award-winning ethnomusicological fieldwork in South Africa to life.

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Ocean Room

This life-sized dome was designed to serve as a meditative space for students, faculty and members of the wider community. This installation was designed and built by undergraduate Kora Kwok (Trinity, ’20), who is exploring how art spaces can foster human connections.

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Layers of Dreamscapes

Layers of Dreamscapes reimagines how we can be immersed in a piece of art by adding a new physical dimension to one of the most popular and oldest subjects of paintings: the landscape.

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CYCLIC

Art objects and furniture made from man-made, non-recyclable trash bring disposed items back to use in a new context.

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Social Practice Lab

The Franklin Humanities Institute's Social Practice Lab is supporting Create, Innovate, Act!, a Spring 2018 course taught in the Ruby by Pedro Lasch.

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Cornered

"Cornered" is an art installation using video projections to express the hopes and hardships of African migrants.

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Biscuit Station

Bill Thelen's installation for the Ruby's grand opening will expand—quite literally!—on his memento of the Biscuit King, an old Durham landmark.

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