“Suddenly, we grasped what ecology is all about!”
That was said by an audience member in response to a very unusual lecture
accompanied by a jazz combo and hand-drawn illustrations presented by the
prominent Norwegian eco-philosopher Sigmund Kvaloy in his “Eco-Jazz
Project.”
Visiting in the United States for a high school reunion (he graduated as an
exchange student from Lincoln High School, Manitowoc, WI in 1953) Kvaloy is
a well-known scholar and environmental activist in Norway. He speaks fluent
English. He will be presenting his “Eco-Jazz Project” in Madison
and Green Bay and Lectures without music in Door County Wisconsin during
the fourth week of August.
In the lectures Sigmund draws his own illustrations projected overhead and dialogues with the jazz combo to illustrate and develop the fundamental contrasts between “complexity” and “complication” as applied to nature and the machine-like social structures of human society. He shows how life is a creative stream of complex relationships highly analogous to jazz and other forms of improvisation and how society might reflect that scientific reality.
Click to enlarge Eco Jazz images below.
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