Mixed Taste: At Home is where even the most mismatched subjects find common ground in an interactive lecture series that can go pretty much anywhere. On Wednesday nights at 7PM, two speakers get twenty minutes each to enlighten participants on unrelated topics, without making any connections to the other. It is only as participants begin to ask questions that these talented, sometimes hilarious, speakers start to take our highly engaged audience on an adventure of words with twists and turns that eventually bring the two together in extraordinary ways. 

 Co-curated by MCA Denver and the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Mixed Taste: At Home will bring together favorite speakers from years past live from their living rooms to yours.

This week:

• 8/5: Augmented Reality & The Cult of the Dead  |  Featuring Till Nowak & Elizabeth Harper

Each evening will conclude with an original poem inspired by the topics performed by some of Denver’s best poets, including Suzi Q. Smith, Brenton Weyi, Mahogany, and James Brunt. 

This six-week series will be free with registration, and accessible via YouTube live on Wednesdays. Please join us for laughs, intellectual gymnastics, and community-building through a fun, fascinating cultural discourse.

Till Nowak is an independent artist and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. He was born in Germany in 1980. After founding his studio frameboX in 1999 he gained international attention through several award-winning projects, including the short film “The Centrifuge Brain Project”. Till’s work ranges from cultural projects such as his art installation at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg or the collaboration with Axel Ranisch for Prokoviev’s opera Love Of Three Oranges, all the way to pop culture in his collaborations with Deichkind, Katy Perry or the Oscar-winning design for Marvel Studio’s Black Panther. He also is responsible for several public light art installations on historic buildings, such as the Rendsburg high bridge

Elizabeth Harper is a writer focusing on curious and often macabre world of Catholic saints and folk practices. Her work has been featured in Slate, Vice, Lapham’s Quarterly, and Image Journal and in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s catalogue for “Like Life”. She has spoken on the subject at universities and museums around the world. By night, she is a lighting designer and recently designed the 2019/20 DCPA Theatre Company production of Indecent. Previous Mixed Taste lecture topic: Incorrupt Saints in 2018.

Mathias Svalina is the author of seven books, most recently America At Play, published by Trident Books; and The Depression, a collaboration with the photographer Jon Pack published by Civil Coping Mechanisms. Since 2014, he has run a dream delivery service.