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Show C-4 Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, February 1-4, 2020 The Park Record Panelists explore possibility of artists changing politics TANZI PROPST/PARK RECORD From left: Moderator Kamal Sinclair, Hank Willis, Eric Gottesman and Michelle Woo discuss art and politics during the Sundance Film Festival’s “How Can Artists Reshape Politics” on Wednesday at the Filmmakers Lodge. Sundance Film Festival When: Through Feb. 2 Where: Park City, Salt Lake City and the Sundance Resort Web: sundance.org/now Diverse discussion included music and role-playing The Constitution is based on the Wampum, which set up the total equality of the sexes in voting and representation and no concept of slavery. “(Instead) We have an agricultural system that benefits all who participated, and adding that to our economy brings justice,” Winger-Bearskin said. The third concept of peace is making sure technological advances are sustainable and in harmony with the land the Iroquois steward, she said. “When you take away these dependencies, you take away the possibility of peace,” she said. The panel, which was moderated by Kamal Sinclair, executive director of the Guild of Future Architects, a nonprofit that strives to provide platforms for “enlightened cultural, social, economic and political systems,” examined the possibilities of what it would look like if artists found themselves at the forefront of SCOTT IWASAKI The Park Record Live music and role playing set “How Can Artists Reshape Politics?” panel apart from other discussions at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Amelia Winger-Bearskin opened the panel, presented by For Freedoms, a collective of artists who explore ways of how to drive art and artists to the center of public discourse, with a Haudenosaunee, or Iriquois, flute invocation. She made her way through the audience to the stage, where she set the tone by referencing a Wampum, the Iroquois Confederacy’s system of decentralized contracts, which contained the Great Law of Peace. FOOD ENGINEERING 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 the population’s political and civil lives. After the invocation, the panel continued with a step into a hypothetical interview that was set in the year 2045. Sharon Chang and Robert Sinclair of the Futurists’ Writers Room, a branch of the Guild of Future Architects, acted out the roles of Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Gretchen Kanashiro and artist, digital historian and ethic maker, Luis Riviera. The interview expounded on immigration policies, but also addressed sustainability, climate change and over consumerism, and not taking care of the earth for the new generations. When the scene ended, Sinclair turned the microphone over to Hank Willis Thomas, Eric Gottesman and Michelle Woo from For Freedoms who talked about the group’s 50 State Initiative, a 2018 project that ended up as a partnership with 300 institutions and artists in all 50 states, Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico. “The goal is to (create) decentralized art actions in conversation with the current political climate,” Woo exPlease see Panelists, C-7 14 15 16 17 57 58 79 80 103 104 BY ERIK AGARD / EDITED BY WILL SHORTZ 18 Erik Agard, 26, became the crossword editor of USA Today in December, the youngest in the paper’s history. He’s also a former national crossword champion and a three-day champion on “Jeopardy!” Last year Erik had 21 crosswords published in The Times, the most of any contributor. — W.S. 19 23 24 27 46 Celebrations of lives, for short 1 It got some “Xtra” flavor in 2001 48 Dance arrangements, familiarly 7 San Antonio pro 49 One making frequent 11 Atkins diet no-no pitching changes? 15 What’s called a 51 Back of the neck cashpoint by Brits 52 It’s spoken in 18 Wage ____ Aberdeen 19 Add to the team 53 “Who ____ knows?” 20 ____ squash 54 Elderly 22 One-named singer 55 “I call dibs!” with the 2014 hit “Chandelier” 56 [I’m mad!] 23 *Looks that can be 59 Honor for a play difficult to pull off 60 Place in the earth 25 *“It’s 2 a.m. 62 South African already?!” currency 27 Half up-front? 63 Operatic showpiece 28 Tikka masala go-with 64 *“Man, that was 29 Gravitate (toward) cheap!” 31 Singer Morissette 66 *Holder of the singlegame W.N.B.A. 32 Actress de Armas of “Knives Out” scoring record (53 points) 34 “How was ____ know?” 68 Something to do before a deal 35 Place for speakers 69 Super, in slang 37 Trig function 38 *Data visuals similar 70 Lisa who “ate no basil,” in a to histograms palindrome 41 *Swimming hazards 71 Missiles and such in the ocean 72 Animal in a “Sound of 44 Crossword-loving Music” song detective on “Brooklyn Nine73 Big Super Bowl Nine” purchase 45 ____ Dhabi 74 Easy as falling off ____ Online subscriptions: Today’s 75 Nickname for a really puzzle and more thin guy than 4,000 past puzzles, nytimes.com/crosswords 76 What Mercury and ($39.95 a year). Venus lack 77 Religious observance that’s also a pasttense verb 78 “That ship has sailed” 81 Small-time 83 Cause of red-eye 84 Ate 85 Regret 86 *Diner choice 88 *Something visually arresting 91 Chief 92 Coin with 12 stars on one side 93 Ancient greeting 94 El Misisipi, e.g. 95 Source of some South American wool 98 Get groceries, say 100 Sole 102 Film excerpt 105 *Duplicate, in word processing 107 *Disappear suddenly 110 Long-handled tool 111 One with a track record 112 Spore producer 113 Keys of some songs 114 Loan fig. 115 Political worker 116 “A fickle food,” per Emily Dickinson 117 Superlatively pleasant D OW N 1 Children’s playroom, often 2 Zen garden accessory 3 Running argument? 4 Frame in a box score 5 Hebrew for “son” 6 ____ Mawr College 7 Sword’s place 8 Almost a score of Mozart compositions 9 Receptacle for ancient Greek votes 10 11-Down and such 11 Small siestas 12 Low-pH 13 Follower of CD 14 La ____ Tar Pits 15 Donkeyish 16 Have a connection with 17 Hordes 21 Org. behind 14 of the 15 most-watched TV broadcasts in U.S. history 24 Capital of the Indian state of Rajasthan 26 They help with printing and pointing 30 Made line changes 33 Body of water greatly shrunk by 1960s Soviet irrigation 36 To the point 38 Howl 39 Opposite of the Latin “odi” 40 Busy as ____ 41 Less green, say 42 Title woman in a No. 1 Beach Boys hit 32 38 33 39 29 34 49 46 50 53 59 60 64 65 68 69 72 42 47 54 55 61 63 67 70 82 71 75 78 83 84 87 88 92 97 105 98 111 43 Learn by ____ 47 Score of zero, in slang 50 Ins 52 Pollution portmanteau 56 People who would object to this clue because of it’s punctuation 57 Fixes 58 Issa of “Insecure” 59 “How disastrous!” 60 “No way!” 61 Nonnegotiable things 85 89 90 93 106 114 56 62 77 96 43 48 74 91 37 66 86 110 36 52 76 95 31 51 73 81 30 41 45 115 62 Sound a warning 63 Spanish month that anagrams to a zodiac sign 64 Bit of gum 65 ____-faire 66 Birds on Minnesota state quarters 67 Bad smell 70 “Ugh!” 73 -elect 74 Alarmingly 75 Daytime TV fare 22 26 35 40 44 21 25 28 Instructions: When this puzzle is finished, change one letter in the last word in the answer to each asterisked clue to name a food. The replacement letters, in order, will spell an appropriate phrase. ACROS S 20 99 107 100 94 101 108 102 109 112 113 116 117 76 Back-to-school time 78 “Well, that’s that!” 79 Follower of 76-Down: Abbr. 80 Suffix with election 81 Skater’s leap 82 Candy discard 83 Not to go 86 Ballroom dance from Cuba 87 Sent packing 89 Actress De Carlo of “The Munsters” 90 Out-eat? 96 E.M.T.’s procedure 97 Tiny battery 99 Smoke 101 Welsh form of “John” 103 Goddess pictured with a solar disk above her 104 Excellent, in dated slang 106 Grade-school subj. 108 Shade of green 109 Muslim-American icon |