Mark Robbins Lecture
Oana Stănescu
Oana Stănescu Studio
Cover Me Softly
Cover Me Softly looks to the cover song as a model for investigating contemporary creative production. A cover is a musical performance based on an existing recording. Cover also means shelter. To protect or hide. To conceal or disguise, to extend over time or space. To run for cover, to cover one’s back. To work with what’s already there. This lecture looks beyond notions of copying, stealing, imitating, and bootlegging—that each come with their own ethical slant—offering alternate vocabularies for understanding how knowledge and authorship are circulated in art and design. By centering our vast interconnectedness, Cover Me Softly opens new realms of possibility for doing, making, and being.
