The Visiting Film & Video Artists & Speakers Series at Binghamton University presents Orgone Energy Acccumulator by Kenneth White at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, September 25, in Lecture Hall Basement Studio B89.
With screening of Dušan Makavejev’s film WR: Mysteries of the Organism (1971, 85 min)
Cinema Prof. Kenneth White presents the Orgone Energy Accumulator, a mysterious device invented by the radical Freudo-Marxist Wilhelm Reich. Reich first designed the Accumulator in 1940, envisioning it as a kind of fallout shelter against rising fascism. Following Reich’s blueprints, Prof. White and the artists Peggy Ahwesh, Keith Sanborn, and Soyoung Yoon, built a new Accumulator. Prof. White will speak about the Accumulator’s purpose, history, and legacy. Followed by a screening of WR: Mysteries of the Organism, the acclaimed film on the life and work of Reich by Dušan Makavejev (1932–2019).
