Tag: ART (Page 2 of 17)

10/18 Wednesday, Week 4: Clarissa Tossin

October 10, 2023 / Jade Baker

“The Brazil-born artist has built a collaborative research-focused practice from her base in Los Angeles that addresses connective tissue that links place, history, and aesthetics. Employing moving images, installation, and sculpture, she explores their alternative narratives in both built and natural environments of extractive economies. Whether reinserting figurative traditions and ritual practices of Mayan motifs in early twentieth-century Los Angeles architecture, as in her 2017 video Ch’u Mayaa, or more broadly examining a grotesque, postlapsarian world, the artist employs the future perfect language of speculative science to propose ways of seeing our devastated present.” Tossin’s work has been exhibited widely, including in the exhibition Pacha, Llaqta, Wasichay: Indigenous Space, Modern Architecture, New Art at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York (2018), and in the Twelfth Gwangju Biennale in Gwangju, South Korea (2018).As a Radcliffe Institute Fellow at Harvard University (2017-18), Tossin worked towards the installation Encontro das Águas (Meeting of Waters) (2018), which became the subject of a solo exhibition at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, TX. The project unfolded into a new exhibition, Future Fossil (2019), commissioned by the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study at Harvard University. Tossin holds an MFA from the California Institute of Arts. She has an upcoming solo exhibition at theFrye Art Museum in Seattle, take roots among the stars OCT. 7, 2023–JAN.7, 2024

11/1 Wednesday, Week 6: Jennifer West

October 10, 2023 / Jade Baker

Jennifer West (b.1966, Topanga, CA) is a Los Angeles-based artist who has explored materialism in film for over fifteen years. She is known for her digitized films that are made by hand manipulating film celluloid. Joanna Kleinberg wrote on her work in Frieze “the intermingling of materiality, feeling and identity creates a wild blend of synaesthetic experience wherein the substances of life literally and figuratively colour the film. West’s writing has appeared in Artforum, Frieze and Mousse Magazine. West has produced sixteen zine artist books which were recently acquired by the Getty Museum.

Significant commissions include works for LIAF Biennial (2022); Seattle Art Museum (2016-2017); Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (2016); The High Line, New York, NY (2012); MIT List Visual Arts Center (2011); Aspen Art Museum (2010); and Turbine Hall at Tate Modern, London (2009). West has had solo exhibitions and presentations at the Pompidou Center, Paris (2022); Times Square Arts, New York (2021); JOAN Los Angeles (2020); Contemporary Art Museum St Louis (2018); Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China (2017); Seattle Art Museum (2016-2017); Museo d’Arte Nuoro, Sardinia (2017); Tramway, Glasgow (2016); S1 Artspace, Sheffield, UK (2012); Kunstverein Nürnberg, Germany (2010); Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, (2010); Transmission Gallery, Glasgow (2008); White Columns, New York, NY (2007). She received an MFA from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, and a BA from the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington.She has lectured widely on her ideas of the “Analogital” and is the Program Director of MFA Art and an Associate Professor of the Practice of Fine Arts at USC’s Roski School of Art and Design. In 2022, a monograph on her work, Media Archaeology was published by Radius Books, funded by a grant from the Thoma Foundation.

https://www.jweststudio.com/

10/4 Wednesday, Week 2: Malcolm Peacock

October 10, 2023 / Jade Baker

PLEASE NOTE: Malcolm requests that each audience participant come prepared with a phone or laptop device and headphones for an audio experience he will provide in the first half-hour of the lecture.

Malcolm Peacock is an artist living and working in New Orleans, LA. He is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice examines emotional and psychic spaces of Black subjects. Peacock is particularly interested in the intricacies of intimacy. “Malcolm Peacock’s art considers the affective landscape of interactive work and the powerful choreographies of small group interactions.” He has shown with Cindy Rucker Gallery, New York, Terrault Contemporary, Baltimore, and Rose Arcade, Baltimore. Select exhibits include Prospect 5: Yesterday We Said Tomorrow, New Orleans; Doing Language: Word Work, Institute of Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond. He has been a participant in residencies at The University of Pennsylvania, St. Roch Community Church, Denniston Hill, and The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. He earned a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, in 2016, and an MFA from Rutgers University, New Jersey, in 2019.

5/24 Wednesday, Week 8: Dr. Vuslat D. Katsanis

April 2, 2023 / Jade Baker

Vuslat D. Katsanis is a scholar of comparative literature, film, and visual culture with a focus on Turkish and global migrant cultural productions and critical theory since 1989. Currently a professor in the Literary Arts and Studies path of study at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA, Katsanis is also the cofounder of MinEastry of Postcollapse Art and Culture (MPAC), an independently-run curatorial project and research space in Zurich, Switzerland. She has published essays on the films of Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Fatih Akin, translated a number of short fiction and poetry between Turkish and English, coedited a volume on teaching writing, and together with MPAC, curated several contemporary multimedia art exhibitions in the Pacific Northwest and Southern California with upcoming programming in Switzerland and Türkiye. Katsanis holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Irvine, with a certificate of emphasis in Critical Theory and a M.A. in Visual Studies.

In this panel, Katsanis will join artist and MPAC cofounder Ilknur Demirkoparan in conversation with Suriname-based filmmaker, Keoni K. Wright, and the American painter, Charles Edward Williams, with whom she is co-curating Play, a multimedia contemporary art exhibition opening on June 9, 2023, in Zurich. The panelists will discuss their individual art practices as well as their collective outlook toward the future through a shared interest in worldmaking and joy. The “play” theme is inspired by the historical role of artist-run initiatives for refugee artists during the first two world wars, and specifically, the playhouse that the Dadaists established in Zurich to sustain hope amidst a fury of political and social upheavals.

https://postcollapse.art/

5/10 Wednesday, Week 6: MusicXHabitatXArt

April 2, 2023 / Jade Baker

Music X Habitat X Art is an interdisciplinary group comprised of three artists whose medium is digital artwork. Yaoyue Huang, Amelie Jiang, and Scott Sherman work together to present classical and contemporary music in new ways to audiences, engaging them visually and aurally. They merge contemporary piano music with digital art and performance installation. Their process is intensely collaborative, working with music, photographs, and re-imagining them into a final film which is a commentary on both the music and images themselves.

https://musichabitatart.com/

4/26 Wednesday, Week 4: Mark Alice Durant

April 2, 2023 / Jade Baker

Mark Alice Durant is an artist, writer, and publisher living in Baltimore. He is author of Maya Deren, Choreographed for Camera, 27 Contexts: An Anecdotal History in Photography, Robert Heinecken: A Material History, and co-author of Blur of the Otherworldly: Contemporary Art, Technology, and the Paranormal. His essays have appeared in numerous journals such as Aperture, Art in America, Photograph Magazine, Dear Dave, and many catalogs, monographs, and anthologies including Rania Matar: She, Seeing Science: How Photography Reveals the Universe, and Vik Muniz Seeing is Believing. He has served on the faculties of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, UCLA, the University of New Mexico, Syracuse University, and the Milton Avery Graduate School for the Arts at Bard College. Currently he teaches in the Visual Arts Department at the University of Maryland and is publisher / editor of Saint Lucy Books.

http://www.saintLucybooks.com

4/12 Wednesday, Week 2: Tom Comitta

April 2, 2023 / Jade Baker

Tom Comitta is the author of The Nature Book, recently out from Coffee House Press. Their other books include 〇 (Ugly Duckling Presse), Airport Novella (Troll Thread), and First Thought Worst Thought: Collected Books 2011–2014 (Gauss PDF), a print and digital archive of forty “night novels,” art books, and poetry collections. In 2015, Royal Nonesuch Gallery installed these books in a multimedia exhibition containing drawings, video, vinyl window installation, and a sound poetry computer program. Comitta’s fiction and essays have appeared in WIRED, Lit Hub, Electric Literature, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Kenyon Review, BOMB, Joyland, The Brooklyn Rail, and BAX: Best American Experimental Writing 2020. They live in Brooklyn.

https://www.tomcomitta.com/

3/1 Wednesday, Week 8: Elizabeth Chin

March 1, 2023 / Jade Baker

Elizabeth Chin is an anthropologist and ethnographer with a varied practice that includes performative scholarship, collaborative research, vernacular electronics, and experimental writing. Chin’s work interrogates race and racism with fieldwork in the US and Haiti. Currently Chin is Editor in Chief of American Anthropologist. Her work includes My Life With Things: The Consumer Diaries, published in 2016

https://elizabethjchin.com.

2/15 Wednesday, Week 6: Sean Negus

March 1, 2023 / Jade Baker

Sean Negus is a writer and artist who works in the expanded field of poetics. In addition to a book of poems published bilingually in Portuguese and English, Hurricane Music, he has also published an artist book in limited edition, Congeries. Transmedia projects of his have explored forms of visuality, performativity, and collaboration. As a translator and editor of contemporary Brazilian and Portuguese poetry they have edited, Saccades as well as DUSIE 21. Professor in Writing and Literature and also Critical Studies at both California College of the Arts and Santa Clara University, their current work inquiring archival poetics has been recently exhibited in publications by the Goethe-Institute and Tasaworat Collective.

http://www.transpoiesis.com

2/1 Wednesday, Week 4: Neely Goniodsky

February 28, 2023 / Jade Baker

Neely Goniodsky has directed and animated over twenty-five short films including productions at the National Film Board of Canada, The New York Times, and Seattle University. She holds a master’s degree in Animation from Royal College of Arts, London, and a bachelor’s degree in Animation from Concordia University, Montreal. Neely has been animating for over 15 years with her works reflecting an ever-ongoing search for new styles and expressions. Neely is interested in interpreting the human condition through abstract narrative and visual experimentation attempting to translate reality into visual poetry. She explores a combination of traditional animation techniques including ink and paint on paper, cut-out collage, under the camera animation, computer drawing, and 2D computer animation. Beyond animation, Neely’s works include video installations, paintings, drawings, and collage.

http://neelygoniodsky.com/

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