Regarding Monuments: Visualizing Hidden Histories
A temporary public art initiative in dialogue with Boston’s commemorative landscape to make hidden histories visible.
august 1, 2024 – october 31, 2025
We are Emerson College’s platform for showcasing contemporary visual art.
Our focus is on presenting living artists, their ideas, experiments, and creative practices in the areas of media art, performance art, and emergent technologies, while critically examining these works in their social context. Our in-depth engagement with the temporary exhibitions and related public programming is based on the principle that artistic practice is an intellectual activity and works of art are a form of knowledge production. Furthermore, we believe that art is essential in society as it creates dialog, asks questions, and brings people together. At Emerson Contemporary we believe that art, in fact, can help change society.
HAPPENING NOW
off the pedestal
A group exhibition comprising of artists whose work addresses the national conversation around monuments.
Featuring work by:
New Red Order (NRO)
Laura Anderson Barbata
Paula J Wilson
Opening Reception on
September 17th from 5:30 – 7:30 pm
August 1 – October 5th, 2024
COMING SOON
Artist Talk:
Laura Anderson Barbata
Meet and explore Barbata’s inspiring performance work, Indigo at the Media Art Gallery
September 18th from 5:00 – 6:00 pm
How to Commit Crimes
Against Reality:
A Talk by New Red Order (NRO)
The artist interprets contradictions inherent in a society built on both the longing for indigeneity and the violent erasure of Indigenous peoples.
Artist Talk on September 26th, 6:00 – 7:30 pm
Artist Workshop on September 27th, from 2:00 – 3:30 pm
Louis Cameron:
NOW IS THE TIME
A body of work that explores the conversation on gun violence within hip hop music,
as a part of his Hip Hop Onomatopoeia series.
October 22 – December 14th, 2024
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