Entire Nations Are Built on Fairy Tales
By Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind
On view February 4 – March 22, 2025
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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.
what’s HAPPENING?
(Un)Making AI Worlds:
Reception & Performances
Artworks that morph theatre, choreographed movements, and poetry with machine learning
Emerson Contemporary collaborates with the Data Fluencies Theatre Project in this creative interrogation of Artificial Intelligence
March 17 – 22nd at the Huret and Spector Gallery
Reception: March 18th 4-6.30 pm
Performance Activations: March 21st and 22nd
Mirror Fields:
A Series of Art-Led Reflections
Join Rabbi Lisa Eiduson for a contemplative experience inside Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind’s exhibition. The session includes a reading, shared reflections, and a space for silent contemplation.
Tuesday, March 18th, 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Call For Works:
Seeking exhibition ready works depicting Movement/s from emerging artists in Boston
Emerson Contemporary seeks critically engaged photographic series and lens-based works for a three-week exhibition considering ideas and issues related to “movement/s.” This topical and timely show is a part of an upper-level seminar on Curatorial Practices in the department of Visual & Media Studies.
Just missed it
Larissa Sansour, Søren Lind: Artist Reception & Talk
Join Larissa Sansour, Søren Lind and exhibition curator Dr. Leonie Bradbury in an informal conversation about their latest installation “Entire Nations Are Built On Fairy Tales”
Wednesday, February 5, 5-7pm
What You Are I Was, What I Am You Will Be
Emerson College presents the Fall 2024 Photo Practicum
December 9 – 13th 2024
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