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SUMMARY:Entire Nations Are Built on Fairy Tales: Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind
DESCRIPTION:New multi-media exhibition explores memory\, history\, and grief through science fiction and cinematic time travel.   \n\n\n\nOn view in Emerson College’s Media Art Gallery\, February 4 – March 22\, 2025. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBOSTON\, MA (January 15\, 2025) – Emerson Contemporary is proud to present Entire Nations Are Built on Fairy Tales\, featuring multi-channel films and a dramatic sculptural installation by Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind. On view in our Media Art Gallery are As If No Misfortune Had Occurred in the Night \, an Arabic-language opera on loss\, mourning and inherited trauma accompanied by a dramatic sculptural installation and a two-channel science fiction film\, In Vitro. A special one-night screening of the science fiction film In the Future They Ate from the Finest Porcelain (2016) and their latest documentary film Familiar Phantoms (2023) will augment the exhibition. \n\n\n\nIn much of their practice\, Sansour and Lind use fiction as an imaginary mode to speak to the present in a manner that diffracts the highly charged political discourse on the historic and ongoing crisis in the Middle East. By ‘time traveling’ to both a faraway past and fictionalised futures\, this exhibition explores how cinematic storytelling can open up new spaces for empathy and understanding of a shared human experience. \n\n\n\nThis exhibition is generously funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgramming \n\n\n\nFilm Screening + Artist Conversation  \n\n\n\nCome view In the Future They Ate from the Finest Porcelain (2016) and Familiar Phantoms (2023). Filmmakers Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind will be in conversation with Emerson Assistant Professor and Filmmaker Julia Halperin afterwards.  \n\n\n\nFilm screening is co-presented with the RPM Film Festival and the Salem Film Fest. \n\n\n\n\nDate: Tuesday\, February 4\, 7-9:30pm. Doors open at 6:30pm.\n\n\n\nLocation: Bright Family Screening Room\, 559 Washington St. Boston\, Ma\, 02111\n\n\n\nRSVP required for tickets: EVENTBRITE\n\n\n\n\nArtist Reception + Conversation with Larissa Sansour\, Søren Lind and exhibition curator Dr. Leonie Bradbury  \n\n\n\n\nDate: Wednesday\, February 5\, 5-7pm.\n\n\n\nLocation: Media Art Gallery\, 25 Avery Street\, Boston\, Ma 02111\n\n\n\n\nAbout the artists: Larissa Sansour and Soren Lind are an artist duo who have collaborated on various films. They live and work in London. What underscores the significance of their work in the current context is the relationship between memory\, trauma and the present to envision a more peaceful future. In 2019 they represented Denmark at the 58th Venice Biennale. \n\n\n\nLarissa Sansour studied Fine Art in Copenhagen\, London and New York. Recent solo exhibitions include Whitworth Gallery in Manchester\, KINDL in Berlin\, Copenhagen Contemporary in Denmark and Dar El-Nimer in Beirut. Soren Lind is a Danish author and director and visual artist with a background in philosophy. Lind wrote books on mind\, language\, and understanding before turning to art\, film\, and fiction. Lind screens and exhibits his films at museums\, galleries\, and film festivals worldwide.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/entire-nations-are-built-on-fairy-tales-larissa-sansour-and-soren-lind/
LOCATION:Media Art Gallery\, 25 Avery Street\, Boston\, Massachusetts\, 02111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Film Screening,Gallery Talk,Public Program,Reception
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SUMMARY:Call For Works: MOVEMENT/S
DESCRIPTION: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.  \n\n\n\nSUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Artists are welcome to submit 3-5 artworks for consideration. Works should be from a cohesive series\, exhibition-ready\, and ready to hang. We expect to select several works per artist (rather than one piece per person). Format-wise\, media could include photographs captured or created using historical or contemporary processes; videos or projections; photomontage or sculptural photographs; experimental or new media; or installations that include or allude to photography. Genre-wise\, works could include fine art\, documentary\, conceptual\, or archival. \n\n\n\nARTIST CRITERIA AND LOGISTICS: This exhibition opportunity is for emerging artists and photographers\, broadly defined. We especially encourage those from historically under-represented communities to apply. Artists must live or work in the Greater Boston area and be able to drop off and pick up the selected works to the gallery. The gallery is not able to accept shipped works or pay for shipping. The gallery cannot provide framing\, but does have an extensive equipment inventory available for use including high single-channel projectors\, iPads\, monitors etc. \n\n\n\nDEADLINE for submissions is Thursday\, February 27th at 11:59pm*There are no fees to submit work for consideration or to participate* \n\n\n\nLINK to application form: https://www.cognitoforms.com/MediaArtGallery/MOVEMENTS \n\n\n\nQUESTIONS? Email EmersonCuratorialPractices@gmail.com No phone calls pleas \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCALL NARRATIVE: A photograph is never fully still and nothing remains truly static. The act of photographing is inherently active\, requiring the photographer to move towards or follow a subject\, to observe\, to respond. Photographs aid in our understanding by collecting singular moments and circulating in a world of relentless flux.Our era has rapidly oscillated between inertia and eruption — from massive lockdowns to global protest. This endless movement is crucial for progress but can be overwhelming individually. How do we process and picture this whiplash of stasis paired together with speed? \n\n\n\nMovement/s\, a student-curated exhibition at Emerson College\, seeks photographic and lens-based works that engage\, capture\, and reflect “movement.” The call welcomes artworks that examine movement as an idea — whether anticipated or abrupt\, chaotic or controlled\, internal or external — as well as those that document political and social\, environmental and scientific\, physical and abstract movements. We also solicit series that explore the role of photography as a tool for change\, organization\, or revolution as well as those that question the fluidity\, fractures\, and futures of movement. Whether we fight\, fly\, or freeze\, “moving through” can also be a transformative pause or confrontation and invite those interpretations as well. \n\n\n\nWe especially seek projects that challenge binaries — action/inaction\, progress/rewind\, agitation/anxiety\, construction/destruction — to map where we have been\, where we are stuck\, and how we might navigate\, connect\, learn\, and move forward. Our exhibition aims to be a reflection of and meditation on our time — from its perpetual motion\, shifting tides\, restless energy\, to continuous evolution. We look forward to seeing how artists incorporate and interrogate Movement/s at this inflection point — as the weight of history presses against the present and the fierce urgency of now foreshadows the future.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/call-for-works-movement-s/
LOCATION:Boston Commons\, 139 Tremont St\, Boston\, MA\, Boston\, 02111\, United States
CATEGORIES:News,Regarding Monuments: Visualizing Hidden Histories
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