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SUMMARY:Student Lightning Talks for "GATHER"
DESCRIPTION:Join us for this unique opportunity to hear student-curators deliver short talks about the artists of GATHER!  \n\n\n\nGATHER was curated by upper-level Emerson undergraduate students (listed below) as part of the seminar VM415 “Curating Contemporary Art\,” taught and led by Leslie K. Brown\, PhD. As a part of the class and the exhibition\, students are responsible for all aspects of the exhibition\, encompassing graphic designs\, loan agreements\, object checklists\, educational didactics\, social media assets\, and press materials. \n\n\n\nEmerging student-curators of GATHER: Abigail Andrews\, Anjali Bakhru\, Dylan Boyd\, Sophie Dodd\, Claire English\, Julia Giammarco\, Lang Han\, Ruyi Huang\, Kitty Lei\, Daniel Petrylka\, Arlo Rader\, Jie Sun\, Bianca Todini\, Maya Wang.  The students in Emerson Curatorial Practices represent majors from Media Arts Production (SOF)\, Writing\, Literature & Publishing (WLP)\, and Interdisciplinary Studies (IDS)\, with minors as diverse as Art History\, Curatorial Practice & Visual Culture\, History\, Philosophy\, Psychology\, Religion\, and Science. \n\n\n\nRSVP for the Lightning Talks \n\n\n\nImage: Beth D’Elia\, 45 objects/Mum\, 2025\, from the series “Holding\,” 10 x 8 inch cyanotypes on paper\, 50 x 72 inches\, courtesy of the artist 
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/student-lightning-talks/
LOCATION:Huret/Spector Gallery
CATEGORIES:Gallery Talk,Public Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260326T173000
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SUMMARY:Artist Presention and Mindfulness Exercise with Julia Krupa
DESCRIPTION:Julia Krupa\, Herstory Paintings\, installation view. \n\n\n\n\n\nArtist Julia Krupa creates large-scale paintings with herbs and other plants she forages from rural Poland\, where she is based. She is visiting Boston as one of the four artists in A Sentient Land: Artistic Alliances with Forests\, Beetles\, Salt\, and Air. Learn how Julia makes dyes with plants\, along with her doctoral research informing this process. A fascinating part of her process involves interviewing elder herbalists based in the Carpathian region of Southern Poland. Her field work and research evolve into paintings and innovative\, panoramic video documentation\, both of which are on view in the space where the workshop takes place. \n\n\n\nNo prior skills or materials required to attend.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/workshop-creating-herbal-dyes-with-julia-krupa/
LOCATION:Emerson Contemporary
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Exhibition,Gallery Talk,Public Program
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SUMMARY:In Conversation: Julia Krupa and Eileen Ryan
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, March 26\, 12–1 PM \n\n\n\nJoin us for a conversation with artists Julia Krupa and Eileen Ryan as they discuss their work in A Sentient Land: Aesthetic Alliances with Forests\, Beetles\, Salt\, and Air. \n\n\n\nKrupa and Ryan will explore their innovative artistic practices that blur the boundaries between creator and material. Through methods\, including oral history and specimen collection\, forge collaborative relationships with natural elements—inviting beetles and herbs to become active participants in the creative process. \n\n\n\nThis conversation delves into the intersections of science\, aesthetics\, and spirituality that shape their work. Together\, these artists\, who created immersive installations in A Sentient Land\, address questions central to the exhibition: How do we translate on behalf of non-human materials? What role do speculation and anthropomorphism play in fostering interspecies connections? How can artistic practice generate greater empathy and hope for our shared future? \n\n\n\nFree and open to the public. A Sentient Land: Aesthetic Alliances with Forests\, Beetles\, Salt\, and Air is on view through March 28\, 2026\, at Emerson Contemporary\, 25 Avery Street\, Boston.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/in-conversation-julia-krupa-and-eileen-ryan/
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Exhibition,Gallery Talk,Public Program
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SUMMARY:In Conversation: Nelly-Eve Rajotte and Margaux Crump
DESCRIPTION:Top: Margaux Crump\, bottom: Nelly-Eve Rajotte. \n\n\n\n\n\nIn conjunction with A Sentient Land: Aesthetic Alliances with Forests\, Beetles\, Salt\, and Air \n\n\n\nThursday\, January 22\, 2026 | 12–1 PMEmerson Contemporary25 Avery Street\, Boston\, MA 02111 \n\n\n\nJoin artists Nelly-Eve Rajotte and Margaux Crump for an intimate conversation about their innovative practices of collaboration with the natural world. \n\n\n\nRajotte will discuss her work with bio-sonification and how she enables trees to generate their own sonic landscapes\, including her installation Les arbres communiquent entre eux à 220 hertz\, which translates forest communication into immersive audiovisual experience. Crump will share insights into her process of working with materials as co-creators\, exploring how stones\, beetles\, and other elements inform the artistic outcome. \n\n\n\nTogether\, they’ll explore questions at the heart of A Sentient Land: How do we share authorship with non-human collaborators? What does it mean to translate on behalf of materials? How can art deepen our empathy and connection across species? \n\n\n\nThis conversation offers a rare opportunity to hear directly from two artists reimagining the relationship between maker and material\, challenging us to consider the agency of the more-than-human world. \n\n\n\nFree and open to the publicNo registration required
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/in-conversation-nelly-eve-rajotte-and-margaux-crump/
CATEGORIES:Artist Spotlight,Artist Talk,Exhibition,Gallery Talk,Public Program
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251119T193000
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SUMMARY:In Conversation: Artists Jack Gruman and Logan Puleikis of VHF Studio will be talking with Malic Amalya
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, November 19\, Artists talk 6:30- 7:30pm\, 6pm doors –  \n\n\n\nIn Conversation: Artists Jack Gruman and Logan Puleikis of VHF Studio will talk with Malic Amalya\, Assistant Professor of Experimental Media and Film Production\, about the conceptual underpinnings of their installation “Narcissus look back: and they love you\,” that is currently on view at the Emerson Media Art Gallery until December 13th. \n\n\n\nThis embodied\, multi-sensory experience with a camp aesthetic explores loneliness as a collective experience in our current moment. They will discuss the tenuous and often shifting relationship between spectator and performer\, loops of identity\, and the duality of being haunted/haunting. With Malic Amalaya\, the artists will discuss major influences on their piece\, the political and moral values intrinsic to their work\, and the challenges they’ve faced making and relating to art at this socio-political moment. \n\n\n\n\nVHF STUDIO is a new media collective founded by artists Jack Gruman and Logan Puleikis. As collaborators they make genre-defying installation work\, blurring the boundaries of “low” and “high” art. They pull inspiration from the queer club scene\, haunted houses\, and popular media to create high concept large-scale multi-channel video and sound installations. \n\n\n\n\nModerated by Dr. Leonie Bradbury \n\n\n\nLocation: Media Art Gallery\, 25 Avery Street\, Boston\, MA
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/in-conversation-artists-jack-gruman-and-logan-puleikis-of-vhf-studio-will-be-talking-with-malic-amalya/
CATEGORIES:Artist Spotlight,Artist Talk,Gallery Talk,Public Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251021T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251021T200000
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SUMMARY:In Conversation: Clint Baclawski and Iwalani Kaluhiokalani
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday October 21\, Talk from 6:30- 7:30pm\, 6pm doors \n\n\n\nIn Conversation: Join multidisciplinary installation artists Iwalani Kaluhiokalani and photographer Clint Baclawski as they discuss space\, time\, color and motion in their work on view as part of Echoes of the Heart until December 13\, 2025. Moderated by Dr. Leonie Bradbury. \n\n\n\nLocation: Media Art Gallery\, 25 Avery Street\, Boston\, MA \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nClint Baclawski works with photography\, technology\, light\, and space. He received his BFA in Advertising Photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology\, Post-Baccalaureate from Bucknell University\, and an MFA from Massachusetts College of Art in Design. He is Boston-based and has been an adjunct professor in Graduate Studies at MassArt since 2017. In 2022\, Baclawski had residencies in both Venice\, Italy\, and Wassaic\, NY.  \n\n\n\nHe was awarded a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship Grant in Photography in 2019. Baclawski exhibits his work extensively throughout the United States\, and his work is included in many private and institutional collections including Children’s Hospital\, Dana Farber Cancer Institute\, Whitehead Institute\, and Fidelity. He has been published in Boston Art Review\, FRAME (Amsterdam)\, Boston Home Magazine\, Designboom\, The Boston Globe\, and The Collector’s Guide to New Art Photography Volume II (New York\, NY). Clint’s studio is located in Boston’s South End. \n\n\n\nIwalani Kaluhiokalani is a Boston-based painter and interdisciplinary installation artist whose work centers movement. She holds a BFA in Painting with Distinction and Departmental Honors from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston\, where she also studied dance and performance art in the Studio for Interrelated Media (SIM) program. She later continued studies in Laban Bartenieff Movement Analysis\, completing a Laban Institute of Movement Studies program at Lesley College\, Cambridge\, MA.  \n\n\n\nKaluhiokalani is part of Kingston Gallery\, Boston and her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions at Bromfield Gallery\, Boston\, The Pfizer Building and LabCentral of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)\, Cambridge\, New Art Center Newton\, and La Traverse/Catherine Bastide Projects in Marseille\, France. She has created installation work for corporate collections and for the ACTivate residency at Boston Center For the Arts. Kaluhiokalani’s work is held in individual and corporate private collections.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/in-conversation-clint-baclawski-and-iwalani-kaluhiokalani/
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Exhibition,Gallery Talk,Public Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251014T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251014T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T220510
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SUMMARY:In Conversation: Elisa Hamilton\, Clareese Hill and Ruth Clemens
DESCRIPTION:Hidden Histories Artists Elisa Hamilton and Dr. Clareese Hill will be in conversation with scholar Dr. Ruth Clemens. Moderated by Curator-in-Residence Dr. Leonie Bradbury for a discussion about the expansive role of speculative\, cartographic\, and de-colonial historical research methods. \n\n\n\nDr. Ruth Clemens’ broad research interests cover film\, cultural analysis\, and comparative literary studies. Her work explores the intersections between textuality and materiality\, media and politics\, and language and technology. Her research interests are varied\, with through-lines of critical post-humanism and the avant-garde across media\, film\, sound\, and visual arts and the materiality of culture. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nElisa H. Hamilton is a socially engaged multimedia artist who creates artworks and community-centered projects that emphasize shared spaces and the hopeful examination of our everyday places\, objects\, and experiences. She holds a BFA in Painting from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and an MA in Civic Media from Emerson College. Her most recent project Glimpses of Glapion presents a series of digital vignettes honoring the life and legacy of a historic figure Louis Glapion in the augmented reality application Hoverlay as part the the exhibition Hidden Histories and the City of Boston’s Un-monument Initiative. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Clareese Hill is a practice-based art researcher in XR and Immersive Media. She explores the validity of the word “identity” through her perspective as an Afro-Caribbean American woman and her societal role projected on her to perform as a Black feminist academic. Her most recent project The Black Boston Dream Oracle is a speculative reimagining of The Complete Fortune Teller and Dream Book written by Chloe Russel\, a 19th-century Black  \n\n\n\nOur artist centered public programming is supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts. Hidden Histories is funded by the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture’s Un-monument initiative\, supported by a grant from the Mellon Foundation
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/in-conversation-elisa-hamilton-clareese-hill-and-ruth-clemens/
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Gallery Talk,Public Program,Regarding Monuments: Visualizing Hidden Histories
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251014T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251014T130000
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SUMMARY:Lecture by Ruth Clemens: “Cultures\, Technologies\, and Media of the Sonic War Machine."
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday October 14\, 12-1pm  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLecture by Ruth Clemens\, “Cultures\, Technologies\, and Media of the Sonic War Machine.” Focusing on aural media and forgotten sound technologies from the early 20th century\, this lecture presents a story of unexpected consequences that connects the international Dadaist avant-garde to 1940s Hollywood to military technologies and communication systems. \n\n\n\nClemens’ broad research interests cover film\, cultural analysis\, and comparative literary studies. Her work explores the intersections between textuality and materiality\, media and politics\, and language and technology. Her research interests are varied\, with through-lines of critical post-humanism and the avant-garde across media\, film\, sound\, and visual arts and the materiality of culture. \n\n\n\nLocation: Media Art Gallery\, 25 Avery Street\, Boston\, MA
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/lecture-by-ruth-clemens-cultures-technologies-and-media-of-the-sonic-war-machine/
CATEGORIES:Gallery Talk,Public Program,Regarding Monuments: Visualizing Hidden Histories
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251004T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251004T153000
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SUMMARY:Augmented Reality Public Art Walking Tour: Elisa Hamilton and Clareese Hill
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, October 4\, 2025\, 2-3:30pm \n\n\n\nJoin artists Elisa Hamilton and Clareese Hill on a special artist lead walking tour of their two new public art projects Glimpses of Glapion and The Black Boston Dream Oracle in the Beacon Hill neighborhood. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation: Meet at the Boston Common Visitors Center\, 139 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA.  \n\n\n\nElisa Hamilton’s project Glimpses of Glapion will present a series of digital vignettes honoring the life and legacy of Louis Glapion. Glapion was a French\, biracial hairdresser and barber who\, together with his friend George Middleton\, built and owned what is now considered the oldest extant house in Beacon Hill\, located at 5 Pinckney Street. While more is known about Middleton\, the artist’s research has uncovered glimpses of Glapion that speak to an interesting and noteworthy life based in Beacon Hill. Hamilton seeks to honor Glapion and enliven curiosity about his lived experiences in our city. The AR experience will be available on Hoverlay and accompanied by a research document designed for educational purposes.  \n\n\n\nClareese Hill’s The Black Boston Dream Oracle is a speculative reimagining of The Complete Fortune Teller and Dream Book written by Chloe Russel\, a 19th-century Black woman from Massachusetts. By blending historical wisdom with future-focused fabulations\, the Black Boston Dream Oracle will provide a unique space for reflection\, healing\, and imagining new possibilities for liberation and collective well-being through early Black feminist thought. The Oracle will be presented as an Extended Reality (XR) experience available on the Hoverlay application\, accompanied by a web-based research document designed for educational purposes.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/walking-tour-elisa-hamilton-and-clareese-hill/
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Exhibition,Gallery Talk,Public Program,Regarding Monuments: Visualizing Hidden Histories
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250318T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250318T130000
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SUMMARY:Mirror Fields: A Series of Art-Led Reflections in the Media Art Gallery
DESCRIPTION:March 17\, 2026\n\n\nSpecial Gallery Event in conjunction with the Larissa Sansour  and Søren Lind exhibition \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin Rabbi Lisa Eiduson for a contemplative experience inside the newest exhibition Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind: Entire Nations Are Built on Fairy Tales. On view are two films and a dramatic reflecting pool that invite meditations on memory\, multigenerational trauma\, and sorrow. Participants will be invited to take in a reading and some words of wisdom on the themes brought forth by the artworks and then are invited to share their own experiences\, listen to others’ or simply sit in silence. \n\n\n\n12:00-1:00 pm on Tuesday\, March 18\, 2025 Led by Rabbi Eiduson \n\n\n\nCurrently serving as the Interim Director of Emerson College’s Center of Spiritual Life\, Rabbi Eiduson is a member of the clergy team at Temple Shir Tikva in Wayland\, MA. There she teaches\, leads services\, officiates at life-cycle events\, preaches\, and organizes programming. She believes deeply in education and feels that learning\, when applied\, is the best avenue for promoting understanding among people.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/mirror-fields-a-series-of-art-led-reflections-in-the-media-art-gallery-3/
LOCATION:Media Art Gallery
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Gallery Talk,Public Program,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250225T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250225T130000
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SUMMARY:Mirror Fields: A Series of Art-Led Reflections in the Media Art Gallery
DESCRIPTION:Special Gallery Event in conjunction with the Larissa Sansour  and Søren Lind exhibition \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin Rabbi Lisa Eiduson for a contemplative experience inside the newest exhibition Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind: Entire Nations Are Built on Fairy Tales. On view are two films and a dramatic reflecting pool that invite meditations on memory\, multigenerational trauma\, and sorrow. Participants will be invited to take in a reading and some words of wisdom on the themes brought forth by the artworks and then are invited to share their own experiences\, listen to others’ or simply sit in silence. \n\n\n\n12:00-1:00 pm on Tuesday\, February 25\, 2025 Led by Rabbi Eiduson \n\n\n\nCurrently serving as the Interim Director of Emerson College’s Center of Spiritual Life\, Rabbi Eiduson is a member of the clergy team at Temple Shir Tikva in Wayland\, MA. There she teaches\, leads services\, officiates at life-cycle events\, preaches\, and organizes programming. She believes deeply in education and feels that learning\, when applied\, is the best avenue for promoting understanding among people.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/mirror-fields-a-series-of-art-led-reflections-in-the-media-art-gallery-2/
LOCATION:Media Art Gallery
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Gallery Talk,Public Program,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250211T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250211T130000
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SUMMARY:Mirror Fields: A Series of Art-Led Reflections in the Media Art Gallery
DESCRIPTION:Special Gallery Event in Conjunction with Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind exhibition: Entire Nations Are Built on Fairy Tales on view in the Media Art Gallery. \n\n\n\nJoin Rabbi Lisa Eiduson for a contemplative experience inside the newest exhibition Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind: Entire Nations Are Built on Fairy Tales. On view are two films and a dramatic reflecting pool that invite meditations on memory\, multigenerational trauma\, and sorrow. Participants will be invited to take in a reading and some words of wisdom on the themes brought forth by the artworks and then are invited to share their own experiences\, listen to others’ or simply sit in silence. Light refreshments will be served \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n12:00-1:00 pm on Tuesday\, February 11\, 2025 Led by Rabbi Eiduson \n\n\n\n12:00-1:00 pm on Tuesday\, February 25\, 2025 Led by Rabbi Eiduson \n\n\n\nCurrently serving as the Interim Director of Emerson College’s Center of Spiritual Life\, Rabbi Eiduson is a member of the clergy team at Temple Shir Tikva in Wayland\, MA. There she teaches\, leads services\, officiates at life-cycle events\, preaches\, and organizes programming. She believes deeply in education and feels that learning\, when applied\, is the best avenue for promoting understanding among people.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/mirror-fields-a-series-of-art-led-reflections-in-the-media-art-gallery/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Gallery Talk,Public Program,Workshop
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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:Transforming Boston: Art and Technology Incubator
DESCRIPTION:A workshop series conducted by Michael Lewy  \n\n\n\n\n\nTransforming Boston: Art and Technology Incubator is our public-facing artist training and mentorship initiative\, which offers access to new media technology for artists to either translate previous work or create new work. The incubator serves practicing artists who have faced obstacles due to the high start-up costs of these design tools and the cultural barriers within the new media art field. Ten artists from the Boston area have been invited to participate in this year’s program focused on Augmented Reality and develop their skills while designing a project. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis weekly confluence of ideas & creative exploration features guest lectures by Nicolas Robbe\, Lauren Moffett\, and Liz Nofziger. The goal of the 2024 incubator is to offer training opportunities and access to technology for artists to either translate previous work or create new work in the medium of augmented reality (AR). The program provides assistance with the production process\, technology exploration and mentorship.  \n\n\n\nThe 2025 cohort will focus on projection mapping.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/transforming-boston-art-and-technology-incubator/
LOCATION:Media Art Gallery\, 25 Avery Street\, Boston\, Massachusetts\, 02111
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Gallery Talk,News,Regarding Monuments: Visualizing Hidden Histories
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SUMMARY:Kameelah J. Rasheed's Book Launch (NEW DATE)
DESCRIPTION:Attend the artist’s Scratch Disk Full launch event. THIS EVENT HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED DUE TO ARTIST ILLNESS to TUESDAY\, FEB. 27.. \n\n\n\n\n\nJoin our artist in residence Kameelah J. Rasheed for the launch of her book\, Scratch Disk FullAttendees will receive a complimentary copy of the publication. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nScratch Disks Full asks\, in the spirit of Sankofa: What did you leave behind? What would happen if you went back and got it? Scratch Disks Full is a publishing project for those with leaky sensory gating\, sprawling interests\, kinetic brains\, and “too many ideas.” We publish the excess\, the dirty data\, the spillage\, the noise\, the leftover\, and the unfulfilled.  \n\n\n\nA scratch disk is a hard disk used as a workspace to store data temporarily. In applications like Adobe Photoshop\, the scratch disk is used to hold the data being edited. When an error reads “… the scratch disks are full.” it means there is not enough space on the drive to perform the upcoming task. The users need to find space elsewhere or end the process; they are left holding the excess energy of an unfulfilled action.  \n\n\n\nScratch Disks Full is a publishing project producing readers\, workbooks\, and lo-fi playthings exploring the excess of an exhibition\, piece of writing\, lecture\, performance\, or even other publication. By excess\, we do not mean process work leading up to a final work; we literally mean the embodied experiences you could not give yourself over to due to spiritual unreadiness\, the sentences you had to blunt because there was not enough time for further editing; the feral idea that blossomed during a performance and began to shape you as much as you shaped it.  \n\n\n\nThis offering will explore the excess of the current exhibition — notes\, diagrams\, excerpts of writing\, and other leftovers. \n\n\n\nChristopher Gregory for The New York Times\n\n\n\nA learner\, Kameelah Janan Rasheed explores writing practices across all species\,states of living\, states of consciousness\, and substrates. Curious about the poetics and possibilities of loss\, ruin\, and failure in the reading and writing process\, Rasheedexplores Black knowledge production and fugitivity. She creates sprawling\,“architecturally-scaled” installations; public installations; publications; prints;performances; performance scores; poems; video; and other forms yet to bedetermined. Most recently\, she is a recipient of a 2023 Working Artist Fellowship; a2022 Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research; a 2022 Creative Capital Award; a2022 Artists + Machine Intelligence Grants – Experiments with Google; and a 2021Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts.Her recent solo exhibitions include KW Institute of Contemporary Art (2023)\, Art Institute of Chicago (2023)\, and Kunstverein Hannover (2022). In 2024\, she will have a solo exhibition at REDCAT (Los Angeles\, CA). Rasheed is the author of five artists’ books:in the coherence\, we weep (KW Institute\, 2023); i am not done yet (Mousse Publishing\,2022); An Alphabetical Accumulation of Approximate Observations (Endless Editions\,2019); No New Theories (Printed Matter\, 2019); and the digital publication Scoring theStacks (Brooklyn Public Library\, 2021). She is an adjunct instructor at the Cooper Unionand Barnard College\, a Critic at Yale School of Art\, Sculpture\, and an instructor at theSchool for Poetic Computation. Rasheed founded Orange Tangent Study\, a consultingbusiness that provides artist microgrants and supports individuals and institutions indesigning expansive and liberatory learning experiences. \n\n\n\nRasheed is represented by NOME Gallery in Berlin\, Germany.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/kameelah-j-rasheeds-book-launch/
LOCATION:Media Art Gallery\, 25 Avery Street\, Boston\, Massachusetts\, 02111
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Gallery Talk,Public Program,Reception
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SUMMARY:Writing With Word Games (**NEW DATE)
DESCRIPTION:Learn from visual artist Kameelah J. Rasheed. NEW DATE: MONDAY\, 26\, 2-4pm\, FEBRUARY. \n\n\n\n\n\nJoin our artist in residence Kameelah J. Rasheed in a Writing With Word Games workshop. \n\n\n\nRegister for this workshop over here. \n\n\n\nWriting With Word Games\, a text score workshop\, Friday\, February 26\, 2-4pm. Registration required: Eventbrite  \n\n\n\nLocation: Media Art Gallery\, 25 Avery Street\, Boston\, MA. \n\n\n\nGet out of your way and learn to write with games\, constraints\, and algorithms. The workshop’s purpose is not to create a perfect piece of writing; rather\, it is an invitation to get a bit feral and messy as we pull language into our orbit. Each participant will leave with a writing prompt created by another attendee. \n\n\n\ni am not done yet\, 2022. Solo at Kunstverein Hannover (Hannover\, DE) Archival Inkjet Prints\, Vellum\, Xerox Paper\, Acetate\, Plexiglass\, Acrylic\, Watercolor\, India Ink and Oil Stick Painting\, Video \n\n\n\nThe multimedia site-specific installation combines new video drafts and existing video works from the last three years. All created using some form of a writing and video editing constraint\, these works live alongside several 2D works also created using constraints to explore the agility and limitations of language. With an investment in Black experimental poetics\, non-linear cosmologies\, and fugivity\, Rasheed asks\, “What can be captured through writing? What is lost? And how can this inevitable loss be an invitation to consider other modes of communication?”
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/writing-with-word-games/
LOCATION:Media Art Gallery\, 25 Avery Street\, Boston\, Massachusetts\, 02111
CATEGORIES:Gallery Talk,Performance,Public Program,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Musician Julian Saporiti approaches refugee storytelling with compassion
DESCRIPTION:By Maddie Browning \n\n\n\nBerklee alum Julian Saporiti releases music inspired by his fieldwork and research on Asian American history under the pseudonym No-No Boy – a reference to John Okada’s novel of the same name.  \n\n\n\nA selection of his songs and music videos are a part of Emerson Contemporary’s “One Day We’ll Go Home” exhibition on display through December 16.  \n\n\n\nEmerson Contemporary chatted with Saporiti on Zoom about his favorite musical artists\, collaborating on artistic projects with his wife\, and checking his privilege with the monks at Blue Cliff Monastery. \n\n\n\nEC: What artists are you inspired by? \n\n\n\nSaporiti: There’s a painting in the MFA in Boston called “Slave Ship” by [Joseph Mallord William] Turner\, and when I was in school at Berklee\, I would go see that painting a lot. It’s a really horrible subject matter\, it’s this wrecked slave ship\, so it’s all these bodies in the ocean but it’s full of [these] beautiful sunset or sunrise colors – oranges and pinks – mixed with the turbulence of the ocean. So that was always super striking\, and very similar to a lot of the work that I do\, which is dealing with stories of people crossing oceans under not so good circumstances. But that painting\, I was always entranced by that when I lived in Boston\, and I would go see that all the time.  \n\n\n\nEC: What are some of your favorite musicians? \n\n\n\nSaporiti: When I was in Boston\, as a [college student]\, I used to go to the symphony every week and the BSO because they had a student card\, so you go every Thursday for like 25 bucks a semester. I remember I saw this piece\, Hector Berlioz is the composer\, and he wrote a piece called “The Damnation of Faust\,” which is this overwhelming three choruses based on the Faust mythology\, and that’s one of my favorite pieces of music of all time. And then I also love the rock and roll or hard rock I grew up with like Rage Against the Machine and Weezer and Nirvana and all that grunge stuff. And then my dad’s record collection\, The Beatles\, Beach Boys\, Joni Mitchell\, Neil Young\, Bob Dylan.  \n\n\n\nI like all that very entrenched\, canonized stuff\, but my favorite experiences are just hearing someone in front of me play an instrument. It doesn’t even have to be a particular piece of music. It’s just like\, if there’s a clarinet player in an Italian restaurant\, I’m always drifting out of whatever conversation I’m in to hear just the sound of their instrument. I’m really appreciative of live music because there’s just something so captivating and infinite in that very small experience that you can’t get with recorded music.  \n\n\n\nEC: Your music is rooted in storytelling. How do you use different sounds to tell those stories? \n\n\n\nSaporiti: A lot of different ways. Sometimes it’s just textures of different instruments [that] might fit a lyric\, you know\, the difference between a plucked guitar with your fingers to a nice ethereal keyboard pad or something. I use a lot of samples\, and I tell a lot of stories that are based on my historic research as an academic – these histories of Asian American folks and refugees and immigrants mostly. I sample from my field research sites\, so if I go to an old refugee camp or something\, I’ll knock on the barbed wire or the wood\, and then I’ll turn that into a drum kit. So that’s what you hear on my recorded music to try to use the textures and real audible sounds of history inside the records themselves.  \n\n\n\nEmpire Electric by No-No Boy\, album cover. \n\n\n\nEC: What has your experience been like collaborating with your wife\, Emilia\, who directs and does lettering for your music videos featured in “One Day We’ll Go Home”? \n\n\n\nSaporiti: Awesome because we want to be around each other as much as possible. That’s why we got married. I have found someone who I just love sharing my life with\, and my life is so artistically driven\, it would kind of be impossible for me to be in a full time relationship with someone if they didn’t share in that and vice versa. Like right now you’ve caught me in the middle of her law school exam final week\, so I’m basically chauffeur and making all the meals and helping her study with flashcards and making sure the sleep schedule is good. So we look at everything we do as a team. And she’s a wonderful artist in her own right – a visual artist. She helps me produce the songs that I make as well. She sings when we perform live. She also has sewn this incredible stage jacket I wear in one of the videos which has hand embroidered little stories from my Vietnamese American childhood on it. \n\n\n\nEC: Tell me a little bit more about the songs you included in “One Day We’ll Go Home” and what stories you are telling. \n\n\n\nSaporiti: “Boat People” is in there and that is very central to the Vietnamese American story because I think most refugees or a good deal of us can trace their families where they directly came over as boat people. These folks who had to escape South Vietnam on these rickety little fishing boats. That song is taken directly from an archival interview of this guy who was a boat person who went to Canada. The lyrics basically tell this really cinematic story of this guy\, Dr. Tran\, who eventually made it to Montreal but he had to escape Vietnam\, got into this little fishing\, boat pirates attacked them\, eventually made it to Pulau Bidong – this refugee camp off the coast of Malaysia. It’s harrowing\, and I think that it’s really important to tell one story at a time as a teacher and also as a songwriter because it’s really hard for students or for listeners to take in a million people. You can’t understand that number\, so boiling it down to telling these personal stories detail by detail\, and then setting it to music\, I think that’s a very emotional way to speak to this larger humanity issue of refugees and immigrants and movements of people – things that are happening right now in the Middle East\, right now in Asia and Central America. This is just one person\, but if you can empathize with that one person\, then maybe you can empathize more deeply with the global issue of refugees and displacement. \n\n\n\nEC: In conducting your field work\, how do you go about talking to refugees when you’re working on new music? \n\n\n\nSaporiti: I never talk to anyone with a goal of anything. I just explore and hang out and talk to people like people\, and then if it comes up that they have an interesting story\, and they share that with me\, I might ask questions I’d ask anyone. If we’re having a drink at a bar\, I would talk to everyone the same way\, you know\, just be a good hang. That’s something they should lead off with [in] anthropology classes\, just be a good hang\, don’t needle people to relive their trauma. It’ll come out if it comes out. And if it doesn’t\, it doesn’t\, and that’s all right. That’s something I had to learn when I first started interviewing people for my No-No Boy project. I was talking to a lot of people who used to live in a Japanese internment camp in Wyoming during World War II\, and I would kind of right off the bat be like\, “Tell me about the worst three years of your life\,” which is a [expletive] up thing. Because\, as someone who comes from some really harsh family history\, you don’t want to define people by the worst parts of their life.  \n\n\n\nI’ve gone down and hung out in the Mexican camps across the border just to\, especially as a son of a refugee\, see what’s happening now and speak against it\, tell people what I’ve seen\, help out if I can. And it’s kind of up to [the refugees] what they want to share and just try to go in with a sense of reciprocity\, giving something first before you take something away from them\, which is their story.  \n\n\n\nI always bring down those Instax Polaroid cameras and just take pictures for people who have lost everything and having a picture of their kid means a lot to carry with them and then giving them the camera and a ton of film so they can take pictures of their friends. That little stuff\, that can mean a lot\, and then maybe you get some cool conversations and maybe that turns into art or songs\, but that’s really secondary.  \n\n\n\nEC: Your song “Little Monk” on [your third album] Empire Electric is inspired by your experience at Blue Cliff [Monastery]. How does that experience influence your music going forward? \n\n\n\nSaporiti: Pretty completely. My wife and I weren’t married at the time but we had started dating at Brown University. She had graduated with a sociology degree\, and I could leave campus because I was a PhD student\, and I had all my coursework done. And we just wanted to get out of there. When you’re 18 to 22\, you’re never more aware. You don’t have mortgages to pay yet or kids to worry about\, so that’s when the world really is spitting in your face the most\, and you notice it\, and you still have energy. Brown is a particularly liberal\, progressive\, activisty place\, and it was so scary to be there at that point in time\, because there were a lot of people just yelling about everything constantly and not really necessarily being informed about what they were yelling about. They were protesting everything but how rich those kids were\, never protests about economic class but everything else\, but with no substance behind it. I wanted calm in my life. I wanted the world to change. That’s why I went down to the Mexican border during a spring break to see these refugee camps for myself\, instead of just yelling about what people were yelling about on Facebook. I wanted to actually go see for myself and see if I could actually help out. \n\n\n\nThe monks will sort you out because they just don’t buy into that because there’s greater truths for them. That’s not to say they don’t acknowledge there’s pain and suffering in the world. That’s what Buddhism is about. It’s acknowledging suffering and trying to overcome it in your life. I felt like I was just angry and I felt a poison in me from all the politics in the world\, and all the suffering and [the monks] gave me tools to deal with that whether that was meditation or mindfulness stuff\, just walking around. And yeah\, that has sort of dictated my path. I don’t really use social media anymore. I’ll read the newspaper once a week instead of doom scroll constantly to see all the hell that’s happening because it’s not going to change in a week’s time. If I read one good article about the war over in the Middle East that’s going to be pretty thorough\, and I’ll catch up on what’s happened that week.  \n\n\n\nI think what I learned is to tend to your own garden. I don’t want to yell about what’s happening at a southern border if I’m being an [expletive] to my friend that week. That’s something I can help. I can help being present and helping someone else that I know and love instead of abstractly spinning out because the world is on fire. And also checking my own privilege\, right? I’m someone who has a PhD\, and makes a living doing art. I have a beautiful wife\, I have a roof over my head\, which has not always been the case in my life and\, talking about refugees\, is not the case for a lot of people now. The monks really helped me check my privilege and get out of that elite campus protester culture. They let me empty out and see that life is still wonderful for some people. For some people it’s not\, but for me\, it is\, and let me acknowledge that first and take solace and strength in that and then see how I can help the people in my community or if I do go somewhere where I can help. \n\n\n\nThis interview has been edited and condensed for clarity. 
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/musician-julian-saporiti-approaches-refugee-storytelling-with-compassion/
CATEGORIES:Artist Spotlight,Artist Talk,Gallery Talk,News
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SUMMARY:Truth Be Told: (Re)Considering Innovation\, Transformation\, and Genius through the Lens of Jazz\, Gender\, and Justice
DESCRIPTION:Grammy Award winning artist Terri Lyne Carrington recently conceived and curated the New Standards Exhibit\, celebrating the work of women composers and performers who have been either under-acknowledged or rendered invisible regarding the overall representation of the art form. This multidisciplinary exhibit imagines the sound of jazz through the lens of gender justice and is now open in Boston. \nModerated by Danny Rivera\, our panelists Terri Lyne Carrington\, Somi\, and Patricia Zarate Perez will lead a dynamic discussion considering the themes of gender\, race\, innovation\, and transformation featured throughout the New Standards Exhibit. \nEvent is free and open to the public\, please RSVP here. \n 
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/truth-be-told-reconsidering-innovation-transformation-and-genius-through-the-lens-of-jazz-gender-and-justice/
CATEGORIES:Gallery Talk,Public Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230324T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230324T133000
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SUMMARY:EL Putnam Artist Talk
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, March 24\, 2023 \nJoin us for a audio-visual presentation on EL Putnam’s artist practice. Putnam will discuss recent performance and video works. \nLocation: Media Art Gallery\, 25 Avery Street
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/el-putnam-artist-talk/
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Gallery Talk,Public Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221014T120000
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SUMMARY:Artist Performance + Talk GO BACK TO WHERE YOU CAME FROM!
DESCRIPTION:GO BACK TO WHERE YOU CAME FROM!\n\n \nArtist Performance + Talk by Emilio Rojas\n\n \nMedia Art Gallery\nOctober 14\, 2022\n12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.\n\n  \nGO BACK TO WHERE YOU CAME FROM! is a lecture/performance by artist Emilio Rojas. It moves away from this xenophobic phrase and investigates the history of colonialism and border trauma. This lecture considers his practice in relation to decolonization\, de-linking\, archives\, queerness\, and contaminations into public space. It is not an attempt to re-write history but rather to view it from a different lens\, in a non-linear way which opens spaces of transition and possibility\, remembrance and healing. It urges us to ask ourselves: How are we complicit with the past we inherited? How are we accomplices of the history being created in the present?
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/artist-performance-talk-go-back-to-where-you-came-from/
CATEGORIES:Gallery Talk,Performance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220325T120000
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SUMMARY:Will Pappenheimer: Artist Talk and Demo
DESCRIPTION:Will Pappenheimer (webinar) \nFriday\, March 25\, 1:30-3pm \nWill Pappenheimer is a Brooklyn based artist working in new media\, performance and installation with an interest in spatial intervention and the altered experiences of the artwork as site. His current work explores the collage of the virtual and physical worlds in the recent medium of “mixed reality.” \nHe is a pioneer of augmented reality (AR) art and a founding member of the AR collective\, Manifest.AR formed in 2011 \nThis event is co-presented by Boston CyberArts \nFREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/will-pappenheimer-artist-talk-and-demo/
CATEGORIES:Gallery Talk,Public Program,Virtual program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211008T120000
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SUMMARY:Sky Hopinka Artist Talk (Emerson Only)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a unique opportunity to meet Sky Hopinka and hear more about his art and career. \n 
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/sky-hopinka-artist-talk-emerson-only/
CATEGORIES:Gallery Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210317T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210317T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T220510
CREATED:20230815T185431Z
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SUMMARY:Public Encounters: Using New Media Technologies to Build Community Violeta Ayala
DESCRIPTION:Join artist\, writer\, and film director Violeta Ayala as she discusses the making of “Prison X: The Devil and The Sun\,” an immersive ‘play’ staged in VR created using the 3-D painting technology Tilt Brush. Set in Bolivia’s San Sebastian prison\, “Prison X: The Devil and The Sun” immerses participants into the social dynamics of the prison while simultaneously placing them in a world of Incan and Quechan mythology. \nVioleta Ayala is an award-winning filmmaker\, writer\, artist and technologist. She is the first Quechua member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Violeta’s credits include the VR animation Prison X (2021) and the award-winning documentaries Cocaine Prison (2017)\, The Fight (2017)\, The Bolivian Case (2015) and Stolen (2009). Her films have premiered at A-List film festivals including Sundance and Toronto\, distributed in cinemas\, broadcasted on PBS\, Channel 8\, Señal Colombia\, Ibermedia\, World and online platforms such as Amazon Prime and The Guardian. She has won over 50 awards including a Walkley (Australia’s Pulitzer) and nominations for the IDA (Los Angeles)\, Rory Peck (London)\, Platino (Panama) and Fenix (Mexico). Artist website: www.violetaayala.com.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/public-encounters-using-new-media-technologies-to-build-community-violeta-ayala/
CATEGORIES:Gallery Talk,Virtual program
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200223T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200223T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T220510
CREATED:20230815T185431Z
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SUMMARY:Investigating the Material feat. Sarah Trahan and Zsuzsanna Szegedi
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an intimate conversation in the gallery with spacetime artists Trahan and Szegedi and the exhibition curator as they discuss their experiences collaborating with machines as each artist investigates digital technology through its imperfections. Learn what happens when the work of art has no center and exists across multiple media\, both virtual and real\, as it manifests the various stages of an unfolding process.\n\nSpacetime (x\, y\, x + t) is a multi-dimensional exhibition that features experimental works by regional and international artists\, features digital projections\, 3D printed objects\, inkjet prints\, virtual reality drawings\, video\, site specific light installation\, and a dancing robot.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/investigating-the-material-feat-sarah-trahan-and-zsuzsanna-szegedi/
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Gallery Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200202T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200202T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T220510
CREATED:20230815T185431Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231003T155949Z
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SUMMARY:Performativity of Objects feat. Katherine Mitchell DiRico and Nicole L’Huillier
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an intimate conversation in the gallery with spacetime artists DiRico and L’Huillier and the exhibition curator as they explore non-human performativity through movement\, sound\, and light. We’ll discuss the agency of objects and how the art works on display are in a continual state of becoming. \nSpacetime (x\, y\, x + t) is a multi-dimensional exhibition that features experimental works by regional and international artists\, features digital projections\, 3D printed objects\, inkjet prints\, virtual reality drawings\, video\, site specific light installation\, and a dancing robot.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/in-conversation-performativity-of-objects/
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Gallery Talk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191208T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191208T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T220510
CREATED:20230815T185431Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231003T155420Z
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SUMMARY:Indigenous storytelling with Larry Spotted Crow Mann
DESCRIPTION:Join award winning author\, poet\, and Nipmuc storyteller Larry Spotted Crow Mann as he contextualizes the exhibition with local histories\, traditional stories\, and poetry. The art of Native American storytelling has been passed down for thousands of years. They give life and meaning to everything in the Universe and offer lessons of love\, courage\, kindness\, respect\, humility\, truth\, and wisdom. The stories teach us the skills to interact with our environment as a living being and codify those teachings within our own existence. \nAbout the artist\nLarry Spotted Crow Mann is a citizen of the Nipmuc Tribe of Massachusetts. He is an award winning writer\, poet\, cultural educator\, Traditional Storyteller\, tribal drummer\, dancer and motivational speaker involving youth sobriety\, cultural and environmental awareness. Mann is also a board member of the Nipmuk Cultural Preservation\,an organization set up to promote the cultural\, social and spiritual needs of Nipmuc people that also serves as an educational resource of Native American studies.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/indigenous-storytelling-with-larry-spotted-crow-mann/
CATEGORIES:Gallery Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191024T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191024T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T220510
CREATED:20230815T185431Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231003T154858Z
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SUMMARY:“Future Traditions: Theorizing the Native Avant Garde” Talk by Emerson professor Dr. Adam Spry
DESCRIPTION:What does it mean for Native writers and artists to embrace the avant garde\, along with its deep mistrust of the traditional? In this talk\, Dr. Spry will discuss the history of the rise of Native American experimental art and literature in the 20th and 21st centuries—and its surprising roots in the U.S.’s efforts to promote the idea of Native artistic ‘tradition.’
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/future-traditions-theorizing-the-native-avant-garde-talk-by-emerson-professor-dr-adam-spry/
CATEGORIES:Gallery Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190920T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190920T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T220510
CREATED:20230815T185431Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231003T154205Z
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SUMMARY:GlitchKraft Artist Talk: Alex Kittle
DESCRIPTION:  \nArtist Talk featuring illustrator\, art historian\, and film curator Alex Kittle \nSince 2018\, Kittle has been devoted to women filmmakers\, creating portraits and zine biographies as a way to share their stories and works in an accessible way. She also co-hosts a monthly screening series and discussion group called Strictly Brohibited\, which highlights women-made films in a welcoming community for women and non-binary film fans. Visit @panandscan and @strictlybrohibited for more information.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/glitchkraft-artist-talk-2/
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Gallery Talk
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