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Emilio Rojas: tracing a wound through my body

Image above: Emilio Rojas, Heridas Abiertas, 2013–ongoing. Performance, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.   The U.S-Mexican border es una herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. —Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, 1987 tracing a wound through my body is the first traveling survey of the contemporary...

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Artist Performance + Talk GO BACK TO WHERE YOU CAME FROM!

GO BACK TO WHERE YOU CAME FROM! Artist Performance + Talk by Emilio Rojas Media Art Gallery October 14, 2022 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.   GO 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...

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EL Putnam: PseudoRandom

Emerson Contemporary proudly presents EL Putnam: PseudoRandom, a solo exhibition featuring recent works by the Ireland-based video and performance artist on view in the Media Art Gallery at 25 Avery Street, January 25 - March 26, 2022. Free and open to the public, hours Wednesday - Sunday from 12-7pm.   The exhibition explores aesthetic encounters through...

EL Putnam: Artist Reception and Performance

Join us for a celebration and unveiling of the new spring exhibition EL Putnam: PseudoRandom. Artist will perform a newly created piece "Ghost Work" live at 6PM. Mary Gray and Siddharth Suri define ghost work as the hidden human labor that powers our digital systems. In the performance of this title, Putnam acts as the...

EL Putnam Artist Talk

Friday, March 24, 2023 Join us for a audio-visual presentation on EL Putnam's artist practice. Putnam will discuss recent performance and video works. Location: Media Art Gallery, 25 Avery Street

MFA Thesis Projects

Abigail Hendrix, Nimueh, 2023 (still, 16 mm HD video, color, stereo, 3-channel, synchronous loop). Media Art Gallery April 19- May 14, 2023. Reception, April 19, 5-7pm A two person exhibition, this year’s MFA thesis showcase features multi channel moving image works by Elise Cohen and Abigail Hendrix. Elise Cohen, Call Home, 16 mm film, 2023...

Is This Too Much? Space, Place, Image, Sound (VM637)

Media Art Gallery, April 19- May 14, 2023. Reception, April 19, 5-7pm IS THIS TOO MUCH? The works in this exhibition were created by artists from the MFA Film and Media Arts and MA Media Design programs. This exhibition explores the complex relationships that entwine us and shape us as humans - mind-body, artificial and...

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New Standards

The Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice (JGJ) has partnered with the Office of the Arts at Emerson College to bring the multidisciplinary installation, New Standards, to the Emerson Contemporary Media Art Gallery. The multimedia exhibition continues the theme set forth in the book New Standards: 101 Lead Sheets by Women Composers by Grammy...

Truth Be Told: (Re)Considering Innovation, Transformation, and Genius through the Lens of Jazz, Gender, and Justice

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...