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SUMMARY:(Un)Making AI Worlds
DESCRIPTION:Presenting\, “(Un)Making AI Worlds”\,  curated by Ioana Jucan with Tushar Mathew\, and Leonie Bradbury. The exhibition invites audiences to explore artworks emerging from the Data Fluencies Theatre Project team’s critical and creative interrogations of artificial intelligence and AI systems. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBlending theatrical conventions\, choreographed movement\, poetry\, and artistic experiments with machine learning\, (Machine) Learning to Be is a participatory\, devised\, hybrid multimedia performance experience that engages with Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems and their societal impacts. The performance features an interactive choreographic interface that aims to engage AI as embodiment technologies and human and AI characters that aim to convey the multifaceted nature of AI\, its dangers and possibilities for our communities. Rooted in visions of decolonial AI\, (Machine) Learning to Be seeks to challenge established systems of control and envision more equitable futures alongside AI technology. \n\n\n\nFeaturing artists Ioana B. Jucan\, Tushar Matthew\,  David Mesiha\, Aidan Nelson\, Jae Neal\,  Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo\, Yuguang Zhang\, Gavan Cheema\, Kite\, the exhibition features the following events\, activations and performances at Emerson’s Huret and Spector Gallery \n\n\n\nMarch 18\, 2025:4-6.30pm: Performance Activations and Artist Panel discussion moderated by Dr. Leonie Bradbury\, followed by Reception  \n\n\n\nMarch 21st\, 2025:2:00 pm: Secret Hyena activation  \n\n\n\nMarch 22nd\, 2025:4:00 pm: Secret Hyena activation  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Data Fluencies Theatre Project (2022-2025) is an artistic research project that mobilizes theatrical performance’s potential to build data fluencies grounded in and honoring embodied experience. The project brings together an interdisciplinary team to develop artworks and co-create a participatory\, devised\, hybrid multimedia performance. Titled (Machine) Learning to Be\, the performance engages with AI and algorithmic systems as it seeks to challenge established systems of control and envision more equitable futures alongside AI technology.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/unmaking-ai-worlds-huret-spector-gallery/
LOCATION:Huret and Spector Gallery\, 10 Boylston Pl\, Boston\, MA 02116\, Boston\, Massachusetts\, 02116\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Exhibition,Performance,Public Program,Reception,Workshop
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SUMMARY:The M.F.A Thesis Shows: Christopher Lee & Asma Khoshmehr
DESCRIPTION:Emerson’s Master’s in Fine Arts candidates\, Christopher Lee and Asma Khoshmehr share deeply personal stories of their family’s past\, interpreted through new media.  \n\n\n\nThis exhibition will have a reception on December 5th from 6-8pm. \n\n\n\nMemory Lost by Christopher Lee\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMemory Lost is a multimedia installation that probes the fragile nature of human memory through the lens of AI generated media. Drawing inspiration from the artist’s personal experience witnessing his grandfather’s battle with Alzheimer’s Disease\, this work explores the parallels between artificial intelligence and human cognition. The installation revisits formative moments from the artist’s life from childhood through adulthood\, using AI to reconstruct and reinterpret these memories.  \n\n\n\nBy highlighting the biases and limitations of both AI and human recollection\, the piece invites viewers to contemplate the ephemeral quality of our lived experiences. Memory Lost serves as a poignant meditation on mortality\, loss\, and the imperfect mechanisms through which we preserve and recall our past\, challenging us to consider the essence of what makes us human. \n\n\n\nThroughout his artistic journey\, Chris has been driven by an innate curiosity to acquire new knowledge\, leading him to constantly push the boundaries of his creative toolkit. Early in life he explored drawing and painting before developing a deep affinity for music. By high school Chris had built up a home studio filled with guitars\, synthesizers\, and other gadgets. As an adult\, Chris briefly explored a business career before realizing his true calling lay in creative work.  \n\n\n\nHe enrolled in Emerson College’s Film & Media Art program to work with other artists and to find a personal and professional outlet for his creativity. Since then\, Chris has contributed to dozens of student and independent projects\, specializing in location sound recording\, sound design\, and mixing. His personal work leverages diverse digital technologies\, reflecting his evolution from a young artist to a versatile multimedia professional adept at integrating multiple artistic disciplines. \n\n\n\nAct.No.06: 1001 Nights in Zanzibar by Asma Khoshmehr\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAct.No.06: 1001 Nights in Zanzibar is a multimedia installation that uncovers the silenced stories of forced child marriages and political persecution following the Zanzibar Revolution of 1964. The work explores a 1971 presidential decree that allowed officials to forcibly marry underage girls\, including many women in the artist’s family. These policies led to deportation\, imprisonment\, confiscation of family properties\, and decades of silence about the trauma endured. Asma\, the first in her generation to uncover this hidden history\, conducted years of research\, discovering the secret stories of many women in her family impacted by these events. She traveled across Tanzania\, Kenya\, Oman\, UAE\, and Iran to gather testimonies\, family documents\, and archival records\, piecing together her family’s survival through forced marriages\, captivity\, and eventual escape.Inspired by One Thousand and One Nights and Scheherazade’s storytelling to transform a vengeful king into a compassionate leader\, Asma’s project reflects her hope to mirror Scheherazade’s journey. It combines archival materials\, 3D laser scans\, virtual reality experiences\, and video art\, exploring how storytelling can confront power and inspire transformation. By sharing these stories\, this project reflects on how Scheherazade used storytelling to change a vengeful king\, drawing attention to the tyrants of today who continue to use women’s bodies as tools of revenge in war and revolution.Asma Khoshmehr is an interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker whose work combines immersive storytelling\, documentary filmmaking\, and new media. With a BFA in Performing Arts and currently pursuing an MFA with a focus on new media\, her practice draws deeply from her East African and Middle Eastern heritage\, exploring themes of generational trauma\, forced displacement\, and political sexual violence.   \n\n\n\nAsma’s work has earned recognition through prestigious awards and residencies\, including the MacDowell Fellowship\, the MASS MoCA\, Andrew Freedman Home (AFH)\, and the ON::VIEW Artist Residency. She has also received the Carole Fielding Grant from the University Film and Video Association (UFVA) and the Virgin Unite Grant. Her international journey includes a scholarship to study Beijing Opera at the Shanghai Theater Academy and mythology at Sanskriti Kendra in India.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/the-m-f-a-thesis-shows-christopher-lee-asma-khoshmehr/
LOCATION:Huret And Spector Gallery\, Tufte Building
CATEGORIES:Artist Spotlight,Exhibition,Performance,Reception,Student Projects
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SUMMARY:off the pedestal
DESCRIPTION:off the pedestal is a group exhibition in the Media Art Gallery\, comprising contemporary artists whose work addresses the national conversation around monuments featuring visual artists Laura Anderson Barbata\, New Red Order\, and Paula J. Wilson.  \n\n\n\nView exhibition documentation. \n\n\n\nThis exhibition is on view in the Media Art Gallery at 25 Avery Street from August 1 – October 5\, 2024. The exhibition is free and open to the public Tuesday – Saturday\, 12-6 pm. This exhibition is part of Emerson Contemporary’s Regarding Monuments: Visualizing Hidden Histories\, a multi-year initiative that includes exhibitions centered on monuments\, several public art installations\, and a technology incubator.  \n\n\n\nCurated by Distinguished Curator-in-Residence Leonie Bradbury and Curator of Special Projects Shana Dumont Garr\, off the pedestal speaks directly to the national phenomenon of the removal of Confederate and other racist monuments in the wake of the police murder of George Floyd. Although monuments are generally presented as permanent\, timeless\, and expressive of universal values\, this exhibition proposes that public memory could be more effectively addressed and activated through ephemeral expressions.  \n\n\n\noff the pedestal is supported by the City of Boston Mayor’s Office of Arts & Culture (MOAC) program “Un-monument | Re-monument | De-monument: Transforming Boston.” It is a city-wide initiative that aims to transform the nation’s commemorative landscape to ensure collective histories are more completely and accurately represented.   \n\n\n\noff the pedestal is further supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts  \n\n\n\nLaura Anderson Barbata’s multidisciplinary performance work Indigo is a call to action in response to the violence and murder of Black persons at the hands of the police. A group of sixteen resplendent characters clad in hand-dyed fabrics\, woven details\, and ornate stitching\, many standing at the height of stilts\, powerfully demonstrate the textile art aspect of Barbata’s vision.  \n\n\n\nNew Red Order’s large-scale video installation Culture Capture: Crimes Against Reality examines the contradictions inherent in a society built on both the longing for indigeneity and the violent erasure of Indigenous peoples. They base their critique on historical events\, and the pacing of the digitized imagery\, accompanied by skillful sound design\, transports viewers into their speculative reveries.  \n\n\n\nPaula J. Wilson’s performative video Living Monument and 2D wall work Thyself monumentalize Black female bodies through dramatic scale and bold gestures. Her work elevates embodied histories and reminds us that joy and celebration are crucial parts of resistance. \n\n\n\nWorks featured in this exhibition include: \n\n\n\nNew Red Order\, Culture Capture: Crimes Against Reality\, HD video (video still)\, 2020\n\n\n\nA two-channel video Culture Capture: Crimes Against Reality by New Red Order (NRO)\, a public secret society that works with networks of informants and accomplices to create grounds for Indigenous futures. Crimes Against Reality focuses on two public sculptures by James Earle Fraser — End of the Trail (1894)\, a statue originally intended to be installed on the California coast at the scale of the Statue of Liberty\, and the statue of Theodore Roosevelt (1939) that was removed from outside the American Museum of Natural History\, in New York\, in 2022 — both of which commemorate the origin myth of America. \n\n\n\nLittle Jaguar (Laura Anderson Barbata) and Diablos (Jarana Beat). Intervention: Indigo\, Bushwick\, 2015. Photo: Rene Cervantes\n\n\n\n\n\nLaura Anderson Barbata Intervention: Indigo presents a call to action to serve and protect in response to police violence. The point of departure is the color Indigo\, a dye used around the globe that has been associated with protection\, wisdom and royalty.  Created in in collaboration with the Brooklyn Jumbies\, Chris Walker and Jarana Beat\, Indigo was performed first in Brooklyn and again in Mexico City in 2020 in collaboration with muca Roma\, Chris Walker\, Los Diablos de la Costa de Guerrero Los Rebeldes de El Capricho\, Elizabeth Ross\, Danza UNAM and Pro-Alterne Teatro. The work is a call to action to serve and protect\, and of protest in response to the violence and murder at the hands of the police of Black people living in the United States and all over the world.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPaula J. Wilson fuses wide-ranging techniques and media with her observations of the natural world\, where it is a matter of survival to make space for oneself to live\, love\, and make art. Recurring themes of feminine power\, natural life systems\, and art-making itself converge under the umbrella of regeneration and change. Narrative artworks that place feminine subjects in positions of power. Her expansive practice forcefully proclaims her place in the (art) histories she engages.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/off-the-pedestal-art-in-protest/
LOCATION:Media Art Gallery\, 25 Avery Street\, Boston\, Massachusetts\, 02111
CATEGORIES:Artist Spotlight,Artist Talk,Exhibition,Performance,Public Program,Regarding Monuments: Visualizing Hidden Histories
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240227T193000
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SUMMARY:Lecture-Performance with Kameelah J. Rasheed
DESCRIPTION:Learn with our visual artist in residence! \n\n\n\n\n\nJoin our artist in residence Kameelah J. Rasheed in a lecture-performance workshop conducted at Emerson College. \n\n\n\nIn this lecture performance\, Rasheed will offer a live annotation of her 2024 keynote lecture at the CODEX Foundation conference. In this live annotation\, Rasheed will respond to past and future versions of herself in conversation with ideas of translation\, wayward writing\, and Lucille Clifton’s spirit writing.  \n\n\n\nThis event is proudly supported by Emerson College’s Public Art Think Tank (PATT) \n\n\n\nLocation is Room 202\, Walker Building\, 120 Boylston St. Boston\, MA 02116. Registration is required for guests without an Emerson ID. Register for this free workshop over here. \n\n\n\nAbout Kameelah Janan Rasheed \n\n\n\n\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\, Rasheed explores 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 be determined. Most recently\, she is a recipient of a 2023 Working Artist Fellowship; a 2022 Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research; a 2022 Creative Capital Award; a 2022 Artists + Machine Intelligence Grants – Experiments with Google; and a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts.  \n\n\n\nHer 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 the Stacks (Brooklyn Public Library\, 2021). She is an adjunct instructor at the Cooper Union and Barnard College\, a Critic at Yale School of Art\, Sculpture\, and an instructor at the School for Poetic Computation. Rasheed founded Orange Tangent Study\, a consulting business that provides artist microgrants and supports individuals and institutions in designing expansive and liberatory learning experiences.  \n\n\n\nRasheed is represented by NOME Gallery in Berlin\, Germany.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/lecture-performance-with-kameelah-j-rasheed/
LOCATION:Walker 202\, 120 Boylston Street Boston\, MA\, Boston\, Massachusetts\, 02116\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Performance,Public Program,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240226T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240226T160000
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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:Live Performance\, Passage (2023) by Patricia Nguyễn and Fiona Ngô
DESCRIPTION:Still from “Collapse to Expand” by Patricia Nguyen\n\n\n\nA work of experimental sound and movement\, Passage explores how beauty and creativity emerge in the aftermath of war. The artists meditate upon the various thresholds and movements that happen for displaced peoples across the time and space of memory\, everyday encounters of state violence\, forced migration\, and queer worldmaking. \n\n\n\nThis event is free and open to the public.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/live-performance-passage-2023-by-patricia-nguyen-and-fiona/
LOCATION:Media Art Gallery\, 25 Avery Street\, Boston\, Massachusetts\, 02111
CATEGORIES:Performance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231104T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231104T193000
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SUMMARY:No-No Boy: Live in Concert
DESCRIPTION:This event is sold out. Register here to join the waitlist. \n\n\n\nExperience a multimedia musical performance from artist Julian Saporiti\, known as No-No Boy\, as part of the tour for his latest album Empire Electric. This newest release brings Asian American history to life through a uniquely inventive approach to storytelling. This program is organized by the PAO Art Center and supported by Emerson Contemporary.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/no-no-boy-live-in-concert/
LOCATION:Pao Arts Center\, 99 Albany Street Boston\, Massachusetts\, 02111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Performance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230720T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230802T170000
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SUMMARY:New Standards related events
DESCRIPTION:In celebration of the one-of-a-kind installation\, the New Standards Boston Takeover will include public programs\, such as panel discussions\, curated artist talks\, and afternoon and evening concerts that will take place at multiple venues across the City of Boston\, curated by Carrington and the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice. \nOpening Reception: Wednesday July 12\, 6-7:30PM\, RSVP required. \nAdditional events include performances by: \nJuly 20\, 7PM\, Brandee Younger\, Red Room at Cafe 939\, 939 Boylston Street\, Boston \nJuly 26\, 7PM\, Landmarks Orchestra featuring Terri Lyne Carrington\, Hatch Shell Boston\, 47 David G. Mugar Way\, Boston. Tickets: Free and open to the public. More information: landmarksorchestra.org \nJuly 27\, 7PM\, Mary Halvorson and Tomas Fujiwara Duo. MassArt Art Museum (MAAM)\, located in the Massachusetts College of Art and Design\, 621 Huntington Avenue\, Boston. \nJuly 30\, 12:30PM\, Kris Davis and Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice with special guest Marquis Hill. Cambridge Jazz Festival at Danehy Park\, 99 Sherman Street\, Cambridge \nAugust 2\, 7PM and 9PM\, New Standards Jam Session\, hosted by Lakecia Benjamin. Wally’s Jazz Club\, 427 Massachusetts Avenue\, Boston\, Emerson College UnCommon Stage and Trillium Garden on the Common  \nJuly 15\, 2-4pm – Enbious\nJuly 22\, 2-4pm – Devon Gates \nJuly 29\,  2-4pm Jacques Schwarz-Bart presents the Harlem Suite\nAugust 2\, 4-6pm – Zahili Gonzalez Zamora Trio  \nNew Standards exhibit and New Standards Boston Takeover performance series is sponsored by The New Commonwealth Racial Equality and Social Justice Fund. \nFor more information on New Standards and its related events\, please visit https://www.jazzandgenderjustice.com.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/new-standards-related-events/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Performance,Public Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230323T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230323T193000
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SUMMARY:Live Performance: "Friction" by EL Putnam and David Stalling
DESCRIPTION:Putnam acts as the human mediator between two generative animation systems\, making visible the labor that responds to and produces data\, as her body acts as the database of lived experience. A collaborative performance\, Friction\, created and performed with German sound artist David Stalling will debut in March. 
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/live-performance-friction-by-el-putnam-and-david-stalling/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Performance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230125T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230125T203000
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SUMMARY:EL Putnam: Artist Reception and Performance
DESCRIPTION: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 human mediator between two generative animation systems\, making visible the labor that responds to and produces data\, as her body acts as the database of lived experience. Please RSVP to be placed on the guest list. \nEL Putnam is an artist-philosopher working in performance art\, video\, sound\, and digital media. Her practice focuses on borders and entanglements\, particularly the interplay of the corporeal with the machinic. Through her artistic practice\, she is interested in exploring hidden histories and emotional experiences\, testing the limits of their un-representability as she takes the familiar and makes it strange. In particular\, she probes our gestural relationship to digital technology using wearable electronics in live performance\, through the creation of responsive multimedia installations\, and the crafting of short moving image and sound pieces. \nTreating art as inherently participatory\, her work opens intersubjective spaces that offer multiple conceptual and aesthetic points of entry for the audience through alchemical diffractions of experience\, cultivating new modes of embodiment. In addition to creating works that are rich in cultural and political meaning\, including the biopolitics of motherhood in Ireland\, she is interested in how aesthetic pleasure can be used as a critical strategy\, or as a means of captivating audiences in order to expose them to provocative ideas. \nEL actively presents artworks and performances in the United States\, Europe\, and beyond\, and has been a member of the Boston-based Mobius Artists Group since 2009. Originally from the United States\, she is Assistant Professor in Digital Media at Maynooth University\, Ireland and lives in Co. Westmeath\, Ireland. \n 
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/el-putnam-artist-reception-and-performance/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Performance,Reception
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SUMMARY:Emilio Rojas Performance "A Manual to Be (to Kill) or To Forgive My Own Father"
DESCRIPTION:A Manual to Be (to Kill) or To Forgive My Own Father \nThe Iwasaki Library\nOctober 15-16\, 2022 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. RSVP required leonie_bradbury@emerson.edu \nThe live performance and installation\, A Manual to Be (to Kill) or To Forgive My Own Father\, presents Rojas’ deconstructions of the popular novel\, Pequeño Hombre\, one of many written by his estranged father\, who bears his name. In a gesture of rejection and simultaneous creation\, Rojas cuts out the texts from the English translation and uses the remnants to create new poems within a domestic setting with a desk\, rug\, and lamp. \nThe performances with the texts range from the use of an X-Acto blade in the artist’s mouth to collaborations with the artist’s mother and intimate conversations with viewers. Collectively\, they attempt to rewrite the book\, with the exact same words\, but with a completely different narrative\, always centering the dialectic of presence and absence of his own father. Rojas invites viewers who have conflicted relations with their fathers (“daddy issues”) to partake in a one-on-one performance to write poetry with him.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/emilio-rojas-performance-a-manual-to-be-to-kill-or-to-forgive-my-own-father/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Performance
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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/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Gallery Talk,Performance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221013T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221016T170000
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SUMMARY:Emilio Rojas Performance "A Manual to Be (to Kill) or To Forgive My Own Father"
DESCRIPTION:A Manual to Be (to Kill) or To Forgive My Own Father \nThe Iwasaki Library\nRSVP required leonie_bradbury@emerson.edu \nThe live performance and installation\, A Manual to Be (to Kill) or To Forgive My Own Father\, presents Rojas’ deconstructions of the popular novel\, Pequeño Hombre\, one of many written by his estranged father\, who bears his name. In a gesture of rejection and simultaneous creation\, Rojas cuts out the texts from the English translation and uses the remnants to create new poems within a domestic setting with a desk\, rug\, and lamp. \nThe performances with the texts range from the use of an X-Acto blade in the artist’s mouth to collaborations with the artist’s mother and intimate conversations with viewers. Collectively\, they attempt to rewrite the book\, with the exact same words\, but with a completely different narrative\, always centering the dialectic of presence and absence of his own father. Rojas invites viewers who have conflicted relations with their fathers (“daddy issues”) to partake in a one-on-one performance to write poetry with him.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/emilio-rojas-performance-a-manual-to-be-to-kill-or-to-forgive-my-own-father-2/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Performance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220924T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220924T160000
DTSTAMP:20260404T063153
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SUMMARY:Live Performance by Emilio Rojas "A VAGUE AND UNDETERMINED PLACE (A GLORIA)"
DESCRIPTION: \n\nEmilio Rojas performs A VAGUE AND UNDETERMINED PLACE (A GLORIA)\n \nBoylston Place Courtyard\nSaturday\, September 24\, 2022\, 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.\n\n \n \n \n\nThis performance and installation examines what artist Emilio Rojas terms “border pedagogies\,” or teaching opportunities to question and reimagine national borders. Rojas will be inviting participants to draw the U.S.-Mexican border on transparent paper\, which he then layers and projects on a light box to reveal its variations in the imagination.\n\n \n \n \n\nWhile the border has become an increasingly urgent topic for national immigration\, ecological\, and human rights legislation\, people can rarely recall the shape of the border—its curves\, twists\, and turns. It is as Gloria E. Anzaldúa theorized\, a “vague and undetermined place.” In exchange for their drawings\, he will offer visitors a paleta\, or a Mexican popsicle\, made with fruit that crosses this border\, reminding us of the immense personal\, political\, and economic complexities embedded within borderlands.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/live-emilio-rojas-performs-a-vague-and-undetermined-place-a-gloria/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Performance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220923T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220923T160000
DTSTAMP:20260404T063153
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LAST-MODIFIED:20231003T153528Z
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SUMMARY:Live Performance by Emilio Rojas "A VAGUE AND UNDETERMINED PLACE (A GLORIA)"
DESCRIPTION:Emilio Rojas performs A VAGUE AND UNDETERMINED PLACE (A GLORIA)\n\nBoylston Place Courtyard\nSeptember 23\, 2022\, 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.\n\n\n\nThis performance and installation examines what artist Emilio Rojas terms “border pedagogies\,” or teaching opportunities to question and reimagine national borders. Rojas will be inviting participants to draw the U.S.-Mexican border on transparent paper\, which he then layers and projects on a light box to reveal its variations in the imagination.\n\n\n\nWhile the border has become an increasingly urgent topic for national immigration\, ecological\, and human rights legislation\, people can rarely recall the shape of the border—its curves\, twists\, and turns. It is as Gloria E. Anzaldúa theorized\, a “vague and undetermined place.” In exchange for their drawings\, he will offer visitors a paleta\, or a Mexican popsicle\, made with fruit that crosses this border\, reminding us of the immense personal\, political\, and economic complexities embedded within borderlands.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/live-performance-by-emilio-rojas-a-vague-and-undetermined-place-a-gloria/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Performance
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