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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/
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/
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/
CATEGORIES:Gallery Talk,Performance
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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/
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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/
CATEGORIES:Performance
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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/
CATEGORIES:Performance
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