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SUMMARY:Public Art Walking Tour with artists Elisa Hamilton and Clareese Hill\, in Collaboration with MAAH
DESCRIPTION:Join artists Elisa Hamilton and Clareese Hill on a special artist-led walking tour of their two public art projects\, Glimpses of Glapion and The Black Boston Dream Oracle in the Beacon Hill neighborhood. \n\n\n\nMeeting Point: Boston Common Visitor’s Center \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin artists Elisa Hamilton and Clareese Hill on a special artist-led walking tour of their two public art projects Glimpses of Glapion and The Black Boston Dream Oracle\, followed by a reception and Q&A with the artists at The Museum of African American History at 46 Joy Street\, Boston. The walking tour will begin at Boston Common Visitors Center at 139 Tremont St\, Boston\, at 1:00pm\, with the reception and Q&A at The Museum of African American History beginning at 2:15pm.Emerson Contemporary is thrilled to collaborate with the Museum of African American History (MAAH) for this program. After the walk\, an artist Q&A session will take place at the African Meeting House at 46 Joy 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/artist-led-walking-tour-with-elisa-hamilton-and-clareese-hill/
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Exhibition,Gallery Talk,Public Program,Regarding Monuments: Visualizing Hidden Histories
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SUMMARY:Hidden Histories Walking Tour with Curator Shana Dumont Garr
DESCRIPTION:Join Hidden Histories Curator Shana Dumont Garr on a special walking tour to view Kameelah Janan Rasheed\, Sue Murad\, Elisa Hamilton and Clareese Hill’s new public art projects in and around the Boston Common and Beacon Hill neighborhood in Boston\, Ma. We’ll see archival materials and ideas gleaned from old books and maps made public in poetic and slyly rebellious ways. \n\n\n\nFor more about the Hidden Histories exhibition click here. \n\n\n\nLocation: Meet at the Media Art Gallery\, Boston\, MA. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \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. \n\n\n\nSue Murad’s ASSEMBLE: Performance Instructions For Public Arrangement is a participatory performance that reflects on the ways we gather in public space—particularly the historic Boston Common—through the objects we bring with us or discover there. It is a guided\, interactive experience that unfolds across the landscape\, inviting participants into temporary arrangements shaped by memory\, proximity\, and shared attention. The project bears witness to the many generations of people who have gathered together for rest and rallies\, labor and loitering\, play and protest.  \n\n\n\nKameelah J. Rasheed’s public poetry project I have Asked Myself:“Can a Sentence be Haunted? And if so by what?” responds to Boston’s memorial landscape by exploring the layered histories of Boston as discovered in the archives of the Boston Athenaeum. Rasheed gathered marginalia and ornate typefaces from their collection of Boston’s oldest books. These fragments are interwoven or sampled into digital designs to form visual poems to be displayed on digital signage situated around the Boston Common.  \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/hidden-histories-walking-tour-with-curator-shana-dumont-garr-3/
CATEGORIES:Public Program,Regarding Monuments: Visualizing Hidden Histories
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SUMMARY:Hidden Histories Walking Tour with Curator Shana Dumont Garr
DESCRIPTION:Walking Tour: Join guide and curator Shana Dumont Garr to see the public art created by Hidden Histories artists Kameelah Janan Rasheed\, Clareese Hill\, Elisa Hamilton\, and Sue Murad. We’ll see archival materials and ideas gleaned from old books and maps made public in poetic and slyly rebellious ways. Walk will take place in and around the Boston Common and Beacon Hill neighborhood in Boston\, Ma. \n\n\n\nFor more about the Hidden Histories exhibition click here. \n\n\n\nLocation: Meet at the Boston Common Visitors Center\, 139 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \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/hidden-histories-walking-tour-with-curator-shana-dumont-garr-2/
CATEGORIES:Public Program,Regarding Monuments: Visualizing Hidden Histories
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251014T180000
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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
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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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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251008T133000
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SUMMARY:Hidden Histories Walking Tour with Curator Shana Dumont Garr
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, October 8\, 2025\, 12-1:30pm This event has been rescheduled for Monday October 20\, 12-1:30pm. \n\n\n\nJoin Hidden Histories Curator Shana Dumont Garr on a special walking tour to view Kameelah Jana Rasheed\, Sue Murad\, Elisa Hamilton and Clareese Hill’s new public art projects in and around the Boston Common and Beacon Hill neighborhood in Boston\, Ma. \n\n\n\nLocation: Meet at the Boston Common Visitors Center\, 139 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/hidden-histories-walking-tour-with-curator-shana-dumont-garr/
CATEGORIES:Public Program,Regarding Monuments: Visualizing Hidden Histories
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251004T140000
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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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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251005T160000
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SUMMARY:Sue Murad: ASSEMBLE\, Performance Action on the Boston Common\, 2025
DESCRIPTION:Sue Murad\, ASSEMBLE\, Reimagined Historic Walking Tours in Boston Common\, 2025.\n\n\n\nSue Murad’s ASSEMBLE: Performance Instructions For Public Arrangement is a participatory performance that reflects on the ways we gather in public space—particularly the historic Boston Common—through the objects we bring with us or discover there.  \n\n\n\nMurad created a series of prompts inviting people into an embodied experience of the Common\, creating a temporal micro-culture for each tour group in celebration of the right to peacefully assemble. The guided\, interactive experience unfolds across the landscape\, inviting participants into ephemeral arrangements shaped by memory\, proximity\, and shared attention. \n\n\n\nBased in the Boston Common\, Murad’s part of the Hidden Histories walking tour is inspired by the archival photos of people spending time together in the park from the nineteenth century to the present. The project bears witness to the many generations of people who have gathered together for rest and rallies\, labor and loitering\, play and protest. As such\, Murad presents a contemplative investigation of the often overlooked First Amendment right to peacefully assemble.  \n\n\n\nARTIST LED TOUR: Friday\, October 3\, 12-1:30pm.  \n\n\n\n ARTIST LED TOUR: Saturday\, October 4\, 12-1:30pm.  \n\n\n\n ARTIST LED TOUR: Sunday\, October 5\, 12-1:30pm.  \n\n\n\nSelf-guided tours are available with the Hoverlay Augmented Reality application at channel: Un-monument: 1:30-4:00pm or anytime that works for you
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/sue-murad-assemble-performance-action-boston-common/
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Exhibition,Public Program,Regarding Monuments: Visualizing Hidden Histories
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250918T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251028T170000
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SUMMARY:Clareese Hill: The Black Boston Dream Oracle
DESCRIPTION:Clareese 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. \n\n\n\nThis project is part of Hidden Histories\, a series of four public art activations produced as part of the Un-Monument initiative of the City of Boston\, viewable September 1 through October 28. This project can be viewed virtually via the Hoverlay augmented reality application at 3 separate locations on Beacon Hill: 8 Smith Court\, 65 Anderson Street and 27 Myrtle street. On site public signage will provide a Qr code and instructions to download the app and access the exhibition. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Clareese Hill is a practice-based researcher. 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. Dr. Hill has performed lectures at The Royal College of Art\, Goldsmiths University of London\, University of Sussex\, CUNY Graduate Center\, The Chicago Art Department\, and Smack Mellon in Brooklyn. She was also a 2020 Rapid Response for a Better Digital Future fellow (Phase One). Dr.Hill has published peer-reviewed academic essays in THEOREM Journal\, Architecture\, and Culture Journal\, and has an upcoming article in Antennae\, The Journal of Nature and Culture. \n\n\n\nTo support public access to Hidden Histories\, Emerson Contemporary continues to build on its multi-year collaboration and partnership with Hoverlay\, a Boston-based augmented reality platform where users can compose and publish immersive content. Hoverlay enables any storyteller to utilize AR to transform how they tell their stories by placing virtual story objects out in the world to be accessed by visitors’ smartphones. Public signage on Beacon Hill\, the T and in the Common will provide a Qr code and instructions to download the app and access the exhibition. \n\n\n\nThis project is funded by the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture’s Un-monument initiative\, supported by a grant from the Mellon Foundation and The Andy Warhol Foundation for The Visual Arts.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/clareese-hill-the-black-boston-dream-oracle/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Regarding Monuments: Visualizing Hidden Histories
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250918T080000
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SUMMARY:Elisa Hamilton: Glimpses of Glapion
DESCRIPTION:Elisa 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\nThis project is part of Hidden Histories\, a series of four public art activations produced as part of the Un-Monument initiative of the City of Boston\, viewable September 1 through October 28. This project can be viewed virtually via the Hoverlay augmented reality application at 5 Pickney Street\, Beacon Hill. On site public signage will provide a Qr code and instructions to download the app and access the exhibition. \n\n\n\nUn-Monument is a multi-year public art initiative to bring temporary monuments and free programming that expand the inclusive histories represented in public spaces across the City. Hidden Histories\, curated and produced by Emerson Contemporary\, highlights the processes of collaboration\, artistic research\, and speculation in contemporary art. \n\n\n\nTo support public access to Hidden Histories\, Emerson Contemporary continues to build on its multi-year collaboration and partnership with Hoverlay\, a Boston-based augmented reality platform where users can compose and publish immersive content. Hoverlay enables any storyteller to utilize AR to transform how they tell their stories by placing virtual story objects out in the world to be accessed by visitors’ smartphones.  \n\n\n\nThis project is funded by the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture’s Un-monument initiative\, supported by a grant from the Mellon Foundation and The Andy Warhol Foundation for The Visual Arts.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/elisa-hamilton-glimpses-of-glapion/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Regarding Monuments: Visualizing Hidden Histories
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250901T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251028T190000
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SUMMARY:Hidden Histories: Elisa Hamilton\, Clareese Hill\, Sue Murad\, and Kameelah Janan Rasheed part of Un-Monument
DESCRIPTION:Un-Monument is a two-year initiative that reimagines and fosters discourse around Boston’s monuments and memorials in a way that centers and amplifies a multiplicity of voices and creates authentic learning moments across the city. It invigorates public spaces through artist interventions that bring to the fore the rich histories that are often hidden. \n\n\n\nEmerson Contemporary enthusiastically announces Hidden Histories\, a series of four public art projects produced as part of the Un-Monument initiative of the City of Boston. Hidden Histories highlights the processes of collaboration\, artistic research\, and speculation in contemporary art.  \n\n\n\nLAUNCH PARTY: SEPTEMBER 18\, 5-7:30PM\, Media Art Gallery\, 25 Avery Street\, Boston\, 02111 \n\n\n\nWHAT: A Series of Public Art Activations that are part of Un-Monument\, a multi-year public art initiative to bring temporary monuments and free programming to the City of Boston that expand the inclusive histories represented in public spaces across the City. \n\n\n\nWHEN: September 1 through October 28\, 2025.  \n\n\n\nWHERE: Beacon Hill\, Boston Common\, and MBTA trains and stations along the Green and Orange Lines\, and virtually via the Hoverlay augmented reality application. \n\n\n\nThis initiative is funded by the Mayor’s Office of Arts & Culture and the Mellon Foundation. \n\n\n\nCurated and produced by Emerson Contemporary\, the exhibition will present a series of four public art projects featuring Elisa Hamilton\, Clareese Hill\, Sue Murad\, and Kameelah Janan Rasheed. Combining the gallery’s mission to educate by doing\, the inclusive experience of walking tours\, and the idea that history is a living subject that constantly evolves\, the artists received this prompt: find an aspect of the city’s past that is not currently well-known or understood and create art using new media technologies to amplify those stories.  \n\n\n\nEmerson Contemporary collaborated with Boston’s foremost historic archives: The Boston Athenaeum\, Historic New England\, and Massachusetts Historical Society\, and the artists were subsequently invited as community research fellows. With the generous support and collaboration of the archives’ staff\,  artists were provided access to their rich collections and many objects that served as inspiration for their thought-provoking projects. \n\n\n\nSue Murad\, ASSEMBLE\, 2025\n\n\n\nTo support public access to Hidden Histories\, the gallery has continued to build on their multi-year collaboration and partnership with Hoverlay\, a Boston-based augmented reality platform where users can compose and publish immersive content. Hoverlay enables any storyteller to utilize AR to transform how they tell their stories by placing virtual story objects out in the world to be accessed by visitors’ smartphones.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/regarding-monuments-visualizing-hidden-histories/
LOCATION:Boston Commons\, 139 Tremont St\, Boston\, MA\, Boston\, 02111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,News,Regarding Monuments: Visualizing Hidden Histories
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SUMMARY:Call For Works: MOVEMENT/S
DESCRIPTION:Emerson Contemporary seeks critically engaged photographic series and lens-based works for a three-week exhibition considering ideas and issues related to “movement/s.” This topical and timely show is a part of an upper-level seminar on Curatorial Practices in the department of Visual & Media Studies.  \n\n\n\nSUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Artists are welcome to submit 3-5 artworks for consideration. Works should be from a cohesive series\, exhibition-ready\, and ready to hang. We expect to select several works per artist (rather than one piece per person). Format-wise\, media could include photographs captured or created using historical or contemporary processes; videos or projections; photomontage or sculptural photographs; experimental or new media; or installations that include or allude to photography. Genre-wise\, works could include fine art\, documentary\, conceptual\, or archival. \n\n\n\nARTIST CRITERIA AND LOGISTICS: This exhibition opportunity is for emerging artists and photographers\, broadly defined. We especially encourage those from historically under-represented communities to apply. Artists must live or work in the Greater Boston area and be able to drop off and pick up the selected works to the gallery. The gallery is not able to accept shipped works or pay for shipping. The gallery cannot provide framing\, but does have an extensive equipment inventory available for use including high single-channel projectors\, iPads\, monitors etc. \n\n\n\nDEADLINE for submissions is Thursday\, February 27th at 11:59pm*There are no fees to submit work for consideration or to participate* \n\n\n\nLINK to application form: https://www.cognitoforms.com/MediaArtGallery/MOVEMENTS \n\n\n\nQUESTIONS? Email EmersonCuratorialPractices@gmail.com No phone calls pleas \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCALL NARRATIVE: A photograph is never fully still and nothing remains truly static. The act of photographing is inherently active\, requiring the photographer to move towards or follow a subject\, to observe\, to respond. Photographs aid in our understanding by collecting singular moments and circulating in a world of relentless flux.Our era has rapidly oscillated between inertia and eruption — from massive lockdowns to global protest. This endless movement is crucial for progress but can be overwhelming individually. How do we process and picture this whiplash of stasis paired together with speed? \n\n\n\nMovement/s\, a student-curated exhibition at Emerson College\, seeks photographic and lens-based works that engage\, capture\, and reflect “movement.” The call welcomes artworks that examine movement as an idea — whether anticipated or abrupt\, chaotic or controlled\, internal or external — as well as those that document political and social\, environmental and scientific\, physical and abstract movements. We also solicit series that explore the role of photography as a tool for change\, organization\, or revolution as well as those that question the fluidity\, fractures\, and futures of movement. Whether we fight\, fly\, or freeze\, “moving through” can also be a transformative pause or confrontation and invite those interpretations as well. \n\n\n\nWe especially seek projects that challenge binaries — action/inaction\, progress/rewind\, agitation/anxiety\, construction/destruction — to map where we have been\, where we are stuck\, and how we might navigate\, connect\, learn\, and move forward. Our exhibition aims to be a reflection of and meditation on our time — from its perpetual motion\, shifting tides\, restless energy\, to continuous evolution. We look forward to seeing how artists incorporate and interrogate Movement/s at this inflection point — as the weight of history presses against the present and the fierce urgency of now foreshadows the future.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/call-for-works-movement-s/
LOCATION:Boston Commons\, 139 Tremont St\, Boston\, MA\, Boston\, 02111\, United States
CATEGORIES:News,Regarding Monuments: Visualizing Hidden Histories
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SUMMARY:I have asked myself: "Can a sentence be haunted? And if so\, by what?"
DESCRIPTION:By Kameelah Janan Rasheed  \n\n\n\n\n\nEmerson Contemporary has commissioned a public art campaign by Kameelah Jana Rasheed where she responds to Boston’s memorial landscape exploring the layered histories of the Boston Common. Rasheed will expand her textual practice by animating the typographical history of this region to create a library of typefaces – fragments (letters\, textures) of language. These fragments will be interwoven or sampled into digital designs and animated poems and displayed on digital signage situated around Emerson’s campus.  \n\n\n\nKameelah Rasheed\n\n\n\nRasheed studies\, documents\, annotates\, and creates texts. Beyond the content\, she is interested in the materiality of text and language across different substrates (or compositional fields)\, or how text shows up across geological features\, physical architecture\, and in printed matter.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/i-have-asked-myself-can-a-sentence-be-haunted-and-if-so-by-what/
LOCATION:Boston Commons\, 139 Tremont St\, Boston\, MA\, Boston\, 02111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artist Spotlight,Exhibition,Regarding Monuments: Visualizing Hidden Histories
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241005T235959
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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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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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