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SUMMARY:I Thought I Saw You Watching: Emerson's GBFA 2024 Artist's Showcase
DESCRIPTION:Emerson College is proud to present a series of installations\, crafted by the school’s Global BFA cohort of 2024. Installed in our Huret & Spector gallery space\, the show spans one week\, and features the following artists with their work: \n\n\n\nStill from A recorded conversation between electricity pylons\, translated for human understanding by Kelsey Cohn\n\n\n\nA recorded conversation between electricity pylons\, translated for human understanding \n\n\n\nby Kelsey Cohn Three-channel colour projection\, HD video\, sound\, 60 min loop.A recorded conversation between electricity pylons transcodes a conversation between two solitary pylon towers\, left standing together in a distant\, post-human future. Through their casual musings on life\, nature\, time\, and cosmology\, the audience is invited to reflect on existence from a structuralist vantage point. \n\n\n\nAcross three projections\, the pylons tower over an empty landscape. Here\, they seem more like monuments than infrastructure\, their ability to communicate reframing them as angelic messengers rather than utility structures. As the pylons pass the time reflecting on ecological curiosities and ancient discoveries\, their characterization and banter invites an empathetic humor. \n\n\n\nAt once spiritual\, scientific\, historical\, and whimsical\, the work invites a universal reflection on our origins and place in the ecological sphere. From their divine point of view above the landscape and history\, the pylons alone notice the wires that link our lives deeply to the world around us.  \n\n\n\nThe Normandy Tree Tape  \n\n\n\nby Roz Pederson Single channel display on CRT monitor\, 11minCombining documentary and fiction\, The Normandy Tree Tape exists in the oft forgotten space between story and history\, real and unreal. It challenges our preconceived notions of true and false and allows for a shift in perspective that is rarely considered. Indeed the tension between viewpoints provides the driving force of the piece. It bridges science and mythology\, knowable and unknowable.  \n\n\n\nWhile clearing land in an old growth forest in Normandy\, workers discovered a VHS tape stuck in the roots of a fell tree. When this tape was played back\, they discovered a unique alteration to it. The tape originally was a home recording of a TV documentary\, but through methods currently being studied by scientists\, some of the data on the tape was replaced with narration from the forest. After extensive restoration\, Roz Pederson and her team are excited to present the first public exhibition of The Normandy Tree Tape. \n\n\n\nThis is the myth The Normandy Tree Tape creates\, a story somewhere between folklore\, scientific discovery\, and tourist trap. The installation serves to convince you of this myth. This piece was born from the idea that it is human nature to assume all people to have a set of experiences more or less similar to ours. Through communication\, we learn ways in which this is and isn’t the case\, and approximate the innate human experience. There may be\, however\, sensations so human they become difficult or impossible to identify because the opposite has never been known.  \n\n\n\nThe work imagines what exists beyond the limits of modern communication\, what the sensory experience of the inhuman may be and stands against the truth and for the complete subjectivity of all things. \n\n\n\nInside the Screen by Lisa Siera\n\n\n\nInside the Screen \n\n\n\nby Lisa SieraLive video\, sculpture\, light\, sound\, 1:40Inside the Screen is a spatial interpretation of the world inside the phone screen. It compares the social design created in the digital world to the physical system of the panopticon jail. After years of experience in front of and behind the camera\, the artist examined the intertwined dynamics between cameras\, eyes\, bodies\, and screens. A panopticon originally devised by Jeremy Bentham is a circular prison with cells arranged around a central well\, from which prisoners could at all times be observed.  \n\n\n\nOne-Way Street by Sid Tian Shi\n\n\n\nOne-Way Street  \n\n\n\nby Sid Tian Shi Single channel color projection with videos and soundThis project is an interactive video installation where the audiences take a walk and play around the urban landscapes of Paris. During this journey\, every anecdote\, signs and spectacle of the streets are listed up and collected as an appendix to it.  \n\n\n\nIt consists of one main screen showing the landscapes\, and a supplement screen showing the commentary images and texts. Within the screening area\, the audience can interact with the pace of this journey by stepping into sections in the space\, which will be detected by the monitor camera installed to the ceiling. \n\n\n\nThe journey starts with a call between two friends living in Paris. A calls B\, saying that he is gonna take a walk from his home to B’s. After that call\, the audience is on a street with A\, traveling through the route from Italy 13 to Pére Lachaise. We have no way of knowing about A’s past or his present life. It’s just that we are viewing the city through his scope. He is curious\, loves to observe\, and always looking around\, instead of finishing this journey which leads us to the city fragments and comments we then see. \n\n\n\nThe panopticon allows a watchman to observe occupants without the occupants knowing whether or not they are being watched. The installation’s structure is inspired by the guard tower(the central well) and draws attention to how we are illusioned to hold power over our digital selves through our phones\, essentially becoming the prisoners while thinking we are the watchmen. \n\n\n\nArtist Reception\, Monday August 12th\, 5-7:30pm.  \n\n\n\nLocation: The Huret and Spector Gallery is located on the 6th Floor of the Tufte Building. Please enter through the doors at 10 Boylston Place Alleyway. Please note: visitor registration and ID required for visitors without Emerson Badge.  
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/global-paris-bfa-thesis-projects-2024/
LOCATION:Huret & Spector Gallery; Tufte Building
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Reception,Student Projects
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SUMMARY:Face to Face: Photo Practicum
DESCRIPTION:An exhibition featuring student work from the photo practicum course.  \n\n\n\n\nTIANYUN CHEN\, SOPHIA CHIARAMIDA\, YIFAN DU\, LIZ FARIAS\, ILANA GROLLMAN\, PAIGE TRACEY-KAISER\, ARTHUR LI\, JENNIFER WAI YI SHING\, RACHEL TARBY\, WILLOW TORRES\, DEYI ZENG\, YIZHANG ZHANG .
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/face-to-face-photo-practicum/
LOCATION:Huret And Spector Gallery\, Tufte Building
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Student Projects
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SUMMARY:Water Memories: A Happening...
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate a multi media installation environment created by Zhiyao Ding\, Mila Jafarnejad\, Alexander Nezam\, Nikita Potnis\, Marcus Santos\, Yangyanyun Tang\, Siqi Xiong\, and Yishu Yu whose work is the culminating project from the Film and Media Arts graduate installation art course “Space\, Place\, Image\, Sound.”  Location: Huret and Spector Gallery\, please enter on the 7th Floor. \n\n\n\nAlthough we don’t remember it\, every newborn human being develops in the amniotic fluid of their mother. Our first interaction with the external world is to leave the water and breathe land’s air. One of the criteria for exploring a planet’s habitability is evidence of water\, because without it life cannot live. Water exists in many forms: oceans\, rivers\, clouds\, snowflakes and even inside our bodies. \n\n\n\nJapanese scientist Masaru Emoto studied the molecular structure of water and discovered that when water was exposed to different human emotions the molecular structure of water changed. He realized that the water we drink\, use and interact with every day has memory. Water remembers. \n\n\n\nThis exhibition explores many modes of interacting with water including memories of water\, the biological and cultural significance of water. How would it feel to submerge yourself in water again? Fear? death? cleansing? or a warm embrace? After all\, every drop of water once belonged to the sea\, and all life will eventually meet again as one. 
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/water-memories-a-happening/
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Exhibition,Public Program,Reception,Student Projects
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SUMMARY:SURROUNDING: Anny Dai\, Yue Hua\, and Tomás Orrego
DESCRIPTION:Composite image from left to right: Anny Dai\, Yue Hua and Tomás Orrego\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSURROUNDING\, an MFA in Film and Media Arts thesis exhibition explores sound\, visuality\, and touch through compelling multi-channel video and sculptural installations by visual artists and filmmakers Anny Dai ‘24\, Yue Hua ‘24\, and Tomás Orrego ’24. \n\n\n\nSURROUNDING serves as a sensory testament to the lived experiences and reflections of three emerging artists. Dai’s Reveries Echo of Touch is an immersive\, multi-sensory installation that challenges viewers to awaken their tactile sense while interacting with the piece. This interactive artwork combines sculptural objects\, video projections\, live video feed\, and soundscapes created by the audience’s participation. Hua’s 16mm film installation Cine-labyrinth works to understand a sense of self through landscape projections and poetry. Mirroring the physical journey through the labyrinth\, the entwining 16mm images induce a dream-like trance. In Tolerances of the human face Orrego explores absurdism through a single channel video installation of his film Fever. Entirely shot on a soundstage\, the piece utilizes practical effects and a hyper stylized aesthetic that embraces artificiality. \n\n\n\nArtist talks will take place during the Emerson’s Visual Media Art Department “Open House” on Tuesday\, April 30 at 6 p.m.\, which is open to the public.  \n\n\n\nPlease note: after May 2\, 2024 gallery will be open by appointment and for special events. Artist talks will take place during the Emerson Visual Media Art Open House on Tuesday\, April 30 from 6 – 7 p.m.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/surrounding/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Student Projects
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SUMMARY:Rhythm & Art: A Polyvocal Song of Blackness and Being
DESCRIPTION:In this exhibition\, Rhythm & Art: A Polyvocal Song of Blackness and Being\, local Black artists bring to the fore a wide range of topics: sisterhood\, coming of age\, nature as a family member\, being of a diaspora\, and more. Much like Blackness\, this exhibition resists the boundaries that labels and language often attempt to enforce. Viewers are encouraged to question what “Black art” is and contemplate how the Black experience may contour and highlight the creative practice. \n\n\n\nRECEPTION: THURSDAY\, FEBRUARY 29\, 7-9PM \n\n\n\n We hope that this multimedia exhibit pushes at the walls of this space and reaches far beyond them — much like the minds of the brilliant artists who created the work on display. Each artist dutifully crafted lyrical works\, commenting on the human condition. On their own\, each piece stands powerfully but woven together here the art becomes a Sunday choir singing a polyvocal song.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/rhythm-art-a-polyvocal-song-of-blackness-and-being/
LOCATION:Huret and Spector Gallery\, 10 Boylston Place\, 6th Floor\, Boston\, Massachusetts\, 02116
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Student Projects
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SUMMARY:PURPOSEFULLY LOST
DESCRIPTION:Presenting the Fall 2023 Photography Practicum: Purposefully Lost\, a varied collection of reflections and expressions by Emerson artists in the BFA program.  \n\n\n\nFeaturing exhibits by the following resident artists:Aquaholic by Kyra Badger \n\n\n\nUrban Eden by Molly Berard \n\n\n\nShit Show by Maya Bergman \n\n\n\nStarring… by Charlene Cheung \n\n\n\nCardboard Reality by Jose Benito Guevera \n\n\n\nConcurrent by Yangyang Huang \n\n\n\nSecond Spine by Yiyi Lu \n\n\n\nDouble Take by Xiaoke Ma \n\n\n\nempathic fluorescence by Mia Moore \n\n\n\nDeinstitutionalised by Julia Tweedie  \n\n\n\nTraces Echo by Yuchun (Emily) Zhou
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/purposefully-lost-photos/
LOCATION:Huret & Spector Gallery; Tufte Building
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Student Projects
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SUMMARY:BECAUSE I COME FROM YOU
DESCRIPTION:Maya Seri’s BFA thesis project BECAUSE I COME FROM YOU features photographs\, video projection and sculptural installation\, a project about home\, identity and belonging. Seri’s perception of identity has changed through the making of this work. As she embarks in this period of transition as a 21-year-old\, she realizes that she is no longer a girl. Feeling the departure from childhood\, the artist can’t help but wonder\, “Where is home?” She feels connected to Ohio\, where the artist grew up\, where she’s from. When in Boston\, she feels a loss of identity and have to find herself over and over again. She asks: “Who am I? What am I? I am made of everything. I am made of the experiences I have had\, the people I have met\, and the places I have been.” \n\n\n\nThis project began as a journal entry to the artist’s younger self: “I just want to give you a hug. I want to see you smile and laugh. But that’s what I see in the mirror\, isn’t it? I just don’t recognize it. You are me? I am you. I’m different\, of course. I’m older. ‘Soiled’ by the world\, as some would say. But I have you in me. I can be who I want to be because I come from you.” \n\n\n\nAbout the ArtistMaya Seri’23 is a senior at Emerson College\, is a passionate storyteller who uses the camera as a tool to connect with others and to understand herself and the world around her more thoroughly. Her work portrays themes of identity\, girlhood\, nostalgia\, home\, and connection.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/because-i-come-from-you/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Student Projects
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