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SUMMARY:A Shared Vision: The Lillian Farber Collection
DESCRIPTION:  \n“It hasn’t mattered who the photographer was\, living or dead\, acclaimed or unknown. Neither has the pedigree of the print; vintage\, self-produced\, staff-produced or mass-produced. All I had to do was love it.” \nLillian Farber \n  \nA closeup of an artichoke\, a gritty urban subway scene\, a portrait of a smiling little boy – every collection of images reveals something about its owner. Lillian Farber (1920 – 2007) was captivated with photography\, its historic and contemporary processes\, equipment\, tools and techniques. Farber’s collection celebrates the varied ways that photographers choose to depict the world around them. She was not particularly interested in recreating a specific history of photography\, but rather collected intuitively based on her personal and intellectual interests in either the artist\, the time period\, or the aesthetic qualities of the work. One of her greatest joys was sharing her collection with others. \nThis exhibition presents a selection of works from what once was a much larger collection as Farber generously gave away a number of pieces in the last few years of her life – and frankly –not all the remaining works fit on these gallery walls. Though now housed at Emerson College\, and on view in a gallery setting\, these works will ultimately be installed in common spaces across the Emerson campus to honor Farber’s original intent that these works be displayed as an easily accessible “teaching collection” in the places where students learn and congregate. \n— \nAs part of the Emerson-Marlboro Alliance the college has received 200 photographs known as the Lillian Farber Photography Collection. Lillian Farber served for many years as the chairwoman of the Marlboro Board of Trustees’ finance committee. A New Yorker by birth\, Mrs. Farber moved to Newfane\, Vermont in the mid-1970s\, where she became the vice president of Zone VI Studio\, a small\, vibrant photography equipment company. She had an artist’s eye for photography\, and over the course of a lifetime built a distinguished collection that includes works by Ansel Adams\, Walker Evans\, Dorothea Lange\, Aaron Siskind\, Edward Weston\, Garry Winogrand\, Eugene Atget and Lewis Hine\, among others.  \nIn 2006\, she donated the collection to Marlboro College for teaching purposes. Now\, the collection will be stewarded by Emerson College. This exhibition was organized by Dr. Leonie Bradbury\, Distinguished Curator-in-Residence in collaboration with Photo Historian and Affiliated Faculty Susan Doheny. After the exhibition is complete\, the works will be installed throughout Emerson’s campus.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/a-shared-vision-the-lillian-farber-collection/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Sky Hopinka: Present Joys
DESCRIPTION:Image Credit: Sky Hopinka\,  \n  \nAn enrolled member of the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin and a descendent of the Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians\, Hopinka uses personal and collective memories to destabilize traditional colonial narratives and critique cultural systems\, such as ethnography\, museology and anthropology\, that continue to depict indigenous cultures in limited and static ways. \n  \nHopinka combines the power of visual storytelling with an interest in semiotics to illuminate the role image and language – in the form of poetry\, songs and historic texts – play in shaping cultural identity. Textural fragments are juxtaposed with symbolic and abstract imagery in video\, photography and 16mm film to explore personal and historical understandings of different native homelands\, the stories they hold\, and their interconnectedness. \nCollectively\, the works included in “Present Joys\,” present an ecology of self. They collapse a linear sense of time as historical events are acknowledged as actively informing and coexisting with the present while they shift back and forth. Other in-between potentialities\, such as the ways in which landscapes evoke history\, language holds culture\, and music elicits memories\, are thoughtfully layered within each individual piece to add further complexity and nuance. \nThis exhibition received generous project support from the Mass Cultural Council
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/sky-hopinka-present-joys/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211008T120000
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SUMMARY:Sky Hopinka Artist Talk (Emerson Only)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a unique opportunity to meet Sky Hopinka and hear more about his art and career. \n 
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/sky-hopinka-artist-talk-emerson-only/
CATEGORIES:Gallery Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211008T190000
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SUMMARY:Sky Hopinka: maɬni – towards the ocean\, towards the shore (In person\, Emerson Only)
DESCRIPTION:Co-presented with the Bright Family Screening Series\, the Roxbury International Film Festival\, Living on Earth podcast\, DocYard and Emerson Contemporary.\n\n\nDirected by Sky Hopinka\, documentary\, chinuk wawa with English subtitles\, 82 minutes\, USA\, 2021. \nThis film follows Sweetwater Sahme and Jordan Mercier’s wanderings through each of their worlds as they wander through and contemplate the afterlife\, rebirth\, and the place in-between.  Spoken mostly in chinuk wawa\, their stories are departures from the Chinookan origin. \nFilm screening will be followed by a Director’s Conversation and Q&A. Film Preview  \nFor more information on the Bright Family Film Screening series: Fall 2021 Program
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/ma%c9%acni-towards-the-ocean-towards-the-shore-in-person-emerson-only/
CATEGORIES:Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211028T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211028T220000
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SUMMARY:Sky Hopinka maɬni – towards the ocean\, towards the shore (virtual)
DESCRIPTION:Co-presented with the Bright Family Screening Series\, the Roxbury International Film Festival\, Living on Earth podcast\, DocYard and Emerson Contemporary.\n\n\nDirected by Sky Hopinka\, documentary\, chinuk wawa with English subtitles\, 82 minutes\, USA\, 2021. \nThis film follows Sweetwater Sahme and Jordan Mercier’s wanderings through each of their worlds as they wander through and contemplate the afterlife\, rebirth\, and the place in-between.  Spoken mostly in chinuk wawa\, their stories are departures from the Chinookan origin. \nFilm screening will be followed by a Director’s Conversation and Q&A. Film Preview  \nFor more information on the Bright Family Film Screening series: Fall 2021 Program
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/sky-hopinka-ma%c9%acni-towards-the-ocean-towards-the-shore-virtual-public/
CATEGORIES:Film Screening,Public Program,Virtual program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211118T130000
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SUMMARY:Goethe-Institut: Immersive Storytelling - How Emerging Media Create Agency and Social Change
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe network meetings aim to highlight and virtually connect women and gender-marginalized people from Europe and North-America working in the creative industries and around immersive technologies to create new international connections and foster potential cooperation. These Meetups are planned as a series of events with a different focus for each event. This meeting is presented by the Goethe-Institut Boston in collaboration with Women in Immersive Tech Europe. \nFeaturing artists and filmmakers Rashin Fahandej and Rebecca Merlic in conversation with curator Dr. Leonie Bradbury. The speakers will address how they use virtual reality and immersive storytelling as tools for co-creation\, healing and social change. \nIntroduction by\nDr. Leonie Bradbury is the Henry and Lois Foster Chair of Contemporary Art Theory and Practice and Curator-in-Residence at Emerson College in Boston\, USA. She directs Emerson’s platform for visual art “Emerson Contemporary” focused on presenting and commissioning new media art\, performance art\, and emergent technologies within a socio-political context. In 2020\, she was a collaborator on the AREA Code Art Fair and curated and organized a drive-in movie theater experience featuring light projections and digital video art. Previously\, she served as the Director of Art and Creative Initiatives at HUBweek\, an innovation festival showcasing intersections of art\, science\, and technology. \nA respected authority on both the creative and scholarly aspects of contemporary art\, Dr. Bradbury has more than 20 years of experience in public programming\, developing new work\, creating compelling and innovative exhibitions\, and promoting artists as thought leaders. Her dissertation Artwork as Network: A Reconceptualization of the Work of Art and its Exhibition questions how contemporary works of art relate to network culture and\, alternately\, how do networks redefine our understanding of specific works of art. At Emerson College\, she teaches a professional practice seminar Curating Contemporary Art as well as a course on The Moving Image in Contemporary Art. \nPresentations by\nRashin Fahandej is an award winning artist\, independent filmmaker and assistant professor of emerging and interactive media at Emerson College. Her projects center on marginalized voices and the role of media\, technology\, and public collaboration in generating social change. A proponent of “Art as Ecosystem\,” she defines her projects as “Poetic Cyber Movement for Social Justice\,” where art mobilizes a plethora of voices by creating connections between public places and virtual spaces. Fahandej is the founder of “A Father’s Lullaby\, “ a multi-year community co-creative initiative that highlights the role of men in raising children and their absence due to racial disparities in the criminal justice system. Fahandej is the recipient of the 2021 Prix Ars Electronica Award of Distinction in Digital Music & Sound Art and 2019 Foster Prize at the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston. She has served as a Boston Mayor’s Office Artist-In-Residence and lead artist at American Arts Incubator Austria at ZERO1 and the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs where she launched the “Future of Inclusion Lab”initiative in partnership with Ars Electronica. \nRebecca Merlic retreats between Tokyo\, Munich and Vienna. She graduated with distinction at the Academy of Fine Arts. She specialized on analogue and digital art as well as architecture. Her work is strongly influenced by alternative ways of society and transgression in socioeconomic conventions as well as new forms of artistic and architectural production employing new technologies. During her masters she was able to study at Astushi KITAGAWARA Lab at Tokyo University of the Arts GEIDAI. She is a holder of the Marianne von Willemer Prize 2020 for digital media and the PIXEL\,BYTEs & FILM residency supported by the BMKOES\, ORF and Arte Creative. Currently her work is on display at bildraum07 on her first solo show TheCityAsAHouse 都市が家になるとき+ GLITCHBODIES WIP hosted by ARS ELECTRONICA. \n  \nParticipation via VR headset\, Windows PC and Mac OSX (beta version) in 2D mode and live stream via Zoom. \n\nRSVP to participate via AltspaceVR | Code: KVK567\nLink to participate via Zoom\n\nPlease note:New users will have to first download the app and then make an account inside the AltspaceVR application. This works on all platforms like PC\, Mac OSX\, Oculus Quest\, etc. \n\nDownload the app\nHere’s more about technical requirements and how to join the meetup.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/goethe-institut-immersive-storytelling/
CATEGORIES:Public Program,Virtual program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220126T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220327T170000
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SUMMARY:Kerry Tribe: Onomatopoeia
DESCRIPTION:Emerson Contemporary proudly presents Kerry Tribe: Onomatopoeia\, a solo exhibition by the Los Angeles-based artist and filmmaker\, on view in the Media Art Gallery at 25 Avery Street\, from January 26 – March 27\, 2022. Free and open to the public\, the gallery is open Wednesday – Sunday from 12-7pm.  \n \nCreated between 2010 and 2021\, the works selected for Onomatopoeia reflect the artist’s longstanding interest in consciousness\, memory and the limits of linguistic communication. Rigorous and thoughtful\, Tribe’s practice synthesizes cinematic\, journalistic and conceptual approaches in probing and affective works of art that privilege the viewer’s embodied experience in the gallery.  \nThe exhibition is anchored by two quasi-documentary videos. The Last Soviet (2010)\, revolves around a storied Russian cosmonaut stranded in orbit as the Soviet Union collapsed beneath him. Speaking in English and Russian\, with subtitles in both languages\, the work’s two narrators offer divergent perspectives on the fate and feelings of the lost cosmonaut and those awaiting his return. The narrative gains new resonance as Americans grapple with the toxic effects of state-sponsored disinformation. The second\, Afasia (2017)\, in subtitled English and Spanish\, pairs the musings of a photographer whose ability to communicate was radically altered after a left-hemisphere stroke with Tribe’s own faltering description of her efforts to re-learn a foreign language. The effect is one of empathic understanding and mutual curiosity about life at the limits of language.  \nA selection of Tribe’s lesser-known works on paper extend the inquiry in two dimensions. Silkscreens based on a cognitive test used to assess one’s ability to inhibit cognitive interference\, along with two new “scratch drawings” that reproduce philosophers’ attempts to diagram our perception of time\, encourage viewers to reflect on the unfolding of their own conscious experience. Two photographic prints from 2017\, Black Tourmaline (front) and Black Tourmaline (back)\, will be shown in the U.S. for the first time. \nIn Forest for the Trees (2015)\, a monitor nestled among potted plants and apple boxes silently flashes one word after another in a string of aphorisms suggesting a subject in search of agency and understanding. In contrast\, Fantastic Voyage (2020) has no set place in the gallery and provides no visuals; visitors are invited to listen to the recording on their personal devices as they take a walk in the gallery\, the neighborhood or their home. \nBorn and raised in the Boston area\, Onomatopoeia is Tribe’s first major exhibition in her hometown\, and viewers’ first opportunity to experience these particular works together. In tandem with the exhibition\, the artist will present a lecture and screening of her early autobiographical videos in March\, 2022. \nAbout the Artist \n \n \nKerry Tribe is an artist and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. Her work has been the subject of solo presentations at SFMOMA; The High Line and Anthology Film Archives\, New York; The Power Plant\, Toronto; Modern Art Oxford and Camden Arts Centre\, London. Tribe was the recipient of the Presidential Residency at Stanford University\, the Herb Alpert Award\, the Creative Capital Award\, the USA Artists Award\, and she was the Guna S. Mundheim Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. \nTribe’s work is in the public collections of MoMA\, SFMOMA\, the Whitney\, the Hammer Museum\, Yuz Museum in Shanghai\, LACMA\, SMAK Ghent and the Generali Foundation\, among other institutions. She has served as a visiting faculty member at Stanford University\, UCLA\, CalArts\, Harvard University\, and ArtCenter in Pasadena. Tribe received her MFA from UCLA\, attended the Whitney Independent Study Program\, and received a BA\, magna cum laude\, from Brown University.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/kerry-tribe/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220307T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220506T170000
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SUMMARY:GlitchKraft v.2 Allison Tanenhaus and Friends
DESCRIPTION:  \nGlitchKraft v.2. Allison Tanenhaus + Friends Alex Kittle\, Ben K. Foley\, Property Materials\, Lauren Klotzman\, and stickipictures \nOn view at Southern New Hampshire University’s McIninch Gallery\, March 7- April 30\, 2022. \nGlitchKraft is a multimedia exhibition of glitch art\, the creative practice of interfering with or intentionally altering digital image files for aesthetic purposes. The exhibition showcased glitch art by Allison Tanenhaus and others with the art taking many forms\, digitally projected onto the gallery walls\, windows\, and displayed on monitors. \n“GlitchKraft is a celebratory display of digital errors\, an ode to the interrupted image. Images that are usually limited to be viewed on a screen – mobile or otherwise – here are projected larger than life onto every surface of the gallery to create a technicolor ‘glitch-world’ that will surround visitors and allow them to be fully immersed in light and sound.” -Dr. Leonie Bradbury\, Curator \nFor the GlitchKraft exhibit\, Allison Tanenhaus collaborated with color-bending\, mind-scrambling\, new-media friends and local artist collaborators\, including Alex Kittle\, Ben K. Foley\, Property Materials\, Lauren Klotzman\, and stickipictures. Together\, they embrace electronic error\, circumvent computational constraint and transcend technological overstimulation — culminating in an immersive\, ephemeral glitchscape made to overload the senses. \nReviews: \nBoston Globe \n 
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/glitchkraft-v-2-allison-tanenhaus-and-friends/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Public Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220325T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220325T143000
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SUMMARY:Will Pappenheimer: Artist Talk and Demo
DESCRIPTION:Will Pappenheimer (webinar) \nFriday\, March 25\, 1:30-3pm \nWill Pappenheimer is a Brooklyn based artist working in new media\, performance and installation with an interest in spatial intervention and the altered experiences of the artwork as site. His current work explores the collage of the virtual and physical worlds in the recent medium of “mixed reality.” \nHe is a pioneer of augmented reality (AR) art and a founding member of the AR collective\, Manifest.AR formed in 2011 \nThis event is co-presented by Boston CyberArts \nFREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/will-pappenheimer-artist-talk-and-demo/
CATEGORIES:Gallery Talk,Public Program,Virtual program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220921T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221106T170000
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SUMMARY:Emilio Rojas: tracing a wound through my body
DESCRIPTION:Image above: Emilio Rojas\, Heridas Abiertas\, 2013–ongoing. Performance\, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist. \n  \nThe U.S-Mexican border es una herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds.\n—Gloria E. Anzaldúa\, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza\, 1987\ntracing a wound through my body is the first traveling survey of the contemporary and multidisciplinary practice of artist Emilio Rojas (b. 1985 Mexico City)\, on view September 21–November 6\, 2022 at Emerson Contemporary. The exhibition brings together works spanning the past decade including live performances and interventions\, documents of performance sustained in video and ephemera\, photography\, sculpture\, installation\, and poetry. Recognizing the act of tracing dualistically\, tracing a wound through my body both reexamines the artist’s corpus and reckons with the legacies of colonial and border traumas. For Rojas\, such reckoning renders palpable visible and invisible wounds through the radically political instrumentalization of his body. \nThe included works relate to Rojas’ migratory experience and his rigorous research-based practice. Drawing upon queer and decolonized methodologies\, his performative works interrogate extant structures of colonialism and border politics. The exhibition takes place in a moment in which nativist rhetoric and xenophobic immigration legislation in the United States and beyond deepens wounds already open. Rojas’ works not only confront the historical precedents for such trauma\, but also speculate upon Chicana cultural theorist Gloria E. Anzaldúa’s proposition of the wound transforming into a pathway for healing. \ntracing a wound through my body will be on display at the Media Art Gallery with works installed throughout Emerson College’s campus\, including the Huret and Spector galleries\, Tufte Stairwell\, 2 Boylston Place\, Little Building Lobby\, and The Iwasaki Library. \nThe exhibition is accompanied by a public programming series and an exhibition catalog featuring new scholarship from Ethan Madarieta\, Laurel V. McLaughlin\, Mechtild Widrich with Andrei Pop\, and Rebecca Schneider; an interview with Ernesto Pujol; a creative writing contribution from Valeria Luiselli; and new poetry from Pamela Sneed and Emilio Rojas. Emilio Rojas: tracing a wound through my body is curated by Laurel V. McLaughlin and organized by Lafayette College Art Galleries\, Easton\, PA with travel administered by Artspace New Haven. \nEmilio Rojas is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily with the body in performance\, using video\, photography\, installation\, public interventions\, and sculpture. He holds an MFA in Performance from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA in Film from Emily Carr University in Vancouver\, Canada. \nAs a queer Latinx immigrant with indigenous heritage\, it is essential to his practice to engage in the postcolonial ethical imperative to uncover\, investigate\, and make visible and audible undervalued or disparaged sites of knowledge\, narratives\, and individuals. He utilizes his body in a political and critical way\, as an instrument to unearth removed traumas\, embodied forms of decolonization\, migration\, and poetics of space. \nHis research-based practice is heavily influenced by queer and feminist archives\, border politics\, botanical colonialism\, and defaced monuments. Besides his artistic practice\, he is also a translator\, community activist\, yoga teacher\, and anti-oppression facilitator with queer\, migrant\, and refugee youth. \n  \nPublic Programming \nThursday\, September 22\, 5–7:30 PM. Artist Reception. Location: Media Art Gallery\, 25 Avery St. Boston\, Ma 02111 \nFriday\, September 23\, 2-4 PM.  Performance of A Vague and Undetermined Place (a Gloria)\, 2019. Location: Boylston Place Alley. 10 Boylston Place\, Boston\, MA 02116 \nSaturday\, September 24\, 2-4 PM. Performance\, A Vague and Undetermined Place (a Gloria)\, 2019. Location: Boylston Place Alley. 10 Boylston Place\, Boston\, MA 02116 \nFriday\, October 14\, 12–1 PM. “Go Back To Where You Came From” A Performance-lecture by Emilio Rojas. Location: Media Art Gallery\, 25 Avery Street\, Boston\, MA 02111  \nFriday\, October 14\, 4-8 PM. One-on-one performance\, A Manual to Be (to Kill) or To Forgive My Own Father\, 2015–ongoing. Location: The Iwasaki Library\, 3rd floor\, Walker Building\, 120 Boylston Street\, Boston\, MA \nSaturday\, October 15\, 12-4 PM. One-on-one performance\, A Manual to Be (to Kill) or To Forgive My Own Father\, 2015–ongoing. Location: The Iwasaki Library\, 3rd floor\, Walker Building\, 120 Boylston Street\, Boston\, MA \nSunday\, October 16\, 12-4 PM. One-on-one performance\, A Manual to Be (to Kill) or To Forgive My Own Father\, 2015–ongoing. Location: The Iwasaki Library\, 3rd floor\, Walker Building\, 120 Boylston Street\, Boston\, MA
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/emilio-rojas-tracing-a-wound-through-my-body/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220923T120000
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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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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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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/
CATEGORIES:Performance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221014T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221014T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140925
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221015T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221016T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140925
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221105T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221105T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140925
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SUMMARY:Border Pedagogies\, Queer Kinships\, and Archival Resonances: Tania Bruguera and Emilio Rojas
DESCRIPTION:Border Pedagogies\, Queer Kinships\, and Archival Resonances: Tania Bruguera and Emilio Rojas in Conversation.\nModerated by Laurel V. McLaughlin. \nSaturday\, November 5th\, 7-8:30p.m. (Doors open at 6:30p.m.)\nDessert Reception to follow. RSVP required EVENTBRITE \nLocation: Bill Bordy Theater\, 216 Tremont St\, Boston\, MA 02116 \nJoin Emerson Contemporary for a conversation between artists Tania Bruguera and Emilio Rojas\, moderated by Artspace New Haven Director of Curatorial Affairs and Emerson guest curator Laurel V. McLaughlin\, on the occasion of the book launch for Emilio Rojas: tracing a wound through my body (Emerson Contemporary\, 2022). Rojas and Bruguera will discuss the numerous research threads that intertwine in Emilio’s practice\, survey\, and the catalog structure. Departing from the atemporal and overlapping sections that compose the exhibition and catalog—the cut\, the line\, the scar\, and the corpus\, Bruguera\, Rojas\, and McLaughlin trace the intersections of border pedagogies\, queer kinships\, and archival resonances. \nEmilio Rojas: tracing a wound through my body (Emerson Contemporary\, 2022) is available in print-on-demand through Blurb\, or through an open-source link on the Emerson website. The bilingual exhibition catalog features an introduction by Michiko Okaya and Néstor Armando Gil Carmona\, new poetry by Emilio Rojas and Pamela Sneed\, an interview with Ernesto Pujol\, and essays by Valeria Luiselli\, Ethan Madarieta\, Laurel V. McLaughlin\, Rebecca Schneider\, and Mechtild Widrich with Andrei Pop.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/border-pedagogies-queer-kinships-and-archival-resonances-tania-bruguera-and-emilio-rojas-in-conversation/
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Public Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230125T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230326T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140925
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SUMMARY:EL Putnam: PseudoRandom
DESCRIPTION:Emerson Contemporary proudly presents EL Putnam: PseudoRandom\, a solo exhibition featuring recent works by the Ireland-based video and performance artist on view in the Media Art Gallery at 25 Avery Street\, January 25 – March 26\, 2022. Free and open to the public\, hours Wednesday – Sunday from 12-7pm.   \nThe exhibition explores aesthetic encounters through digital performance by implicating the artist\, technology\, and the viewer. On display will be performative videos\, a large scale projection\, digital landscape “paintings” and an exploratory series of generative digital animations. Putnam examines performance art beyond lens based media\, while questioning the ways time and space collapsed during the pandemic.  \nThe exhibition is anchored by a large-scale projection All Kinds of Disintegration (2020). Shot in the summer of 2020 using a smartphone\, the piece presents a layered collection of short vignettes captured during the first period of COVID-19 lockdown. The maternal is re-imagined in unfamiliar ways though a co-created transformative landscape using performed actions\, moving image\, and sound. A new video series Foundations (2022-23)\, is presented on three individual\, yet connected monitors to form a color saturated triptych. Putnam uses datamoshing\, a form of intentional image glitching\, to create the dramatic dreamy visual effects. She thinks of the series as a type of digital watercolor painting. \nTwo performative video works Context Collapse (2020) and Interlooping (2021) explore new virtual performance modalities as all in-person performance opportunities were canceled during the pandemic. Both performances were instead livestreamed for online audiences. Context Collapse was created in response to the many pandemic public health restrictions which caused the closure of schools\, workplaces\, and other public spaces as people were encouraged to “stay home.” This compression of one’s personal\, professional\, and family spheres introduced a new type of context collapse. By contrast\, Interlooping addresses the relationship of the performing human with technology\, the non-human\, and our collective being. EL Incorporates wool refuse accumulated during the disruption of the international wool trade in Ireland as a result of COVID-19. \nEmergent (2020-2022) is a new series of generative animations developed through Putnam’s daily digital sketching practice of creating generative animations through p5.js. Emergent is a portrait of the artist’s experience of the COVID-19 pandemic as it visualizes the data tracked through a fitbit. Instead of focusing on the intended use of the fitness tracker as an accurate record keeper of physical activity\, Putnam draws attention to the gaps in data collection\, the goals not met\, and the capacity of physical activity to exceed sensory quantification. \nAdditionally\, Putnam will create and perform two new\, live performance works Ghost Work  and Friction as part of the exhibition programming. Putnam uses wearable electronics as part of her performances to explore our gestural relationship to digital technologies. 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. A collaborative performance\, Friction\, created and performed with German sound artist David Stalling will debut in March. \n  \nEVENTS \n\nArtist Reception: Wednesday\, January 25\, 5-7:30PM. RSVP required on Eventbrite.\nGhost Work\, Live Performance by EL Putnam\, Wednesday January 25\, 6PM. \n\nMedia Art Gallery \n\nGhost Work\, Live Performance EL Putnam: Friday\, January 27\, 12-1PM. \n\nMedia Art Gallery \n\nFriction\, Live Performance by EL Putnam and sound artist David Stalling\, Thursday\, March 23\, 6PM. \n\nMedia Art Gallery \n\nEl Putnam\, Artist Talk\, Friday\, March 24\, 12PM\n\n  \nABOUT THE ARTIST \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.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/el-putnam-pseudorandom/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230125T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230125T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140925
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230323T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230323T193000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140925
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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/
CATEGORIES:Performance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230324T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230324T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140925
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SUMMARY:EL Putnam Artist Talk
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, March 24\, 2023 \nJoin us for a audio-visual presentation on EL Putnam’s artist practice. Putnam will discuss recent performance and video works. \nLocation: Media Art Gallery\, 25 Avery Street
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/el-putnam-artist-talk/
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Gallery Talk,Public Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230324T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230324T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140926
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SUMMARY:Digital Art and/as Performance: A Conversation with Dr. Leonie Bradbury and Dr. EL Putnam
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDigital Art and/as Performance: A Conversation with Dr. Leonie Bradbury and Dr. EL Putnam\n\nCabot Science Library\nHarvard University\nCORRECTION: Friday\, March 24\, 2023\n3:00 p.m. \n\nJoin contemporary art curator Leonie Bradbury and performance artist EL Putnam discuss their collaborative work on the recent exhibition PseudoRandom at Emerson Contemporary\, considering the challenges and possibilities of creating and presenting digital art.\n\nThis talk is held as part of ArtTechPsyche\, a symposium at the intersection of art and technology that offers a day of immersive digital experiences\, art exhibitions\, technology demos\, and visionary speakers. Discover the ways in which technology shapes us\, and conversely\, how the artist continually challenges and informs technological development.\n\nReserve your spot. This event is free and open to the public\n 
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/digital-art-and-as-performance-a-conversation-with-dr-leonie-bradbury-and-dr-el-putnam/
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Public Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230419T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230514T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140926
CREATED:20230815T194251Z
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SUMMARY:Is This Too Much? Space\, Place\, Image\, Sound (VM637)
DESCRIPTION:Media Art Gallery\, April 19- May 14\, 2023. \nReception\, April 19\, 5-7pm \nIS THIS TOO MUCH?\n\nThe works in this exhibition were created by artists from the MFA Film and Media Arts and MA Media Design programs.\nThis exhibition explores the complex relationships that entwine us and shape us as humans – mind-body\, artificial and organic\, public and private\, how culture identity\, nostalgia and history operate on us… wait —   Is This Too Much? Featuring works by: Elise Cohen\, Abigail Hendrix\, Tomas Orrego\, Greyson Acquaviva\, Sean Blanchard\, Tati Chavitage\, Yuling Chen\, Anny Dai\, Nate Gardner\, Emerson Holloway\, Yue Hua\, Yaqi Liu\, Chunxiaoxue Lu\, Paula Ochoa Tovar\, Christina (Yijia) Ren\, Valeria Rodriguez
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/is-it-too-much-space-place-image-sound-vm637/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230419T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230514T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140926
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SUMMARY:MFA Thesis Projects
DESCRIPTION:Abigail Hendrix\, Nimueh\, 2023 (still\, 16 mm HD video\, color\, stereo\, 3-channel\, synchronous loop). \nMedia Art Gallery \nApril 19- May 14\, 2023. \nReception\, April 19\, 5-7pm \nA two person exhibition\, this year’s MFA thesis showcase features multi channel moving image works by Elise Cohen and Abigail Hendrix. \nElise Cohen\, Call Home\, 16 mm film\, 2023\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nCohen’s 16mm film Call Home is a mixed-media installation work. The project features home movies filmed on 8mm by the artist’s grandfather from the 50’s through the late 70’s during their time in Morocco and when they moved to France. More recent recordings of conversations between the artists and her grandmother are also included. The project explores themes of transmission\, memories\, and alienation. \nHendrix’s three channel installation Nimueh is made using digitally scanned 16mm film and a multi-layered soundscape. It explores the local folklore and mythology surrounding the death of Hallie Latham Illingworth\, whose intact body was found floating in Washington state’s Lake Crescent in 1937 about four years after her death\, eerily preserved (saponified) by the frigid water. Nimueh (named for the Arthurian Lady of the Lake) uses local imagery\, voiceover\, and text to engage with the landscape of and around Lake Crescent and with Hallie’s transformation: from human body to soap\, from human being to myth. \n 
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/mfa-thesis-projects/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230712T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230805T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140926
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SUMMARY:New Standards
DESCRIPTION:The Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice (JGJ) has partnered with the Office of the Arts at Emerson College to bring the multidisciplinary installation\, New Standards\, to the Emerson Contemporary Media Art Gallery. The multimedia exhibition continues the theme set forth in the book New Standards: 101 Lead Sheets by Women Composers by Grammy Award-winning artist Terri Lyne Carrington\, and will be free and on display to the public beginning Wednesday\, July 12 to Friday\, August 4\, 2023\, with gallery hours from 12:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. (and by appointment)\, Wednesday through Saturday. \nNew Standards celebrates the work of women composers and performers who have been either under acknowledged or rendered invisible regarding the creation\, perpetuation and overall representation of the art form. The installation will feature visual arts\, film\, panel discussions\, music and information on classic and contemporary jazz composers\, and is part of the Jazz Without Patriarchy Project (JWP)\, an ongoing series of initiatives\, established by four-time Grammy Award-winning drummer\, producer\, and educator\, Carrington and the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice\, which aims to lead a massive cultural shift toward gender equity in the field of jazz.  \n“The idea for the book New Standards came out of necessity when I realized there were not enough women represented in the canon of jazz standards\,” said Carrington\, a multi-Grammy-winning artist\, NEA Jazz Master\, and the founder and artistic director of the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice. “It expanded to be an album project and also an exhibition at the Carr Center in Detroit. I am beyond happy to be able to share this multidimensional work at home\, and grateful to the Office of the Arts at Emerson College\, and New Commonwealth Fund for helping to make this dream come to fruition. The hope is that anyone who experiences the exhibition will walk away transformed and excited about different sonic possibilities\, imagining what the music will sound like when gender equity with its creators is accomplished.” \nCurated by Carrington\, New Standards will showcase works created by multidisciplinary jazz artists Cécile McClorin Salvant\, Carmen Lundy\, and Jazzmeia Horn – along with works by award-winning visual artists Monica Haslip\, Joe Diggs\, Yvette Rock\, and Ramsess – ranging from print and sculpture\, to collage\, textiles\, and multimedia. The exhibit will also feature a stunning portrait collection of 30 influential women instrumentalists by Sherry Rubel\, as well as a film installation by award-winning photographer and video-installation artist Carrie Mae Weems\, a film capturing the collaborative work between Carrington and visual artist Mikalene Thomas\, and a documentary on the book\, New Standards: 101 Lead Sheets by Women Composers (Berklee Press\, 2022).
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/new-standards/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230720T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230802T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140926
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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/
CATEGORIES:Performance,Public Program
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SUMMARY:Truth Be Told: (Re)Considering Innovation\, Transformation\, and Genius through the Lens of Jazz\, Gender\, and Justice
DESCRIPTION:Grammy Award winning artist Terri Lyne Carrington recently conceived and curated the New Standards Exhibit\, celebrating the work of women composers and performers who have been either under-acknowledged or rendered invisible regarding the overall representation of the art form. This multidisciplinary exhibit imagines the sound of jazz through the lens of gender justice and is now open in Boston. \nModerated by Danny Rivera\, our panelists Terri Lyne Carrington\, Somi\, and Patricia Zarate Perez will lead a dynamic discussion considering the themes of gender\, race\, innovation\, and transformation featured throughout the New Standards Exhibit. \nEvent is free and open to the public\, please RSVP here. \n 
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/truth-be-told-reconsidering-innovation-transformation-and-genius-through-the-lens-of-jazz-gender-and-justice/
CATEGORIES:Gallery Talk,Public Program
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SUMMARY:Global Paris BFA Thesis Projects
DESCRIPTION:Image caption: Mars Tomasetti\, 234A\, Three channel animation video\, acrylic\, Gamecube consoles and controllers (2001)\, stereo sound\, 2023 \nEmerson College’s second BFA thesis exhibition featuring graduates from the Global Paris BFA in Film Program. Featured Artists are: Joie Cousin\, Miriam Yoboué\, and Mars Tomasetti\, \nJoie Cousin’s Our Home: Book One “Our Home” is a film essay based on childhood nostalgia using therapeutic techniques involving segments of self-expression\, interviews\, and confessionals. These themes entangle together in order to express a grander story displaying the power of communication in all settings. Through aspects of video art\, puppets\, and animation\, Cousin bridges the gap between fiction and fact\, in order to display a wide range of what it means to know someone (/yourself). \nMiriam Yoboué’s 9- channel film installation Static Stands Still\, is a comprised of different sized CRTVS and flat-screen monitors that explores the different emotions\, feelings\, and experiences of a young black woman reeling from the traumatic event of a rape. The installation works as a semi-linear narrative that depicts the life of a fictional black woman who goes through the memories of her past and the moments of her present to try to contextualize this event.\nMars Tomasetti’s multimedia installation 234A\, features a three-channel animation video game\, although you can’t actually play the game\, the installation is designed to make the game and the surrounding room feel yours. Tomasetti wants to call attention to the disconnectedness and isolation many people experience at the hands of capitalism and the American ideal of “individualism\,” and they redirect them towards collectivism. \nGallery Hours 12-5pm\, August 16 – 19\, 2023 \nArtist Reception\, Friday August 12\, 5-7pm.\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.\n\nPlease note: ID required for visitors without Emerson Badge\n\n 
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/global-paris-bfa-thesis-projects/
LOCATION:Huret and Spector Gallery
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Artist Reception\, GBFA\, Friday August 12\, 5-7pm.
DESCRIPTION:Image Caption: Joie Cousin\, Our Home: Book One\, multi-media video installation\, 2023 \nEmerson College’s BFA thesis exhibition featuring graduates from the Global Paris BFA in Film Program. Featured Artists are: Joie Cousin\, Miriam Yoboué\, and Mars Tomasetti\, \nGallery Hours 12-5pm\, August 16 – 19\, 2023 \nArtist Reception\, Friday August 12\, 5-7pm. Join us for refreshments and conversation.\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.\n\nPlease note: ID required for visitors without Emerson Badge
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/artist-reception-gbfa-friday-august-12-5-7pm/
LOCATION:Huret and Spector Gallery
CATEGORIES:Reception
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230906T120000
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SUMMARY:Rachel Rossin: works from THE MAW OF. September 7 - October 14\, 2023
DESCRIPTION:Rachel Rossin\, THE MAW OF\, Single channel video installation with sound\, detail (2022- ongoing). The Maw Of is co-commissioned by the Whitney Museum of American Art and KW Institute for Contemporary Art\, Berlin. ©Rachel Rossin. Courtesy on the artist and Magenta Plains\, New York. \n\n\nRachel Rossin: works from THE MAW OF\, September 7 – October 14\, 2023 \nEmerson Contemporary\, Emerson College’s platform for visual art\, proudly presents Rachel Rossin: works from THE MAW OF\, a solo exhibition featuring recent works initially commissioned by KW Institute of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art by the New York-based painter and digital artist Rachel Rossin. On view in the Media Art Gallery at 25 Avery Street\, September 7 – October 15\, 2023. Free and open to the public\, Tuesday – Saturday from 12-6pm.   \nWorks from The Maw Of explores the coming together of flesh\, machine\, cognition\, and code sparked by current research into brain-computer interfaces. Rossin’s work blends painting\, sculpture\, new media\, and more to create digital landscapes\, which she uses to address aspects of disorder\, embodiment\, the all-presence of technology\, and its effect on human psychology. \nThe exhibition features a site-specific immersive installation\, innovative new video works and recent paintings. Conceived as mixed-reality theater\, Rossin’s ongoing project addresses the expanded limits of technology and the human body. The artist offers a new poetics and visual language for the next epoch in technology\, offering a critical response on what painting is for and its enduring significance in our tech-dependent society. \nFloating LED ‘portals’ continue Rossin’s investigation into human autonomy and brain-machine integration research. Originally presented at the KW Institute of Contemporary Art in Berlin and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York\, The Maw Of situates the innate human desire to continually “remake” ourselves as central to the cultural inflection point represented by the advent of artificial intelligence.   \nRossin’s small Scry Glass video sculptures incorporate animation central to The Maw Of\, and activate the characters and texture of the paintings. The Scry Glasses evoke two modes of looking: a form of divination and fortune-telling\, as well as\, a form of reflection using a Claude glass\, a revolutionary tool used by 18th century landscape painters. For the artist however\, these “black mirrors” are not for predicting end times\, but instead leave clues for the viewer\, allowing us to remain tethered to the present.  \nThe artist’s recent paintings offer a visual counterpoint to the digital world proposed by The Maw Of. These images draw from the artist’s childhood drawings of biblical figures associated with the apocalypse\, representing Rossin’s conception of “the end times.” For Rossin painting represents a marking of time on the canvas\, a recording of the movement of the artist’s body. They continue to emphasize the relevance of painting as a practice and are a reminder of what endures the “annihilation of analog” represented by our increasingly tech-dependent culture.  \n\n\nRachel Rossin\, THE MAW OF\, Single channel video installation with sound\, detail (2022- ongoing).\nThe Maw Of is co-commissioned by the Whitney Museum of American Art and KW Institute for Contemporary Art\, Berlin.\n©Rachel Rossin. Courtesy on the artist and Magenta Plains\, New York
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/rachel-rossin-the-maw-of/
LOCATION:Media Art Gallery
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:“Artists Defusing Barriers to Discovery” feat. Nicole L'Huillier and Nathan Miner
DESCRIPTION:  \nOrganized in partnership with the Long Now Boston Conversation Series\, this artist talk will explore artistic research as a place of possibilities; an open-ended strategy of experimentation and failure that can lead to new modes of thinking and reframes knowledge conventions. This program presents two artists whose transdisciplinary practices dynamically intersect with technology\, science\, and philosophy\, and creatively challenge preconceptions as they expand the role of art in society. \nTickets are $5.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/artists-defusing-barriers-to-discovery-feat-nicole-lhuillier-and-nathan-miner/
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Virtual program
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