Media Art Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 12-6pm
Huret & Spector Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 12-5pm
Emilio Rojas performs A VAGUE AND UNDETERMINED PLACE (A GLORIA) Boylston Place Courtyard September 23, 2022, 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. This 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,...
Emilio Rojas performs A VAGUE AND UNDETERMINED PLACE (A GLORIA) Boylston Place Courtyard Saturday, September 24, 2022, 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. This 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...
A Manual to Be (to Kill) or To Forgive My Own Father The Iwasaki Library RSVP required leonie_bradbury@emerson.edu The 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...
GO BACK TO WHERE YOU CAME FROM! Artist Performance + Talk by Emilio Rojas Media Art Gallery October 14, 2022 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. GO 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...
A Manual to Be (to Kill) or To Forgive My Own Father The Iwasaki Library October 15-16, 2022 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. RSVP required leonie_bradbury@emerson.edu The 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...
Border Pedagogies, Queer Kinships, and Archival Resonances: Tania Bruguera and Emilio Rojas in Conversation. Moderated by Laurel V. McLaughlin. Saturday, November 5th, 7-8:30p.m. (Doors open at 6:30p.m.) Dessert Reception to follow. RSVP required EVENTBRITE Location: Bill Bordy Theater, 216 Tremont St, Boston, MA 02116 Join Emerson Contemporary for a conversation between artists Tania Bruguera and...
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. The exhibition explores aesthetic encounters through...
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...
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.
Huret and Spector Gallery Hours: Wed – Sat, 12-5pm
Media Art Gallery Hours: Tue – Sat, 12-6pm