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SUMMARY:Kameelah Janan Rasheed
DESCRIPTION:Emerson Contemporary proudly presents our upcoming artist-in-residence\, Kameelah Janan Rasheed. \n\n\n\nall velvet sentences as manifesto\, Like a lesson against smooth language oran invitation to be feral hypertext\, a multimedia solo exhibition featuring the visual artist is on view in the Media Art Gallery at 25 Avery Street from January 23 – March 23\, 2024. Exhibition hours are Tuesday – Saturday\, 12-6pm. \n\n\n\nRasheed thinks conceptually about text\, type\, and printed matter and uses publishing as a platform to engage and enlarge conversations with others. Her work invites important questions about the materiality of text\, such as\, “What is the shape of a failed sentence?” or even to quote Fred Moten speaking to the work of Renee Gladman\, “Is there an underground railroad in the sentence?” These questions are central to the artist’s practice. \n\n\n\nChristopher Gregory for The New York Times\n\n\n\nA learner\, Kameelah Janan Rasheed explores writing practices across all species\,states of living\, states of consciousness\, and substrates. Curious about the poetics and \n\n\n\npossibilities of loss\, ruin\, and failure in the reading and writing process\, Rasheedexplores Black knowledge production and fugitivity. She creates sprawling\,“architecturally-scaled” installations; public installations; publications; prints;performances; performance scores; poems; video; and other forms yet to bedetermined. Most recently\, she is a recipient of a 2023 Working Artist Fellowship; a2022 Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research; a 2022 Creative Capital Award; a2022 Artists + Machine Intelligence Grants – Experiments with Google; and a 2021Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts.Her recent solo exhibitions include KW Institute of Contemporary Art (2023)\, Art Institute of Chicago (2023)\, and Kunstverein Hannover (2022). In 2024\, she will have a solo exhibition at REDCAT (Los Angeles\, CA). Rasheed is the author of five artists’ books:in the coherence\, we weep (KW Institute\, 2023); i am not done yet (Mousse Publishing\,2022); An Alphabetical Accumulation of Approximate Observations (Endless Editions\,2019); No New Theories (Printed Matter\, 2019); and the digital publication Scoring theStacks (Brooklyn Public Library\, 2021). She is an adjunct instructor at the Cooper Unionand Barnard College\, a Critic at Yale School of Art\, Sculpture\, and an instructor at theSchool for Poetic Computation. Rasheed founded Orange Tangent Study\, a consultingbusiness that provides artist microgrants and supports individuals and institutions indesigning expansive and liberatory learning experiences.Rasheed is represented by NOME Gallery in Berlin\, Germany. \n\n\n\nExhibition hours are Tuesday – Saturday\, 12-6pm. 
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/kameelah-janan-rasheed/
LOCATION:Media Art Gallery\, 25 Avery Street\, Boston\, Massachusetts\, 02111
CATEGORIES:Artist Spotlight
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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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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240226T160000
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SUMMARY:Writing With Word Games (**NEW DATE)
DESCRIPTION:Learn from visual artist Kameelah J. Rasheed. NEW DATE: MONDAY\, 26\, 2-4pm\, FEBRUARY. \n\n\n\n\n\nJoin our artist in residence Kameelah J. Rasheed in a Writing With Word Games workshop. \n\n\n\nRegister for this workshop over here. \n\n\n\nWriting With Word Games\, a text score workshop\, Friday\, February 26\, 2-4pm. Registration required: Eventbrite  \n\n\n\nLocation: Media Art Gallery\, 25 Avery Street\, Boston\, MA. \n\n\n\nGet out of your way and learn to write with games\, constraints\, and algorithms. The workshop’s purpose is not to create a perfect piece of writing; rather\, it is an invitation to get a bit feral and messy as we pull language into our orbit. Each participant will leave with a writing prompt created by another attendee. \n\n\n\ni am not done yet\, 2022. Solo at Kunstverein Hannover (Hannover\, DE) Archival Inkjet Prints\, Vellum\, Xerox Paper\, Acetate\, Plexiglass\, Acrylic\, Watercolor\, India Ink and Oil Stick Painting\, Video \n\n\n\nThe multimedia site-specific installation combines new video drafts and existing video works from the last three years. All created using some form of a writing and video editing constraint\, these works live alongside several 2D works also created using constraints to explore the agility and limitations of language. With an investment in Black experimental poetics\, non-linear cosmologies\, and fugivity\, Rasheed asks\, “What can be captured through writing? What is lost? And how can this inevitable loss be an invitation to consider other modes of communication?”
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/writing-with-word-games/
LOCATION:Media Art Gallery\, 25 Avery Street\, Boston\, Massachusetts\, 02111
CATEGORIES:Gallery Talk,Performance,Public Program,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240227T163000
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SUMMARY:Kameelah J. Rasheed's Book Launch (NEW DATE)
DESCRIPTION:Attend the artist’s Scratch Disk Full launch event. THIS EVENT HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED DUE TO ARTIST ILLNESS to TUESDAY\, FEB. 27.. \n\n\n\n\n\nJoin our artist in residence Kameelah J. Rasheed for the launch of her book\, Scratch Disk FullAttendees will receive a complimentary copy of the publication. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nScratch Disks Full asks\, in the spirit of Sankofa: What did you leave behind? What would happen if you went back and got it? Scratch Disks Full is a publishing project for those with leaky sensory gating\, sprawling interests\, kinetic brains\, and “too many ideas.” We publish the excess\, the dirty data\, the spillage\, the noise\, the leftover\, and the unfulfilled.  \n\n\n\nA scratch disk is a hard disk used as a workspace to store data temporarily. In applications like Adobe Photoshop\, the scratch disk is used to hold the data being edited. When an error reads “… the scratch disks are full.” it means there is not enough space on the drive to perform the upcoming task. The users need to find space elsewhere or end the process; they are left holding the excess energy of an unfulfilled action.  \n\n\n\nScratch Disks Full is a publishing project producing readers\, workbooks\, and lo-fi playthings exploring the excess of an exhibition\, piece of writing\, lecture\, performance\, or even other publication. By excess\, we do not mean process work leading up to a final work; we literally mean the embodied experiences you could not give yourself over to due to spiritual unreadiness\, the sentences you had to blunt because there was not enough time for further editing; the feral idea that blossomed during a performance and began to shape you as much as you shaped it.  \n\n\n\nThis offering will explore the excess of the current exhibition — notes\, diagrams\, excerpts of writing\, and other leftovers. \n\n\n\nChristopher Gregory for The New York Times\n\n\n\nA learner\, Kameelah Janan Rasheed explores writing practices across all species\,states of living\, states of consciousness\, and substrates. Curious about the poetics and possibilities of loss\, ruin\, and failure in the reading and writing process\, Rasheedexplores Black knowledge production and fugitivity. She creates sprawling\,“architecturally-scaled” installations; public installations; publications; prints;performances; performance scores; poems; video; and other forms yet to bedetermined. Most recently\, she is a recipient of a 2023 Working Artist Fellowship; a2022 Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research; a 2022 Creative Capital Award; a2022 Artists + Machine Intelligence Grants – Experiments with Google; and a 2021Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts.Her recent solo exhibitions include KW Institute of Contemporary Art (2023)\, Art Institute of Chicago (2023)\, and Kunstverein Hannover (2022). In 2024\, she will have a solo exhibition at REDCAT (Los Angeles\, CA). Rasheed is the author of five artists’ books:in the coherence\, we weep (KW Institute\, 2023); i am not done yet (Mousse Publishing\,2022); An Alphabetical Accumulation of Approximate Observations (Endless Editions\,2019); No New Theories (Printed Matter\, 2019); and the digital publication Scoring theStacks (Brooklyn Public Library\, 2021). She is an adjunct instructor at the Cooper Unionand Barnard College\, a Critic at Yale School of Art\, Sculpture\, and an instructor at theSchool for Poetic Computation. Rasheed founded Orange Tangent Study\, a consultingbusiness that provides artist microgrants and supports individuals and institutions indesigning expansive and liberatory learning experiences. \n\n\n\nRasheed is represented by NOME Gallery in Berlin\, Germany.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/kameelah-j-rasheeds-book-launch/
LOCATION:Media Art Gallery\, 25 Avery Street\, Boston\, Massachusetts\, 02111
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Gallery Talk,Public Program,Reception
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SUMMARY:Lecture-Performance with Kameelah J. Rasheed
DESCRIPTION:Learn with our visual artist in residence! \n\n\n\n\n\nJoin our artist in residence Kameelah J. Rasheed in a lecture-performance workshop conducted at Emerson College. \n\n\n\nIn this lecture performance\, Rasheed will offer a live annotation of her 2024 keynote lecture at the CODEX Foundation conference. In this live annotation\, Rasheed will respond to past and future versions of herself in conversation with ideas of translation\, wayward writing\, and Lucille Clifton’s spirit writing.  \n\n\n\nThis event is proudly supported by Emerson College’s Public Art Think Tank (PATT) \n\n\n\nLocation is Room 202\, Walker Building\, 120 Boylston St. Boston\, MA 02116. Registration is required for guests without an Emerson ID. Register for this free workshop over here. \n\n\n\nAbout Kameelah Janan Rasheed \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA learner\, Kameelah Janan Rasheed explores writing practices across all species\, states of living\, states of consciousness\, and substrates. Curious about the poetics and possibilities of loss\, ruin\, and failure in the reading and writing process\, Rasheed explores Black knowledge production and fugitivity. She creates sprawling\, “architecturally-scaled” installations; public installations; publications; prints; performances; performance scores; poems; video; and other forms yet to be determined. Most recently\, she is a recipient of a 2023 Working Artist Fellowship; a 2022 Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research; a 2022 Creative Capital Award; a 2022 Artists + Machine Intelligence Grants – Experiments with Google; and a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts.  \n\n\n\nHer recent solo exhibitions include KW Institute of Contemporary Art (2023)\, Art Institute of Chicago (2023)\, and Kunstverein Hannover (2022). In 2024\, she will have a solo exhibition at  REDCAT (Los Angeles\, CA). Rasheed is the author of five artists’ books: in the coherence\, we weep (KW Institute\, 2023); i am not done yet (Mousse Publishing\, 2022); An Alphabetical Accumulation of Approximate Observations (Endless Editions\, 2019); No New Theories (Printed Matter\, 2019); and the digital publication Scoring the Stacks (Brooklyn Public Library\, 2021). She is an adjunct instructor at the Cooper Union and Barnard College\, a Critic at Yale School of Art\, Sculpture\, and an instructor at the School for Poetic Computation. Rasheed founded Orange Tangent Study\, a consulting business that provides artist microgrants and supports individuals and institutions in designing expansive and liberatory learning experiences.  \n\n\n\nRasheed is represented by NOME Gallery in Berlin\, Germany.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/lecture-performance-with-kameelah-j-rasheed/
LOCATION:Walker 202\, 120 Boylston Street Boston\, MA\, Boston\, Massachusetts\, 02116\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Performance,Public Program,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240330T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240416T170000
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SUMMARY:Un-monument Call to Work: Augmented Reality Artist Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Image credit: Elisa Hamilton\, sketching using the Hoverlay app. during the pilot workshop in 2021\n\n\n\n\n\nEmerson Contemporary\, is announcing an augmented reality artist workshop designed to support artists in gaining access to the skills and technology needed to either translate previous work\, or create new work\, in the medium of augmented reality (AR).  \n\n\n\nThe workshop takes place 10 a.m. – 2:30pm\, on five Saturdays: May 4- June 15\, 2024. *no workshop on Memorial Day weekend. \n\n\n\nThe goal of the incubator is to provide training opportunities for artists who have traditionally faced an “access gap” due to the high start-up costs of these design tools and the cultural barriers within the new media art field\, primarily affecting women\, LGBTQ artists\, Latinx\, and BIPOC artists. The program provides a stipend\, assistance with the production process\, technology exploration and mentorship. In turn\, by providing support and access\, we aim to expand the demographics of artists working in AR.  \n\n\n\nTen artists from the greater Boston area will be invited to participate in this program. Each artist received a stipend of $750 to participate and to compensate for their time and energy and offset costs for transportation\, child care\, or lost work to remove an additional potential barrier to this resource.  \n\n\n\nThose interested can attend virtual Q&A sessions on April 2 at 6 p.m. or April 3 at 12 p.m. on Zoom. \n\n\n\nThe written question deadline is Tuesday\, April 9 at 5 p.m. and the application closes April 16 at 5 p.m. \n\n\n\nInformation for the Q&A sessions and application can be found here. \n\n\n\nThis program is funded by an Un-monument: Transformative Public Art Grant from the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture. This opportunity is open to all professional artists\, including individuals\, and artists who operate as for-profit businesses and nonprofits.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/un-monument-call-to-work-augmented-reality-artist-workshop/
CATEGORIES:News,Public Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240412T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240416T200000
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SUMMARY:Water Memories
DESCRIPTION:Water Memories \n\n\n\nApril 12-16\, 2024 \n\n\n\nZhiyao Ding\, Mila Jafarnejad\, Alexander Nezam\, Nikita Potnis\, Marcus Santos\, Yangyanyun Tang\, Siqi Xiong\, Yishu Yu \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.  \n\n\n\nThe works presented are the culminating projects from the Film and Media Arts graduate installation art course “Space\, Place\, Image\, Sound.”  \n\n\n\n———— \n\n\n\nHuret and Spector Gallery\, Tufte Building\, 7th Floor. \n\n\n\nPublic Hours: Friday\, April 12\, 4-8pm\, Saturday\, April 13\, 4-8pm\, Sunday\, April 14\, 4-8pm\, Monday\, closed (holiday)\, Tuesday April 16\, 12-8pm. Reception 5-7pm \n\n\n\nLocation: Huret and Spector Gallery\, Tufte Building\, 10 Boylston place. Please enter on the 7th Floor. RSVP required for non-Emerson guests.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/water-memories/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240512T180000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240416T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240416T190000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240423T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240430T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T175008
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240501T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240630T190000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240801T000000
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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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240817T235959
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240909T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241130T190000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240917T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240917T193000
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SUMMARY:off the pedestal - Artist Reception
DESCRIPTION:Come celebrate off the pedestal\, a multimedia group exhibition featuring visual artists Laura Anderson Barbata\, New Red Order\, and Paula J. Wilson. This 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.  \n\n\n\nLaura Anderson Barbata\, Indigo\, 2017\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\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. 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.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/artist-reception/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Public Program,Reception
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240918T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240918T180000
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SUMMARY:Artist Talk: Laura Anderson Barbata
DESCRIPTION:As a part of Laura Anderson Barbata’s work in Emerson Contemporary’s off the pedestal multimedia installation\, the artist will be giving a talk at the Media Art Gallery on September 18th\, from 5:00-6:00pm (doors open at 4:30 pm). \n\n\n\nBarbata’s inspiring 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. Come celebrate off the pedestal\, a multimedia group exhibition featuring visual artists Laura Anderson Barbata\, New Red Order\, and Paula J. Wilson. This 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.  \n\n\n\nLaura Anderson Barbata\, Indigo\, 2017\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\n \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. 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.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/artist-talk-laura-anderson-barbata/
LOCATION:Media Art Gallery
CATEGORIES:Artist Spotlight,Artist Talk,Exhibition,Public Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240926T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240926T193000
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SUMMARY:How to Commit Crimes Against Reality: ARTIST TALK with New Red Order
DESCRIPTION: *Doors open at 5:30pm \n\n\n\n“Do you want to realize your fullest potential? Be your truest self? Act with confidence? Attract abundance? Alleviate anxiety? Experience clarity? Know your purpose? Be the change you want to see? Be truly present? Experience real freedom? Change the world? Be a part of the solution? On some level\, we all want to feel this way\, but sometimes in our globalized\, capitalist\, settler-colonial society it feels impossible. Which is why the New Red Order is developing a dynamic system to help our accomplices achieve all of this and more. This sneak peek of our free introductory video\, Never Settle\, will tell you what you need to know to take control of your life today!” \n\n\n\nAs a part of New Red Order’s work in Emerson Contemporary’s off the pedestal multimedia installation\, the artist group will be conducting a workshop on September 27th\, from 2-3:30 pm at Emerson’s Media Art Gallery. \n\n\n\n\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. 
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/new-red-orders-culture-capture-crimes-against-reality-workshop/
LOCATION:Media Art Gallery\, 25 Avery Street\, Boston\, Massachusetts\, 02111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artist Spotlight,Exhibition,Public Program,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240927T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240927T153000
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SUMMARY:A "Give it Back" Workshop With New Red Order (NRO)
DESCRIPTION:Give it Back Workshop \n\n\n\nNew Red Order (NRO) will unpack their “Give it Back Program” which recruits\, normalizes\, and promotes the ongoing practice of voluntary land return from settlers back to Indigenous peoples through a multiplicity of swerving artistic and political strategies including: advertising\, network creation\, promotional videos\, public art\, performance and organizing. NRO will work with students to help devise strategies for how their own work can expand past the limitations of art and into the world to create material changeNew Red Order will be conducting the workshop on September 27th\, from 2:00 – 3:30 pm at Student Performance Center\, Little Building\, 80 Boylston St. RSVP your spot at the workshop right here.**RSVP required for non-Emerson guests \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. 
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/artist-talk-new-red-order/
LOCATION:Student Performance Center\, Little Building\, 80 Boylston Street\, Boston\, Massachusetts\, 02116\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artist Spotlight,Artist Talk,Exhibition,Public Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241022T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241022T235959
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CREATED:20240806T161521Z
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SUMMARY:Emerson Contemporary Awarded $80\,000 Grant From The Andy Warhol Foundation
DESCRIPTION:Emerson Contemporary is excited to have received a generous $80\,000 grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts in support of our exhibitions and programming over the next two years. This contribution will have a profound impact on the gallery’s ability to present innovative and engaging visual art experiences to our community and fully support the artists we are exhibiting and inviting to our campus. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOver the past five years\, under the leadership of Chair of Contemporary Art and Distinguished  Curator in Residence\, Dr. Leonie Bradbury\, Emerson Contemporary has developed a “teaching gallery” with an emphasis on presenting mid-career artists with time-based media practices\, including video and performance and those that explore emerging technologies such as augmented\, virtual\, and extended reality (AR/VR/XR)\, the only of its kind in New England.  \n\n\n\nEmerson Contemporary amplifies the voices of living artists who broaden how we understand our present moment and help us reimagine what is possible. We encourage experimentation\, commission new works\, and support artistic research through technological support and mentorship. In support of this mission\, they actively seek to create opportunities for working artists to engage with new technologies\, software tools\, creative technologists\, and the faculty expertise on our campus that are otherwise not accessible. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn accordance with Andy Warhol’s will\, the mission of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts is the advancement of the visual arts. The foundation manages a dynamic grants program while also preserving Warhol’s legacy through creative and responsible licensing policies and extensive scholarly research for ongoing catalogue raisonné projects. To date\, the foundation has given nearly $300 million in cash grants to over 1\,000 arts organizations across the country and abroad and has donated 52\,786 works of art to 322 institutions worldwide. \n\n\n\nThis grant will enable us to bring a range of exhibitions featuring both emerging and established artists\, foster critical dialogue through public programming\, and provide valuable educational opportunities for our audience. Says Bradbury\, “The Foundation puts visual art and artists at the center of their work. Their commitment to the arts is inspiring\, and we are honored to be among the recipients of their support. We look forward to the exciting and impactful work made possible by this grant.” 
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/emerson-contemporary-awarded-80000-grant-from-the-andy-warhol-foundation/
LOCATION:Media Art Gallery\, 25 Avery Street\, Boston\, Massachusetts\, 02111
CATEGORIES:News
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241214T235959
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SUMMARY:Louis Cameron: NOW IS THE TIME
DESCRIPTION:Emerson Contemporary Presents: Billboards\, posters and text-based works in “Louis Cameron: Now Is the Time” Exhibition explores the civil rights movement\, gun violence\, and hip hop culture. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEmerson Contemporary proudly presents Louis Cameron: Now is the Time\, featuring billboards\, posters and text-based works that explore the civil rights movement\, gun violence and hip hop culture. It is underway\, on view through December 14\, 2024 at Emerson College’s Media Art Gallery in the heart of downtown Boston.  \n\n\n\nThe free exhibition features several large-scale\, wall-mounted vinyl text pieces from the ongoing Hip Hop Onomatopoeia series\, a body of work that explores the conversation on gun violence within hip hop music. The works are text based\, using the onomatopoeia of gun shots in hip hop songs as their reference. Cameron focuses on onomatopoeia because of its emotional resonance. Additional works from the Excavation and Displacement series are also on view. \n\n\n\nExclusively for this exhibition\, Cameron designed a limited-edition take home poster titled \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI Got To Have It\, serving as a monument to Hip Hop culture and black music in Boston. It features a poem that peels back the layers of a song to reveal its connections to the history of Black music. Indicative of Hip Hop’s sampling culture\, the poem is composed of a source song and the song titles that it sampled from.  \n\n\n\nNotably\, these sampled songs touch on key points in the lineage of Black music such as James Brown\, the Blues\, and spirituals. The poster addresses urban realities and gun violence\, the self-determination of the Black Power movement of the late 1960s\, and features the title of a song that refers to the African American spirituals such as Wade in the Water. The choice of typeface provides a reference to Hip Hop culture for the presentation of the poem. \n\n\n\nAdditionally\, Cameron will present the “I AM… Portfolio” a group of posters addressing the recent violence against Black men and disregard for their lives in America. The title refers to rally calls and protest chants from the 1960s to the present. While violence against Black people is center stage in the current American cultural conversation\, presenting a project by Black male artists – including Sanford Biggers\, Rashid Johnson\, and Shaun Leonardo\, among others – offers valuable insights and counter representation. \n\n\n\nLouis Cameron was born in Xxxxxxxx\, Ohio\, USA; lives and works in Berlin\, Germany.  He earned a B.F.A. from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles\, and an M.F.A. from Tyler School of Art\, Temple University in Philadelphia.https://www.louiscameron.com/
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/louis-cameron-this-is-america/
LOCATION:Media Art Gallery\, 25 Avery Street\, Boston\, Massachusetts\, 02111
CATEGORIES:Artist Spotlight,Exhibition,Public Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241118T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241118T235959
DTSTAMP:20260403T175008
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SUMMARY:Woop! Woop! What’s That Sound Noise? (Interactive Lecture)
DESCRIPTION:Presenting\, a workshop on Hip-Hop culture with Dr. Brent Smith \n\n\n\nBack in 1993\, Hip Hop culture had reached twenty years of life and was boldly making its way through emerging adulthood. Its emcees and other artists challenged boundaries on self-expression\, self-determination\, and even community. The soundtrack of our societies and our lives would come to make way for insights wrapped into Sound of The Police (KRS One)\, U.N.I.T.Y. (Queen Latifah)\, C.R.E.A.M. (Wu Tang Clan)\, Now I Feel Ya (Scarface)\, How Many Emcees (Black Moon)\, Streiht Up Menace (MNC Eiht)\, and more. Hip Hop of 1993\, arguably one of its greatest years\, prompted or provoked us like a siren: Woop! Woop! What’s That Sound Noise?  \n\n\n\nJoin us for a community talk led by Dr. Brent Smith as we explore this topic in relation to our current exhibit\, Louis Cameron: Now is the Time. \n\n\n\nEmerson Contemporary proudly presents Louis Cameron: Now is the Time\, featuring Billboards\, posters and text-based works that explore the civil rights movement\, gun violence and Hip Hop culture. The exhibition features several large-scale\, wall-mounted vinyl text pieces from the ongoing Hip Hop Onomatopoeia series\, a body of work that explores the conversation on gun violence within Hip Hop music.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/woop-woop-whats-that-sound-noise-interactive-lecture/
LOCATION:Media Art Gallery\, 25 Avery Street\, Boston\, Massachusetts\, 02111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Public Program,Workshop
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SUMMARY:The M.F.A Thesis Shows: Christopher Lee & Asma Khoshmehr
DESCRIPTION:Emerson’s Master’s in Fine Arts candidates\, Christopher Lee and Asma Khoshmehr share deeply personal stories of their family’s past\, interpreted through new media.  \n\n\n\nThis exhibition will have a reception on December 5th from 6-8pm. \n\n\n\nMemory Lost by Christopher Lee\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMemory Lost is a multimedia installation that probes the fragile nature of human memory through the lens of AI generated media. Drawing inspiration from the artist’s personal experience witnessing his grandfather’s battle with Alzheimer’s Disease\, this work explores the parallels between artificial intelligence and human cognition. The installation revisits formative moments from the artist’s life from childhood through adulthood\, using AI to reconstruct and reinterpret these memories.  \n\n\n\nBy highlighting the biases and limitations of both AI and human recollection\, the piece invites viewers to contemplate the ephemeral quality of our lived experiences. Memory Lost serves as a poignant meditation on mortality\, loss\, and the imperfect mechanisms through which we preserve and recall our past\, challenging us to consider the essence of what makes us human. \n\n\n\nThroughout his artistic journey\, Chris has been driven by an innate curiosity to acquire new knowledge\, leading him to constantly push the boundaries of his creative toolkit. Early in life he explored drawing and painting before developing a deep affinity for music. By high school Chris had built up a home studio filled with guitars\, synthesizers\, and other gadgets. As an adult\, Chris briefly explored a business career before realizing his true calling lay in creative work.  \n\n\n\nHe enrolled in Emerson College’s Film & Media Art program to work with other artists and to find a personal and professional outlet for his creativity. Since then\, Chris has contributed to dozens of student and independent projects\, specializing in location sound recording\, sound design\, and mixing. His personal work leverages diverse digital technologies\, reflecting his evolution from a young artist to a versatile multimedia professional adept at integrating multiple artistic disciplines. \n\n\n\nAct.No.06: 1001 Nights in Zanzibar by Asma Khoshmehr\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAct.No.06: 1001 Nights in Zanzibar is a multimedia installation that uncovers the silenced stories of forced child marriages and political persecution following the Zanzibar Revolution of 1964. The work explores a 1971 presidential decree that allowed officials to forcibly marry underage girls\, including many women in the artist’s family. These policies led to deportation\, imprisonment\, confiscation of family properties\, and decades of silence about the trauma endured. Asma\, the first in her generation to uncover this hidden history\, conducted years of research\, discovering the secret stories of many women in her family impacted by these events. She traveled across Tanzania\, Kenya\, Oman\, UAE\, and Iran to gather testimonies\, family documents\, and archival records\, piecing together her family’s survival through forced marriages\, captivity\, and eventual escape.Inspired by One Thousand and One Nights and Scheherazade’s storytelling to transform a vengeful king into a compassionate leader\, Asma’s project reflects her hope to mirror Scheherazade’s journey. It combines archival materials\, 3D laser scans\, virtual reality experiences\, and video art\, exploring how storytelling can confront power and inspire transformation. By sharing these stories\, this project reflects on how Scheherazade used storytelling to change a vengeful king\, drawing attention to the tyrants of today who continue to use women’s bodies as tools of revenge in war and revolution.Asma Khoshmehr is an interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker whose work combines immersive storytelling\, documentary filmmaking\, and new media. With a BFA in Performing Arts and currently pursuing an MFA with a focus on new media\, her practice draws deeply from her East African and Middle Eastern heritage\, exploring themes of generational trauma\, forced displacement\, and political sexual violence.   \n\n\n\nAsma’s work has earned recognition through prestigious awards and residencies\, including the MacDowell Fellowship\, the MASS MoCA\, Andrew Freedman Home (AFH)\, and the ON::VIEW Artist Residency. She has also received the Carole Fielding Grant from the University Film and Video Association (UFVA) and the Virgin Unite Grant. Her international journey includes a scholarship to study Beijing Opera at the Shanghai Theater Academy and mythology at Sanskriti Kendra in India.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/the-m-f-a-thesis-shows-christopher-lee-asma-khoshmehr/
LOCATION:Huret And Spector Gallery\, Tufte Building
CATEGORIES:Artist Spotlight,Exhibition,Performance,Reception,Student Projects
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241205T235959
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SUMMARY:School of the Arts: Art Party
DESCRIPTION:Art Party Alert!  \n\n\n\nGet ready for Emerson Contemporary’s FIRST EVER ‘Come Make Your Own Art’ Party! – Featured workshop artists are: Rikiesha\, Robin Danzak\, Jay Antidesign. \n\n\n\nJoin us for an evening of zines\, posters\, snacks\, and creativity alongside fellow artists and dreamers. Relax\, unwind\, and let your imagination run wild! Let’s celebrate the power of art together. Don’t miss it!  Also free pizza and hip hop music. \n\n\n\nSupported by:Dean Kate Eichhorn\, School of the ArtsLeonie Bradbury\, Curator-in-ResidenceRobin Danzak\, Health & Social Change Major
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/school-of-the-arts-art-party/
LOCATION:Emerson Contemporary
CATEGORIES:Public Program,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241209T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241213T235959
DTSTAMP:20260403T175008
CREATED:20241205T183658Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250214T194132Z
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SUMMARY:What You Are I Was\, What I Am You Will Be
DESCRIPTION:The B.F.A Photo Practicum \n\n\n\n\n\nEmerson’s College presents the Fall 2024 Photo Practicum\, What You Are I Was\, What I Am You Will Be.   \n\n\n\nFeaturing works by the following artists:Madison BrownTianyun Chen Xinzhu DongMadeleine Feldman Ilana Grollman  Elie Largura Arthur Li Rian NelsonBianca Pupo Anna Schoenmann\, Willow Torres  Madla Walsh \n\n\n\nThis exhibition will have a reception on December 9th from 6-8pm at the Emerson College Huret & Spector Gallery.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/what-you-are-i-was-what-i-am-you-will-be/
LOCATION:Huret And Spector Gallery\, Tufte Building
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Reception,Student Projects
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250110T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250210T235900
DTSTAMP:20260403T175008
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SUMMARY:Call for Artists
DESCRIPTION:CALL FOR WORK 2025 Regional Media Art Showcase \n\n\n\nThis exhibition aims to present a snapshot of current visual art culture\, with a focus on innovative media art installation through the work of artists based in New England. Juried by Distinguished Curator-in-Residence Dr. Leonie Bradbury\, Assistant Curator of Special Projects Shana Dumont Garr\, and Artist and Curator Allison Maria Rodriguez. \n\n\n\nDEADLINE for submissions is Monday\, February 10\, midnight. Selected artists will be notified by April 2\, 2025 and will receive a $1\,000 artist fee as a stipend and to help offset any exhibition production costs. APPLICATION FORM \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION \n\n\n\nNew England Regional Media Art Showcase\, a group exhibition\, will feature screen-reliant and/or lens reliant artwork by artists based throughout New England. Intended to enable practitioners at every stage of their career to exhibit a significant aspect of their practice\, and/or to expand their existing practice into new media. Drawing upon the gallery’s state-of-the art equipment\, specialized media exhibit space and staff expertise\, the selections will prioritize varied\, emergent and innovative installation and display methodologies. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition will be on view at the Media Art Gallery\, 25 Avery Street\, Boston\, MA\, July 29 – October 4\, 2025. Installation dates: July 14-25\, 2025. \n\n\n\nSUBMISSION GUIDELINES \n\n\n\nWe are particularly interested in moving image art and art using emergent technologies including\, but not limited to\, Installations (Interactive and non-interactive)\, Projections\, Virtual/Augmented/Mixed Reality Environments\, Multimedia Performance\, Single Channel Video and Animation\, and Experimental works. \n\n\n\nArtists are welcome to submit up to 3 works of art for consideration. Submission materials could include photos\, previous installation views\, written descriptions\, sketches\, mock ups\, web links\, trailers and/or videos. Gallery has an extensive digital equipment inventory available for use including high resolution projectors\, iPads\, computers\, monitors\, screens etc. \n\n\n\nSUBMISSION CRITERIA \n\n\n\nArtists must currently live in New England (Maine\, New Hampshire\, Vermont\, Connecticut\, Massachusetts\, and Rhode Island) and be able to drop off and pick up the selected works and/or specialized equipment to the gallery if needed. Gallery is not able to pay for shipping. Selected artist will receive a $1\,000 participation stipend. APPLICATION FORM \n\n\n\n**Please note there are no fees required to submit work for consideration or to participate.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/call-for-artists/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250204T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250322T180000
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SUMMARY:Entire Nations Are Built on Fairy Tales: Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind
DESCRIPTION:New multi-media exhibition explores memory\, history\, and grief through science fiction and cinematic time travel.   \n\n\n\nOn view in Emerson College’s Media Art Gallery\, February 4 – March 22\, 2025. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBOSTON\, MA (January 15\, 2025) – Emerson Contemporary is proud to present Entire Nations Are Built on Fairy Tales\, featuring multi-channel films and a dramatic sculptural installation by Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind. On view in our Media Art Gallery are As If No Misfortune Had Occurred in the Night \, an Arabic-language opera on loss\, mourning and inherited trauma accompanied by a dramatic sculptural installation and a two-channel science fiction film\, In Vitro. A special one-night screening of the science fiction film In the Future They Ate from the Finest Porcelain (2016) and their latest documentary film Familiar Phantoms (2023) will augment the exhibition. \n\n\n\nIn much of their practice\, Sansour and Lind use fiction as an imaginary mode to speak to the present in a manner that diffracts the highly charged political discourse on the historic and ongoing crisis in the Middle East. By ‘time traveling’ to both a faraway past and fictionalised futures\, this exhibition explores how cinematic storytelling can open up new spaces for empathy and understanding of a shared human experience. \n\n\n\nThis exhibition is generously funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgramming \n\n\n\nFilm Screening + Artist Conversation  \n\n\n\nCome view In the Future They Ate from the Finest Porcelain (2016) and Familiar Phantoms (2023). Filmmakers Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind will be in conversation with Emerson Assistant Professor and Filmmaker Julia Halperin afterwards.  \n\n\n\nFilm screening is co-presented with the RPM Film Festival and the Salem Film Fest. \n\n\n\n\nDate: Tuesday\, February 4\, 7-9:30pm. Doors open at 6:30pm.\n\n\n\nLocation: Bright Family Screening Room\, 559 Washington St. Boston\, Ma\, 02111\n\n\n\nRSVP required for tickets: EVENTBRITE\n\n\n\n\nArtist Reception + Conversation with Larissa Sansour\, Søren Lind and exhibition curator Dr. Leonie Bradbury  \n\n\n\n\nDate: Wednesday\, February 5\, 5-7pm.\n\n\n\nLocation: Media Art Gallery\, 25 Avery Street\, Boston\, Ma 02111\n\n\n\n\nAbout the artists: Larissa Sansour and Soren Lind are an artist duo who have collaborated on various films. They live and work in London. What underscores the significance of their work in the current context is the relationship between memory\, trauma and the present to envision a more peaceful future. In 2019 they represented Denmark at the 58th Venice Biennale. \n\n\n\nLarissa Sansour studied Fine Art in Copenhagen\, London and New York. Recent solo exhibitions include Whitworth Gallery in Manchester\, KINDL in Berlin\, Copenhagen Contemporary in Denmark and Dar El-Nimer in Beirut. Soren Lind is a Danish author and director and visual artist with a background in philosophy. Lind wrote books on mind\, language\, and understanding before turning to art\, film\, and fiction. Lind screens and exhibits his films at museums\, galleries\, and film festivals worldwide.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/entire-nations-are-built-on-fairy-tales-larissa-sansour-and-soren-lind/
LOCATION:Media Art Gallery\, 25 Avery Street\, Boston\, Massachusetts\, 02111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Film Screening,Gallery Talk,Public Program,Reception
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250204T213000
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SUMMARY:Film Screening + Artist Conversation 
DESCRIPTION:Come watch In the Future They Ate from the Finest Porcelain (2016) and Familiar Phantoms (2023) by filmmakers Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind at Emerson’s Bright Family Screening Room. \n\n\n\nJoin us after the screening for a conversation with the filmmakers\, and Emerson’s Artist in Residence\, Julia Halperin.  \n\n\n\nThis screening is co-presented with the RPM Film Festival and the Salem Film Fest\, and Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind’s exhibition at Emerson Contemporary is made possible by the generous funding from the National Endowment for the Arts and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.  \n\n\n\n\nDate: Tuesday\, February 4\, 7-9:30pm. Doors open at 6:30pm.\n\n\n\nLocation: Bright Family Screening Room\, 559 Washington St. Boston\, Ma\, 02111\n\n\n\nRSVP required for tickets: EVENTBRITE\n\n\n\n\nThis exhibition \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDate: Wednesday\, February 5\, 5-7pm.\n\n\n\nLocation: Media Art Gallery\, 25 Avery Street\, Boston\, Ma 02111\n\n\n\n\nAbout the artists: https://larissasansour.com/ Larissa Sansour and Soren Lind are an artist duo who have collaborated on various films. They live and work in London. What underscores the significance of their work in the current context is the relationship between memory\, trauma and the present to envision a more peaceful future. In 2019 they represented Denmark at the 58th Venice Biennale.  \n\n\n\nBorn in East Jerusalem\, Larissa Sansour (PS/DK) studied Fine Art in Copenhagen\, London and New York. Recent solo exhibitions include Whitworth Gallery in Manchester\, KINDL in Berlin\, Copenhagen Contemporary in Denmark and Dar El-Nimer in Beirut. Soren Lind (DK) is a Danish author and director and visual artist with a background in philosophy. Lind wrote books on mind\, language\, and understanding before turning to art\, film\, and fiction. Lind screens and exhibits his films at museums\, galleries\, and film festivals worldwide.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/film-screening-artist-conversation/
LOCATION:Bright Lights Theater\, Paramount Center
CATEGORIES:Film Screening,News,Public Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250211T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250211T130000
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SUMMARY:Mirror Fields: A Series of Art-Led Reflections in the Media Art Gallery
DESCRIPTION:Special Gallery Event in Conjunction with Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind exhibition: Entire Nations Are Built on Fairy Tales on view in the Media Art Gallery. \n\n\n\nJoin Rabbi Lisa Eiduson for a contemplative experience inside the newest exhibition Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind: Entire Nations Are Built on Fairy Tales. On view are two films and a dramatic reflecting pool that invite meditations on memory\, multigenerational trauma\, and sorrow. Participants will be invited to take in a reading and some words of wisdom on the themes brought forth by the artworks and then are invited to share their own experiences\, listen to others’ or simply sit in silence. Light refreshments will be served \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n12:00-1:00 pm on Tuesday\, February 11\, 2025 Led by Rabbi Eiduson \n\n\n\n12:00-1:00 pm on Tuesday\, February 25\, 2025 Led by Rabbi Eiduson \n\n\n\nCurrently serving as the Interim Director of Emerson College’s Center of Spiritual Life\, Rabbi Eiduson is a member of the clergy team at Temple Shir Tikva in Wayland\, MA. There she teaches\, leads services\, officiates at life-cycle events\, preaches\, and organizes programming. She believes deeply in education and feels that learning\, when applied\, is the best avenue for promoting understanding among people.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/mirror-fields-a-series-of-art-led-reflections-in-the-media-art-gallery/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Gallery Talk,Public Program,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250225T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250225T130000
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SUMMARY:Mirror Fields: A Series of Art-Led Reflections in the Media Art Gallery
DESCRIPTION:Special Gallery Event in conjunction with the Larissa Sansour  and Søren Lind exhibition \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin Rabbi Lisa Eiduson for a contemplative experience inside the newest exhibition Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind: Entire Nations Are Built on Fairy Tales. On view are two films and a dramatic reflecting pool that invite meditations on memory\, multigenerational trauma\, and sorrow. Participants will be invited to take in a reading and some words of wisdom on the themes brought forth by the artworks and then are invited to share their own experiences\, listen to others’ or simply sit in silence. \n\n\n\n12:00-1:00 pm on Tuesday\, February 25\, 2025 Led by Rabbi Eiduson \n\n\n\nCurrently serving as the Interim Director of Emerson College’s Center of Spiritual Life\, Rabbi Eiduson is a member of the clergy team at Temple Shir Tikva in Wayland\, MA. There she teaches\, leads services\, officiates at life-cycle events\, preaches\, and organizes programming. She believes deeply in education and feels that learning\, when applied\, is the best avenue for promoting understanding among people.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/mirror-fields-a-series-of-art-led-reflections-in-the-media-art-gallery-2/
LOCATION:Media Art Gallery
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Gallery Talk,Public Program,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250228T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250228T235959
DTSTAMP:20260403T175008
CREATED:20250214T193235Z
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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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