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SUMMARY:(Un)Making AI Worlds
DESCRIPTION:Presenting\, “(Un)Making AI Worlds”\,  curated by Ioana Jucan with Tushar Mathew\, and Leonie Bradbury. The exhibition invites audiences to explore artworks emerging from the Data Fluencies Theatre Project team’s critical and creative interrogations of artificial intelligence and AI systems. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBlending theatrical conventions\, choreographed movement\, poetry\, and artistic experiments with machine learning\, (Machine) Learning to Be is a participatory\, devised\, hybrid multimedia performance experience that engages with Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems and their societal impacts. The performance features an interactive choreographic interface that aims to engage AI as embodiment technologies and human and AI characters that aim to convey the multifaceted nature of AI\, its dangers and possibilities for our communities. Rooted in visions of decolonial AI\, (Machine) Learning to Be seeks to challenge established systems of control and envision more equitable futures alongside AI technology. \n\n\n\nFeaturing artists Ioana B. Jucan\, Tushar Matthew\,  David Mesiha\, Aidan Nelson\, Jae Neal\,  Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo\, Yuguang Zhang\, Gavan Cheema\, Kite\, the exhibition features the following events\, activations and performances at Emerson’s Huret and Spector Gallery \n\n\n\nMarch 18\, 2025:4-6.30pm: Performance Activations and Artist Panel discussion moderated by Dr. Leonie Bradbury\, followed by Reception  \n\n\n\nMarch 21st\, 2025:2:00 pm: Secret Hyena activation  \n\n\n\nMarch 22nd\, 2025:4:00 pm: Secret Hyena activation  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Data Fluencies Theatre Project (2022-2025) is an artistic research project that mobilizes theatrical performance’s potential to build data fluencies grounded in and honoring embodied experience. The project brings together an interdisciplinary team to develop artworks and co-create a participatory\, devised\, hybrid multimedia performance. Titled (Machine) Learning to Be\, the performance engages with AI and algorithmic systems as it seeks to challenge established systems of control and envision more equitable futures alongside AI technology.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/unmaking-ai-worlds-huret-spector-gallery/
LOCATION:Huret and Spector Gallery\, 10 Boylston Pl\, Boston\, MA 02116\, Boston\, Massachusetts\, 02116\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Exhibition,Performance,Public Program,Reception,Workshop
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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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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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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: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:20240501T120000
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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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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240226T140000
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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SUMMARY:One Day We’ll Go Home featuring Tiffany Chung\, Brandon Tho Harris\, Tuan Andrew Nguyen\, Patricia Nguyen and Julian Saporiti.
DESCRIPTION:Tuan Andrew Nguyen (Vietnamese\, b. 1976)\, The Boat People\, 2020\, Single-channel video\, 4k\, Super 16mm transferred to digital\, color\, 5.1 surround sound\, 20 mins\, Edition of 5 plus 2 artist’s proofs\, (JCG11340)\, © Tuan Andrew Nguyen 2021. Image courtesy the artist and James Cohan\, New York\n\n\n\nEmerson Contemporary\, Emerson College’s platform for visual art\, proudly presents One Day We’ll Go Home\, a group exhibition featuring recent work by five Vietnamese American artists Tiffany Chung\, Brandon Tho Harris\, Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn\, Patricia Nguyễn\, and Julian Saporiti who each critique the established historical narratives of the wars in Vietnam\, colonialism\, dislocation\, and their long-lasting aftermath.  \n\n\n\nOn view in the Media Art Gallery at 25 Avery Street\, November 1 – December 16\, 2023. Free and open to the public\, Tuesday – Saturday from 12-6pm. Opening Reception\, Friday\, November 3\, 5-7:30PM. \n\n\n\nThe end of the Vietnam War and the sudden U.S. military evacuations in 1975 marked the beginning of large-scale exodus of citizens of Vietnam. The U.S. government evacuated approximately 125\,000 Vietnamese that year\, most of whom were likely to be persecuted by the new Socialist Republic of Vietnam government. Through video\, archival footage\, performance\, song\, and innovative storytelling\, these five artists examine and expand recent histories\, both personal and collective\, as they address multigenerational trauma and loss. The exhibition highlights the complexities surrounding the concept of homeland for Vietnamese refugees and their children and the familiar feeling of liminality that many refugees experience across the globe.  \n\n\n\nView exhibition documentation. \n\n\n\n“It is my hope that through the stories these artists tell\, we gain a deeper understanding of what happened in Vietnam and how these events continue to impact millions of people to this day\,” said Dr. Leonie Bradbury\, Emerson College’s Distinguished Curator-in-Residence. “Although this exhibition is focused on the Vietnamese diaspora and the impact of the historic events of 1975 and beyond\, sadly this topic has renewed relevance today as many refugee crises are happening concurrently across the globe.” The exhibition is curated by Dr. Leonie Bradbury\, Distinguished Curator-in-Residence\, with accompanying exhibition wall texts by Dr. Catherine H. Nguyen\, Assistant Professor of Asian Diasporic Literatures. This exhibition and related programming is supported by the Department of Writing\, Literature & Publishing\, Emerson College School of the Arts\, and the Harvard University Asia Center. \n\n\n\nPUBLIC PROGRAMMING \n\n\n\nWHAT: Music Video workshop with Julian Saporiti WHEN: Friday\, November 3\, 2023. 10:00-12:30PM WHERE: Emerson College\, Ansin Building\, Room 605\, 180 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA Free\, but registration is required. RSVP here. \n\n\n\nArtist Talk with Tuan Andrew Nguyen\, Friday\, November 3\, 2023. doors open at 3:30PM\, 4-5:00PM.  Emerson College\, Walker Building\, Room 202\, 120 Boylston Street\, Boston\, MA. Free\, but registration is required. RSVP here. This program is supported in part by the Harvard University Asia Center \n\n\n\nOpening Reception\, One Day We’ll Go Home WHEN: Friday\, November 3\, 2023\, 5-7:30PM WHERE: Media Art Gallery\, 25 Avery Street\, Boston\, MA. \n\n\n\nLive Concert with Julian Saporiti. Experience a multimedia musical performance from No-No Boy (singer Julian Saporiti) as part of the tour for his latest album Empire Electric. This newest release brings Asian American history to life through a uniquely inventive approach to storytelling. WHEN: Saturday\, November 4\, 2023\, 6:00-7:30PM. WHERE: Pao Arts Center\, 99 Albany Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02111.This program is organized by the PAO Art Center and supported by Emerson Contemporary. \n\n\n\nLive Performance\, Passage (2023) by Patricia Nguyễn and Fiona. A work of experimental sound and movement\, Passage explores how beauty and creativity emerge in the aftermath of war. The artists meditate upon the various thresholds and movements that happen for displaced peoples across the time and space of memory\, everyday encounters of state violence\, forced migration\, and queer worldmaking.  Tuesday\, November 14\, 2023\, 5-6:30PM\, Media Art Gallery \n\n\n\nVietnam and Diasporic Aesthetics: Two Meditations. A conversation with Dr. Howie J. Tam & Dr. Catherine H. Nguyen. The first event in the Writing\, Literature & Publishing Scholar Series\, this program is presented in conjunction with One Day We’ll Go Home and supported in part by the Harvard University Asia Center. Taking as a point of departure some works of Vietnamese American artistic production both in the gallery space and beyond\, this two-part talk with Catherine H. Nguyen (Emerson College) and Howie Tam (Brandeis University) explores different approaches of receiving and encountering artworks and engages diasporic aesthetics that grapples with the legacy of the Vietnam War and its enduring questions about creation and memory. Wednesday\, December 6\, 2023\, 5-6:30PM. Media Art Gallery\, 25 Avery St. Boston\, MAThis program is supported by Department of Writing\, Literature & Publishing\, Scholar Series\, Southeast Asia Programs\, Harvard University Asia Center and Emerson Contemporary \n\n\n\n.
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LOCATION:Media Art Gallery
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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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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