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SUMMARY:What Distance Holds: An MFA Thesis Exhibition Featuring video installations by Sarasa Kikuchi and Rui Shen
DESCRIPTION:Sarasa Kikuchi\, 13 Hours Ahead\, video stills\, 2026\n\n\n\nSarasa Kikuchi and Rui Shen invite viewers into the contemplative textures of fluid identity\, invisible labor\, and immigrant guilt\, exploring what remains amid absence with innovative aesthetics and immersive strategies that invite viewers to linger and feel. \n\n\n\nView the trailer \n\n\n\nSarasa Kikuchi — 13 Hours Ahead \n\n\n\nSix-channel spatial cinema \n\n\n\nThirteen hours separate a mother in Japan from her daughter in the US. In Kikuchi’s immersive six-channel installation\, that gap becomes something one can feel in their body: two lives unfolding in parallel\, connected\, yet never quite touching. Through quiet domestic scenes\, layered soundscapes\, and a fractured screen arrangement\, 13 Hours Ahead asks what it means to love someone you can only reach across time zones. It holds space not only for the immigrant who left\, but for the parent left behind — a perspective rarely given its full weight. \n\n\n\nRui Shen\, Elsewhere\, installation view\, 2026\n\n\n\nRui Shen – Elsewhere \n\n\n\nVideo Installation \n\n\n\nShen considers the continuous becoming of identity. The moment one tries to answer who they are\, something shifts. Shen’s installation uses a single word\, I\, — the most personal word in any language — to meditate on the essence of becoming. \n\n\n\nA fan stirs the suspended surface of horizontal screens upon which projections of “I” form and dissolve. They gather\, briefly cohere\, then scatter again. The quiet circuit demonstrates how alive it is\, always moving\, always just beyond the labels we reach for. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nWhat Distance Holds Opening reception: April 22\, 2026\, 5 – 7 PM at 25 Avery Street\, Boston \n\n\n\nOn view April 21 – May 10 · Tuesday through Sunday\, 11am – 6pm  \n\n\n\nFree and open to the public.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/what-distance-holds-an-mfa-thesis-exhibition-featuring-video-installations-by-sarasa-kikuchi-rui-shen-and-siqi-xiong/
LOCATION:Media Art Gallery
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Reception,Student Projects
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SUMMARY:Artist Reception\, A Sentient Land: Artistic Alliances with Forests\, Beetles\, Salt\, and Air
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, January 21\, 5:00 – 7:00 pm \n\n\n\nMedia Art Gallery\, 25 Avery Street\, Boston MA \n\n\n\n\n\nCelebrate the opening of this groundbreaking four-person exhibition featuring artists Margaux Crump\, Julia Krupa\, Eileen Ryan\, and Nelly-Eve Rajotte\, who blur the boundaries between creator and material\, science and art\, human and more-than-human. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nExperience immersive installations that invite direct dialogue with the natural world. Through innovative methods including bio-sonification\, cloud chambers\, LIDAR scanning\, and ancient practices like fumage and saining\, these artists share authorship with trees\, stones\, salt\, and air itself. \n\n\n\nThis is your first opportunity to encounter works that challenge traditional notions of artistic agency and forge new pathways for interspecies connection. Witness how forests communicate at 220 hertz\, how materials become collaborators\, and how art can shift our relationship with the living world. \n\n\n\nMeet the artists and the curator\, Shana Dumont Garr\, and explore questions that bridge aesthetics\, ecology\, and empathy: What happens when materials inform their own representation? How do we translate on behalf of the more-than-human? \n\n\n\nLight refreshments will be served. \n\n\n\nExhibition runs January 21 – March 28\, 2026Gallery hours: Tuesday–Saturday\, 12–6 PM \n\n\n\nFree and open to the public \n\n\n\nimage: Eileen Ryan
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/artist-reception-a-sentient-land-artistic-alliances-with-forests-beetles-salt-and-air/
LOCATION:Media Art Gallery
CATEGORIES:Public Program
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SUMMARY:Launch Party Hidden Histories
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a spectacular event celebrating the launch of Emerson Contemporary’s public art exhibition Hidden Histories featuring art projects by Elisa Hamilton\, Clareese Hill\, Sue Murad\, and Kameelah J. Rasheed. Artist will be present to discuss their unique works and visitors can partake in student led walking tours of the projects. Part of the City of Boston’s Un-Monument initiative to transform and expand Boston’s conversation around public art\, monuments\, and who should be memorialized and why. \n\n\n\nEvent Location: Media Art Gallery\, 25 Avery St. Boston\, Ma 02111
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/launch-party-hidden-histories/
LOCATION:Media Art Gallery
CATEGORIES:Public Program,Reception
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SUMMARY:Echoes of the Heart: New England Media Art Biennial
DESCRIPTION:Iwalani Kaluhiokalani\, The Radiance Chasers\, 2025. Multidisciplinary installation\, painting\, paper cut-outs\, video mapping\, sound Sound score by Slamber Slusser\n\n\n\nIwalani Kaluhiokalani\, The Radiance Chasers\, 2025. Multidisciplinary installation\, painting\, paper cut-outs\, video mapping\, sound Sound score by Slamber Slusser. \n\n\n\n\n\nEmerson Contemporary – Emerson College’s platform for presenting contemporary visual art – proudly presents Echoes of the Heart: The New England Media Art Biennial\, a multimedia juried group exhibition featuring New England visual artists Clint Baclawski\, Erik DeLuca\, Iwalani Kaluhiokalani\, Justin Levesque\, VHF Studios\, and Karlie Zhao. The exhibition is on view in the Media Art Gallery at 25 Avery Street from July 29- December 13 \, 2025\, free and open to the public Tuesday – Saturday\, 12-6 pm.  \n\n\n\nThis exhibition is supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and The National Endowment for the Arts\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNew media art now encompasses traditional film and digital video\, as well as a wide range of technology\, from AI to hand-built radio\, representing an exciting and rapidly expanding genre in the contemporary art world. Yet\, there are few venues for emerging and mid-career video artists to showcase their work in New England. This biennial aims to expand these opportunities for the region and celebrate artists with financial and technical support and the opportunity to expand and reiterate existing and/or new works. \n\n\n\nArtist Reception\, Thursday\, September 18\, 5-7pm \n\n\n\nTuesday\, October 7\, 6:30- 7:30pm\, 6pm doors. In Conversation: Join artists Justin Levesque and VHF Studio as they discuss their broad ranging practices and what it means to be a practicing artist in our current climates. Location: Media Art Gallery\, 25 Avery Street\, Boston\, MA \n\n\n\nTuesday October 21\, 6:30- 7:30pm\, 6pm doors In Conversation: Join multidisciplinary installation artist Iwalani Kaluhiokalani and photographer Clint Baclawski as they discuss space\, time\, color and motion in their work. Location: Media Art Gallery\, 25 Avery Street\, Boston\, MA \n\n\n\nTuesday\, November 4\, 6:30- 7:30pm\, 6pm doors In Conversation: Join artists Erik DeLuca and Wenran Zhao as they speak with Emerson professor and sound artist Amber Vistein to discuss experimentation\, sonic textures and the art of presence. \n\n\n\nOur artist centered public programming is supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts. \n\n\n\nClint Baclawski is creating a new photographic sculptural installation part of his ongoing scroll series to consider the photographic impulse to capture the landscape as combined with the presentation strategies of advertising. Erik DeLuca is creating an interactive technology based object exploring silence and sound entitled White Spaces Radio. Iwalani Kaluhiokalani will combine innovative projection-mapping and sound to activate a challenging architectural area in the gallery’s entryway. Justin Levesque will reimagine his multimedia wall installation Geographical Problems for the Emerson space. VHF Studios will present a new iteration of their cheerfully riotous multi-media sculptural installation\, Narcissus Looks Back: and They Love You. Karlie Zhao will create a site-specific piece for the windows facing Avery Street\, and display her delicate\, evocative piece Thread in the Air\, which infinitely generates poetic texts through audience interaction. \n\n\n\nJuried by Distinguished Curator-in-Residence Leonie Bradbury\, Curator of Special Projects Shana Dumont Garr\, and visual artist and curator Allison Maria Rodriguez\, this exhibition recognizes the importance of contemporary new media art being created across the Northeast. Of the experience jurying\, Allison Maria Rodriguez said: \n\n\n\n“It’s been such an honor to be included in this process. It can sometimes feel like New England is dominated by more traditional artistic mediums – and that may be true – but it was so thrilling to see all the incredible new media artists working in the area that submitted to this call. The jury had a real challenge – in the best way! It proved that opportunities like this to showcase artists working in art and technology are so greatly needed\, not only to support individual practices\, but also to expand the conversation in the broader arts  ecosystem – and I’m so grateful to the folks at Emerson Contemporary for making this happen!”
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/echoes-of-the-heart-new-england-media-art-biennial/
LOCATION:Media Art Gallery
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Mirror Fields: A Series of Art-Led Reflections in the Media Art Gallery
DESCRIPTION:August 15\, 2023\n\n\nSpecial 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\, March 18\, 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-3/
LOCATION:Media Art Gallery
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Gallery Talk,Public Program,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250225T120000
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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:20240918T170000
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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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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/
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