Gallery / Exhibit Movie / Film
[email protected]
902.532.7069
Doors open at 6:30pm
Event in Room: Studio (upstairs)
Film Screening | Artists & The Unknown
Art21 Interviews with Artists
Everyone welcome. Free admission (donations welcome).
This event is presented in collaboration with Art21. For more information, visit www.art21.org.
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DESCRIPTION:
In celebration of Art21's newest book Artists & the Unknown: Art21 Interviews with Artists, Screening Society provides a selection of films featuring artists who explore how we use randomness, mystery, and unknowability to try to answer some of life’s biggest questions.
What does the “unknown” mean? It is something we encounter in ways big and small every day of our lives. It appears when we wake up and wonder what the day holds, as we watch the world around us change, develop, and decay, and in our risks, dreams, and curiosities. The unknown can appear unexpectedly, at any time, and with myriad forms and faces. What do we do with that information? At Art21, we look to artists.
Drawn from over two decades of interviews with the leading artists of the 21st century, the book Artists & the Unknown: Art21 Interviews with Artists captures engaging, inspiring, and stimulating conversations that explore encounters with the unknown, from an election cycle to health crisis. Featuring the works and words of 18 groundbreaking contemporary artists, this collection serves as a guide and a companion in your own encounters with unknowability.
This season of Screening Society honors the new book by showcasing a selection of Art21 films:
--Linda Goode Bryant (Born 1949; Columbus, OH)
In the many different titles and hats that the artist has worn throughout her decades-long career, including educator, gallerist, activist, filmmaker, and farmer, Goode Bryant has sought to realize ideas that were previously thought impossible through a choreography of passion, commitment, skill, and community. From creating the first Black commercial gallery in New York City to founding an urban farming nonprofit on concrete yards and city rooftops, Goode Bryant’s works empower communities and create tangible change, allowing others to realize their impossible ideas alongside her.
--Josephine Halvorson (Born 1981; Brewster, MA)
Combining acute attention to detail and an insistence on painting from life, Halvorson gives herself only one day to complete each canvas. Interested in her relationship to the subjects of her paintings, Halvorson resists the term painter; she prefers to think of painting as recording time spent with an object in its environment.
--Rose B. Simpson (Born 1983; Santa Clara Pueblo, NM)
Working across media, Simpson finds new ways to connect past and present, express experience and identity, and contemplate freedom and strength. Her work often references the personal and intimate in connection with something greater, obliquely engaging the histories and knowledge of her Indigenous community and reflecting the enduring oppression and resilience of Indigenous peoples across the United States.
--Sarah Sze (Born 1969; Boston, MA)
Sze builds her installations and intricate sculptures from the minutiae of everyday life, imbuing mundane materials, marks, and processes with surprising significance. On the edge between life and art, her work is alive with a mutable quality as if anything could happen, or not.
--Michael Rakowitz (Born 1973; Great Neck, NY)
Rakowitz critiques the ongoing forces of colonization, bringing attention not only to the value of cultural artifacts that have been lost, looted, or destroyed but also to the people who have suffered from continuing violence. His work asks viewers to reconsider the relationships between hospitality and hostility, and provenance and expropriation, and to confront the complicity of cultural institutions and audiences in geopolitical matters.
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About Screening Society:
Art21’s Screening Society welcomes local communities to gather and watch films about art together. By providing free access to documentary films about contemporary artists, Screening Society promotes conversation, inspires creative thinking, and broadens engagement with the art of our time. This guide offers hosts and participants information about the films and the featured artists, as well as suggestions for further engagement through discussion questions and activities.
For more information, resources, and educational opportunities, please visit www.Art21.org.
About Art21:
Art21 is a celebrated global leader in presenting thought-provoking and sophisticated content about contemporary art—a preeminent resource for learning first-hand from the artists of our time. A nonprofit organization, Art21’s mission is to educate and expand access to contemporary art through the production of documentary films, resources, and public programs.
[email protected]
902.532.7069
Doors open at 6:30pm
Event in Room: Studio (upstairs)
Film Screening | Artists & The Unknown
Art21 Interviews with Artists
Everyone welcome. Free admission (donations welcome).
This event is presented in collaboration with Art21. For more information, visit www.art21.org.
=====================================
DESCRIPTION:
In celebration of Art21's newest book Artists & the Unknown: Art21 Interviews with Artists, Screening Society provides a selection of films featuring artists who explore how we use randomness, mystery, and unknowability to try to answer some of life’s biggest questions.
What does the “unknown” mean? It is something we encounter in ways big and small every day of our lives. It appears when we wake up and wonder what the day holds, as we watch the world around us change, develop, and decay, and in our risks, dreams, and curiosities. The unknown can appear unexpectedly, at any time, and with myriad forms and faces. What do we do with that information? At Art21, we look to artists.
Drawn from over two decades of interviews with the leading artists of the 21st century, the book Artists & the Unknown: Art21 Interviews with Artists captures engaging, inspiring, and stimulating conversations that explore encounters with the unknown, from an election cycle to health crisis. Featuring the works and words of 18 groundbreaking contemporary artists, this collection serves as a guide and a companion in your own encounters with unknowability.
This season of Screening Society honors the new book by showcasing a selection of Art21 films:
--Linda Goode Bryant (Born 1949; Columbus, OH)
In the many different titles and hats that the artist has worn throughout her decades-long career, including educator, gallerist, activist, filmmaker, and farmer, Goode Bryant has sought to realize ideas that were previously thought impossible through a choreography of passion, commitment, skill, and community. From creating the first Black commercial gallery in New York City to founding an urban farming nonprofit on concrete yards and city rooftops, Goode Bryant’s works empower communities and create tangible change, allowing others to realize their impossible ideas alongside her.
--Josephine Halvorson (Born 1981; Brewster, MA)
Combining acute attention to detail and an insistence on painting from life, Halvorson gives herself only one day to complete each canvas. Interested in her relationship to the subjects of her paintings, Halvorson resists the term painter; she prefers to think of painting as recording time spent with an object in its environment.
--Rose B. Simpson (Born 1983; Santa Clara Pueblo, NM)
Working across media, Simpson finds new ways to connect past and present, express experience and identity, and contemplate freedom and strength. Her work often references the personal and intimate in connection with something greater, obliquely engaging the histories and knowledge of her Indigenous community and reflecting the enduring oppression and resilience of Indigenous peoples across the United States.
--Sarah Sze (Born 1969; Boston, MA)
Sze builds her installations and intricate sculptures from the minutiae of everyday life, imbuing mundane materials, marks, and processes with surprising significance. On the edge between life and art, her work is alive with a mutable quality as if anything could happen, or not.
--Michael Rakowitz (Born 1973; Great Neck, NY)
Rakowitz critiques the ongoing forces of colonization, bringing attention not only to the value of cultural artifacts that have been lost, looted, or destroyed but also to the people who have suffered from continuing violence. His work asks viewers to reconsider the relationships between hospitality and hostility, and provenance and expropriation, and to confront the complicity of cultural institutions and audiences in geopolitical matters.
======================================
About Screening Society:
Art21’s Screening Society welcomes local communities to gather and watch films about art together. By providing free access to documentary films about contemporary artists, Screening Society promotes conversation, inspires creative thinking, and broadens engagement with the art of our time. This guide offers hosts and participants information about the films and the featured artists, as well as suggestions for further engagement through discussion questions and activities.
For more information, resources, and educational opportunities, please visit www.Art21.org.
About Art21:
Art21 is a celebrated global leader in presenting thought-provoking and sophisticated content about contemporary art—a preeminent resource for learning first-hand from the artists of our time. A nonprofit organization, Art21’s mission is to educate and expand access to contemporary art through the production of documentary films, resources, and public programs.
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