Candice Breitz (born in Johannesburg, 1972) is a Berlin-based artist. Most recently, her work has focused on the conditions under which empathy is produced, reflecting on a media-saturated global culture in which strong identification with fictional characters and celebrity figures runs parallel to widespread indifference to the plight of those facing real world adversity. Following […]
Enjoy an intimate in-gallery performance by Zivanai Masango, the Zimbabwean world-renowned multi-instrumentalist musician. Zivanai is an award-winning music artist, audio engineer and producer as well as a much sought-after music educator. Born in Harare into an extended family of master musicians deeply involved in traditional mbira and brass band music cultures, he was immersed in […]
Please join us for an artist talk with visiting artist Jason Lazarus on Tuesday, October 11 at 6:15 p.m. in Little Hall, Room 101.Jason Lazarus is an artist exploring vision and visibility. His work includes a range of fluid methodologies: original, found and appropriated images, text-as-image, animated GIFs, photo-derived sculptures made collaboratively with the public, […]
Exhibition Dates: October 12 through December 2, 2022Opening Reception: October 12 from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.Exhibition tour by Laura Colkitt: October 21 at 5:00 p.m.Exhibition tour by Helena Chen: November 10 at 5:00 p.m.Exhibition tour by Jesús Fuenmayor: November 16 at 5:00 p.m.Lecture by Sérgio B. Martins, Art as Project, Project as Art: November […]
Curated by Laura ColkittMás Situaciones I presents the digital video Actualidades / Breaking News (2016) by internationally known artist Liliana Porter (b. 1941, Argentina). Divided into thirty consecutive segments or vignettes, the film’s scenes are arranged like a newspaper with intertitles that announce the theme of the vignette to follow: “local time,” “tourism,” “domestic violence,” “world news.” Key […]
Textures and Fear in e Digital World is a 10-piece solo exhibition of works that explore fear through the digital recontextualization of texture. This exhibition aims to push audiences to consider how the fluidity of perception and even commonly perceived textures can evoke strong emotions like fear when presented in a new light. The purpose […]
Curated by Helena ChenMás Situaciones II presents a selection of works by internationally known artist Sigfredo Chacón (b. 1950, Venezuela), capturing shifts from the conceptual to the more overtly political in his practice. Chacón’s original Situaciones (Situations, 1972) exhibition at the Ateneo of Caracas is here represented in documentary photographs. One sees how the artist displayed seemingly casual […]
Join Jacaré Brazil in celebrating 200 years of Brazilian Independence with an hour of traditional Brazilian music. Livestreamed at the Digital Worlds Institute.
Please join us for a artist talk with visiting artist Dara Friedman on Tuesday, November 2 at 6:15 p.m. at Little Hall, Room 101.Dara Friedman is a German-born artist and filmmaker working in Miami and New York. She uses everyday sights and sounds as the raw material for film and video artworks that reverberate with […]
Join us for a talk by Sérgio B. Martins, Professor of History, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC_RIO). Art as Project, Project as Art: Antonio Dias and Painting after Conceptual Art explores two competing notions of “project” that informed Antonio Dias's painting in the early 1970s, one relating to the unfinished project as a […]