<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Curatorial: </div><div dir="ltr"><b>American Originals Now: Barbara Hammer</b>. Programmed for the National Gallery of Art in DC in June of 2015. </div><div dir="ltr"><div style="background:none;font:400 13.33px/19.99px Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;outline:transparent 0px;border:0px rgb(34,34,34);width:837px;text-align:left;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;overflow:visible;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:100%" dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.nga.gov/content/dam/ngaweb/calendar/film/DFP%20archive%20pdfs/ngafilm-2015-spring.pdf">https://www.nga.gov/content/dam/ngaweb/calendar/film/DFP%20archive%20pdfs/ngafilm-2015-spring.pdf</a></div><div style="background:none;font:400 13.33px/19.99px Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;outline:transparent 0px;border:0px rgb(34,34,34);width:837px;text-align:left;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;overflow:visible;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:100%">pp32-35 </div><div style="background:none;font:400 13.33px/19.99px Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;outline:transparent 0px;border:0px rgb(34,34,34);width:837px;text-align:left;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;overflow:visible;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:100%"><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"></font><br></div></div><div><b>Resisting Paradise</b>, programmed at Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY, in 2004, in conjunction with the Evolutionary Girls Club exhibition at the Carnegie Arts Center , Tonawanda, NY </div><div><a href="https://www.hallwalls.org/media-arts/4280.html">https://www.hallwalls.org/media-arts/4280.html</a></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font:400 13.33px/19.99px Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:left;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;display:inline;white-space:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:100%;float:none;background-color:transparent">Working now on a 3-4 part program for late summer 2019 (actual dates pending) in honor of Barbara and her legacy. Artists influenced by Barbara and who have collaborated with her -- such as Deborah Stratman and Lynne Sachs-- as well as curators and cultural workers, like Carmel Curtis and KJ Mohr, will be invited to speak about their experiences and share their remembrances. </span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 11:29 AM Joanna Raczynska <<a href="mailto:raczynska.joanna@gmail.com">raczynska.joanna@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p id="gmail-m_2963070389611002192gmail-docs-internal-guid-240170ef-7fff-a1f4-8fd3-edf1af0f0fb8" style="font:400 16px/22.08px Times New Roman;text-align:left;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;text-decoration:none;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal;background-color:transparent" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:14.66px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Thank you, Renate, for inviting me to participate and contribute to this list and thank you, members of the listserve, for reading and responding. </span></p><br style="text-align:left;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:transparent"><p style="font:400 16px/22.08px Times New Roman;text-align:left;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;text-decoration:none;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal;background-color:transparent" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:14.66px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">The dedication to Barbara's 2010 memoir “Hammer: Making Movies Out of Sex and Life” is first and foremost for her Love and Partner, Florrie Burke -- “I thrive anywhere near you...” -- but then also:</span></p><br style="text-align:left;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:transparent"><p style="font:400 16px/22.08px Times New Roman;text-align:center;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;text-decoration:none;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal;background-color:transparent" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:14.66px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">For women artists everywhere. </span></p><p style="font:400 16px/22.08px Times New Roman;text-align:center;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;text-decoration:none;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal;background-color:transparent" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:14.66px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">May your pleasures in creating be huge; </span></p><p style="font:400 16px/22.08px Times New Roman;text-align:center;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;text-decoration:none;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal;background-color:transparent" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:14.66px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">your path, sound; your fears, vanished; </span></p><p style="font:400 16px/22.08px Times New Roman;text-align:center;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;text-decoration:none;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal;background-color:transparent" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:14.66px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">your successes valued. </span></p><br style="text-align:left;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:transparent"><p style="font:400 16px/22.08px Times New Roman;text-align:center;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;text-decoration:none;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal;background-color:transparent" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:14.66px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Yours is the future I write for.</span></p><br style="text-align:left;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:transparent"><p style="font:400 16px/22.08px Times New Roman;text-align:left;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;text-decoration:none;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal;background-color:transparent" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:14.66px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">About a year or so ago (I believe, maybe it was longer... ), Barbara invited several filmmakers whose work she admired -- her contemporaries of varying age -- to develop works that she no longer had the physical strength or time to complete. </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:14.66px;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Vever (For Barbara)</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:14.66px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> by the incomparable Deborah Stratman, is an incredible collaboration using footage Barbara shot in Guatemala in the 70s, interwoven with thoughts of Maya Deren’s work in Haiti in the 1950s and the sound of a phone conversation between Barbara and Deborah about the politics of what we see and the context of Barbara’s trip. Invited to create with these images, Deborah vanquished any fears she may have held and jumped head long into the challenge, grappling with notions of privilege, ascendancy, the gaze, and intent. These are the predominant themes throughout Barbara’s work in film and all of the mediums she chose to explore and put to task. Deborah picked up and elaborated on these in her own voice, in her own way. </span></p><br style="text-align:left;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:transparent"><p style="font:400 16px/22.08px Times New Roman;text-align:left;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;text-decoration:none;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal;background-color:transparent" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:14.66px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">This deep impression of intergenerational practice and expansive time is where I’d like to begin our discussion this week. Ours is the future that Barbara also worked hard for, and it’s up to us to meet her challenge in our own various practices.</span></p><br style="text-align:left;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:transparent">J<br style="text-align:left;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:transparent"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 11:04 AM Renate Ferro <<a href="mailto:rferro@cornell.edu" target="_blank">rferro@cornell.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid">----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------<br>
I am looking forward to hear more about Joanna’s curatorial work and organized screenings and artist presentations for the film department at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC including Barbara Hammer’s work.<br>
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This month I encourage all of our subscribers whose own writing or creative production resonate with the topic to share. I hope that many of your will share your own work, but also how these artists may have inspired your work, and what their legacies may mean to you.<br>
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Almost three years ago, Barbara Hammer was included in an exhibition that my work was also curated in. “Signal to Code” was held at both Cornell University’s Library exhibition space and the Johnson Museum of Art. <br>
<a href="http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/signaltocode/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/signaltocode/</a> A variation of the exhibition also appeared at the Hunter Galleries downtown space. <br>
<a href="http://www1.cuny.edu/mu/forum/2015/10/13/hunter-college-art-galleries-present-the-experimental-television-center-a-history-etc/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://www1.cuny.edu/mu/forum/2015/10/13/hunter-college-art-galleries-present-the-experimental-television-center-a-history-etc/</a><br>
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Barbara installed TV Tart at the downtown Hunter gallery space. <br>
Here is the documentation of a variation of that piece. <br>
<a href="https://kow-berlin.com/artists/barbara-hammer/tv-tart-1988" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://kow-berlin.com/artists/barbara-hammer/tv-tart-1988</a><br>
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More about TV Tart next post. I am traveling back to Ithaca this morning. <br>
Best, Renate<br>
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Visiting Associate Professor<br>
Director of Undergraduate Studies<br>
Department of Art<br>
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On 4/1/19, 11:26 PM, "<a href="mailto:empyre-bounces@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au" target="_blank">empyre-bounces@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au</a> on behalf of Renate Ferro" <<a href="mailto:empyre-bounces@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au" target="_blank">empyre-bounces@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au</a> on behalf of <a href="mailto:rferro@cornell.edu" target="_blank">rferro@cornell.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
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Welcome to week one on our April discussion on –empyre-soft-skinned space. I thought it was most appropriate that we spend some time this month thinking about the legacy of a few artists that have passed away these past few weeks. Moving image, installation and performance artists Grace Quintanilla (Mexico), Barbara Hammer (US), Carolee Schneemann (US), and Agnes Varda (FR) have moved and inspired so many of us. These artists and many with them have located their discourse within feminist presence, persistence, struggle and cultural resonance. Through discourse, action, and the use of technology these artists taught us about life and living. We invite the subscribers of –empyre– to join us by sharing biographical information and links in celebration of the work of these artists. At the same time we hope that many of your will share your own work, how these artists may have inspired this work, and what their legacies may mean to you. <br>
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I have included my bio below as I will be joining Joanna Raczynska this week. Joanna has curated the work of Barbara Hammer so we are looking forward to her sharing her thoughts and research this week. I am hoping to share personal narratives about the other artists this week as an introduction. <br>
Please join us. Renate<br>
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Renate Ferro (US) is a conceptual media artist who toggles between the creative skins of old and new technologies. Her work has been featured at the Hunter College Gallery (NYC), The Freud Museum (London), The Dorksy Gallery (NYC), The Hemispheric Institute and FOMMA (Mexico), The Janus Pannonius Muzeum (Hungary), and The Free University Berlin (Germany). Her video work has been screened at Peking University (Beijing), Johnson Art Museum (Ithaca, NY), and Nanyang Technological University (Singapore). She has taught at Cornell University since 2004 and the managing moderator and curator of –empyre-soft-skinned space. She has been on the moderating board of –empyre- since 2007. <br>
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Joanna Raczynska: I’m a writer, curator, and filmmaker based in Baltimore, MD, who – since 2009 – has organized screenings and artist presentations for the film department at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Guests have included Barbara Hammer, Babette Mangolte, Kevin Jerome Everson, Jem Cohen, Peter Hutton, and Jennifer Reeves, to name a few. I’ve juried competitions for the Animator International Animated Film Festival, Poznan, Poland; Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival, England; International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany; Ann Arbor Film Festival, MI; Images Festival, Toronto, Canada; and Cleveland International Film Festival, OH. As a panelist for a variety of funding agencies including the New York State Council on the Arts, Individual Artists Program, and the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance, Rubys Artist Projects Grants, I’ve helped to support moving image work with awards given directly to independent filmmakers. My experience in arts administration spans work with several non-profit organizations including Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY (where I was media arts director); Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; and the Baltimore Museum of Art, among others. I earned my master’s degree with distinction in documentary by practice, Royal Holloway College, University of London (2001). Several of my shorts have screened at various international sites, including the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland; ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany; Sheffield Doc/Fest and LUX, London, UK; and Squeaky Wheel, Buffalo, NY. <br>
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Renate Ferro<br>
Visiting Associate Professor<br>
Director of Undergraduate Studies<br>
Department of Art<br>
Tjaden Hall 306<br>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" dir="ltr">Joanna Raczynska<br><a href="mailto:raczynska.joanna@gmail.com" target="_blank">raczynska.joanna@gmail.com</a><br>410 807-5412</div>