[-empyre-] Week 1: Welcome Joanna Raczynska and Barbara Hammer's TV TART

Wed Apr 3 03:21:56 AEDT 2019

Curatorial:
*American Originals Now: Barbara Hammer*. Programmed for the National
Gallery of Art in DC in June of 2015.
https://www.nga.gov/content/dam/ngaweb/calendar/film/DFP%20archive%20pdfs/ngafilm-2015-spring.pdf
pp32-35

*Resisting Paradise*, programmed at Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY, in 2004, in
conjunction with the Evolutionary Girls Club exhibition at the Carnegie
Arts Center , Tonawanda, NY
https://www.hallwalls.org/media-arts/4280.html

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.

On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 11:29 AM Joanna Raczynska <raczynska.joanna at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thank you, Renate, for inviting me to participate and contribute to this
> list and thank you, members of the listserve, for reading and responding.
>
> 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:
>
> For women artists everywhere.
>
> May your pleasures in creating be huge;
>
> your path, sound; your fears, vanished;
>
> your successes valued.
>
> Yours is the future I write for.
>
> 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. Vever (For Barbara) 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.
>
> 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.
>
> J
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 11:04 AM Renate Ferro <rferro at cornell.edu> wrote:
>
>> ----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------
>>  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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>> http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/signaltocode/ A variation of the
>> exhibition also appeared at the Hunter Galleries downtown space.
>>
>> http://www1.cuny.edu/mu/forum/2015/10/13/hunter-college-art-galleries-present-the-experimental-television-center-a-history-etc/
>>
>> Barbara installed TV Tart at the downtown Hunter gallery space.
>> Here is the documentation of a variation of that piece.
>> https://kow-berlin.com/artists/barbara-hammer/tv-tart-1988
>>
>> More about TV Tart next post.  I am traveling back to Ithaca this
>> morning.
>> Best, Renate
>>
>>
>> Renate Ferro
>> Visiting Associate Professor
>> Director of Undergraduate Studies
>> Department of Art
>> Tjaden Hall 306
>> rferro at cornell.edu
>>
>>
>>
>> On 4/1/19, 11:26 PM, "empyre-bounces at lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au on
>> behalf of Renate Ferro" <empyre-bounces at lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au on
>> behalf of rferro at cornell.edu> wrote:
>>
>>     ----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------
>>     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.
>>
>>     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.
>>     Please join us.  Renate
>>
>>     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.
>>
>>     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.
>>
>>
>>     Renate Ferro
>>     Visiting Associate Professor
>>     Director of Undergraduate Studies
>>     Department of Art
>>     Tjaden Hall 306
>>     rferro at cornell.edu
>>
>>
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> raczynska.joanna at gmail.com
> 410 807-5412
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410 807-5412
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