[-empyre-] abstraction an multiple possiibilities

Fri Apr 19 08:38:51 AEST 2019

First of all, I want to thank Renate for the invite to participate in this discussion. I am humbled to be privy to such thoughtful dialogue that intersects with the work that I make.

As an artist raised in Buffalo, NY, Renate’s earlier mention of Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center and Squeaky Wheel moved me. I was raised going to openings at Hallwalls, processing super 8 in the basement of Squeaky Wheel as a 13 year old intern, and spending summers through the New York State Summer School of the Arts at Ithaca College learning from Ghen Dennis, and Tania Palacios. I moved to San Francisco to go to art school when I was 17, and then back East to Syracuse, NY for graduate school in the Transmedia Dept. at Syracuse University where I now teach.

I make installations that include videos, photographs, and objects about courage and pain using bio-medical imagery. I integrate appropriated materials from hospital archives into my work, and use the sci-fi format to explore pain, sex, power, and neuroses through the lens of science.

I have been thinking about being queer, and femme, and sick in the context of this conversation. I have a lot of thoughts that I want to expand upon about influence, but for now I want to say that I’m thankful for the link to Barbra Hammer’s performance/lecture at the Whitney The Art of Dying: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMeoAx9dZkI, and last Sunday, I sat in a library, with the intention of doing some work with her voice playing in the background. I ended up raptly watching the lecture twice through and openly weeping. How vital it is to feel validated by the affective presence of others. The privilege of the intimacy of the public utterance of the phrase “I love you with all my heart.” This stunning metaphorical organ.

I have been remiss in writing as I have been preparing an installation for a group show honoring the recipients of a Wynn Newhouse Award for artists who have disabilities: https://www.wnewhouseawards.com/Pages/Awards.html

The works of the other five recipients feel particularly relevant to the use of the body within the history of feminist interventions on public understandings of subjective experiences.

I also wanted to share my most recent video Referred Pain: https://vimeo.com/323993856, shown as part of the Video in America exhibition at The Everson, another CNY institution Renate mentioned: https://www.everson.org/explore/current-exhibitions/archives-video-america

I look forward to talking more about my relationship to the work of these four incredible artists.

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Rachel Fein-Smolinski
Digital Services Coordinator
Light Work

316 Waverly Avenue, Syracuse, NY 13244
lightwork.org

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From: empyre-bounces at lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au <empyre-bounces at lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au> on behalf of Timothy Conway Murray <tcm1 at cornell.edu>
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For those of you who happen to be in the Central New York area today, I invite you to join us today, Thursday, at 4:30 p.m. in Willard Straight Hall for an event to pay homage to the late filmmaker Agnès Varda. A free screening of Varda's La Pointe courte will be followed by a roundtable discussion featuring Laurent Dubreuil, Claire Ménard, Tim Murray, and Marie-Claire Vallois.

Timothy Murray
Director, Cornell Council for the Arts and Curator, CCA Biennial
http://cca.cornell.edu
Curator, Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art
http://goldsen.library.cornell.edu <http://goldsen.library.cornell.edu/>
Professor of Comparative Literature and English

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Cornell University
Ithaca, New York 14853

On 4/17/19, 12:59 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:

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    Interesting video featuring Barbara Hammer on Art Forum

    https://www.artforum.com/video/excerpts-from-an-interview-with-barbara-hammer-71388

    Living within abstraction and multiple possibilities.

    Renate Ferro
    Visiting Associate Professor
    Director of Undergraduate Studies
    Department of Art
    Tjaden Hall 306
    rferro at cornell.edu

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