The Middletown Press (Middletown, CT)
‘A SCULPTURE, A FILM & SIX VIDEOS’ SHOWING NOW
MIDDLETOWN — A Sculpture, A Film & Six Videos,” an exhibition of a sculpture, a film, and a survey of six recent largescale video works presented in a nontraditional, temporal framework, curated by Wesleyan University Associate Director of Visual Arts Benjamin Chaffee, also includes online programming: four artist talks, a performance, a reading, and four videos streaming via the website for the exhibition, www.wesleyan .edu/cfa/sixvideos, now through Nov. 22. The artists include Trisha Baga, Tosh Basco (aka boychild), Tacita Dean, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Renée Green ‘81, Arthur Jafa, Stanya Kahn, Karrabing Film Collective, and Charlotte Prodger.
“This show, which has been in the works for some time, feels even more relevant today as our experience of ourselves, our relationships, and the world around us is increasingly mediated by projections and through screens,” said curator Benjamin Chaffee. “In the era of a global pandemic and the global response to racial uprisings in the U.S., these artists present possibilities for how to organize time—from broadening the scope of the present to collapsing it with the past. This includes encountering death, and the beliefs we engage to build an image of
the future.”
The exhibition has been on view in Wesleyan University’s Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery since Sept. 8. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the gallery is only open to Wesleyan students, faculty, and staff.
About the exhibition, from the Visual Arts Department at Wesleyan: “Nestled into a custom-built atrium in the gallery, Peter Fischli and David Weiss’ sculpture “Son et Lumiere (Le Rayon Vert)” (1990) acts as the pivot or fulcrum for the entire exhibition, the rotating kinetic sculpture around which everything else revolves.”
Related online events, RSVP required for access.
Nov. 7, 2 p.m., on Zoom: Performance by Tosh Basco (aka boychild): “Untitled: darkness”, followed by a conversation with the artist and collaborator Wu Tsang.
Nov. 9, 7:30 p.m., on Zoom: Conversation: Collective for Radical Death Studies and devynn emory with Anthony Ryan Hatch
Nov. 11, 6 p.m., Artist Talk: Karrabing Film Collective. Members will discuss their practice with one of the founding members, author Elizabeth A. Povinelli. The Karrabing Film Collective uses film to analyze contemporary settler colonialism and through these depictions challenge its grip.
Nov. 16, 4:30 p.m., Talk and Reading: Victoria PittsTaylor, professor and chairperson of Wesleyan’s Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, and Professor of Sociology and Science in Society, discussing the video “Bridgit.”
Nov. 19, 6 p.m., Artist Talk: Renée Green ‘81
The video screenings: Tacita Dean — “The Green Ray”, Nov. 13, 12:10 p.m.
Video Screening: Arthur Jafa - “APEX”, through Nov. 8
Video Screening: Charlotte Prodger - “BRIDGIT”, Nov. 10-22
For information and registration for any of these films or programs, visit wesleyan.edu/cfa/events