Tang Museum presents online video double feature
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. » The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College invites the public to experience a double feature of exclusive videos starting this week on the Tang website at http://tang.skidmore.edu.
In an online version of the Tang screening series, Whole Grain: Experiments in Film and Video, the Museum presents a limited-access presentation of Eve Fowler’s “with it which it as it if it is to be, Part II” (2019) in conjunction with the exhibition Never Done: 100 Years of Women in Politics and Beyond. Fowler’s video is the second installment in her planned ten-part video series that explores the working practices of women artists in their later years of their career, in their studios, and interacting with their art.
In this collaborative work, Fowler visits the studios of women artists in New York City and Los Angeles. The soundtrack consists of different artists and writers reading Gertrude Stein’s 1910 story Many Many Women. The repetitive stream of consciousness oration is hypnotic and provocative
in its consideration of the lives and works of these prolific artists. The video will be available for streaming on the Tang website from through Feb. 7 at http://tang.skidmore.edu.
Also this week, the Tang will release a special recording of a commissioned performance by Silver the Void in the installation “Nicole Cherubini: Shaking the Trees.” Silver the Void is an improvisational music/ art project of artist Susan Jennings, who makes sculptures
and plays those sculptures with her husband and daughter. Jennings installed new sculptures for the latest iteration of “Shaking the Trees”. For the performance, Jennings added Nicole’s son, Malachi Cherubini Purcell, on harp. Watch the video on the “Shaking the Trees” exhibition page.
This double feature is part of the Tang’s ongoing commitment to supporting artists and to bringing engaging experiences to its audiences, even as the Museum
building remains closed to the public at least through the end of the spring semester. For updates on upcoming online events and exhibitions, please visit the Tang website at http:// tang.skidmore.edu, or sign up for the Tang’s email newsletter at http://eepurl.com/FLtMv.