Event overview
IRINA BOTEA BUCAN: THE HOUSE OF CULTURE MUST BE OPEN AT ANY TIME // EMILY MCMEHEN: ACHANTÈ: A PORTRAIT OF HAITIAN VODOU and THE ASCENT OF THE ANGEL METATRON
A presentation of the “Re-imagining of Cultural Houses and Cultural Hearths in Romania” through the method of the “comrade image”. This will have a special focus on electronic embroideries, which translate educational diagrams, empty posters, architectural plans and film stills.
Irina Botea Bucan has developed a symbiotic artist-educator-researcher methodological framework that consistently questions dominant socio-political ideas and centralizes human and non-human agency as a vehicle for meaning. Choosing to act in diverse contexts, such as: academic institutions, alternative galleries, museums, art biennials, film festivals and generic community centers; she is currently focusing on the de-centralization of cultural discourses and the possibility of sustaining creative differentiation that arguably exists outside of a dominant hegemonic system of values and critique. Her artwork has been shown in 55th Venice Biennale, International Film Festival Rotterdam, New Museum, New York, MUSAC (Museum of Contemporary Art of Castilia and Leon), Pompidou Centre, Paris, National Gallery Jeu de Paume, Paris; Kunsthalle Winterthur, Reina Sofia National Museum, Madrid; MUSAC-Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Spain, Gwangju Biennale 2010, U -Turn Quadriennial, Copenhagen; 51st Venice Biennale.
Emily McMehen is an artist and writer living and working between London and Toronto.
She is a PhD candidate at Goldsmiths College, where her project is focused on the philosophy of the moving image.
Emily has lectured at Chelsea College and Central St Martin’s on the Undergraduate and Continuing Education programs, and has been an invited speaker at Oxford University’s Mansfield College and the Yale MA/PhD Summer School program at the Paul Mellon Centre in London. She has been exhibiting textile work internationally since 2007, and her short films have been screened at Oberhausen, the Cannes Film Festival, the Venice Biennale, Fantasia Film Festival and at the Ghetto Biennale in Port-au-Prince.
Emily will be showing a short film about her textile process and discussing her filmmaking projects in Haiti and Mongolia.
You can watch the film here: vimeo.com/mazibel/achante-kreyol
password: papalegba
Vimeo for Emily McMehen's Film, password: papalegba
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 13 Dec 2022 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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