Hi Jodie, Maybe show them Oh Say Can you See, part of the PSA Project 1-15 http://www.madansky.com/film-video/the-psa-project-1-15/ <http://www.madansky.com/film-video/the-psa-project-1-15/> Cynthia
> On 06 Jul 2020, at 13:40, Bernard Roddy <[email protected]> wrote: > > Jodie Mack: > > It's a nice course title, "Curating and Microcinema: Make your own culture." > > It raises many fine questions. For one, what is the role of "curating" in > these microcinemas today? Does the term function in anything like the way it > is intended to for budgeted, wall-hung exhibitions? > > The word "liberty" is also a striking choice for an exhibition theme. If you > read the news like I have, you'll likely bring to mind a president in front > of the Mount Rushmore or a debate concerning a Lincoln monument that has the > famous president standing with a nude black slave before him. (An 1876 > document was just unearthed by emancipation leader, Frederick Douglass, > objecting to the sculpture's design: "The negro here, though rising, is still > on his knees and nude. What I want to see before I die is a monument > representing the negro, not couchant on his knees like a four-footed animal, > but erect on his feet like a man." From the Wall Street Journal today) > > I very much like the whole project - or task! - now before your students. > What should be screened? And what can be said about the very procedures that > go into deciding? Should there be a call for new work? What if you can't get > permission to screen something? > > Last year I responded to a call entitled What Remains that was held here in > Chicago and organized by Joseph Ravens and ieke Trinks. It was a complicated > concept, to use the term artists like to employ, a term for approaching new > work. But isn't an exhibition, or the way in which it is conceived, also a > creative work, and first off a concept? > > Bernie > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks Cynthia Madansky madansky.com <http://madansky.com/> +001 917 885 8638
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