Saturday, May 28, 2022 The Archive as Future Knowledge
Saturday, June 4, 2022 Languid Hands TREAD/MILL (WORK IN PROGRESS)
This panel addresses the role of the archive as a tool for imagining new futures in the inter-related time-based media fields of artistic practice, curatorial thinking, and documentation strategies, as a collective building of future knowledge. The panel, presented in conjunction with Mountain / Time , brings together three artists from the exhibition—Korakrit Arunanondchai, Alan Michelson, and Kandis Williams—for whom the archive is of central importance. Film scholar and Professor of Film at New York University Michael B. Gillespie addresses the role of the moving image and film archives as forms of knowledge production, and Chrissie Iles, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator, and Farris Wahbeh, Benjamin and Irma Weiss Director of Research Resources, from the Whitney Museum of American Art, discuss the role of the archive in experiential conservation and new collaborative inter- institutional structures of care.
Interdisciplinary writer, artist, editor, and facilitator Imani Mason Jordan presents a performance drawing from the history of the penal treadmill, which was utilized as a tool of punishment in British prisons and in the colonies. The performance addresses themes of material culture, labor, sweat, carceral logics, surveillance, endurance, and orality. Across two 19-minute chapters, the performance includes a recitation of Frederic Rzewski’s 1974 minimalist composition “Coming Together,” which repurposes a text written by Sam Melville, one of the leaders of the 1971 Attica Prison Rebellion. The first iteration of TREAD/MILL [WIP] was presented at Somerset House Studios in 2021 with sound by Felix Taylor, and design support and documentation by Joseph June Bond and Rabz Lansiquot.
Saturday, June 4, 2022 The Mountains have Eyes Crystal Theatre (Carbondale, CO)
Thursday, June 2, 2022 Languid Hands Black Film Anti-School
The Aspen Art Museum presents The Mountains have Eyes , a free film screening at the Crystal Theatre in Carbondale, CO, which includes films by Stan Brakhage, Kalpana Subramanian, Basim Magdy, Kitso Lynn Lelliott, Colectivo los Ingrávidos, Pablo Mazzolo, Ana Vaz, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, Las Nietas de Nonó, and Rhea Storr. The program’s curator Almudena Escobar López is an independent curator, archivist, and researcher from Galicia, Spain, now residing in Rochester, NY. Featuring landscapes from near and far, performances, and stories from the present and the past, this program highlights a personal practice of filmmaking rooted in alternative forms of vision. These are films that think with the body and feel with the mind.
Filmmaker and curator Rabz Lansiquot presents a study session exploring Black liberatory film. The Black Film Anti-School is Lansiquot’s ongoing project, initiated at London’s LUX Moving Image in 2019, which seeks to create spaces for collective learning, including screenings, reading and discussion, and generate discourse that goes beyond conversations about representation and towards a liberatory mode of making, viewing, and critiquing Black film. This session will explore theories of Aesthetics through the work of thinkers like Clyde Taylor and Teshome Gabriel.
Top: Basim Magdy, The Many Colors of the Sky Radiate Forgetfulness, 2014, Super 16mm film transferred to Full HD video. 11 min. 09 sec. (still)
Bottom: Languid Hands, TREAD/MILL (WORK IN PROGRESS) , Aspen Art Museum, 2022.
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