Angelo Madsen Minax, 2021, 85 min, DCP Digital
An unspeakable tragedy both binds and fractures filmmaker Angelo Madsen Minax’s family in this moving and formally audacious documentary. Over nearly five years of visits to his hometown of Grayling, Michigan, Minax chronicles his sister’s struggles with motherhood, mourning, and domestic abuse, as well as his own fraught conversations with his Mormon parents around his identity as a trans man. Through probing commentary and footage drawn from decades of home movies, NORTH BY CURRENT confronts the burdens of memory with candor and care, inviting us to bear witness to the power of healing and acceptance.
Director Angelo Madsen Minax will appear to introduce and discuss the screening.
Presented in collaboration with the Department of Art, Theory, and Practice at Northwestern.
DATES & LOCATIONS,
Wednesday, December 1, 7pmat BLOCK CINEMA
BLOCK MUSEUM OF ART
40 ARTS CIRCLE DR
EVANSTON, IL, 60208
THIRZA CUTHAND: NDN SURVIVAL TRILOGY and other works
Thirza Cuthand, 2013-2021, digital video
Plains Cree/Scots artist Thirza Cuthand explores queer sexuality, Indigenous identity, and forms of personal and collective crisis in her defiantly DIY videos, performances, and autobiographical writings. For this program, Cuthand will appear in person to introduce and discuss her "NDN Survival Trilogy,” a recent series of videos that address the impacts of colonialism, resource extraction, and climate change through the artist’s distinctly intimate and irreverent voice.
Presented in conjunction with Northwestern’s Art, Theory and Practice department, the Climate Crisis and Media Arts working group, and One Book One Northwestern.
DATES & LOCATIONS,
Wednesday, November 17, 7pmat BLOCK CINEMA
BLOCK MUSEUM OF ART
40 ARTS CIRCLE DRIVE
EVANSTON, IL, 60208
Sky Hopinka: Channeling Indigenous Histories
The multidimensional work of artist Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians) employs video, photography, music, and poetry as different pathways approaching Indigenous experience. In his two-channel video installation, Cloudless Blue Egress of Summer (2019) – on view alongside Who Says, Who Shows, What Counts: Thinking about History with The Block’s Collection – image, sound, and text together tease out legacies of colonial oppression and Native resistance. In this program, Hopinka will discuss the many facets of his practice, joined in conversation by Pick-Laudati Curator of Media Arts Michael Metzger.
DATES & LOCATIONS,
Wednesday, November 10, 6pmat BLOCK CINEMA
BLOCK MUSEUM OF ART
40 ARTS CIRCLE DR
EVANSTON, IL 60208
Visiting Artist Talk: Lauren Bon
Lauren Bon is an environmental artist from Los Angeles, CA. Her practice, Metabolic Studio, explores self-sustaining and self-diversifying systems of exchange that feed emergent properties that regenerate the life web. Some of her works include: Not A Cornfield, which transformed and revived an industrial brownfield in downtown Los Angeles into a thirty-two-acre cornfield for one agricultural cycle; 100 Mules Walking the Los Angeles Aqueduct, a 240-mile performative action that aimed to reconnect the city of Los Angeles with the source of its water for the centenary of the opening of the Los Angeles Aqueduct. Her studio’s current work, Bending the River Back into the City, aims to utilize Los Angeles’ first private water right to deliver 106-acre feet of water annually from the LA River to over 50 acres of land in the historic core of downtown LA. This model can be replicated to regenerate the 52-mile LA River, reconnect it to its floodplain and form a citizens’ utility.
To attend this virtual event, please contact sara.medlin@northwestern.edu.
DATES & LOCATIONS,
Thursday, April 22, 5pmat ZOOM MEETING
Visiting Artist Talk: Christopher Lew
CHRISTOPHER Y. LEW is the Nancy and Fred Poses Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Lew oversees the emerging artist program at the Museum and was co-curator of the 2017 Whitney Biennial. Working with Ambika Trasi, he is co-curator of Salman Toor: How Will I Know. Lew has also organized Pope.L: Choir (2019), Kevin Beasley: A view of a landscape (2018), and mounted the first US solo exhibitions for Sophia Al-Maria, Rachel Rose, and Jared Madere. He also organized Lucy Dodd’s large-scale installation that was part of the exhibition Open Plan (2016) and was co-curator of the group show Mirror Cells (2016). Prior to joining the Whitney, he was Assistant Curator at MoMA PS1 and organized numerous exhibitions there. Lew has contributed to several publications including Art AsiaPacific, Art Journal, Bomb, Huffington Post, and Mousse.
To attend this talk, please contact Sara Medlin.
DATES & LOCATIONS,
Wednesday, May 12, 12pmat ZOOM MEETING
