Essay Events

Instructor: Rachael Rakes with Guests Date & Time: Sundays, April 12, 19, 26, May 10, 17, 24, 31, June 7 11 AM - 1:30 PM ET

DESCRIPTION: Expanding from concepts like “essay film” and “visual essay,” this Seminar examines time-based artistic practices and processes that build arguments through images, sound, duration, liveness, and spatial relations. With presentations by artists and scholars working in film and video, performance, sound, and multi-disciplinary methodologies, individual sessions demonstrate how arguments coalesce in visual, aural, or putatively abstract forms. Moderated by curator and writer Rachael Rakes, these sessions on one hand reveal the roots of essay aesthetics in a cognitive, cooperative and sensory experience, and on the other hand consider a variety of approaches to the development of non-linear concepts. As our guests present and discuss individual works, we can produce new loose schematics and methods for building ideas through durational events, and imagine different forms for the pacing and structuring of visual politics.

April 12: Introductory Session
April 19: Netta Yerushalmy
April 26: Jumana Manna
May 10: Luisa Greenfield
May 17: Ali Cherri
May 24: Agnieszka Polska
May 31: Hassan Khan
June 7: Final Session

Image: Harun Farocki, In Comparison, still from DA Films

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