Fri February 7, 2020
certainty is becoming our nemesis
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at McEvoy Foundation for the Arts
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Opening reception Saturday, February 8, 5-8pm; Exhibition February 7 - May 2, 2020; Gallery hours Tues-Sat, 11am-6pm
McEvoy Foundation for the Arts (MFA) presents 'certainty is becoming our nemesis,' a program of experimental media works guest curated by San Francisco Cinematheque director Steve Polta, on view February 7 - May 2, 2020. The program accompanies the West Coast debut of the contemporary photography exhibition 'Orlando,' guest curated by Tilda Swinton and organized by Aperture, New York. An opening reception is scheduled for Saturday, February 8, 5-8pm.
'certainty is becoming our nemesis' presents ten short films on themes of transformation, self-invention, gender fluidity, performance, and family that are inspired by the resonances of Virginia Woolf's Orlando. Opening with the continuous dissolve of male and female bodies in Alice Anne Parker's "Riverbody" (1970), the program traces the blurred boundaries of self-expression and how the ambiguity of identity manifests as an emotional survival strategy. Zach Blas' "Facial Weaponization Communique: Fag Face" (2012) critiques the participatory surveillance of the twenty-first century with a protestation of biometric facial recognition as it is applied to oppressed and marginalized communities. Zackary Drucker's "Unison" (2013-2017), with its lush visualization of intergenerational transgender identity in rural Pennsylvania, embraces the complex fluidity of time and place as indispensable conditions of the construction of identity. While flirting with notions of timelessness and perpetuity, these works refute notions of stability in favor of transformative existence and radical gestures of intimacy.
Featuring works from Austria, Spain, Sri Lanka, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States the program extends the impact of Woolf's prescient text and provides a dynamic balance to the portrait photography on view in the related exhibition. It repeats at the top of the hour and runs continuously during MFA's gallery hours.
Free
Presented by McEvoy Foundation for the Arts.
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McEvoy Foundation for the Arts (MFA) presents 'certainty is becoming our nemesis,' a program of experimental media works guest curated by San Francisco Cinematheque director Steve Polta, on view February 7 - May 2, 2020. The program accompanies the West Coast debut of the contemporary photography exhibition 'Orlando,' guest curated by Tilda Swinton and organized by Aperture, New York. An opening reception is scheduled for Saturday, February 8, 5-8pm.
'certainty is becoming our nemesis' presents ten short films on themes of transformation, self-invention, gender fluidity, performance, and family that are inspired by the resonances of Virginia Woolf's Orlando. Opening with the continuous dissolve of male and female bodies in Alice Anne Parker's "Riverbody" (1970), the program traces the blurred boundaries of self-expression and how the ambiguity of identity manifests as an emotional survival strategy. Zach Blas' "Facial Weaponization Communique: Fag Face" (2012) critiques the participatory surveillance of the twenty-first century with a protestation of biometric facial recognition as it is applied to oppressed and marginalized communities. Zackary Drucker's "Unison" (2013-2017), with its lush visualization of intergenerational transgender identity in rural Pennsylvania, embraces the complex fluidity of time and place as indispensable conditions of the construction of identity. While flirting with notions of timelessness and perpetuity, these works refute notions of stability in favor of transformative existence and radical gestures of intimacy.
Featuring works from Austria, Spain, Sri Lanka, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States the program extends the impact of Woolf's prescient text and provides a dynamic balance to the portrait photography on view in the related exhibition. It repeats at the top of the hour and runs continuously during MFA's gallery hours.
Free
Presented by McEvoy Foundation for the Arts.
Opening reception Saturday, February 8, 5-8pm; Exhibition February 7 - May 2, 2020; Gallery hours Tues-Sat, 11am-6pm
McEvoy Foundation for the Arts (MFA) presents 'certainty is becoming our nemesis,' a program of experimental media works guest curated by San Francisco Cinematheque director Steve Polta, on view February 7 - May 2, 2020. The program accompanies the West Coast debut of the contemporary photography exhibition 'Orlando,' guest curated by Tilda Swinton and organized by Aperture, New York. An opening reception is scheduled for Saturday, February 8, 5-8pm.
'certainty is becoming our nemesis' presents ten short films on themes of transformation, self-invention, gender fluidity, performance, and family that are inspired by the resonances of Virginia Woolf's Orlando. Opening with the continuous dissolve of male and female bodies in Alice Anne Parker's "Riverbody" (1970), the program traces the blurred boundaries of self-expression and how the ambiguity of identity manifests as an emotional survival strategy. Zach Blas' "Facial Weaponization Communique: Fag Face" (2012) critiques the participatory surveillance of the twenty-first century with a protestation of biometric facial recognition as it is applied to oppressed and marginalized communities. Zackary Drucker's "Unison" (2013-2017), with its lush visualization of intergenerational transgender identity in rural Pennsylvania, embraces the complex fluidity of time and place as indispensable conditions of the construction of identity. While flirting with notions of timelessness and perpetuity, these works refute notions of stability in favor of transformative existence and radical gestures of intimacy.
Featuring works from Austria, Spain, Sri Lanka, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States the program extends the impact of Woolf's prescient text and provides a dynamic balance to the portrait photography on view in the related exhibition. It repeats at the top of the hour and runs continuously during MFA's gallery hours.
Free
Presented by McEvoy Foundation for the Arts.
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McEvoy Foundation for the Arts (MFA) presents 'certainty is becoming our nemesis,' a program of experimental media works guest curated by San Francisco Cinematheque director Steve Polta, on view February 7 - May 2, 2020. The program accompanies the West Coast debut of the contemporary photography exhibition 'Orlando,' guest curated by Tilda Swinton and organized by Aperture, New York. An opening reception is scheduled for Saturday, February 8, 5-8pm.
'certainty is becoming our nemesis' presents ten short films on themes of transformation, self-invention, gender fluidity, performance, and family that are inspired by the resonances of Virginia Woolf's Orlando. Opening with the continuous dissolve of male and female bodies in Alice Anne Parker's "Riverbody" (1970), the program traces the blurred boundaries of self-expression and how the ambiguity of identity manifests as an emotional survival strategy. Zach Blas' "Facial Weaponization Communique: Fag Face" (2012) critiques the participatory surveillance of the twenty-first century with a protestation of biometric facial recognition as it is applied to oppressed and marginalized communities. Zackary Drucker's "Unison" (2013-2017), with its lush visualization of intergenerational transgender identity in rural Pennsylvania, embraces the complex fluidity of time and place as indispensable conditions of the construction of identity. While flirting with notions of timelessness and perpetuity, these works refute notions of stability in favor of transformative existence and radical gestures of intimacy.
Featuring works from Austria, Spain, Sri Lanka, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States the program extends the impact of Woolf's prescient text and provides a dynamic balance to the portrait photography on view in the related exhibition. It repeats at the top of the hour and runs continuously during MFA's gallery hours.
Free
Presented by McEvoy Foundation for the Arts.
show less
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