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Losing Yourself in the 21st Century
Join us for the closing reception and performance art by Ali Prosch tonight!!!
Reception 6-8pm - Lobby
Ali Prosch 7pm - Photo Shooting Studio
Arts and Humanities Building - GSU
October 1 – November 19, 2009
10am-6pm Monday- Friday
Losing Yourself in the 21st Century
Losing Yourself in the 21st century is an exhibition of performative media by emerging women artists exploring issues of identity and subjectivity in the contemporary age. Diverse in both expression and medium, the exhibition features the work of several women artists chosen through a competitive online curatorial process.
Curated by Susan Richmond Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art History and co curated by Cathy Byrd Executive Director of Maryland Art Place and Jillian Hernandez a Ph.D. student in Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University, the theme of the exhibition is focused on a “loss of self”. They are especially interested in projects that address the intersection of new media technologies and gendered subjectivity.
Our exhibition opens on Thursday Oct. 1 with a reception from 6pm - 8pm and an Artist talk at 7pm by artist Saya Woolfalk about her work “Ethnography of No Place.” Woolfalk will transform our small gallery into a “NO Place”- a fictional future constructed for the investigation of human possibilities and impossibilities.” Other artists in attendance are Noelle Mason and Amber Boardman who also have works in the show. Future programming includes Video Screening by Shana Moulton, Nov. 2, Artist Lecture by Susan Faludi 6pm – 8pm and Nov. 13, Performance piece by Ali Prosch in conjunction with the closing reception 6pm – 8pm
The exhibit is free and open to the public. Free event parking is available at the United Way Garage, located at the corner of Auburn and Courtland avenues.
www.losingyourself.com
Join us for a Film Screening! Tonight!
Losing Yourself in the 21st century presents Moulton’s video series, Whispering Pines (2002-07), which follows the tragic-comic life of the artist’s hapless alter ego, Cynthia, whose quest for “magical” healing cures leads her on a fantastical journey through her own domestic decor. Initiating relationships with objects and consumer products that are at once banal and uncanny, Cynthia finds physical and spiritual release in the unlikeliest of situations. With wry humor and a low-tech Pop sensibility, Moulton’s series explores deep-seated cultural dissatisfactions of body and mind.
Join us in the Ernest G. Welch Gallery for the film screening and light refreshments October 20 5 pm – 7pm. This event is free and open to the public.
Shana Moulton, "Whispering Pines"
Saya Woolfalk , "Ethnography of No Place"
