Cauleen Smith: REMOTE VIEWING
Curated by Rashida Bumbray
Special Screening curated by Cauleen Smith on Monday, February 28, 7pm FREE (see below)
California-based filmmaker, screenwriter, and video installation artist, Cauleen Smith is best known for Afro-futurist cinematic works that weave intimate narratives of love, yearning, and the dream-world with known histories, imagined landscapes, and cultural symbolism to activate collective memory. For her first New York solo exhibition, Smith presents three new distinct but interrelated video works that draw from abstracted historical narratives of absence, loss, displacement, burial, and excavation—not only exposing that which has disappeared, but also investigating the gestures and traumas associated with the violence of erasure. Smith’s new works triangulate these re-enactments with iconic site-specific land art practices of the seventies to reveal nuances of contemporary shifts in the displacement of people and of the natural landscape.
Exhibition Hours: Tues-Fri, 12-6pm; Sat 11-6pm FREE
In conjunction with REMOTE VIEWING
Please join us for a special screening:
Carousel Microcinema: GLOSSOLALIA 5.0
Curated by Cauleen Smith
Monday, February 28, 7pm in the theatre
FREE
Cauleen Smith presents her traveling screening series Carousel Microcinema, a program of films and videos, this time compiled in conjunction with the exhibition REMOTE VIEWING on view at The Kitchen. Smith’s choices explore three distinct spheres of influence: works by artists with whom she converses, works by artists past and present upon whom she relies, and works fished out of the YouTube® pond which shaped and guided her research for REMOTE VIEWING. Featuring works by Smith’s contemporaries including Lauren Kelley, Wendy Morgan, Ishmael Randall Weeks, Pamela Phatsimo-Suntrum, Carrie Schneider, Wura-Natasha Ogunji and Yak Films as well as works by mid-career artists and masters including Sergei Parajonov, Ulysses Jenkins, and Zora Neale Hurston among others.
REMOTE VIEWING is a project of Creative Capital. This exhibition is made possible with support from Dedalus Foundation Inc., The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.
Photo: Cauleen Smith. REMOTE VIEWING, 2010, video still. Courtesy of the artist.
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