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SIDEBAR: Robert Bird and Cauleen Smith
Gray Center Lab at Midway Studios, 929 E. 60th St.
Cauleen Smith/Photo: Joe Mazza/Brave Lux
Happy Summer! Sidebar is back!!! The Gray Center will be hosting a conversation with artist, Cauleen Smith and University of Chicago faculty, Robert Bird to discuss manifestos, utopian visions, cinema of/for the future, and their work on the upcoming exhibition Revolution Every Day at the Smart Museum of Art. The conversation will be moderated by Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry curator Zachary Cahill.
Thursday, July 27, 2017
6:00 - 8:00pm
*Food and drink will be served from 6 - 6:30 (before the conversation begins)
*Free and open to the public
Gray Center Lab at Midway Studios
929 E. 60th St.
Chicago, IL 60637
Cauleen Smith is an interdisciplinary artist whose work reflects upon the everyday possibilities of the imagination. Operating in multiple materials and arenas, Smith roots her work firmly within the discourse of mid-twentieth-century experimental film. Drawing from structuralism, third world cinema, and science fiction, she makes things that deploy the tactics of these disciplines while offering a phenomenological experience for spectators and participants. Her films, objects, and installations have been featured in group exhibitions including the 2017 Whitney Biennial; the Studio Museum of Harlem; Houston Contemporary Art Museum; Yerba Buena Center for Art; New Museum, New York; D21 Kunstraum Leipzig; and Decad, Berlin. She has had solo shows for her films and installations at The Kitchen, New York; MCA Chicago; and Threewalls, Chicago. She shows her drawings and 2D work with Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago. Smith is the recipient of several grants and awards including the Rockefeller Media Arts Award, Creative Capital Film /Video, Chicago 3Arts Grant, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, EXPO Chicago Artadia Award, and Rauschenberg Residency. Smith was born in Riverside, California and grew up in Sacramento. She earned a BA in Creative Arts from San Francisco Sate University and an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles School of Theater, Film and Television. Cauleen Smith is a participating artist in Revolution Every Day opening in September at the Smart Museum of Art.
Associate Professor, Slavic Languages and Literatures, and Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago, Robert Bird's main area of interest is the aesthetic practice and theory of Russian modernism. His first full-length book Russian Prospero (2006) is a comprehensive study of the poetry and thought of Viacheslav Ivanov. He is also the author of two books on the film-maker Andrei Tarkovsky; Andrei Rublev (2004) and Andrei Tarkovsky: Elements of Cinema (2008). His translations of Russian religious thought include On Spiritual Unity: A Slavophile Reader (1998) and Viacheslav Ivanov's Selected Essays (2001). His biography of Fyodor Dostoevsky is forthcoming from Reaktion Books in their series Critical Lives. In 2011, he was involved in three exhibitions of Soviet graphic art, including Adventures in the Soviet Imaginary, for which he has edited the catalogue, compiled in part from contributions by graduate students. Professor Bird is at work on a series of essays on scale models, primarily in Soviet literature and cinema. Robert Bird is one of the curators for Revolution Every Day opening at the Smart Museum of Art in September.
More about the exhibition Revolution Every Day can be found here.
For more information on this event, or the Gray Center, contact Mike Schuh, Gray Center Program Manager.
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