Thursday, May 2, 2019
Cinema at the Center – Artist and Animal (1/2)
Co-presented with the Contemporary Arts Center in conjunction with the exhibition “Creatures”
Doors 6:15 PM / Start 6:45 PM @ CAC (44 E 6th St, Cincinnati, OH 45202)
This short film program is devoted to animals and artists in collaboration, allowing viewers to reflect on notions of agency in art. The series brings Steven Matijcio, former CAC Curator, back to town for a presentation of short films including Miguel Angel Rios’s Crudo, which, despite its short duration, opens the door to broad questions: the possible taming of animality and the self, alienation and cultured behaviors, the spectacle of violence, and the rawness of our being. (60 min)
Presented by Steven Matijcio, Director, Blaffer Art Museum, Houston and Curator of CAC exhibition Creatures
Free!
* The second screening in this two-part series, which will be a tribute to Carolee Schneemann, occurs on June 27th, 2019. More info here: https://www.contemporaryartscenter.org/programs/public-programs/cinema-at-the-center
Movies: A selection of short films including Miguel Angel Rios’s Crudo, 2008, 3’41”, fiction
Raw meat swirling in the air. This is the perspective Crudo offers to its viewers. A tap dancer’s feet, echoed with a series of barks break the silence while a white suit contradicts the darkness. Miguel Angel Rios’s short video piece opens the door to broad questions: taming animality/taming the self, alienation/cultured behaviors, the spectacle of violence/a metaphysical reflection on the rawness of our being.
List of shorts also screened:
Rachel Mayeri, Primate Cinema: Apes as Family, 2012, 11’ (16/9)
Carla Bengtson, Mimetic Excess, 2014, 1’38”
Allora & Calzadilla, The Great Silence, 2016, 16’53”
Luca Trevisani, Sudan, 2016, 15’02”