Join us as we welcome our international Guest Resident Artist Ioana Țurcan with an installation and film screening on Friday, October 18! The event will begin at 7 pm, followed by an artist talk at 8 pm. After the artist talk, there will be a film screening of the following works:
the self illusion: The child's self portrait as an artist
por ahora soy invierno: Winter's self creation
III: Tackles the problematics of rape culture and sexual assault through three different cases in three different countries: China, Vietnam and Romania; and how the cases where similarly “dismissed” by the authorities. Collaboration with Kieu Anh Truong and Yue-Ying Feng.
states uprooted: Shot during my travels in between 2012-2017, using personal archive and combining 8mm film with digital files, states uprooted tries to challenge the idea of rituals in transition, identity and its perception on different lands: Romania and USA.
Empiric: Short fiction film set in Romania’s 1986. A young woman working in a textile factory has to find a way to deal with the anti-abortion decree without putting her life in danger. Produced by Adenium Film.
Anemone: A found photograph from the 30s Bulgaria, activates an AI statement on same-sex relations. From analogies on perfect flowers, to invented languages and archive wedding footage, Anemone looks at the tools we create to adapt and survive while interrogating the "normalcy". Collaboration with Gergana Ivanova, part of ECHO III Bucharest Residency..
About the Installation
LIFELIKE: INVOKING GHOSTS is a collaboration between Ioana Țurcan and Pablo Ramirez Gonzalez, a multi-chaptered work which aims to rethink the dynamics of modernity through the process of slowdown and delay but also its effect on a possible afterlife for animals in the context of displacement. Hunting, taxidermy and taxonomy are seen as practices that deny the life of some species in order to display, study, and appropriate their bodies, claiming the superiority of human kind over nature. Owning and using animals for labour and production especially under improper conditions is no exception.
LIFELIKE INVOKING GHOSTS brings together works created in Morawa, Poland (2021) under the name of LIFELIKE: DEMO (photography and video) and its next-year chapter LIFELIKE: AS WE WAIT (audio soundscape), made in residence at Acasă la Hundorf, Romania (2022).
This event is part of Twin Cities Art Week.
