November 12-Martine Syms: The Unreliable Narrator
Posted by | Ziva Schatz | Posted on | November 6, 2015
Thursday, November 12 | This week Los Angeles based ‘conceptual entrepreneur’ Martine Syms will join us for a screening and discussion!
Martine Syms, still from A Pilot for a Show About Nowhere (2014). Courtesy of the artist.
The interdisciplinary work of Los Angeles–based “conceptual entrepreneur” Martine Syms (BFA 2007) takes shape through websites, essays, bibliographies, and videos to explore the ways individual and social identities are formed. Incisive and sharp, she has addressed Afrofuturism, the life and murder of Trayvon Martin, Johnson Publishing, and the radical potential of black sitcoms. Syms returns to Chicago to present a series of recent videos on memory and self-presentation, including Memory Palace (2014, with Kahlil Joseph), an elegiac homage to LA, A Pilot for a Show About Nowhere (2014), a slippery visual essay-cum-personal-history on the politics of television viewership, and Notes on Gesture (2015), an examination of speech through screen tests of black women.
2007–15, USA, multiple formats, ca 60 min + discussion
Martine Syms is an artist based in Los Angeles. She currently runs Dominica, an imprint dedicated to exploring blackness as topic, reference, marker, and audience in visual culture. She has lectured at SXSW, Walker Art Center, REDCAT, ICA London, and MoMA PS1, among other venues. Her artwork has been exhibited and screened widely, including at the New Museum, Studio Museum, White Flag Projects, ICA Philadelphia, and 356 Mission. She received a BFA from SAIC in 2007.
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Tags: 2015 > Alumni > Chicago > Los Angeles > Non-Fiction > Performance > Photography > Political > Portrait > Television
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CATE is organized by SAIC's Department of Film, Video, New Media, and Animation in collaboration with the Gene Siskel Film Center and SAIC's Video Data Bank.
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