Wendy Clarke In Conversation
Posted by | Amy Beste | Posted on | February 12, 2021
Gene Siskel Film Center Virtual Cinema
Live captions available Join Wendy Clarke; Bruce Jenkins, scholar and professor of Film, Video, New Media, and Animation at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; and Maria Gaspar, artist and associate professor of Contemporary Practices at SAIC, for this wide-ranging look at Clarke’s groundbreaking 50-year career. Presented in partnership with the Video Data Bank.
Wendy Clarke, stills from Chapter One, 1977. Courtesy of the artist.
ABOUT
Since the early 1970s, artist Wendy Clarke’s visionary body of work has used the video camera as a revelatory tool for communion and self-reflection. She best known for the Love Tapes (1977–2011), an unprecedented, decades-long series in which she recorded more than 2,500 people around the globe reflecting on their feelings about love. She began her career as part of Tee Pee Video Space Troupe (1969–75), conceived by her mother, the experimental filmmaker Shirley Clarke. Clarke’s numerous large-scale interactive video installations, projects, and tapes have been exhibited in institutions and events throughout the world, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis; Kennedy Center, Washington, DC; and the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid; among many others. She has been the subject of recent retrospectives at Anthology Film Archives, New York; Filmforum, Los Angeles; the Museum of Art and Design, New York; and LUX, London.
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About
Conversations at the Edge is a weekly series of screenings, performances, and talks by groundbreaking media artists.
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.
Programs take place at the Gene Siskel Film Center (164 N. State / Chicago, IL / 312.846.2600), unless otherwise noted.
