Lawrence Andrews: mythicPotentialities
Posted by | Amy Beste | Posted on | October 12, 2023
Thursday, October 12, 6:00 p.m.
Mose Wright in court. Photo by Ernest Withers.
Enthralling in form and vision, Lawrence Andrews’ works are kaleidoscopic explorations of Blackness through mass media and popular culture.
In the genre-defying imageless video mythicPotentialities (2019), Andrews examines the murder of Emmett Till, the trial that followed, and the ways these events have been mediated through artistic and mass media. Focusing on Till’s great uncle Moses Wright, who testified at the trial, Andrews asks what happens when we imagine Wright’s life beyond the limited events that came to define him.
2019, Lawrence Andrews, USA, 60 mins
In English, Format: Digital
Presented in partnership with Video Data Bank.
About the artist
Lawrence Andrews’s practice spans video, photography, and installation. Employing multi-layered strategies of appropriation, he often focuses on media and culture, suggesting that “culture is all we are as people; we speak about it, look at ourselves through it, and ultimately change because of it.” Andrews’s work has shown extensively throughout the US and internationally on television, at major film festivals, and in museums and galleries, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; and the American Film Institute, Los Angeles; among others. He has received numerous grants and fellowships, including a Rockefeller Intercultural Documentary Fellowship and two National Endowment for the Arts Artist Fellowships.
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Tags: Black Noise > Emmett Till > Experimental Essay > Lawrence Andrews > Moses Wright > sound art > Video Data Bank
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