{"id":3405,"date":"2010-03-08T12:03:09","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T18:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=3405"},"modified":"2025-01-09T23:58:42","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T05:58:42","slug":"the-blindness-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2010\/03\/08\/the-blindness-series\/","title":{"rendered":"THE BLINDNESS SERIES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Thursday, March 11, 6pm<\/strong> | <em>Tran, T. Kim-Trang in person!<\/em><\/p>\n<dl>\n<dt><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2010\/03\/Trane_Kleipsis-300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3406\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2010\/03\/Trane_Kleipsis-300.jpg\" alt=\"Still from ekleipsis (Tran, T. Kim-Trang, 1998), part of the Blindness Series, 1992-2006. Courtesy the artist and the Video Data Bank. \" width=\"450\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd>Still from &#8220;ekleipsis&#8221; (Tran, T. Kim-Trang, 1998), part of the Blindness Series, 1992-2006. Courtesy the artist and the Video Data Bank.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p><em>The Blindness Series<\/em> is Los Angeles-based artist Tran, T. Kim-Trang\u2019s expansive, fourteen-years-in-the-making <em>tour de force<\/em> on vision and its metaphors.\u00a0 Comprised of eight videos, the series draws upon notions of blindness to explore broader political and cultural themes of identity, sexuality, society, and technology.\u00a0 This evening, to celebrate the Video Data Bank\u2019s release of <em>The Blindness Series<\/em> in a new DVD box-set, Tran will present five works from the cycle, including a provocative documentary on hysterical blindness and the Cambodian civil war (<em>ekleipsis<\/em>, 1998); an essay on cosmetic eyelid surgery (<em>operculum,<\/em> 1993); and a meditation on the phenomenon of word blindness (<em>alexia<\/em>, 2000).\u00a0 \u201cWe are invited to approach these works with all our senses,\u201d writes scholar Laura Marks. \u201c<em>The Blindness Series<\/em>, crankily, and finally tenderly, gives us our eyes back.\u201d Tran, T. Kim-Trang, 1992-2006, USA, Beta SP video, ca. 82 min (plus discussion).<\/p>\n<p><strong>TRAN, T. KIM-TRANG<\/strong> (b. 1966, Saigon, Vietnam) emigrated to the U.S. in 1975. She received her MFA from the California Institute of the Arts and has been producing experimental videos since the early 1990s. Her work has been exhibited internationally and nationally in solo and group screenings, including at the Museum of Modern Art, the 2000 Whitney Biennial, and the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar. Tran is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, having been awarded a Creative Capital grant, a Getty Mid-Career Fellowship, and a Rockefeller Film\/Video\/Multimedia Fellowship. Tran also collaborates with Karl Mihail on a project known as Gene Genies Worldwide\u00a9 (www.genegenies.com). Their conceptual and public artworks on genetic engineering have exhibited at the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria; Exit Art, New York; the Tang Museum at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York and elsewhere in the United States. She is currently an Associate Professor of Art at Scripps College.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, March 11, 6pm | Tran, T. Kim-Trang in person! Still from &#8220;ekleipsis&#8221; (Tran, T. Kim-Trang, 1998), part of the Blindness Series, 1992-2006. Courtesy the artist and the Video Data Bank. The Blindness Series is Los Angeles-based artist Tran, T. Kim-Trang\u2019s expansive, fourteen-years-in-the-making tour de force on vision and its metaphors.\u00a0 Comprised of eight videos, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2010\/03\/08\/the-blindness-series\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from THE BLINDNESS SERIES<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":3300,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[180,211,225,450,615,623],"class_list":["post-3405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-15","tag-early-video-art","tag-experimental","tag-feminist","tag-non-fiction","tag-usa","tag-video-data-bank"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3405"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10004,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3405\/revisions\/10004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}