{"id":9175,"date":"2021-09-23T12:00:26","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T12:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=9175"},"modified":"2025-01-08T21:18:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T03:18:33","slug":"renee-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2021\/09\/23\/renee-green\/","title":{"rendered":"Ren\u00e9e Green: Partially Buried and Mise-en-sc\u00e8ne: Commemorative Toile"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thursday, September 23\u2013Thursday, September 30<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

See Partially Buried, Partially Buried Continued<\/em>, and Mise-en-sc\u00e8ne: Commemorative Toile<\/em> by the artist and filmmaker Ren\u00e9e Green. Presented in partnership with Video Data Bank and the Society for Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago.<\/p>\n

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Rene\u0301e Green, Partially Buried Continued, 1997. Courtesy of Video Data Bank and the artist<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Theatrical Screening<\/strong>
\nThursday, September 23, 6:00 pm CT
\nGene Siskel Film Center<\/p>\n

Virtual Screenings<\/strong>
\nSeptember 24\u2013September 30
\nGene Siskel Film Center Virtual Cinema
\nClosed captions available<\/em><\/p>\n

Since the early 1990s, Ren\u00e9e Green has become known for multidimensional artworks that chart unseen connections between people, places, and ideas around the globe\u2014from the colonial-era Triangular trade to 20th century student movements. This program brings together a selection of Green\u2019s foundational \u201990s projects, all potent explorations of history, memory, and violence. In Mise-en-sc\u00e8ne: Commemorative Toile\u00a0<\/em>(2020), an essayistic companion to her 1992\u2013<\/em>93 artwork of the same name, Green looks into the history of the French decorative fabric known as\u00a0toile<\/em>\u00a0and its role in the trans-atlantic slave trade. In\u00a0Partially Buried<\/em>\u00a0(1996) and\u00a0Partially Buried Continued<\/em>\u00a0(1997), she threads together the shifting legacies of Robert Smithson\u2019s earthwork\u00a0Partially Buried Woodshed<\/em>\u00a0(1970), her father\u2019s memories of the Korean War, and differing accounts of South Korea\u2019s pivotal Gwangju Uprising of 1980 to ask \u201cwho owns history? Who can represent its complexity?”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

1996\u20132020, Ren\u00e9e Green,\u00a0USA, ca 62 minutes<\/p>\n

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Mise-en-sc\u00e8ne: Commemorative Toile<\/strong><\/em>
\n2020, Ren\u00e9e Green, USA,\u00a06 minutes
\nSourced from a text written by the artist in 1994,\u00a0Commemorative Toile: Mise-en-Sc\u00e8ne<\/em>\u00a0delves into the circuitous material history of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, focusing on the production of the French decorative fabric known as\u00a0toile<\/em>. Sliding between the matrix of colonial expansion and Green\u2019s personal research-driven pursuits beginning in Clisson, France, the artist demystifies the social production that connects the Triangular trade to the seemingly private sphere of the home, while attempting to decipher the contradictory pleasures which might accompany them.\u00a0(Bortolami Gallery)<\/p>\n

Partially Buried<\/em><\/strong>
\n1996, Ren\u00e9e Green, USA, 20 minutes
\nPartially Buried<\/em>\u00a0asks, \u201cHow do we reinterpret the past? What do we choose to remember or discard?\u201d Green looks to the year 1970 and the campus of Kent State University where she spent time as a child. It was here that artist Robert Smithson produced his site-specific work\u00a0Partially Buried Woodshed.<\/em>\u00a0It was also here that four students were shot while demonstrating against the US invasion of Cambodia. Shortly afterward, someone painted \u201cMay 4, 1970\u201d on\u00a0Partially Buried Woodshed<\/em>,<\/em>\u00a0and the artwork took on another meaning. (Video Data Bank)<\/p>\n

Partially Buried Continued<\/strong><\/em>
\n1997, Ren\u00e9e Green, USA, 36 minutes
\nExpanding on\u00a0Partially Buried<\/em>,\u00a0Partially Buried Continued<\/em>\u00a0focuses on the mingling of past and present by reflecting on the photographic medium. The video reexamines slide films taken during the Korean War by Green\u2019s father; photographs taken in Korea in Kwangju on May 18, 1980, during the democratic uprising and brutal state-sponsored response; and photographs taken by the artist in Kwangju and Seoul during a residency in 1997. Using the works of Robert Smithson and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha as touchstones, Green reflects on memory, memorials, and remembrance, while exploring the complexities of how we find ourselves entangled in relationships to countries, nationalities, and specific moments in time. (Video Data Bank)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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RELATED EVENT<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Ren\u00e9e Green in Conversation with Jordan Carter<\/strong>
\nVirtual Event
\nMonday, September 27, 6:00 p.m. CT
\nZoom
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\u200bABOUT<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Ren\u00e9e Green<\/strong> is an artist, filmmaker, and writer living and working in New York and Somerville, Massachusetts. Her exhibitions, videos, and films have been seen throughout the world in museums, biennales, and festivals. Solo exhibitions of her work have been mounted at the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, Harvard University; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Maritime Museum, Greenwich; Mus\u00e9e Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne; Portikus, Frankfurt; Fundaci\u00f3 Antoni T\u00e0pies, Barcelona; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; Vienna Secession; Stichting de Appel, Amsterdam; Dallas Museum of Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and Jeu de Paume, Paris, among many others.\u00a0<\/em>Inevitable Distances,<\/em>\u00a0a large-scale retrospective dedicated to Green\u2019s decades-long practice, will be held at the KW Institute of Contemporary Art and daadgalerie in Berlin this fall.\u00a0 Green is also a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Program of Art, Culture, and Technology at the School of Architecture and Planning.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Thursday, September 23\u2013Thursday, September 30 See Partially Buried, Partially Buried Continued, and Mise-en-sc\u00e8ne: Commemorative Toile by the artist and filmmaker Ren\u00e9e Green. Presented in partnership with Video Data Bank and the Society for Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago. Theatrical Screening Thursday, September 23, 6:00 pm CT Gene Siskel Film Center Virtual Screenings […]<\/p>\n

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