Upcoming Screenings Online/Week of September 27th

 Top Picks for Art Online Week of September 6th

Espaço preto (Black Space), Part One: How to Write a Feminist History of the Recent Past

MoMA, The Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Research Institute for the Study of Art from Latin America/ Online Lecture, Panel

September 28, 2020/ 5-6pm/ Free w/registration

Espaço preto (Black Space) is a series put on by the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Research Institute, an organization dedicated to the study of art from Latin America, specifically relating modern and contemporary art to larger cultural issues as they sit in a global context. This event will pose the following questions: "Where is the history of recent exhibitions organized by Black and Indigenous people in Brazil within the canon of contemporary Latin American art? How might a feminist methodology account for other ways of recording art’s histories and the residue of culture?" The panel will use two specific moments in recent Brazilian exhibition as a lens in which to view the place of emerging, integral histories, the 2015-2017 workshop and platform AfroTranscendence (AfroT) by collaborators artist Rosana Paulino and curator Diane Lima (both on the panel) and also the 2016-2017 conversations and exhibition Diálogos Ausentes (Absent Dialogues) at Itaú Cultural, São Paulo. The panel will also feature the event's organizer, Thomas J. Lax, Cisneros Research Grant Fellow and curator in MoMA’s Department of Media and Performance in New York.

(BTW, the Glitch Feminism Panel at MoMA is at capacity or I would have also included this event!)

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The New Social Environment: Susan Frecon w/Joan Waltemath & Louis Block

The Brooklyn Rail/ Zoom Talk

September 29, 2020/1pm EST/ Free w/registration

The New Social Environment is a series of lunchtime talks that publication The Brooklyn Rail began hosting as a response to the pandemic, in this edition Susan Frecon will be the focus as her latest show at David Zwirner is currently on view until October 17. Susan Frecon is an abstract contemporary painter dealing with geometric shapes and finishes that seem to release the mind from space with form and texture. Joan Waltemath is also an abstract contemporary artist (and editor-at-large at the Brooklyn Rail) with a very different approach: her pieces tend to play in negative space or absence, grids and fields of white and lines intersecting in their own spatial adherence. Louis Block's artwork is an enigma on the internet but his art writing is not, having contributed to many different esteemed publications. 

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Getting Real '20

International Documentary Association/Digital Conference 

September 29-October 3, 2020/Free w/registration (some restrictions)

IDA is an organization that supports documentary culture. The first time I heard of them was when I learned about the "Documentary Core Application," basically a standard guideline for grant applications used across funding organizations, saving documentary teams in time, energy and resources. It is a simple but brilliant way to make the process more accessible, just as they are making their biennial conference, Getting Real, accessible. This year's conference will be hosted entirely online (and free!) and features a massive array of discussions, breakouts and more centering on the themes of access, power & possibility. I'm really excited to finally attend this event and have slowly been building my schedule which so far includes "behind the scenes of field accountability and possibility" and Firelight Media's "#beyondresilience: the liberatory canon."

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Paul Robeson: Here I Stand (1999) by St. Clair Bourne 

Maysles Documentary Center, Virtual Maysles- Made In Harlem: Remembering The Renaissance (2020)/Online Film Screening

September 25-Oct 1, 2020/ Free w/registration

The Maysles description of this event is really quite elegant: "A perfect meeting of subject—singer, actor, activist, lawyer, humanitarian Paul Robeson, and filmmaker—writer, organizer, magazine editor, historian St. Clair Bourne, Paul Robeson: Here I Stand is an epic of the biographical documentary. Bourne’s directing and producing career was dedicated to understanding and portraying people and subjects ignored by mainstream media, and his study of Robeson is a clear-eyed analysis of an oft-misunderstood giant of the 20th century. A master class in the synthesis of archival research and modern documentary filmmaking, and a rightful classic of the form."

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