Geologic Dialogues through May 2024
Part V- Sound / Video
Thursday, March 14
United States: 9am HDT, Noon PDT, 1pm MDT, 2pm CDT, 3pm EDT
Europe: 19:00 GMT
Australia: Friday, March 15, 6:00am AEDT
The Geologic Dialogues series is organized around our recently launched annual online exhibition + printed book The New Geologic Epoch. For each event, member/artists included in the exhibition who are engaged with similar or complimentary mediums/topics, will present their work. For this fifth event in March, we feature artists who are making work using sound and video to create a sensory experience of place.
Walmeri Robeiro, Tom Hansell, Cheryl Leonard, and Samantha Lang
Each presenter will have approximately 15 minutes to discuss/present their work, with Q&A to follow.
Gif Images: ©Walmeri Robeiro, Não se pode tocar, está em mim, está em nós (It can’t be touched, it’s in me, it’s in us) (still), 2022, film made in collaboration with Eloisa Brantes and Ana Emerich e Sofia Mussolin, commissioned by Itaú Cultural, 14:59 mins/secs, Image by Cícero Rodrigues; ©Tom Hansell, still of salvaged plastic shopping bags from The Trash Trout Motion Picture Show, 2022, 16mm motion picture film, plastic refuse, live performance, 9:37 mins/secs; ©Cheryl Leonard, Last Flight of the Adélies, 2014, Adélie penguin vertebrae, dried bullwhip kelp, and driftwood; Ablation Zone, 2022, audio, 5:13 mins/secs; ©Samantha Lang, Brown Lake / Boumlera (still), April 2021, film, 14:15 mins/secs.
Member presenters
Walmeri Robeiro's work focuses on the relationships between the body, performance, media art, and environmental issues. Interested in the impacts of the Anthropocene on the daily life of traditional communities, since 2014, she has been developing the platform Territórios Sensíveis, a socially and environmentally engaged art platform, which operates in environments devastated by the extractive system, especially, by petropolicy. She is a post-doctoral fellow at Concordia University, professor at the Federal Fluminense University in Brazil, and a FAPERJ Fellowship researcher. She has participated in congress, seminars, and Art exhibitions in Brazil and abroad, and published books and papers in academic journals and collections. Her activities have been commissioned by Brazilian federal agencies, International agencies, and prizes for research and art production. In 2019 she received a prize from Prince Claus Fund and Goethe Institut. www.territoriossensiveis.com
Tom Hansell is a filmmaker, author, and artist who explores relationships between energy, community, and nature. His documentary work has screened at the Museum of Modern Art and in the Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers. Hansell’s experimental films have screened at Big Ears and in the Ann Arbor Film Festival’s touring program. He is the recipient of grants and fellowships from the Headlands Center for the Arts, the Chorus Foundation, and North Carolina Arts Council. Hansell started his career at the Appalshop Media Arts Center in Whitesburg, Kentucky and currently teaches at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. https://tomhansell.net
Cheryl E. Leonard is a San Francisco-based composer, performer, field recordist, and instrument builder. Her works investigate natural sites and ecosystems, and human relationships with them. She uses microphones and amplification to explore sonic intricacies, highlighting unique voices and soundscapes while addressing environmental issues. Her projects often feature sculptural natural-object instruments and field recordings from remote locales. Leonard’s artistic research has taken her to a wide range of wilderness areas, including Antarctica and the Arctic. Her works have been presented in concerts and art exhibitions in the Americas, Europe, Japan, and Australasia. Grants awarded include the Antarctic Artists and Writers Program, American Music Center, American Composers Forum, and ASCAP. Commissions include works for Kronos Quartet, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Funsch Dance. Leonard's recordings are available on Other Minds, mappa, Gilgongo, and numerous other labels. In addition to her solo projects, she frequently collaborates with visual artists, choreographers, poets, scientists, and other musicians. www.allwaysnorth.com
Samantha Lang is a filmmaker, researcher and multidisciplinary artist who has worked in Australia, Europe, U.K and the US over the last 25 years. Her films have screened at major international festivals including Cannes, Sundance, Toronto, Locarno, and have received international recognition at the highest level, her film ‘The Well’ competing at the Cannes Film Festival for the prestigious Palme D’Or. In tandem with her professional practice she has mentored, supervised and lectured postgraduate film students in her capacity as Head of Directing at Australian Film, Television and Radio School (2010-2016), as well as mentored emerging practitioners at SNSW, HIVE at AIFF, and SA. She currently serves as deputy chair on the board of Australians in Film. In May 2023, Lang graduated with a multidisciplinary doctoral thesis (PHD - Communications, Cultural Theory and Screen Media - University of Technology, Sydney). Her areas of interest include post-human poetics, environment and the Anthropocene. Her most recent work in 2022 was Brown Lake - an artist moving image work installed in Moreton Bay Gallery and screened at ACMI and in the Asia-Pacific Triennale at GOMA. samanthalang.com.au
This event is free for members + one guest. $5 for non-members. All participants MUST REGISTER.
