Shana Moulton
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Art Topics Lecture Series
Shana Moulton presents Whispering Pines
Lecturer: Shana Moulton
Language: English with Chinese translation
Shana Moulton became known through her ongoing video saga Whispering Pines, in which she plays the role of "Cynthia", both a fictional figure and the artist's alter ego. Cynthia is a fearful hypochondriac who resorts to the paraphernalia of esoteric instruments, alternative medicine, and natural cosmetics to escape the boredom of everyday routine. Cynthia's home environment proves to be a magic and uncanny universe furnished with symbols and signs borrowed from art history, new-age philosophy, and advertising.
This talk will present a chronological-anecdotal outline of her work and forces that shaped it, with video and performance highlights.
Shana Moulton
Shana Moulton (b. 1976, California, USA) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She earned a BFA from University of California, Berkeley (1999), an MFA from Carnegie Mellon University (2004). She has been an artist-in-residence at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (2011), and has received grants and fellowships from Harvestworks (2010), The Foundation for Contemporary Arts (2009), and the Experimental Television Center (2009). Moulton has exhibited and performed at venues such as The New Museum, MoMA P.S.1, the Andy Warhol Museum, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center. Her work has been reviewed in the Village Voice, Artforum, the New York Times.... Read More
Shana Moulton
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Art Topics Lecture Series
Shana Moulton presents Whispering Pines
Lecturer: Shana Moulton
Language: English with Chinese translation
Shana Moulton became known through her ongoing video saga Whispering Pines, in which she plays the role of "Cynthia", both a fictional figure and the artist's alter ego. Cynthia is a fearful hypochondriac who resorts to the paraphernalia of esoteric instruments, alternative medicine, and natural cosmetics to escape the boredom of everyday routine. Cynthia's home environment proves to be a magic and uncanny universe furnished with symbols and signs borrowed from art history, new-age philosophy, and advertising.
This talk will present a chronological-anecdotal outline of her work and forces that shaped it, with video and performance highlights.
Shana Moulton
Shana Moulton (b. 1976, California, USA) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She earned a BFA from University of California, Berkeley (1999), an MFA from Carnegie Mellon University (2004). She has been an artist-in-residence at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (2011), and has received grants and fellowships from Harvestworks (2010), The Foundation for Contemporary Arts (2009), and the Experimental Television Center (2009). Moulton has exhibited and performed at venues such as The New Museum, MoMA P.S.1, the Andy Warhol Museum, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center. Her work has been reviewed in the Village Voice, Artforum, the New York Times.
Art Topics Series
Art Topics is the section in Night @ RAM that directly associates with the contemporary art practice. Rockbund Art Museum will curate and cooperate with other cultural and art organizations, inviting excellent domestic and international artists, critics, and curators, to share with audiences their most recent achievement and profound thinking. They will also communicate and interact with audiences during the events, in the hope to assist them to better understand contemporary art, and also help the artists to obtain direct feedbacks from the audiences, so as to provide them beneficial references.
These events demonstrate the open and interdisciplinary vision of Rockbund Art Museum. Artists will introduce the art practice not only on their expression, but also including the motivation behind the works, the related social and cultural issues, as well as the politics of art representation and seeing, etc. Contemporary artists have actively broken the traditional boundary between themes, media and forms of art, and the art has been emancipated. Therefore, Art Topics is going to become a public platform that probes into a certain art topic and allows all to have the opportunity to fully express their ideas and communicate with each other.
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