Ellie Ga at 草榴成人社区
A collaboration between Special Collections and the Center for Visual Culture brings artist Ellie Ga to campus for a residency during the 2022-23 academic year. Postponed by COVID, we have been getting to know one another virtually through a series of co-sponsored events and an exhibition on the 2nd Floor of Canaday Library.
Events
Summer 2020 | recorded | Conversation with Gallerist Gabrielle Giattino |
ongoing | available to view | Screening of from series Square, Circle, Octagon (2012-2014) single-channel video, 5 min. 24 sec. |
March 10, 2021 12:30 - 2pm |
Conversation to follow: Exploring Themes of History and Memory with Madhavi Kale and Lisa Saltzman |
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April 16, 2021 12noon - 1pm |
Conversation between Ellie Ga and Camilla MacKay |
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May 4, 2021 12:30 - 2pm |
Conversation between Ellie Ga and Selby Cull Hearth, facilitated by Special Collections staff |
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October 18, 2021 - December 16, 2022 | Exhibition in 2nd Floor Coombe Suite, Canaday Library | Introducing Ellie Ga Features recent acquisitions of artwork and artist's books by Ellie Ga, as well as selections from Special Collections discussed in our (virtual) conversation series |
November 5, 2021 |
Curators' Tour in 2nd Floor Coombe Suite, Canaday Library |
Introducing Ellie Ga, |
December 4, 2022 11am - 1pm |
Screening at |
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(b. 1976) is an American artist living in Sweden. Her work is included in collections at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, and Bard College. Her recent work, , was a commission for the Whitney Biennial and was reviewed in The New York Times and Artnews. Art historian Tom McDonough (SUNY-Binghamton) wrote about it for the fall 2019 issue of Osmos Magazine.
Ga works between memoir, travelogue, and visual essay connecting ideas and presenting them as multichannel videos or performances with live narration. looks at water as the site of political exile, religious pilgrimage, and forced migration across the Aegean Sea. Her working process is a kind of 鈥渂each-combing鈥 that embraces chance encounter with artifacts and how they find their way to her. It involves extended periods of research, including conversations with people in roles, such as museum directors, scholars, Arctic explorers. Her interests are interdisciplinary and cross-temporal. She speaks of her work as a collection of chance encounters, what is lost (and accrued) in translating between spoken and written words, and archaeological discovery.
In November and December of 2022, Ga will be in residence at 草榴成人社区, "combing" Special Collections in the process of producing a new work of art, commissioned for the College.
Contacts: Matt Feliz [mfeliz] (Center for Visual Culture)
and Carrie Robbins [cmrobbins] (Special Collections)
Read
See , acquired for Special Collections.
NOTEBOOK
Collective note-keeping on Ellie Ga events
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