Sanford Biggers: An artist's unflinching look at racial violence
سنفورد بیگرز: نگاه جسورانه یک هنرمند به خشونت نژادی
Sanford Biggers creates art that upends traditional narratives about topics ranging from hip hop to Buddhism to American history. Full bio
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to spark challenging conversations.
برای ایجاد مکالمات چالش برانگیز هستم.
video and performance.
ویدیو و نمایش انجام می‌دهم.
are history and dialogue.
تاریخ و گفتگو هستند.
of a lotus blossom.
۳۰۰ کیلویی از شکوفه نیلوفر آبی.
for transcendence
to be the cross-section of a slave ship.
مقطعی از یک کشتی برده داری است.
from a British slaving manual
برده داری بریتانیایی گرفته شده است
the atrocities of slavery.
برای نشان دادن ستم برده داری استفاده شد.
to talk about slavery,
درباره برده داری نداریم،
یک صنعت جهانی نگاه می‌کنیم.
زخم عمیق آفریقای سیاه را
about our shared past.
تاریخ مشترکمان را تشویق کنم.
we carved over 6,000 figures.
بیش از ۶٫۰۰۰ شکل را حکاکی کردیم.
by the City of New York
توسط شهر نیویورک منجر شد
at the Eagle Academy for Young Men,
آکادمی مردان جوان عقاب ساخته شود،
by this history.
از این تاریخ تاثیر پذیرفتند.
by a more recent phenomenon,
از یک پدیده جدیدتر گرفته‌اند،
wooden African figures
از فروشگاههای توریستی
around the world.
جمع آوری می‌کنم.
of them is completely debatable,
to be imbued with power,
این‌ها به قدرت آغشته شده‌اند،
how to use this in my own work.
چطور از آنها در کارم استفاده کنم.
the killings of Trayvon Martin,
کشته شدن ترایوان مارتین،
Sandra Bland, Tamir Rice
ساندرا بلند، تمیر رایس
unarmed black citizens
شهروند سیاه پوست بی سلاح دیگر
with no punishment at all.
از کنار آن عبور کرده‌اند.
at gunpoint by the police.
مورد آزار و اذیت قرار گرفته‌ام.
simply entitled "BAM."
the identity of each of these figures,
پیکره‌ها از این جنبه اهمیت داشت،
and easier to disregard.
و نادیده گرفتن آنها ساده‌تر شود.
brown wax
در مومی غلیظ و قهوه‌ای فرو بردم
به محدوده تیراندازی ببرم
آنها را دوباره تراش دادم.
high-speed video cameras.
تصویربرداری با سرعت بالا.
kept me from actually pulling the trigger,
در واقع مرا از کشیدن ماشه باز داشت،
be shooting myself.
که به خودم تیراندازی می‌کنم.
fired the shots.
شلیک‌ها را انجام داد.
and cast them first in wax,
و همانطور که در تصویر می‌بینید،
like the image you see here,
و در نهایت با برنز قالبگیری کردم
of its violent creation
در میامی به نمایش گذاشتم،
every gun shot to her soul.
به سمت روح خودش احساس می‌کند.
racial violence throughout US history.
در طول تاریخ آمریکا است.
than just US history.
تاریخ ایالات متحده هستند.
what prompted these recent killings.
درباره علت این کشتار پرسید.
of a lynching postcard
به دار آویختن بی محاکمه
have been going on for over 500 years.
برای بیش ۵۰۰ سال رواج داشته است.
about history and race
درباره تاریخ و نژاد است
و جامعه تکامل پیدا کنیم.
to engage one another
تا یکدیگر را
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Sanford Biggers - Conceptual artistSanford Biggers creates art that upends traditional narratives about topics ranging from hip hop to Buddhism to American history.
Why you should listen
An LA native working in NYC, Sanford Biggers creates artworks that integrate film, video, installation, sculpture, drawing, original music and performance. He intentionally complicates issues such as hip hop, Buddhism, politics, identity and art history in order to offer new perspectives and associations for established symbols. Through a multi-disciplinary formal process and a syncretic creative approach, he makes works that are as aesthetically pleasing as they are conceptual.
The significance of Biggers' work within contemporary society has been celebrated through solo exhibitions both nationally and internationally, most recently at the Brooklyn Museum, Sculpture Center and Mass MoCA. He has participated in prestigious residencies and fellowships including: Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany; Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland; Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, California; ARCUS Project Foundation, Ibaraki, Japan; and the Art in General/ Trafo Gallery Eastern European Exchange in Budapest, Hungary. He has been a fellow of the Creative Time Global Residency, the Socrates Sculpture Park Residency, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council World Views AIR Program, the Eyebeam Atelier Teaching Residency, the Studio Museum AIR Program, the P.S. 1 International Studio Program and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture residency.
Biggers' installations, videos and performances have appeared in venues worldwide including Tate Britain and Tate Modern in London, the Whitney Museum and Studio Museum in Harlem, New York and the Yerba Bue a Center for the Arts in San Francisco, as well as institutions in China, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Poland and Russia. The artist's works have been included in notable exhibitions such as: Prospect 1 New Orleans Biennial, Illuminations at the Tate Modern, Performa 07 in NY, the Whitney Biennial and Freestyle at the Studio Museum in Harlem. His works are included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Walker Art Center, Whitney Museum, Brooklyn Museum and Bronx Museum.
Biggers has won awards including: the American Academy in Berlin Prize, Greenfield Prize, New York City Art Teachers Association Artist-of-the-Year, Creative Time Travel Grant, Creative Capital Project Grant, New York Percent for the Arts Commission, Art Matters Grant, New York Foundation for the Arts Award, the Lambent Fellowship in the Arts, the Pennies From Heaven/ New York Community Trust Award, Tanne Foundation Award and Rema Hort Mann Foundation Award Grant.
Biggers is Assistant Professor at Columbia University's Visual Arts program and a board member of Sculpture Center, Soho House and the CUE Foundation. He has also taught at Virginia Commonwealth University’s Sculpture and Expanded Media program and was a visiting scholar at Harvard University's VES Department in 2009.
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