Sanford Biggers: An artist's unflinching look at racial violence
Senford Bigers (Sanford Biggers): Neustrašivi pogled jednog umetnika na rasno nasilje
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.
da podstaknem izazovne razgovore.
video zapise i performans.
video and performance.
are history and dialogue.
su istorija i dijalog.
of a lotus blossom.
lotosovog cveta.
for transcendence
simbol transcedentnosti
to be the cross-section of a slave ship.
poprečni presek broda sa robovima.
from a British slaving manual
iz britanskog priručnika za robovlasnike
the atrocities of slavery.
da prikažu strahote ropstva.
to talk about slavery,
kao globalnu industriju.
i postignem prevazilaženje
about our shared past.
o našoj zajedničkoj prošlosti.
we carved over 6,000 figures.
izgravirali smo preko 6 000 figura.
od strane grada Njujorka
by the City of New York
od 7,6 metara u čeliku
at the Eagle Academy for Young Men,
akademije za mladiće Igl,
by this history.
najviše pogodila.
by a more recent phenomenon,
jedne skorije pojave,
wooden African figures
i sa buvljih pijaca širom sveta.
around the world.
of them is completely debatable,
su sasvim pod znakom pitanja,
to be imbued with power,
how to use this in my own work.
kako da ovo iskoristim u svom radu.
the killings of Trayvon Martin,
ubistava Trejvona Martina,
Sandra Bland, Tamir Rice
Sandre Blend, Tamira Rajsa
unarmed black citizens
nenaoružanih građana crne rase
with no punishment at all.
bez ikakve kazne.
u kojima sam čak i ja,
koji se pridržava zakona,
at gunpoint by the police.
pod pretnjom oružjem.
simply entitled "BAM."
jednostavno nazvan „BAM“.
the identity of each of these figures,
svake od ovih figura,
and easier to disregard.
i da bude lakše ne pridavati im značaj.
umočio sam ih u debeli braon vosak
brown wax
high-speed video cameras.
i kamerama za usporeno snimanje.
sprečavalo me je da zaista povučem okidač,
kept me from actually pulling the trigger,
be shooting myself.
kao da bih pucao na samog sebe.
fired the shots.
and cast them first in wax,
like the image you see here,
kao na prikazu koju ovde vidite,
of its violent creation
ovaj rad u Majamiju,
svaki pucanj na svojoj duši.
every gun shot to her soul.
racial violence throughout US history.
kroz čitavu istoriju SAD-a.
predstavljaju više od istorije SAD-a.
than just US history.
prošle godine u Berlinu,
what prompted these recent killings.
šta je podstaklo na ta nedavna ubistva.
of a lynching postcard
razglednice sa linčovanjem
have been going on for over 500 years.
odvijaju već preko 500 godina.
about history and race
stvoriti siguran prostor
to engage one another
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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