Sanford Biggers: An artist's unflinching look at racial violence
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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.
için sürekli yaratıcı yollar arıyorum.
video and performance.
ve performans yoluyla yapıyorum.
are history and dialogue.
ikisi tarih ve diyalog.
of a lotus blossom.
olan "Lotus"u yarattım.
for transcendence
to be the cross-section of a slave ship.
bir köle gemisinin kesiti.
from a British slaving manual
kölelik rehberinden alındı,
taraftarları tarafından
the atrocities of slavery.
göstermek için kullanıldı.
to talk about slavery,
konuşmayı sevmiyoruz,
about our shared past.
teşvik etmeyi umuyorum.
we carved over 6,000 figures.
6.000'den fazla figür kazıdık.
by the City of New York
etkilenen iki grup olan
öğrenciler için bir okul olan
at the Eagle Academy for Young Men,
(Genç Erkekler için Eagle Akademisi)'de
28 fitlik (8,5 m) çelik versiyonunun
by this history.
verdiği bir siparişe sebep oldu.
by a more recent phenomenon,
olan bir olaydan etkilendi,
wooden African figures
turist mağazaları
Afrika figürleri topluyorum.
around the world.
of them is completely debatable,
tamamen tartışılmakla birlikte
to be imbued with power,
how to use this in my own work.
nasıl kullanacağımı anladım.
the killings of Trayvon Martin,
Sandra Bland, Tamir Rice ve gerçekten
Sandra Bland, Tamir Rice
vatandaşın polislerin ellerinde
unarmed black citizens
with no punishment at all.
ceza almadan serbest kaldılar.
ben bile birçok defa
at gunpoint by the police.
hedef alındım ve rahatsız edildim.
simply entitled "BAM."
olarak adlandırdım.
the identity of each of these figures,
kimliğini silmek,
and easier to disregard.
alınmaması kolay hâle getirmek önemliydi.
brown wax
atış poligonuna
kahverengi muma batırdım.
high-speed video cameras.
oynamak eğlenceliydi.
kept me from actually pulling the trigger,
tetiği çekmeme engel oldu,
be shooting myself.
vuruyormuşum gibi.
fired the shots.
and cast them first in wax,
onları önce muma,
like the image you see here,
görüntü gibi tunca batırdım,
ve yara izleri gibi
of its violent creation
Miami'de gösterdiğimde,
every gun shot to her soul.
ruhunda hissettiğini söyledi.
kurbanlarını andığını da düşünmüştü.
racial violence throughout US history.
than just US history.
ABD tarihinden daha fazlası.
what prompted these recent killings.
katliamların sebebini sordu.
of a lynching postcard
have been going on for over 500 years.
devam etmekte olduğunu hatırlattım.
about history and race
düşünceli diyaloglar yoluyla
olarak evrilebiliriz.
bu tür bir dürüst değiş tokuş için
to engage one another
bir olanak yaratır.
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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