Sanford Biggers: An artist's unflinching look at racial violence
Sanford Biggers: A rasszista erőszakról, egy bátor művész szemével
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.
miként provokálhatok vitákat.
video and performance.
és performanszokkal próbálom ezt elérni.
are history and dialogue.
a történelem és a párbeszéd.
of a lotus blossom.
272 kg-nyi üvegből.
for transcendence
a transzcendencia jelképe,
to be the cross-section of a slave ship.
egy rabszolgahajó hosszmetszete.
from a British slaving manual
rabszolga-kézikönyvből származik,
the atrocities of slavery.
küzdők a sérelmek bemutatására használták.
a rabszolgaságról,
to talk about slavery,
mint ami jelen van a világ iparában.
hogy ez túlmutat
about our shared past.
közös múltunk kibeszélését.
we carved over 6,000 figures.
6 000-nél több alakot véstünk ki.
by the City of New York
New York városától
a The Eagle Academy for Young Men számára.
at the Eagle Academy for Young Men,
diákokat oktat.
by this history.
a legérintettebbek.
by a more recent phenomenon,
egy sokkal maibb jelenség is,
wooden African figures
around the world.
szerte a világban.
of them is completely debatable,
megkérdőjelezhető,
to be imbued with power,
tulajdonítanak nekik,
how to use this in my own work.
miként használjam fel ezeket munkáimban.
the killings of Trayvon Martin,
hogy rendőrök megölték
Sandra Bland, Tamir Rice
Eric Garnert, Sandra Blandet, Tamir Rice-t
unarmed black citizens
with no punishment at all.
megúszták a büntetést.
at gunpoint by the police.
és félemlített meg.
simply entitled "BAM."
aminek egyszerűen a "BAM" címet adtam.
the identity of each of these figures,
az alakok egyediségét.
and easier to disregard.
legyen nem rájuk figyelni.
mártottam mindegyiket,
brown wax
high-speed video cameras.
videokamerákkal.
kept me from actually pulling the trigger,
visszatartott a ravasz meghúzásától,
be shooting myself.
fired the shots.
Raul sütötte el a fegyvert.
and cast them first in wax,
és kiöntöttem először viaszból,
like the image you see here,
és ahogyan a képen látható,
megalkotásának erőszakos voltát,
of its violent creation
mostanában Miamiban,
every gun shot to her soul.
mintha minden lövés a lelkét érné.
és az USA történelmének más,
racial violence throughout US history.
áldozataira emlékeztetik.
than just US history.
túlnő az USA történelmén.
mi váltotta ki a mostani gyilkosságokat.
what prompted these recent killings.
of a lynching postcard
egy lincselésről
have been going on for over 500 years.
a gyilkosságok több mint 500 éve tartanak.
komoly párbeszéden keresztül
about history and race
és a társadalmat.
biztos teret teremtenek
to engage one another
hogy rávegyék a másikat
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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