Sanford Biggers: An artist's unflinching look at racial violence
サンフォード・ビガーズ: 人種間暴力を正視するアーティストの眼
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.
独創的な方法を いつも探しています
video and performance.
ビデオやパフォーマンスです
are history and dialogue.
「歴史」と「対話」です
of a lotus blossom.
蓮の花を描きました
for transcendence
蓮は 悟りと
象徴します
to be the cross-section of a slave ship.
奴隷船の断面図になっています
from a British slaving manual
奴隷輸送マニュアルのもので
the atrocities of slavery.
廃止論者に利用されました
to talk about slavery,
奴隷制について語ることも
避けがちです
仏教のシンボルを通し
about our shared past.
議論を盛り上げたいのです
we carved over 6,000 figures.
6千以上の人間を彫りました
by the City of New York
at the Eagle Academy for Young Men,
イーグルアカデミーに作ることになりました
アフリカ系とラテン系向けですが
by this history.
大きな影響を受けています
by a more recent phenomenon,
深刻な影響を受けているのですが
wooden African figures
フリーマーケットで
around the world.
of them is completely debatable,
to be imbued with power,
how to use this in my own work.
思いつきました
the killings of Trayvon Martin,
マイケル・ブラウン、
Sandra Bland, Tamir Rice
タミル・ライスをはじめ
unarmed black citizens
丸腰のアフリカ系市民が
with no punishment at all.
しばしば無罪放免になります
私でさえ何度か遭遇した
at gunpoint by the police.
脅された経験を元に
simply entitled "BAM."
タイトルは一言 『BAM』です
the identity of each of these figures,
人形の個性を消し
and easier to disregard.
関心を引かないようにすることでした
brown wax
濃い茶色のロウに浸し
彫刻し直したのです
high-speed video cameras.
楽しかったですが
kept me from actually pulling the trigger,
引き金を引くのを ためらいました
be shooting myself.
気がしたのです
fired the shots.
撃ってくれました
and cast them first in wax,
まずロウで型を作ってから
like the image you see here,
この画像の通りです
of its violent creation
every gun shot to her soul.
感じるようだと訴えてきました
racial violence throughout US history.
被害者への追悼だと感じていました
than just US history.
米国史だけに留まりません
what prompted these recent killings.
一連の殺人の原因を尋ねてきました
of a lynching postcard
リンチの様子を写した
have been going on for over 500 years.
続いていることを指摘しました
about history and race
深い対話を通して はじめて
進歩できます
安全地帯と
to engage one another
対話に参加する機会を
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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