Sanford Biggers: An artist's unflinching look at racial violence
Sanford Biggers: အနုပညာရှင်တစ်ဦးရဲ့ လူမျိုးရေး အကြမ်းဖက်မှုအပေါ် မတွန့်မဆုတ်တဲ့ ရှုမြင်မှု။
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.
ဆန်းသစိတဲ့နည်းတွေကို အမြဲရှာနေပါတယ်။
video and performance.
သရုပ်ဆောင်တာကနေ လုပ်ခဲ့တာပါ။
are history and dialogue.
သမိုင်းနဲ့ ဆွေးနွေးခြင်းပါ။
of a lotus blossom.
ဖန်သား သရုပ်ဖော်မှုပါ။
for transcendence
ထူးမြတ်မှု အတွက်နဲ့
to be the cross-section of a slave ship.
တစ်စင်းရဲ့ ကန့်လန့်ဖြတ်ကို ပြပါတယ်။
from a British slaving manual
စာအုပ်က ယူထားပြီး
the atrocities of slavery.
ကြမ်းကြုတ်မှုကို ပြဖို့သုံးခဲ့တယ်။
to talk about slavery,
အကြောင်း ပြောတာ မကြိုက်ဘူး၊
အဖြစ်လည်း မရှုမြင်ဘူး။
ကျွန်တော်တို့ရဲ့
about our shared past.
မျှော်လင့်ပါတယ်။
we carved over 6,000 figures.
၆၀၀၀ ကျော်ထွင်းခဲ့တယ်။
by the City of New York
က တာဝန်ယူတဲ့
တစ်ခု ဖန်တီးဖို့ ဖြစ်သွားတယ်။
at the Eagle Academy for Young Men,
အမြဲတမ်းတပ်ဆင်မှု တစ်ခုအဖြစ်နဲ့ပေါ့၊
တွေအတွက်ကျောင်းပါ။
by this history.
အုပ်စုနှစ်ခုပေါ့။
by a more recent phenomenon,
ဖြစ်ရပ်ရဲ့ ထိခိုက်တာခံရတယ်၊
wooden African figures
around the world.
တွေ စုစောင်းနေပါတယ်။
of them is completely debatable,
လုံးဝ အငြင်းပွားဖွယ်ရာပါ။
to be imbued with power,
တန်ခိုး (သို့) မှော်အစွမ်းတောင်
how to use this in my own work.
ဘယ်လိုသုံးမလဲလို့ ကြံဆခဲ့တယ်။
the killings of Trayvon Martin,
Brown, Eric Garner, Sandra Bland
Sandra Bland, Tamir Rice
လူမည်း လက်နက်မဲ့ နိုင်ငံသားတွေဟာ
unarmed black citizens
with no punishment at all.
သက်သေခံထားပါတယ်။
at gunpoint by the police.
ထားခံရပြီး နှောင့်ယှက်တာ ခံခဲ့ရဖူးတယ်။
simply entitled "BAM."
ရိုးရိုးပဲ ခေါင်းစဉ်တပ်ကာ ဖန်တီးခဲ့တယ်။
the identity of each of these figures,
ရဲ့ ကိုယ်ပိုင်လက္ခဏာကို ဖျက်ဖို့၊
and easier to disregard.
ပိုလွယ်လွယ်နဲ့ ဥပက္ခာပြုဖို့ပါ။
brown wax
high-speed video cameras.
ကင်မရာတွေနဲ့ ကစားရင်းလေ
kept me from actually pulling the trigger,
မောင်းကို တကယ်ဆွဲခြင်းက ကင်းကွာနေတယ်၊
be shooting myself.
ပစ်နေမှာလိုမျိုး ခံစားရင်းပါ
fired the shots.
and cast them first in wax,
ဖယောင်း သွန်းလိုက်ပါတယ်။
like the image you see here,
ဒီမှာမြင်ရတဲ့ အရုပ်လိုပေါ့။
of its violent creation
every gun shot to her soul.
သူ့ဝိဉာဉ်ကို ပစ်တာခံစားရတယ်တဲ့။
ဒီသတ်ဖြတ်တာတွေရဲ့ ဓားစာခံ
racial violence throughout US history.
အကြမ်းဖက်မှုရဲ့ ဓားစာခံတွေရောပါ။
than just US history.
သမိုင်းထက် ပိုကြီးမားတယ်။
what prompted these recent killings.
က သတ်ဖြတ်တာတွေကို စေ့ဆော်တာလဲလို့မေးတယ်။
of a lynching postcard
လူအုပ်နဲ့သတ်တဲ့ ပို့စ်ကဒ်ပုံ
have been going on for over 500 years.
ကျော်ပြီလို့ သူ့ကို သတိပေးလိုက်တယ်။
about history and race
တစ်ဦးချင်းနဲ့ လူအဖွဲ့အစည်းအဖြစ်
လက်ရာဟာ ရိုးသားတဲ့
ဘေးကင်းတဲ့ နေရာတစ်ခုနဲ့
to engage one another
တစ်ဦးက တစ်ဦးကို
အခွင့်လမ်းတစ်ခု ဖန်တီးတာပါ။
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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