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.
by wywołać emocjonujące dyskusje.
video and performance.
filmu oraz przedstawień.
are history and dialogue.
środkami wyrazu są historia i dialog.
of a lotus blossom.
szklany kwiat lotosu.
for transcendence
temu konkretnemu lotosowi
to be the cross-section of a slave ship.
przekrój statku z niewolnikami.
from a British slaving manual
podręcznika handlu niewolnikami,
the atrocities of slavery.
by pokazać brutalność niewolnictwa.
to talk about slavery,
rozmawiać o niewolnictwie,
jako na ogólnoświatowy przemysł.
about our shared past.
o wspólnej przeszłości.
we carved over 6,000 figures.
wycięliśmy ponad 6000 sylwetek.
by the City of New York
złożyło zamówienie
metalową wersję projektu,
at the Eagle Academy for Young Men,
w "Eagle Academy for Young Men",
latynoskich uczniów,
by this history.
przez ten proceder.
by a more recent phenomenon,
przez całkiem współczesne zjawisko,
wooden African figures
around the world.
z wielu miejsc świata.
of them is completely debatable,
są oczywiście dyskusyjne,
to be imbued with power,
że są one przepełnione mocą,
how to use this in my own work.
jak mogę ich użyć w pracy.
the killings of Trayvon Martin,
popełnionych na Trayvonie Martinie,
Sandra Bland, Tamir Rice
Sandrze Bland, Tamirze Rice
unarmed black citizens
czarnoskórych obywatelach
with no punishment at all.
prestiżowego uniwersytetu,
at gunpoint by the police.
simply entitled "BAM."
po prostu jako "BAM".
the identity of each of these figures,
każdej z tych figurek,
and easier to disregard.
i ułatwić ich lekceważenie.
brown wax
w brązowym wosku,
za pomocą kul.
high-speed video cameras.
i szybkoobrotowymi aparatami.
kept me from actually pulling the trigger,
mnie od pociągnięcia za spust.
be shooting myself.
jakbym strzelał do samego siebie.
fired the shots.
Raul oddał strzały,
and cast them first in wax,
które wrzuciłem najpierw do wosku,
na zaprezentowanej tutaj figurce,
like the image you see here,
of its violent creation
brutalnego procesu tworzenia,
że każdy wystrzał dotykał jej duszy.
every gun shot to her soul.
racial violence throughout US history.
w całej historii USA.
than just US history.
niż tylko historia USA.
what prompted these recent killings.
tych współczesnych mordów.
of a lynching postcard
przedstawiającej lincz
have been going on for over 500 years.
mają miejsce od ponad pięciuset lat.
about history and race
na temat historii i rasy
jednostki i społeczeństwo.
bezpieczną przestrzeń
to engage one another
do angażowania się nawzajem
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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