Sanford Biggers: An artist's unflinching look at racial violence
Sanford Biggers: Uma análise sólida de um artista sobre a violência racial.
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.
de desencadear conversas desafiantes.
video and performance.
do vídeo e da representação.
are history and dialogue.
são a história e o diálogo.
de 2,30 m de diâmetro e 272 kg,
of a lotus blossom.
for transcendence
é um símbolo de transcendência
nesta flor de lótus
to be the cross-section of a slave ship.
transversal de um navio negreiro.
from a British slaving manual
de um manual britânico sobre escravatura
para mostrar as atrocidades da escravatura.
the atrocities of slavery.
to talk about slavery,
de falar sobre a escravatura,
como uma indústria global.
a história e o trauma da América negra,
about our shared past.
o nosso passado comum.
we carved over 6,000 figures.
esculpimos mais de 6000 figuras.
comissão da cidade de Nova Iorque
by the City of New York
at the Eagle Academy for Young Men,
na "Eagle Academy for Young Men",
negros e latinos,
by this history.
por esta história.
by a more recent phenomenon,
afetados por um fenómeno mais recente,
figuras de madeira africanas,
wooden African figures
around the world.
por todo o mundo.
of them is completely debatable,
das mesmas é controversa,
to be imbued with power,
contêm poder ou até mesmo magia.
how to use this in my own work.
usar isto no meu próprio trabalho.
the killings of Trayvon Martin,
os homicídios de Trayvon Martin,
de Sandra Bland, de Tamir Rice
Sandra Bland, Tamir Rice
desarmados, às mãos da polícia,
unarmed black citizens
sem qualquer tipo de punição.
with no punishment at all.
professor da Ivy League,
at gunpoint by the police.
ameaça de arma pela polícia,
simply entitled "BAM."
intitulado de "BAM".
the identity of each of these figures,
de cada uma destas figuras,
iguais e mais fáceis de desprezar.
and easier to disregard.
brown wax
numa cera castanha e espessa,
onde as voltei a esculpir, usando balas.
high-speed video cameras.
câmaras de vídeo de alta velocidade.
kept me from actually pulling the trigger,
impediu-me de puxar o gatilho.
estivesse a disparar sobre mim mesmo.
be shooting myself.
fired the shots.
de imagem, disparou os tiros.
pedaços, criei moldes
and cast them first in wax,
like the image you see here,
a imagem que estão aqui a ver,
da sua violenta criação,
of its violent creation
ferimentos de guerra.
este trabalho em Miami,
every gun shot to her soul.
cada disparo na sua alma.
que estas obras de arte,
de violência racial,
racial violence throughout US history.
than just US history.
apenas história dos EUA.
what prompted these recent killings.
o que originou estas mortes recentes.
of a lynching postcard
de um linchamento no início do século XX,
have been going on for over 500 years.
vindo a acontecer há mais de 500 anos.
de perguntas como a dele
sobre a história e a raça,
about history and race
indivíduos e como sociedade.
criem um espaço seguro
as pessoas se envolvam
to engage one another
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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