Sanford Biggers: An artist's unflinching look at racial violence
Сэнфорд Биггерс: Решительный взгляд художника на проблему расового насилия
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.
для поднятия сложных тем для разговора.
video and performance.
видео и выступлений.
are history and dialogue.
история и диалог.
of a lotus blossom.
и было более двух метров в диаметре.
for transcendence
to be the cross-section of a slave ship.
людей на борту невольничьего судна.
from a British slaving manual
из британской памятки по рабовладению.
the atrocities of slavery.
чтобы показать зверства той системы.
to talk about slavery,
как глобальную индустрию.
к истории и страданиям
about our shared past.
нашего общего прошлого.
we carved over 6,000 figures.
мы вы́резали более 6 000 фигур.
в комиссию города Нью-Йорка,
by the City of New York
версию из стали,
at the Eagle Academy for Young Men,
в Eagle Academy for Young Men,
by this history.
групп населения.
by a more recent phenomenon,
от более современного феномена.
wooden African figures
around the world.
и блошиных рынков со всего мира.
of them is completely debatable,
более чем сомнительно,
to be imbued with power,
how to use this in my own work.
как использовать их в своей работе.
the killings of Trayvon Martin,
что с 2012 года полицией были убиты
Эрик Гарнер, Сандра Блэнд, Тамир Райс
Sandra Bland, Tamir Rice
unarmed black citizens
невооруженных чернокожих граждан.
with no punishment at all.
остаётся абсолютно безнаказанной.
at gunpoint by the police.
simply entitled "BAM."
и назвал его просто — «БAM».
the identity of each of these figures,
and easier to disregard.
и сделать более абстрактными.
в густой коричневый воск,
brown wax
high-speed video cameras.
и кинокамерами,
kept me from actually pulling the trigger,
не давало мне нажать на курок.
be shooting myself.
fired the shots.
моему оператору Раулю.
and cast them first in wax,
like the image you see here,
of its violent creation
что душой прочувствовала каждый выстрел.
every gun shot to her soul.
racial violence throughout US history.
за историю США.
than just US history.
не только историю США.
what prompted these recent killings.
что вызвало эти недавние убийства.
of a lynching postcard
открытки начала XX века,
have been going on for over 500 years.
продолжаются уже более 500 лет.
about history and race
и как общество в целом.
создаёт безопасное пространство
to engage one another
и необходимое обсуждение.
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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