Sanford Biggers: An artist's unflinching look at racial violence
Сенфорд Біґґерс: Непохитний погляд митця на расову жорстокість
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.
як надихнути на непросту розмову.
video and performance.
скульптури, відео та перфомансу.
are history and dialogue.
є історія та діалог.
of a lotus blossom.
квітки лотоса.
for transcendence
трансцендентності
до цього лотоса,
to be the cross-section of a slave ship.
є поперечним перерізом рабовласницького човна.
from a British slaving manual
британського рабовласницького посібника
the atrocities of slavery.
щоб показати жахи рабства.
to talk about slavery,
про рабство,
глобальну індустрію.
Буддизму,
та вивести за рамки
американців
about our shared past.
спільне минуле.
we carved over 6,000 figures.
вирізьбили більш ніж 6 000 фігур.
by the City of New York
сталевої версії
at the Eagle Academy for Young Men,
Орлиній академії для молодих чоловіків,
латино-американських студентів,
by this history.
постраждали.
by a more recent phenomenon,
новітнім феноменом,
відволіктися.
wooden African figures
африканські фігури
around the world.
блошиних ринків з усього світу.
of them is completely debatable,
є цілком спірним,
to be imbued with power,
наділені силою
how to use this in my own work.
як їх використовувати в своїй роботі.
the killings of Trayvon Martin,
Трейвона Мартіна,
Sandra Bland, Tamir Rice
Сандри Бленд, Таміра Райса
unarmed black citizens
інших беззбройних темношкірих мешканців
with no punishment at all.
покарання.
at gunpoint by the police.
поліцейського пістолета,
simply entitled "BAM."
"Вибух".
the identity of each of these figures,
фігур,
and easier to disregard.
та простішими для ігнорування.
brown wax
густий коричневий віск
у тир,
за допомогою куль.
high-speed video cameras.
і високошвидкісною відеокамерою.
kept me from actually pulling the trigger,
стримувала мене власне натиснути курок,
be shooting myself.
в себе.
fired the shots.
здійснив постріли.
and cast them first in wax,
спочатку воском,
like the image you see here,
як на зображенні, яке ви бачите,
of its violent creation
створення,
роботу в Маямі,
every gun shot to her soul.
до глибини душі відчула кожен постріл.
що ці мистецькі роботи
цих розстрілів,
racial violence throughout US history.
жорстокості впродовж історії США.
than just US history.
лише історії США.
минулого року,
what prompted these recent killings.
що спонукало ці нещодавні вбивства.
of a lynching postcard
із лінчуванням
have been going on for over 500 years.
впродовж більше ніж 500 років.
about history and race
про історію та расу
та як суспільство.
створює безпечне місце
to engage one another
одне одного
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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