Join curators Elizaveta Shneyderman and Anthony Discenza for a Talkback and Walkthrough of the their exhibition Reanimator.
Reanimator explores the way plasticity is modeled and visualized within various systems of representation, with a particular focus on the plastic body in animation. The exhibition also considers the ways in which the many technological systems that have developed around the representation of plasticity over the past century—predominantly emerging from the fields of cinema and animation—have, in turn, influenced visual and cultural aesthetics in other areas of cultural production. The exhibition constitutes a map of sorts of this influence, revealing the complex negotiations around what gets crystallized into an image and what kind of subjects are produced by the process.
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About the Curators:
Elizaveta Shneyderman is a Belarusian-American curator, researcher and publisher. She is Curator at the Riga Technoculture Research Unit (RTRU) and Curator-at-Large at Kim? Contemporary Art Center (Riga, Latvia). Shneyderman’s interdisciplinary research focuses on the history and philosophy of media materialities and the techniques that emerge from them, including their influence on contemporary visual culture. Her essays on contemporary art and visual culture have been published in Artforum, Animation Studies Journal, BOMB Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, PIN-UP Magazine, and Rhizome, among others. Shneyderman has previously held curatorial positions and contributed research to exhibitions at the Hessel Museum of Art, Smack Mellon, EMPAC, PARTICIPANT INC, Hunter East Harlem Gallery Kunsthalle.Ost, and Mana Contemporary. She holds an M.A. in Curatorial Studies from Bard College and is currently Adjunct Professor of Art History at the Rhode Island School of Design. She is a psychoanalyst in formation at Pulsion: The International Institute of Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychosomatics.
Anthony Discenza is an interdisciplinary artist currently based in western Massachusetts. In addition to his own practice, he also runs the residency/project space lower_cavity