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East of Paradise Film Screening

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 08:44:25 -0600

On Wednesday, August 18, at 7 pm, MOCA will host a screening of “East of Paradise,” a film that inspired Claire Fontaine and their “Economies” exhibition. Directed by Lech Kowalski, the film makes a powerful statement about the human condition and explores the extremeness of our experiences. “East of Paradise,” is the last of four films to be screened at MOCA as part of Claire Fontaine’s Moving Image Toolbox. The film incorporates poverty, sex, Rock’and’Roll and death in a (political) commentary on today’s reality. If you never thought a Polish Holocaust survivor could bare bear any similarity to a punk or junkee, Lech Kowalski will tastefully disprove you. Do we really “live in a lie?” And is that lie really “forced upon us by people with power?” Please join us on Wednesday evening. We encourage you to share your comments.

MOCA Summer Journalism Institute

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 10:58:50 -0600

Students in the MOCA Summer Journalism Institute for Teens are wrapping up their experience this week. Highlights of the program include a trip to FIU's communication's department and a visit from Miami Herald staffers. Students wrote profiles of each other. They are working on feature stories that include a number of interviews. Yesterday they went into the galleries of MOCA for a tour and then wrote about some of the pieces.

Cory Arcangel's Internet Portfolio Website and Portal

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 08:50:00 -0600

Visit Cory Arcangel's website, www.coryarcangel.com, to learn more about his work. Then, join us at MOCA on Saturday April 3 at 2 pm for a special screening of selections from his personal archive of video and film footage. The screening is free with museum admission. Tell us what you think.

New BlogEntry

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:39:00 -0700

On Wednesday, January 27, MOCA is highlighting Polish artist Artur Zmijewski's video Them in the exhibition The Reach of Realism by creating a special screening time at 7:30 pm. Zmijewski takes several different Polish social and political organizations, from the young communists to a church group comprised of old women, and asks each to create an artwork emblematic of their beliefs. The groups are then allowed to adjust each other's artworks however they wish. What starts as polite editing turns into an explosive situation. We invite your feedback on this video.

New BlogEntry

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:38:00 -0700

Wednesday, January 20, MOCA will highlight London-based Emily Wardill's video, Game Keepers without Game in the exhibition The Reach of Realism, by creating a special screening time at 7:30 pm so you can watch it from start to finish. The video is inspired by Pedro Calderon de la Barca's play La Vida es Suena (1635) and follows a contemporary British family in a dysfunctional drama of abandonment and attempted reconciliation. The video is shot against a stark white background, pushing all the characters and props to the fore. They are not grounded in the same reality, but float within it and never touch. Wardill uses innovative narrative techniques, and plays with the construction of a story through precise attention to images and sound. Please join us for the screening and respond here with questions and comments.

Link to Arthood.com interview with Reach of Realism Curator Ruba Katrib

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:33:00 -0700

http://www.arthood.com/profiles/blogs/arthood-interviews-mocas-ruba

JANUARY 13 VIDEO HIGHLIGHT : LARS LAUMANN

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:18:00 -0700

This Wednesday, January 13, MOCA will highlight Norwegian artist Lars Laumann’s video, Shut up Child, this ain’t Bingo, in the exhibition The Reach of Realism, with a special screening time at 7:30 pm so you can watch it from start to finish. The video is shot in a loose documentary style and follows Laumann’s friend and fellow Norwegian artist Kjersti Andvig, who had been working on a collaborative art project with a death row inmate named Carlton Turner. For several months, Andvig moved to Texas where Turner was incarcerated and Laumann captured what unfolded between Andvig, Turner, and the woman with whom Andvig was staying. Without giving the work completely away for those who will attend Wednesday’s screening, Shut up Child, this ain’t Bingo provides a compelling examination into the precarious lines between art, fantasy, and reality. If you’ve already seen the video or plan to view it on Wednesday, please comment with thoughts and questions about this work.

January 6 Video Highlight: Phil Collins

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 08:25:00 -0700

This Wednesday, January 6, MOCA is highlighting British artist Phil Collins' video, "Soy Mi Madre "in the exhibition "The Reach of Realism," by creating a special screening time at 7:30 pm so you can watch it from start to finish. The video follows the fomat of a Mexican telenovella with a plotline filled with deceit and drama inspired by Jean Genet's radical play "The Maids." While Collins maintains the class struggle that Genet used to incite his audiences in the 1940s, today the story fits perfectly well in its telenovella structure. Telenovellas are a huge phenomenon and while primarily originating out of Latin America, they have an extensive global reach. Why is it that the telenovella is so popular and why do you think that Collins has created an artwork borrowing its conventions to adapt a play written in the 1940s? We would love your feedback if you already seen the video, and if not, please respond when you check it out on Wednesday.

MOCA Blog Lives

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:57:00 -0600

Welcome to the MOCA Blog. We created this feature to make it possible for our audience to continue discussing the ideas addressed at MOCA lectures and events as well as respond to exhibitions. We look forward to continuing the conversation.
Bonnie Clearwater, Executive Director and Chief Curator