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Reception:\u00a0Saturday, January 14, 2017 –\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
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How \u2013 right now, today \u2013 can we care for U.S. everyday social life? This exhibition combines two areas of recent work by filmmaker Cauleen Smith.\u00a0<\/strong>For the show, Smith created a film from her research on the influence of the music and life of Alice Coltrane (1937-2007), a film visually keyed to a recording of a notable Coltrane composition.\u00a0PILGRIM<\/em>, 2017, joins three\u00a0<\/strong>pieces drawn from an area of Smith’s work best described as activist response, a multiplicity of work rooted in Chicago, where Smith has lived since 2011. These works differ in their effects, taking on the locations (public, the street, the worldwide web) and functions of activism (being loud, using your body, making informal networks for self-education and information dissemination). These include\u00a0LESSONS IN SEMAPHORE\u00a0<\/em>(2013), a digitized 16mm film and\u00a0HUMAN_3.0 READING LIST<\/em>\u00a0(2016), an iPhone film of Smith\u2019s essential readings as drawings. Smith’s\u00a0GWENDOLYN BROOKS BANNERS<\/em>\u00a0for\u00a0The Black Love Procession: Conduct Your Blooming<\/em>\u00a0(2016) took a part of a poem by Gwendolyn Brooks and mobilized it as a renegade procession that took place in Bronzeville, a historically black neighborhood. This procession responded to a controversial exhibition by an artist whose work about the death of Michael Brown was presented at a gallery in Bronzeville.<\/p>\n
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Smith was awarded the 2016 Alpert Award in visual art and was the first recipient of The Ellsworth Kelly Award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, given to the artist for\u00a0Give It Or Leave It<\/em>, a solo exhibition linked to\u00a0The Warplands<\/em>\u00a0through research and a book.\u00a0Give It Or Leave It<\/em>\u00a0is forthcoming at the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania in 2018.<\/p>\n
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Smith is known for a group of influential films and videos, moving image installations and objects with connections to experimental film and third world cinema, structuralism and science fiction. A California native, Smith was born in Riverside, grew up in Sacramento and was educated at San Francisco State University (BA) and the University of California, Los Angeles (MFA, Film). Recent films, such as\u00a0Crow Requiem<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The Way Out Is the Way To<\/em>, move between Smith\u2019s active study of multiple sources and archives (avant-garde, African-American histories and improvisational music), and Smith\u2019s personal and political response to recent and ongoing violence against people of color at the hands of the state.\u00a0Press Kit<\/a><\/p>\n
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Events:<\/p>\n
Conversation: Cauleen Smith and Rhea Anastas<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n
Thursday, January 12, 7:30pm<\/p>\n
LAXART
\n7000 Santa Monica Blvd.
\nHollywood, CA 90038<\/p>\n
Cauleen Smith<\/p>\n
HUMAN_3.0 READING LIST MANIFESTO (PDF)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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$\"PDF$ \u00a0 HUMAN_3.0 READING LIST MANIFESTO_C.Smith_.pdf<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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From the book:
\nCauleen Smith
\nHUMAN_3.0 READING LIST 2015-2016
\nPublished by Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago\u00a0\u00a9 2016<\/p>\n
Featured image:\u00a0Cauleen Smith. Processional Declaration, 2015. Courtesy of the artist and Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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