Location: Floor Three, Susan and John Hess Family Gallery and Theater This screening and conversation considers how the cyborg has become a new paradigm for thinking
about hybridity, expanded constructions of identity, and the boundary between the virtual and the real.
Her early work was initially in dialogue with minimalism but quickly spiraled out into ideas
about hybridity and what has come to be known as the «post-medium» condition, a blurring of traditional distinctions between media such as painting, sculpture, and photography.
Not exact matches
It is clear that
hybridity calls into question any talk
about some kind of pristine, «original» identity.
Since that time, post-colonial thinking, globalization, and an awareness of our own cultural
hybridity have deepened ideas
about African culture; the exoticizing and demeaning implications of Primitivism have made it untenable.
I sat down with Saya in her studio at Wave Hill to find out more
about her ideas regarding
hybridity and the intricacies of the world she has invented surrounding the Empathics.
I'm really interested in
hybridity from a cultural perspective, but I chose to focus on inter-species hybridization because I didn't want it to be merely
about the fusion and mixture of culture, but also
about the transparency of boundaries between things we identify as whole in and of themselves.
One of the most thought - provoking catalogue narratives is Ligon's «Blue Black,» which discusses the challenges Ofili has faced (and continues to face) in attempting to transition from centralizing concerns
about identity, «race,» and social exclusion toward more nuanced and entangled representations focused on cultural syncretism, creolization, and
hybridity.
In a
hybridity that also characterises her practice, Kallat's works interact with the Museum's collection in a thought - provoking dialogue
about identity, memory, history and the natural world.
In line with the curatorial focus of DIASPORA: Exit, Exile, Exodus of Southeast Asia, a group exhibition of contemporary art from Southeast Asia
about the movement of people in the region since the Vietnam War, and its related aspects of migration, displacement, return, and
hybridity, and in support of MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum's dedication to research and education, we are pleased to present a specially curated screening programme on 14 and 15 April.
He says, «When I created the piece, A Place To Call Home, it really is for me
about this place in my mind where I come from because I think the
hybridity of my identities is very hard to place.»