Join us to explore the topic of Memory and the Photographic Image, with artists Carrie Mae Weems and Shimon Attie, Guggenheim Museum curator Jennifer Blessing, and others to be announced. Supported by Cornell’s Atkinson Forum in American Studies Program.
Registration is free but seating is limited; please e-mail or call 607 254-4642 to reserve a space.
Carrie Mae Weems is a widely acclaimed American photographer and artist. Her work debunks labels, examines the relationship between power and aesthetics, and uses personal biography to articulate broader truths. Her award-winning photographs, films, and videos have been displayed in over fifty exhibitions in the U.S. and abroad and focus on issues such as racism, gender relations, politics, and personal identity. Weems’s work has appeared in major exhibitions at Savannah College of Art and Design (2008); W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University (2007); Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown (2000); and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1998); among other museums.
Jennifer Blessing is Senior Curator of Photography at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Most recently, she organized Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance, and Catherine Opie: American Photographer. Prior to these projects she curated two exhibitions for the Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin: True North and Jeff Wall: Exposure. Blessing has organized the Guggenheim's presentation of SF MOMA's exhibition, Francesca Woodman, which is currently on view. Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective opens at the Guggenheim on June 29, 2012.
Shimon Attie is an internationally renowned visual artist whose art allows us to reflect on the relationship between place, memory, and identity. In many of his projects, he engages local communities in finding new ways of representing their history, memory, and potential futures, and explores how contemporary media may be used to re-imagine new relationships between space, time, place, and identity. He is particularly concerned with issues of loss, communal trauma, and the potential for regeneration. His artistic practice includes creating immersive multiple-channel HD video installations for museums and galleries, photographs, large and small-scale site-specific installations in public places, and new media works. He has exhibited widely in both the U.S. and Europe, including shows at the Institute of Contemporary Art, London; the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, among others. His work is held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Berlinische Galerie, Berlin; and the Jewish Museum, New York.
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