In the (Commercial) Break: Screening and Conversation with Martine Syms
Screening and conversation with Martine Syms Thursday, June 21st, 2018, 6pm – 8pm École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris Amphithéâtre des loges Screening organized in collaboration with the Caro Sposo collective. KADIST presents In the (Commercial) Break , a screening of videos selected by Martine Syms as part of her KADIST residency, followed by a conversation with the artist. The screening will present Syms’ multipart video work Lessons alongside other works that are significant to the artist. These selections reflect on Syms’ investigation into identity and image production in contemporary life. With videos by: Martine Syms, Kevin Jerome Everson, Sondra Perry, Rami George, Wu Tsang, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Irena Haiduk, Hannah Black, Nicole Miller, Edward Owens, Diamond Stingily, Allie Avital and Ximena Cuevas. About Lessons : Lessons is an ongoing, multipart video work by Martine Syms, composed of 30-second videos playing in a continual, randomlyordered stream. Snapshots of disconnected experiences and subjects accumulate into a mass of fragmentary narratives, relating (directly and incidentally) to the lives of black Americans. Drawn from myriad sources and contexts – including YouTube videos, 1980s TV shows, and personal archival footage – these self-contained segments are taken from a growing corpus that Syms has been compiling since 2014. Program: – Kevin Jerome Everson, Century, 2012, 7′. Courtesy the artist; Trilobite-Arts DAC; Picture Palace Pictures – Martine Syms, Lesson XC, 2018, 30”. Courtesy of the artist – Sondra Perry, studio test, NO NO NO, 2013, 2’15”. Courtesy of the artist and Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York – Rami George, Untitled (Saturday, October 16, 1993), 2015, 5′. Courtesy of the Artist – Martine Syms, Lesson XCI, 2018, 30”. Courtesy of the artist – Wu Tsang, Girl Talk, 2015, 4′. KADIST Collection, Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin – Tiona Nekkia McClodden, The Labryinth 1.0, 5’38”. Courtesy of the artist – Martine Syms, Lesson XCII, 2018, 30”. Courtesy of the artist – Irena Haiduk, Nine Hour Delay: Printemps-Ete-Automne-Hiver 2058, 2013, 2’7″. Courtesy of the artist – Hannah Black, The Fall of Communism, 2014, 5’23”. Courtesy of the artist – Martine Syms, Lesson XCIII, 2018, 30”. Courtesy of the artist – Nicole Miller, The Borrowers (Ndinda), 2015, 3’40. Courtesy of the artist – Ed Owens, Remembrance: A Portrait Study, 1967, 6′. Courtesy of the artist and Film Makers’ Cooperative, New York – Martine Syms, Lesson XCIV, 2018, 30”. Courtesy of the artist – Diamond Stingily, Sandra’s Walk, 2016, 1′. Courtesy of the artist – Martine Syms, Lesson XCV, 2018, 30”. Courtesy of the artist – Allie Avital, Moses Sumney: Worth It?, 2016, 3’23”. Courtesy of the artist – Ximena Cuevas, Contemporary Artist, 1999, 4’57”. Courtesy of the artist and Video Databank, Chicago – Martine Syms, Lesson XCVI, 2018, 30”. Courtesy of the artist