VIDEO: Cinema Remixed and Reloaded

Cinema Remixed and Reloaded: Black Women Artists and the Moving Image Since 1970 opened on 9/14/07 at The Spelman College Museum of Fine Art in Atlanta, Georgia.  The show runs through 12/8/07….Museum Director Andrea Barnwell told Cultureserve, “Early responses to “Cinema Remixed and Reloaded” have simply been incredible. This original exhibition represents the first survey of video works by black women artists. It features works by established artists including Camille Billops, Howardena Pindell, Adrian Piper, Kara Walker and Carrie Mae Weems as well as works by emerging and mid-career artists such as Jessica Ann Peavy, Tracey Rose, Berni Searle, Pamela Sunstrum and Lauren Woods. This exhibition exemplifies the Museum’s mission to focus on works by and about women of the African Diaspora. Part II, which opens on January 24, 2008, will also engage an array of challenging issues and promises to be just as compelling.”  Below: Kara Walker, “8 Possible Beginnings: or the Creation of African-America, a Moving Picture by Kara E. Walker” (2005), Courtesy the artist and Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York.  

One area featured in the exhibition is experimental cinema, “Whereas mainstream cinema has always intended to entertain, experimental cinema, in contrast, has always sought to usurp the norm.  The goal is often to place the viewer in a more active and more thoughtful relationship to works created in film and video…” (exhibition notes)  Click here to: VIEW VIDEO