![]() Courtesy of Saya Woolfalk ![]() Saya Woolfalk, Ethnography of No Place Chapter 5: Meeting, production still, 2008. Courtesy of Saya Woolfalk and Rachel Lears |
Listen to the podcast Tuesday, February 2, 6:00pm SAIC Columbus Auditorium, 280 S. Columbus Drive SAIC alumna Saya Woolfalk (MFA 2004) will present her ongoing project No Place, a multimedia, fictional future that reworks tropes of sexual, racial, and gender difference. The characters and stories in Woolfalk's constructed reality evoke travel narratives, science fiction, and the rhetoric of anthropology to investigate human possibilities (and impossibilities). Through diverse forms of installation, video, painting, drawing, performance, and sound, she reflects on human life and its future through configurations of biology, sociality, and the environment. Woolfalk's selected exhibitions include PS1/MoMA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art; Studio Museum in Harlem; and Momenta Art. She has been an artist in residence at Skowhegan, Yaddo, Sculpture Space, and the Studio Museum in Harlem. Presented in collaboration with SAIC Alumni Relations. |

![]() Courtesy 303 Gallery, New York ![]() Doug Aitken, Sleepwalkers, 2007, 5 channel video installation. Installation view at MoMA, NY. Courtesy 303 Gallery, New York |
Listen to the podcast Monday, February 22, 6:00 p.m. Fullerton Hall, 111 S. Michigan Ave. FREE Admission Widely known for his innovative fine art installations, Doug Aitken is at the frontier of 21st-century communication. Utilizing a wide array of media and artistic approaches, Aitken's eye leads us into a world where time, space, and memory are fluid concepts. Aitken's work effortlessly slips into our media-saturated cultural unconscious allowing the viewer to experience cinema in a unique way by deconstructing a connection between sound, moving images, and the rhythms of our surroundings. Treating the world as his studio, he edits together frenetic and unique models of contemporary experience. Aitken has had numerous screenings, and solo and group exhibitions around the world, including the 1999 Venice Biennale, where he won the International Prize for his acclaimed installation "electric earth." He's exhibited work in institutions such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Pompidou Center in Paris. |





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Chicago, IL 60603
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