- When
- Sat., June 29, 2024, 2–5 p.m.
- Where
- Art Theater
- Tickets
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$10 ($8 for students and Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh Members)
$64 Season Pass ($48 for students and Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh Members)
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June’s program has emotional depth and range, depicting various dystopias which address or evoke a surveillance state, hypercapitalism, the loneliness epidemic, police brutality, #MeToo, misogynoir, and the increasingly hazy line between reality and AI.
Introduction by Damon Young, author of What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker.
Program
- Black Celebration (A Rebellion Against the Commodity)*†
(Tony Cokes, 1988, 17:11 min.) - Cite Specific*†
(Tony Buba, 2023, 1:52 min.) - Memory Playthrough
(Sim Hahahah, 2022, 1:50 min.) - The Art Residency
(May Maylisa Cat, 2022, 2:20 min.) - Mountain Lodge
(Jordan Wong, 2020, 7:51 min.) - Deodorant†
(William Wegman, 1970–1978, 51 seconds) - Don’t Worry Be Happy (Stressful Mix)†
(Paper Rad, 2006, 3 min.) - Black Cloud 黑云
(Lawrence Lek, 2021, 11 min.) - Giverny I (Négresse Impériale)
(Ja’Tovia Gary, 2017, 6 min.) - Random Acts of Flyness: Season 1 Episode 4: Items Outside the Shelter But Within Reach
(Dir. by Terence Nance, Mariama Diallo, Darius Clark Monroe, Naima Ramos-Chapman, and Jamund Washington; Created by Terence Nance, 2018, 30 min.)
Run time: One hour and 3 min.
* On view in Scaife Collection Galleries
† Part of Carnegie Museum of Art’s collection
Notes from guest film programmer, Astria Suparak
The Yankee Candle store, Claude Monet’s tranquil garden, a volatile family BBQ, a sketchy art residency, and a Sinofuturist ghost town. These are some of the settings for the various dystopian scenarios in this program, which address or evoke a surveillance state, hypercapitalism, the loneliness epidemic, police brutality, #MeToo, misogynoir, and the increasingly hazy line between reality and AI. Feeling safe is elusive. You can be both a victim and perpetrator of violence. You can be so good at your job that you destroy yourself.
Vibe Check has emotional depth and range, balancing heartbreak with laugh out loud moments as humor is engaged as a coping mechanism. Even when “all of your escape routes only lead back to where you started,” as Lawrence Lek observes, we endure nonetheless.
“Making art is a transformative process that transmutes pain or trauma into something beautiful, useful, functional, instructive.” —Ja’Tovia Gary