LIGHT YEAR 73: Summer reRuns: “All Natural” and “New Beginnings”
Thursday, May 6th, 2021
ONLINE: 2-10pm EST
LIVE: Dusk - 10pm @ Pearl Street Triangle; DUMBO, Brooklyn
Berlin Premiere:
SCOPE BLN
Lübecker Straße 43, 10559 Berlin
Thursday, May 6th, 7-9pm CET
LIGHT YEAR is proud to submit two previously approved shows, “All Natural” (originally presented in May of 2020) and “New Beginnings" (originally presented in August of 2020), as part of the “LIGHT YEAR ReRun Series.” Both shows were originally presented only online due to the pandemic. The “ReRun” series gives these and other works the opportunity to finally be seen, as intended, on the iconic Manhattan Bridge.
Both shows, one curated by Mark Amerika (a pioneer in new digital art movement), the other created by students of Columbia University, fulfill LIGHT YEAR’s stated mission to present works geared towards inclusion, while covering a wide range of styles, technologies and cultural perspectives.
“All Natural”
ALL NATURAL is a curated selection of video artworks that question the status of human nature, natural phenomena, and ontological distortions of what we might mean by the term "natural" while also poking fun at how artists, especially those who manipulate data and imagery, present the seemingly natural by other means. ALL NATURAL is, of course, also used in the food industry as part of its labeling and advertising agenda though its true meaning is more fluid across various countries than we sometimes like to think.
The videos in this exhibition ask us to question what it means to have access to nature, to capture nature, to consume nature, to manipulate nature, and to feel connected to nature as if
we ourselves were naturally inclined. Curated by Mark Amerika.
Featuring work by Sabrina Ratté, Rick Silva, Erin Espelie, Melanie Clemmons and Zak Loyd, Chris Coleman, Brenna Murphy, Will Luers and Roger Dean, Mark Amerika, and The Artist 2.0.
“New Beginnings”
Students of Teachers College, Columbia University, present short videos for NEW BEGINNINGS as part of the LIGHT YEAR series. The program includes videos created by both novice students and experienced video artists using video as a means of storytelling, artistic expression, and meaning-making.
The novice video makers were asked to create videos by examining their daily space, mundane
moments, and themselves. Their videos show them finding a visual voice and learning to communicate through video as a medium, which is a steppingstone toward artistic explorations. Additionally, videos from experienced artists have been selected through an open call. They show the spectrum that meaning making through storytelling can take. The videos prompt us to search for new beginnings, finding and telling our own stories, meanings, and moments.
Featuring works by Ziyu Eleanor Liu, Yuki Qu, Sarah Schechter, Sungah Jun, Nathaniel Garcia, Lingjun Zhou, Nakaweesi Kantongole, Stephanie Jenn Boggs, Sharon Peretz, Mason, and Jihyun Kim
Videos organized by Jihyun Kim.