We talk about: scores for performance, weaving politics and abstraction, dance and visual art in conversation, revolutionary time, Ranu's painting process, the importance of sari fabric in her work, hybridity, installation "versus" performance, the fires in LA and much more…
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Ranu Mukherjee makes hybrid work in painting, film installation and performance to expand imaginative capacities. Commissioned projects have been presented by Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, 18th Street Arts Center, Los Angeles, de Young Museum, Karachi Biennale 2019, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco Ballet, San Jose Museum of Art and Singapore Biennale 2022. Recent honors include an Artadia Award (2023), Pollock Krasner Grant (2020) and a Lucas Visual Arts fellowship (2019-2024). Gallery Wendi Norris published her first monograph, Shadowtime in 2021. Mukherjee is dean of the School of Film and Video at CalArts.
https://www.ranumukherjee.com/
@ranumukherjee
score for transitional times, The Moody Center for the Arts
float the mark, Mills Art Museum
Ensemble for Non-Linear Time, 836M Gallery/18th Street Arts Center
Hope Mohr/Ranu Mukherjee Collaborative Projects
Gallery Wendi Norris, Ranu Mukherjee: Shadowtime
Night Thicket (image of painting discussed)
Fanny Soderback, Revolutionary Time: On Time and Difference in Kristeva and Irigaray
Jonathan Griffin, On Fire (Paper Monument) An oral history of the phenomenon of the studio fire.
RESOURCES FOR RESPONDING TO THE FIRES IN LA
LA Arts Community Fire Relief Fund
Grief and Hope- Help LA's Artists and Art Workers Start Over
Studio Loan Project A project of the Contemporary Art League and The Artist's Contract providing tools for sharing short-term studio space in LA.
@thebodyisthebrain
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