Tara Merenda Nelson’s film and video installations jumps through time in the exhibition “FourMats” at the MAG.
Tara Merenda Nelson
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VSW mirrors the moment with ‘The Power of Protest’
On July 30, Visual Studies Workshop draws from its rich archive of documentary films to address evergreen issues of race, alongside performances by local poets.
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VSW stages John Cage’s open-ended ‘Variations III’
Twenty-five years after his passing, John Cage remains an enigmatic and largely misunderstood musical and artistic figure in the public consciousness. The trailblazing composer is often seen as a solitary, almost shamanic philosopher-artist, perhaps best known for his highly conceptual “silent” composition “4′ 33”,” written for a single performer who never plays a note. Visual […]
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Projection and perception
Visual Studies Workshop’s current show isn’t really representative of Tara Merenda Nelson’s film work, most of which is in Super 8 format and tends to follow a “film diary” tradition: “intimate portraits of friends and family, travel diaries, confessions, secrets, that type of thing,” she says. Just three strange, cinematic installations comprise the show, each […]
