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With her spare line and sly, deadpan humor, Christine Sun Kim investigates sound as a physical and social phenomenon while also interrogating the cultural hierarchies in which sound operates. In her new mural for Washington University’s Kemper Art Museum, the artist and Deaf activist highlights how the weight of history and everyday experiences intertwine to affect the lives of Deaf people.
February 4, 2021
While their annual showcase celebrating Asian culture and the Lunar New Year couldn’t happen in person this year due to the pandemic, members of the Lunar New Year Festival refused to give up. Instead, they pivoted to create their first virtual show. The production premiered on YouTube March 27 and is available online.
April 6, 2021
Lizzie Fitch and Ryan Trecartin, still from “Ready,” 2010. (Image courtesy of the artists)
With frenetic editing, absurdist humor and a stubbornly improvisational ethos, artists Lizzie Fitch and Ryan Trecartin create deliriously non-narrative videos, sculptures and installations that both investigate and embody the arch, hyper-self-consciousness of social media and reality television.
On Feb. 4, Fitch and Trecartin will discuss their collaborative practice as part of the spring Public Lecture Series, sponsored by the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. In all, the series will feature 22 virtual presentations by renowned artists, architects, designers and scholars.
Archival slides of the Charles E. Fleming House, Town and Country, Mo. (Photo courtesy of the Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis)
Kemper Art Museum explores power, influence and vulnerability of motorized travel
December 21, 2020 SHARE
Works by Ed Ruscha, on view as part of “The Autonomous Future of Mobility.” The Teaching Gallery exhibition at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum is curated by assistant professor Constance Vale, in conjunction with her fall 2020 studio of the same title. (Photo: Constance Vale)
A van gleams darkly in the seedy neon of 1970s Times Square. Taxis queue for gas amidst a global oil crisis. In Los Angeles, sprawling development commands acres of flat-lot parking a feedback loop of urban emptiness.
In “The Autonomous Future of Mobility,” Constance Vale, assistant professor of architecture in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, explores how motorized travel shapes American cities, energy consumption and popular notions of freedom and independence.