Bardian and Proud Video Series

Artist Tschabalala Self ’12, whose largest exhibition to date is on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, talks about her materials, process, inspiration, and the characters she depicts in the layered artworks she creates from fabric and thread.






 

That could be me.” Bard alumnus Dariel Vasquez ’17, cofounder and executive director of Brothers@, never felt welcome at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, even though he grew up in nearby Harlem. His first visit to the Met was on a Bard class trip for a Northern Renaissance Art course with Teju Cole. Seeing the confidence and enthusiasm of Professor Cole, a fellow Black man, at the front of the class transformed the discomfort he felt into a sense of belonging.

 

Watch New York-based artist Xaviera Simmons ’05 discuss her works “The Lushness of” and “Superunknown” in the exhibition, Poetics of Relation.





 

On the occasion of Alex Katz: Grass and Trees, a solo presentation of the artist's recent landscape paintings, renowned poet and writer John Yau ’72 joined art historian and literary critic Ivy Wilson in conversation to discuss the exhibition.

 

Julia Christensen’s ’00 ongoing project, “Upgrade Available,” investigates how “upgrade culture,” the perceived relentless need to endlessly upgrade electronics and recordable media to remain relevant, impacts life on a range of time scales.

Designer Deborah Sussman ’52, whose work is included in California Design, 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way at LACMA, talks about her work, including her early history as part of the Eames Office.







 

Delirium is a multichannel video installation with live performance that breaks apart hierarchical systems of control through ruptures in language and form. With a cast of queer performers passing through smoke, light, digital glitches, and 360° video, Delirium uses Patricia MacCormack’s theoretical text, Cinesexuality, as a jumping off point to imagine altered states of consciousness through queer desire.

Amy Sillman MFA ’95 talks about her work and her process in conjunction with her exhibition, Amy Sillman: one lump or two.