Sight/Geist: Dislocation
Screening & Discussion
Thursday, June 22, 2023
6-8:30pm
The 8th Floor
17 W 17th Street, NYC
Cassandra Celestin, Water & Wall, 2021. Video still. Courtesy of the artist.
This final screening program considers questions of land, belonging, movement, and autonomy through a range of artistic strategies and sociopolitical contexts. This thematic grouping features A Speaking Dendrobium (2022) by Yu Yan, Water & Wall (2021) by Cassandra Celestin, Sketches from Europe (2018) by Anne Sofie Noerskov, Coincidence of Wants (He Needs Me) (2022) by Georgica Pettus, and ˈpi-jən (2021) by Lananh Chu.
Doors will open at 6pm with Bang Geul Han’s Land of Tenderness partially on view. The screening will begin at 6:30pm, to be followed by a discussion and Q&A led by the Foundation’s Charles de Agustin, with artists in attendance.
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Yu Yan is a visual artist based in New York, United States. She gained her master's degree in Art, Design, and the Public Domain Program from Harvard University Graduate School of Design with distinction in 2022, and her bachelor's degree in Studio Arts Photography and Economics from Smith College in 2018, as the recipient of the Megan Hart Jones Art Prize. Primarily working with researched-based projects and site-specific installations, she follows intuitive research pursuits across a variety of disciplines and disparate systems of knowledge in natural and political landscapes. She is interested in the connectedness between personal memory and collective urban scenes, addressing issues around immigration and the diaspora community. She was an invited artist in residence at Swatch Art Peace Hotel in Shanghai from 2020 to 2021. Her works have been exhibited in Italy, Poland, Scotland, France, Japan, Korea, Greece, U.S., U.K., and China.
Cassandra Celestin (b. 1990) is a filmmaker, lens-based artist, and curator whose work draws on object-based inquiry and techniques from historical, archaeological, and material culture research. Her work focuses on the built environments and other physical traces of past individuals and communities that often go unnoticed, especially small things from the domestic and trade spheres. She received an MA from Bard Graduate Center in New York in Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture (2016 - 2018) and is co-founder of the Syros International Film Festival in Greece (founded 2013) where she also initiated the Alternate Paths public workshop and artist residency (2020 - 2022). Cassandra’s films have screened at festivals and art events around the world, including Edinburgh International Film Festival (Black Box), Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, FRACTO, Les Inattendus, London Short Film Festival, Rockaway Film Festival, and Athens Film and Video Festival.
Anne Sofie Noerskov is a Danish filmmaker and editor based in New York.
Georgica Pettus (b.1997) is an American artist and performer based in New York. She focuses on theories of interactivity as they pertain to dance, language, and computation. Pettus received a BA from Barnard College of Columbia University, and an MFA from Oxford University. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally, most notably with The Shed, HeK (Basel), New Art Dealers Alliance, Modern Art Oxford, Hesse Flatow, Estrella Gallery, and A.I.R. Gallery. Pettus was a recent dance/tech resident at Dock11’s Digital Lab in Berlin.
Lananh Chu comes from Vietnam and studies Media Studies at The New School. She practices poetry writing and moving image art and keeps exploring other media.
Image description: In the lower thirds, a crown of tourists point their phones in various directions. A city skyline under a light blue sky is in the background.