This exhibit will have an opening with a l arge 20' x 12' projection on the South West wall of the library on the nig ht of October 26th from 7-9 pm. \; The installation will \;then mo ve indoors to the Urban Room of the Library until the 30th. \; The dig ital exhibit will subsequently be on view at the Chapman Library.
\nSpeaking at the opening event will be Shima Baradaran Baughman\, a nationa l expert on criminal justice policy\, race\, and violent crime\, whose wor k has been featured in The New York Times\, The Wall Street Journal\, Nati onal Public Radio\, The Economist\, The Washington Post\, and Forbes.
\ nARTIST STATEMENT:
\n&ldquo\;When we see a nose\ , eyes\, forehead\, and chin\, and are able to describe them\, we turn tow ards the Other as an object. . . . The other person at first is part of th e whole\, which is given to me like other objects\, like the whole world\, the &lsquo\;spectacle of the world.&rsquo\; And the other person somehow pierces through this whole precisely by their appearance as a face\, which isn&rsquo\;t simply a plastic form\, but it immediately is a commitment f or me\, an appeal to me\, an order\, an order for me\, to be at the servic e of this face. . . . The face of the Other at each moment destroys and ov erflows the plastic image it leaves me.&rdquo\;
\n- Emmanuel Levinas
\nARTIST BIO:
\nEmily Erekson is a NYC-based interdisciplinary artist whose works are natural outgrowths of her desire to experiment\, explore\, and improvise. Her work has recently been showc ased at Carnegie Hall and Columbia University\, and is currently on exhibi t at the Church History Museum in Salt Lake City. She has received grants or commissions from the Utah Division of Arts and Museums\, the Salt Lake City Arts Council\, the Center for Latter-day Saint Arts\, The New School\ , Certain Women Art Show\, and the Northern Manhattan Higher Ground Festiv al\, and her interactive music installation for female voices\, Out of the Rolling Ocean\, was featured in SCIART MAGAZINE&rsquo\;s June 2020 issue for algorithmic\, interdisciplinary works.
\nJamie Erekson is an int erdisciplinary artist and creative producer whose work ranges from a large -scale musical deconstruction of Shakespeare&rsquo\;s Richard II at Carneg ie Hall\, to a 12&prime\;x12&prime\;x6&prime\; interactive kinetic sound s culpture\, to a site-specific collaboration with Ballet West exploring red lining in Salt Lake City. Recently\, his work has been performed at Carneg ie Hall\, Lincoln Center\, and Columbia University\, and he has received c ommissions\, grants\, and awards from the Albany Symphony Orchestra\, The Barlow Endowment for Music Composition\, the Utah Division of Arts and Mus eums\, the Salt Lake City Arts Council\, the Center for Latter-day Saint A rts\, and Mannes School of Music. He lives in Manhattan with his wife\, in terdisciplinary artist Emily Erekson\, and their three children. \;
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