Tune in to Green – Exhibition Six : Live Screening recap
The first live screening of a Tune in to Green exhibition took place at
Casa de Luz in Austin, Texas on the evening of Saturday, April 16th. A dozen
people were in attendance. The 2022 Spring show, Exhibition Six was projected.
Featured works were by:
Paulius Šliaupa & Suzan Peeters – Belgium / Lithuania; Harvey Goldman & Jing Wang – Dartmouth, Massachusetts; Sinéad Curran – Dublin, Ireland; Laura Gillis – Toronto, Canada; Michael Lyons – Kyoto, Japan; Jung-Chul Hur – South Korea / Thailand; Stephanie Reid – Austin, Texas; REW (Rachel Wagner) & Galen Tipton – Columbus, Ohio; Evie McKenna – Queens, New York: Katherine Balsley & Irina Escalante-Chernova: Atlanta, GA / Milwaukee, WI; Jody Zellen – Santa Monica, California; Mary Trunk – Altadena, California / Newfoundland, Canada;
Jean-Michel Rolland & Fran Lejeune – Marseille, France;
and Benna Gaean Maris – Belgium / Italy.
Comments of the night were:
“Thank you! I really needed that!”
“More fireflies!”
“District 7 inspired me to want to make a video poem.”
“I just loved Little Crown. That last scene reminded me of my Grandma.”
“All the flower films were so pleasing!”
“I didn’t want the show to end!”
“I really felt the tree and the man becoming one another in Symbiosis.”
(audience watches “Symbiosis” by Jim Rolland and Fran Lejeune of Marseilles, France)
Tune in to Green – Exhibition Five closing February 28th
The micro-short videos (under 5-minutes) in the Tune in to Green series can be thought of as sketches. They are visual representations of ideas revolving around the anthropocene era, or plantationocene as some prefer to call it after Donna Haraway. One way or another the international artists in each exhibition express a question, mood, philosophy, and/or story about humanity’s need to evolve beyond its centuries-old battle with nature and instead find ways to integrate human society with it. Through video poems, experimental audiovisual pieces, expanded documentaries, and journalism, we are presented with new ways of looking at old problems or ways to appreciate the beauty around us with fresh eyes. Watch the trailer or rent the show at https://vimeo.com/ondemand/tuneintogreen or the Diorama Room home page. Exhibition Five ends on 2/28/2022.
