We Interrupt Your Program Reception

To: Retort
Via: GW

[A reminder that Retort and friends are cordially invited to the January 23rd opening reception of We Interrupt Your Program, curated by Marcia Tanner. The show, at Mills College, includes Gail's pieces The Meaning of Minuscule and Blow Out, as well as Afflicted Powers, a restaging of Retort's Seville Biennale installation. Please extend this invitation to all and sundry. IB]

ORGANIZED BY MARCIA TANNER, GUEST CURATOR

<x-tad-smaller>January 16 Through March 16, 2008</x-tad-smaller>
<x-tad-smaller> Opening Reception: January 23, 5:30 – 7:30pm</x-tad-smaller>
<x-tad-smaller> Mills College Art Museum </x-tad-smaller>

<x-tad-smaller>Continuing its commitment to the work of women artists and curators, The Mills College Art Museum presents </x-tad-smaller><x-tad-smaller>We Interrupt Your Program:</x-tad-smaller><x-tad-smaller> a group exhibition of video and new media works by fourteen emerging and mid-career female artists. </x-tad-smaller>

<x-tad-smaller>The works in </x-tad-smaller><x-tad-smaller>We Interrupt Your Program</x-tad-smaller><x-tad-smaller> intervene in, reconfigure, augment, and/or re-contextualize dominant narratives of war, power, science, technology, and gender from what are arguably distinctively female and feminist perspectives. Spanning a range of media and aesthetic strategies, the exhibition includes computer-manipulated video, digital animation, video installation, interactive sculpture, and photography. </x-tad-smaller>

<x-tad-smaller>All of the artists in</x-tad-smaller><x-tad-smaller> We Interrupt . . .</x-tad-smaller><x-tad-smaller> respond to contemporary mainstream media—including network television, mass market feature films, instructional science videos, and online communication platforms such as email and chat rooms—interrogating them as restrictive vocabularies and structures that routinely exclude the female voice and point of view. Their work, which often formally refers to art historical precedents like minimalism or landscape painting, as well as popular visual culture, is powerfully expressive, conceptually complex, and relevant to our cultural moment.</x-tad-smaller>

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<x-tad-smaller> Public Programs:</x-tad-smaller>
<x-tad-smaller> January 23rd, 7:30pm</x-tad-smaller>
<x-tad-smaller> Curator Marcia Tanner in conversation with Jean Shin and Claudia X. Valdes</x-tad-smaller>

<x-tad-smaller> February 20th, 7:30pm</x-tad-smaller>
<x-tad-smaller> Mills College Visiting Artist Samara Halperin in conversation with Anne Walsh and Gail Wight</x-tad-smaller>

<x-tad-smaller> March 12th, 7:30pm</x-tad-smaller>
<x-tad-smaller> Lecture by Marisa Olson</x-tad-smaller>

<x-tad-smaller> All programs are in Danforth Lecture Hall, Art Building </x-tad-smaller>

<x-tad-smaller> Viewers interested in this exhibition might also like to visit </x-tad-smaller><x-tad-smaller>Small Things End, Great Things Endure</x-tad-smaller><x-tad-smaller> at </x-tad-smaller><x-tad-smaller>New Langton Arts</x-tad-smaller><x-tad-smaller>, which features works by Akosua Adoma Owusu, Maja Bajevic, Andrea Bowers, Zoe Crosher, Eve Fowler, Wynne Greenwood, Anna Maltz, Ali Naschke-Messing, Emily Roysdon, Jen Smith, Jonathan Solo, and Matilde ter Heijne, on-view from January 17 through March 15, 2008. </x-tad-smaller>

<x-tad-smaller> Above Image:</x-tad-smaller>
<x-tad-smaller> Shannon Plumb, Olympics, 2005</x-tad-smaller>
<x-tad-smaller> Single–channel DVD, 19 minutes</x-tad-smaller>
<x-tad-smaller> Courtesy of the artist and Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York</x-tad-smaller><x-tad-smaller> </x-tad-smaller>

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<x-tad-smaller> Mills College Art Museum</x-tad-smaller>
<x-tad-smaller> 5000 MacArthur Boulevard</x-tad-smaller>
<x-tad-smaller> Oakland, CA 94613</x-tad-smaller>
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<x-tad-smaller> Museum Hours: Tuesday–Sunday 11–4pm,</x-tad-smaller>
<x-tad-smaller> Wednesday 11–7:30pm, closed Mondays.</x-tad-smaller>
<x-tad-smaller> Admission is free.</x-tad-smaller>

<x-tad-smaller>www.mills.edu/museum</x-tad-smaller>