UN-SCR-1325

Last day of UN-SCR-1325: a special screening

2009-04-07T10:23:00.000-07:00

+1

A Film and Video Screening

Vanessa Albury, Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock, Crystal Curtis, Sam Friedman, Marthe Fortun, Rachel Mason, Alex McQuilkin, Anibal Pella-Woo, Adie Russell, Leah Singer, and Nickolaus Typaldos.
Curated by Vanessa Albury

Saturday, April 11 at 4pm

Chelsea Art Museum
556 West 22nd Street
New York, NY 10011
USA

The Chelsea Art Museum is pleased to present +1, a film and video screening accompanying the museum’s current group exhibition UN-SCR-1325. Vanessa Albury will present her 16mm film titled I Am What You Make Me, created for UN-SCR-1325, along with film and video works of artists who participated in her film. In the communal spirit of the film, the artists who participate in I Am What You Make Me each invite one guest artist, a plus one, to also screen a film or video.

To create I Am What You Make Me, Albury draws a continuous hand-drawn line on film, cuts it into 9 clips and sends the clips to 9 participants. These participants change the clips as he or she sees fit. Albury re-edits the transformed clips together to generate the final film. Created for the exhibition, the participants of I Am What You Make Me are important to Albury’s conception of the conversations instigated by UN-SCR-1325: ideas of community, trauma, the self and the other, embracing differences, image and perception.

The screening is presented on the last day of UN-SCR-1325, which brings works by eight Belgian artists together with works by eight American artists and is curated by Jan Van Woensel. Referencing the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 concerning women and conflict resolution, the exhibition focuses on the position of women in global and local sociopolitical contexts. The artwork in the show critically addresses topics such as religion, sex, identity, trauma and war. UN-SCR-1325, adopted in 2000, is the first resolution passed by the Security Council that comprehensively addresses the impact of war and conflict on women and women's contributions to conflict prevention, as well as conflict resolution and sustainable peace efforts. The exhibition acknowledges the great importance and value of this resolution. Instead of being illustrations of a political declaration, the individual works examine critical moments of social and psychological defect and disruption. Rather than portraying women as victims, the artists of the exhibition present works that expose the resilient reactions of women to negligence, discrimination and intolerance.

Info: Nicollette Ramirez

nicollette@chelseartmuseum.org

UN-SCR-1325

2008-11-23T10:22:00.000-08:00

[Yoko Ono, Snow Piece 1963, published in grapefruit 1964, Wunternaum press, Tokyo]

UN-SCR-1325

An exhibition referencing the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325

Artists: Vanessa Albury, Claire Beckett, Berlinde De Bruyckere, Jen DeNike, Kathleen Hanna & Becca Albee, Karin Hanssen, Kati Heck, Ann Veronica Janssens, Marie-Jo Lafontaine, Marlene McCarty, Sofie Muller, Adrian Piper, Adie Russell, Leah Singer, Joelle Tuerlinckx, and Cindy Wright.

Curator: Jan Van Woensel
Assistant Curator: Vanessa Albury

Chelsea Art Museum
556 West 22nd Street
New York, NY 10011
USA

March 6 – April 11, 2009
Opening: Thursday, March 5th, 2009, from 6 to 9PM
VIP Armory Show (RSVP: office.janvanwoensel@gmail.com)

The Chelsea Art Museum, home of the Miotte Foundation, is pleased to present the group exhibition UN-SCR-1325, which brings works by eight Belgian artists together with works by eight American artists. Referencing the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security, the exhibition focuses on the position of women in global and local sociopolitical contexts. The artwork in the show critically addresses topics such as religion, sex, identity, trauma and war.

Many of the works presented in the exhibition find their inspiration in concrete time and place. From the staged repetition of a random action in the work of Joëlle Tuerlinckx, to the notions of space and isolation in the work of Sofie Muller, to the relational complexity between "you" and "me" in Vanessa Albury's work and to the survival objects of collaborators Kathleen Hanna and Becca Albee: these works reveal how the artists reflect upon the here and now. The exhibition confronts the viewer with physicality, femininity, transgression and action. "If women suffer the impact of conflict disproportionately, they are also the key to the solution of conflict", said former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan in 2002. The exhibition UN-SCR-1325 demonstrates how women can be an important force for change in a situation of conflict. Through this exhibition we are invited to think consciously about how change can be suggested, accepted and successfully integrated in our societies.

The exhibition UN-SCR-1325 is sponsored by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belgium and supported by The Armory Show, Capitalatwork, Yasmine Geukens and Marie-Paule De Vil, and Office Jan Van Woensel.

Support the cause SOS, stop sexual terror in East-Congo http://www.sosoostcongo.be/node/12

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For more information about the exhibition, please contact Office Jan Van Woensel