Opening reception:
April 3, 2014 5-7pm
Art|Sci Gallery
CNSI 5th floor

LASER following at 7pm.

This project was created in collaboration with Patrice Le Gal, director of research at CNRS. A videographer and sculptor born in Santiago, Chile, Javiera Tejerina-Risso lives and works in Marseille.

ASSEMBLING SAMIRA: Queering Sexual Humanitarianism Through Experimental Filmmaking

NICOLA MAI: Lecture + Screening

April 1, 2014 // 12pm lunchtime lecture
Karim is an Algerian refugee selling sex as a transvestite (Samira) in Marseille, France. This art-science installation tells his story by assembling on two screens the different ways Karim presents himself in different settings including ethnographic observation, health services and humanitarian interventions. View trailer here.  

CNSI Art|Sci Gallery // 
Free Admission

Upcoming EXHIBITION Opening MARCH 6th 

LITA ALBUQUERQUE >> Prime Meridian: Zero Degree

Followed by LASER Presentations 

Presented by internationally renowned artist Lita Albuquerque, Prime Meridian: Zero Degrees explored the relationship between humanity and the movement of the cosmos. Albuquerque projected two videos on the walls of stellar rotation from the north and south poles and a projection on the ground of a body’s shadow running. In this projected world, Albuquerque suspended our ordinary reality. The normal ebb and flow of life ceased, in order to better understand our common bonds of time, stillness and motion.

With sound composed by Susan Deyhim, Prime Meridian: Zero Degrees was performed by Jasmine Albuquerque Croissant, Marc Breslin and Clarissa Ribiero.

Lita Albuquerque is an installation/environmental artist, painter and sculptor. She has developed a visual language that brings the realities of time and space to a human scale and is acclaimed for her ephemeral and permanent art works executed in the landscape and public sites.

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