Still from “Signal” (2017) by Alison Nguyen and Hemant Sreekumar
October 23, 2018
7-9pm
Tai Kwun Contemporary
10 Hollywood Road
Central, Hong Kong
I’m excited to be showing “Signal”, my collaboration with Hemant Sreekumar, as a part of “Start From Scratch, Not Two Steps Back” curated by Simon Liu. In great company with works by Sky Hopinka, Ross Meckfessel, Erica Sheu, and Simon Liu, among others.
I’m honored to be one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film”. Excerpt below. You can check out the full article by Scott Maccaulay here.
I will be exhibiting my video 'you can't plan a perfect day sometimes it just happens' at the SF Art Book Fair this year.
The SF Art Book Fair is an annual multi-day festival celebrating artists’ books, art catalogs, monographs, periodicals, zines, printed ephemera and artists’ multiples. Presented this year at San Francisco’s Minnesota Street Project July 20–22, the 2018 iteration features an astonishing curated cast of over 100 independent publishers, antiquarian dealers, artists, collectors, and enthusiasts as well as a diverse range of talks, discussions, book launches, on and off-site special projects, exhibitions and signings.
For 2018, San Francisco Cinematheque joins forces with Canyon Cinema at SFABF to present an array of collectible publications (for perusal and purchase) and screenings of 16mm film and media works all weekend-long. Click on links for full details.
Friday, July 22 (details on full Friday line-up here)
6:30pm: Ephraim Asili: Fluid Frontiers
7pm: Out of Print (guest curated by Linda Scobie): works by Lewis Klahr, John Smith, Barbara Hammer, Greta Snider, Jay Rosenblatt, James Broughton, James Sansing
8pm: I Am Not Here (CROSSROADS capsule 1): works by sair goetz (in person), Youngzoo Im, Rosa John, Nico LaShea
9pm: Visions of the Void (CROSSROADS capsule 2): works by Peggy Ahwesh, Jodie Mack, Lydia Moyer, Alison Nguyen, Seth Pimlott,
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Sunday, July 24 (details on full Sunday line-up here)
11am: Michael Snow: So Is This
12pm: Visions of the Void (CROSSROADS capsule 2). Works by Peggy Ahwesh, Jodie Mack, Lydia Moyer, Alison Nguyen, Seth Pimlott, Alexander Stewart
1pm: Anne McGuire’s Oh Hi Anne + Curt McDowell’s Weiners and Buns Musical (Anne McGuire in person)
2pm: Canyon Cinemazine Digest. A selection of 16mm films featured in the first 5 issues of the Cinemazine including works by Jodie Mack, Paul Glabicki, Anna Geyer and more.
3pm: James Benning: Casting a Glance
4:30pm: Colectivo Los ingrávidos: The Sun Quartet, part 4: November 2/Far from Ayotzinapa
Excited to be screening 'Dessert-Disaster' at Marfa Film Festival
July 11 - 15, 2018
Crowley Theater
98 S Austin St
Marfa, TX 79843
Still from 'Dessert-Disaster' (2017-2018) by Alison Nguyen
March 24th, 2018
7:30pm
Michigan Theater
603 E Liberty St,
Ann Arbor, MI 48104
My video work 'Dessert-Disaster' will be a part of the Ann Arbor Film Festival this year as part of the Films in Competition:
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The Ann Arbor Film Festival is the oldest avant-garde and experimental film festival in North America, founded by George Manupelli in 1963. The six-day festival presents 40 programs with more than 180 films from over 20 countries of all lengths and genres, including experimental, animation, documentary, fiction, and performance-based works.
March 4 - 10, 2018
The University of Oklahoma
Spotlight Gallery
I'm excited to have a solo exhibition of the double-channel installation version of my video 'Dessert-Disaster' at The University of Oklahoma, where I will be a Visiting Artist from March 4-8, 2018. Alongside the exhibition I will be teaching an Experimental Media course to Art, Technology, and Culture BFA students.
March 8, 2018
1:30pm
Institute Higher Arts De Toulouse - Department Fine Arts
5 Quai de la Daurade, 31000 Toulouse, France
I will be showing my short video "Dessert-Disaster" at Traverse Vidéo in Toulouse, France. More info on the program here: http://traverse-video.org/videos/
March 2, 2018
7:30pm
True/False Film Festival
Rhynsburger Theater
505 Hitt Street
Columbia, MO
I'm excited to be showing my video 'Dessert-Disaster' at True/False Film Festival this year. Program info below:
https://truefalse.org/program/schedule?day=2018-03-02
Still from "Death and TV", triple-channel video installation, by Alison Nguyen
I will be an artist-in-residence at Signal Culture (Owego, NY) from February 16-23rd, 2018. I'll be focusing on a long-term archival video installation project temporarily titled, “Death and TV.” The piece centers on both banal and fatal televised media from the mid-90’s to present day; I use this material to explore the cultural surrounding, mediated death, and childhood memories. Footage sources include: QVC, news coverage of the Heaven’s Gate cult suicide, soap operas such as Days of Our Lives, news coverage of natural disasters, cartoons, televised Church masses, and UFO sightings.
“Death and TV” involves my interest in the blur between the mediated self and the actual self. In this project I question how the coming of age of certain televised phenomenons such as home shopping networks and sensationalized violence affected my own coming of age as a child in the 90’s.
I'm honored to have been awarded the 2018 Media Art Fellowship. I will be using BRIC's facilities and resources to create an installation version of my video 'Dessert-Disaster' and create a new piece temporarily titled 'Death and Television'.
Other grantees include: Chloë Bass, Mildred Beltre, Sarah E. Brook, Esperanza Cortes, Caroline Falby, Michelle Gevint, David Cutler Kenndy, Jemila MacEwan, Julie Petrusak, Kamran Shahraray, and Pacifico Silano.
More about us here.
Still from 'Jennifer, Where are you?" (1981) by Leslie Thornton
January 30th, 2018
9pm
Zumzeig Cine
Calle Béjar, 53, Barcelona
Curated by Alison Nguyen
Co-presented by Lab Reversible
http://zumzeigcine.coop/es/portfolio/blitz-8-alison-nguyen-ii/
A screening series of film and video artists whose work subverts the codes of mass media, often appropriating found images. These pieces question the technology that forms our perception of gender, authority, space and history.
Works include: Jennifer, Where Are You? by Leslie Thornton, The Truth by LJ Frezza, Domestic Landscape: Eclipse by Sabrina Ratté, Funhouse by Scott Kiernan, The Time That Remains by Soda_Jerk, Danse by Brian Murphy, Beirut Outtakes by Peggy Ahwesh, Dessert-Disaster by Alison Nguyen, Eden 2.0 (Episode 1) by Ololade Adeniyi, No Sell Out ... or i wnt 2b th ultimate commodity / machine (Malcolm X Pt. 2) by X-PRZ, bilateral by Lily Jue Sheng and Trans Trans (Transformers Transformed) by Bradley Eros and Tim Geraghty.
