Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts

Now screening on three websites as a buildup to the United States general election: 'Nothing is Eternal' by Jeffrey Gibson. Watch it online through November 3 at: .+* ybca.org - Yerba Buena Center for the Arts .,+ robertsprojectsla.com - Roberts Projects... ..; wattis.org (remains online until December 12) See more

I love the defiant people. A lot of the figures that I end up painting are figures that have a sense of self-possession and a sense of agency, in the gesture or the expression in their face. You have to make what you want to see. - Maia Cruz Palileo. We're excited to announce the upcoming exhibition 'Long Kwento' featuring new paintings and sculptures by Maia Cruz Palileo from January through March 2021! Get to know the artist by watching the beautiful American Masters short documentary film created by filmmaker Ligaiya Romero here: https://www.pbs.org//maia-cruz-palileo-becoming-the/15825/

Nothing is Eternal by Jeffrey Gibson is one of artnet's editors' picks! A droning, distorted score accompanies a host of trippy visuals, such as shots of wind-whipped American flags, drifting clouds, and disappearing highways. Taylor Dafoe https://news.artnet.com//editors-picks-october-26-2020-191

Now on view at NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore: "Why are they so afraid of a lotus?" Speaking nearby to the exhibition 'Trinh T. Minh-ha. Films,' this presentation showcases our past research season on Trinh’s multifaceted practice as a filmmaker, writer and theorist. What does the promise of speaking nearby rather than speaking about look like today? What are the politics of hospitality? What are the problematics of post-feminism, and how do we challenge t...he West as the authoritative subject of feminist knowledge? Curated by Kim Nguyen All info: http://ntu.ccasingapore.org//why-are-they-so-afraid-of-a-/

How familiar are you with the work of the profound experimental filmmaker Craig Baldwin? The online event, CRAIG BALDWIN: AVANT TO LIVE, a conversation betw...een SF Cinematheque's Steve Polta and Canyon Cinema's Brett Kashmere about the work of Craig Baldwin documented in their upcoming publication, is available to watch through Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts' archive: https://wattis.org/library_view_.php?id=752,776,781,1127 To learn more about Craig Baldwin and the upcoming publication, check out Incite Journal of Experimental Media's website: http://www.incite-online.net/baldwin.html See more

!! Tonight !! Instead of an exhibition opening, join us for a special launch event and screening of 'Nothing is Eternal' by Jeffrey Gibson at the Tenderloin National Forest. Mask up and enter through SWIM gallery (509 Ellis Street). The video is 18:14 min. long and will loop from 7 - 9 pm. We will allow 15 people at a time.... Looking forward to seeing you again!

Join us next Wednesday for the 1st event of the new series 'Land to Light On,' in collaboration with California College of the Arts! 'Land to Light On' is an ongoing conversation with no foreseeable end. We carry the words of Dionne Brand with each iteration: "I don’t want no fucking country, here or there and all the way back, I don’t like it, none of it, easy as that. I’m giving up on land to light on, and why not, I can’t perfect my own shadow, my violent sorrow, my individual wrists."

Jeffrey Gibson presents 'Nothing is Eternal,' a newly commissioned video with musical composition. Join us next week at Tenderloin National Forest for the first outdoor screening!

Three times the Wattis in this month's reopening issue of the The Art Report! Do you want to keep up to date with all art events and exhibitions in and of the Bay Area? Subscribe to their monthly newsletter at www.theartreport.org.

In two weeks, we launch a new public programming series, 'Land to Light On', in collaboration with California College of the Arts' academic departments focusing on racial capitalism, abolition, and decolonization. For the first lecture, we welcome Joshua Myers with his talk 'The Black Radical Tradition; or a Poetics of a Liberation'. Join the event below for more information and RSVP!

Now online on the #WattisLibrary: last week's conversation on Craig Baldwin with Steve Polta and Brett Kashmere, including a screening of the early Super 8 performance film 'Stolen Movie' and an excerpt from 'Wild Gunman'. Watch it at: https://wattis.org/library_view_.php?id=752,776,781,1127