WHAT | Opening at the Aspen Art Museum, Mountain / Time is a major, museum-wide exhibition of contemporary moving image installations by an inter-generational group of artists and works with themes inspired by the intertwined histories and geographies of the mountains and their ecological systems. The exhibition features many of today’s most notable artists working in the medium of video, including Kahlil Joseph, Arthur Jafa, Doug Aitken, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Anicka Yi, Ian Cheng, Kandis Williams, Tourmaline, Maia Ruth Lee, Clarissa Tossin, Mark Leckey, and Alan Michelson. Programming for Mountain / Time will last throughout the summer and span a network of spaces across the Roaring Fork Valley, featuring several film screenings as well as live performances. Highlights include: · The Mountains Have Eyes, curated by Almudena Escobar López, Assistant Curator of Media Arts at the Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, screening at the Crystal Theatre in Carbondale on June 4, bringing together “films that think with the body and feel with the mind...a porous, translucent and cumulative cinema.” · A rare screening of two of Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weeraserthakul’s best-known films, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010) and his most recent film Memoria (2021), starring Tilda Swinton, presented at The Arts Campus at Willits (TACAW) in Basalt on July 30 and 31. · Together a “Ghost Cinema” performance by Korakrit Arunanondchai and Alex Gvojic will take place in a mountain meadow on August 4, inspired by the animistic cinematic practices of rural communities in Northeast Thailand. · In conjunction with the exhibition, Cauleen Smith will take up a two-week residency at Anderson Ranch, in collaboration with the Aspen Art Museum, where she will have the opportunity to research the geology and ecology of the valley. · A special screening event at the disused Smuggler Mine, with films projected inside the silver mine, and two film programs responding to the site screened outside. This program is curated by Anisa Jackson, Curator at Large at the Aspen Art Museum and scholar Michael B. Gillespie. Jackson’s screening presents films that situate the mine within histories of extraction, racialization, and settler colonialism. Gillespie’s screening gathers together films that pose challenging considerations of time, place, culture, and history. This site-specific program onSeptember 9 will invite participants to consider how mining among other extractive practices rearranges geology and its relationship to personhood. Mountain / Time is curated by Chrissie Iles, the Anne & Joel Ehrenkranz Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, with Anisa Jackson and Simone Krug of the Aspen Art Museum. The exhibition includes generous loans from the Whitney Museum and the Rosenkranz Collection. |
ASPEN ART MUSEUM | Accredited by the American Alliance of Museums in 1979, the Aspen Art Museum is a globally engaged non-collecting contemporary art museum. Following the 2014 opening of the museum’s facility designed by Pritzker Prize–winning architect Shigeru Ban, the AAM enjoys increased attendance, renewed civic interaction, and international media attention. In July 2017, the AAM was one of ten institutions to receive the United States’ National Medal for Museum and Library Services for its educational outreach to rural communities in Colorado’s Roaring Fork Valley and its learning partnerships with civic and cultural partners within a 100-mile radius of the museum’s Aspen location. It is the only accredited museum on the Colorado Western Slope. AAM ADMISSION IS FREE courtesy of Amy and John Phelan. The AAM is grateful for additional support and a suggested donation of $25 will be welcome at the door. Members are an important part of the AAM community. Membership advances the AAM’s mission to present the newest, most important evolutions in international contemporary art. Membership levels begin at $50 for an Individual Membership. Members can enjoy access to the opening reception on December 2 as well as priority registration to select events surrounding the exhibition. For more information, please visithttps://www.aspenartmuseum.org/join/membership. AAM exhibitions are made possible by the Marx Exhibition Fund. General exhibition support is provided by the Toby Devan Lewis Visiting Artist Fund. Additional support is provided by the AAM National Council. Visit the AAM online: aspenartmuseum.org #aspenmuseumofart#fineartmagazine#summerfineartfun |
