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The Creativity Network is a video channel showcasing programming produced by us and from around the web. We will continuously update the channel with segments on artists, arts venues, performances, discussions on creativity, and anything else we find that spotlights the world of arts, culture and creativity. We invite producers to send us their links to their produced programming. We'll do our best to promote and credit your work. Email us at thecreativitynetwork@gmail.com.
THIS WEEK ON THE CREATIVITY NETWORK
THELMA GOLDEN: HOW ART GIVES SHAPE TO CULTURAL CHANGE
Thelma Golden, curator at the Studio Museum in Harlem, talks through three recent shows that explore how art examines and redefines culture. The "post-black" artists she works with are using their art to provoke a new dialogue about race and culture -- and about the meaning of art itself.
ARTBABBLE
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Kimsooja's videos and installations blur the boundaries between aesthetics and transcendent experience through their use of repetitive actions, meditative practices, and serial forms. In many pieces, everyday actions—such as sewing or doing laundry—become two- and three-dimensional or performative activities. In videos that feature her in various personas (Needle Woman, Beggar Woman, Homeless Woman), she leads us to reflect on the human condition, offering open-ended perspectives through which she presents and questions reality.
Learn more about Kimsooja: http://www.art21.org/artists/kimsooja
Doris Salcedo: Istanbul
Doris Salcedo’s understated sculptures and installations embody the silenced lives of the marginalized, from individual victims of violence to the disempowered of the Third World. Although elegiac in tone, her works are not memorials: Salcedo concretizes absence, oppression, and the gap between the disempowered and powerful. While abstract in form and open to interpretation, her works serve as testimonies on behalf of both victims and perpetrators. Salcedo’s work reflects a collective effort and close collaboration with a team of architects, engineers, and assistants and—as Salcedo says—with the victims of the senseless and brutal acts to which her work refers.
Learn more about Doris Salcedo: http://www.art21.org/artists/doris-salcedo
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