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Opening Reception: Saturday, May 15, 5pm - 7pm
Guest curator: Justin Hoover
Lynn Marie Kirby is recognized as a member of a leading group of West Coast film and video artists in the 1990s that experimented with a new approach to film and video. Cinema Scope's Michael Sicinski refers to Kirby's work as a "unique conjunction of conceptual rigour and investigative spirituality". Examples of her work will be featured in this exhibition which includes a video of children in San Francisco; the Listening Project which she conducted in Shanghai and her collaborative video with Shanghai artist Xiaofei Li. For the Listening Project, Kirby asked people she met to take her to sites they wished to share. She listened with teenage girls and boys at a migrant children’s school, in parks and restaurants, to a classical dance performance and a mountain climber, university students in their classes and an eighty-five year old man who had been educated by French Jesuits before the “liberation”. She will be presenting evidence of these listening encounters in the gallery.
