In Dialogue: Collaborations with Charles Gaines 

Friday, March 27, 7-9 pm

$10, in-person [tickets]

Charles Gaines is a renowned conceptual artist whose practice spans five decades. Gaines is known for using systematic approaches to his work as a way of visualizing underlying social constructs in language, history and race. He is the subject of an exhibition at RIT, curated by Ellen Tani, who is an Assistant Professor of Art and is currently developing a book about Gaines. This program will feature works by and in collaboration with Charles Gaines alongside films and videos that Tani has selected from the VSW collections.

A conversation follows afterward between Gaines, Tani and Matt Omelsky, Associate Professor of English, Black Studies, and Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester.

The program will include the following filmworks:

• Edgar Arceneaux, An Arrangement Without Tormentors (2003-6), featuring music composed and performed by Charles Gaines and Nora Mulder

• Peer Bode, Movements for Video, Dance, and Music (1976)

• Gunilla & Philip Mallory Jones, No Crystal Stair (1976)