Lucy Raven’s China Town (50′)
3pm, 4pm, 5pm at Storefront
Tuesday 7 – Saturday 11 April
Final screening with director’s presentation
7pm Saturday 11 April
China Town traces copper mining and production from an open pit mine in
Nevada to a smelter in China, where the semi-processed ore is sent to be
smelted and refined. Considering what it actually means to “be wired”
and in turn, to be connected, the video follows the detailed production
process that transforms raw ore into copper wire-in this case, the
literal digging of a hole to China-and the generation of waste and of power that
grows in both countries as byproduct. Animated from sequences of digital
still photographs and ambient sound recorded on location, China Town
focuses on the contemporary recycling of the American landscape and
industrial economy as raw mineral wealth for a developing nation.
From http://www.storefrontnews.org/films.php
Marisa JahnMarisa Jahn is an artist/writer/curator who co-founded of REV- (www.rev-it.org), a non-profit organization that fosters socially-engaged art, design, and pedagogy. Her work has been presented at the MIT Museum; ICA Philadelphia; ISEA/Zero One; Eyebeam; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Asian Art Museum, etc. Jahn received a MS from MIT, a BA from UC Berkeley, and has received awards and grants from Franklin Furnace, UNESCO, and CEC Artslink. In 2009 she was an artist-in-residence at MIT’s Media Lab, artist teacher with Center for Urban Pedagogy, and curator-in-residence at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts. She is the co-editor of ‘Recipes for an Encounter’, ‘Byproducts: On the Excess of Embedded Art Practices’ (2010), and Where We Are Now’ (www.wherewearenow.org). She is the current Director of Architecture at Art Omi (artomi.org). www.marisajahn.com