Origins / Departures: Documentary Media MFA Showcase 2025
@ The Block Museum
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Wednesday, June 11th, at 7PM
On view through Thursday, June 12th
These two nights of showcases are a culmination of ongoing cinematic explorations of Xiaolu Wang 王晓璐, Seunghee Chang, Blair Barnes, Gríma Irmudóttir, Shawn Antoine II, and Blake Knecht. Expanding their practices within the Documentary Media MFA program from 2023 to 2025, they are excited to present a myriad of audiovisual experiences that respond to the ruptures of reality. These images and sounds move between the opaque, the uncanny, the mysterious, and the contemplative, traveling through the Hui Muslim Autonomous Region in northwestern China, around the watery edges of Seoul, within the Black interiority, across the highlands of Iceland, inside a 1970s Bronx apartment, and engulfed by the scorched desert of the American Southwest. These works muddle the familiar with the unfamiliar, resource irresistible whispers from deep inside, and bear witness to our collective entanglement and unraveling.
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Tags: Blair Barnes, Blake Knecht, Block Cinema, Evanston, Film Screening, Grima Irmudottir, MFA showcase, Origins, Seunghee Chang, Shawn Antoine II, The Block Museum, Xiaolu Wang 王晓璐
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