Work in Progress by CMP student Elitza Koeva
On March 31, we will kick off the Spring CMP Critique with our guest speaker Moyra Davey and on April 1, CMP students will gather in groups by medium for a peer critique to which CMP students, faculty, guest artists, filmmakers, and curators are invited. Students in G3 and above are asked to show a work in progress of their capstone or other CMP work and are welcome to circulate materials to participants a week in advance. Each student will present for up to 10 minutes, followed by a 20-minute discussion. We are excited to bring everyone together for this spring critique!
Thursday, March 31, 5pm: Visiting Artist Talk with Moyra Davey and film screening of “i confess” (2019) in CCVA B04
Friday, April 1, 9am-5pm: Critiques
Moyra Davey’s work comprises the fields of photography, video and writing. Trained in photographic and moving image practices throughout the 1980s, Davey became a mother in 1996, prompting her to edit the collection “Mother Reader: Essential Writings on Motherhood” (2001), a survey of texts on creative life and maternal ambivalence. Subsequent to this period of research, non-fiction writing in tandem with video, took on greater significance in Davey’s artistic work. Since 2005 she has produced six narrative videos, including the “Les Goddesses” trilogy, focusing on the imagined, intersecting lives of the female British Romantics, and those of her five sisters; and “i confess,” an essayistic work anchored by the emergent themes of race, poverty, and language in twentieth century Quebec. Davey took a hiatus from photography in 2003, but resumed making still images six years later, almost by accident, when a gallery’s invitation to participate in an exhibition from afar, prompted her to fold and mail photographs. This method of treating the photograph as a “giant postcard” enabled a new approach to the image, and soon became a staple of Davey’s practice. She has authored numerous books, most recently an essay collection, “Index Cards” (2020), and “The Shabbiness of Beauty” (2021), in collaboration with the estate of Peter Hujar. Davey has exhibited widely, and has participated in the Whitney/São Paulo/Montreal and Toronto Biennials, as well as documenta-14 in Athens and Kassel. Her artworks are held in numerous public collections, including MoMA and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, The Reina Sofia, Madrid, and Tate Modern, London. A survey of her videos will be presented at MoMA, NY in 2022. Davey is a 2020 John S. Guggenheim Fellow.
Film still from “i confess” (2019)
March 31, 2022 – April 1, 2022
All Day