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The Mutable Archive Panel + Reception

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BioBAT Art Space is pleased to host an interdisciplinary panel on "The Mutable Archive", a multi-layered performance video project by Patricia Olynyk, which speaks to the problematics of human archives and renewed nationalistic obsessions with Othering and difference. By interrogating the mechanics of storytelling, the work probes the biological body and its cultural entwinements, the fragility of human life, racial profiling, and gender bias by demonstrating the fictitious foundations of human taxonomy itself.

Olynyk invited collaborators – artists, musicians, scholars, historians, a medical ethicist, a philosopher, an opera singer, and a spiritual medium – to write speculative narratives from an inventory of photographs of human specimens collected by 19th-century Viennese anatomist, Dr. Josef Hyrtl. Each performed script, a 4K cinematic video, exposes the roles of assumption and subjectivity in science.

A wine and cheese reception will follow the panel discussion.

Panel

Artists: Shimon Attie, Ellen K. Levy, and Monika Weiss
Curator and Art Historian: Hannah Klemm
Cultural Historian: Rebecca Messbarger

Moderated by

Artist: Patricia Olynyk

Talk: Artist Meredith Tromble in Conversation with Astrobiologist Dawn Summer

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Curiosity & Creativity: What Makes a Successful Art/Science Collaboration?

Join us for this highly anticipated event as artist Meredith Tromble and astrobiologist Dawn Sumner give us a rare glimpse into the origins of their work together, their creative process, and what is in store for their future projects. In 2011, Sumner was part of a team that invited Tromble to play with the interactive, 3D visualization tools being developed at the University of California, Davis. The collaboration that sprang from that first visit is still going strong, having led to a series of digital artworks, sculptural installations, several performances, and four published papers. Tromble, whose work is currently on view in Umwelt at BioBAT Art Space, and Sumner, who is known for her research on early life in Antarctica and her contributions to the Mars Curiosity science team, will discuss their long-term collaboration and, in general, the ways in which artists and scientists can mutually inform each other’s work.

Umwelt: Opening Reception

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We are pleased to announce our most ambitious exhibition to date Umwelt, featuring the work of Christine Davis, Patricia Olynyk, and Meredith Tromble. In addition to the main gallery we will be exhibiting a series of immersive installations in "The Dark Space", a 15,000 sq/ft additional space that we are opening for the first time.

Exhibition Dates

November 1, 2019 – March 30, 2020

Exhibiting Artists

Christine Davis, Patricia Olynyk, Meredith Tromble

Summation & Absence: Closing Reception

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Please join us in celebrating the closing of our current exhibition, Summation & Absence. There will be good food, good wine, and good people!

Artist Talk: Nancy Cohen & Michal Gavish

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BioBAT Art Space is pleased to host an artist talk with Nancy Cohen and Michal Gavish, featured artists in our current show, Summation & Absence, curated by Etty Yaniv and Christina Massey.